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Hajj

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, is the largest pilgrimage in the world today and a sacred duty for all Muslims. Each year, millions of the... Lees meer

Thomas More

Richard Marius

• Paperback | Engels
• Over the centuries, biographers of Thomas More have always praised him and made him an example for their own times. He was a man for all seasons. This... Lees meer

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 16/17: 1996 and 1997

• Hardcover | Engels | Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium | nr. 16
• The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literature... Lees meer

A Sudden Terror

Anthony F D'Elia

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1468, on the final night of Carnival in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned above the boisterous crowd, when a scuffle caught his eye. His guards had ... Lees meer

Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind

James V Wertsch

• Paperback | Engels
• In a book of intellectual breadth, James Wertsch not only offers a synthesis and critique of all Vygotsky's major ideas, but also presents a program f... Lees meer

All on a Mardi Gras Day

Reid Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels
• With this colorful study, Reid Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras--to a yearly ritual that sweeps the richly multicultural city of New Orleans into a fre... Lees meer

Library of History, Volume IV

Diodorus Siculus

• Hardcover | Engels | Loeb Classical Library
• Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); history to 54 BC. Books 1–5 and 11–20... Lees meer

China's War Reporters

Parks M Coble

• Hardcover | Engels
• When Japan invaded China in the summer of 1937, many Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria. For years, the Chinese press had urged Chiang... Lees meer

Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution

Kenneth B Moss

• Hardcover | Engels
• Between 1917 and 1921, as revolution convulsed Russia, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the crumbling empire threw themselves into the pursuit ... Lees meer

Reasoning from Race

Serena Mayeri

• Paperback | Engels
• Informed in 1944 that she was "not of the sex" entitled to be admitted to Harvard Law School, African American activist Pauli Murray confronted the in... Lees meer

Regulating a New Economy

Morton Keller

• Paperback | Engels
• Morton Keller, a leading scholar of twentieth-century American history, describes the complex interplay between rapid economic change and regulatory p... Lees meer

Gaylaw

William N Eskridge

• Paperback | Engels | Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet
• This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues concerning gender and sexual nonconformity in the United States. Part One, which cover... Lees meer

New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Matthew D Adler, Eric Posner

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this book, the authors reconceptualize cost-benefit analysis, arguing that its objective should be overall well-being rather than economic efficien... Lees meer

Understanding Poverty

• Paperback | Engels
• In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1... Lees meer

A Hideous Monster of the Mind

Bruce Dain

• Hardcover | Engels
• The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or ... Lees meer

Venice Desired

Tony Tanner

• Hardcover | Engels | Convergences: Inventories of the Present | nr. 7
• If there is one city that might be said to embody both reason and desire, it would surely be Venice: a thousand-year triumph of rational legislation, ... Lees meer

A Hazardous Inquiry

Allan Mazur

• Hardcover | Engels
• Love Canal. We hear these words and quickly recoil, remembering a community poisoned by toxic waste. Twenty years after the incident, Allan Mazur reex... Lees meer

Solutions Manual for Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics

Claudio Irigoyen, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Mark L J Wright

• Paperback | Engels
• This solutions manual is a companion volume to the classic textbook Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics by Stokey, Lucas, and Prescott. Efficient a... Lees meer

Beyond Bias

Jean V Carew, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot

• Hardcover | Engels
• Probes the teacher-student relationship, classroom interaction, and the role of the teacher by developing and applying strategies for describing, reco... Lees meer

Public Health and the State

Barbara Rosenkrantz

• Paperback | Engels
• Public Health and the State constitutes both a fine piece of social history and an ideal model for evaluating our current definition of public health.... Lees meer

Reconstructing Public Reason

Eric A Macgilvray

• Hardcover | Engels
• Can a liberal polity act on pressing matters of public concern in a way that respects the variety of beliefs and commitments that its citizens hold? R... Lees meer

The Mussel Cookbook

Sarah Hurlburt

• Paperback | Engels
• Tender, plump, and tasty, the blue mussel ( Mytiius edulis ) is treasured in most of the world's cuisines but strangely ignored in North American cook... Lees meer

Daycare

Alison Clarke-Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | Developing Child | nr. 30
• There are eight million preschoolers whose mothers now work, most of them because of economic necessity. For these mothers the question is not whether... Lees meer

Time-Limited Psychotherapy

James Mann

• Paperback | Engels | Commonwealth Fund Publications | nr. 25
• Waiting lists in psychiatric clinics and increasing numbers of patients in long-term psychotherapy have highlighted the need for shorter methods of tr... Lees meer