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Et Tu, Brute?

Greg Woolf

• Hardcover | Engels | Profiles in History
• Why did Caesar have to die--and why did his death solve nothing? The plot was confused, the execution bungled, and within hours different versions of ... Lees meer

Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution

Rebecca L Spang

• Hardcover | Engels
• Rebecca L. Spang, who revolutionized our understanding of the restaurant, has written a new history of money. It uses one of the most infamous example... Lees meer

Pacing the World

Whitney Davis

• Hardcover
• This extensively illustrated book is the first full-length study of the Canadian-born sculptor David Rabinowitch. Davis closely analyzes six groups of... Lees meer

Inequality Reexamined

Amartya Sen

• Paperback | Engels
• The noted economist and philosopher Amartya Sen argues that the dictum "all people are created equal" serves largely to deflect attention from the fac... Lees meer

Republicanism in Russia

Oleg Kharkhordin

• Hardcover | Engels
• If Marxism was the apparent loser in the Cold War, it cannot be said that liberalism was the winner, at least not in Russia. Oleg Kharkhordin is not s... Lees meer

The Mighty Wurlitzer

Hugh Wilford

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1967 the magazine Ramparts ran an exposé revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had been secretly funding and managing a wide range of citi... Lees meer

Fossil Invertebrates

Paul D Taylor, David N Lewis

• Paperback | Engels
• Fossil Invertebrates introduces readers to the biosphere as it was hundreds of millions of years ago, when seas teemed with animal forms both familiar... Lees meer

Old Testament Narratives

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. More than simple translations, they ... Lees meer

The Rule of Saint Benedict

Benedict of Nursia

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
• One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual and organizational dimension... Lees meer

Raising Their Voices

Lyn Mikel Brown

• Paperback | Engels
• Two fourteen-year-old girls, fed up with the "Hooters" shirts worn by their male classmates, design their own rooster logo: "Cocks: Nothing to crow ab... Lees meer

Politics and Society in the South

Earl Black, Merle Black

• Paperback | Engels
• This wide-ranging examination of the "newest" South is a leading candidate to replace the classic work by V. O. Key, now two generations old. Politics... Lees meer

Gandhi's Printing Press

Isabel Hofmeyr

• Hardcover | Engels
• At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seeming... Lees meer

Reasonably Vicious

Candace Vogler

• Paperback | Engels
• Is unethical conduct necessarily irrational? Answering this question requires giving an account of practical reason, of practical good, and of the sou... Lees meer

Rationalizing Epidemics

David S Jones

• Hardcover | Engels
• Ever since their arrival in North America, European colonists and their descendants have struggled to explain the epidemics that decimated native popu... Lees meer

Institutions of Meaning

Vincent Descombes

• Hardcover | Engels
• Holism grows out of the philosophical position that an object or phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts. And yet analysis--a mental process cruc... Lees meer

Research Interviewing

Elliot G Mishler

• Paperback | Engels
• Interviews hold a prominent place among the various research methods in the social and behavioral sciences. This book presents a powerful critique of ... Lees meer

The Failure of Political Islam

Olivier Roy

• Paperback | Engels
• Olivier Roy demonstrates that the Islamic Fundamentalism of today is still the Third Worldism of the 1960s: populist politics and mixed economies of l... Lees meer

Cahiers Du Cinéma

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard Film Studies | nr. 5
• In the turbulent sixties, the provocative French film journal Cahiers du Cinéma was at its most influential and controversial. The first successes of ... Lees meer

Why the Wild Things Are

Gail F Melson

• Paperback | Engels
• Whether they see themselves as King of the Wild Things or protector of Toto, children live in a world filled with animals--both real and imaginary. Fr... Lees meer

Rebuilding Buddhism

David N Gellner, Sarah Levine

• Paperback | Engels
• Rebuilding Buddhism describes in evocative detail the experiences and achievements of Nepalis who have adopted Theravada Buddhism. This form of Buddhi... Lees meer

Million and One Gods

Page DuBois

• Hardcover | Engels
• Many people worship not just one but many gods. Yet a relentless prejudice against polytheism denies legitimacy to some of the world's oldest and rich... Lees meer

Varieties of Police Behavior

James Q Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Joint Center for Urban Studies Publicati
• The patrolman has the most difficult, complex, and least understood task in the police department. Much less is known of him than of his better public... Lees meer

Is American Science in Decline?

Yu Xie, Alexandra A Killewald

• Hardcover | Engels
• Alarmists argue that the United States urgently needs more and better-trained scientists to compete with the rest of the world. Their critics counter ... Lees meer

The Liability Century

Kenneth S Abraham

• Hardcover | Engels
• Kenneth Abraham explores the development and interdependency of the tort liability regime and the insurance system in the United States during the twe... Lees meer