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Rethinking World War Two
The Conflict and its Legacy
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 32,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-8322-2
EAN 9781472583222
History is both the past and our accounts of the past. In Rethinking World War Two, Jeremy Black explores the contesting accounts and interpretations of the war, critically examining the leading controversies surrounding the conflict, its aftermath and its ongoing significance in the modern world. The first half of the book considers controversies surrounding the ...
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The Coming Swarm
DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-1-62356-456-8
EAN 9781623564568
What is Hacktivism? In The Coming Swarm, rising star Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. The internet is a vital arena of communication, self expression, and interpersonal organizing.When there is a message to convey, words to get out or people to ...
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How to be a Philosopher
or How to be Almost Certain that Almost Nothing is Certain
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 17,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-0494-4
EAN 9781472504944
Do life's big questions perplex you? This book, now available in paperback, will give you answers to some of them while revealing that others have no answer. A humorous but informed instruction manual to questions philosophers have been asking and attempting to answer for centuries, How to Be A Philosopher will help you:- Think, talk, ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 24,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-7702-3
EAN 9781472577023
The 'Theatre of the Absurd has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the meaningless absurdity of the human condition. It is a testament to the power ...
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The United States in the Long Twentieth Century
Politics and Society since 1900
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-7686-6
EAN 9781472576866
The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian King Tutankhamun [Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact with its nest of coffins and ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-7007-9
EAN 9781472570079
Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. The Universal Exception brings together some of Zizek's most vivid writings on politics. Bringing together high theory, ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-7777-1
EAN 9781472577771
The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun [Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact with its nest of coffins and ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-7763-4
EAN 9781472577634
he discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun [Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact with its nest of coffins and ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-7866-2
EAN 9781472578662
Even before the publication of his masterwork, John Henry Newman had been regarded as one of the most important religious thinkers on the 19th Century. His decision in 1845 to leave his Anglicanism behind and convert to the Roman Catholic faith was one that rocked the Victorian establishment at a time when virulent anti-Catholic feeling ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 38,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-7823-5
EAN 9781472578235
Beginning with works of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a critical history of the core concepts in the area. From generative syntax and formal semantics to broader philosophical issues such as intentional contexts, theories of meaning and context dependence, a well-known team of experts offer insightful analysis ...
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Conflicted are the Peacemakers
Israeli and Palestinian Moderates and the Death of Oslo
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-62892-257-8
EAN 9781628922578
The 1993 Oslo Accords were a key attempt to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict whose failure was largely attributed to extremists on both sides. The book challenges this conventional wisdom by examining the role of Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers themselves in derailing the peace process. Looking at the role of moderates before and after Oslo, the ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-3444-6
EAN 9781472534446
The Animal Catalyst deals with the 'question' of 'what is an animal' and also in some instances, 'what is a human'? It pushes critical animal studies in important new directions; it re-examines basic assumptions, suggests new paradigms for how we can live and function ecologically, in a world that is not simply "ours." It argues ...
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Towards the Light
. The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-3214-5
EAN 9781472532145
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it is a story - ...
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The First World War
Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 38,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-1124-9
EAN 9781472511249
The Great War toppled four empires, cost the world 24 million dead, and sowed the seeds of another worldwide conflict 20 years later. This is the only book in the English language to offer comprehensive coverage of how Germany and Austria-Hungary, two of the key belligerents, conducted the war and what defeat meant to them. ...
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Contesting History
Narratives of Public History
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-1950-4
EAN 9781472519504
Contesting History is an authoritative guide to the positive and negative applications of the past in the public arena and what this signifies for the meaning of history more widely. Using a global, non-Western model, Jeremy Black examines the employment of history by the state, the media, the national collective memory and others and considers ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 41,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-1351-9
EAN 9781472513519
The Crusades: A History is the definitive account of a key topic in medieval and religious history. Jonathan Riley-Smith, a world authority on the subject, explores the organisation of a crusade, the experience of crusading and the crusaders themselves, producing a textbook that is as accessible as it is comprehensive. This exciting new third edition ...
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Pynchon and Relativity
Narrative Time in Thomas Pynchon's Later Novels
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-2830-8
EAN 9781472528308
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4411-9805-1
EAN 9781441198051
This is not a book about trains but about the variety of Spain. The train is the magic carpet. Ten great railway journeys touch the extremities and interior of the peninsula, its astonishing landscapes and ancient buildings. The focus is the way the Spanish live now: their habits, streets, characters, stories - and quite a ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 552 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-1106-5
EAN 9781472511065
Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being and Event is a comprehensive statement of Badiou's philosophical project and sees him recast ...
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