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Divided by Faith
. Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe
- Harvard University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,44 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03473-0
EAN 9780674034730
As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: Can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Benjamin Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today. Divided by Faith begins in ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1128 páginas
PVP: 54,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03594-2
EAN 9780674035942
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along'a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more ...
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Avishai Margalit builds his social philosophy on this foundation: a decent society, or a civilized society, is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose citizens do not humiliate one another. What political philosophy needs urgently is a way that will permit us to live together without humiliation and with ...
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An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one-exit-is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch ...
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Sacrifice - ranging from the sacrifice of virgins to circumcision to giving up what is most valued - is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason? Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and concepts shared by so many different cultures? In this book, the author explores the possibility ...
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The Annotated Origin of the Species
A Facsimile of the First Edition
- Harvard University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 546 páginas
PVP: 32,44 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03281-1
EAN 9780674032811
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is the most important and yet least read scientific work in the history of science. Now James T. Costa experienced field biologist, theorist on the evolution of insect sociality, and passionate advocate for teaching Darwin with Darwin in a society where a significant proportion of adults believe that ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03351-1
EAN 9780674033511
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can understand about problems they feel ill equipped to solve. This book is no dry treatise but is instead ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03397-9
EAN 9780674033979
When, in our turbulent day, we hear of a clash of civilizations, it's easy to imagine an unbridgeable chasm between the Islamic world and Christendom stretching back through time. But such assumptions crumble before the drama that unfolds in this book. Two Faiths, One Banner shows how in Europe, the heart of the West, Muslims ...
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Sexual Fluidity
Understanding Women's Love and Desire
- Harvard University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03226-2
EAN 9780674032262
This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.
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The Mighty Wurlitzer
How the CIA played America
- Harvard University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-03256-9
EAN 9780674032569
In 1967 the magazine Ramparts ran an exposé revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had been secretly funding and managing a wide range of citizen front groups intended to counter communist influence around the world. In addition to embarrassing prominent individuals caught up, wittingly or unwittingly, in the secret superpower struggle for hearts and minds, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 992 páginas
PVP: 32,44 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03175-3
EAN 9780674031753
Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available. Clear, informative, and comprehensive in scope, Evolution opens with a series of major essays dealing with the history and philosophy of evolutionary ...
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Affective Mapping
Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
- Harvard University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 56,65 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03078-7
EAN 9780674030787
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Journey to the East
The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724
- Harvard University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 18,69 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03036-7
EAN 9780674030367
It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This 'journey to the East' is explored by Liam Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China, believing that, with little more ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 348 páginas
PVP: 19,43 €
ISBN 978-0-674-03038-1
EAN 9780674030381
Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. Popular revolts were remarkably common--not the last resort of desperate people. Leaders were largely ...
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After playing a mild-mannered funeral home director in SIX FEET UNDER, Michael C. Hall makes a smooth transition to serial killer in this original crime drama. But the twist in this smart show is that Dexter chooses to prey only on other serial killers.As a child, Dexter is adopted by a cop (James Remar) who ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02836-4
EAN 9780674028364
When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays. In Four Centuries of Don Quixote, he revisits the quintessential Spanish novel a ...
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Adam's Fallacy
A Guide to Economic Theology
- Harvard University Press, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,93 €
ISBN 978-0-674-02729-9
EAN 9780674027299
This book could be called The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics. Like Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers, it attempts to explain the core ideas of the great economists, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with Joseph Schumpeter. In between are chapters on Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, the marginalists, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, ...
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