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- Pluto Press, 2016
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PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3689-3
EAN 9780745336893
Nothing has been written about the political economy of Hezbollah before -will be an important text for all those wanting a leftist angle. Unlike many authors writing on this topic, the author conducted xtensive fieldwork in Lebanon, using interviews as well as new archival and other primary sources. Written with academic rigour, this book will ...
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A collection of ethnographies which explore how identity is changing as the anthropocene develops. Covers cases in the Philippines, Israel, Australia, the Cape Verde Islands and Afghanistan. Part of a number of books emerging from new wave of highly respected scholars, based upon the 'Overheating' project The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; ...
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Duncan, Sandra; Kreth, Rebecca; Martin, Jody
Rethinking the Classroom Landscape: Creating Environments That Connect Young Children, Families, and Communities
- Gryphon House, 2016
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PVP: 39,50 €
ISBN 978-0-87659-563-3
EAN 9780876595633
An early childhood classroom should reinforce and enhance young children's sense of belonging and connection to their environment, each other, their families, and their community. Rethinking the Classroom Landscape invites educators and administrators to rethink the traditional classroom, with inspirational examples showing how to weave elements that reflect each center's community into the classroom design ...
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It is said that anyone who comes to stay at Pandora for the first time will fall in love . . . It has been 24 years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, Pandora, is left to ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73789-1
EAN 9780674737891
Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner. Focusing on the formative five years in his early twenties when Hardy lived in the city, but also on his subsequent movement back ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 630 páginas
PVP: 39,90 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73739-6
EAN 9780674737396
When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler ...
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Red Ellen
The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 470 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97152-3
EAN 9780674971523
In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was 'the only girl who talks in school debates.' By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britains Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a renowned advocate for the poor and dispossessed at home and abroad. She was one of the ...
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Once Between Borders
Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 370 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05978-8
EAN 9780674059788
Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice ...
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China's Crony Capitalism
The Dynamics of Regime Decay
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 35,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73729-7
EAN 9780674737297
When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build 'socialism with Chinese characteristics.' More than three decades later, Chinas efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working peoples paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and ...
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Thundersticks
Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73747-1
EAN 9780674737471
The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians' historical relationship with guns, arguing against the ...
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Tibet in Agony
Lhasa 1959
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 372 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-08889-4
EAN 9780674088894
The Chinese Communist government has twice invoked large-scale military might to crush popular uprisings in capital cities. The second incident'the notorious massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989'is well known. The first, thirty years earlier in Tibet, remains little understood today. Yet in wages of destruction, bloodshed, and trampling of human rights, the tragic toll of ...
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QBism
The Future of Quantum Physics
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50464-6
EAN 9780674504646
Measured by the accuracy of its predictions and the scope of its technological applications, quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science'as well as one of the most misunderstood. The deeper meaning of quantum mechanics remains controversial almost a century after its invention. Providing a way past quantum theorys paradoxes and puzzles, ...
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America's Dream Palace
Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 380 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97157-8
EAN 9780674971578
In T. E. Lawrences classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia claimed that he inspired a 'dream palace' of Arab nationalism. What he really inspired, however, was an American idea of the area now called the Middle East that has shaped U.S. interventions over the course of a century, with sometimes tragic consequences. ...
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Democracy s Detectives
The Economics of Investigative Journalism
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 354 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54550-2
EAN 9780674545502
In democratic societies, investigative journalism holds government and private institutions accountable to the public. From firings and resignations to changes in budgets and laws, the impact of this reporting can be significant'but so too are the costs. As newspapers confront shrinking subscriptions and advertising revenue, who is footing the bill for journalists to carry out ...
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Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia
Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 350 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97148-6
EAN 9780674971486
As readers of classic Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. With incomes erratic and banks inadequate, Russians of all social castes were deeply enmeshed in networks of credit and debt. The necessity of borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth, as well as notions of ...
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Rage for Order
The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73746-4
EAN 9780674737464
International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international law in empires'especially in the British Empires sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of that ...
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Race and the Totalitarian Century
Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 410 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97108-0
EAN 9780674971080
Few concepts evoke the twentieth centurys record of war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism. Today, studies of the subject are usually confined to discussions of Europes collapse in World War II or to comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. In Race and the Totalitarian Century, Vaughn Rasberry ...
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- Usborne, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 10 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4095-9770-4
EAN 9781409597704
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-0-19-061454-6
EAN 9780190614546
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Das eine bin ich, das andre sind meine Schriften
Nietzsche - Ein Essay
- Steidl, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 48 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-3-9582914-1-6
EAN 9783958291416
In Friedrich Nietzsches Biographie können wir uns bewegen wie in einer Einkaufs-Passage. Wir können uns die Auslagen der verschiedenen Geschäfte ansehen: Es gibt Zeitungsläden und Apotheken, es gibt Muße und es gibt Hektik. Wir finden dort allerlei. Nur Nietzsches Philosophie finden wir nicht. Wir können seinem Philosophieren folgen, seinem lebenslangen Prozess des Fragens.Seine Geschichte können ...
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