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Mosses of the Northern Forest: Quick Guide, Other - Jerry Jenkins

62,99 RON 67,99 RON

Reducere. The Quick Guide for Mosses of the Northern Forest contains two double-sided photographic charts that allow users to see high-res, close-up images o...

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Phaedrus: Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre, Paperback - Plato

77,99 RON 83,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: PlatoTranslator: James H. NicholsWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear at...

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Francis of Assisi: The Life, Paperback - Augustine Thompson O. P.

79,99 RON 85,99 RON

Reducere. Francis of Assisi: The Life is an elegant and accessible biography of one of Catholicism's most beloved saints. Originally published as Part 1 of F...

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Gorgias: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture, Paperback - Plato

79,99 RON 85,99 RON

Reducere. With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Pl...

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Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text, Paperback - Charles Segal

80,99 RON

DescriptionThis generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inqui...

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Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000, Paperback - Stephen Van Evera

82,99 RON

Stephen Van Evera greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in the social sciences. His helpful h...

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Creativity/Anthropology, Paperback - Renato Rosaldo

82,99 RON

DescriptionCreativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing histor...

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Trojan Women, Paperback - ***

91,99 RON

This free and eloquent translation skillfully reproduces the imagery, power, and frequent irony and sarcasm of Seneca's...

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Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. d'Alembert on the Theatre, Paperback - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

95,99 RON 102,99 RON

Reducere. This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting controversies of the eighteenth century: the quarr...

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Albert Camus: Elements of a Life, Paperback - Robert D. Zaretsky

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him int...

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The Theban Plays: "oedipus the Tyrant"; "oedipus at Colonus"; "antigone, Paperback - Sophocles

98,99 RON

DescriptionThe timeless Theban tragedies of Sophocles--Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone--have fascinated and moved audiences an...

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New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State, Paperback - Karen M. Johnson-Weiner

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. Tracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on more than thirty years of pa...

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Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World, Paperback - Glenn a. Albrecht

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAs climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessim...

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The Arts of Cinema, Paperback - Martin Seel

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film's connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nin...

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Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide, Paperback - Gerard Prunier

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Praise for the 2005 Edition: "A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's hist...

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Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization, Paperback - Walter J. Ong

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Language in all its modes--oral, written, print, electronic--claims the central role in Walter J. Ong's acclaimed speculations on human culture. Af...

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Fault Lines, Paperback - Beverly Bell

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti ...

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Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, Paperback - P. W. Singer

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Some have claimed that ``War is too important to be left to the generals, `` but P. W. Singer asks ``What about the business executives?`` Breaking...

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All About Birds Texas and Oklahoma, Paperback - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

109,99 RON

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Cornell Lab of OrnithologyIllustration(s): 952 color photosNumber of pages: 320Collection: Cornell ...

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A.U.A. Language Center Thai Course. Book 1, Paperback - J. Marvin Brown

110,00 RON

The set includes extensive grammar, dialogues, and conversations, as well as tone distinction, manipulation, and...

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Playing for Keeps, Paperback - Warren Goldstein

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and...

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Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, Paperback - Barry R. Posen

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Since the collaps...

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'I Love Learning; I Hate School': An Anthropology of College, Paperback - Susan D. Blum

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter's problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anth...

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Paradigms for a Metaphorology, Paperback - Hans Blumenberg

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. "Paradigms for a Metaphorology may be read as a kind of beginner's guide to Blumenberg, a programmatic introduction to his vast and multifaceted oe...

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The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico, Paperback - Giambattista Vico

112,99 RON

The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher's intel...

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What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush, Paperback - Hal Brands

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. Grand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why gr...

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The Two-Headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels, Paperback - Jan Bondeson

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of hu...

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War on Sacred Grounds, Paperback - Ron E. Hassner

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet their spiritual and cu...

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Qatar: Small State, Big Politics, Paperback - Mehran Kamrava

116,99 RON

The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 197...

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The Dark Sides of Empathy, Paperback - Fritz Breithaupt

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMany consider empathy to be the basis of moral action. However, the ability to empathize with others is also a prerequisite for delibera...

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The Art of Quartet Playing, Paperback - David Blum

116,99 RON

This collection of conversations with the Guarneri members explores all the most important facets of chamber-music playing.

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Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale, Paperback - Tom Wilber

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. For the updated paperback edition of Under the Surface, Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering developments since the book's in...

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Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Updated), Paperback - Tom Lewis

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tom LewisIn Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the ...

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Nabokov. The Mystery of Literary Structures, Paperback - Leona Toker

118,99 RON

Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures."...

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Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America, Paperback - Aby M. Warburg

118,99 RON

Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America translates Aby M. Warburg's seminal study of the "serpent ritual" of the Hopi people,...

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Wounds of War: How the Va Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation's Veterans, Paperback - Suzanne Gordon

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their wound...

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A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks, Paperback - James Schlett

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping ...

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One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir, Hardcover - David Lehman

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frighte...

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Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo, Paperback - Peter Andreas

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. The 1992-1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of ...

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Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Paperback - ***

124,00 RON

This long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi's substantial original ...

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Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World, Paperback - Mary Beth Norton

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-Americ...

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Nuclear Reactions. How Nuclear-Armed States Behave, Paperback - Mark S. Bell

127,99 RON

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My Reach, Hardcover - Susan Fox Rogers

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. In this memoir of the Hudson River and of her family, Susan Fox Rogers writes from a fresh perspective: the seat of her kayak. Low in the water, sh...

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Grasses of the Northern Forest. A Photographic Guide, Paperback - Brett Engstrom

129,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Brett EngstromIllustration(s): 1000 Illustrations, color; 400 DiagramsNumber of pages: 144Collection:...

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State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, Hardcover - Francis Fukuyama

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest bo...

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The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda, Paperback - Scott Straus

130,99 RON

DescriptionThe Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international...

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The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789-1989, Paperback - Mark L. Haas

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. How do leaders perceive threat levels in world politics, and what effects do those perceptions have on policy choices? Mark L. Haas focuses on how ...

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Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe, Paperback - Lester Little

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. "In this stimulating and important book Lester Little advances the original thesis that, paradoxically, it was the leading practitioners of volunta...

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Unbuttoning America: A Biography of "peyton Place, Hardcover - Ardis Cameron

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and soc...

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In the Words of E. B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers, Hardcover - E. B. White

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a world war."--E. B. White on fatherhood"I was lucky to be born abnormal. It ran in the f...

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The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity Through the Middle Ages, Paperback - Penelope Reed Doob

134,00 RON

DescriptionAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective--the baffli...

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Clara Schumann, Paperback - Nancy B. Reich

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. This absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896), a musician of remarka...

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For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet, Paperback - Rebecca Rischin

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book. . . . Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere. . ...

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The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History, Paperback - Jeffrey Burton Russell

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. The Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles - throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western world's most powerful symbol of evil, has taken ...

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Populist Persuasion: An American History (Revised), Paperback - Michael Kazin

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites an...

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A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer, Hardcover - Oyama Shiro

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen an...

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Why Noncompliance: The Politics of Law in the European Union, Paperback - Tanja A. Börzel

136,99 RON

Why Noncompliance traces the history of noncompliance within the European Union (EU), focusing on which states continuously do or do not follow EU ...

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The Just City, Paperback - Susan S. Fainstein

136,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Susan S. FainsteinFor much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus f...

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Recasting Islamic Law. Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making, Paperback - Rachel M. Scott

136,99 RON

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Acts of Care. Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health, Paperback - Sara Ritchey

136,99 RON

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Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India, Paperback - Leela Prasad

136,99 RON

Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire? Studying closely the oral narrations and writings of fou...

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Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations), - ***

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. For this revised edition of Hildegard's liturgical song cycle, Barbara Newman has redone her prose translations of the songs, updated the bibliogra...

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Imposing Standards. The North-South Dimension to Global Tax Politics, Paperback - Martin Hearson

136,99 RON

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Secession and Security. Explaining State Strategy against Separatists, Paperback - Ahsan I. Butt

136,99 RON

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Tempting Fate. Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents, Paperback - Paul C. Avey

136,99 RON

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Advancing Environmental Education Practice, Paperback - Marianne E. Krasny

136,99 RON

"Environmental education can foster behavior change and collective action by going beyond knowledge and attitudes to consider efficacy, identity, s...

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Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place, Paperback - Youjeong Oh

136,99 RON

Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon ...

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From Victory to Peace. Russian Diplomacy after Napoleon, Paperback - Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter

136,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Elise Kimerling WirtschafterIllustration(s): 3 MapsNumber of pages: 342Collection: NIU Series in Slav...

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Fear and Fortune. Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush, Paperback - Mette M. High

137,00 RON

Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing fo...

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Reflections on Liszt, Paperback - Alan Walker

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. "No one knows more about Franz Liszt than Alan Walker."-Malcolm Bowie, Times Literary Supplement In a series of lively essays that tell us much not...

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