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Regime Shift - T. J. Pempel

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Reducere. The Liberal Democratic Party, which dominated postwar Japan, lost power in the early 1990s. During that same period, Japan's once stellar economy s...

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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, Paperback - Harold Bloom

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Reducere. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single vo...

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

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

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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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Stitching the 24-Hour City, Paperback - Seo Young Park

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Reducere. Stitching the 24-Hour City reveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. ...

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Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay, Hardcover - Andrew L. Erdman

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In her day, Eva Tanguay (1879-1947) was one of the most famous women in America. Widely known as the I Don't Care Girl--named after a song she popu...

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

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

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Shimmering in a Transformed Light. Writing the Still Life, Hardback - Rosemary Lloyd

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Although much has been written lately on the links between painting and writing, little or no attention has been paid to those moments in literatur...

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Failure by Design. The Story behind America's Broken Economy, Hardback - Josh Bivens

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Explaining the causes and impact on working Americans of the most catastrophic economic policy failure since the 1920s.Publisher: Cornell Universit...

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Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930, Paperback - Judith Surkis

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During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating...

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Collaborative Damage. An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization, Paperback - Morten Axel Pedersen

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Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Morten Axel PedersenIllustration(s): 19 Halftones, black and white; 1 ChartsNumber of pages: 294Publi...

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Sexual Encounters. Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities, Paperback - Lee Wallace

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European literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wis...

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Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of Justice, Hardback - Monique Deveaux

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How should democratic societies define justice for cultural minority groups, and how might such justice be secured? This book is a nuanced and judi...

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Statistical Mechanics. Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity, Paperback - James (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University)

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Sethna's book distills the core ideas of statistical mechanics to make room for new advances important to information theory, complexity, and moder...

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

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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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The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915 1952, Paperback - Reto Hofmann

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In The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Itali...

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Truth Society. Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi's Italy, Paperback - Noelle Mole Liston

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The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction, Paperback - William R. Biers

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The Park and the People: An Introduction, Paperback - Roy Rosenzweig

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Reducere. This "exemplary social history" (Kirkus Reviews) is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzw...

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The Just City, Paperback - Susan S. Fainstein

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

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

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Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War, Paperback - Robert A. Pape

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Contributor(s): Author: Robert A. PapeFrom Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Ca...

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Small States in World Markets. Industrial Policy in Europe, Paperback - Peter J. Katzenstein

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Katzenstein maintains that democratic corporatism is an effective way of coping with a rapidly changing world-a more effective way than the United ...

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Difference and Orientation. An Alexander Kluge Reader, Hardback - Alexander Kluge

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Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteu...

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Hematologies. The Political Life of Blood in India, Hardback - Dwaipayan Banerjee

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In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee ...

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Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians, Paperback - Patrick Brantlinger

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DescriptionIn Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. ...

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Capitalism without Democracy. The Private Sector in Contemporary China, Hardback - Kellee S. Tsai

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Focusing on the activities and aspirations of the private entrepreneurs who are driving China's economic growth.

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Licensed by Authority. Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship, Hardback - Richard Burt

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A provocative reinterpretation of Jacobean and caroline theater censorship and theatrical culture.

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Getting the Goods. Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution, Paperback - Jake B. Wilson

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Bonacich and Wilson follow the flow of imports from Asian factories, exploring the roles of importers, container shipping companies, the ports, rai...

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America Inc.?. Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State, Paperback - Linda Weiss

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Reducere. Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, progr...

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Russia's Unfinished Revolution, Paperback - Michael McFaul

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Reducere. For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural pr...

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Border Games. Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, Paperback - Peter Andreas

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The second edition of this book places the continued sharp escalation of border policing in the context of a transformed post-September 11 security...

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

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

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Sorry States. Apologies in International Politics, Paperback - Jennifer M. Lind

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Looking at Japan and Germany Lind demonstrates that denials of past atrocities fuel distrust and limit international reconciliation and argues that...

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Empire of Humanity, Paperback - Michael Barnett

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Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism's remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence i...

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New Deal Ruins, Paperback - Edward G. Goetz

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Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material...

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Liddell Hart and the Weight of History, Paperback - John J. Mearsheimer

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This troubling book offers a striking illustration of how history can be used and abused-how a gifted individual can create their own self-serving ...

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Engaging Science. How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically, Paperback - Joseph Rouse

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Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversi...

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

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Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, Paperback - Michel Foucault

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Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary curren...

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Fascist Effect. Japan and Italy, 1915-1952, Hardback - Reto Hofmann

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Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links between the fascist governments and cultures of Japan and Italy, shedding light on the formation of fas...

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Perceiving God. The Epistemology of Religious Experience, Paperback - William P. Alston

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A clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience.Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): William P. AlstonNumber o...

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Manufacturing Advantage. Why High Performance Work Systems Pay Off, Paperback - Arne L. Kalleberg

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Much of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based on anecdotes and very thin evidence. It has...

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Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community, Hardcover - Richard J. Samuels

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Reducere. The prewar history of the Japanese intelligence community demonstrates how having power over much, but insight into little can have devastating con...

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Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance After Communism, Hardcover - Jelena Subotic

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Reducere. Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled--ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated--throughout Eastern Europ...

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Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago, Hardcover - Joseph D. Kearney

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Reducere. How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront--its most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of ...

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The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, Paperback - Donald Kagan

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In the third volume of his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty an...

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Publicity's Secret. How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy, Paperback - Jodi Dean

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In recent decades, media outlets in the United States-most notably the Internet-have claimed to serve the public's ever-greater thirst for informat...

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Fighting for Life. Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness, Paperback - Walter J. Ong

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What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual st...

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Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile, Paperback - Lewis H. Siegelbaum

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Reducere. The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic ...

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J. R. R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam, Paperback - Mary Salu

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Reducere. A moving and thoughtful tribute, this book, originally published in 1979, offers fourteen essays dedicated to the memory of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-...

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Hematologies. The Political Life of Blood in India, Paperback - Dwaipayan Banerjee

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Plato's Moral Psychology. Intellectualism, the Divided Soul, and the Desire for Good, Hardback - Rachana (Cornell University) Kamtekar

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Rachana Kamtekar offers a new understanding of Plato's account of the soul and its impact on our living well or badly, virtuously or viciously. She...

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The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567-822, Hardcover - Walter Pohl

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This Sex Which Is Not One, Paperback - Luce Irigaray

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In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her landmark work on the status ...

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Speculum of the Other Woman: New Edition, Paperback - Luce Irigaray

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Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this gen...

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

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Life Is Elsewhere. Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800-1917, Paperback - Anne Lounsbery

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In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"-a place at o...

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Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan - Richard J. Samuels

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The Truth Society. Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi's Italy, Hardback - Noelle Mole Liston

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Origins of Major War, Paperback - Dale C. Copeland

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dale C. CopelandOne of the most important questions of human existence is what drives nations to war--especially massive, s...

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A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus - Max Black

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DescriptionLudwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is an unquestioned philosophical masterpiece. It is a work of extreme compression. ...

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Thomas Mann's War. Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters, Hardback - Tobias Boes

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In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spok...

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Red Dynamite. Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism inAmerica, Paperback - Carl R. Weinberg

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Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR, Paperback - Adeeb Khalid

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DescriptionIn Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores t...

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

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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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The Perraults: A Family of Letters in Early Modern France, Hardcover - Oded Rabinovitch

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DescriptionIn The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and...

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Red to Green. Environmental Activism in Post-Soviet Russia, Paperback - Laura A. Henry

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Red to Green is an organizational analysis of popular environmental mobilization that addresses the continuing role of the Soviet legacy, the influ...

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Hidden Hand of American Hegemony. Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets, Hardback - David E. Spiro

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Between 1973 and 1980, the cost of crude oil rose suddenly and dramatically, precipitating convulsions in international politics. Conventional wisd...

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Phan Chau Trinh and His Political Writings, Hardback - Phan Chau Trinh

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Phan Chau Trinh (1872-1926) was the earliest proponent of democracy and popular rights in Vietnam. Throughout his life, he favored a moderate appro...

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