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Great Mistake. How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them, Paperback - Christopher Newfield

247,99 RON 265,99 RON

Reducere. A powerful, hopeful critique of the unnecessary death spiral of higher education, The Great Mistake is essential reading for those who wonder why s...

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How NATO Adapts. Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950, Paperback - Seth A. Johnston

180,99 RON

Students, scholars, and policy practitioners will find this a useful resource for understanding NATO, transatlantic relations, and security in Euro...

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Other People's Money. How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic, Paperback - Sharon Ann Murphy

123,99 RON

By helping readers understand the financial history of this period and the way banking shaped the society in which ordinary Americans lived and wor...

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Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture is essential reading for anyone invested in the ever-changing state of literary culture.

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Proving Ground. Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes, Hardback - Edward Slavishak

303,99 RON

Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an environmental history of t...

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Narrative as Virtual Reality 2. Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media, Paperback - Marie-Laure Ryan

213,99 RON

Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simul...

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Large Hadron Collider. The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind, Hardback - Donald Lincoln

180,99 RON

As accessible as it is fascinating, The Large Hadron Collider reveals the inner workings of this masterful achievement of technology, along with th...

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Biggles Defends the Desert, Paperback - W. E. Johns

50,99 RON

LOST IN THE DESERT!It's the Second World War and Biggles is in the desert, defending the vital air-route from the West coast of Africa to the Middl...

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Pandemics, Pills, and Politics. Governing Global Health Security, Paperback - Stefan Elbe

242,99 RON

At the heart of this issue, Elbe argues, lies something deeper: the rise of a new molecular vision of life that is reshaping the world we live in.

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Making Tobacco Bright. Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937, Paperback - Barbara M. Hahn

123,99 RON

Combining economic theory with the history of technology, Making Tobacco Bright revises several narratives in American history, from colonial stapl...

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Transitions from Authoritarian Rule. Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies, Paperback - Laurence Whitehead

188,99 RON

Lowenthal, founding director of the Latin American Program, who wrote the original volume's foreword.

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Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation. A Step-by-Step Guide to Applying The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paperback - Constantine G. Lyketsos

201,99 RON

Slavney, the originators of the Perspectives approach, this innovative book will be used in psychiatric training programs as well as by practicing ...

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Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics, Paperback - Richard Snyder

196,00 RON

Giving voice to scholars who practice their craft in different ways yet share a passion for knowledge about global politics, Passion, Craft, and Me...

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Negotiating the World Economy, Paperback - John S. Odell

255,99 RON

It is often said economics has become as important as security in international relations, yet we work with much less than full understanding of wh...

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Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age. The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare, Paperback - John S. Mebane

151,99 RON

For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult....

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The Future of Academic Freedom, Hardcover - Henry Reichman

148,99 RON

DescriptionAcademic freedom--crucial to the health of American higher education--is threatened on many fronts. In The Future of Academic Freedom, a...

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Becoming an Academic: How to Get Through Grad School and Beyond, Paperback - Inger Mewburn

95,99 RON

DescriptionWelcome to the university, where the Academic Hunger Games, fueled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality: a perpetual ...

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Making Tough Decisions about End-Of-Life Care in Dementia, Paperback - Anne Kenny

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Each year, more than 500, 000 people are diagnosed with dementia in the United States. As stunning as that figure is, countless family members and ...

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Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson, Paperback - Rayvon Fouche

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. According to the stereotype, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century inventors, quintessential loners and supposed geniuses, worked in splendid...

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Seeing Off the Johns, Hardcover - Rene S. Perez II

96,99 RON

People in the small town of Greenton mark their lives from that day in late summer when crowds lined the streets to see off high school athletic st...

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Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism, Paperback - Emmanuel Levinas

226,99 RON

Jean Paul Sartre hailed him as the philosopher who introduced France to Husserl and Heidegger. Derrida has paid him homage as "master." An original...

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Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Opportunities for Colleges and Universities, Paperback - Gina Ann Garcia

151,00 RON

DescriptionHispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)--not-for-profit, degree-granting colleges and universities that enroll at least 25% or more Latinx ...

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The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cosmica, Paperback - Jose Vasconcelos

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in Spanish and English, Jos Vasconcelos predicted the coming of a new age, the Aesthetic Era, in whi...

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The Harriet Lane Handbook: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Paperback - Johns Hopkins Hospital

314,99 RON

Every three years, The Harriet Lane Handbook is carefully updated by residents, edited by chief residents, and reviewed by expert faculty at The Jo...

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Secret Lives of Ants, Hardback - ***

229,99 RON

In the words of the author, "Once you get to know them, you'll love them."Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Jae (Director, Natura...

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Estranging the Novel. Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature, Hardback - Katarzyna (Ithaca College) Bartoszynska

578,99 RON

By modeling such a heterogeneous account of the novel form, Estranging the Novel paves the way for a bracing and diverse understanding of the makeu...

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Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome, Hardcover - Margaret Meserve

365,99 RON

Printing thrived after it came to Rome in the 1460s. Renaissance scholars, poets, and pilgrims in the Eternal City formed a ready market for mass-p...

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The Mediterranean World. From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

Structured around four interlocking themes-mobility, state development, commerce, and frontiers-this beautifully illustrated book brings new dimens...

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A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education, Paperback - Marjorie Hass

168,99 RON

For years, Marjorie Hass, now the president of Rhodes College, was approached by women in higher education looking for advice and support as they t...

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Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries, Paperback - Ryan K. Smith

280,99 RON 300,99 RON

Reducere. Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds sho...

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The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America, Paperback - Greta LaFleur

282,99 RON 302,99 RON

Reducere. If sexology--the science of sex--came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make m...

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Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo, Paperback - Nigel Rothfels

223,99 RON 239,99 RON

Reducere. To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages...

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Watermen, Paperback - Randall S. Peffer

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin, Hardcover - Lisa T. Sarasohn

180,99 RON

For most of our time on this planet, vermin were considered humanity's common inheritance. Fleas, lice, bedbugs, and rats were universal scourges, ...

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Colonial Living, Paperback - Edwin Tunis

244,99 RON 262,99 RON

Reducere. Colonial Living is EdwinTunis's a vigorous re-creation of 17th- and 18th-century America--of the everyday living of those sturdy men and women who ...

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America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination, Hardcover - John Rhodehamel

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. On April 14, 1865, after nearly a year of conspiring, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln as the president watched a production of Our American ...

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The Busy Caregiver's Guide to Advanced Alzheimer Disease, Hardcover - Jennifer R. Stelter

337,99 RON 361,99 RON

Reducere. Caring for someone living with advanced Alzheimer disease is a challenge. It can make you feel like you're on a hamster wheel--running in circles, ...

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Oak Seed Dispersal: A Study in Plant-Animal Interactions, Hardcover - Michael A. Steele

577,99 RON 618,99 RON

Reducere. Seed dispersal is a critical stage in the life cycle of most flowering plants. The process can have far-reaching effects on a species' biology, esp...

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What Universities Owe Democracy, Hardcover - Ronald J. Daniels

180,99 RON

Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universitie...

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Comparative Mythology, Paperback - Jaan Puhvel

180,99 RON

In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts...

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The Secrets of Surviving Infidelity, Paperback - Scott Haltzman

182,99 RON 195,99 RON

Reducere. Along with changes in the workplace and the explosive growth of electronic communications, there has been a skyrocketing rate of infidelity. Today,...

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Neo-Nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats, and the Future of Higher Education, Paperback - John Aubrey Douglass

303,99 RON

Universities have long been at the forefront of both national development and global integration. But the political and policy world in which they ...

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Unequal Cities: Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America's Largest Cities, Hardcover - Maureen R. Benjamins

242,99 RON

The elimination of racial and ethnic inequities--differences that are avoidable, unnecessary, and unfair--has been one of the overarching health-re...

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Crossing the American Health Care Chasm: Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy - Donald A. Barr

180,99 RON

For decades, Democratic and Republican political leaders have disagreed about the fundamental goals of American health policy. The modern-day conse...

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The Trojan Epic: Posthomerica, Paperback - ***

247,99 RON 265,99 RON

Reducere. Composed in the third century A.D., the Trojan Epic is the earliest surviving literary evidence for many of the traditions of the Trojan War passed...

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The Eye Book: A Complete Guide to Eye Disorders and Health, Hardcover - Gary H. Cassel

425,99 RON 455,99 RON

Reducere. In The Eye Book, specialist Dr. Gary H. Cassel presents readers with trusted, evidence-based information they can rely on to protect vision and lea...

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Cultural Internationalism and World Order, Paperback - Akira Iriye

239,99 RON 256,99 RON

Reducere. As the nineteenth century became the twentieth and the dangers of rampant nationalism became more evident, people throughout the world embraced the...

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Dsm: A History of Psychiatry's Bible, Hardcover - Allan V. Horwitz

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

Reducere. Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-use...

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American Defense Policy, Paperback - Miriam Krieger

332,99 RON

American Defense Policy, first published in 1965 under the leadership of Brent Scowcroft, has been a mainstay in courses on political science, inte...

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The Good War in American Memory, Paperback - John Bodnar

220,99 RON

The "Good War" in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodn...

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Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex, Paperback - Timothy Wientzen

213,99 RON

The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expr...

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Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, Paperback - Elizabeth Reis

180,99 RON

In the summer of 2020, the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital apologized to their former intersex patients who endured early childhood sur...

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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias, Paperback - Nancy L. Mace

151,99 RON

For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades of expe...

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The Breast Cancer Book: A Trusted Guide for You and Your Loved Ones, Hardcover - Kenneth D. Miller

365,99 RON

Being diagnosed with breast cancer can be scary and confusing. There are medical terms to learn, options to consider, and important decisions to ma...

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The Breast Cancer Book: A Trusted Guide for You and Your Loved Ones, Paperback - Kenneth D. Miller

151,99 RON

Being diagnosed with breast cancer can be scary and confusing. There are medical terms to learn, options to consider, and important decisions to ma...

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Mountain Gorillas. Biology, Conservation, and Coexistence, Hardback - ***

242,99 RON

Mountain Gorillas features stunning photos and four appendices documenting key biological and ecological information, habitat vegetation, milestone...

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Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar. Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918, Paperback - Walton Look Lai

241,99 RON

Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist...

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Henri IV of France: His Reign and Age, Paperback - Vincent J. Pitts

322,99 RON

Vincent J. Pitts chronicles the life and times of one of France's most remarkable kings in the first English-language biography of Henri IV to be p...

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History of the Green Howards, Paperback - John S. W. Powell

103,99 RON

The exploits of one of Britain's finest regiments written by a father and son team who are distinguished members.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAu...

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Astrobiology. An Introduction, third edition, Hardback - Michael Gross

455,99 RON

From neutron star mergers to the survival skills of tardigrades, this fascinating book is an ideal primer for students or anyone curious about life...

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Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?: The People of Johns Island South Carolina-Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs - Guy Carawan

255,99 RON

Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? presents an oral, musical, and photographic record of the venerable Gullah culture in modern times. With...

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DC Comics: The New 52 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, Hardcover - Geoff Johns

157,99 RON

Celebrate the greatest hits of The New 52, one decade after DC's bold reinvention of its publishing line and fictional universe! In 2011, DC made i...

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Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education, Paperback - John R. Thelin

258,99 RON 277,99 RON

Reducere. Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education, designed to be used alongside John R. Thelin's A History of American Higher Educat...

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Astrobiology. An Introduction, third edition, Paperback - Michael Gross

213,99 RON

From neutron star mergers to the survival skills of tardigrades, this fascinating book is an ideal primer for students or anyone curious about life...

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Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Paperback - Thomas L. Hankins

229,99 RON

Hankins brings together the many aspects of Hamilton's life and work-from his significant contributions to mathematics, optics, and mechanics to hi...

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Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, Paperback - Moon-Ho Jung

257,99 RON 276,99 RON

Reducere. How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these worker...

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The Anatomy of Blackness: Science & Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment, Paperback - Andrew S. Curran

257,99 RON

This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackn...

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Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology, Hardback - Kevin S. McKelvey

427,99 RON

A major advancement in understanding the factors underlying wildlife-habitat relationships, Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology will be an in...

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Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex, Paperback - Alex Roland

164,99 RON

First named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address, the Military-Industrial Complex, originally an exclusively American phenomen...

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Physico-theology. Religion and Science in Europe, 1650-1750, Hardback - ***

332,99 RON

Contributors: Ann Blair, Simona Boscani Leoni, John Hedley Brooke, Nicolas Brucker, Katherine Calloway, Kathleen Crowther, Brendan Dooley, Peter Ha...

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