Cornell University Press Forlag
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Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training (Electronic book text, Engelsk)A thoughtful and provocative critique of job training in the health care sector.
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The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages (Electronic book text, Engelsk)M. Cecilia Gaposchkin reconstructs and analyzes the process that led to King Louis IX of France's canonization in 1297 and the consolidation and spread of his cult.
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No Small Change: Pension Funds and Corporate Engagement (Electronic book text, Engelsk)In No Small Change, Tessa Hebb examines the ability of pension funds, now the largest single driver of financial markets around the world, to use their ownership position to change corporate practices for the sake of the bottom line and, perhaps...
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Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France between the Wars (Electronic book text, Engelsk)In the years between the world wars, French intellectuals, politicians, and military leaders came to see certain encounters-between human and machine, organic and artificial, national and international culture-as premonitions of a future that was...
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Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity (Electronic book text, Engelsk)"A work of rare scope and power that grapples with the big questions: Is happiness the proper end of life, as the Greeks conceived it to be, or is life, as it appears since the early English novel, an endless trial?"-Adam Potkay
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Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Chorev focuses on trade liberalization in the United States from the 1930s to the present as she explores the political origins of today's global economy.
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Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), Poland's national poet, was one of the extraordinary personalities of the age. In chronicling the events of his life-his travels, numerous loves, a troubled marriage, years spent as a member of a heterodox religious sect...
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Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Exploring historical and cultural representations of the two Russian rulers as they shaped and reflected political shifts.
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Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933 (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Judd gives us a new understanding of the formation of German political systems, the importance of religious practices to Jewish political leadership, and the interaction of Jews with the German government.
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The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Schaffer reveals how tinkering with the electoral process, even with the best of intentions, can easily damage democratic ideals.
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Eurasia's New Frontiers: Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures (Electronic book text, Engelsk)As a global power, the United States will always be interested in Eurasia and engaged with its peoples and nations. Eurasia is too large and important a part of the world to be ignored. It casts a shadow of the old Soviet threat forward in time, and...
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Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Smith deciphers the paradox of the resource curse and questions its inevitability through an innovative comparison of the experiences of Iran and Indonesia.
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