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Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement,... Læs mere
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Venice's Intimate Empire: Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen,... Læs mere
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Zoo Ethics: The Challenges of Compassionate Conservation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Zoo Ethics examines the workings of modern zoos and considers the core ethical challenges faced by people who choose to hold and display animals in... Læs mere
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Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Whole World on Fire focuses on a technical riddle wrapped in an organizational mystery: How and why, for more than half a century, did the U.S. government fail to predict nuclear fire damage as it drew up plans to fight strategic nuclear war? U.S...
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Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918–1941 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Thomas G. Mahnken sheds light on the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence-gathering, tracing how America learned of military developments in Japan, Germany, and Great Britain in the period between the two world wars.
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Why Does Literature Matter? (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)"Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of...
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War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics Over Technology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Do some technologies provoke war? Do others promote peace? Offense-defense theory contends that technological change is an important cause of conflict: leaders will be tempted to launch wars when they believe innovation favors attackers over...
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Warlords: Strong-arm Brokers in Weak States (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Kimberly Marten shows why and how warlords undermine state sovereignty. Unlike the feudal lords of a previous era, warlords today are not state-builders. They thrive on illegality and rely on private militias for support.
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The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world.
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Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Greenhill offers the first systematic examination of forced migration as an important but largely unrecognized instrument of state influence. She shows both how often this unorthodox brand of coercion has been attempted and how successful it has been.
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What Else Is Pastoral?: Renaissance Literature and the Environment (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)A corrective to the prevailing interpretation of pastoral poetry that shows the value of reading literature ecologically.
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Machiavelli's Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Machiavelli's ambiguous treatment of religion has fuelled a contentious and long-standing debate among scholars. Some insist that he... Læs mere
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