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The Ethics of Destruction: Norms and Force in International Relations (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Many assume that in international politics, and especially in war, "anything goes." Civil War general William Sherman said war "is all hell." The implication behind the maxim is that in war, as in hell, there is no order, only chaos; no mercy, only...
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Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Faced with an aging workforce, Japanese firms are hiring foreign workers in ever-increasing numbers. In 1990 Japan's government began encouraging the migration of Nikkeijin (overseas Japanese) who are presumed to assimilate more easily than are...
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Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
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For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book.... Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere.... Rischin lovingly brings to life the other musicians—Étienne Pasquier, cellist; Henri Akoka...
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Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region.
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Greek Mythology and Poetics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage...
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The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War demonstrates that it is not only rational analysis that determines strategic doctrine, but also the attitudes of military planners.
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In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave way to an encroaching market culture. Drawing on a wide array of diaries, letters, and published...
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Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending...
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Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel of such Hermetic thinkers as Baader, Böhme, Bruno...
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Journeys from Childhood to Midlife: Risk, Resilience, and Recovery (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In a companion volume to their highly acclaimed book Overcoming the Odds, Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith continue their longitudinal study of approximately five hundred men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A third of...
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