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A Case for Conservatism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)In his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inconsistencies. In this companion volume, he makes a compelling case for conservatism as the best...
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Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Calculating Credibility examines—and ultimately rejects—a fundamental belief held by laypeople and the makers of American foreign policy: the notion that backing down during a crisis reduces a country's future credibility. Fear of diminished...
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Engaging Science: How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these... Læs mere
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Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from...
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The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict, and Citizenship (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Although the role of shared speech in political action has received much theoretical attention, too little thought has focused on the practice of listening in political interaction, according to Susan Bickford. Even in a formally democratic polity...
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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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The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)"This book is... a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwell upon their own fragmentariness, on the impossibility of capturing an intact history.... It...
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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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