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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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Women in Old Norse Society (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway: their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs, reproductive practices, familial relations, religious practices, and legal constraints.
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Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds—geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science.
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Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Kathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historiography, British public opinion forced the Conservative government to introduce legislation stemming the flow of dark-skinned...
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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism...
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Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Accessible and attractive narratives, linked by brief historical overviews, provide a large and fully textured view of Korea under Japanese rule.
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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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The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies After Socialism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropology's most highly regarded thinkers on a number of topics including consumption, identity, and ritual...
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Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In a dark departure from our standard picture of whistleblowers, C. Fred Alford offers a chilling account of the world of people who have come forward to protest organizational malfeasance in government agencies and in the private sector. The...
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The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals to acquire land. Based on Katherine Verdery's extensive fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, The Vanishing Hectare explores...
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