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The Origins of Alliances (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of international alliances and identifying the most important causes of security cooperation between states. In...
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Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Drawing on an impressive array of sources from popular religion, art, literature, and drama, as well as from scholastic philosophy, mystical theology, homiletics, and hagiography, Russell provides a detailed treatment of Christian diabology in the Middle Ages.
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Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Christopher D. Johnson traces several thematic sequences in the panels of Aby Warburg's encyclopedic Mnemosyne (Atlas of Images), begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929.
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The End of Roman Britain (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Jones offers a lucid and thorough analysis of the economic, social, military, and environmental problems that contributed to the failure of the Romans, drawing on literary sources and on recent archaeological evidence.
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The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This lively and learned book traces the history of the concept of evil and its personification as the Devil from ancient times to the period of the New Testament and across cultures and civilizations.
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Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811–1847 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The first volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt.
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Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass...
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The New Science of Giambattista Vico: Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) with the Addition of "Practic of the New Science" (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's "New Science" is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory.
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Overcoming the Odds: High Risk Children from Birth to Adulthood (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Overcoming the Odds looks closely at the lives of an ethnically diverse group of 505 men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and who have been monitored from the prenatal period through early adulthood by psychologists...
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Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)James B. Given analyzes the inquisition in one French region in order to develop a sociology of medieval politics. Established in the early thirteenth century to combat widespread popular heresy, inquisitorial tribunals identified, prosecuted, and...
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The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and Japan in Comparison (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In this book, German sociologists and American and Japanese political scientists draw extensively on the work of economists and historians from their home countries, as well as from the United Kingdom and France.
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Material Beings (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)According to Peter van Inwagen, visible inanimate objects do not, strictly speaking, exist. In defending this controversial thesis, he offers fresh insights on such topics as personal identity, commonsense belief, existence over time, the phenomenon...
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