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Strange Tales from Edo: Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan’s engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern... Læs mere
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Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Meanings of Antiquity is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, recorded in the eighth-century texts Kojiki and Nihon... Læs mere
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Biographical and Autobiographical Writings (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Leon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical Writings includes On the Advantages and... Læs mere
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A Guess at the Riddle: Essays on the Physical Underpinnings of Quantum Mechanics (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Renowned philosopher of science David Z Albert offers an innovative approach to understanding the fundamental physical... Læs mere
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The Moralized Ovid (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Written in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential interpretation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the High Middle Ages. It... Læs mere
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Of Law and the World: Critical Conversations on Power, History, and Political Economy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
David Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi, two leading critics of law’s role in global life, join together to explore the... Læs mere
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Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Political theorist Jeremy Waldron makes a bracing case against identifying rule of law with predictability. Seeing the rule of law as just one value to which... Læs mere
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Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Nazmul Sultan explores Indian contributions to democratic theory, as anticolonial thinkers developed principles of peoplehood and self-rule. Indians contested British claims that the “backwardness” of the Indian people offered a democratic justification for imperial domination.
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Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Drawing on a range of hard evidence, Neil Van Leeuwen shows that the psychological mechanisms underlying religious belief are... Læs mere
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The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the #MeToo age, US debate over licit sex has split into two camps: one insists that consent solves the problem of sexual coercion, while the other equates... Læs mere
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King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Today John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic statesmanship. Brooke... Læs mere
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The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Op-Ed Novel follows a clutch of globally renowned Spanish novelists who swept into the political sphere via the pages of El País. Their... Læs mere
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