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In 1926: Living on the Edge of Time (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Gumbrecht evokes the year 1926 through explorations of such things as bars, boxing, movie palaces, hunger artists, airplanes, hair gel, bullfighting, film stardom, and... Læs mere
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Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In these eleven in-depth essays, drawn from the award-winning reference work Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on this period's culture and history.
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Man and Wife in America: A History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Exploring 150 years of American marriage, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage in the 19th century. He shows how our own conflicts and confusions... Læs mere
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Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the nineteenth century, virtually anyone could get into the United States. By the 1920s, however, U.S. immigration policy had... Læs mere
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Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Wacker gives an in-depth account of the practices of American pentecostal churches. He examines aspects of pentecostal culture, including rituals,... Læs mere
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Justice, Luck, and Knowledge (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Key contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility. But this approach, Hurley contends, has ignored the way... Læs mere
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Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Transcendentalism went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Brandom’s new book. An emphasis on our capacity to reason, rather than merely to... Læs mere
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Napalm: An American Biography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Napalm was invented on Valentine’s Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. It created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo—more than died in the... Læs mere
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The Tupac Amaru Rebellion (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in... Læs mere
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Nature Wars: People vs. Pests (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The aim of this book is to sound the alarm against dangerous tactics for controlling the pests that are an annoying but integral part of our world. The book aims to show how a more measured and discriminating approach to pests might serve us and the natural world much better.
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On Reading the Constitution (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Our Constitution speaks in general terms that seem to invite readers to reflect in them their own agendas. Recognizing that the Constitution cannot be merely what its... Læs mere
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Natural Experiments of History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and political science. The studies cover a spectrum... Læs mere
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