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Vera Rubin: A Life (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton offer the first biography of Vera Rubin, an astronomer who made vital contributions to our understanding of dark matter. An outstanding scientist... Læs mere
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Prague: Belonging in the Modern City (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
How does the outsider find community and a sense of place? Chad Bryant tells the stories of five ordinary people over two centuries who struggled to make lives in... Læs mere
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The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Wordplay has been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries, and medieval riddles provide insights into the extraordinary and the everyday. The Old... Læs mere
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers, and merchants. Challenging the view that... Læs mere
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Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradition. Suspected of dual loyalty, colonial... Læs mere
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A Feminist Theory of Refusal (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Bonnie Honig invigorates debate over the politics of refusal by insisting that withdrawal from unjust political systems be matched with collective action to change them.... Læs mere
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The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
When a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock. Xi Shangzhen became a symbol of the... Læs mere
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Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at... Læs mere
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Under the Starry Flag: How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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The Byzantine Sinbad (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher, originally a Persian story, and the sixty-two tales of The Fables of Syntipas—both translated from Syriac in the... Læs mere
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