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Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
James Hankins challenges the view that the Renaissance was the seedbed of modern republicanism, with Machiavelli as exemplary thinker. What... Læs mere
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Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
For decades neuroscientists understood sensory perception as a matter of external stimuli “sparking” regions of the brain. But this view has a key flaw: odors... Læs mere
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Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Many Americans fear the power of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats—the “deep state.” Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule seek to calm those fears by... Læs mere
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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding,... Læs mere
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers, and merchants. Challenging the... Læs mere
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Freedom: An Unruly History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Many Americans assume that the country was founded by skeptics of “big government,” who saw minimal state power as freedom’s prerequisite. Annelien de Dijn takes on this myth.... Læs mere
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Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail,... Læs mere
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Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of the former... Læs mere
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The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and... Læs mere
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The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Central banks are supposed to stabilize markets, yet decades of mounting central bank power have seen wave after wave of financial crisis. Leon Wansleben offers novel explanations for the rise of central banks and the problematic implications of their finance-dependent policies.
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Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Lu Xun was China’s greatest literary modernist and a key thinker of the early twentieth century. This new translation assembles some of Lu Xun’s essays... Læs mere
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Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Travis Zadeh revives the work of the thirteenth-century Persian scholar Qazwini, whose Wonders and Rarities was for... Læs mere
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