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Trent: What Happened at the Council (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Trent, the Catholic Church’s attempt to put its house in order after the Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for things it never did. This one-volume... Læs mere
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The Russian Origins of the First World War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a... Læs mere
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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
“Slow violence” from climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war occurs gradually and often... Læs mere
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The Mind of the Horse: An Introduction to Equine Cognition (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Horses were domesticated about 6000 years ago on the vast Eurasian steppe. Michel-Antoine Leblanc presents an encyclopedic synthesis of... Læs mere
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The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
What gives statistics its unity as a science? Stephen Stigler sets forth the seven foundational ideas of statistics—a scientific discipline related to but... Læs mere
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Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
As a Europe grew rich in the Middle Ages, the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of households often substituted for hard currency.... Læs mere
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Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s... Læs mere
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On Betrayal (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Betrayal seems to have lost its grip on the public consciousness in liberal societies, yet it is all around us, dissolving the thick glue of trust that holds friends, families, and... Læs mere
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Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Why do human beings find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out the billions that... Læs mere
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Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to... Læs mere
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The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy: A Systematic Reconstruction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Milosz: A Biography (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Andrzej Franaszek’s award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz—winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—recounts the poet’s odyssey through WWI, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazi... Læs mere
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