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The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Human space journeys are awe-inspiring but risky and immensely expensive. Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees argue that science calls for... Læs mere
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Exporting Capitalism: Private Enterprise and US Foreign Policy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The US government has long sought investment opportunities for US companies in developing countries. But the results have been mixed: firms... Læs mere
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The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
How do we know what we think we know? The answer is evidence, but evidence is no simple thing. What counts as evidence in a scientific... Læs mere
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The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
For nearly two decades, including after its independence, Algeria was named as a part of the European Economic Community. Megan Brown... Læs mere
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We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted... Læs mere
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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less equal. Kathryn... Læs mere
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Text and Interpretation: Imam Ja?far al-Sadiq and His Legacy in Islamic Law (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Text and Interpretation examines the main characteristics of the legal thought of Imam Ja?far al-?adiq, preeminent religious... Læs mere
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Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, With a New Afterword (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Before the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted... Læs mere
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Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Katrina disaster was not a weather event of summer 2005. It was a disaster a century in the making, a product of lessons learned from previous floods, corporate and... Læs mere
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The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini’s commander of the Black Shirts, exemplified fascism’s obsession with male strength. Through the... Læs mere
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Localizing Learning: The Literati Enterprise in Wuzhou, 1100–1600 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, Localizing Learning traces how debates over... Læs mere
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the... Læs mere
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