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A World of Resistance: India and the Global Antibiotic Crisis (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
India is the center of the global antibiotic resistance crisis. Examining the enormous social and environmental costs of overreliance on... Læs mere
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The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Highest Exam provides a detailed, research-driven survey of the gaokao, China’s high-stakes college entrance exam. Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li—past... Læs mere
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John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Between 1850 and 1920, western states instituted more than five thousand laws marginalizing Chinese residents and... Læs mere
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Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Foreign capital can catalyze economic growth in developing countries but can also be a... Læs mere
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Between Fixed and Fickle: Why Our Moral Views Keep Changing (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Killing and cheating seem obviously wrong, yet such moral infractions are common. So is morality selfish or irrational? “No,” says psychologist... Læs mere
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The Menologion of Basil II (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be read during the morning office to commemorate the... Læs mere
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Friction: A Biography (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Friction, the force that resists motion, has shaped technological progress for millennia. Jennifer Vail shows how the quest to master friction has driven innovation, culture, and... Læs mere
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The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935–1960 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the 1930s and 1940s, Caribbean and West African newspapers nurtured anticolonial movements through... Læs mere
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The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200–1600 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In medieval and early modern Europe, the transition from Roman to Indo-Arabic numerals enabled their... Læs mere
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Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Christina Cross decisively refutes culture-of-poverty narratives blaming family structure... Læs mere
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The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
John Samuel Harpham shows that the development of slavery in the English Atlantic world was underpinned by a... Læs mere
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Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The so-called Golden Age of Athens, during and after the primacy of Pericles, was in fact a time of ruinous culture wars. Hubris shows how... Læs mere
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