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Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical... Læs mere
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On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, poets and novelists—and... Læs mere
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Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
What will it take to make humanity a spacefaring species? The usual: good reasons and good planning. Christopher Wanjek explores the practical... Læs mere
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Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
How did the United States appoint itself as the world’s supreme military power? Stephen Wertheim delves into the archives of the U.S. foreign policy... Læs mere
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The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Versions of the Snow White story have been shared across the world for centuries. Acclaimed folklorist and translator Maria Tatar... Læs mere
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The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and evangelical... Læs mere
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Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Testosterone is neither the biological essence of manliness nor even the “male sex hormone.” It doesn’t predict competitiveness or aggressiveness, strength or sex... Læs mere
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Here and There: Sites of Philosophy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Stanley Cavell was one of the most distinguished and wide-ranging philosophers of his time. This posthumous volume assembles an array of writings that Cavell left... Læs mere
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Against Constitutionalism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Tracing constitutional thought from the Enlightenment to the present, Martin Loughlin shows how a tool for the protection of self-government has become a means for subverting... Læs mere
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Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Juliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country, leading to the creation of a... Læs mere
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Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of literature... Læs mere
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The Guests of Ants: How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Pulitzer Prize–winner Bert Hölldobler and behavioral ecologist Christina Kwapich reveal a universe of behavioral mechanisms whereby... Læs mere
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