Johns Hopkins University Press Forlag
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The Mammals of Luzon Island: Biogeography and Natural History of a Philippine Fauna (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Based on a century of accumulated data and fifteen years of intensive study, The Mammals of Luzon Island delivers a message that will appeal equally to scientists, conservationists, and ecologically minded travelers.
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Life in the Dark: Illuminating Biodiversity in the Shadowy Haunts of Planet Earth (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Fenolio's rich and vibrant images shed new light on the world's fascinating creatures of darkness.
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Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
By examining how cars are salvaged, repurposed, and restored, this book demonstrates that the history of the automobile is much more than a running catalog of showroom novelties.
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Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In order to survive, the university would have to institutionalize a new order of knowledge, one that was self-organizing, internally coherent, and embodied in the very character of the modern, critical scholar.
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Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports: Ethical, Conceptual, and Scientific Issues (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This frank discussion of doping in sports includes accounts by former elite athletes and offers an illuminating exchange over the meaning and value of natural talents and genetic hierarchies and the essence of fair competition.
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Lizard Social Behavior (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Zamudio, Cornell University.
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Policies for an Aging Society (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Zeldes, Columbia University.
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The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and political unconscious.
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Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays from feminist critics, each of which explores the history of the English novel, literature's place in cultural debate and women's studies. They begin with the fictions of the late 17th century and end with Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen.
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Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Firmly establishing the importance of the topic for understanding eighteenth-century English literature and culture, her work is bound to spur further discussion of the significance of incest discourses in the early modern period and beyond.
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Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Throughout this book, Scheuerman offers a constructive critique which articulates ways in which "liberal democracy might be recalibrated in accordance with the tempo of modern society."
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Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Tragedies of overliving remain disturbing because they remind us that life is rarely as neat as we expect and hope it be and that endings often come too late.
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