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A concise introduction to the long-obscured Southeast Asian country struggling to emerge from a half-century of military rule
Getting Your Child Back to School is intended for parents grappling with school... Læs mere
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Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.
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The most controversial musical figure of the 19th century, Richard Wagner was a great literary, philosophical, and political activist whose contribution to... Læs mere
This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: