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Collision of Wills: How Ambiguity about Social Rank Breeds Conflict (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Roger V. Gould argues that human conflict is more likely to occur in symmetrical relationships - among friends or social equals - than in hierarchical ones, wherein the difference of social rank between two individuals is already established.
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Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Exploring the origins of welfare in the context of local politics, this book examines the first welfare policy created specifically for mother-only families in Chicago in 1911. This revealing study shows how assumptions about women's roles have historically shaped public policy.
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Fast, Easy, and In Cash: Artisan Hardship and Hope in the Global Economy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Studies in International Taxation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
To help assess existing tax policies and incentives, this volume presents new research on how taxes affect the investment and financing decisions of multinationals... Læs mere
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A Preface to Theology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this work, W. Clark Gilpin proposes that American theological scholarship has become responsible to a threefold public: the churches, the academic community, and civil society.
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Jurek Becker: A Life in Five Worlds (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Sander Gilman's story of Jurek Becker provides a portrait of an extraordinarily gifted artist whose hope and courage are manifested in his legacy as one of the greatest German writers of the past century.
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Between Culture and Fantasy: A New Guinea Highlands Mythology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An account of relations between the sexes and the role of myth in the transition between unconscious fantasy and cultural forms, based on studies of the mythologies of the Gimi, from the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
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Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Confronts the everyday politics of surveillance by exploring the worlds and words of those who know it best - the watched. The... Læs mere
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The Little Field of Self (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Set in a castle and on its grounds in Brittany, 'The little field of self' is one long poem comprised of individual poems that articulate the essence of devotion and the conflict within the devoted.
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In the Belly (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This is a collection of poetry by David Gewanter.
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Continuing the Reformation: Essays on Modern Religious Thought (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In these twelve essays, written or published in the 1980s, a historical theologian examines the changes that occurred as the Catholic tradition gave way to the Reformation and an interest in the phenomenon of believing replaced adherence to unchanging dogma.
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Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Drawing on fieldwork at First Place, a popular Christian weight-loss program, and Exodus International, a... Læs mere
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