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  • Proud and Angry
    Wenfang Tang / Ying Xia
    Proud and Angry addresses the question of what drove two million Hongkongers to the streets in 2019 in the largest ever protest in this post-colonial society. It answers this question by examining Hong Kong’s unique post-colonial political culture where the former colonists left but the new ruler was unable to establish itself under the institutional design of One Country Two S...
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    38,23 €

  • Spiritual Life and Secular Thought
    King-Ho Leung
    In the eyes of many, 'spirituality,' particularly in its non-religious form, is nothing but a secularized, individualized, or even commodified version of traditional religion. Against these pejorative and dismissive conceptions, this book seeks to take seriously the notion of 'spiritual but not religious' as a philosophical concept which can illuminate different aspects of huma...
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    44,79 €

  • Century in 16mm
    Gregory A Waller
    When the small cameras and portable projectors that used 16mm film stock emerged in 1923, they allowed--for the first time in history--the possibility that anyone could make, show, and watch movies. A foundational but largely forgotten film format that offered a suite of technologies, 16mm was a democratic alternative to the larger and more expensive 35mm technology used by the...
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    56,12 €

  • Idiosyncratic Issue Opinion and Political Choice
    Benjamin E Lauderdale / Chris Hanretty / Nick Vivyan
    What is the nature of mass opinion on public policies? And what role do citizens’ positions on policy issues play in their political choices? This book re-examines these questions, which lie at the heart of fundamental debates about whether democratic elections make policymakers responsive to citizens’ policy preferences. The answers that political science currently provides to...
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    50,92 €

  • Eroding Democracy from the Outside in
    Anna M Meyerrose
    The end of the Cold War gave way to a fundamental shift in the structure of the international system. It was an era characterized above all by liberal triumphalism in which Western politicians and policymakers turned to international organizations (IOs) to spread and reinforce liberal values. These IOs, backed by the West, proliferated at exceedingly high rates, with democracie...
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    38,22 €

  • Quantum Computing
    Steven Herbert
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  • Trauma-Informed, Compassionate Crisis and Inpatient Care
    Amy Ashton / Charlotte Riches / Stuart Mitchell
    This book offers practical suggestions for how to grow a trauma informed approach and culture within acute mental health services. It starts by building a compassionate understanding of the challenges faced by people receiving, and delivering, care in inpatient settings. It considers the (understandable) ways in which individuals and services have adapted to cope, and what this...
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    57,49 €

  • Empathy in Clinical Psychiatry and Mental Health Care
    Alvaro Barrera
    Empathy in Clinical Psychiatry and Mental Health Care focuses on empathy in clinical psychiatry and mental health care, bringing together the challenging reality of day-to-day clinical mental health work with conceptual and neuroscientific work on empathy. Such an interface is crucial because empathy is both ethically and epistemically central to mental health care. Mental heal...
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    90,11 €

  • Making Wicked Problems Governable?
    Ewan Ferlie / Gerry McGivern / Louise FitzGerald
    Making Wicked Problems Governable? analyzes managed networks established to enhance service delivery within complex, cross-cutting sectors-a cornerstone of the health management reforms pursued by the UK New Labour governments (1997-2010). Drawing on extensive case study data, the revised second edition features a substantially expanded introduction and updated chapters, unders...
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    63,56 €

  • Using Mindfulness to Promote Mental Health in Schools
    Shane R Jimerson / Tyler L Renshaw
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    57,54 €

  • Moved by Modernity
    Kerilyn Schewel
    Across headlines and scholarly research alike, migration from countries like Ethiopia is often framed as a crisis: poverty, climate change, and conflict pushing people from their homes. These dominant 'push factor' narratives suggest that migration is a problem--and that development is the solution. Moved by Modernity turns this assumption on its head, revealing how social and ...
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    38,02 €

  • Making Global Norms
    Alexandros Kentikelenis / Leonard Seabrooke
    Global norms form the core infrastructure of economic and political globalization. To be influential, these norms need to be codified into policy scripts that spell out how they are to be applied in practice. This process of developing scripts is a key job of international organizations, which act as venues where states can collectively make major decisions. When forging policy...
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    38,10 €

  • Politics of Perception, The
    Katelyn E Stauffer
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    35,36 €

  • Art of Trafficking, The
    Laura R Bume
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    37,56 €

  • How to Release Music
    Kat Reinhert / Sarah Gulish
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    31,77 €

  • Rebels in the Field
    Alec Worsnop
    Insurgent movements around the world vary widely in their military efficacy, from little-known and short-lived organizations to the Taliban, which completed its takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. What accounts for this variation in insurgent military power and success on the battlefield? Rebels in the Field answers this question by developing the cadre theory: an insurgent organi...
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    38,12 €

  • Virtual Territories
    Jordan Branch
    As technology continues to evolve and advance, new weapons, communication media, surveillance systems, and more are increasingly interwoven into warfare, diplomacy, trade, and every other aspect of international relations. To make sense of the shifting grounds of international politics, it has become essential to understand how technological and political change interact. Virtu...
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    35,66 €

  • Climate Obstruction
    J Timmons Roberts
    Large-scale assessments, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have been crucial in advancing our understanding of climate change. They have affirmed that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is urgently needed to avoid its disastrous consequences and that we possess the scientific knowledge and technical ability to meet that challenge. Citizens ar...
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    43,99 €

  • Pre-Existing Conditions
    Alex Garlick
    Health care inflation is a major problem in the United States. Policymakers claim to be working to slow the growth of health care spending, but these efforts are sorely lacking in most states. This book shows that lobbying from the health care industry is responsible for the runaway cost of health care in many states. Lobbyists are not all powerful, but Garlick argues that cost...
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    38,45 €

  • Partisan Places
    Irwin L Morris
    Below the surface of America’s polarized, hyper-competitive standoff between the national Republican and Democratic parties, a dramatic partisan change is occurring at the local and state level. In Partisan Places, Irwin L. Morris describes the shift in American politics caused by domestic migration patterns. Places with growing populations are becoming more Democratic, while p...
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    38,36 €

  • Rethinking the 1990s
    Gilford J Ikenberry / Peter Trubowitz
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    37,70 €

  • Disability Publics
    Carolyn S Stevens / Mark R Bookman
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Over the last 150 years, activists and policymakers have tried to improve access to Japan’s built environment, education, employment, entertainment, and medical ca...
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    44,74 €

  • Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship, The
    Tanika Raychaudhuri
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    37,93 €

  • Managing Corporate Virtue
    Laura Bereni
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    44,51 €

  • Christianity and Migration
    Peter C Phan
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    37,42 €

  • New Essays on Normative Realism
    Christopher Peacocke / Paul Boghossian
    It’s difficult to explain the point of normative judgments--judgments like 'You ought to donate to charity,' or 'You ought to believe that smoking is bad for you, given the evidence'--without assuming that such judgments express objective truths. And yet philosophers have always been puzzled by such a 'realism' about the normative, for an array of conceptual, epistemological, a...
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    49,89 €

  • Imperial Sexisn
    Denise M Walsh
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  • Noncommutative Measures and LP and Orlicz Spaces, with Applications to Quantum Physics
    Louis Labuschagne / Stanislaw Goldstein
    The theory of noncommutative Haagerup ����sup����/sup and Orlicz spaces is an important tool in both Quantum Harmonic Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Indeed, noncommutativity is arguably the raison-d’être of the Heisenberg approach to quantum mechanics. Just as classical analysis formed the foundation for classical mechanics, a mature response to the challenges posed by quan...
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    75,29 €

  • Navigating the New Retail Landscape
    Alan Treadgold / Jonathan Reynolds
    The retail industry globally is in an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change. This book is intended to serve as a wide-ranging, robust, practical guide to leaders of enterprises tasked with understanding and delivering success in the new landscape of retailing, as well as to all those with an interest in this most important and visible of industries. Part 1 describes th...
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    63,99 €

  • Shostakovich’s Ballets and the Search for Soviet Dance
    Laura E Kennedy
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    51,44 €

  • Groups 4 Health
    Catherine Haslam / Sarah V Bentley / Tegan Cruwys
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    50,81 €

  • Euskadi Ta Askatasuna
    Nell Bennett
    This book uses previously untranslated and unpublished transcripts of key internal debates from the Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) to unravel the puzzle behind terrorist persistence in the face of certain doom. With its unprecedented view inside a terrorist organization at crucial decision points and discussions of its future, this book highlights the compe...
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    57,79 €

  • Command of Commerce
    Ben A Vagle / Stephen G Brooks
    The conventional wisdom has held that China’s economic power is very close to America’s and that Washington cannot undertake a broad economic cutoff of China without hurting itself as much, or more. In Command of Commerce, Ben A. Vagle and Stephen G. Brooks show the conventional wisdom is wrong on both fronts. The authors argue that America’s economic power has been underestima...
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    38,05 €

  • OXFORD HANDBOOK OF WITCHCRAFT IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE & COL OHB
    LEVACK
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    79,30 €

  • Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons
    Jeffrey W Knopf / Matthew Moran / Wyn Q Bowen
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    38,06 €

  • Radical Reality
    Caty Borum / David Conrad-Pérez
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    44,70 €

  • How States Die
    Douglas Lemke
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    38,13 €

  • Black Screens, White Frames
    Tanya Shilina-Conte
    Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of cinematic blankness. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, Tanya Shilina-Conte provides a detailed examination of non-images throughout film history. In different arts, including cinema, absence has often been understood in a negative way-- as a lack or lacuna, a vacuum or void. To remedy this, Shilina-Conte advances t...
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    53,56 €

  • Concussion Care Manual
    David L. Brody
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  • Roots of Counterterrorism
    Constant Willem Hijzen
    Roots of Counterterrorism puts into focus how the rise of terrorism in the 1970s challenged the existing core functions of intelligence, specifically in the Netherlands. ...
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    59,78 €

  • Subversion 2.0
    Christopher Whyte
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    36,75 €

  • How Technology, Social Media, and Current Events Profoundly Affect Adolescents
    Mark A Goldstein M D / Myrna Chandler Goldstein
    It is an extraordinary time for adolescents. Social media has a profound positive and negative influence on adolescents, drugs of abuse are readily available, social and sexual mores are changing, discussion about many aspects of racism is more prominent than ever, and surveys indicate that the prevalence of mental illness in teens is higher than any previous time. How Technolo...
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    88,68 €

  • Virtue of Hope
    Nancy E Snow
    What is hope? In the history of western philosophy to the present day, there is tremendous disagreement about the answer to this seemingly simple question. Contemporary philosophical literature on the subject is robust, complex, and full of interesting debates. Whether hope is good or bad, and whether we should focus not on hope, but on hopes, hoping, or hopefulness, as some co...
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    46,43 €

  • Depletion
    Shirin M Rai
    When thinking about the work of caring for others we often neglect the human cost born by those performing this care. Feminists have long talked about the ways in which unpaid work, particularly performed in the home, is habitually undervalued by society; but the work of caring for people, both paid and unpaid, can also take a toll on the health of individuals, households, and ...
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    36,55 €

  • Elite Networks
    Vuk Vukovic
    Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power. Elite networks are informal social networks between politicians in power and top executives of politically connected firms where personal ties and long-term interactions build trust and loyalty between involved actors. Both groups draw benefits from these in...
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    49,65 €

  • Handbook of the Merovingian World
    Bonnie Effros / Isabel Moreira
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  • Psalms
    Keith Bodner
    Within the library of the world’s classics, the book of Psalms occupies a unique place. Few books were composed over a longer period of time and have exercised more cultural and religious influence than the Psalms, the longest and most complex collection in the Hebrew Bible. Nearly 1,000 years in the making with dozens of contributors, this ancient anthology includes 150 prayer...
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    33,07 €

  • Crusader States and Their Neighbours
    Nicholas Morton
    The Crusader States and their Neighbours (Winner, The Verbruggen Prize, The Society for Medieval Military History) explores the military history of the Medieval Near East, piecing together the fault-lines of conflict which entangled this much-contested region. This was an area where ethnic, religious, dynastic, and commercial interests collided and the causes of war could be nu...
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    43,00 €

  • Structural Violence
    Elena Ruíz
    Enduring social inequalities in settler colonial societies are not an accident. They are produced and maintained by the self-repairing structural features and dynastic character of systemic racism and its intersecting oppressions. Using methods from diverse anticolonial liberation movements and systems theory, Structural Violence theorizes the existence of adaptive and self-rep...
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    49,08 €

  • Imperial Women of Rome
    Mary T Boatwright
    The Imperial Women of Rome explores the constraints and activities of the women who were part of Rome’s imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE, the Roman principate. Boatwright uses coins, inscriptions, papyri, material culture, and archaeology, as well as the more familiar but biased ancient authors, to depict change and continuity in imperial women’s pursuits and representat...
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    41,27 €

  • Dancing Mestizo Modernisms
    Jose Luis Reynoso
    This book analyzes how national and international dancers contributed to developing Mexico’s cultural politics and notions of the nation at different historical moments. It emphasizes how dancers and other moving bodies resisted and reproduced racial and social hierarchies stemming from colonial Mexico (1521-1821). Relying on extensive archival research, choreography as an anal...
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    56,14 €

  • Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America
    Eric C Smith
    Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options. By the early nineteenth century, they were a unified, powerful, and rapidly-growing denomination, poised to send missionaries to the other side of the world. One of the most influential yet neglected leaders in that transformation was Oliver Hart, longtim...
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    46,74 €

  • Norms and Necessity
    Amie Thomasson
    Claims about what is metaphysically necessary or possible have long played a central role in metaphysics and other areas of philosophy. Such claims are traditionally thought of as aiming to describe a special kind of modal fact or property, or perhaps facts about other possible worlds. But that assumption leads to difficult ontological, epistemological, and methodological puzzl...
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    41,98 €

  • Texts After Terror
    Rhiannon Graybill
    Texts after Terror offers an important new theory of rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. While the Bible is filled with stories of rape, scholarly approaches to sexual violence in the scriptures remain exhausted, dated, and in some cases even un-feminist, lagging far behind contemporary discourse about sexual violence and rape culture. Graybill responds to this discon...
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    47,21 €

  • Indigenous Audibilities
    Amanda Minks
    In the middle of the twentieth century, transnational networks sparked a range of cultural projects focused on collecting Indigenous music and folklore in the Americas. Indigenous Audibilities follows the social relations that created these collections in four interconnected case studies linking the U.S., Mexico, Nicaragua, and Chile. Indigenous collections were embedded in pol...
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    38,21 €

  • Rational Powers in Action
    Sergio Tenenbaum
    Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance. Rational Powers in Action locates these features of the human condition at the heart of a new theory of instrumental rationality. Where many theories of rational agency focus on instantaneous choices between sharply defined outcomes, treating the temporally extended and partially open-en...
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    32,80 €

  • Slavery and Race
    Julia Jorati
    Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of whom viewed themselves as enlightened--endorsed, funded, legislated, and executed the slave trade. This atrocity had a profound impact on philosophy, but historians of the discipline have so far neglected to address the topics of slavery and race. Many authors--inclu...
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    55,87 €

  • Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies
    Giovanni Dosi
    The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies seeks to offer an integrated analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the capitalist engine of generation and exploitation of technological organizational and institutional innovations - from the drivers of knowledge accumulation, to the modes in which such knowledge is incorporated into business firms, all the way to the processes...
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    66,56 €

  • Smith, Hogan and Ormerod’s Essentials of Criminal Law
    David Ormerod / John Child
    Your gateway to criminal law: drawing on the exceptional clarity and authority of Smith and Hogan, with a wealth of unique supportive learning features and guidance on assessment. Smith, Hogan, & Ormerod’s Essentials of Criminal Law takes students to the heart of this fascinating subject, providing focused, expert coverage alongside a wealth of student-friendly learning feature...
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    72,99 €

  • Mary Ann Shadd Cary
    Nneka D Dennie
    This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an abolitionist, suffragist, and one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America. Mary Ann Shadd Cary includes letters, newspaper articles, organizational records, and never-before-published handwritten notes and essay drafts that illustrate how Shadd Car...
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    42,13 €

  • Structural Injustice
    Madison Powers / Ruth Faden
    Madison Powers and Ruth Faden here develop an innovative theory of structural injustice that links human rights norms and fairness norms. Norms of both kinds are grounded in an account of well-being. Their well-being account provides the foundation for human rights, explains the depth of unfairness of systematic patterns of disadvantage, and locates the unfairness of power rela...
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    41,61 €

  • From the Stage to the Studio
    Cornelia Watkins / Laurie Scott
    An expanded, updated, and improved second edition of an essential book for aspiring teacher-musicians. Few musicians depend upon performing for their sole source of income. No matter one’s level of technical accomplishment or expressive ability, musicians who distinguish themselves as both skilled performers and teachers will have significant career advantages. Authors Cornelia...
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    58,05 €

  • Sounds, Ecologies, Musics
    Aaron S Allen
    Sounds, Ecologies, Musics poses exciting challenges and provides fresh opportunities for scholars, scientists, environmental activists, musicians, and listeners to consider music and sound from ecological standpoints. Authors in Part I examine the natural and built environment and how music and sound are woven into it, how the environment enables music and sound, and how the na...
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    49,46 €

  • Race and National Security
    Matiangai V S Sirleaf
    On both a national and global stage we are witnessing a reckoning on issues of racial justice. This historical moment that continues to unfold in the United States and elsewhere also creates an opening to spark and revitalize debate and policy changes on a range of crucial topics, including national security. By surfacing the depths to which White hegemonic power influences our...
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    56,16 €

  • Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism
    Phillip Mitsis
    The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the soul during many periods of history, has at the same time been a source of inspiration to figures as diverse as Vergil, Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, and Bentham. This volume offers authoritative discussions of all aspects of Epicurus’s phi...
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    75,73 €

  • Backdoor Lawmaking
    Melinda N. Ritchie
    Civics textbooks focus on how Congress makes policy through the legislative process, but the reality is that members of Congress have limited opportunities to advance their policy priorities. In fact, less than five percent of the bills that are introduced in Congress become law. Even the most tenacious legislators are confronted by bicameralism, partisan gridlock, chamber proc...
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    42,06 €

  • Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters
    Bence Nanay / Dominic McIver Lopes / Nick Riggle
    As the sunset swings into view, you think, 'That’s beautiful.' You take a bite of cake and you think, 'Wow, that’s sweet'-maybe too sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it for your friends. The novel is wonderful, the movie disappoints, the dress looked better in the store. Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters offers three new answers to Socrates’s great q...
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    28,18 €

  • Instrument of the State
    Benjamin J Harbert
    Louisiana State Penitentiary is one of the largest and most brutal maximum-security prisons in the United States. Built on the grounds of a former plantation, the prison is commonly referred to as 'Angola' apropos of the country of origin for many of the enslaved people who inhabited the land. Despite notoriously inhumane conditions within the prison, people incarcerated at Ang...
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    50,59 €

  • Louise Dupin’s Work on Women
    Angela Hunter
    The eighteenth-century text Work on Women by Louise Dupin (also known as Madame Dupin, 1706-1799) is the French Enlightenment’s most in-depth feminist analysis of inequality--and its most neglected one. Angela Hunter and Rebecca Wilkin here offer the first-ever edition of selected translations of Dupin’s massive project, developed from manuscript drafts. Hunter and Wilkin provi...
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    41,64 €

  • Geometry of Black Holes
    Piotr Chrusciel
    Black holes present one of the most fascinating predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. There is strong evidence of their existence through observation of active galactic nuclei, including the centre of our galaxy, observations of gravitational waves, and others. There exists a large scientific literature on black holes, including many excellent textbooks at var...
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    74,57 €

  • Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage
    Philip J Ivanhoe
    Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage introduces the lives and ideas of two female Korean Confucian philosophers from the late Joseon Dynasty (18th-19th century), Im Yunjidang (1721-1793) and Gang Jeongildang (1772-1832), examining how their writings contribute to contemporary philosophical inquiry. Both philosophers are known for arguing that women are as ca...
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    44,17 €

  • ENDOC THERAP BREAST CANCER OOL
    Buzdar U Aman
    Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer mortality in women worldwide, and the risk of disease recurrence continues despite improvements in screening and treatment. For patients with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, some form of endocrine therapy is central to the management of their disease. Tamoxifen has long been the mainstay of endocrine therapy in this ...
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    57,37 €

  • Caught on Tape
    Casey Ryan Kelly
    In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors performed by both ordinary and high-profile people. From former President Donald J. Trump’s lewd banter on the infamous Access Hollywood video and leaked audio of celebrity racist tirades ...
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    50,18 €

  • Functional Awareness
    Allegra Romita / Nancy Wanich-Romita
    Dancers train for long hours to condition the body to perform stunning acts of artistry through movement expression. Daily tasks outside of dance training can unwittingly compromise the diligent efforts during classwork and rehearsals. The book goes beyond descriptions of the musculoskeletal system to improve performance. The reflective practice of Functional Awareness(R) teach...
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    46,87 €

  • On Taking Offence
    Emily McTernan
    Someone fails to shake your outstretched hand, puts you down in front of others, or makes a joke in poor taste. Should we take offence? Wouldn’t it be better if we didn’t? In the face of popular criticism of people taking offence too easily, and the social problems that creates, Emily McTernan defends taking offence as often morally appropriate and socially valuable. Within soc...
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    50,03 €

  • Evolution of a Taboo
    Max D Price
    Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and religious studies scholars for decades. Rejecting simple explanations, this book adopts an evolutionary approach that relies on zooarchaeology and texts to unravel the cultural significance of swine in the Near ...
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    36,55 €

  • Behind the Screen
    Brynn W Shiovitz
    How and why was outdated racial content - and specifically blackface minstrelsy - not only permitted, but in fact allowed to thrive during the 1930s and 1940s despite the rigid motion picture censorship laws which were enforced during this time? Introducing a new theory of covert minstrelsy, this book illuminates Hollywood’s practice of capitalizing on the Africanist aesthetic ...
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    59,58 €

  • Camus’s the Plague
    Peg Brand Weiser
    La Peste (in English The Plague), originally published in 1947 by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Albert Camus, chronicles the progression of deadly bubonic plague as it spreads through the quarantined Algerian city of Oran. While most discussions of fictional examples within aesthetics are either historical or hypothetical, Camus offers an example of 'pestilence fiction.' Camus...
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    36,73 €

  • South Asia’s Christians
    Chandra Mallampalli
    South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some dating almost to the earliest days of the faith. The stories of South Asia’s Christians are vital for understanding the shifting contours of World Christianity, precisely because of their history of interaction with members of these...
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    41,42 €

  • Bible in History
    David W Kling
    Over 15 years after its original publication The Bible in History remains an essential examination of the symbiotic relationship between Scripture and the social and cultural contexts shaping its interpretation. David W. Kling traces the fascinating story of how specific biblical texts-sometimes a single verse, other times a selection of verses or chapters, even books-have at v...
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    51,57 €

  • Oxford Handbook of Freedom
    David Schmidtz
    We speak of being ’free’ to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt. The concept of freedom (and relatedly the notion of liberty) is ubiquitous but not everyone agrees what the term means, and the philosophical analysis of freedom that has grown over the last two decades has revealed it to be a...
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    83,71 €

  • Dictatorship and Information
    Martin K Dimitrov
    Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime’s agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in such regimes gives rise to the 'dictator’s dilemma,' where autocrats do not know the level of opposition they face and cannot effectively neutralize domestic threats to their rule. The dilemma has led scholars to believe that autocra...
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    55,19 €

  • Quietude
    Joshua D Pilzer
    Most of us the world over do not know much about the nuclear experience, let alone the 70,000 Korean victims of the atomic bomb or their arts of life and survival. Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of 'Korea’s Hiroshima' gives new insight into the overlooked and abused people who have lived and died on the margins of East Asian modernity. This book is an ethnography of Korean fi...
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    67,12 €

  • Justice, Migration, and Mercy
    Michael Blake
    Political controversy about migration is becoming more frequent, more heated, and for certain groups, decidedly more urgent. This raises pressing questions not only in the realms of policy-making and public discourse, but also for philosophical accounts of migration. Do liberal states have the right to exclude unwanted outsiders, or should all borders be open? How should we beg...
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    37,92 €

  • Habit Forming
    Elizabeth Kelly Gray
    Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history of unregulated drug use and dependency before 1914, when the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act limited sales of opiates and cocaine under US law. Many Americans used opiates and other drugs medically and became addicted. Some tried Hasheesh Candy, injected morphine, or visit...
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    55,86 €

  • Oz and the Musical
    Ryan Bunch
    From the first stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 1902, to the classic MGM film (1939), to the musicals The Wiz (1975) and Wicked (2003), L. Frank Baum’s children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) has served as the basis for some of the most popular musicals on stage and screen. In this book, musical theater scholar Ryan Bunch draws on his personal experience as an...
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    56,44 €

  • Indian Business Case Studies Volume V
    Dilip Aher / Nilesh Anute / Roopa Praveen
    It has been decades since many business schools outside India adopted the case study methodology for teaching almost all branches of management studies. This trend has been seen in India, too, where top management institutes have implemented the case study-based methodology as an important pedagogical tool in business education. The major issue in India, however, is a severe sh...
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    136,26 €

  • Helena Augusta
    Julia Hillner
    In the middle of the third century, a girl was born on the north-eastern frontier of the Roman empire. Eighty years later, she died as Flavia Iulia Helena, Augusta of the Roman world and mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, without ever having been married to an emperor herself. In Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire, Julia Hillner traces Helena’s story through h...
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    46,34 €

  • Indian Business Case Studies Volume VII
    Diksha Tripathi / Ramesh Mahadik / Varsha Parab
    It has been decades since many business schools outside India adopted the case study methodology for teaching almost all branches of management studies. This trend has been seen in India, too, where top management institutes have implemented the case study-based methodology as an important pedagogical tool in business education. The major issue in India, however, is a severe sh...
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    136,25 €

  • Indian Business Case Studies Volume II
    Bhagyashree Kunte / Srinivas Tumuluri / V P Pawar
    It has been decades since many business schools outside India adopted the case study methodology for teaching almost all branches of management studies. This trend has been seen in India, too, where top management institutes have implemented the case study-based methodology as an important pedagogical tool in business education. The major issue in India, however, is a severe sh...
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    136,21 €

  • Bootstrap Justice
    Janice K Gallagher
    Since 2006, more than 85,000 people have disappeared in Mexico. These disappearances remain largely unsolved: disappeared people are rarely found, and the Mexican state almost never investigates or prosecutes those responsible. Despite this, people not only continue to report disappearances, but many devote their lives to answering the question, 'where are they?' Given the risk...
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    49,60 €

  • Indian Business Case Studies Volume III
    Lalit Kanore / Priti Mastakar
    It has been decades since many business schools outside India adopted the case study methodology for teaching almost all branches of management studies. This trend has been seen in India, too, where top management institutes have implemented the case study-based methodology as an important pedagogical tool in business education. The major issue in India, however, is a severe sh...
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    136,23 €

  • Indian Business Case Studies Volume IV
    Priti Pachpande / Sham Bachhav
    It has been decades since many business schools outside India adopted the case study methodology for teaching almost all branches of management studies. This trend has been seen in India, too, where top management institutes have implemented the case study-based methodology as an important pedagogical tool in business education. The major issue in India, however, is a severe sh...
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    136,32 €

  • Disorienting Neoliberalism
    Benjamin L McKean
    In the world neoliberalism has made, the pervasiveness of injustice and the scale of inequality can be so overwhelming that meaningful resistance seems impossible. Disorienting Neoliberalism argues that combatting the injustices of today’s global economy begins with reorienting our way of seeing so that we can act more effectively. Within political theory, standard approaches t...
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    49,56 €

  • Myths of Trauma
    Joel Paris
    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious and sometimes debilitating mental disorder. Yet only about one in ten people who are exposed to significant traumatic events develop PTSD. Since its inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) in 1980, the definition of PTSD has been controversial. Various changes made to the criteria have gradually widened the dia...
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    97,07 €

  • Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology 2
    Michael G. Titelbaum
    Bayesian ideas have recently been applied across such diverse fields as philosophy, statistics, economics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and legal theory. Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology examines epistemologists’ use of Bayesian probability mathematics to represent degrees of belief. Michael G. Titelbaum provides an accessible introduction to the key concepts and p...
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    55,56 €

  • Ask the Experts
    Michael Uy
    From the end of the Second World War through the U.S. Bicentennial, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation granted close to $300 million (approximately $2.3 billion in 2017 dollars) in the field of music alone. In deciding what to fund, these three grantmaking institutions decided to 'ask the experts,' adopting seemingly objecti...
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    75,84 €

  • Undocumented Saints
    William A Calvo-Quirós
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Undocumented Saints follows the migration of popular saints from Mexico into the US and the evolution of their meaning. The book explores how Latinx batt...
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    49,24 €

  • Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology 1
    Michael G. Titelbaum
    Bayesian ideas have recently been applied across such diverse fields as philosophy, statistics, economics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and legal theory. Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology examines epistemologists’ use of Bayesian probability mathematics to represent degrees of belief. Michael G. Titelbaum provides an accessible introduction to the key concepts and p...
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    42,13 €

  • Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power
    Elizabeth Donnelly Carney
    Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a significant part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last. She was the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II (and two other short-lived kings of Macedonia), and grandmother of Alexander the Great. Her career marks a turning point in the role of royal women in...
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    50,03 €