Todos los libros de la Editorial Oxford. Librería Elías (Asturias).

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This book uses previously untranslated and unpublished transcripts of key internal debates from the Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) to unravel the puzzle behind terrorist persistence in the face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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

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 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 €

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 €

Jacquerie of 1358

Justine Firnhaber-Baker

The Jacquerie of 1358 is one of the most famous and mysterious peasant uprisings of the Middle Ages. Beginning in a small village but eventually overrunning most of northern France, the Jacquerie rebels destroyed noble castles and killed dozens of noblemen before being put down in a bloody wave of suppression. The revolt occurred in the wake of the Black Death and during the Hu...

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62,49 €

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 €

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 €

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 €

Positive Affect Treatment for Depression and Anxiety

Halina Dour / Michael Treanor / Michelle G Craske

Anhedonia is a risk factor for poor prognosis and suicidality, and yet treatments to date have been relatively ineffective for anhedonia. Based on advances in behavioral and neural science, Positive Affect Treatment was developed to specifically target areas of reward sensitivity that are believed to contribute to anhedonia. These include the anticipation and motivation for rew...

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62,84 €

Power of Narrative

Raul P Lejano / Shondel J Nero

There is an ideological war of words waging in America, one that speaks to a new fundamentalism rising not just within the American public, but across other ideologically-torn nations around the globe as well. At its heart is climate skepticism, an ideological watershed that has become a core belief for millions of people despite a large scientific consensus supporting the scie...

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57,87 €

Indian Business Case Studies Volume VIII

Arun Pardhi / Srilatha Palekar / Sunanda Jindal

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 importantpedagogical tool in business education. The major issue in India, however, is a severe sho...

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136,28 €

Live Music in America

Steve Waksman

When the Swedish concert singer Jenny Lind toured the U.S. in 1850, she became the prototype for the modern pop star. Meanwhile, her manager, P.T. Barnum, became the prototype for another figure of enduring significance: the pop culture impresario. Starting with Lind’s fabled U.S. tour and winding all the way into the twenty-first century, Live Music in America surveys the ongo...

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54,25 €

International Economics

Rajat Acharyya

Complementing trade theories with relevant trade empirics, this book covers three aspects of the study of International Economics: pure theory of trade, trade policy, and theory of Balance of Payments (BoP) and exchange rate. In the first part, it discusses the basic principles of international trade between dissimilar countries as well as between similar countries, and implica...

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235,82 €

Social Protection Under Authoritarianism

Xian Huang

Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? Yet China, the world’s largest and most powerful authoritarian state, has expanded its social health insurance system at an unprecedented rate, increasing enrollment from 20 percent of its population in 2000 to 95 percent in 2012. Significantly, people who were uninsured, such a...

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56,26 €

Indian Business Case Studies Volume I

Asha Pachpande / J A Kulkarni / Sandeep Pachpande

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 importantpedagogical tool in business education. The major issue in India, however, is a severe sho...

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136,17 €

Antiseizure Medications

Ali A Asadi-Pooya / Michael R Sperling

This new edition of Antiseizure Medications: A Clinician’s Manual reflects the advances in the study and treatment of epilepsy in the past several years. As a practical tool for physicians and other healthcare providers, this text focuses on the selection and use of antiseizure medications in a variety of clinical contexts. In the past decade, many new antiseizure medications (...

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129,20 €

Heresy of Jacob Frank

Jay Michaelson

The Heresy of Jacob Frank is the first monograph length study on the religious philosophy of Jacob Frank (1726-1791), who, in the wake of false messiah Sabbetai Zevi, led the largest mass apostasy in Jewish history. Based on close readings of Frank’s late teachings, recorded in 1784 and 1790, this book challenges scholarly presentations of Frank that depict him as a sex-crazed ...

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49,70 €

Brief Supportive Psychotherapy

John C Markowitz

Supportive psychotherapy is widely practiced but poorly defined, often misunderstood, and unfairly disparaged. Dr. Markowitz and his colleagues manualized Brief Supportive Psychotherapy (BSP) as a time-limited control treatment to compare to 'more active' established psychotherapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) in research studie...

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61,98 €

Republics of Difference

Karen B Graubart

Spanish monarchs recognized the jurisdictions of many self-governing corporate groups, including Jews and Muslims on the peninsula, indigenous peoples in their American colonies, and enslaved and free people of African descent across the empire. Republics of Difference examines fifteenth-century Seville and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Lima to show how religiously- and ra...

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49,26 €

Notebook for Viola Players

Ivo-Jan Van Der Werff

In A Notebook for Viola Players, Ivo-Jan van der Werff offers a guide to playing the viola with the greatest freedom, dexterity, and ease. It includes right and left hand exercises to build a sound technique, sections on how to practice them, how to hold the viola and bow, how to think about good posture, how to create a good sound, how to play with the least amount of tension,...

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50,89 €

Poetry and Music of Science

Tom McLeish

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to ’imagination’ and ’creativity’ in the second case but not the first. This book challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less creative than art, music or fictional writing and poetry, and treads a historical and contemporary path through common ter...

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30,25 €

Southern Key

Michael Goldfield

A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal era. The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, lies in the contests between labor and capital in the American South during the 1930s and 1940s. Labor agitation and unionization efforts in the South in the New D...

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45,04 €

Pursuing a Career in Mental Health

Garland

Many people are interested in pursuing a career in mental health but may be uncertain about career options. Between the numerous disciplines and the economic implications of different educational decisions, the world of professional mental health can seem difficult to navigate. Pursuing a Career in Mental Health helps demystify the world of mental health by identifying the best...

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57,81 €

Global Politics of Jesus

Nilay Saiya

A unique, timely, and wide-ranging book that formulates and applies an ethic of Jesus to the realm of global politics. Since the fourth century, Christians have wrestled with how they should interact with political authority. The most common view holds that while their ultimate loyalty rightfully belongs to God, Christians also have allegiance to their countries and a moral res...

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55,84 €

Pediatric Hospital Medicine Board Review

Audrey Kamzan / Charles A Newcomer / Deepa Kulkarni

This book is an essential question-based study guide for pediatric hospitalists and fellows preparing to take the Pediatric Hospital Medicine certification exam. It contains over 500 high-yield questions covering every specification on the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Pediatric Hospital Medicine content outline. Each question is written in the same format as the exam and ...

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205,82 €

With Liberty and Justice for All?

Steven A Steinbach

A valuable resource for students, teachers, and citizens looking to better understand US Constitutional history With Liberty and Justice for All?: The Constitution in the Classroom is designed to help teachers and students generate analysis and debate in our nation’s classrooms about an aspect of US history that has produced intense disagreements about rights and wrongs: consti...

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54,33 €

Localized Bargaining

Xiao Ma

Looks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show how local governments play a complex role. China’s high-speed railway network is one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history. Despite global media coverage, we know very little about the political process that led the government to invest in the railway program and the re...

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49,83 €

Invisible Weapons

Marcus Board

Radicalism is an inclusive political tradition that lives on in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). Key radical principles include empowering people to advocate for themselves and their communities, the idea that power must embrace accountability, and a transformative interpretation of justice and change. Everyone is not a radical any more than everyone supports the M4BL. And ...

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47,12 €

Homer and the Poetics of Gesture

Alex C Purves

Homer and the Poetics of Gesture is the first book of its kind to consider the epic formula in terms that are gestural as well as verbal. Drawing on studies from multiple disciplines, including movement theory, dance studies, phenomenology, and early film, it suggests new approaches for interpreting the relationship between repetition and embodiment in Homer. Through a series o...

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Without the Banya We Would Perish

Ethan Pollock

When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social strata have treated bathing as a communal activity integrating personal hygiene and public health with rituals, relaxation, conversations, drinking, political intrigue, business, and sex. Communal steam baths have survived the Mongols,...

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History of Butô

Bruce Baird

Butô is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the 20th century. One of the world’s leading experts on the form, author Bruce Baird offers in The History of Butô a new account of a crucial and influential performance art of the latter half of the 20th century. Tracing the performances and techniques o...

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Divine Words, Female Voices

Jerusha Tanner Lamptey

The relationship between Islam and feminism is complex. There are many Muslim scholars who fervently promote women’s equality. At the same time, there is ambivalence regarding the general norms, terminology, and approaches of feminism and feminist theology. This ambivalence is in large part a product of various hegemonic, androcentric, and patriarchal discourses that seek to di...

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Love

Simon May

What is love’s real intent? Why can love be so ruthlessly selective? How is it related to sex, beauty, and goodness? And is the child now the supreme object of love? In addressing these questions, Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards whomever or whatever we experience as grounding our life--as offering us a possibility of home ...

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Responsible Conduct of Research

Adil E Shamoo / David B Resnik

Responsible Conduct of Research provides an overview of ethical, legal, and social issues in scientific research for science students, trainees, and professional scientists. This book gives an in-depth analysis of a wide array of topics, including ethical theory and decision-making, misconduct, questionable research practices, research record-keeping, data sharing, data auditin...

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Technology for Unleashing Creativity

Steve Giddings

Traditional music education centered around the ensemble classroom has often privileged reading music and instrumental technique over creative skills such as composition, improvisation, and learning by ear. As the technological landscape of students’ everyday lives rapidly shifts, what schools teach rarely aligns with students’ more creative day-to-day lives outside of the clas...

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On Site

Stephan Koplowitz

On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation is a practical book for artists and students at all levels who create or are learning to create making sited dance works. Author Stephan Koplowitz covers specific, hands-on strategies for an array of issues to consider before, during, and after embarking upon a project, including site selection, procuring permits, designin...

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Things

Carolyn Korsmeyer

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to embody their histories. Such genuine or real things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience--an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is nota perceptually detectable property. Although it often goes unnoticed, the sense of touch un...

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From the Ashes of History

Adam B Lerner

In recent years, calls for reparations and restorative justice, alongside the rise of populist grievance politics, have demonstrated the stubborn resilience of traumatic memory. From the transnational Black Lives Matter movement’s calls for reckoning with the legacy of slavery and racial oppression, to continued efforts to secure recognition of the Armenian genocide or Imperial...

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Model Minority Masochism

Takeo Rivera

There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the âmodel minority.â While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim to disprove the model minority as âmyth, â author Takeo Rivera instead rethinks the model minority as cultural politics. Rather than disproving the model minority, Rivera instead argues that Asian Americans have formulated their r...

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Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1

George E Lewis

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Critical ImprovisationStudies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with co...

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Inside Mahler’s Second Symphony

Lawrence F Bernstein

This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony, one of the composer’s most popular and most powerful works. It examines the symphony from several perspectives: Mahler’s struggle to create what he called the New Symphony; his innovative approaches to traditional musical form; how he addressed the daunting challenges o...

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Machinery of Government

Joseph Heath

In political theory, the traditional model of state power was that elected officials make policy decisions which are then faithfully executed by a lower cadre of public servants. The complexity of the modern state, however, leaves this model outdate. The vast number of economic and socialproblems it confronts is such that a great deal of rule-making power is now delegated to a ...

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