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Collective Action in East Asia
Gregory W. Noble
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• Author(s): Gregory W. Noble • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAs one Asian economic crisis follows another, sending shock waves through the global marke...
View full detailsDon Isaac Abravanel: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198
B. Netanyahu
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• Author(s): B. Netanyahu • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoricalDon Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplom...
View full detailsThe Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference
Della Gray Barthelmas
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• Author(s): Della Gray Barthelmas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dictionaries None of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 could have imagined a few years earli...
View full detailsBlack Lives: Essays in African American Biography
James L. Conyers
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• Author(s): James L. Conyers • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlThe chapters in this text comprise biographical sketches of previously unknown (or le...
View full detailsChrysler, Ford, Durant and Sloan: Founding Giants of the American Automotive Industry
H. Eugene Weiss
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• Author(s): H. Eugene Weiss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History The American automobile industry has been called the favorite child of capitalism. Four decades of except...
View full detailsAn Anthology of Russian Folk Epics
James Bailey, Tatyana Ivanova
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• Author(s): James Bailey | Tatyana Ivanova • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyAn extensive introduction provides basic information about Russian epics, their historical background, their poetic...
View full detailsVico's Uncanny Humanism: Reading the New Science Between Modern and Postmodern
Sandra Rudnick Luft
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• Author(s): Sandra Rudnick Luft • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernSandra Luft, in her ambitious postmodernist reading of Vico's profoundly influential New S...
View full detailsWondergenes: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Society
Maxwell J. Mehlman
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• Author(s): Maxwell J. Mehlman • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsWondergenes not only imagines a future world in which genetic enhancement is the n...
View full detailsReady to Fire: Memoir of an American Artilleryman in the Korean War
Richard B. Holmsten
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• Author(s): Richard B. Holmsten • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Korean War Once North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel in 1950, the lives of many Americans half the glo...
View full detailsThe Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History, 1954-1967
John E. Peterson
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• Author(s): John E. Peterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Athletics spent thirteen seasons in Kansas City before moving to Oakland--a colorful history despite o...
View full detailsKarl Marx - Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Politik: Eine Ein- Und Weiterführung
Marco Iorio
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• Author(s): Marco Iorio • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modern"Nicht nur der Historische Materialismus ist uns insgeheim in Fleisch und Blut �bergegangen, wie ich bereits behauptet habe. W...
View full detailsThe Play of Reason
Linda Nicholson
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• Author(s): Linda Nicholson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis volume brings together for the first time the highly influential essays, many of them classics, of o...
View full detailsPerformance Research: On Ritual
Ric Allsopp
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• Author(s): Ric Allsopp • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DramaPerformance Research: On Ritual will examine a range of ritual practices bordering on or intended to be seen as theatre. It will explore both historical ...
View full detailsDispersing the Ghetto
Jack Glazier
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• Author(s): Jack Glazier • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralIn the early twentieth century, the population of New York City's Lower East Side swelled with the arrival of v...
View full detailsA Companion to Justinian's Institutes
Ernest Metzger
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• Author(s): Ernest Metzger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ReferenceThe Corpus Iuris Civilis, a distillation of the entire body of Roman law, was directed by the Emperor Justinian and ...
View full detailsTales from Djakarta
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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• Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaA translation of short stories by the well-known Indonesian author, Pramoed...
View full detailsLifeboat
John R. Stilgoe
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• Author(s): John R. Stilgoe • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryThe fire extinguisher; the airline safety card; the lifeboat. Until September 11, ...
View full detailsThe Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two
Alenka Zupancic
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• Author(s): Alenka Zupancic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernRestoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context--examining the definitive element that animates his work.What is it that makes ...
View full detailsA Tale of Four Cities: Nineteenth Century Baseball's Most Exciting Season, 1889, in Contemporary Accounts
Jean-Pierre Caillault
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• Author(s): Jean-Pierre Caillault • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 1889 baseball season is unique in the history of baseball. Both leagues--the veteran National Lea...
View full detailsFlesh to Metal
Rolf Hellebust
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• Author(s): Rolf Hellebust • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet Union"That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good--or very ba...
View full detailsAn Introduction to Natural Computation
Dana H. Ballard
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• Author(s): Dana H. Ballard • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to the computational material that forms the underpinnings of ...
View full detailsSicily Before History: An Archeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age
Robert Leighton
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• Author(s): Robert Leighton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyStudents and travelers to Sicily will welcome this inviting introduction to the archaeology of the Mediterranean'...
View full detailsVagueness: A Reader
Rosanna Keefe, Peter Smith
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• Author(s): Rosanna Keefe | Peter Smith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralVagueness is currently the subject of vigorous debate in the philosophy of logic and language. Vague terms--such as 'tall...
View full detailsExplaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem
Jonathan Shear
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• Author(s): Jonathan Shear • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionWhy doesn't all this cognitive processing go on "in the dark," without any consciousness at all? In this book p...
View full detailsSicily Before History: An Archeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age
Robert Leighton
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• Author(s): Robert Leighton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyStudents and travelers to Sicily will welcome this inviting introduction to the archaeology of the Mediterranean'...
View full detailsBlack Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-69
Michael Krenn
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• Author(s): Michael Krenn • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: American Government - GeneralThis text covers integration of the State Department after 1945 and the subsequent appointments of Black ambassadors to Third W...
View full detailsBlack Union Soldiers in the Civil War
Hondon B. Hargrove
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• Author(s): Hondon B. Hargrove • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War This book refutes the historical slander that blacks did not fight for their emancipation from sl...
View full detailsThe Fathers of American Presidents: From Augustine Washington to William Blythe and Roger Clinton
Jeff C. Young
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• Author(s): Jeff C. Young • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Farmers, shopkeepers, businessmen, politicians--the fathers of the presidents of the United States have ...
View full detailsWestern Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000 1300
John France
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• Author(s): John France • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis authoritative and concise work surveys the range of warfare in the high Middle Ages while reflecting on th...
View full detailsColonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History
Jeremy Adelman
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• Author(s): Jeremy Adelman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaMore than other Atlantic societies, Latin America is shackled to its past. This collection is an exploration of the binding hi...
View full detailsThe Limits of Thought: Discussions between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm
David Bohm, Ray McCoy, J. Krishnamurti
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• Author(s): David Bohm | Ray McCoy | J. Krishnamurti • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThe Limits of Thought is a series of penetrating dialogues between the great spiritual leader, J. ...
View full detailsWestern Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000 1300
John France
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• Author(s): John France • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis authoritative and concise work surveys the range of warfare in the high Middle Ages while reflecting on th...
View full detailsWomen, Art, and Technology
Judy Malloy
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• Author(s): Judy Malloy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mixed MediaA sourcebook of documentation on women artists at the forefront of work at the intersection of art and technology.Although women have been at the f...
View full detailsPoetry's Touch
William Waters
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• Author(s): William Waters • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryTo whom does a poem speak? Do poems really communicate with those they address? Is reading poems like overhearing? Like...
View full detailsDigital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation
Ann Peterson-Kemp, Nancy A. Van House, Barbara P. Buttenfield
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• Author(s): Ann Peterson-Kemp | Nancy A. Van House | Barbara P. Buttenfield • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralViewing digital libraries as sociotechnical systems, networks o...
View full detailsKorean Politics
John Kie-Chiang Oh
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• Author(s): John Kie-Chiang Oh • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyExtraordinary political and economic changes have rocked the Republic of Korea over the past fifty years...
View full detailsHomeland Calling
Paul Hockenos
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• Author(s): Paul Hockenos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralOver the last ten years, many commentators have tried to explain the bloody conflicts that tore Yugosl...
View full detailsNabokov at the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction
Barbara Wyllie
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• Author(s): Barbara Wyllie • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Vladimir Nabokov claimed, speaking of Laughter in the Dark: "I wanted to write the entire book as if it were a ...
View full detailsMain Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002
Richard Saunders
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• Author(s): Richard Saunders • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryRising from the corporate wreckage of the 1970s, when even the nation's largest rail...
View full detailsColonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History
Jeremy Adelman
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• Author(s): Jeremy Adelman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaMore than other Atlantic societies, Latin America is shackled to its past. This collection is an exploration of the binding hi...
View full detailsClaiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul
Mary Lethert Wingerd
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• Author(s): Mary Lethert Wingerd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MOAre Minneapolis and St. Paul "Twin Cities" in proximity...
View full detailsDisclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity
Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores, Hubert L. Dreyfus
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• Author(s): Charles Spinosa | Fernando Flores | Hubert L. Dreyfus • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EntrepreneurshipArgues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but whe...
View full detailsWomen at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy
Peggy Reeves Sanday
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• Author(s): Peggy Reeves Sanday • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceContrary to the declarations of some anthropologists, matriarchies do exist. Peggy Reeves Sanday first we...
View full detailsDrugs and the Limits of Liberalism
Pablo de Greiff
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• Author(s): Pablo de Greiff • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralSociety's drug problem will persist, and debates over how to solve it will continue, getting n...
View full detailsThe Teaching of Classics
James Morwood
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• Author(s): James Morwood • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesA comprehensive overview of the teaching of classics. The Teaching of Classics ...
View full detailsRethinking Pastoral Care
Una M. Collins, Jean McNiff
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• Author(s): Una M. Collins | Jean McNiff • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Counseling - Academic DevelopmentThis book looks at how teachers can attempt to give good quality pastoral care, whether as a form tutor in t...
View full detailsCruising Modernism
Michael Trask
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• Author(s): Michael Trask • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralModern society, Michael Trask argues in this incisive and original book, chose to couch class difference in ...
View full detailsHybrid Fictions: American Literature and Generation X
Daniel Grassian
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• Author(s): Daniel Grassian • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Since the 1960s, academics have theorized that literature is on its way to becoming obsolete or, at the ver...
View full detailsVulnerable Subjects
G. Thomas Couser
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• Author(s): G. Thomas Couser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects--persons who are liable to exposure by ...
View full detailsThe Minor League Milwaukee Brewers, 1859-1952
Brian A. Podoll
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• Author(s): Brian A. Podoll • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Statues of Hank Aaron and Robin Yount, two of Milwaukee's baseball heroes, stand outside the city's palatia...
View full detailsRancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation
Paul R. Hyams
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• Author(s): Paul R. Hyams • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Legal HistoryDuels and bloodfeuds have long been regarded as essentially Continental phenomena, counter to the staid and order...
View full detailsGood News and Good Works: A Theology for the Whole Gospel
Ronald J. Sider
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• Author(s): Ronald J. Sider • Publisher: Baker Books • Publisher Imprint: Baker Books • BISAC: Christian Life - Social IssuesConcerned to promote an authentic, biblical faith, this book suggests ways to combine evangelism with social action for ...
View full detailsThe Political Economy of Middle East Peace: The Impact of Competing Trade Agendas
J. W. Wright Jr
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• Author(s): J. W. Wright Jr • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: International - EconomicsThe Political Economy of Middle East Peace looks at the political economy of the Middle Eastern peace process with a focus on the...
View full detailsForging America
John Bezis-Selfa
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• Author(s): John Bezis-Selfa • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary WarStacks of stone preside over many bucolic and wooded landscapes in the mid-Atlantic states...
View full detailsA Living Wage: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal
Lawrence B. Glickman
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• Author(s): Lawrence B. Glickman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsThe fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by La...
View full detailsDemocracy and the Arts: A History of Central Park
Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman
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• Author(s): Arthur M. Melzer | Jerry Weinberger | M. Richard Zinman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyPolitics has taken a cultural turn in America, and t...
View full detailsCyborgs@Cyberspace?: An Ethnographer Looks to the Future
David Hakken
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• Author(s): David Hakken • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialArguing that humans have always been technological as well as cultural beings, David Hakken calls for a fundamental rethi...
View full detailsA Neighborhood Divided
Jane Balin
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• Author(s): Jane Balin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryWhen a nursing facility for AIDS patients is planned for a city neighborhood, residents might be expected to ...
View full detailsRoutledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason
Sebastian Gardner
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• Author(s): Sebastian Gardner • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReferenceThis GuideBook introduces and assesses Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, arguably the single most important work in western philosophy. It is ide...
View full detailsMortal Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian Cooperation After the Cold War
Celeste A. Wallander
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• Author(s): Celeste A. Wallander • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralSeveral hundred thousand members of the Red Army were stationed in East Germany when t...
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