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Building Construction Before Mechanization
John Fitchen
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• Author(s): John Fitchen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Construction - GeneralHow were huge stones moved from quarries to the sites of Egyptian pyramids? How did the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages lift bloc...
View full detailsTo Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909 1049
Barbara H. Rosenwein
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• Author(s): Barbara H. Rosenwein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Real Estate - GeneralBarbara H. Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centur...
View full detailsSymbiogenesis. a Macro-Mechanism of Evolution: Progress Towards a Unified Theory of Evolution Based on Studies in Cell Biology
Werner Schwemmler
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• Author(s): Werner Schwemmler • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Symbiogenesis. A Macro-Mechanism of Evolution" verfügbar.
Manhattan for Rent, 1785 1850
Elizabeth Blackmar
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Blackmar • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Real Estate - GeneralIn this interesting and wide-ranging book, Elizabeth Blackmar investigates the development of New Yo...
View full detailsOrder in Paradox: Myth and Ritual Among Nepal's Tamang
David Holmberg
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• Author(s): David Holmberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialDavid H. Holmberg here examines the social forms, ritual practices, and history of a west...
View full detailsThe Jeweled Style: Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity
Michael J. Roberts
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• Author(s): Michael J. Roberts • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalIn The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity,...
View full detailsFinancial Dynamics and Business Cycles: New Perspectives
Willi Semmler
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• Author(s): Willi Semmler • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Regional StudiesAs the 55th anniversary of the bank holiday of March 1933 approached, financial instability was a main topic in the financial press. Daily r...
View full detailsAutobiographical Voices
Françoise Lionnet
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• Author(s): Françoise Lionnet • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralAdopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhet...
View full detailsAnwendungsprogrammierung für Digitalsysteme
Horst Meintzen
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• Author(s): Horst Meintzen • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Economics - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Anwendungsprogrammierung für Digitalsysteme" verfügbar.
Übungen im Strafprozeßrecht
Friedrich Geerds
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• Author(s): Friedrich Geerds • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Übungen im Strafproze recht" verfügbar.
Recollections of My Life
Santiago Ramon Y. Cajal, E. Horne Craigie, Juan Cano
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• Author(s): Santiago Ramon Y. Cajal | E. Horne Craigie | Juan Cano • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Medical (Incl. Patients)Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) made prolific and lasting contributions to understanding...
View full detailsMagic City: Unemployment in a Working-Class Community
Gregory Pappas
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• Author(s): Gregory Pappas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralThirty-two million Americans have lost jobs because of permanent factory closings since 1970. Gregory Pappas h...
View full detailsThe Silence of Bartleby
Dan E. McCall
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• Author(s): Dan E. McCall • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn The Silence of Bartleby, Dan McCall proposes a new reading of Herman Melville's classic short tale "Bartleby, The Sc...
View full detailsThe Silence of Bartleby
Dan E. McCall
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• Author(s): Dan E. McCall • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn The Silence of Bartleby, Dan McCall proposes a new reading of Herman Melville's classic short tale "Bartleby, The Sc...
View full detailsThe Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution
Robert Jervis
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• Author(s): Robert Jervis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military - Nuclear WarfareRobert Jervis argues here that the possibility of nuclear war has created a revolution in military s...
View full detailsHandbook of Zoology/ Handbuch der Zoologie, Teilband/Part 30, Planipennia
Timothy R. New
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• Author(s): Timothy R. New • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - InvertebratesNo detailed description available for "Planipennia".
Democracy and Markets
John R. Freeman
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• Author(s): John R. Freeman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsEvents of the 1970s and 1980s have provoked intense controversy about the desirability of existing...
View full detailsNews and Politics in the Age of Revolution: Jean Luzac's "Gazette de Leyde"
Jeremy D. Popkin
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• Author(s): Jeremy D. Popkin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceAt the center of this book stands the story of a great but forgotten newspaper: the Gazette de Leyde, edited...
View full detailsBalance as Belief
Wyatt Prunty
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• Author(s): Wyatt Prunty • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn Wyatt Prunty's new collection of poems, people either keep their balance or, doubting it, tip ...
View full detailsEinführung in Modula-2
Hermann Gehring, Peter Röscher
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• Author(s): Hermann Gehring | Peter Röscher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Economics - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Einführung in Modula-2" verfügbar.
Einführung in das Personal Computing
Christian Scholz
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• Author(s): Christian Scholz • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Economics - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Einführung in das Personal Computing" verfügbar.
Einführung in die Strukturierte COBOL-Programmierung mit Mikrocomputeranwendungen. Norm: ANSI X3.23-1985
Hanns-Jürgen Höcker
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• Author(s): Hanns-Jürgen Höcker • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Economics - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Einführung in die Strukturierte COBOL-Programmierung mit Mikrocomputeranwendungen. Norm: ANS...
View full detailsThe Genesis of the Copernican World
Hans Blumenberg, Robert M. Wallace
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• Author(s): Hans Blumenberg | Robert M. Wallace • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance...
View full detailsPraying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town
Carol J. Greenhouse
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• Author(s): Carol J. Greenhouse • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Violence in SocietyAnthropologist Carol J. Greenhouse offers an ethnographic study of attitudes toward conflict and law ...
View full detailsDermaptera. Eudermaptera I
Henrik Steinmann
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• Author(s): Henrik Steinmann • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Dermaptera. Eudermaptera I" verfügbar.
The Mayor Who Cleaned Up Chicago: A Political Biography of William E. Dever
John R. Schmidt
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• Author(s): John R. Schmidt • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: General
Continuities in Political Action: A Longitudinal Study of Political Orientations in Three Western Democracies
M. Kent Jennings, Jan W. Van Deth, Samuel H. Barnes
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• Author(s): M. Kent Jennings | Jan W. Van Deth | Samuel H. Barnes • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Civil RightsNo detailed description available for "Continuities in Political Action".
The Collected Papers of Franco Modigliani, Volume 1: Essays in Macroeconomics
Franco Modigliani, Andrew Abel, Simon Johnson
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• Author(s): Franco Modigliani | Andrew Abel | Simon Johnson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralThis first volume of papers, articles, and essays by the late Nobel Prize-winning economist Franco Modigliani offer...
View full detailsIreland in Prehistory
George Eogan, Michael Herity
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• Author(s): George Eogan | Michael Herity • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - IrelandThe authors examine Irish prehistory from the economic, sociological and artistic viewpoints enabling the reader to comprehe...
View full detailsEconomics of Natural Resources and the Environment
David W. Pearce, R. Kerry Turner
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• Author(s): David W. Pearce | R. Kerry Turner • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Natural ResourcesEconomics of Natural Resources and the Environment brings together the approa...
View full detailsBrother to the Sun King: Philippe, Duke of Orleans
Nancy Nichols Barker
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• Author(s): Nancy Nichols Barker • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn battle he fought with legendary valor . . .At court, dressed in silks and ribbons, he ope...
View full detailsAll of a Piece: A Life with Multiple Sclerosis
Barbara D. Webster, Stephen C. Reingold
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• Author(s): Barbara D. Webster | Stephen C. Reingold • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Diseases - Nervous System (incl. Brain)A "thought-provoking and probing (book) which fo...
View full detailsMade in Japan and Other Japanese Business Novels
Tamae K. Prindle
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• Author(s): Tamae K. Prindle • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe term "business novel" is a translation of the Japanese word kezai shosetsu, which may be translated literally as * 'economy novel.'' Critic Ma...
View full detailsMusic Alone
Peter Kivy
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• Author(s): Peter Kivy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: AestheticsWhat makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rew...
View full detailsAustria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival
Michael P. Steinberg
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• Author(s): Michael P. Steinberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryAustria's renowned Salzburg Festival has from the outset engaged issues of cultural ident...
View full details"Getting Paid": Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City
Mercer L. Sullivan
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• Author(s): Mercer L. Sullivan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: CriminologyThe working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majori...
View full detailsArchidamian War
Donald Kagan
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• Author(s): Donald Kagan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThis book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tigh...
View full detailsFreshwater Macroinvertebrates of Northeastern North America
Barbara L. Peckarsky, Pierre R. Fraissinet, Marjory Penton
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• Author(s): Barbara L. Peckarsky | Pierre R. Fraissinet | Marjory Penton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebrates
Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Northeastern North America
Barbara L. Peckarsky, Pierre R. Fraissinet, Marjory Penton
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• Author(s): Barbara L. Peckarsky | Pierre R. Fraissinet | Marjory Penton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebrates
The Workplace Within: Psychodynamics of Organizational Life
Larry Hirschhorn
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• Author(s): Larry Hirschhorn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease...
View full detailsSymbolic Economies
Jean-Joseph Goux, Jennifer Curtiss Gage
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• Author(s): Jean-Joseph Goux | Jennifer Curtiss Gage • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryA major participant in the influential Tel Quel group in France, Jean-Joseph Goux...
View full detailsSymbolic Economies
Jean-Joseph Goux, Jennifer Curtiss Gage
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• Author(s): Jean-Joseph Goux | Jennifer Curtiss Gage • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryA major participant in the influential Tel Quel group in France, Jean-Joseph Goux...
View full detailsPolitics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984
Michel Foucault, Lawrence Kritzman, Alan Sheridan
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• Author(s): Michel Foucault | Lawrence Kritzman | Alan Sheridan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis collection of interviews and writings focuses on the cultural vision that character...
View full detailsMedical Technology and Society: An Interdiscipinary Perspective
Joseph D. Bronzino, Vincent H. Smith, Maurice L. Wade
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• Author(s): Joseph D. Bronzino | Vincent H. Smith | Maurice L. Wade • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralMedical Technology and Society is a thought-provoking examination for nonspecialists of medical technology ...
View full detailsThe Probabilistic Revolution, Volume 1: Ideas in History
Lorenz Kruger, Lorraine Daston, Michael Heidelberger
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• Author(s): Lorenz Kruger | Lorraine Daston | Michael Heidelberger • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryProbability ideas are the success story common to the growth of the modern natural and social sciences. Chan...
View full detailsAlone Together
Elizabeth Collins Cromley
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Collins Cromley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Buildings - ResidentialTwentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second...
View full detailsThe Rationality of Emotion
Ronald de Sousa
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• Author(s): Ronald de Sousa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emoti...
View full detailsReflections on Kurt Gödel
Hao Wang
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• Author(s): Hao Wang • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: GeneralNewton/Descartes. Einstein/Gödel. The seventeenth century had its scientific and philosophical geniuses. Why shouldn't ours have them as well? Kur...
View full detailsHegel, Kant and the Structure of the Object
Robert Stern
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• Author(s): Robert Stern • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernHegel's holistic metaphysics challenges much recent ontology with its atomistic and reductionist assumptions; Stern offers us a...
View full detailsThe Stonehenge People: An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC
Rodney Castleden
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• Author(s): Rodney Castleden • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralFirst published in 1990. Of all the monuments left by the past, Stonehenge is the most evocative, the most memorable and the most myster...
View full detailsCooperation among Nations
Joseph M. Grieco
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• Author(s): Joseph M. Grieco • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeIn Cooperation among Nations, Joseph M. Grieco offers a provocative answer to a fundam...
View full detailsThe Crested Kimono: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945
Matthews Masayuki Hamabata
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• Author(s): Matthews Masayuki Hamabata • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralMatthews Hamabata got off to an unpromising start when he first arrived in Japan to study influential busi...
View full detailsSystems That Learn: An Introduction to Learning Theory for Cognitive and Computer Scientists
Daniel N. Osherson, Michael Stob, Scott Weinstein
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• Author(s): Daniel N. Osherson | Michael Stob | Scott Weinstein • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionA mathematical framework for the study of learning in a variety of domains.Systems...
View full detailsGreek Mythology and Poetics: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature
Gregory Nagy
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• Author(s): Gregory Nagy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceGregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Gre...
View full detailsMinimal Rationality
Christopher Cherniak
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• Author(s): Christopher Cherniak • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: MetaphysicsIn Minimal Rationality, Christopher Cherniak boldly challenges the myth of Man the the Rational Animal and the central role that t...
View full detailsNation and Narration
Homi K. Bhabha
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• Author(s): Homi K. Bhabha • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: American - Asian AmericanA classic collection of essays providing an excellent introduction to the many different narrations of the 'nation'. Contributors ...
View full detailsMoscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia
Michael Rywkin
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• Author(s): Michael Rywkin • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Asia - GeneralA study of the history of Soviet Central Asia and the demographic, political, economic and cultural weight of the Muslims that reside there. ...
View full detailsA Substitute for Victory
Rosemary Foot
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• Author(s): Rosemary Foot • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military - Korean WarAfter more than two years of bitter negotiations during which combatants & civilians continued to suf...
View full detailsThe Concept of Modernism
Astradur Eysteinsson
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• Author(s): Astradur Eysteinsson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThe term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical th...
View full detailsQuestions Concerning the Law of Nature
John Locke, Diskin Clay, Robert Horwitz
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• Author(s): John Locke | Diskin Clay | Robert Horwitz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Natural LawJohn Locke's untitled manuscript "Questions Concerning the Law of Nature" (1664) was hi...
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