Résultat de recherche


168  résultat(s)
Télécharger le livre :  Punctuated Equilibria and Sino-American Relations
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Punctuated Equilibria and Sino-American Relations


Steve Chan


In many areas of the natural and physical world, long periods of seeming stasis or small incremental changes are interrupted by large, sudden leaps. This book illustrates how similar processes characterize international relations. This book points to such occurrences,...

Parution : 2025-08-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
36,92
Télécharger le livre :  Democracy's Double Helix
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Democracy's Double Helix


Lars Behrisch


Where does our modern democracy come from? It is a composite of two very different things: a medieval tradition of political participation, pluralistic but highly elitist; and the notion of individual equality, emerging during the early modern period. These two things...

Parution : 2025-08-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
43,10
Télécharger le livre :  States against Nations
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

States against Nations


Nicholas Kuipers


In States Against Nations, Nicholas Kuipers questions the virtues of meritocratic recruitment as the ideal method of bureaucratic selection. Kuipers argues that while civil service reform is often seen as an admirable act of state-building, it can actually undermine...

Parution : 2025-08-07
Format(s) : PDF
J'achète
36,92
Télécharger le livre :  Landscapes of Genius and the Transatlantic Origins of Environmentalism
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Landscapes of Genius and the Transatlantic Origins of Environmentalism


Scott Hess


During the nineteenth century, the idea of 'genius' became associated with natural landscapes on both sides of the Atlantic. Scott D. Hess explores how those associations defined the modern significance of nature and precipitated the emergence of National Parks and the...

Parution : 2025-08-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
110,82
Télécharger le livre :  Zoroastrianism and Contemporary Philosophy
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Zoroastrianism and Contemporary Philosophy


Daniel Nolan


Zoroastrianism is a religion with a long history, but it has been comparatively neglected by contemporary philosophers. This Element aims to bring aspects of its long intellectual history into conversation with contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. Section 1 provides...

Parution : 2025-08-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
22,17
Télécharger le livre :  The Power of Dissent
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

The Power of Dissent


Sergio Serulnikov


The Power of Dissent examines the crisis of Spanish rule through the changing political culture of Chuquisaca (Bolivia), the most important city in the southern Andes. Sergio Serulnikov argues that in the four decades preceding the nineteenth-century wars of...

Parution : 2025-08-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
129,29
Télécharger le livre :  Governing the Past
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Governing the Past


Maja Davidovic


The way we govern the past to ensure peaceful futures keeps conflict anxieties alive. In pursuit of its own survival, permanence and legitimacy, the project of transitional justice, designed to put the 'Never Again' promise into practice, makes communities that ought to...

Parution : 2025-08-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
123,13
Télécharger le livre :  Getting Lost in the Novel
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Getting Lost in the Novel


Amanda Auerbach


Instances abound in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels where characters, particularly female characters, become lost, often moved by overwhelming emotion. Amanda Auerbach delves into the impact of these scenes on the character and the reader. On one level,...

Parution : 2025-08-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
110,82
Télécharger le livre :  The Hans Blix Iraq War Diaries
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

The Hans Blix Iraq War Diaries


Hans Blix


This diary will take the reader back to the pivotal period at the turn of the millennium, when Hans Blix was the UN chief weapons inspector to Iraq, responsible for extensive investigations into the possible existence of weapons of mass destruction. Blix was required to...

Parution : 2025-08-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
30,78
Télécharger le livre :  Kant and Stoic Ethics
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Kant and Stoic Ethics


Melissa Merritt


Although it is widely recognised that many concepts central to Kant's ethics have a Stoic provenance, there has still been relatively little close scholarly examination of the significance of Stoic ethics for the development of Kant's philosophy over the Critical period...

Parution : 2025-08-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
110,82
Télécharger le livre :  Global Business and Local Struggle
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Global Business and Local Struggle


Collectif


In the quest for human rights justice for communities and workers whose rights are breached by transnational businesses, non-judicial mechanisms (NJMs) are often deployed, but how effective are they? This book creates a blueprint for reforming transnational human rights...

Parution : 2025-08-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
123,13
Télécharger le livre :  Antifascism(s) in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Antifascism(s) in Latin America and the Caribbean


Sandra Mcgee Deutsch , Jorge A. Nállim


Drawing from the work of experienced scholars across various fields, countries, and periods, this volume is the first book in any language to provide a comprehensive history of antifascisms in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents antifascism as a multifaceted...

Parution : 2025-08-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
110,82
Télécharger le livre :  Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett


Emilie Morin


Little has been written about Suzanne Beckett, née Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989). As Samuel Beckett's lifelong companion, she found herself in a peculiar quandary, owing to the amounts of support required by Beckett's unease with success and with the business of...

Parution : 2025-07-24
Format(s) : PDF
J'achète
22,17
Télécharger le livre :  Institutional Diversity and The Economic Calculation Debate
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Institutional Diversity and The Economic Calculation Debate


Adrian Miroiu , Paul Dragos Aligica


This Element brings together the problems of economic calculation, institutional diversity, and institutional feasibility, arguing that these themes are deeply interconnected and mutually reinforcing. Building on recent developments in institutional theory, political...

Parution : 2025-07-24
Format(s) : PDF
J'achète
22,17
Télécharger le livre :  A Black Army
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

A Black Army


Pauline Peretz


From 1941 to 1945, 30,000 African-American infantrymen were stationed at Fort Huachuca near the Mexican border. It was the only 'black post' in the country. Separated from white troops and civilian communities, these infantrymen were forced to accept the rules and...

Parution : 2025-07-17
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
36,94
Télécharger le livre :  Analysis and Design of Data Converters
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Analysis and Design of Data Converters


Behzad Razavi


Master the art of data converter design with this definitive textbook, a detailed and accessible introduction ideal for students and practicing engineers. Razavi's distinctive and intuitive pedagogical approach, building up from elementary components to complex systems....

Parution : 2025-06-30
Format(s) : PDF
J'achète
110,82
Télécharger le livre :  The Theology of the Gospel of John
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

The Theology of the Gospel of John


Alicia D. Myers


In this volume, Alicia Myers applies a narrative approach to the theology of the Gospel of John, which presents Jesus's coming as the climactic and transformative revelation of God in the world. Placing her study in the context of past and current approaches to John's...

Parution : 2025-06-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
28,31
Télécharger le livre :  Multispecies Legality
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Multispecies Legality


Serrin Rutledge-Prior


Animals are unfortunately an afterthought in legal systems that have been developed to adjudicate the claims of humans and corporate entities. For those of us determined to extend the scope of justice to include animals, we must ask how to reshape our legal institutions...

Parution : 2025-06-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
116,97
Télécharger le livre :  Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance


Matthew Paterson , Paul Tobin , Stacy D. Vandeveer


Tackling climate change requires long-term commitment to action, yet an array of influential parties with vested interests stand opposed to this. How best to engage and balance these positions for positive change is of increasing concern for advocates and policy makers....

Parution : 2025-06-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
135,44
Télécharger le livre :  Christianity and Agroecology
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Christianity and Agroecology


Matthew Philipp Whelan


This Element draws on the transdisciplinary field of agroecology to clarify and deepen Catholic social teaching's natural law ethic. In response to the ecological crisis, social teaching has begun to appeal to ecology and the exemplarity of natural ecosystems to foster...

Parution : 2025-06-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
17,41
<< < 34567 >

Restez informé(e) des événements et promotions ebook

Paiements sécurisés

Paiements sécurisés