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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy's Double Helix
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive
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Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive


Deborah Green , Deborah Price


A strong foundation in Humanities and Social Sciences helps young learners to think critically, communicate effectively, make decisions and adapt to change. Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive prepares pre-service educators to effectively teach and...

Parution : 2025-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Business and Local Struggle
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Kant and Stoic Ethics
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Getting Lost in the Novel
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  The Power of Dissent
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Governing the Past
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Landscapes of Genius and the Transatlantic Origins of Environmentalism
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Zoroastrianism and Contemporary Philosophy
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  The Hans Blix Iraq War Diaries
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Antifascism(s) in Latin America and the Caribbean
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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...

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Télécharger le livre :  States against Nations
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Institutional Diversity and The Economic Calculation Debate
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  A Black Army
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Late Antique Art and Archaeology: Volume 1, Architecture, Artifacts and Evidence
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The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Late Antique Art and Archaeology: Volume 1, Architecture, Artifacts and Evidence


Neil Christie , Robin M. Jensen , Jodi Magness , Leonard V. Rutgers


Late Antiquity marked one of the most significant transitions in European history-one that saw the rise of Christianity and the transformation of the classical Mediterranean world of ancient Rome. The richness of its art and the wealth of its archaeological remains have...

Parution : 2025-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Late Antique Art and Archaeology: Volume 2, Settlements, Regions, Peoples and Debates
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The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Late Antique Art and Archaeology: Volume 2, Settlements, Regions, Peoples and Debates


Neil Christie , Robin M. Jensen , Jodi Magness , Leonard V. Rutgers


Late Antiquity marked one of the most significant transitions in European history-one that saw the rise of Christianity and the transformation of the classical Mediterranean world of ancient Rome. The richness of its art and the wealth of its archaeological remains have...

Parution : 2025-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Decarbonising Electricity
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Decarbonising Electricity


Collectif


The current shift to renewable energy is dominated by globalised energy companies building large-scale wind and solar plants. This book discusses the consequences and possibilities of this shift in India, Germany, and Australia, focusing on regions which have now...

Parution : 2025-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Theology of the Letter to the Galatians
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The Theology of the Letter to the Galatians


Bruce Longenecker


In his letter to the Galatians, Paul sets out an astute vision of what God has done in Christ against the backdrop of a world out-of-joint, a world engulfed in identity-distorting domination systems. Theologically profound and prophetically challenging, Galatians...

Parution : 2025-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Automobility and the Anthropocene
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Automobility and the Anthropocene


Gordon M. Sayre


The automobile has transformed Earth's habitats and humans' habits since the 1890s, when it, this Element argues, began the Anthropocene. Climate change now motivates efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, of which cars and trucks account for at least 10 percent....

Parution : 2025-06-30
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