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The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson - Bok av Cary Wolfe - Inbunden

Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound.

SEK 1311.00

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Hegel's Political Theology - Bok av Andrew Shanks - Inbunden

This study attempts to grasp the continuing contemporary relevance of Hegel's political theology, which the author interprets as a uniquely radical critique of every sort of religious authoritarianism.

SEK 1457.00

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Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa - Bok av Walter E. (University of Chicago) Kaegi - Inbunden

Who 'lost' Christian North Africa? Who won and how? Walter Kaegi examines these perennial questions, with maps and on-site observations, in this exciting book. An impartial comparative framework helps to sort through identity politics, 'Orientalism' charges and counter-charges, and institutional controversies.

SEK 1136.00

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Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology - Bok av Daniel M. Hausman - Inbunden

This collection brings together the essays of one of the foremost American philosophers of economics, offering fresh perspectives on foundational questions such as: what sort of science is economics? and how successful can economists be in acquiring knowledge of their subject matter?

SEK 1097.00

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Evil and Human Agency - Understanding Collective Evildoing - Bok av Arne Johan (Universitetet i Oslo) Vetlesen - Inbunden

This 2005 book investigates why and in what sort of circumstances evil desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited into collective evildoing. A philosophical approach combined with a sociological and psychological one is brought to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia.

SEK 1560.00

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Personal Ontology - Bok av Andrew (Hong Kong Baptist University) Brenner - Inbunden

What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? This book discusses the main competing accounts of personal ontology that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort, and includes a detailed discussion of the metaphysics of several afterlife scenarios.

SEK 1306.00

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An Introduction to Dynamical Systems - Bok av D. K. Arrowsmith - Häftad

In recent years there has been an explosion of research centred on the appearance of so-called 'chaotic behaviour'. This book provides a largely self contained introduction to the mathematical structures underlying models of systems whose state changes with time, and which therefore may exhibit this sort of behaviour.

SEK 1121.00

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The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past - Bok av Andras Nemeth - Inbunden

The first comprehensive study of the Excerpta, a sort of 'Byzantine Google' which repackaged many key works of Greek historiography stretching back into antiquity, and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century. Also tackles wider issues including the history of information management, philological practices and book culture.

SEK 1551.00

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Workers and Change in China - Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness - Bok av Manfred Elfstrom - Inbunden

Strikes, protests and riots by Chinese workers are rising. Using interviews and statistics, Elfstrom shows that this unrest is altering governance in China at all levels. However, the result is political development of a profoundly contradictory sort: the state is becoming more responsive and more repressive at the same time.

SEK 1047.00

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Epicurus on Freedom - Bok av Tim (Georgia State University) O'Keefe - Inbunden

This 2005 book reconstructs Epicurus' theory of freedom, arguing that the sort of freedom which Epicurus wanted to preserve is significantly different from the 'free will' which philosophers debate today, and that in its emphasis on rational action it has much closer affinities with Aristotle's thought than with current preoccupations.

SEK 1517.00

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Pragmatic Markers in British English - Meaning in Social Interaction - Bok av Kate (University of the West of England Beeching - Inbunden

This rigorous exploration of how 'well', 'I mean', 'just', 'sort of', 'like' and 'you know' are used in British English offers a fascinating insight into the role of pragmatic markers in contemporary speech. It will be compelling reading for students and teachers of English language and linguistics, as well as interested general readers.

SEK 1611.00

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Biotechnology: Economic and Social Aspects - Issues for Developing Countries - Bok - Inbunden

This book deals with an area of great importance: the issues involved in developing biotechnologically based industries in the developing countries. The science and most of the techniques are well established and it is often possible to obtain the desired finance. This book examines the sort of choices that a developing country has to make.

SEK 1821.00

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Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy - Lessons from Medieval Trade - Bok av Avner (Stanford University Greif - Inbunden

It is widely believed that current disparities in economic, political, and social outcomes reflect distinct institutions. Institutions are invoked to explain why some countries are rich and others poor, some democratic and others dictatorial. But arguments of this sort gloss over the question of what institutions are. This book was first published in 2006.

SEK 1431.00

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The Psychology of Freedom - Bok av Thomas (King's College London) Pink - Inbunden

This 1996 book considers our freedom of action, and what sort of mind, or psychology, that freedom requires. It argues that our freedom of action depends on our being able to decide freely which actions we shall perform. The book seeks to resolve a range of problems about the nature of both action and rationality.

SEK 1457.00

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Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Bok av Jonathan (Seton Hall University Farina - Inbunden

Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain is an innovative study of the stylistic tics of canonical novelists including Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray and Eliot. Jonathan Farina shows how ordinary locutions such as 'a decided turn', 'as if' and 'that sort of thing' condense nineteenth-century manners, aesthetics and assumptions about what counts as knowledge.

SEK 1521.00

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A Historical Introduction to English Law - Bok av Russell Sandberg - Inbunden

\English law is often taught and understood in a non-historical way, but historical context helps us see how many of the ideas and institutions that we think of as being fixed are nothing of the sort. Accessibly written for those new to studying law, this book provides the fascinating 'back story' of how the English common law developed\--

SEK 1551.00

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The Cambridge Companion to Serialism - Bok - Inbunden

\What is serialism? Defended by enthusiastic champions and decried by horrified detractors, serialism was central to twentieth-century art music, but riven, too, by inherent contradictions. The term can be a synonym for dodecaphony, Arnold Schoenberg's 'method of composing with twelve tones which are related only to one another'. It can be more expansive, describing ways of composing systematically with parameters beyond pitch -duration, dynamic, and more - and can even stand as a sort of antonym..

SEK 1367.00

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After Science and Religion - Bok - Inbunden

\The popular field of 'science and religion' is a lively and well-established area. It is however a domain which has long been characterised by certain traits. In the first place, it tends towards an adversarial dialectic in which the separate disciplines, now conjoined, are forever locked in a kind of mortal combat. Secondly, 'science and religion' has a tendency towards disentanglement, where 'science' does one sort of thing and 'religion' another. And thirdly, the duo are frequently pushed towards..

SEK 1376.00

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The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson - Bok av Cary Wolfe - Inbunden

Hegel's Political Theology - Bok av Andrew Shanks - Inbunden

Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa - Bok av Walter E. (University of Chicago) Kaegi - Inbunden

Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology - Bok av Daniel M. Hausman - Inbunden

Evil and Human Agency - Understanding Collective Evildoing - Bok av Arne Johan (Universitetet i Oslo) Vetlesen - Inbunden

Personal Ontology - Bok av Andrew (Hong Kong Baptist University) Brenner - Inbunden

An Introduction to Dynamical Systems - Bok av D. K. Arrowsmith - Häftad

The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past - Bok av Andras Nemeth - Inbunden

Workers and Change in China - Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness - Bok av Manfred Elfstrom - Inbunden

Epicurus on Freedom - Bok av Tim (Georgia State University) O'Keefe - Inbunden

Pragmatic Markers in British English - Meaning in Social Interaction - Bok av Kate (University of the West of England Beeching - Inbunden

Biotechnology: Economic and Social Aspects - Issues for Developing Countries - Bok - Inbunden

Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy - Lessons from Medieval Trade - Bok av Avner (Stanford University Greif - Inbunden

The Psychology of Freedom - Bok av Thomas (King's College London) Pink - Inbunden

Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Bok av Jonathan (Seton Hall University Farina - Inbunden

A Historical Introduction to English Law - Bok av Russell Sandberg - Inbunden

The Cambridge Companion to Serialism - Bok - Inbunden

After Science and Religion - Bok - Inbunden

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