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The Great Wall of China - From History to Myth - Bok av Arthur Waldron - Häftad

Arthur Waldron reveals that the notion of an ancient and continuously existing Great Wall, one of modern China's national symbols and a legend in the eyes of the West, is in fact a myth. It is also the subject of an awesome mythology, embedded in both learned and popular imaginations, which has grown up and now obscured the historical record.

SEK 371.00

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After the Berlin Wall - Bok av Hope M. Harrison - Häftad

\With victims, perpetrators, and heroes, the Berlin Wall has joined the Holocaust as an essential part of German collective memory. Key Wall anniversaries have become signposts marking German views of the past, its relevance to the present, and the complicated project of defining German national identity. Considering multiple German approaches to remembering the Wall via memorials, trials, public ceremonies, films, and music, this ... work also traces how global memory of the Wall has impacted German..

SEK 406.00

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The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London - Bok av Cynthia (University of Virginia) Wall - Häftad

Cynthia Wall reads the literature of Restoration and early eighteenth-century England within the historical and cultural contexts of the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire in 1666. She shows how literature attempts to reinvest the city with modern meaning and create new spaces for new genres.

SEK 620.00

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The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London - Bok av Cynthia (University of Virginia) Wall - Inbunden

Cynthia Wall reads the literature of Restoration and early eighteenth-century England within the historical and cultural contexts of the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire in 1666. She shows how literature attempts to reinvest the city with modern meaning and create new spaces for new genres.

SEK 1471.00

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Wall Street Values - Business Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis - Bok av Michael A. Santoro - Inbunden

This timely book answers complex and perplexing questions raised by Wall Street's role in the financial crisis. Wall Street Values chronicles the transformation of Wall Street's business model from serving clients to proprietary trading and explains how this shift undermined the ethical foundations of the modern financial industry.

SEK 391.00

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J.P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism - From the Wall Street Crash to World War II - Bok av Martin (McMaster University Horn - Inbunden

The first in-depth history of how J.P. Morgan responded to the greatest crisis in the history of financial capitalism. The book sheds new light on the Wall Street Crash, relations with Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Great Depression and New Deal, as well as the coming of World War II.

SEK 557.00

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The Great Gatsby - Bok av F. Scott Fitzgerald - Häftad

SEK 406.00

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The Art of Great Speeches - And Why We Remember Them - Bok av Dennis Glover - Häftad

What makes a great speech 'great'? The Art of Great Speeches uses insights from classical thinkers to reveal how great orators such as Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, the Kennedys, Al Gore and Hitler have persuaded their audiences so convincingly.

SEK 487.00

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France and the Great War - Bok av Leonard V. (Oberlin College Smith - Inbunden

France and the Great War tells the story of how the French community embarked upon, sustained, and in some ways prevailed in the Great War. This lively and accessible 2003 book blends together diplomatic, military, social, cultural and economic history. All students of the Great War will find this book invaluable.

SEK 1360.00

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France and the Great War - Bok av Leonard V. (Oberlin College Smith - Häftad

France and the Great War tells the story of how the French community embarked upon, sustained, and in some ways prevailed in the Great War. This lively and accessible 2003 book blends together diplomatic, military, social, cultural and economic history. All students of the Great War will find this book invaluable.

SEK 501.00

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Liberalism, Perfectionism and Restraint - Bok av Steven (City University of New York) Wall - Inbunden

Are liberalism and perfectionism compatible? In this study Steven Wall presents and defends a perfectionist account of political morality that takes issue with many currently fashionable liberal ideas but retains the strong liberal commitment to the ideal of personal autonomy.

SEK 1376.00

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Liberalism, Perfectionism and Restraint - Bok av Steven (City University of New York) Wall - Häftad

Are liberalism and perfectionism compatible? In this study Steven Wall presents and defends a perfectionist account of political morality that takes issue with many currently fashionable liberal ideas but retains the strong liberal commitment to the ideal of personal autonomy.

SEK 651.00

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After the Berlin Wall - Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present - Bok av Hope M. (George Washington University Harrison - Inbund

The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on a range of archival sources and interviews, this book charts the development of new narratives of the recent German past and explores the significance of the commemoration of the Berlin Wall in defining German national identity.

SEK 587.00

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The Hazards of Great Leadership - Bok av James K. (University of Louisville) Beggan - Häftad

The goal of this Element is to explore the counterintuitive idea that great leaders can pose a hazard to themselves and their followers. Great leadership, which accomplishes morally commendable and difficult objectives by leaders and followers. The damage great leaders can create can be reduced by applying the corresponding virtue.

SEK 311.00

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Great Ape Societies - Bok - Häftad

Gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and bonobos are our closest relatives, and comparisons provide the starting point for understanding human origins. Great Ape Societies provides a comprehensive synthesis of field, zoo and laboratory work, for all those interested in primatology, anthropology and human origins.

SEK 801.00

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The Conquests of Alexander the Great - Bok av Waldemar (University of Calgary) Heckel - Häftad

Tracing the rise and eventual fall of one of the most successful military commanders in history, Heckel engagingly and with great detail shows us how Alexander earned his appellation, The Great.

SEK 341.00

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Great Australian Dissents - Bok - Häftad

This book considers the great judicial dissents in Australian law, explaining why these minority opinions remain significant, while so many are immediately forgotten. It is valuable to anyone studying or working in the law or who is interested in understanding the way that disagreement features in how multimember courts decide cases.

SEK 620.00

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Reaching into Thought - The Minds of the Great Apes - Bok - Häftad

What special qualities of mind set the great apes apart from other nonhuman primates, and indeed from ourselves? In this book, field and laboratory researchers show that the great apes have high level abilities in both social and ecological domains, including tool use, pretense, self-awareness, deception, consolation, teaching and culture itself.

SEK 906.00

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Reaching into Thought - The Minds of the Great Apes - Bok - Inbunden

What special qualities of mind set the great apes apart from other nonhuman primates, and indeed from ourselves? In this book, field and laboratory researchers show that the great apes have high level abilities in both social and ecological domains, including tool use, pretense, self-awareness, deception, consolation, teaching and culture itself.

SEK 1831.00

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The Evolution of Thought - Evolutionary Origins of Great Ape Intelligence - Bok - Häftad

Great apes are the most intelligent primates next to humans, but exactly how this intelligence arose has been debated for many years. Here, paleontologists, biologists, anthropologists and psychologists are brought together to review the reasons for, and the nature of, great ape intelligence and its implications for human intelligence.

SEK 697.00

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The Great Plague Scare of 1720 - Bok av Cindy (University of Texas Ermus - Inbunden

SEK 520.00

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Topography of Roman Scotland - North of the Antonine Wall - Bok av O. G. S. Crawford - Häftad

This 1949 book provides an illustrated description of all the Roman remains in Scotland north of the Antonine Wall (i.e. the Forth-Clyde line). It contains an introductory chapter describing the various antiquities in the course of the journey, and methods of identification on the ground and from the air.

SEK 616.00

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Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War - Bok av Stefano Marcuzzi - Häftad

SEK 397.00

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Arrian: Alexander the Great - Selections from Arrian - Bok av Arrian - Häftad

The translated extracts in Alexander the Great: Selections from Arrian, are linked by commentaries which continue the narrative and discuss points in the text needing explanation.

SEK 290.00

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The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895?1904 - Bok av Naomi R. Lamoreaux - Häftad

Between 1895 and 1904 a great wave of mergers swept through the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy. In The Great Merger Movement in American Business, Lamoreaux explores the causes of the mergers, concluding that there was nothing natural or inevitable about turn-of-the-century combinations.