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Who Is Black?
One Nation’s Definition
Häftad, 2001
360 kr
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This volume is the Tenth Anniversary Edition of a book that was honored in 1992 as an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States. Reprinted many times since its first publication in 1991, Who Is Black? has become a staple in college classrooms …
Elections in Pennsylvania
A Century of Partisan Conflict in the Keystone State
Inbunden, 2005
1225 kr
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The most comprehensive state election study ever undertaken, Elections in Pennsylvania provides data and analysis for more than 13,000 general elections and more than 6,000 primary elections held in the state between 1900 and 1998, with a postscript examining in less detail the elections of 2000 …
Envisioning Reform
Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America
Inbunden, 2007
1152 kr
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Judicial reform became an important part of the agenda for development in Latin America early in the 1980s, when countries in the region started the process of democratization. Connections began to be made between judicial performance and market-based growth, and development specialists turned …
Condorcet
Writings on the United States
Inbunden, 2012
1218 kr
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Condorcet (1743–1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American …
Listening, Thinking, Being
Toward an Ethics of Attunement
Inbunden, 2014
1135 kr
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Although listening is central to human interaction, its importance is often ignored. In the rush to speak and be heard, it is easy to neglect listening and disregard its significance as a way of being with others and the world. Drawing upon insights from phenomenology, linguistics, philosophy of …
Without God
Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror
Av Louis Betty
Inbunden, 2016
751 kr
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Michel Houellebecq is France’s most famous and controversial living novelist. Since his first novel in 1994, Houellebecq’s work has been called pornographic, racist, sexist, Islamophobic, and vulgar. His caricature appeared on the cover of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on January 7, …
Playful Pictures
Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home
Inbunden, 2022
559 kr
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In Playful Pictures, Chriscinda Henry explores the rise of private art collection in Renaissance Venice as a diporto, or pastime, practiced within a kaleidoscopic matrix of domestic leisure that encompassed the recitation of poetry and tales, games, music making, amateur theatrical activity, and …
