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Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy
Av Sherman Kent
Häftad, 2025
349 kr
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The classic book that established the principles and methods of modern intelligence analysisWith the outbreak of the Second World War, historian Sherman Kent left his classroom at Yale to join the Office of Strategic Services—the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency—where he adapted …
Scholastic Magic
Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism
Häftad, 2014
867 kr
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In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries, there are strange tales of ancient rabbis …
Russian Revolution 1917
A Personal Record by N.N. Sukhanov
Av Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov, Joel Carmichael
Häftad, 2014
2213 kr
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Author of the only full-length eyewitness account of the 1917 Revolution, Sukhanov was a key figure in the first revolutionary Government. His seven-volume book, first published in 1922, was suppressed under Stalin. This reissue of the abridged version is, as the editor's preface points out, one of …
Revolt in Japan
The Young Officers and the February 26, 1936 Incident
Häftad, 2015
893 kr
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"Revere the Emperor, Destroy the Traitors"--armed with this slogan, on February 26, 1936. Rebellious Japanese troops led by members of the Young Officers' Movement seized the center of Tokyo and murdered several prominent officials. The Young Officers wanted a "Showa Restoration" whereby political …
Beyond the Unconscious
Essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the History of Psychiatry
Häftad, 2014
1784 kr
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Henri F. Ellenberger, the Swiss medical historian, is best remembered today as the author of The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970), a brilliant, encyclopedic study of psychiatric theory and therapy from primitive times to the mid-twentieth century. However, in addition to this well-known work, …
Say's Law
An Historical Analysis
Häftad, 2015
474 kr
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Say's Law--the idea that "supply creates its own demand"--has been a basic concept in economics for almost two centuries. Thomas Sowell traces its evolution as it emerged from successive controversies, particularly two of the most bitter and long lasting in the history of the discipline, the …
Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries
Häftad, 2015
642 kr
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The most famous conspiracy of silence in the history of antiquity is examined here by one of the three archaeologists entrusted by the Archaeological Society of Athens with the final excavations of the Sanctuary. He traces the history of the cult in the archaeological remains, from the first traces …
History, Prophecy, and the Stars
The Christian Astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420
Häftad, 2017
520 kr
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Although astrology was viewed with suspicion by the medieval church, it became a major area of inquiry for the renowned cardinal and scholar Pierre d'Ailly, whose astrological and apocalyptic writings had a significant influence on Christopher Columbus. D'Ailly's writings on the stars, the focus of …
Abraham Robinson
The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey
Häftad, 2014
1136 kr
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One of the most prominent mathematicians of the twentieth century, Abraham Robinson discovered and developed nonstandard analysis, a rigorous theory of infinitesimals that he used to unite mathematical logic with the larger body of historic and modern mathematics. In this first biography of …
From Asylum to Community
Mental Health Policy in Modern America
Häftad, 2014
721 kr
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The distinguished historian of medicine Gerald Grob analyzes the post-World War II policy shift that moved many severely mentally ill patients from large state hospitals to nursing homes, families, and subsidized hotel rooms--and also, most disastrously, to the streets. On the eve of the war, …
Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940
Häftad, 2019
1020 kr
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Gerald N. Grob's Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 has become a classic of American social history. Here the author continues his investigations by a study of the complex interrelationships of patients, psychiatrists, mental hospitals, and government between 1875 and World War …
Household Interests
Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens
Häftad, 2014
483 kr
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Household Interests is one of the first books to explore in-depth the nature of the Greek household (oikos) in classical Athens. Whereas the oikos traditionally has been defined as the household of the nuclear family in Greece, Cheryl Anne Cox reveals it as a much more fluid structure, taking care …
Clear and Simple as the Truth
Writing Classic Prose
Av Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
Häftad, 2017
896 kr
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Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only …
Breaking the Sequence
Women's Experimental Fiction
Av Ellen G. Friedman, Miriam Fuchs
Häftad, 2014
1114 kr
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These nineteen essays introduce the rich and until now largely unexplored tradition of women's experimental fiction in the twentieth century. The writers discussed here range from Gertrude Stein to Christine Brooke-Rose and include, among others, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Jane Bowles, Marguerite …
Mystery of the Mind
A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain
Häftad, 2025
271 kr
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A classic account of the relationship between the human brain and the human mindCan the mind be explained by what we know about the brain? Is a person’s being determined by their body alone or by their mind and body as separate elements? In this incisive and engaging book, Wilder Penfield, whose …
Syria and the French Mandate
The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945
Häftad, 2014
1170 kr
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Tacit Alliance
France and Israel from Suez to the Six Day War
Häftad, 2015
503 kr
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Almost immediately after Israel declared its independence in 1948, it began to benefit from a unique series of scientific and military exchanges with France. These exchanges, arranged for the most part outside normal diplomatic channels, were in conflict with the official pro-Arab position of the …
Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy
Av Sherman Kent
Häftad, 2015
324 kr
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Intelligence work is in some ways like a newspaper or newsmagazine, in some like a business, in some like the research activity of a university; very little of it involves cloaks and daggers. All of it is important to national survival, and should be understood by the citizens of a democracy. In …
Collecting: An Unruly Passion
Psychological Perspectives
Inbunden, 2016
2138 kr
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From rare books, valuable sculpture and paintings, the relics of saints, and porcelain and other precious items, through stamps, textiles, military ribbons, and shells, to baseball cards, teddy bears, and mugs, an amazing variety of objects have engaged and even obsessed collectors through the …
Foundations of Space-Time Theories
Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science
Häftad, 2014
649 kr
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This book, explores the conceptual foundations of Einstein's theory of relativity: the fascinating, yet tangled, web of philosophical, mathematical, and physical ideas that is the source of the theory's enduring philosophical interest. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses …
Spatial Orientation
The Spatial Control of Behavior in Animals and Man
Häftad, 2014
1295 kr
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This major study of animal orientation in space launches the Princeton Series in Neurobiology and Behavior. Bringing together for the first time the important work done on spatial orientation over the past twenty-five years, and reviewing research up to and including recent attempts to apply the …
Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms
Av Alex Preminger, O.B. Hardison, Jr. m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
608 kr
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This compact volume makes available a selection of 402 entries from the widely praised Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, with emphasis on prosodic and poetic terms likely to be encountered in many different areas of literary study. The book includes detailed discussions of poetic forms, …
Carl von Clausewitz
Historical and Political Writings
Av Carl von Clausewitz, Peter Paret m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2933 kr
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Carl von Clausewitz's major theoretical work, On War, has retained its freshness and relevance since it first appeared 160 years ago. Clausewitz was also a wide-ranging, innovative historian--his acerbic history of Prussia before 1806 became an underground classic long before it could be …
Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1983
Uncertain Allegiance
Häftad, 2014
529 kr
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This study of the tensions of military clientage focuses on Czechoslovakia to explore the ambiguous position of the military forces of East European countries and to show how the military's dual role as instrument of both national defense and the Soviet-controlled socialist alliance" fundamentally …
Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, Volume 4
With Their Texts, according to the Extant Records of Great Britain and America
Häftad, 2015
1598 kr
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With this volume, incorporating Ballads 244-305, Bertrand Harris Bronson completes his epic task of providing the musical counterpart to Francis James Child's collection of English and Scottish ballads. As in the previous volumes, the texts are linked with their proper traditional tunes, …
Liberal Socialism
Av Carlo Rosselli, Nadia Urbinati
Häftad, 2017
678 kr
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First published in 1930, amidst the collapse of socialist ideals and the onset of fascism throughout parts of Europe, Liberal Socialism is a powerful and timely document on the ethics of political action. During his confinement for his anti-fascist beliefs, the Italian political philosopher Carlo …
Changes of Cain
Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature
Häftad, 2014
549 kr
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Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture. This brilliant work is the first comprehensive book on the Cain and Abel story. "Ricardo Quinones …
Liberal Socialism
Av Carlo Rosselli, Nadia Urbinati
Inbunden, 2017
1479 kr
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First published in 1930, amidst the collapse of socialist ideals and the onset of fascism throughout parts of Europe, Liberal Socialism is a powerful and timely document on the ethics of political action. During his confinement for his anti-fascist beliefs, the Italian political philosopher Carlo …
Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel
Häftad, 2014
1014 kr
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The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most influential figure in twentieth-century Persian fiction--and the object of a kind of cult after his suicide in 1951. His masterpiece The Blind Owl is the most important novel of modern Iran. Its abrupt, tortured opening sentence, "There are sores which …
Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 3
The Teaching of al-Hallaj
Häftad, 2019
683 kr
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Volume 3 of 4. Encompassing the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization, this major work of Western orientalism explores the meaning of the life and teaching of the tenth-century mystic and martyr, al-Hallaj. With profound spiritual insight and transcultural sympathy, Massignon, an Islamicist …
