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Reinventing State Capitalism(2014) MUSACCHIO, ALDO,LAZZARINI, SERGIO G.Focusing on a quantitative assessment of Brazil’s economic performance 1976–2009, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio Lazzarini analyze the rise of new species of state capitalism in which governments interact with private investors either as majority or minority sVezava: Trda88,00 € -
Readings in Chinese Literary Thought(1996) OWEN, STEPHENThis dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch’ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature as well as theorists and scholars of other languages.Vezava: Mehka53,24 €
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Noise Matters(2021) WILEY, R. HAVENWe think of noise as background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. But noise is anything that interferes with the reception of signals of any sort. Whatever its cause, the consequence of noise is error by receivers, anVezava: Trda68,81 €
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Asia Inside Out(2015)Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have linked regions of the world’s largest continent. Connected Places, the second of three volumes, highlights the flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries and illustrates tVezava: Trda68,81 €
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Who Gets In?(2017) ZWICK, REBECCAOn the disputed topic of U.S. college admissions, everyone agrees that this high-stakes competition is unfair. But few agree on what a fair process would be. Stressing transparency in evaluating applicants, Rebecca Zwick assesses the goals and criteria ofVezava: Trda54,81 €
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Rationing the Constitution(2019) COAN, ANDREWCompared to the vast machinery surrounding Congress and the president, the Supreme Court is a tiny institution that can resolve only a small fraction of the constitutional issues that arise in any given year. Andrew Coan shows that this simple yet frequenVezava: Trda58,83 €
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Anabasis of Alexander, Volume II(1983) ARRIANThe Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian is the best extant account of Alexander the Great’s adult life. A description of India and of Nearchus’ voyage thence, was to be a supplement.Vezava: Trda44,47 €
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Quadrangular Algebras(2005) WEISS, RICHARD M.Based on their relationship to exceptional algebraic groups, quadrangular algebras belong in a series together with alternative and Jordan division algebras, this book introduces a class of non-associative algebras related to exceptional algebraic groupsVezava: Mehka107,10 €
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Vesuvius(2009) SCARTH, ALWYNCapricious, vibrant, and volatile, Vesuvius has been and remains one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes. In its rage, it has destroyed whole cities and buried thousands alive. In its calm, its ashes have fertilized the soil, providing for the peopleVezava: Trda40,39 € -
Reasons without Rationalism(2010) SETIYA, KIERANModern philosophy has been vexed by the question 'Why should I be moral?' and by doubts about the rational authority of moral virtue. Addressing such topics as the psychology of virtue and the explanation of action, this title is suitable for philosophersVezava: Mehka48,47 €
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Princeton Companion to Atlantic History(2015)Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections among Africa, the Americas, and Europe transformed world history--through maritime exploration, commercial engagements, human migrations and settlements, political realignments and upheavals,Vezava: Trda113,01 €
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Weak Interactions in Nuclei(2017) HOLSTEIN, BARRY R.Recently a symbiotic relationship between particle and nuclear physics has developed, with techniques and ideas from one field fertilizing developments in the other. This work outlines concepts from modern particle physics important to the current understVezava: Mehka71,40 €
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Prospects for Faculty in the Arts and Sciences(2014) BOWEN, WILLIAM G.,SOSA, JULIE ANNThis thought-provoking study of academic job markets over the next quarter century uses rigorous analysis to project substantial excess demand for faculty starting in the 1997-2002 period. Particularly severe imbalances are projected in the humanities andVezava: Mehka59,50 €
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Access to Power(2017) NELSON, JOAN M.Joan Nelson elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and concomitant poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars who have sought an all-encompassing theory to explain the political behavior of the urban poor, Professor Nelson emphasizes the complexVezava: Mehka111,56 €
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Leks(2014) HOGLUND, JACOB,ALATALO, RAUNO V.The evolution of leks--clusters of small territories where males congregate and display in order to attract mates--is of central issue in behavioral ecology, because of the insights it offers into female mate choice, sexual selection, and the evolution ofVezava: Mehka74,37 €
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Cabanis(2014) STAUM, MARTIN S.A physician and spokesman for the French Ideologues, Pierre-JeanGeorges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads of several influential developments in modern culture--Enlightenment optimism about human perfectibility, the clinical method in medicine,Vezava: Mehka96,69 €
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Market Demand(2014) HILDENBRAND, WERNERIn a major work that is the culmination of over a decade of intensive research, Werner Hildenbrand presents a new theory of market demand, the principal aim of which is to identify the conditions under which the Law of Demand holds true. Hildenbrand argueVezava: Mehka56,55 €
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Paternalistic Intervention(2014) VANDEVEER, DONALDDonald VanDeVeer probes the moral complexities of the question: under what conditions is it permissible to intervene invasively in the lives of competent persons--for example, by deception, force, or coercive threat--for their own good? In a work with broVezava: Mehka101,15 €
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Equality and Education(2014) REBELL, MICHAEL A.,BLOCK, ARTHUR R.Using an innovative blending of ideological, implementation, and comparative institutional analysis, this book takes the New York City case as a springboard for assessing the role of an executive agency in making and implementing egalitarian policies. OriVezava: Mehka81,81 €
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Experiments on Mass Communication(2017) HOVLAND, C. I.,LUMSDAINE, A. A.Volume III in the series Studies in Social Psychology in World War II. The Army proved to be a worldwide laboratory for film research and research on other means of getting across both technical information and indoctrination. Findings are of direct imporVezava: Mehka77,35 €
