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Mainline to the Future(2000) CARROLL, JACKSON W.While others lament the declining attendance of mainline churches and blame it on an out-of-date tradition, Jackson Carroll offers a more hopeful perspective, arguing that they key to future vitality can be found in the same tradition. According to CarrolVezava: Mehka32,93 € -
Sources of Economic Growth(2000) NELSON, RICHARD R.Technological advance is the key driving force behind economic growth, argues Richard Nelson. Drawing on a deep knowledge of economic and technological history as well as the tools of economic analysis, he exposes the intimate connections among governmentVezava: Mehka54,81 €
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Imperial Ecology(2002) ANKER, PEDERFrom 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartiteVezava: Trda112,29 €
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Heaven Below(2003) WACKER, GRANTWacker gives an in-depth account of the practices of American pentecostal churches. He examines aspects of pentecostal culture, including rituals, speaking in tongues, the authority of the Bible, the central role of Jesus in everyday life, the gifts of prVezava: Mehka43,83 €
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Brahms and the German Spirit(2004) BELLER-MCKENNA, DANIELBeller-McKenna counters music historians's reluctance to address Brahms's Germanness, wary perhaps of fascist implications. He gives an account of the intertwining of nationalism, politics, and religion that underlies major works, and enriches both our unVezava: Trda115,43 €
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Emergence of Sexuality(2004) DAVIDSON, ARNOLD I.Moving between philosophy and history, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls "historical epistemology." He applies this method to the history of sVezava: Mehka53,24 €
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Storylines(2004) MISHLER, ELLIOT G.What do we mean when we refer to our “identity,” and how do we represent it in the stories we tell about our lives? Is “identity” a sustained private core, or does it change as circumstances and relationships shift? Mishler explores these questions througVezava: Mehka48,54 €
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Technology, Institutions, and Economic Growth(2005) NELSON, RICHARD R.This book mounts a full-blown attack on the standard neo-classical theory of economic growth, which Nelson sees as hopelessly inadequate to explain the phenomenon of economic growth. He presents an alternative theory which highlights that economic growthVezava: Trda102,44 €
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Socialism in Georgian Colors(2005) JONES, STEPHEN F.Georgian social democracy was the most successful social democratic movement in Russia. Despite its size, it produced many of the leading revolutionaries of 1917. In the first of two volumes, Jones writes the history of this movement, which represented onVezava: Trda151,08 €
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Bigger than Chaos(2006) STREVENS, MICHAELMany complex systems—from immensely complicated ecosystems to minute assemblages of molecules—surprise us with their simple behavior. In this book, Michael Strevens aims to explain how simplicity can coexist with, indeed be caused by, the tangled interconVezava: Mehka54,81 €
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Faith on the Margins(2008) PARKER, CHARLES H.After the 1572 revolt against Spain, the new Dutch Republic outlawed Catholic worship and secularized church property. Calvinism prevailed as the public faith, yet Catholicism experienced a resurgence in the first half of the 17th century. In a wide-rangiVezava: Trda96,66 €
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Hot and Bothered(2008) HOUCK, JUDITH A.By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definVezava: Mehka42,27 €
