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Confronting the Costs of War(1993) BARNETT, MICHAEL N.Develops a novel theoretical framework that traces the connection between war preparation and changes in state-society relations, and applies that framework to Egypt from 1952 to 1977 and Israel from 1948 through 1977. This title addresses major issues inVezava: Mehka110,25 € -
Diversity and Its Discontents(1999)Familiar terms such as culture wars, multiculturalism, moral majority, and family values all suggest a society fragmented by the issue of cultural diversity. So does any social solidarity exist among Americans? This book explores ideological differences,Vezava: Mehka92,22 €
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Evolutionary Ecology across Three Trophic Levels(1997) ABRAHAMSON, WARREN G.,WEIS, ARTHUR E.Presents the results of more than 25 years of studying plant-insect interactions. This book addresses specific theories and concepts that have guided biological research for more than two decades and to engage general problems in evolutionary biology. ItVezava: Mehka130,92 €
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Road of Life and Death(1991) RADIN, PAULThe Medicine Rite is performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult. Presenting a transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, this work captures a poetic source of profound importance to thVezava: Mehka77,35 €
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Twisted L-Functions and Monodromy(2002) KATZ, NICHOLAS M.For hundreds of years, the study of elliptic curves has played a central role in mathematics. This book explores: What is the average rank of elliptic curves, and how does the rank vary in various kinds of families of elliptic curves? It is suitable for tVezava: Mehka126,79 €
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Crisis and Compensation(1991) CALDER, KENT E.Why does Japan, with its efficiency-oriented technocracy, periodically adopt welfare-oriented, economically inefficient domestic policies? This book shows that Japanese policymakers respond to threats to the ruling party's preeminence by extending incomeVezava: Mehka126,79 €
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Introduction to Algebraic K-Theory(1972) MILNOR, JOHNAlgebraic K-theory describes a branch of algebra that centers about two functors. K0 and K1, which assign to each associative ring ? an abelian group K0? or K1? respectively. Professor Milnor sets out, in the present work, to define and study an analogousVezava: Mehka111,56 €
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Boundaries and Justice(2001)Explores how diverse ethical traditions understand the political and property rights reflected in territorial and jurisdictional boundaries. This book features cross-chapter dialogue and a conclusion that draw out similarities and differences among the trVezava: Mehka66,94 €
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Geographic Variation, Speciation and Clines(1977) ENDLER, JOHN A.Explores the origins and development of geographic variation, divergence, and speciation. This work shows how geographic differentiation and speciation may develop in spite of continuous gene flow. It discusses the relationships among gene flow, dispersalVezava: Mehka107,10 €
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Schools of Thought(2001)Assesses the intellectual revolution in the social sciences. This collection of 20 essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. It is suitable for those inVezava: Mehka86,27 €
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Matters of Life and Death(2001) ORENTLICHER, DAVIDPhilosophical debates over the fundamental principles that should guide life-and-death medical decisions usually occur at a considerable remove from the tough, real-world choices made in hospital rooms, courthouses, and legislatures. This title seeks to cVezava: Mehka62,48 €
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Choosing Schools(2002) SCHNEIDER, MARK,TESKE, PAUL,MARSCHALL, MELISSASchool choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage student performance, and achieve social balance. This book analyses what parents value in education, how much they know about schools, andVezava: Mehka66,94 €
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Silver Lining(2003) REICE, SETH R.Reveals the short-sightedness behind conceiving of floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes as natural disasters. This book argues that such thinking has led to policies that have done the environment more harm than good. It points out wVezava: Mehka56,55 €
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Remaking Muslim Politics(2004)Examines the social origins of civil-democratic Islam, its long-term prospects, its implications for the West, and its lessons for our understanding of religion and politics in modern times. This book is a comparative study of Islam and democracy. The conVezava: Mehka62,48 €
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Brennan and Democracy(2005) MICHELMAN, FRANK I.Explores the apparently conflicting commitments of a democratic governmental system where key aspects of such important social issues as affirmative action, campaign finance reform, and abortion rights are settled not by a legislative vote but by the deciVezava: Mehka56,55 €
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What Democracy Is For(2009) RINGEN, STEINArgues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals - the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, the author contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according to one's own choosingVezava: Mehka59,50 €
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Mumford-Tate Groups and Domains(2012) GREEN, MARK,GRIFFITHS, PHILLIP A.,KERR, MATTMumford-Tate groups are the fundamental symmetry groups of Hodge theory, a subject which rests at the center of contemporary complex algebraic geometry. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Mumford-Tate groups and domains.Vezava: Mehka126,79 €
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Terrified(2016) BAIL, CHRISIn July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlashVezava: Mehka48,47 €
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Pagans and Philosophers(2017) MARENBON, JOHNFrom the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thVezava: Mehka40,39 €
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State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980(2014) ANDERSON, LISAThe book traces growing state intervention in the rural areas of Tunisia and Libya in the middle 1800s and the diverging development of the two countries during the period of European rule. State formation accelerated in Tunisia under the French with theVezava: Mehka74,37 €
