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Afghanistan(2020) RUBIN, BARNETT R. (SENIOR FELLOW AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN REGIONAL PROGRAM, CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, SENIOR FELLOW AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN REGIONAL PROGRAM, CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)In Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Barnett Rubin, a leading scholar of Afghanistan and former advisor to both the UN and the US State Department, distills decades of research in a concise yet rich overview of this complicated nation.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Thomas Harriot(2019) ARIANRHOD, ROBYN (ADJUNCT RESEARCH FELLOW, SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, ADJUNCT RESEARCH FELLOW, SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, MONASH UNIVERSITY)A new biography of Thomas Harriot, the greatest unknown scientific mind of the RenaissanceVezava: Trda53,21 € -
Greek and Latin Poetry(2019) POLIZIANO, ANGELOAngelo Poliziano (1454–1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence during the Age of the Medici. This I Tatti edition contains all of his Greek and Latin poetry (with the exception of the Silvae in ITRLVezava: Trda47,68 € -
Erased(2019) LASSO, MARIXACutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central America—but at considerable cost to Panamanians. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal’s American builders displaced 40,000Vezava: Trda53,38 € -
Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts(2017)Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts explores the administration of justice during Islam’s founding period, 632–1250 CE. Inspired by the scholarship of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, ten scholars of Islamic law draw on diverse sources including historicVezava: Trda63,60 € -
Dante(2018) SANTAGATA, MARCOMarco Santagata illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. He brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante's medieval world, untangles a complex web of family relationshiVezava: Mehka28,58 € -
Visualizing Taste(2019) HISANO, AIAi Hisano reveals how the food industry capitalized on color, fashioning a visual vocabulary that shapes what we think of the food we eat. Our perceptions of what food should look like have changed dramatically as scientists, farmers, food processors, regVezava: Trda60,42 € -
Last Man Off(2015) LEWIS, MATTIn the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses. Only the actions of Matt Lewis, a 23-year-old British marine biologist and one of the most inexperienced men aboard, wiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Inferno(2012) LOWE, KEITHIn the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Killer Instinct(2021) WEIDMAN, NADINEIn the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question—whether humans are innately aggressive or cooperative—eventually receded, but the oppositional nature–nurture binary created in the course of the debVezava: Trda60,02 € -
Boundaries of the International(2018) PITTS, JENNIFERIt is commonly believed that international law originated in respectful relations among free and equal European states. But as Jennifer Pitts shows, international law was forged as much through Europeans’ domineering relations with non-European states andVezava: Trda64,42 € -
Time of Anarchy(2022) KRUER, MATTHEWIn 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to Carolina. Behind the upheaval was the Susquehannock Indians. Their shrewd responses to settler violence altered the future course of liVezava: Trda57,23 € -
Aerial Aftermaths(2018) KAPLAN, CARENCaren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imagery-from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military drones-to show how aerial imagery is key to modern visual culture and can both enforce miVezava: Mehka53,22 € -
Biopolitics of Feeling(2017) SCHULLER, KYLAKyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility-the capacity to be affected-to expose the powerful workings of sentimental biopower in the nineteenth-century United States, uncovering a vast apparatus of sensory regulation thaVezava: Mehka39,90 € -
Chinese Visions of World Order(2017)Examining the evolution of the Confucian doctrine of tianxia (all under heaven), which aspires to a unitary worldview that cherishes global justice and transcends social divides, the contributors show how it has shaped China's political organization, foreVezava: Mehka46,56 €
