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The Tehran Bazaar has always been central to the Iranian economy and indeed, to the Iranian urban experience. Arang Keshavarzian's fascinating book compares the economics and politics of the marketplace under the Pahlavis, who sought to undermine it in the drive for ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | Few behavioral processes are more central to the development and maintenance of intimate relationships than the communication of affection. Indeed, affectionate expressions often initiate and accelerate relational development. By contrast, their absence in establishe... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | This book critically engages Jurgen Habermas's comprehensive vision of constitutional democracy in the European Union. John P. McCormick draws on the writings of Max Weber (and Habermas's own critique of them) to confront the difficulty of theorizing progressive poli... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | Educational Leadership is a major research book on contemporary leadership challenges for educational leaders. In this groundbreaking new work, educational leaders in schools, including teachers, are provided with ways of analysing and resolving common but complex le... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | Australian Soul challenges the idea that religious and spiritual life in Australia is in decline. This fascinating book describes the character of religious and spiritual life in Australia today, and argues that, far from petering out, religion and spirituality are t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | Does democracy decrease state repression in line with the expectations of governments, international organizations, NGOs, social movements, academics and ordinary citizens around the world? Most believe that a 'domestic democratic peace' exists, rivalling that found ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | The increasingly demanding performance requirements of communications systems, as well as problems posed by the continued scaling of silicon technology, present numerous challenges for the design of frequency synthesizers in modern transceivers. This book contains ev... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:39 | Modern statistical methods use complex, sophisticated models that can lead to intractable computations. Saddlepoint approximations can be the answer. Written from the user's point of view, this book explains in clear language how such approximate probability computat... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:39 | Belligerent Hindu nationalism, accompanied by recurring communal violence between Hindus and Muslims, has become a compelling force in Indian politics over the last two decades. Ornit Shani's book examines the rise of Hindu nationalism, asking why distinct groups of ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:39 | Through an exploration of women authors' engagements with copyright and married women's property laws, American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, revises nineteenth-century American literary history, making women's authorship and copyright law central. ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:39 | Threats of force are a common feature of international politics, advocated by some as an economical guarantee against the outbreak of war and condemned by others as a recipe for war. Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter forbids states to use threats of force, y... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used widely in schools, summer schools and unive... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | The wool market was extremely important to the English medieval economy and wool dominated the English export trade from the late thirteenth century to its decline in the late fifteenth century. Wool was at the forefront of the establishment of England as a European ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | This book proposes a selection model for explaining cross-national variation in economic voting: Rational voters condition the economic vote on whether incumbents are responsible for economic outcomes, because this is the optimal way to identify and elect competent e... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | Chloe Bird and Patricia Rieker argue that to improve men's and women's health, individuals, researchers, and policymakers must understand the social and biological sources of the perplexing gender differences in illness and longevity. Although individuals are increas... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:41 | Teams are commonly celebrated as efficient and humane ways of organizing work and learning. By means of a series of in-depth case studies of teams in the United States and Finland over a time span of more than 10 years, this book shows that teams are not a universal ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:41 | This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the proce... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book, first published in 2007, analyses the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is a forceful, perplexing, important book, radical in its own time and profoundly influential ever since. This introductory textbook offers a comprehensive, close reading of the entire work, with a section-by-section an... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Every choice we make is set against a background of massive ignorance about our past, our future, our circumstances, and ourselves. Philosophers are divided on the moral significance of such ignorance. Some say that it has a direct impact on how we ought to behave - ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Financial Products provides a step-by-step guide to some of the most important ideas in financial mathematics. It describes and explains interest rates, discounting, arbitrage, risk neutral probabilities, forward contracts, futures, bonds, FRA and swaps. It shows how... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Essential to the management of patients suffering from neurological disorders is an understanding of the cognitive aspects of these conditions. This book begins with an outline of the various cognitive domains and how they can be tested, before covering in depth the ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:43 | In a fast-changing world, what impact does social change have on our everyday relationships? How do modernisation processes influence our broader values, and how might these then affect our desires to marry, have a family and develop our social networks? And how do s... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:43 | This book is a critique of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the perspective of cognitive science - it seeks to examine what we have learned about human cognition from AI successes and failures. The book's goal is to separate those 'AI dreams' that either have been o... Полное описание |
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