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In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick, writes Nicholas Rankin. German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himsel... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:19 | Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of Americas most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written, and one of the great biographies in American history. In Volume I... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:20 | A compelling new interpretation of early Mormonism, Samuel Browns In Heaven as It Is On Earth views this religion through the lens of founder Joseph Smiths profound preoccupation with the specter of death. Revisiting historical documents and scripture from this novel... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:20 | Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an intertwined ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:20 | Women and other oppressed and deprived people sometimes collude with the forces that perpetuate injustice against them. Womens acceptance of their lesser claim on household resources like food, their positive attitudes toward clitoridectemy and infibulations, their a... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:21 | Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity is a global phenomenon that comprises a quarter of the worlds two billion Christians and is growing rapidly. This volume reveals that the primary appeal of pentecostalism worldwide is as a religion of healing. Contrary to popu... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:22 | Considered one of the citys most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownsto... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:23 | Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a poet, lawyer, activist, and priest, as well as a significant figure in the civil rights and womens movements. Throughout her careers and activism, Murray espoused faith in an American democracy that is partially present and yet to come.... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:23 | From John Hope Franklin, Americas foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their mast... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:23 | Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author and longtime Californian Stephen Ar... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:24 | This book provides a systematic analysis that defines and accounts for the contours and operation of China's welfare system. It is underpinned by recent empirical research and strong comparative theory, and will be welcomed as a significant advance in furthering our ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:24 | Although raised Roman Catholic, Susan Stabile was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun and devoted 20 years of her life to practicing Buddhism before returning to Catholicism in 2001. In Growing in Love and Wisdom, she draws on this unique dual perspective to explore t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:24 | Anthropology, Sexual Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:24 | In this groundbreaking volume, David Schenck and Larry Churchill present the results of fifty interviews with practitioners identified by their peers as healers, exploring in depth the things that the best clinicians do. They focus on specific actions that exceptiona... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:24 | Federalism and the Tug of War Within explores how constitutional interpreters reconcile the competing values that underpin American federalism, with real consequences for governance that require local and national collaboration. Drawing examples from Hurricane Katrin... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:24 | Exploring works by Walter Scott, Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and their lesser-known contemporaries, Romances of Free Trade historicizes globalization as it traces the perception of dissolving borders and declining national sovereignty back i... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:24 | On Being With Others is an outstanding exploration of this key philosophical question. Simon Glendinning shows how traditional positions in the philosophy of mind can do little to rebuff the accusation that in fact we have little claim to have knowledge of minds othe... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:24 | Pastoral is a succinct and up-to-date introductory text to the history, major writers and critical issues of this genre. Terry Gifford clarifies the different uses of pastoral covering: * the history of the genre from its classical origins to Elizabethan drama, throu... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:26 | In recent years it has become commonplace to downplay notions of an industrial revolution and argue instead that Britain's transformation was gradual and incremental. In The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy Brinley Thomas contests this view, arguing tha... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:26 | To many Westerners, the most appealing teachings of the Buddhist tradition pertain to ethics. Many readers have drawn inspiration from Buddhisms emphasis on compassion, nonviolence, and tolerance, its concern for animals, and its models of virtue and self-cultivation... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:27 | How can a just peace be built in sites of genocide, massive civil war, dictatorship, terrorism, and poverty? In Strategies of Peace, the first volume in the Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding series, fifteen leading scholars propose an imaginative and provocative app... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:27 | Two-legged goats, conjoined twins, 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead, double-headed snakes, and Laloo, a man with a partially formed twin attached to his chest... In Freaks of Nature, Mark S. Blumberg turns a scientist's eye on these... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:27 | The Autisms, written by Mary Coleman and Christopher Gillberg, demonstrates that autism, like mental retardation, is a clinical presentation of numerous different diseases, many with genomic underpinnings. In this ground-breaking work, the authors explain in great de... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:28 | Antony Kamm presents an accessible, user-friendly introduction to the people of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah from earliest times up to AD 135. Charting the history of the Israelites, Kamm discusses their origins, land, society, culture and religion, as well as th... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:28 | For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times. In this Very Short Introduction, she draws on her deep knowledge of the courts history and... Полное описание |
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