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During the three centuries from 800 to 500 B.C., the Greek world evolved from a primitive society--both culturally and economically--to one whose artistic products dominated all Mediterranean markets, supported by a wide overseas trade. In the following two centuries... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:44 | Twentieth-Century America offers a succinct, comprehensive, and objective examination of recent American history. From Progressivism and the New Deal up to the present, Reeves covers all aspects of American history without burying students in unnecessary detail and t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:45 | William Clark's At War Within takes us on a fascinating tour through the immune system, examining the history of its discovery, the ways in which it protects us, and how it may bring its full force to bear at the wrong time or in the wrong place. Scientists have only... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:45 | Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "e;extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful."e; The Los Angeles Times called it "e;brilliant, ambitious, and controversial."e; Now Oxford has collected... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:46 | The political and social upheavals that have transformed the economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the past ten years have sparked considerable interest and speculation on the part of Western observers. Less noted, though hardly less dramatic... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:46 | Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines. But in 17th century England, a sex scandal in which the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven was executed for crimes so horrible that "e;a Christian m... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:47 | Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the citys ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to an... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:47 | Robert Batterman examines a form of scientific reasoning called asymptotic reasoning, arguing that it has important consequences for our understanding of the scientific process as a whole. He maintains that asymptotic reasoning is essential for explaining what physic... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:48 | Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved? In The Contradictions of American ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:48 | Child maltreatment professionals from all disciplines struggle to find better ways of understanding and treating the families and children affected by maltreatment. Since the mid-1960s, the battered child syndrome, and recent high-profile abuse cases, a plethora of r... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:48 | Does God want us to be wealthy? Many people believe that God offers not only eternal joy in the hereafter but also material blessings in the here and now. Other Christians see this prosperity theology, as nothing more than vulgar materialism, incompatible with orthod... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:48 | If an innocent person is sent to prison or if a killer walks free, we are outraged. The legal system assures us, and we expect and demand, that it will seek to do justice in criminal cases. So why, for some cases, does the criminal law deliberately and routinely sacr... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:49 | To inform future research, treatment, and policy decisions, this book traces the scientific and social developments that shaped the current treatment model for depression in primary care over the past half century. While new strategies for diagnosing and treating dep... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 26 марта 2010, 23:49 | Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS), a way to simulate a large number of choices by individual actors, is one of the most exciting practical developments in business modeling since the invention of relational databases. It represents a new way to understand da... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:07 | The recovery of Dantes metaphysics - which are very different from our own - is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy. That problem is what to make of the Comedys claim to ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:07 | It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Its dominance has even led to its use and adaptation by local communities for their own purposes and needs. One might see English in this context as being simply a neutral, unive... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:08 | Christianity is widely understood to be a universal religion that transcends the particularities of history and culture, including differences related to kinship and ethnicity. In traditional Pauline scholarship, this portrait of Christianity has been justified by th... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:08 | While religious communities often stress the universal nature of their beliefs, it remains true that people choose to worship alongside those they identify with most easily. Multiethnic churches are rare in the United States, but as American attitudes toward diversit... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:08 | It is increasingly commonplace to find scholars who circle back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his intellectual heirs as a way of better understanding contemporary social and aesthetic contexts. Why does Emersons cultural legacy continue to influence writers so forcefull... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:09 | In this newest volume in Oxfords Lives and Legacies series, Carolyn Porter, a leading authority on William Faulkner, offers an insightful account of Faulkners life and work, with special focus on the breathtaking twelve-year period when he wrote some of the finest no... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:10 | In the early sixteenth century, a charismatic Bengali Brahmin, Visvambhara Misra, inspired communities of worshipers in Bengal, Orissa, and Vraja with his teachings. Misra took the ascetic name Krsna Caitanya, and his devotees quickly came to believe he was divine. T... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:10 | Voting distills a complex decision into a deceptively simple action. During campaign seasons, the electorate faces a messy tangle of parties, leaders, and issues. How is it possible for voters to unravel it all? How do they perceive and evaluate the political landsca... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 0:10 | In a long-overlooked diary entry, Franz Kafka admitted to suffering from bouts of clairvoyance. These bouts of clairvoyance can be seen in his writing, in moments when the solid basis of human cognition totters, the dissolution of matter seems imminent, and objects a... Полное описание |
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