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Essence of Diplomacy explores essential, timeless features of diplomacy, drawing on the richly documented history of diplomacy from the Ancient Near East to today. Viewing diplomacy as a perennial international institution, the authors aim to make international relat... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:14 | This book provides a conceptual framework to understand and analyze the decline of the telecommunications industry and the rise of information industries. This includes information distribution, banking, advertising, computing, etc. and will use a value based perspec... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:14 | Originally written for the Swedish debate before the referendum in September 2003, when the euro was rejected by a vast majority. Rational or irrational by the voters? Judge from this volume which presents significant arguments against the common currency. Includes e... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:15 | The first comprehensive critical history of SF for thirty years, this book traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece, via its rebirth in the seventeenth century, up to the present day. Concentrating on literary SF and (in the later chap... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:17 | New classical economics makes three assumptions to explain economic phenomena. Firstly, people solve their decision problems by following the prescriptions of the expected utility theory. Secondly, people behave like econometricians in learning the structure of the e... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:18 | This second volume picks up the ongoing story in a tunnel leading out of enchanted mountain realm of Eotunlandt. Fighting their way through subterranean dangers, Nibulus and his diminished retinue of 'questers' finally reach the open again, only to discover that thei... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Asserting that a history of shopping was, until recently, a history of women, Rachel Bowlby trains her eye on the evolution of the modern shopper. She uses a compelling blend of history, literary analysis, and cultural criticism to explore the rise of department stor... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the regions political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with imperial powers... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the b... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Through close readings of Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist texts, Katherine Wills Perlo proves that our relationship with animals shapes religious doctrine, particularly through the tension between animal exploitation and the bonds of kinship. She pinpoints f... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Shakespeare was acutely aware of our intimate struggles with aging. His dramatic characters either prosper or suffer according to their relationship with maturity, and his sonnets eloquently explore time's ravaging effects. "e;Wrinkled deep in time"e; is how ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | In 1941, Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Ptain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy governmen... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:23 | In Apocalypse When? Ted Harrison asks why it is that we are so determined to forecast The End. Why do many people prefer to think of the world ending in a single dramatic event than simply fading away over millions of years? Is it a way of not taking responsibility f... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:24 | A fairly touch character of Scots-Irish extraction, John McCaffery didn't want to have anything to do with the superstitious business of healings and signs and wonders; but friends kept pressing him to go and see a Franciscan Friar in the south of Italy. In the end h... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is a chilling tale by Helen Dunmore.'It was nothing, she tells herself, but her body knows better.'Florence... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | The Miriam Tradition works from the premise that religious values form in and through movement, with ritual and dance developing patterns for enacting those values. Cia Sautter considers the case of Sephardic Jewish women who, following in the tradition of Miriam the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:27 | Delving into the history of gambling and corruption in intercollegiate sports, Cheating the Spread recounts all of the major gambling scandals in college football and basketball. Digging through court records, newspapers, government documents, and university archives... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | Recent legislative battles over healthcare reform, the federal budget, and other prominent issues have given rise to widespread demands for the abolition or reform of the filibuster in the US Senate. Critics argue that members' traditional rights of unlimited debate ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:28 | Religion is in competition with the leisure and entertainment industries. The postmodern generation is open to spirituality, but young adults have not been born into faith communities that embrace them fully and command their allegiance over a lifetime. Studies sugge... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:29 | God is everywhere, and that means he can speak to us in all sorts of interesting places! It doesn't take more than a page or two to get absorbed by this hugely enjoyable and original book, in which Sister Elizabeth invites us to read the Bible (in traditional or less... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:29 | Rabbits are now the third most popular pet in Britain but few owners understand their behavioural problems. Many of the problems that rabbits demonstrate can be avoided if their living conditions are adapted to follow their natural instincts and Anne McBride explains... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:30 | Tim Grover began training Michael Jordan in 1989, and since then hundreds of elite athletes have turned to Grover to become stronger, faster, and more powerful, both physically and mentally. From increasing Michael Jordan’s vertical leap to keeping Kobe Bryant ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:30 | How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western FrontAt the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible. Flying above the battlefields of the Western Front, they cut a deadly swathe through the ranks of their enemies, as each sid... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:33 | Popularly known during his lifetime as âThe World’s Greatest Living Composer,” Igor Stravinsky (1882â1971) not only wrote some of the twentieth century’s most influential music, he also assumed the role of cultural icon. This book reveals Stravinsky’s two sidesâ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:33 | Repeatedly in the twentieth century, the United States has been involved in confrontations with other countries, each with the potential for widespread international and domestic upheaval, even disaster. In this book Michael Hunt focuses on seven such crises, present... Полное описание |
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