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The world first took notice of a religious group called Falun Gong on April 25, 1999, when more than 10,000 of its followers protested before the Chinese Communist headquarters in Beijing. Falun Gong investigates events in the wake of the demonstration: Beijing’s con... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:34 | The Talking Book casts the Bible as the central character in a vivid portrait of black America, tracing the origins of African-American culture from slavery’s secluded forest prayer meetings to the bright lights and bold style of today’s hip-hop artists.The Bible has... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:34 | This pocket-sized guidebook takes the reader on eight walking tours to archaeological sites throughout the boroughs of New York City and presents a new way of exploring the city through the rich history that lies buried beneath it. Generously illustrated and replete ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:34 | This book, written for religious and nonreligious people alike in clear and accessible language, explores a teaching central to both Jewish and Christian traditions: the teaching that at the end of time God will cause the dead to live again. Although this expectation... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:34 | The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested.But as Neil Gilbert s... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | The variety and pervasiveness of confidentiality issues today is breathtaking. Not a day passes without a media report on a breach of confidentiality, a claim of attorney-client privilege, a journalist jailed for refusing to reveal a source, a medical or hospital rec... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | How and why has the saga of Scarlett OHara kept such a tenacious hold on our national imagination for almost three-quarters of a century? In the first book ever to deal simultaneously with Margaret Mitchells beloved novel and David Selznicks spectacular film version ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and political significance of this crucial Horn of Africa region during that peri... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume unraveled... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | The importance of martyrdom for the spread of Christianity in the first centuries of the Common Era is a question of enduring interest. In this innovative new study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second centuries that chall... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | This new edition of Michael H. Hunt's classic reinterpretation of American diplomatic history includes a preface that reflects on the personal experience and intellectual agenda behind the writing of the book, surveys the broad impact of the book's argument, and addr... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world's temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective soluti... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thoughtscience, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | The idea that military strength is virtually synonymous with security is deeply entrenched and widely held. But while the threat or use of military force may sometimes be necessary, it cannot keep us as safe as we would be by building relationships that replace hosti... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive study of the remaking of Ireland's aristocracy during the seventeenth century. It is a study of the Irish peerage and its role in the establishment of English control over Ireland. Jane Ohlmeyer's research in ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | The legal and technical rules governing flows of information are out of balance, argues Julie E. Cohen in this original analysis of information law and policy. Flows of cultural and technical information are overly restricted, while flows of personal information ofte... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | In this monumental account and brilliant new analysis of the Napoleonic era in Europe, Frederick W. Kagan, distinguished historian and military policy expert, reveals the complex interaction of continental politics and war that dominated Europe in the early nineteent... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world-both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offices and viewed the ... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | The debate over the framers concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Washington, Adams, Je... Полное описание |
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