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  • von Nancy Demand
    54,00 €

    She draws relevant details from cure records and dedications from healing sanctuaries, labor scenes depicted on tombstones, Aristophanic comedy, andPlatonic philosophy.

  • - Growth and Governance in Less-Developed and Post-Socialist Countries
     
    49,00 €

    Contributors include economists Christopher Clague, Robert Klitgaard, Peter Murrell, Mancur Olson, Vernon Ruttan, and Vito Tanzi, and political scientists Stephan Haggard, Margaret Levi, and Elinor Ostrom.

  • - The Comedies
    von Terence
    54,00 €

    In English translations that achieve a lively readability without sacrificing the dramatic and comic impact of the original Latin, this volume presents all six comedies: The Girl from Andros (Andria), The Self-Tormentor (Heautontimorumenos), The Eunuch (Eunouchus), Phormios, The Brothers (Adelphoe), and Her Husband's Mother (Hecyra).

  • - The Development of American Medical Education
    von Kenneth M. (Washington University School of Medicine) Ludmerer
    50,00 €

    In Learning to Heal, Kenneth Ludmerer offers the definitive account of the rise of the modern medical school and the shaping of the medical profession.

  • - High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program
    von Howard E. (American University) McCurdy
    48,00 €

    Changes imposed to accomplish the lunar landing-along with the normal aging process and increased bureaucracy in the government as a whole-gradually eroded NASA's original culture and reduced its technical strength.

  • - Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865
    von Richard H. Sewell
    45,00 €

  • - Crisis, Breakdown and Reequilibration. An Introduction
     
    44,00 €

  • von Lu Ann (The College of William and Mary) Homza
    49,00 €

    Through analyses of Inquisition trials, biblical translations, treatises on witchcraft, and tracts on the episcopate and penance, Homza illuminates the intellectual autonomy and energy of Spain's ecclesiastics, exploring the flexibility and inconsistency in their preferences for humanism or scholasticism, preferences which have long been thought to be steadfast.

  • - History, Spectacle, Controversy
    von John Sayle Watterson
    56,00 €

    Ultimately, however, Watterson concludes that the history of college football is one in which the rules of the game have changed, but those of human nature have not.

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    52,00 €

    Drawing on Derrida, Lacan, and Wittgenstein, Gregory Ulmer offers an example of the new form of writing hypertextuality demands.

  • - A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede
    von Albert Schweitzer
    46,00 €

    Approaches and conclusions may differ, he concludes, but the quest for the historical Jesus has provided ample testimony to the importance of the effort and the rewards of the experience.

  • von Louise C. Seibert
    45,00 €

    It aims to give systematic training in the skills and techniques necessary for reading French-skills that are not taught by any of the usual readers."-from the Foreword

  • von Stephen L. (Park Professor of Classics Dyson
    54,00 €

    He examines the "typicalRoman community during the High Empire and explores the life cycle of rural inhabitants, showing how individuals- the aristocrats, the free poor, and the slaves- developed in relation to society as a whole.

  • von Steven H. Lonsdale
    50,00 €

    The act of worship, he explains, often implied engaging in collective rites regulated by playful behavior, the most common forms of which were group hymns and choral dances.

  • von Olivia F. (University of Glasgow School of Law) Robinson
    47,00 €

    Grouping offenses functionally into five chapters, she examines crimes committed for gain, crimes involving violence, sexual offenses, offenses against the state, and offenses against the due ordering of society.

  • von Douglas (Sterling-Goodman Professor of English Anderson
    43,00 €

    "The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin brings us a much fuller understanding of Franklin's intellectual and literary roots and his later influence among common readers.

  • - Fiction and Possible Worlds
    von Lubomir (University of Toronto) Dolezel
    50,00 €

    By careful attention to philosophical inquiry into possible worlds, especially Saul Kripke's and Jaakko Hintikka's, and through long familiarity with literary theory, Dolezel brings us an unprecedented examination of the notion of fictional worlds.

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    44,00 €

    Finally, Maria Grazia Bonanno stresses the importance of performance in lyric poetry.

  • - The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
    von Sue Taylor (Professor Parker
    50,00 €

    Drawing evidence from scores of studies on monkeys, great apes, and human children, this book provides unique insights into ontogenetic constraints that have interacted with selective forces to shape the evolution of cognitive development in our lineage.

  • von Carol (Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature Jacobs
    49,00 €

    The process of contemplation that these essays perform, then, is marked by an unceasing pausing for breath (sometimes for many years)."-Carol Jacobs, from In the Language of Walter Benjamin

  • - Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment
    von Michael P. Winship
    47,00 €

    This study asks: how did the logic of Puritanism square itself with the increasingly hostile assumptions of the early Enlightenment?; and, faced with a new intellectual world largely opposed to Puritanism, how did Puritans try to maintain credibility?

  • - The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955
    von Laurence F. Gross
    48,00 €

    The increased textile demands of World War II, Gross explains, only forestalled the mills' inevitable demise.

  • - Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas
    von Michael Lewis (University of Washington Goldberg
    46,00 €

    Goldberg's broad scope and use of both traditional and unusual sources-including folkways, poems, songs, and novels-allow readers to understand the movements both as part of a national framework and within the context of the state and local cultures that were their primary concern.

  • - A Direct Approach
    von James L. Gamble
    44,00 €

    This book develops a scientific approach to the study of clinical acid-base physiology, giving emphasis to the areas of most significance in diagnosis and therapy.

  • von James Rodger (Professor of Science Fleming
    51,00 €

    But the gains had been significant, including advances in natural history and medical geography, and in understanding the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere.

  • von Darrel W. (Western Washington University) Amundsen
    55,00 €

    Indeed, all the Church Fathers were convinced that healing sometimes came from evil sources: Satan and his demons were able to heal, for example, and Asclepius was a demon "to be taken very seriously indeed."

  • - Hannah Arendt and the German-Jewish Experience
    von Dagmar Barnouw
    44,00 €

    The result is an insightful study of Arendt's thought in its complex historical context.

  • - 18 Short Stories
    von Stephen (Johns Hopkins University) Dixon
    43,00 €

  • - Philippe, Duke of Orleans
    von Nancy Nichols Barker
    54,00 €

  • - Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives
     
    55,00 €

    Essays examine not only the prominent role that biomedical and clinical researchers have played in defining Alzheimer disease, but the ways in which the perspectives of patients, their caregivers, and the broader public have shaped concepts.

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