Télécharger le livre :  The Moscow Pythagoreans
In Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, mysticism, anti-Semitism, and mathematical theory fused into a distinctive intellectual movement. Through analyses of such seemingly disparate subjects as Moscow mathematical circles and the 1913 novel Petersburg, this...

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Télécharger le livre :  Honorary Aryans
From 1941 to 1945, a small number of Jews were given the rights of Aryan citizens in Croatia by the pro-Nazi Utasha regime. This study seeks to explain why these exemptions from Ustasha racial laws came to be, how they were justified by the race theory of the time, and...

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Télécharger le livre :  'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings
This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'anticipating' or imaginatively envisioning as well as...

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Parution : 2013-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance
What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and...

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Parution : 2013-06-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Social Worlds of the Unborn
Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and are the focus of intense debates regarding concepts of personhood. This...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-06-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Invisible Hands of Political Parties in Presidential Elections: Party Activists and Political Aggregation from 2004 to 2012
This book looks at networks of individual donors during early stages of presidential primary electons to determine party unity. It directly challenges the commonly-held perception that a "divisive" primary is a problem for the political party in the general...

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Télécharger le livre :  Master-Servant Childhood
An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.

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Parution : 2013-06-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Chinese Exclusion Act: What It Can Teach Us about America
This book explores two critical strands in American Studies: policy conversations on legal and illegal immigration and social and educational conversations on diversity and multiculturalism. As author Benjamin Railton shows, a fresh look at the Chinese Exclusion Act...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Changing Basis of Political Conflict in Advanced Western Democracies
Political conflict in Western democracies has traditionally emerged from politics rooted in competing ideologies and interests. With the rise of politics of identity, political conflict is morphing as political parties align themselves with identities, rather than...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-06-10
Collection : Perspectives in Comparative Politics PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  The Failure of Anglo-liberal Capitalism
Colin Hay argues that the crisis in which we are still mired is best seen as a crisis of growth and not as a crisis of debt. It is a crisis of and for an excessively liberalised form of capitalism and the Anglo-liberal growth model to which it gave rise.

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-06-06
Collection : Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  The Entrepreneur in History
Covering the period c.1200-c.2000, this book provides an innovative investigation of entrepreneurship in a long-run historical perspective, presenting new insights into the personal characteristics of successful business people and deepening our understanding of the...

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Parution : 2013-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges has been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being mentioned solely for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and [the female] Citizen. This book uncovers her radical views of the self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-05-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Evolutionary Basic Democracy
No one in this world truly understands what democracy means. We operate democracy only through best guesses. This uncertainty has caused, and continues to cause, significant political troubles. This book offers a way forward. It provides a new tool that will allow us to...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-05-23
Collection : The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944-45
Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of isolation and acceptance. This groundbreaking work examines training and combat experiences of soldiers working in...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Intelligent Investing in Irrational Markets
As a game of economics, investing involves the basic principles of economics that help investors identify financial goals and constraints, and come up with the right asset and portfolio allocation. Mourdoukoutas outlines the rules for investing in irrational markets...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Affirming the Absurd in Harold Pinter
Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and audiences to reconsider and problematize more conventional studies of...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-05-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Russian Climate Politics
Russia remains among the top-5 greenhouse gas emitters in the world and thus an important player in the field of international climate politics. To gain a deeper understanding of how Russian climate politics is formed, the changing and somewhat unexpected role...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Remembering Iris Murdoch
This annotated edition of the unpublished letters that Iris Murdoch wrote to Jeffrey Meyers includes her discussion of writers from Conrad to Updike; her quarrel with Rebecca West; and her difficulty with Alzheimer's. With both scholarly insight and personal reflection,...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-05-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Strategies for Preventing Terrorism
This innovative new book aims to put society's fight against terrorism into a comprehensive crime prevention perspective with a clear, understandable theoretical foundation, developing a general model for the prevention of crime which is, in this book, applied to...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2013-05-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Industrial Shift: The Structure of the New World Economy
In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded. UN and World Bank data show growing output everywhere, but it remains hidden by the faster-growing service sector. Engineers, programmers, surgeons, and pilots make up...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
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