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    - Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia
    by Nikolaos Chrissidis
    £40.99

    The first formally organized educational institution in Russia was established in 1685 by two Greek hieromonks, Ioannikios and Sophronios Leichoudes. Like many of their Greek contemporaries in the seventeenth century, the brothers acquired part of their schooling in colleges of post-Renaissance Italy under a precise copy of the Jesuit...

  • - Exile, 1935-1937
    by Oddvar Hoidal
    £29.99

    One of the greatest Marxist philosophers of the Bolshevik Revolution and an integral force in the creation of the Red Army, Lev Trotsky was expelled from the Party by Joseph Stalin in 1927 and deported in 1929, first to France, then Turkey, and Norway soon after. This title offers an account of Trotsky's time in Oslo.

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    - Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia
    by Debra Blumenthal
    £44.49

    A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars...

  • by J. L. Schellenberg
    £25.99

    Why, if a loving God exists, are there "reasonable nonbelievers," people who fail to believe in God but through no fault of their own? In Part 1 of this book, the first full-length treatment of its topic, J. L. Schellenberg argues that when we notice...

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    by Peter J. Van Soest
    £80.99

    This monumental text-reference places in clear persepctive the importance of nutritional assessments to the ecology and biology of ruminants and other nonruminant herbivorous mammals. Now extensively revised and significantly expanded, it reflects the...

  • by Averroes
    £19.99 - 44.99

    An indispensable primary source in medieval political philosophy is presented here in a fully annotated translation of the celebrated discussion of the Republic by the twelfth-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher.

  • by Judith Testa
    £18.99

    Offers a fresh perspective on the rich and brilliant art of the Florentine Renaissance. Focusing on a number of works, by such masters as Botticelli and Michelangelo, this book explains each piece in terms of what it meant to the people who produced it and to those for whom they made it.

  • - Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon
    by Robert Jervis
    £25.99 - 44.49

    Robert Jervis argues here that the possibility of nuclear war has created a revolution in military strategy and international relations. He examines how the potential for nuclear Armageddon has changed the meaning of war, the psychology of...

  • - A Novel in Two Parts
    by Alexander Herzen
    £25.99

    "Herzen's novel played a significant part in the intellectual ferment of the 1840s. It is an important book in social and moral terms, and wonderfully expressive of Herzen's personality."-Isaiah Berlin Alexander Herzen was one of the major figures in...

  • by Erik Hornung
    £19.99

    Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and reigned from 1375 to 1358 B.C. E. Called the "religious revolutionary," he is the earliest known creator of a new religion. The cult he founded broke with...

  • by Sandra Harding
    £27.49

    Can science, steeped in Western, masculine, bourgeois endeavors, nevertheless be used for emancipatory ends? In this major contribution to the debate over the role gender plays in the scientific enterprise, Sandra Harding pursues that question...

  • - England, 1550-1720
    by Barbara J. Shapiro
    £27.49

    Barbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, she convincingly demonstrates, originated not in natural science but in legal discourse. She follows the concept's evolution and diffusion across a variety of...

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    - The Skybolt Crisis in Perspective
    by Richard E. Neustadt
    £47.49

    In March 1963, President Kennedy asked Richard E. Neustadt to investigate a troubling episode in U.S.-British relations. His confidential report-intended for a single reader, JFK himself, and classified for thirty years-is reproduced in its entirety...

  • - The Devil in the Middle Ages
    by Jeffrey Burton Russell
    £24.99

    Drawing on an impressive array of sources from popular religion, art, literature, and drama, as well as from scholastic philosophy, mystical theology, homiletics, and hagiography, Russell provides a detailed treatment of Christian diabology in the Middle Ages.

  • - Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain
    by Carissa M. Harris
    £20.99 - 37.49

    As anyone who has read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situations. Less canonical works can be even more brazen in describing illicit acts of sexual activity and sexual violence. Such scenes and language were not, however, included exclusively for titillation. In Obscene...

  • - Intelligence Failure in War
    by James J. Wirtz
    £28.49 - 40.99

    Wirtz explains why U.S. forces were surprised by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in 1968.

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    - The "Odyssey," Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic
    by Joel Christensen
    £32.49

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  • - Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
    by Sarah Cameron
    £20.99

    The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930-33. More than 1.5 million people perished in this famine, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, and the crisis transformed a territory the size of continental Europe. Yet the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from...

  • - A Sourcebook
     
    £28.49

    This sourcebook provides the first systematic overview of witchcraft laws and trials in Russia and Ukraine from medieval times to the late nineteenth century. Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine weaves scholarly commentary with never before published primary source materials translated from Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. These sources include the earliest references to witchcraft and sorcery, secular and religious laws regarding witchcraft and possession, full trial transcripts, and a wealth of magical spells. The documents present a rich panorama of daily life and reveal the extraordinary power of magical words. Editors Valerie A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec present new analyses of the workings and evolution of legal systems, the interplay and tensions between church and state, and the prosaic concerns of the women and men involved in witchcraft proceedings. The extended documentary commentaries also explore the shifting boundaries and fraught political relations between Russia and Ukraine.

  • - Financing the Global Land Rush
    by Madeleine Fairbairn
    £20.99

    Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in two of the most popular investment locations, the US and Brazil, looking at the implications of financiers' acquisition of land and control over resources for rural livelihoods and economic justice. At the heart of Fields of Gold is a tension between efforts to transform farmland into a new financial asset class, and land's physical and social properties, which frequently obstruct that transformation. But what makes the book unique among the growing body of work on the global land grab is Fairbairn's interest in those acquiring land, rather than those affected by land acquisitions. Fairbairn's work sheds ethnographic light on the actors and relationships-from Iowa to Manhattan to Sao Paulo-that have helped to turn land into an attractive financial asset class.

  • by Stephen M. Walt
    £25.99 - 40.99

    How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of international alliances and identifying the most important causes of security cooperation between states. In...

  • - Translations, Commentaries, and Essays
    by Giambattista Vico
    £18.99

    Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science" brings together in one volume translations, commentaries, and essays that illuminate the background of Giambattista Vico's major work.

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    - Freemasonry and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia
    by Douglas Smith
    £35.99

    Examines the forces that attracted many social and intellectual leaders of 18th-century Russia to Freemasonry as an instrument for change and progress. The author reveals how Freemasonry became a part of a larger social transformation that saw the development of literary circles and social clubs.

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    - A History of Chicago
    by Robert G. Spinney
    £26.49

  • - How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace
    by Alex J. Wood
    £22.49

  • - Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian
    by Nicholas H. A. Evans
    £22.49

    "This book presents readers with a new way of thinking about religious doubt through an ethnographic exploration of how Ahmadi Muslims in India--members of a minority's minority--confront an impossible question: how do I prove that I'm Muslim"--

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    - Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State
    by LaTonya J. Trotter
    £99.49

    "Shows how a group of nurse practitioners expand the medical encounter to include a mix of health, social, and coordination problems--illustrating the ways in which these providers are not just filling-in for absent physicians, but are filling in for the absence of the state in attending to the problems of poverty and unequal access to health care"--

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    - The Possibility of Philosophy
    by Lloyd P. Gerson
    £46.99

    "An account of the central tradition in the history of philosophy, Platonism, along with the class of philosophical positions collectively known as Naturalism and the 'anti-Platonism' of Naturalism both in antiquity and in contemporary philosophy"--

  • - A True Story in 21 Kilometers
    by Jasmina Kozina Praprotnik
    £21.49

    Anthropologist Jasmina Praprotnik met Helena Zigon while running. Over the course of an icy Slovenian winter, the two marathon runners got together frequently, and Zigon told Praprotnik about her life. Here, Praprotnik tells Zigon's captivating story in Zigon's own voice. Each chapter is marked by a kilometer of the half-marathon Zigon ran...

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