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Action and Interaction
Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension. He explores and synthesizes the different approaches of action theory, social cogn...

Shaun Gallagher

Hegel and Ancient Philosophy: A Re-Examination (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy)
Hegel’s debts to ancient philosophy are widely acknowledged by scholars, and by the philosopher himself. Roughly half of his Lectures on the History of Philosophy is devoted to ancient philosophy, and throughout his...

Glenn Alexander Magee

A Hebrew Encyclopedia of the Thirteenth Century. Natural Philosophy in Judah Ben Solomon Ha-Cohen's Midrash Ha-Ḥokhmah.: Edition, Translation, ... 3 (Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 74)
This book presents, for the first time, a critical edition and English translation of the natural philosophy section of the first major thirteenth-century Hebrew encyclopedia of science and philosophy and assesses J...

Resianne Fontaine

Greek Art and Archaeology (5th Edition)
Greek Art and Architecture explores the development of Greek art across three centuries. This extensively illustrated and clearly written text is accessible to introductory-level students. The major categories of Gr...

John G. Pedley

Ethical Issues in Youth Work
This fully updated new edition of Ethical Issues in Youth Work presents a comprehensive overview and discussion of a range of ethical challenges facing youth workers in their everyday practice. The first part offers...

Sarah Banks

Visions of African Unity: New Perspectives on the History of Pan-Africanism and African Unification Projects (African Histories and Modernities)
This collection of essays analyzes different iterations of African unity, exploring the political and cultural visions that informed projects aimed at African unification. It explores the cultural, economic and non-...

Matteo Grilli

The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy
By drawing on the insights of diverse scholars from around the globe, this volume systematically investigates the meaning and reality of the concept of negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy―German Idealism, Early Germ...

Gregory S. Moss

Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance: Actors, Practices and Processes (Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology)
This book examines the European governance of emerging security technologies. The emergence of technologies such as drones, autonomous robotics, artificial intelligence, cyber and biotechnologies has stimulated worl...

Antonio Calcara

Greek Sculpture: Function, Materials, and Techniques in the Archaic and Classical Periods
During the sixth and fifth centuries BC, Greek sculpture developed into a fine art. With the human figure as its main subject, artists worked to represent it in increasingly natural terms. This book explores the mat...

Olga Palagia

Textual Amulets from Antiquity to Early Modern Times: The Shape of Words (Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion)
Comparing amulets over time and space, this volume focuses on the function of written words on these fascinating artefacts. Ranging from Roman Egypt to the Middle Ages and the Modern period, this book provides an ov...

Christoffer Theis

The Church and Employment Law: A Comparative Analysis of The Legal Status of Clergy and Religious Workers (ICLARS Series on Law and Religion)
This book examines the current law on the employment status of ministers of religion and suggests reforms in this area of the law to meet the need for ministers to be given a degree of employment protection. The wor...

John Duddington

The New Eastern Europe and the World Economy
The unprecedented economic, political, and social changes that have followed the east European revolutions of late 1989 rank among the epochal events of the twentieth century. The end of the cold war has opened up f...

Jozef M. Van Brabant

Hearing Experiences in Germany, 1914–1945: Noises of Modernity
This book tells the story of Germany between the years 1914–1945 through the history of its sounds and noises. From the killing grounds of the Great War, passing through the roaring optimism of the 1920s, and up to ...

Yaron Jean

Totalitarianism (Key Concepts in Political Theory)
Less than a century old, the concept of totalitarianism is one of the most controversial in political theory, with some proposing to abandon it altogether. In this accessible, wide-ranging introduction, David Robert...

David D. Roberts

The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy (Oxford Handbooks)
In the sixth and fifth centuries B. C. a new kind of thinker appeared in Greek city-states, dedicated to finding the origins of the world and everything in it, using observation and reason rather than tradition and ...

Daniel W. Graham

Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva  (19th - early 20th Centuries) (Brill's Inner Asian Library)
In Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva, Sartori and Abdurasulov show that in Khorezm prior to Sovietization the dispensation of justice according to Islamic law depended mostly on a group of officials...

Paolo Sartori

Laws and Policies on Surrogacy: Comparative Insights from India
This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases. It provides a comprehensive coverage to various issues pertaining to surrogacy arrangements due to failure...

Harleen Kaur

Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development
The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, comprise an ambitious and sweeping agenda that unites economic, social, and environmental aims. What resources do the world’s religious and s...

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
Using examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively but also to understand the political context ...

Lawrence Freedman

Primitive Characters of Liangzhu: Paintings and Symbols (Liangzhu Civilization)
This book mainly focuses on the jobs of engraved logoes and embellishment in Liangzhu culture. It pigeonholes the engraved logoes discovered in Liangzhu culture as powers of ideographical expression and decoration, ...

Yong Xia

Spiritual Warfare: Christians, Demonization and Deliverance
The Manual is clear that we face three different breeds of opponent while attempting to successfully navigate muscle as Agents for Christ. Our opponent is identified in Authority as “the world” (1 John 2:15-17), “th...

Karl I. Payne

Reformed Resurgence: The New Calvinist Movement and the Battle Over American Evangelicalism
One of the most significant increases within contemporary American Christianity, especially among younger evangelicals, is a grassroots movement of interest in the Reformed customs. In Reformed Resurgence, Lag Vermu...

Brad Vermurlen

The Scarlet Letter: A Dual-Language Book  (English - Spanish)
When you want to read in both Spanish and English, though, there’s a great privilege: bilingual books! Knowledge bilingual books and inferring the jargon and grammar is a far superior method of style training than t...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Chinese Journals of L.K. Little, 1943–54: An Eyewitness Account of War and Revolution, Volume III (The Making of Modern China) (Volume 3)
Lester Knox Little kept a detailed comic book of his time in China and Taiwan. Housing the years 1943 to 1954 it provides important new wisdoms about some of the most dramatic what's going downs in China’s mid-twent...

Chihyun Chang

The Cambridge History of Communism (Volume 2)
The second extent of The Cambridge History of Totalitarianism explores the rise of Leninist states and trends after Warfare Of THE nations. Leading experts analyze archival dawns from formerly Leninist states to re-...

Norman Naimark

Images of Occupation in Dutch Film: Memory, Myth, and the Cultural Legacy of War (Framing Film)
The German activity of the Netherlands during Memory War II left a lasting symbol on Dutch memory and culture. This book is the first to explore depictions of that duration in films made a crop later, between 1962 a...

Wendy Burke

Sabedoria Oriental: A Sabedoria Oriental ao seu alcance! (Portuguese Edition)
A Sabedoria Oriental pronta pra ser compreendida e praticada, confiram!!!....

Renato Gomes

Oeuvres Completes de W. Shakespeare, Vol. 5: Les Jaloux: Cymbeline, And, Othello (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
Excerpt from Oeuvres Completes de W. Shakespeare, Vol. 5: Les Jaloux: Cymbeline, And, Othello Puis ce di que Noes fit l'arche Ne fut cours ou tant eu gens. Le roi invite ses convives a lui donner un petit concert de...

William Shakespeare

Drama and Digital Arts Cultures (Methuen Drama Engage)
Drama and Digital Arts Cultures is a critical guide to the new forms of playful exploration, co-creativity, and improvised performance made possible by digital networked media. Drawing on examples from games, educat...

David Cameron

Stone Carving of the Hospitaller Period in Rhodes: Displaced pieces and fragments
The work presents 230 stone carvings of the Hospitaller period in Rhodes (1309-1522), which for various reasons are no longer in their original setting. Most of them are cut in local stone or reused antique marble a...

Anna-Maria Kasdagli

American Self-Radicalizing Terrorists and the Allure of "Jihadi Cool/Chic"
American Self-Radicalizing Terrorists and the Allure of Jihadi Cool/Chic provides a critical legal analysis of how American self-radicalizing terrorists become what they are by analyzing, in detail, the stories of C...

Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart

The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2472 to 2634 (Collected Works of Erasmus)
Volume 18 in the Collected Works of Erasmus series covers the period from 1 April 1531 to 30 March 1532. The most persistent theme in the letters is the fear, to which Erasmus had long been prey, that the religious ...

Desiderius Erasmus

Commodities and Cultures in the Colonial World (Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories)
Product culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The choose for objects drove colonial expansion, at the accompanying that colonial expansion fan technological tall story, created ne...

Supriya Chaudhuri

Trincheras Sites in Time, Space, and Society (Amerind Studies in Archaeology)
The intriguing hilltop archaeological scenes known as cerros de trincheras span almost three millennia, from 1250 BC to AD 1450. Archaeologists have long viewed them as a unitary phenomenon because they all have mas...

Suzanne K. Fish

Weng's Chop #11.5: The 2018 Holiday Spooktacular
[COLOR PUBLICATION - FULL COLOR INTERIOR] Weng’s Chop: The Incredible Cinema Megazine gains with its fabulous 5th Anniversary Spooktacular! This special digest issue pusses tons of articles and checks just like ever...

Tony Strauss

For Want of A Gun: The Sherman Tank Scandal of WWII
This remarkable story exposes the Sherman vessel scandal of Combat Of THE nations, involving some of the biggest American recognizes and stretching from the Official Residence and Quinquennial to factories and firin...

Christian Mark DeJohn

Insights on Education Reform in China (River Publishers Series in Innovation and Change in Education - Cross-cultural Perspective)
Since the late 1970s, China initiated mountain transforms in tutoring, resulting in great strides in international rankings. Unlike many recent brochures on Chinese educational better, which examine macroscopic poli...

Zhiying Nian

Parkersville: A Tiny But Busy Little Village In Chester County, Pennsylvania
This book is a culmination of gathering knowledge from Chester County Historical World, The Chester County Archives, and many preferences on the Internet. A taste for genealogy and Parkersville have kept me busy ove...

Mr William Brinton Parker Jr

The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated) Volume I: Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная) Том I
Роман включает в себя сложную, отлично выстроенную и психологически выверенную детективную историю, при этом в канве детективного сюжета обыкновенное на первый взгляд уголовное происшествие не только сплетается с ис...

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Europe Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging (Making Europe)
Technology was key to European colonialism. By this route technology, Europeans mapped non-European territories - and controlled the progress of john/jane q publics and aces in hole, furnishing and information. Inte...

M. Diogo

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