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Theorie und Gesellschaft§Als Mitbegründer der "Subaltern Studies" ist der indische Historiker Dipesh Chakrabarty einer der…

Presents an analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common…

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• Rok vydání 2019

This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It…

• Rok vydání 1999

"Normal Accidents" analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering…

Offers a methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of…

• Rok vydání 1994

These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity, Erich Neumann belong in the context of the…

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• Rok vydání 2024

WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize • Shortlisted for the Cundill History…

• Rok vydání 2017

We make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second--and these snap judgments predict all…

• Rok vydání 2005

This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Can cooperation persist without…

• Rok vydání 2018

Yarhi-Milo addresses an important theoretical question, proposes a novel and powerful psychological explanation, and…

• Rok vydání 1992

"A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy" is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by…

Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation. Even when pessimism looks…

This book articulates an original scheme for the conceptualization of action. Beginning with a new approach to the…

A practical guide to the historical study of international politics, this book focuses on the basics of historical research…

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the…

• Rok vydání 2021

How an ingenious printmaking technique became a cross-cultural phenomenon in Enlightenment EuropeDriven by a growing…

• Rok vydání 1994

Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and…

Provides an account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. This work focuses on the…

It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted - that the very concept of enchantment belongs…

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• Rok vydání 2021

A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveriesThis beautifully…

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Presents the writings of Plato that are generally considered to be authentic. This title collects the contents from the work…

• Rok vydání 2009

Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before…

A counter to the popular impression that Adam Smith was a champion of selfishness and greed. It shows that the Inquiry into…

Traces the roots of the Chinese empire's exceptional longevity and unparalleled political durability, and shows how lessons…

Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled…

Logic is essential to correct reasoning and also has important theoretical applications in philosophy, computer science,…

Offers a poetic example of Kierkegaard's vision of the three stages, or spheres, of existence: the esthetic, the ethical,…

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• Rok vydání 2002

Economics has much to do with incentives--not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to…