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The sequel to AGE OF EXTREMES by 'the best known living historian in the world' THE TIMES

For math professor Kaplan, the history of zero is a lens for looking not only into the evolution of mathematics but into very nature of human thought. "Where did the familiar hollow circle that we use to denote zero come from? That's a story fraught with mystery, and Mr. Kaplan tells it well".--"Wall Street Journal". 38 illustrations.

Puckett takes a new look at the relationship between language, society, and economics by examining how people talk about work in a rural Appalachian community. Through careful analysis of conversations in casual yet commercial contexts, she finds that the construction and maintenance of this discourse is essential to the community's socioeconomic relationships. The volume will appeal to linguists, anthropologists, and scholars in communication...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Thematik der Gerechtigkeit bewegt die Menschheit nicht erst in der Moderne. Trotz unterschiedlicher Bedeutungszuweisungen ist allen Aussagen ein positiver Sinngehalt von Gerechtigkeit gemeinsam. In der aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Debatte spielt besonders der Begriff der sozialen Gerechtigkeit eine entscheidende Rolle. Der Ausdruck ist Bestandteil der Grundsatzprogramme aller Bundestagsparteien. Seine Nominierung ...

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Leigh considers the competing and legally interlocking claims of local representative democracy, financial accountability and consumerism, and their implications for the governing structures of local authorities and for local electors, councillors, taxpayers, the users of local services, and council employees.

The "International Bibliographies of the Social Sciences" have been renowned for their international coverage and rigorous selection procedures for nearly 50 years. These valuable resources provide the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the main social science disciplines: Anthropology, Economics, Political Science and Sociology. Arranged by topic and indexed by author, subject and place-name, each bibliography...

Since the 1980s, religion has been most visible in American public life when issues of sexuality and reproduction are at stake. Paradoxically, however, the voices that speak most loudly in the name of religion are often unschooled in religious history, world religions, theology, or ethics. Asa result, religion in America is misrepresented as anxiously and obsessively concerned with sex, and as uniformly supporting the conservative agenda of "f...

Two sets of related issues prompt this study: the birth of the New World in European consciousness and the rise of the Cervantine novel in Spain. The first full-length study to move beyond an inventory of Cervantes's references to the Indies--to Mexico and Peru, cannibals and tobacco, parrots and alligators--this book interprets his novels as a transatlantic, cross-cultural, and multi-linguistic achievement.

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An exceptionally handsome, large-format gift edition of timeless fairy tales by Oscar Wilde. Spectacular full-color paintings illustrate six of Wilde's best-loved stories, including "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", and "The Selfish Giant". Full-color illustrations.

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Die Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit ist ein umfassendes biographisches Lexikon für den östlichen Mittelmeerraum unter Einschluss des byzantinischen Italiens im frühen Mittelalter. Siebesteht auszwei Abteilungen zu je fünf Bänden, über 20.000 Personen werden dokumentiert, die bereits erschienene erste Abteilung reicht von 641 bis 867, die zweite führt den Zeitraum bis etwa 1025 fort. Neben den fünf Hauptbänden enthält jede Abteilun...

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Before the Civil War, upstate New York earned itself a nickname: the burned-over district. African Americans were few in upstate New York, so this work focuses on reformers in three predominately white communities.

An innovative and forward-looking volume which challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalisation. Essential reading for those interested in the development of and the potential alternatives to globalisation.

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This book offers an exciting look at the important and often uneasy place of philosophy in cultural theory today. In the United States and Britain, cultural studies has taken a largely non-philosophical form. Yet, in its hostility to disciplinary boundaries and its search for theoretical generality, cultural studies has much in common with a philosophical tradition of totalization from which it has historically distanced itself. Throughout, Os...

Any understanding of George Eliot's mature art must begin with an appreciation of the rich, difficult family dynamic out of which it was forged. Her friends and relations understood this, and went into print with their own accounts of the process by which George Eliot's early recollections became the basis, not just for her fiction, but also for her philosophic conservatism. The past - and memory of that past - was the cornerstone on which Eli...

Rapid developments in the field of genetic algorithms along with the popularity of the first edition precipitated this extensively revised, thoroughly updated second edition. This edition allows practitioners to stay up to date on the more recent discoveries in the field, It continues to provide them with material they can use productively in their own endeavors, including computer code available for download from the Internet.