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How Sherlock Pulled the Trick

McCuskey, Brian

978-0-271-08987-4

34.73€ (33.39€ sin IVA)

The Future of the Democratic Left in Industrial Democracies

978-0-271-02356-4

This volume offers a comparative analysis of the challenges facing center-left parties in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, the European Union, Poland, and Russia. Among the questions addressed are: o If the traditional social bases of left parties are now too limited for winning...

34.15€ (32.84€ sin IVA)

An Akkadian Handbook

Miller, Douglas / Shipp, R. Mark

978-1-57506-306-5

Students of Akkadian will find this handy collection of basic information to be the ideal companion through their years of study. Though this handbook is not a replacement for the standard reference works, it summarizes all the basic resource materials needed for the study of Akkadian. Included are...

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Textuality and Knowledge

Shillingsburg, Peter L.

978-0-271-08107-6

In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vulnerable to inadvertent and purposeful change. In this volume, Peter Shillingsburg explores the implications of this central concept of textual scholarship.Through thirteen essays,...

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Introduction to the Semitic Languages

Bergstrasser, Gotthelf / Daniels, Peter

978-0-931464-10-2

Gotthelf Bergstrasser (1886–1933) was one of the great Semitic linguists and philologists. This small volume encapsulates his learning, and every page yields concise statements of remarkable insight. He intended the book for elementary classes in Semitic linguistics, but only one familiar with...

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A Time of Sifting

Peucker, Paul

978-0-271-06644-8

At the end of the 1740s, the Moravians, a young and rapidly expanding radical-Pietist movement, experienced a crisis soon labeled the Sifting Time. As Moravian leaders attempted to lead the church away from the abuses of the crisis, they also tried to erase the memory of this controversial and embar...

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Anthropocene Reading

978-0-271-07873-1

Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary his...

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German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion

Strom, Jonathan

978-0-271-07934-9

August Hermann Francke described his conversion to Pietism in gripping terms that included intense spiritual struggle, weeping, falling to his knees, and a decisive moment in which his doubt suddenly disappeared and he was “overwhelmed as with a stream of joy.” His account came to exempl...

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Incense at the Altar

Honey, David B.

978-0-940490-16-1

The discipline of Sinology, as it has been developed in the West, is rooted in philology. Despite the variety of new scholarly fashions and approaches to the study of premodern China that have arisen during the past half-century, the careful examination of texts remains fundamental for all serious S...

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