Society
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A Leisure of One’s Own: A Feminist Perspective on Women’s Leisure
Henderson, Karla A.; Bialeschki, M. Deborah; Shaw, Susan M.; Freysinger, Valeria J.Taylor & Francis Group 2003 1. editionA Leisure of One's Own is a unique introduction to issues and questions about women and their leisure, offering a social psychological analysis from a feminist perspective. The boo...
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Alexander Hamilton
Chernow, RonPenguin Publishing Group 2005The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Ha...
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International Law in the 21st Century : Rules for Global Governance
Joyner, Christopher C.Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2005In the freshest new international law text in 20 years, Christopher C. Joyner offers a critical assessment of international legal rules in the early 21st century as they are applie...
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Wolfpack Warriors : The Story of World War II's Most Successful Fighter Outfit
Freeman, RogerGrub Street 2004In the later years of the Second World War Germany was subjected to a tremendous onslaught by the bomber commands of both the RAF and USAAF, as well as being assaulted by land. For...
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From Governing to Governance
Tiihonen, SeppoTampere University Press 2004 1. editionFrom Governing to Governance discusses changes in basic concepts in public administration and politics. In most discourses the term governance is used as a continuation of fundamen...
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The Sea Hunters II : More True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
Cussler, Clive; Dirgo, CraigPenguin Publishing Group 2003The second thrilling account of #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cusslers's real-life search for lost ships, planes, and other marvels that changed history. For decades,...
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Mobile messages
Kasesniemi, Eija-LiisaTampere University Press 2003 1. editionMobile messages -Young people and a new communication culture Since the late 1990s, new communication cultures have been emerging among Finnish teenagers. A team of young research...
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Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy : The Extraordinary Wartime Exploits of a Naval Special Agent
Dalzel-Job, PatrickPen & Sword Books 2003A memoir from the real-life James Bond, who "could ski backward, navigate a midget submarine and undertake the riskiest parachute jumps" (Wired). In 1939, as a young man, Patrick D...
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Informational societies
Karvonen, ErkkiTampere University Press : Taju [jakaja], 2001 2001We are now witnessing a metamorphosis on a global scale. This transformation is often characterised as the coming of the information society - or the Third Industrial Revolution. I...
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HMS London : Warships of the Royal Navy
Ballantyne, IainPen & Sword Books 2002A fascinating and lively account of the lives of British warships named London, looking at history from the perspective of the men who were there. There is no current warship in t...
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Ten Days that Shook the World
Reed, JohnDuke Classics 2022Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917. Written in 1919 by the American journalist and socialist John Reed, it follows many of...
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Leviathan : The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill
Hobbes, ThomasDuke Classics 2022Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract. Written in the midst of the English Civil War, it concerns the stru...
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On Liberty
Mill, John StuartDuke Classics 2022At the time it was published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty was a radical and controversial work; it argued for the right of individuals to possess freedom from the state i...
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The Theory of Social Revolutions
Adams, BrooksDuke Classics 2022These days, as many world markets teeter on the brink of disaster, the concept of capitalism has come under increasing fire. In this volume, Harvard-trained historian Brooks Adams...
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Signs of Change
Morris, WilliamDuke Classics 2022William Morris was an English writer, architect, and artist and was integral to the birth of socialism in Great Britain. He founded the Socialist League in 1884, but later broke aw...
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The Balkan Wars : 1912-1913
Schurman, Jacob GouldDuke Classics 2021 3. editionFor many countries in Europe, the early twentieth century was a maelstrom of conflict, as age-old alliances and feuds shifted and realigned in response to modernity, imperialism, c...
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Democracy in America : Volumes I & II
Tocqueville, Alexis deDuke Classics 2021Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (De la démocratie en Amérique) is a classic text detailing the United States of the 1830s, showing a primarily favorable view by Tocque...
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The Republic
PlatoDuke Classics 2024The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - di...