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Living Mirrors - Infinity, Unity, and Life in Leibniz's Philosophy - Bok av Ohad (Professor of Philosophy Nachtomy - Inbunden

This work presents Leibniz's view of infinity and the central role it plays in his theory of living beings. Nachtomy argues that Leibniz employs three degrees of infinity: absolute infinity, which applies to God; maximum or infinite in kind, which applies to created, living beings; and mathematical infinity.

SEK 1396.00

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Choreographies of the Living - Bioaesthetics in Literature, Art, and Performance - Bok av Carrie (Associate Professor of English Rohman - Inbunden

Choreographies of the Living explores the shift from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman's bioaesthetic framework describes how art-making binds us to other animals in literature, visual art, dance, and performance.

SEK 1880.00

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Living Oil - Petroleum Culture in the American Century - Bok av Stephanie (Associate Professor of English LeMenager - Inbunden

Drawing on novels, film, and photographs, Living Oil offers a literary and cultural history of modern environmentalism and petroleum in America.

SEK 1136.00

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The Living Elephants - Evolutionary Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation - Bok av Raman (Associate Professor of Ecology Sukumar - Inbunden

From the ancient origins of the proboscideans to the crisis of the living elephants, this book synthesizes the behavior, ecology and conservation of elephants, while covering also the history of human interactions with elephants. It is useful for biologists, field ecologists, wildlife administrators, historians, and conservationists.

SEK 1936.00

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Working and Living in the Shadow of Economic Fragility - Bok av Marion (Vice Provost Crain - Inbunden

Working and Living in the Shadow of Economic Fragility addresses fundamental questions about the role and value of work in America today, and offers suggestions for how to address the short- and long-term challenges of rebuilding a society of opportunity with meaningful and sustaining jobs as the foundation of the American middle-class.

SEK 1050.00

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Vedic Voices - Intimate Narratives of Living Andhra Traditions - Bok av David M. (Professor Emeritus of South Asian Studies Knipe - Inbunden

David M. Knipe studies four generations of ten families living in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh, examining their lives; ancestral lineages; choices as pandits; relationships to wives and children; and ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India.

SEK 2016.00

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Doing Valuable Time - The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living - Bok av Cheshire (Professor of Philosophy Calhoun - Inbunden

Doing Valuable Time considers the interest-and disinterest-we take in our own lives. It explores the nature of meaningful living, the attraction to the future that is lost in depression, the motivating force of hope, the role of commitments, the inevitability of boredom, and the possibilities for contentment with imperfection.

SEK 1556.00

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Living the Policy Process - Bok av Philip B (James Barr Ames Professor of Law Heymann - Inbunden

Policymaking in large bureaucracies is hardly a simple process. Even the most respected policymakers have to contend with obstacles that seemingly have little to do with the issue at hand - office politics, work structure, and shifting political environments. Yet learning to manage such complex environments is necessary for good policymaking. In Living the Policy Process, Philip Heymann outlines the complex thought processes of policymakers as they struggleto influence both foreign and domestic policy..

SEK 1246.00

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Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism - Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present - Bok - Inbunden

As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global context? In fourteen original essays, a distinguished group of scholars considers these questions in relation to novelists, playwrights, and poets living in English-speaking countries around the world.

SEK 1946.00

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The Value of Living Well - Bok av Mark LeBar - Inbunden

In this book, Mark LeBar develops Virtue Eudaimonism, which brings the philosophy of the ancient Greeks to bear on contemporary problems in metaethics, especially the metaphysics of norms and the nature of practical rationality.

SEK 1570.00

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A Life Worth Living - Contributions to positive psychology - Bok - Inbunden

Brings together thoughts on postive psychology. This work includes historical, philosophical, and empirical views of what matter for personal happiness and well-being. This book agrees on principles of optimal development that start with material concerns and lead to embracing the goals of others and the well-being of the environment.

SEK 1217.00

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Virtual Holocaust Memory - Bok av Matthew (Programme Manager Boswell - Inbunden

Virtual Holocaust Memory offers the first comprehensive account of a unique historical juncture, as twenty-first century digital culture meets the edge of living Holocaust memory.

SEK 1766.00

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Living with Distrust - Bok av Radu (Lecturer in Anthropology Umbres - Inbunden

Based on fieldwork in the Romanian village of Sateni, this book offers an ethnographic, interdisciplinary interpretation of social interactions in a low trust society. Radu Umbres makes sense of the villagers' worldview, one divided between strong moral relationships and deep suspicion towards the rest of the village society.

SEK 1170.00

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Sense and Sadness - Syriac Chant in Aleppo - Bok av Tala Jarjour - Inbunden

Connecting the struggles of the past to those so tragically familiar in the present, author Tala Jarjour considers Syriac chant as living musical practice situated in its historic, social, and cultural context.

SEK 1530.00

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In a Strange Room - Modernism's Corpses and Mortal Obligation - Bok av David (Assistant Professor Sherman - Inbunden

Taking its title from Faulkner's epochal modernist novel, David Sherman's study traces the myriad ways death and its effect on the living defined modernist fiction and verse in England, Ireland, and the U.S.

SEK 1470.00

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Optic Antics - The Cinema of Ken Jacobs - Bok - Inbunden

This volume gathers many of the best known writers on the avant-garde from three continents to write on the cinema of Ken Jacobs, who is arguably the most important living experimental filmmaker.

SEK 1040.00

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Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 - Bok - Inbunden

This study of Jewish life in Germany from 1650 until 1945 investigates the details of daily living, the homes and neighbourhoods in which Jews lived, their families and friendships, religious practices and feelings, as well as their educations and occupations.

SEK 1370.00

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Living Ethics - An Introduction with Readings - Bok av Russ (Professor of Philosophy Shafer-Landau - Häftad

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SEK 1290.00

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Moral Creativity - Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility - Bok av John (Assistant Professor of Religion Wall - Inbunden

Argues that moral life is inherently creative. Creativity, this book says, is an element not just in the expression of moral sentiments, the application of moral principles, or the formation of moral cultures, but also the very activity of living morally itself.

SEK 1616.00

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American Law - An Introduction - Bok av Lawrence M. (Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law Friedman - Inbunden

This book provides an introduction to the American legal system for a broad readership. Its focus is on law in practice, on the role of the law in American society; and how the social context affects the living law of the United States.

SEK 1786.00

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The New Sappho - Bok av Jim Powell - Inbunden

Sappho is celebrated as the supreme ancient Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, and noted also for her vivid participation in a living paganism. Jim Powell's translation is recognized for its unique combination of poetic mastery and scholarly penetration of the original.

SEK 1726.00

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The Tao of Chemistry and Life A Scientific Journey - Bok av Eugene H (Chairman of the Board Cordes - Inbunden

Chemistry underlies life. This book establishes the relationship between the focal point of chemistry - the molecule - and the key characteristics of living organisms. The key is the interactions between small molecules and macromolecules leading to metabolic control, memory and learning, the senses, and drug action.

SEK 1310.00

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Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music - A Practical Approach - Bok av Angela (Associate Professor of Musicology Mariani - In

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire. The book provides philosophical frameworks, primary-source analysis, and clear, actionable exercises aimed at recovering the improvisatory and inventive aspects of medieval music for contemporary musicians.

SEK 1760.00

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The Oldest Old - Bok - Häftad

Not only are the old living longer, but they are also growing older in markedly different ways from their predecessors. This study examines the qualitative and quantitative changes in our ageing society. It analyzes current knowledge and presents a guide to the assessment of future findings.

SEK 1126.00

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The Mandaeans - Ancient Texts and Modern People - Bok av Jorunn Jacobsen (Assistant Professor of Religion Buckley - Inbunden

The Mandaeans were a gnostic sect that arose in the Middle East around the same time as Christianity. This text examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans and provides an introduction to the religion, showing how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa.

SEK 1186.00

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