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Apocalypse in Rome - Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age - Bog af Ronald G. Musto - Hardback

On May 20, 1347, Cola di Rienzo overthrew without violence the turbulent rule of Rome's noble families and the pope. This is a biography of the firebrand whose exploits have enlivened the work of poets, composers and dramatists, as well as historians.

DKK 736.95

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Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen - Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text: With an Appendix: The Doctrine of the Five Periods and Six Q

The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. At last Paul U. Unschuld offers entry into this still-vital artifact of China's cultural and intellectual past. Unschuld traces the history of the Su wen to its origins in the final centuries B.C.E., when numerous authors wrote short medical essays to explain the foundations of human health..

DKK 1422.95

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Surviving Without Governing - Bog af Giuseppe Di Palma - Paperback

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

DKK 435.95

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Surviving Without Governing - Bog af Giuseppe Di Palma - Hardback

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

DKK 1352.95

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The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le Avventure Di Pinocchio) - Bog af Carlo Collodi - Paperback

Perella's translation and introductory essay capture the wit, irony, anmbiguity, and social satire of the original nineteenth-century text. satire of the original nineteenth-century text.

DKK 279.95

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To Craft Democracies - An Essay on Democratic Transitions - Bog af Giuseppe Di Palma - Paperback

Is democracy a hot-house plant? By focusing on the objective conditions that make democracy probable, sociological and historical theories of democracy often lose sight of what is possible. This title explores those conciliatory political undertakings that political actors on all sides now engage in to make the improbable possible.

DKK 432.95

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A Dictionary of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen - Bog af Hermann Tessenow - Hardback

Reflects the English meanings of Chinese characters and character compounds. This book also reflects empirical knowledge and the doctrines of yin-yang and Five Agents in the perception of the human body and its organs, qi and the blood, pathogenic agents, concepts of disease and diagnosis, and a variety of therapies, including acupuncture.

DKK 872.95

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Gatekeepers of the Arab Past - Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt - Bog af Yoav Di-Capua - Paperback

A study that illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, it explores Egyptian historical thought and examines the careers of numerous critical historians.

DKK 474.95

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Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas - Bog af Kristi Brown-Montesano - Hardback

Explores the female roles in Mozart's four most frequently performed operas, \Le nozze di Figaro\, \Don Giovanni\, \Cosi fan tutte\, and \Die Zauberflote\. Each chapter looks at the music, libretto text, literary sources, and historical factors that give shape to a character, re-evaluating common assumptions and proposing fresh interpretations.