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Satanic Feminism - Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture - Bok av Per (Post-Doctoral Fellow Faxneld - Inbunden

The notion of woman as the Devil's accomplice is prominent throughout Christian history and was used to legitimize the subordination of wives and daughters. In the nineteenth century, rebellious females performed counter-readings of this misogynist tradition and Lucifer was reconceptualized as a feminist liberator. Per Faxneld shows how this surprising Satanic feminism was expressed in a wide range of nineteenth-century texts and artistic productions.

SEK 760.00

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Working Hard, Working Poor - A Global Journey - Bok av Gary S. (John P. Windmuller Professor of International and Comparative Labor Fields - Inbunden

More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.S. dollars per person per day. In this book, Gary Fields explains how the poor work, how they have improved their self-employment earning opportunities, how poor-country governments can stimulate more inclusive economic growth, and how they can be aided.

SEK 716.00

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Dowry Murder - The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime - Bok av Veena Talwar (Associate Professor of the History of India Oldenburg - Häftad

Dowry Murder - the killing of a young bride, whose dowry has been deemed insufficient by her groom's family, has long been thought a holdover from a system of Hindu custom fundamentally misogynistic by nature. This book argues that dowry murder is not about dowry per se, nor is it rooted in an Indian culture that encourages violence against women.

SEK 636.00

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Demand System Specification and Estimation - Bok av Robert A. (Professor of Economics Pollak - Häftad

This is a book on demand analysis that links economic theory to empirical analysis. The first part shows how theory can be used to specify equation systems suitable for empirical analysis. The second part discusses demand systems estimation using both per capita time series data and household budget data.

SEK 816.00

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The Novelty of Newspapers - Victorian Fiction After the Invention of the News - Bok av Matthew (Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature Rubery - Inbun

The Novelty of Newspapers explains why the Victorian novel is best understood alongside the simultaneous development of the news as a commercial commodity read by up to a million readers per day.

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The Novelty of Newspapers - Victorian Fiction After the Invention of the News - Bok av Matthew (Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature Rubery - Häfta

The Novelty of Newspapers explains why the Victorian novel is best understood alongside the simultaneous development of the news as a commercial commodity read by up to a million readers per day.

SEK 580.00

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The Making of Miracles in Indian States - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and Gujarat - Bok av M. Govinda (Director Rao - Inbunden

The Making of Miracles in Indian States studies three Indian states at very different levels of development, all of which grew in excess of 8% per year for a decade in the 21st century: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and Gujarat.

SEK 1436.00

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The North American Idea - A Vision of a Continental Future - Bok av Robert A. ( Pastor - Häftad

SEK 466.00

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Goodbye Father - The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church - Bok av Richard A. (Professor of Sociology Schoenherr - Häftad

In the last 50 years, the number of priests has plummeted by 40 per cent while the number of Catholics has rocketed. The root cause of this priest shortage is the church's insistence on mandatory celibacy. Schoenherr argues that change is unavoidable and desirable.

SEK 476.00

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Persons - A History - Bok - Inbunden

This volume provides a genealogy of the concept of a person. By asking when and why the concept of a person came into existence, it explains what the concept of a person is and how it differs from the concept of a human being and the concept of a self.

SEK 1490.00

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Persons - A History - Bok - Häftad

This volume provides a genealogy of the concept of a person. By asking when and why the concept of a person came into existence, it explains what the concept of a person is and how it differs from the concept of a human being and the concept of a self.

SEK 630.00

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Xoana and the Origins Of Greek Sculpture - Bok av A. A. Donohue - Häftad

SEK 616.00

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Money in International Exchange - The Convertible Currency System - Bok av Ronald I. (Professor of Economics McKinnon - Häftad

Focusing on monetization of international trade per se, the text analyses common financial practices of merchants and manufacturers, commerical banks and central banks.

SEK 796.00

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Semantics - A Reader - Bok - Häftad

Semantics: A Reader is a collection of published articles in the area of semantics, and is designed as a textbook for use in upper level philosophy and linguistics courses and as a reference for scholars of linguistics who want the classic articles in their field in one convenient place.

SEK 1406.00

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Part-Time for All - Bok av Jennifer Nedelsky - Inbunden

In Part-Time for All, Jennifer Nedelsky and Tom Malleson propose a plan to radically restructure both work and care and offer a solution to a fundamentally dysfunctional imbalance of work and care obligations. They argue that no competent adult should do paid work for more than 30 hours per week, and everyone should also contribute roughly 22 hours of unpaid care to family, friends, or their chosen community of care. While such a transformation would require radical changes to our cultural norms..

SEK 360.00

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A Cas for Spatial Statistical Data Analysis - A Compilation of Different Thematic Data Sets - Bok av Daniel A. (Professor in the Department of Geograp

Spatial statistics provide ways to analyse spatial data, and this book aims to meet a need for a compilation of data sets. It presents a summary discussion of the theoretical basis of techniques, numerical evidence and a variety of data examples.

SEK 1786.00

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Vanishing Voices - The Extinction of the World's Languages - Bok av Daniel Nettle - Häftad

Half of all known languages have disappeared in the last 500 years and 90 per cent of all languages are in danger of becoming extinct in the next 100. The authors argue that the loss of linguistic and biological diversity is part of a much larger problem - the collapse of our worldwide ecosystem.

SEK 346.00

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So You Want to be a Scientist? - Bok av Philip A Schwartzkroin - Häftad

So You Want to Be a Scientist offers readers a glimpse into the \job\ of being a research scientist. It is not intended to be a step-by-step \how to\ book. Rather, it is intended to fill a hole in the education of most would-be scientists, addressing explicitly many issues that are rarely addressed directly in training programs. Starting with thoughts about how to decide whether you'd want to pursue such a career (and if so, how to get started), the bookworks through some of the obvious topics..

SEK 480.00

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Fixing Failed States - A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World - Bok av Ashraf Ghani - Häftad

SEK 240.00

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Financial Ethics - A Positivist Analysis - Bok av George A. ( Aragon - Inbunden

Financial Ethics: A Positivist Analysis provides a positivist framework for the study of financial ethics built on a broad review of mainstream scholarly research. An objective of this book is to demonstrate that ethics is already an important part of financial research, and therefore the approach taken here is more of a \rediscovery\ of the ethical dimension of financial economics. The text discusses several examples in which an ethics-centered approach tounderstanding economic phenomena is similar..

SEK 790.00

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Eternity - A History - Bok - Inbunden

SEK 2190.00

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Embodiment - A History - Bok - Inbunden

SEK 1886.00

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Dignity - A History - Bok - Häftad

SEK 660.00

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Reading C.S. Lewis - A Commentary - Bok av Wesley A. (Professor of Religion Kort - Inbunden

Wesley Kort's Reading C. S. Lewis: A Commentary is a captivating collection of essays on individual works by C. S. Lewis that separates itself from the opinions of his fans and critics by examining Lewis's life and work as a whole.

SEK 340.00

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What is a Superhero? - Bok - Inbunden

What is a superhero? Everyone knows, right? And yet everyone seems to have a different answer. In this innovative collection of essays, renowned psychologist Robin Rosenberg and comics scholar Peter Coogan explore this question from a variety of viewpoints. With essays from scholars and commentaries by the writers and creators themselves, What is a Superhero? is the first volume to provide a true synthesis and reflection of the state of superheroes in oursociety today.