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Paperback. Advocates a fresh variant of isolationism, a 'national strategy' confining US military actions largely to North America and to neighboring sea-and air-lanes but encouraging international activism and engagement in nonsecurity realms. This book shows that a national strategy would have lessened the perils, including those of the Cold War. Num Pages: 352 pages, 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691029214
- ISBN
- 9780691029214
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Condition: New
€ 65.38€ 50.98
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Hardback. How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? How does an anthropologist write an ethnography without transforming it into a pornography of violence? This book discusses such questions. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 maps 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FKS; JFC; JFFE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691027739
- ISBN
- 9780691027739
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€ 53.49€ 42.15
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Paperback. The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. This book offers a perspective beginning with an insight: students of international relations want to explain the choices actors make. It allows the application of theories that may apply to various cases such as individuals protesting environmental degradation. Editor(s): Lake, David A.; Powell, Robert. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 tables 2 line illus. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691026978
- ISBN
- 9780691026978
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€ 53.49€ 42.24
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Paperback. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources - memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories - this title shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJH; HBLW; HRH; JFFK; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691026053
- ISBN
- 9780691026053
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.15
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Paperback. The Sacco-Vanzetti affair is the most famous and controversial case in American legal history. It divided the nation in the 1920s, and it has continued to arouse deep emotions, giving rise to an enormous literature. This title treats a dramatic and hitherto neglected aspect of the cause celebre that raised. Num Pages: 280 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKV; JPFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691026046
- ISBN
- 9780691026046
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.89
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Paperback. Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of existing schemes of government. This book brings together essays on a range of questions from whether the US Constitution is subject to amendment by procedures other than those authorized by Article V to how change is conceptualized within classical rabbinic Judaism. Editor(s): Levinson, Sanford. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 tables. BIC Classification: JPHC; LAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025704
- ISBN
- 9780691025704
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€ 71.32€ 55.15
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Paperback. Tracing the evolution of an extraordinary biracial coalition in Los Angeles behind Mayor Tom Bradley, this book shows how 'crossover' politics and racial violence coexist in urban America. Challenging the pessimism about biracial coalitions in general, it compares their relative successes in Los Angeles to their disheartening failures in New York. Num Pages: 352 pages, 25 halftones 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JFSG; JFSL1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised
- SKU
- V9780691025483
- ISBN
- 9780691025483
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Condition: New
€ 65.38€ 50.82
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Paperback. Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, this book guides readers on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian culture in the first decades of the 21st century. It draws a cultural history that persuasively argues for a spatial, corporal interpretation of film language. Num Pages: 436 pages, 100 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; APFA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 657.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025339
- ISBN
- 9780691025339
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€ 53.49€ 42.11
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 371.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691023311
- ISBN
- 9780691023311
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€ 65.38€ 51.06
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Paperback. The description for this book, The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, will be forthcoming. Series: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691023175
- ISBN
- 9780691023175
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Condition: New
€ 59.43€ 46.46
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Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691022949
- ISBN
- 9780691022949
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Condition: New
€ 71.32€ 55.32
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Paperback. By relating what Gandhi said to what he did and by examining instances of satyagraha led by others, this book abstracts from the Indian experiments those essential elements that constitute the Gandhian technique. It explores its distinguishing characteristics and its far-reaching implications for social and political philosophy. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 371.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised
- SKU
- V9780691022819
- ISBN
- 9780691022819
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€ 46.99€ 33.65
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Paperback. Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, this title casts new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 566 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; JPA; JPS; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 35. Weight in Grams: 824.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 566
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691019413
- ISBN
- 9780691019413
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Condition: New
€ 83.20€ 63.58
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Paperback. Offers a reassessment of the 'consumer rites' that social critics have decried. This book discusses how holiday celebrations were almost banished by Puritans and religious reformers but went on to be romanticized and reinvented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It offers a cultural history of the commercialization of American holidays. Num Pages: 384 pages, 101 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HRA; HRLF; JFC; JHBS; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691017211
- ISBN
- 9780691017211
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.11
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Paperback. Focusing on the earliest forays into microscopical research, from 1620 to 1720, this book provides technological history of the knowledge that helped launch philosophy into the modern era. It argues that the discovery of microworld presented metaphysicians with the task of reconciling the ubiquity of life with human-centered theological systems. Series: Studies in Intellectual History & the History of Philosophy. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; HPC; JFCX; PDA; PDND; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 15. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691017099
- ISBN
- 9780691017099
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
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Paperback. 'Domestic politics matters' has become a rallying cry for international relations scholars over the years, yet the question still remains: Just how does it matter? This book argues that an important part of the international impact of domestic politics springs from the institutional responses to its many uncertainties. Num Pages: 176 pages, 12 figs. 6 tables. BIC Classification: JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691016252
- ISBN
- 9780691016252
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.15
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Paperback. Presents a systematic reexamination of the evolution of party politics in Japan since the end of the second World War. This study provides a set of interpretations based on a microanalytic approach that highlights the incentive and bargaining power of individual political actors, and their competitive and strategic behavior. Num Pages: 172 pages, 33 tables 8 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JPA; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 28.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780691015965
- ISBN
- 9780691015965
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Condition: New
€ 59.43€ 46.48
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Paperback. Exploring the political forces that shaped Impressionism, this work proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret" - the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist ideology. Series: Princeton Series in Nineteenth-Century Art, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 162 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACVT; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 254 x 13. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691015552
- ISBN
- 9780691015552
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Condition: New
€ 65.38€ 50.63
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Paperback. From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. This book portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691015064
- ISBN
- 9780691015064
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Condition: New
€ 65.38€ 50.82
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Paperback. Shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of ways. This volume features essays which examine Ives' relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. It also shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Editor(s): Burkholder, Peter J. Series: The Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 464 pages, 13 halftones 3 b&w illus 1 map 50+ music exs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVA; AVGC6; AVH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780691011639
- ISBN
- 9780691011639
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Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.15
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