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  • The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics
    Paul R. Goldin
    This book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages - and considers the reasons why music, poetry, calligraphy and painting were the arts that garnered the most theoretical attention during this period. ...
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    70,78 €

  • Anonymous Mom Posts
    Jenifer Goldin
    Every mom has a secret. Will anonymous social media posts expose hidden truths and burn down the internet?Snarky comments and rude behavior. Laura Perry is fed up. She hopes the new anonymous posting feature on her social media page for moms will remind everyone to support each other. But things go horribly wrong when 'perfect' moms reveal their secrets anonymously. Desperate t...
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    11,60 €

  • The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914-1917
    Semion Goldin
    This book represents a new reading of a key moment in the history of East European Jewry, namely the period preceding the collapse of the Russian Empire. Offering a novel analysis of relations between the Russian army and Jews during the First World War, it points to the army and military authorities as the ’gravediggers’ of the Jews’ fragile co-existence with the tsarist regim...
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    158,35 €

  • Career and Family
    Claudia Goldin
    Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsA renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at homeA century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than...
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    26,25 €

  • The Art of Chinese Philosophy
    Paul Goldin
    A smart and accessible introduction to the most important works of ancient Chinese philosophy-the Analects of Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Sunzi, Xunzi, and Han FeiziThis book provides an unmatched introduction to eight of the most important works of classical Chinese philosophy-the Analects of Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Sunzi, Xunzi, and Han Feizi...
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    37,27 €

  • VAMPIRES FIRST BLOOD VOLUME II
    Bram Stoker / James Grant Goldin / Sheridan Le Fanu
    The literary evolution of the female vampire begins with the legendary LILITH...but is she a cursed monster, or a symbol of the rebellious, independent woman? While the male vampire has gone from monster to anti-hero to dream boyfriend, the path of his sister in blood has been more complex and mysterious. James Grant Goldin presents a curated anthology of the original texts, so...
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    12,60 €

  • Walther von der Vogelweide
    Frederick Goldin
    Walther von der Vogelweide was the greatest German lyric poet of the Middle Ages. He created and performed songs for the noblest courts of the Holy Roman Empire. Though every German-speaking school-child can recite some of Walther’s lines, his has languished in obscurity in the English-speaking world, largely because it has been available until now only in scattered and poorly...
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    81,40 €

  • Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle Ages
    Simha Goldin
    Goldin’s study explores the relationships between men and women within Jewish society living in Germany, northern France and England among the Christian population over a period of some 350 years. Looking at original Hebrew sources to conduct a social analysis, he takes us from the middle of the tenth century until the middle of the second half of the fourteenth century, when ...
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    36,95 €

  • The Butterfly Defect
    Ian Goldin / Mike Mariathasan
    How to better manage systemic risks-from cyber attacks and pandemics to financial crises and climate change-in a globalized worldThe Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies...
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    31,88 €

  • Global Youth Wellbeing Index
    Nicole Goldin
    This report details the Initiative’s findings, recommendations, and methodology used to construct the Global Youth Wellbeing Index. It is the hope of the Initiative that policymakers, donors, and youth are able to use this tool as the world moves forward with the post-2015 agenda. ...
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    72,79 €

  • Philoponus
    Marije Martijn / Owen Goldin
    Aristotle described the scientific explanation of universal or general facts as deducing them through scientific demonstrations, that is, through syllogisms that met requirements of logical validity and explanatoriness which he first formulated. In Chapters 19-23, he adds arguments for the further logical restrictions that scientific demonstrations can neither be indefinitely l...
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    66,87 €

  • Philoponus
    Philoponus / Owen Goldin
    The Posterior Analytics contains Aristotle’s philosophy of science. In Book 2, Aristotle asks how the scientist discovers what sort of loss of light constitutes lunar eclipse. The scientist has to discover that the moon’s darkening is due to the earth’s shadow. Once that defining explanation is known the scientist possesses the full scientific concept of lunar eclipse and can u...
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    66,87 €

  • Economic Reform, Trade and Agricultural Development
    Ian A. Goldin
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    66,21 €

  • Exceptional People
    Geoffrey Cameron / Ian Goldin / Meera Balarajan
    The past, present, and future role of global migrationThroughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. In a world more interconnected than ever before, the number of people with the means and motivation to migrate will only increase. Except...
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    36,87 €

  • Globalization for Development
    Ian Goldin / Kenneth A Reinert
    Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development are not well understood. This book explores the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies the main globalization processes--trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas--and examines how each can contribute to economic development. By ...
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    89,84 €

  • Confucianism
    Paul Goldin
    'Confucianism' presents the history and salient tenets of Confucian thought, and discusses its viability, from both a social and a philosophical point of view, in the modern world. Despite most of the major Confucian texts having been translated into English, there remains a surprising lack of straightforward textbooks on Confucian philosophy in any Western language. Those that...
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    77,65 €

  • Creating Angels
    Barbara Diamond Goldin
    Award-winning storyteller Barbara Diamond Goldin has collected and retold twenty-four stories about tzedakah in this inspiring volume. The Hebrew word tzedakah is often translated as 'charity,' but it actually means 'justice' or 'righteousness.' Goldin has brought these rich and varied stories of tzedakah together in the hope that they will encourage readers to give to those in...
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    42,21 €

  • Family Book of Midrash
    Barbara Diamond Goldin
    This collection gives the reader a taste of the thousands of stories one can find in the treasure house of rabbinic literature. Some of these stories are humorous, some mysteriuos, some tense with drama or adventure, some filled with the joy of a miracle and the beauty of faith. All of these stories come from either the Talmud or the Midrash. This collection shows that these ra...
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    42,42 €

  • The Resilience of Language
    Susan Goldin-Meadow
    Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is ’yes’. ...
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    94,66 €

  • The Last Trial
    Shalom Spiegel / Judah Goldin
    Examines the total body of texts, legends, and traditions referring to the Binding of Isaac and weaves them together into a definitive study of the Akedah as one of the central events in all of human history. ...
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    16,58 €