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  • Studies in Eighteenth-Century Music
    H. C. Robbins Landon
    Originally published in 1970 this collection of essays by a renowned international musicologist is both imaginative in scope and authoritative in scholarship. The works of such famous composers as Joseph Haydn, Handel, J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach are discussed in detail, as are the achievements of other composers of that era. ...
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    56,18 €

  • 2028
    D.H. Robbins
    2028A novel by D.H. Robbins It is January 2028. By now, Demagogue-turned-Autocrat Alexander Kenton had forced his win of the 2020 American election through millions of planned, random 'voting errors.' He soon abolished free elections, along with the bi-partisan Congress and Senate. The Judicial branch was now weighted in his favor, granting the now-Premier Kenton enormous execu...
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    15,35 €

  • Eldertopia Redux
    H. Zane Robbins
    A collection of rib-tickling, knee slapping, laugh-out-loud storiesThe fun folks you met in Eldertopia are still whooping it up at Shady Acres Village, a rompin’, stompin’ retirement community (senior living facility, if you prefer) where fun runs second only to food … and where dealing with the whims, fancies and complaints of sweet little Molly Winfrey is a full-time job for ...
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    18,43 €

  • The Tu-Tone DeSoto
    D.H. Robbins
    “The Tu-Tone DeSoto” is a fast-paced novel centering on the lives of eight Hanson, Iowa, high school teens during the Kennedy administration and Cold War years of the early 1960s. They are living in conflict with the mindsets of their parents through a generation gap destined to become an incendiary turning point in future years.The teens' internal concerns take precedence ...
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    13,71 €

  • Eldertopia
    H Zane Robbins
    Medical science, nutrition and good genes have conspired to extend the American mortality rate to a point undreamed of a couple of generations ago. This boon has created ancillary issues - who is to care for these aging phenoms, where can we stow them and what wll they do to entertain themselves? In answer to those questions, retirement homes have become as ubiquitous as Starbu...
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    23,80 €

  • An Anthropology of Money
    Richard H. Robbins / Tim Di Muzio
    An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? The authors demonstrate how modern money requires perpetual growth, an increase in inequality, environmental devas...
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    75,69 €

  • Debt as Power
    Richard H. Robbins / Richard HRobbins / Tim Di Muzio
    Debt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The book is distinctive in offering a historically sensitive and comprehensive analysi...
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    33,40 €

  • 'The Voyage of the F.H. Moore' and Other 19th Century Whaling Accounts
    Charles H. Robbins / J. Ross Browne / Samuel Grant Williams
    In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore--he steered one of the boats and threw the harpoon. He kept a personal log and reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the ship’s official logbook. Complementing this are excerpts from three other acc...
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    42,92 €

  • Darwin and the Bible
    Mark Nathan Cohen / Richard H. Robbins
    For courses in evolution, creationism or as a supplemental item in biology and/or biological anthropology courses.Darwin and the Bible helps readers to understand the nature, history and passions behind the debate over scientific and religious versions of creation and human origins. Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation is about the history and nature of the disputes...
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    84,65 €

  • Stones, Bones, and Ancient Cities
    Lawrence H. Robbins / Lawrence HRobbins
    The idea for this book grew directly out of a course developed by Lawrence Robbins, Professor of Anthopology at Michigan State University, called "Great Discoveries in Archaeology." Professor Robbins saw the need for a good introductory book for the course. The book is primarily about four areas: 1) Spectacular and important finds and the way they were made; 2) The personalitie...
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    37,13 €

  • Was ist Mathematik?
    H. Robbins / R. Courant
    47 brauchen nur den Nenner n so groB zu wahlen, daB das Intervall [0, Ijn] kleiner wird als das fragliche Intervall [A, B], dann muB mindestens einer der Bruche mIn innerhalb des Intervalls liegen. Also kann es kein noch so kleines Intervall auf der Achse geben, das von rationalen Punkten frei ware. Es folgt weiterhin, daB es in jedem Intervall unendl...
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    59,50 €