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  • Keepers of the House
    Max Heinegg
    Keepers of the House is a series of poems about teaching English in a public high school, and how a school can be a home for students and their teacher. Written by a veteran educator, working with a diverse population that ranges from underprivileged students, recent immigrants and refugees, to the children of working class and middle class families, it draws on positive and ch...
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    10,72 €

  • Going There
    Max Heinegg
    A deeply moving meditation on place, space, childhood, fatherhood, and family, Going There is also a profound study of arrival and departure, natality and mortality, and gifts of inheritance-from Thoreau, Hayden, Yeats, Bono, Golden Age of Rome poets-and the earth, a verse made exquisite by Heinegg’s sensitivity to mythic histories both ancient and futuristic, the 'open secret ...
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    15,19 €

  • Good Harbor
    Max Heinegg
    Good Harbor is a book of poems about trying to provide shelter for the ones we love. In poems rooted in New England and New York, Max Heinegg writes about parenting and teaching, navigating the rough waters of life to find safety in the harbors of home and community. Max’s poems are grounded in places and real-life experience, but also draw on a lifelong passion for music, hist...
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    15,06 €

  • Nuclear Weapons Law
    William H. Boothby / William HBoothby / Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
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    175,83 €

  • The Implementation and Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law
    Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
    The essays selected for this volume explore the entire range of issues related to the question of how to implement and enforce international humanitarian law. Measures of self-help that used to play a key role in past international armed conflicts, especially reprisals, have increasingly been outlawed, and thus the enforcement of international humanitarian law has now to be ach...
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    90,52 €

  • The Conduct of Hostilities in International Humanitarian Law, Volume I
    Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
    This volume is the first of two addressing the legal regime governing the use of force during armed conflicts. Traditionally labeled ’Hague Law’, today the norms it examines are commonly referred to as ’conduct of hostilities rules’. At the heart of this body of law is the principle of distinction, which requires that civilians and civilian objects be distinguished from combat...
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    90,64 €

  • The Conduct of Hostilities in International Humanitarian Law, Volume II
    Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
    The essays selected for this second volume on the conduct of hostilities examine discrete topics of international humanitarian law that are particularly relevant to 21st century warfare. It commences with an examination of the adequacy of traditional weapons law in the face of modern weaponry that could not have been conceived of at the time the norms were originally fashioned...
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    90,74 €

  • Detention and Occupation in International Humanitarian Law
    Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
    Detention and occupation are two challenging aspects of international humanitarian law in 21st century warfare. The essays selected for this volume examine the historical foundations of these issues, as well as the contemporary practices surrounding them. Detention law was prominently codified in the 1949 Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, but has been criticized as inadeq...
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    90,66 €

  • The Law of War
    William H. Boothby / William HBoothby / Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
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    61,71 €

  • The Law of War
    William H. Boothby / William HBoothby / Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
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    230,05 €

  • Dim and Dimmer
    Peter Heinegg
    In today's world, we are witnessing both the spread of a hopeful secular humanism and the persistence of cultural traditions that mindlessly glorify humans and are paving the path to environmental collapse. In Dim and Dimmer, Peter Heinegg tackles the question: “Can the ‘New Enlightenment’ already dawning save the day?” ...
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    41,01 €

  • Airy Nothings
    Peter Heinegg
    Even as the number of unbelievers continues to rise, religion in America still gets unwarrantably good press. Unfortunately, the central religious concept of the “sacred” proves, upon closer inspection, to be fictitious. This book surveys the various traditional “fortresses” of the sacred and finds them all empty and indefensible. ...
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    45,10 €

  • Abraham’s Ashes
    Peter Heinegg
    In Abraham’s Ashes, Peter Heinegg uncovers the truth behind the bizarre, contradictory, and oppressive fantasy known as monotheism. He offers a forceful critique of the biblical and Qur’anic views of Abraham, showing how at the heart of all prophetic religions lies an untenable myth of suprarational magical thinking about “revelation.” ...
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    45,10 €

  • Crazy Culture
    Heinegg / Peter Heinegg
    Crazy Culture is a series of broadsides against many widely held misconceptions in both academe and the general public. Surveying the history and ideology of cultural realms such as religion, sexual norms, politics, economics, the arts, and athletics, Heinegg deftly identifies and explains ubiquitous traces of cultural sins by humanity. ...
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    45,19 €

  • Bitter Scrolls
    Peter Heinegg
    This book is a broad survey of our ’sacred texts,’ both Holy Writ and secular masterpieces, whose canonical status often exempt them from hardnosed, commonsense criticism. A frank look at this literature is necessary and reveals a stunning combination of bias and blindness toward women. ...
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    57,43 €

  • God
    Peter Heinegg
    This book is a satirical-analytical view of monotheism in our time. Building on the work of both the great traditional unbelievers - Hume, Mill, Nietzsche, and Freud, among others -and contemporary critics - Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Ibn Warraq, etc. - Heinegg exposes the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ...
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    52,00 €

  • California to New Zealand THE LONG WAY
    Marcia Heinegg
    California to New Zealand THE LONG WAY is a story about a journey taken in 1973 overland to India on the Hippie Trail. Marcia and Chris learned about other cultures and their personal relationship while broadening their view of life and death. The book has rare photos of the buddhas in Afghanistan blown up by the Taliban and quality photos of India and Bali. ...
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    42,55 €

  • That Does It
    Peter Heinegg
    That Does It is an enfilade of critical attacks on the absurdities, stupidities, and crimes of present-day American life. The book provides a handy checklist of ills, from the life threatening to the merely obnoxious, afflicting the American psyche and body politic, which it then proceeds to submerge in satirical acid. ...
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    52,06 €

  • Oh, Wait-Now I Get It
    Peter Heinegg
    Like war and politics, philosophy is too important to be left to professionals. Oh Wait_Now I Get It illustrates this basic truth by tackling a broad spectrum of issues, which include: history, religion, government, sex, family, and death. In fact, the entire contemporary cultural scene from the perspective of a thoughtful amateur philosopher is brought forth within this book. ...
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    62,87 €

  • Good God! (And Other Follies)
    Peter Heinegg
    Good God! (And Other Follies) takes a critical and satirical look at the wave of religiosity now sweeping the country. From faith-based initiatives to bans on stem cell research, from public postings of the Ten Commandments to attacks on evolution, American godliness has apparently never had it so good. Much of this behavior and even more of the God-talk accompanying it, whethe...
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    61,54 €

  • Better than Both
    Peter Heinegg
    Better Than Both: The Case for Pessimism is an experiment in 'popular philosophy.' It presents and discusses (literally) life-and-death issues in non-technical, everyday language. This new work sees pessimism not as a kind of depressed moodiness or self-indulgent negativity, but as the inevitable result of any fair-minded survey of the world we actually live in. ...
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    64,39 €

  • Saint Gerard Majella
    Peter Heinegg
    A spiritual portrait of St. Gerard drawn from his writings and the lived expressions of his spirituality. The passsion behind Gerard's love for God is shared with simplicity and candor. This book will be of interest even to those already familiar with St. Gerard."Paperback" ...
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    18,87 €

  • Visible Here and Now
    Ayya Khema / Peter Heinegg
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    24,06 €

  • Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ
    Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori / Alphonsus Liguori / Peter Heinegg
    This inspiring book, reissued in a new translation for the modern reader, is considered to be Saint Alphonsus Liguori’s best devotional work. Divided into seventeen small chapters, each preceded by prayers and intercessions, it offers practical prescriptions for living a holy life. ...
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    17,24 €