LIBROS DEL AUTOR: sabrina p ramet

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  • THE MAGIC LILY PAD AND OTHER STORIES FOR CHILDREN
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    Sabrina Ramet’s latest book explains many things - such as why the sun is happy, why there is no Terminal 4 at Chicago O’Hare Airport, why Farmer Jake thought, for at least a while, that painting his fence might cause it to rain, and, of course, what to do if you find a magic lily pad. The short stories in this collection are certain to delight readers of all ages, awakening th...
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    30,68 €

  • GERMAN MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, 1785-1908
    Sabrina P. Ramet / Torbjørn L. Knutsen
    This book provides an overview of the works of the most influential German moral and political philosophers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, starting with Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Morals, published in 1785, and ending with Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo, published posthumously in 1908. Throughout this period, under the impact of the French Revolutio...
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    26,64 €

  • THE EARTH IS A SPACESHIP
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    “What do Mao's Cockroach, a stuffed Jeremy Bentham, an ode to a semi-colon, and a rabbit in someone's brain all have in common? They all come from the wonderful and imaginative mind of Sabrina Ramet! The Earth is a Spaceship reprints some of Sabrina's finest poetry from nearly 20 years of published verse, most of it in rhymed meter. This selection of hilarious poetr...
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    26,80 €

  • Civic and Uncivic Values in Poland
    Kristen Ringdal / Sabrina P Ramet
    Poland, like many societies across the world, is becoming more polarized in diverse areas of life, as contending forces seek to advance incompatible agendas. The polarization over values in Polish politics was evident already before communism collapsed but became more obvious in the following years and reached a crescendo after the October 2015 parliamentary elections, which br...
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    127,52 €

  • Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe
    Sabrina P Ramet / Sabrina P. Ramet
    Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they ...
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    141,39 €

  • Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe
    Sabrina P Ramet / Sabrina P. Ramet
    Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they ...
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    51,23 €

  • THE CURSE OF THE AZTEC DUMMY
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    The Curse of the Aztec Mummy traces the adventures of Wolf Romulus, a clinically deranged professor at the University of Western Uptown, who manages to get elected Governor of Nebraska after presenting a fake Aztec artefact to a delirious university crowd.  His rise and fall from power are set against a background of celebrations of Uptown Okra, the newly designated state veget...
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    24,53 €

  • IS THE MOON THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE?
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    Is the moon the center of the universe? is a collection of mostly humorous verse rooted in an appreciation of the absurd and the ridiculous.  A few of the verses take their cue from real persons, such as “The secret history of Duncan MacDougall”, who hoped to prove the existence of the soul by weighing dying patients just before and just after death, or “Mad Anthony Wayne”, a v...
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    24,78 €

  • HISTORY OF RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION in Humorous Verse
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    'Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' He failed to note that, with the right person, it can come around a third time....as doggerel. Sabrina Petra Ramet's very mortal verses should be read aloud, even shouted, for they successfully deflate the somber pontificating and aca- demic harrumphing that often dominates Russian historical studi...
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    22,87 €

  • Make Marzipan, Not War
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    Think of this as a course catalogue, with courses arranged into departments. As the great French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes once noted, if you really want to live, first think about it. 'Sabrina Ramet is widely known as the most authoritative scholar on the history of the Yugoslav world in the twentieth century. But she is also a poet and in this new collecti...
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    24,30 €

  • Cheese Pirates
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    A volume of humorous verse, from epic poems on American and global history to the role of bunnies and kitties in high affairs. 'Joining acute analysis of world affairs with rhyme (and often song), Sabrina Ramet's Cheese Pirates is simultaneously uproarious, surprising, and insightful. From epic poems on American and global history to musings on the role of bunnies and kitties ...
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    22,60 €

  • Pets of the Great Dictators & Other Works
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    Second edition enlarged. Dictators’ pets are too often ignored–but no longer! They’re all here in this hilarious collection of madcap ditties: Lenin’s cat, Hitler’s dog, Qaddafi’s sweet-scented camel, Caligula’s horse, Mao’s cockroach (he banned real pets), Stalin’s spider, and many more. The volume also includes philosophers’ songs and a Holy Roman opera, “Turmoil in Brindisi”...
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    20,59 €

  • Caf Bombshell
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    Most of the action taking place in this story occurred in the mid-1980s, when the threat of industrial pollution was already well known. The narrator was perhaps one of the first to realize that industrial pollution was interconnected with a vast international conspiracy of brain surgeons. He found evidence of this conspiracy not only in the proliferation of brain surgery clin...
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    20,46 €

  • Thinking about Yugoslavia
    Sabrina P. Ramet / Sabrina PRamet
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    142,38 €

  • Thinking about Yugoslavia
    Sabrina P. Ramet / Sabrina PRamet
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    56,19 €