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  • East Central Europe since 1989
    Lavinia Stan / Sabrina P. Ramet
    This groundbreaking treatment of post-communist developments in East Central Europe examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, transitional justice, gender inequality, and literature, highlighting the overt functions, latent functions, and side effects associated with each sphere. ...
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    253,75 €

  • East Central Europe since 1989
    Lavinia Stan / Sabrina P. Ramet
    This groundbreaking treatment of post-communist developments in East Central Europe examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, transitional justice, gender inequality, and literature, highlighting the overt functions, latent functions, and side effects associated with each sphere. ...
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    69,79 €

  • 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 €

  • East Central Europe and Communism
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions. ...
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    240,46 €

  • East Central Europe and Communism
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable t...
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    70,02 €

  • Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition, and Resistance in Germany, 1933-1990
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    'This book brings fresh light to previously marginalized subject in German history. It is an original approach, up-to-date written without scholarly jargon, easily accessible to students, both at undergraduate and graduate. It is highly focused departing from the usual 'histories' of a single country arguing for the 'two German states', and the three political systems.'- Prof. ...
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    134,06 €

  • Nonconformity, Dissent, Opposition, and Resistance in Germany, 1933-1990
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    'This book brings fresh light to previously marginalized subject in German history. It is an original approach, up-to-date written without scholarly jargon, easily accessible to students, both at undergraduate and graduate. It is highly focused departing from the usual 'histories' of a single country arguing for the 'two German states', and the three political systems.'- Prof. ...
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    132,36 €

  • 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 €

  • Orthodox Churches and Politics in Southeastern Europe
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    Orthodox Churches, like most religious bodies, are inherently political: they seek to defend their core values and must engage in politics to do so, whether by promoting certain legislation or seeking to block other legislation. This volume examines the politics of Orthodox Churches in Southeastern Europe, emphasizing three key modes of resistance to the influence of (Western) ...
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    169,14 €

  • Balkan Babel
    Sabrina P. Ramet / Sabrina Petra Ramet
    Ramet traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia’s political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, while the federal system and multiethnic fabric laid down fault lines, the final crisis was sown in the failure to resolve the legitimacy question, triggered by economic deterioration. ...
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    267,08 €

  • 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 €

  • The Catholic Church in Polish History
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    The book chronicles the evolution of the church’s political power throughout Poland’s unique history. Beginning in the tenth century, the study first details how Catholicism overcame early challenges in Poland, from converting the early polytheists to pushing back the Protestant Reformation half a millennium later. It continues into the dawn of the modern age-including the divi...
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    159,39 €

  • 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 €

  • Religion and Politics in Post-Socialist Central and Southeastern Europe
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    Since the crash of communism in Central and Southeastern Europe in 1989, almost everything in the region has changed - from politics to economics to popular culture to religion. There have been new challenges to confront and new dilemmas. This volume examines the political engagement of religious associations in the post-socialist countries of Central and Southeastern Europe, w...
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    64,65 €

  • 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 €

  • Civic and Uncivic Values in Macedonia
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    One of the central challenges facing Macedonia, along with other Yugoslav successor states, is to develop civic values and to combat such uncivic values as ethnic intolerance, religious bigotry, and homophobia. This volume brings together specialists in Macedonian affairs to offer insights into the experiences and values of the Macedonians. ...
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    47,50 €

  • Civic and Uncivic Values in Macedonia
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    One of the central challenges facing Macedonia, along with other Yugoslav successor states, is to develop civic values and to combat such uncivic values as ethnic intolerance, religious bigotry, and homophobia. This volume brings together specialists in Macedonian affairs to offer insights into the experiences and values of the Macedonians. ...
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    65,95 €

  • Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    A valuable and objective reassessment of the role of Serbia and Serbs in WWII. Today, Serbian textbooks praise the Chetniks of Draža MIhailovi? and make excuses for the collaboration of Milan Nedi?’s regime with the Axis. However, this new evaluation shows the more complex and controversial nature of the political alliances during the period. ...
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    47,60 €

  • 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 €

  • Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two
    Sabrina P. Ramet
    A valuable and objective reassessment of the role of Serbia and Serbs in WWII. Today, Serbian textbooks praise the Chetniks of Draža MIhailovi? and make excuses for the collaboration of Milan Nedi?’s regime with the Axis. However, this new evaluation shows the more complex and controversial nature of the political alliances during the period. ...
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    66,05 €

  • 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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    53,75 €

  • Thinking about Yugoslavia
    Sabrina P. Ramet / Sabrina PRamet
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    154,67 €