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  1. Montaillou (Storpocket)

    av

    Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

    ISBN: 9780140137002 - UTGIVEN: 199008

    This title presents an enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of village characters.[...]

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    från 118.00 kr
  2. The Penguin Social History of Britain (Storpocket)

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    Roy Porter

    ISBN: 9780140138191 - UTGIVEN: 199004

    This is a portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.[...]

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    från 142.00 kr
  3. Flesh in the Age of Reason (Storpocket)

    av

    Roy Porter

    ISBN: 9780140167351 - UTGIVEN: 200501

    'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing sc[...]

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    från 219.00 kr
  4. Enlightenment (Storpocket)

    av

    Roy Porter

    ISBN: 9780140250282 - UTGIVEN: 2001-11

    For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driv[...]

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    från 207.00 kr
  5. Rob Roy (Storpocket)

    av

    Sir Walter Scott

    ISBN: 9780140435542 - UTGIVEN: 199504

    When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business and his beloved Diana Vernon, he turns in desperation to Rob Roy for help. Chieftain of the MacGregor clan, Rob Roy is a brave and fearless man, able and cunning. But he[...]

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    från 116.00 kr
  6. Blood and Guts (Storpocket)

    av

    Roy Porter

    ISBN: 9780141010649 - UTGIVEN: 2003-06

    Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. Each chapter sums up one of these battlefie[...]

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    från 112.00 kr
  7. Goode on Commercial Law (Häftad)

    av

    Professor Sir Roy Goode, Ewan McKendrick

    ISBN: 9780141030227 - UTGIVEN: 201001

    From its first publication, this book was acclaimed as the standard text on this field of the law. Now for its fourth edition, it has been completely revised and expanded to take into account the new developments of the last five years. The book lays out both the framework of commercial law and the [...]

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    från 609.00 kr
  8. Listening to Grasshoppers (Häftad)

    av

    Arundhati Roy

    ISBN: 9780141044095 - UTGIVEN: 201002

    'What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning?' Combining brilliant insight and razor-sharp prose, "Listening to Grasshoppers" is Arundhati Roy's essential exploration of the political picture in India today. In these essays, she takes a hard loo[...]

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    från 112.00 kr
  9. Willpower (Häftad)

    av

    Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

    ISBN: 9780141049489 - UTGIVEN: 201209

    Can you resist everything except temptation? In a hedonistic age full of distractions, it's hard to possess willpower - or in fact even understand why we should need it. Yet it's actually the most important factor in achieving success and a happy life, shown to be more significant than money, looks,[...]

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    från 109.00 kr
  10. Until She Comes Home (Häftad)

    av

    Lori Roy

    ISBN: 9780142180983 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05

    Nominated for a 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel
    "You won't be able to put it] down." --"Ladies Home Journal"
    Lori Roy follows her Edgar(R) Award-winning debut novel, "Bent Road, " with a spellbinding tale of suspense set against the crumbling facade of a once-respectable Detroit neighborhoo[...]

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    från 136.00 kr
  11. Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World (Häftad)

    av

    Roy Adkins

    ISBN: 9780143037958 - UTGIVEN: 2006-11

    An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle
    In the tradition of Antony Beevor's "Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar" presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the f[...]

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    från 149.00 kr
  12. The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo (Häftad)

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    Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins

    ISBN: 9780143113928 - UTGIVEN: 2008-08

    As he did with his much lauded "Nelson's Trafalgar," Roy Adkins (now writing with wife Lesley) again thrusts readers into the perils and thrills of early-nineteenth-century warfare. From its very first page, this is an adventure story?a superb account of the naval war that lasted from Napoleon's sei[...]

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    från 174.00 kr
  13. Walking with the Comrades (Häftad)

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    Arundhati Roy

    ISBN: 9780143120599 - UTGIVEN: 201110

    From the award-winning author of "The God of Small Things" comes a searing frontline expose of brutal repression in IndiaIn her latest book, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel movement in India to pen a work full of earth-shatterin[...]

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    från 129.00 kr
  14. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength (Häftad)

    av

    Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

    ISBN: 9780143122234 - UTGIVEN: 201208

    Pioneering research psychologist Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with "New York Times" science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control. Drawing on cutting-edge research and the wisdom of real-life experts, "Willpower" shares lessons on how[...]

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    från 129.00 kr
  15. Jane Austen's England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods (Häftad)

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    Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins

    ISBN: 9780143125723 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07

    An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen's beloved novels
    Nearly two centuries after her death, Jane Austen remains the most cherished of all novelists in the English language, incomparable in the wit, warmth, and insight with which she depicts her ch[...]

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    från 161.00 kr
  16. Calavera Abecedario: A Day of the Dead Alphabet Book (Häftad)

    av

    Roy Porter

    ISBN: 9780152059064 - UTGIVEN: 200609

    Every year Don Pedro and his family make papier-mache skeletons, or" calaveras, " for Mexico's Day of the Dead" fiesta." From the "A""ngel" and "D""octor" to the" M""ariachi" and "U""nicornio, " there's a special "calavera "for each letter of the alphabet. Come dance with them
    """Includes a glos[...]

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    från 89.00 kr
  17. Madness (Pocket)

    av

    Roy Porter

    ISBN: 9780192802675 - UTGIVEN: 200305

    This work explores what we really mean by "madness", covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac.[...]

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    från 127.00 kr
  18. Interpreting as a Discourse Process (Inbunden)

    av

    Cynthia B. Roy

    ISBN: 9780195119480 - UTGIVEN: 1999-12-09

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    från 826.00 kr
  19. Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome (Häftad)

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    Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins

    ISBN: 9780195123326 - UTGIVEN: 199808

    This handy reference provides full access to the 1,200 years of Roman rule from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD, including information that is hard to find and even harder to decipher. Clear, authoritative, and highly organized, Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome provides a unique look at a c[...]

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    från 175.00 kr
  20. Thought Experiments (Pocket)

    av

    Roy A. Sorensen

    ISBN: 9780195129137 - UTGIVEN: 1998-10

    In this book, Roy Sorensen presents the first general theory of the thought experiment. He analyses a wide variety of thought experiments, ranging from aesthetics to zoology, and explores what thought experiments are, how they work, and what their positive and negative aspects are. Sorensen also s[...]

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    från 249.00 kr
  21. Dictionary of Roman Religion (Häftad)

    av

    Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins

    ISBN: 9780195142334 - UTGIVEN: 2001-03

    Long overshadowed by Greek mythology or treated peripherally in gernal texts on the ancient Roman world, Roman religion is finally accorded its due in this unique reference work. While perhaps most familiar in the context of Greek-influenced gods, Roman religious life in fact encompassed a tremendou[...]

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    från 137.00 kr
  22. The Cultural Animal (Inbunden)

    av

    Roy F. Baumeister

    ISBN: 9780195167030 - UTGIVEN: 200501

    What makes us human? Why do people think, feel, and act as they do? What is the essence of human nature? What is the basic relationship between the individual and society? These questions have fascinated both great thinkers and ordinary humans for centuries. Now, at last, there is a solid basis for [...]

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    från 270.00 kr
  23. Are We Free? (Inbunden)

    av

    John (EDT) Baer, James C. (EDT) Kaufman, Roy F. (EDT) Baumeister

    ISBN: 9780195189636 - UTGIVEN: 2008-02

    Do people have free will, or this universal belief an illusion? If free will is more than an illusion, what kind of free will do people have? How can free will influence behavior? Can free will be studied, verified, and understood scientifically? How and why might a sense of free will have evolv[...]

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    från 427.00 kr
  24. World Mythology: The Illustrated Guide (Häftad)

    av

    Roy Willis, Robert Walter

    ISBN: 9780195307528 - UTGIVEN: 200605

    The great myths of the world create meaning out of the fundamental events of human existence: birth, death, conflict, loss, reconciliation, the cycle of the seasons. They speak to us of life itself in voices still intelligible, yet compellingly strange and distant. World Mythology offers readers an [...]

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    från 235.00 kr