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  1. The Greeks (Häftad)

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    Ian Morris, Barry B. Powell

    ISBN: 9780205697342 - UTGIVEN: 200906

    Organized chronologically, this text presents a complete picture of Greek civilization as a history and features sections on the art, architecture, literature, and thought of each period.[...]

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    från 690.00 kr
  2. Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future (Häftad)

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    Ian Morris

    ISBN: 9780312611699 - UTGIVEN: 201110

    A "New York Times" Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the devel[...]

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    från 206.00 kr
  3. War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots (Inbunden)

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    Ian Morris

    ISBN: 9780374286002 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04

    A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society--for the better
    "War . . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song--but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has ma[...]

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    från 0.00 kr
  4. Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future (Inbunden)

    av

    Ian Morris

    ISBN: 9780374290023 - UTGIVEN: 201010

    A "New York Times" Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the devel[...]

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    från 0.00 kr
  5. The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations (Inbunden)

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    Ian Morris

    ISBN: 9780691155685 - UTGIVEN: 201301

    In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. "The Measure of Civilization" presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundb[...]

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    från 267.00 kr
  6. Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels (Inbunden)

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    Ian Morris, Stephen (EDT) Macedo, Richard (CON) Seaford

    ISBN: 9780691160399 - UTGIVEN: 2015-03

    Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Mor[...]

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    från 249.00 kr
  7. Teaching Happiness and Well-being in Schools (Häftad)

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    Ian Morris

    ISBN: 9780826443038 - UTGIVEN: 200910

    This book provides an introduction to the theory of positive psychology and a practical guide on how to implement the theory in (primarily secondary) schools. There has recently been an explosion of interest in positive psychology and the teaching of well-being and 'happiness' in PSHE in schools and[...]

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    från 335.00 kr
  8. The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (Häftad)

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    Ian Morris, Richard P. Saller, Walter Scheidel

    ISBN: 9781107673076 - UTGIVEN: 201211

    In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determ[...]

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    från 490.00 kr
  9. War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots (Häftad)

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    Ian Morris

    ISBN: 9781250062505 - UTGIVEN: 2015-04

    A POWERFUL AND PROVOCATIVE EXPLORATION OF HOW WAR HAS CHANGED OUT SOCIETY-FOR THE BETTER"War / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song-but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity saf[...]

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    från 166.00 kr
  10. Greeks (Häftad)

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    Ian Morris, Barry B. Powell

    ISBN: 9781292022383 - UTGIVEN: 2013-08

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    från 646.00 kr
  11. Measure of Civilisation (Häftad)

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    Ian Morris

    ISBN: 9781781250198 - UTGIVEN: 2013-02

    Offers insight into the index of social development that measures change in East and West. The author argues that to understand the development of East and West, we need to look beyond 'long-term lock-in' theories (that suggest it was inevitable) and 'short-term accident' theories.[...]

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    från 197.00 kr
  12. War: What is it Good for? (Häftad)

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    Ian Morris

    ISBN: 9781781252963 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04

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    från 147.00 kr
  13. Why the West Rules - for Now (Storpocket)

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    Ian Morris

    ISBN: 9781846682087 - UTGIVEN: 201108

    Why does the West rule? Eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing uniquely on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science. In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam an[...]

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    från 135.00 kr
  14. War: What is it good for? (Inbunden)

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    Ian Morris

    ISBN: 9781846684173 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04

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    från 239.00 kr
  15. English segmental phonetics for Finns (Häftad)

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    Ian Morris-Wilson

    ISBN: 9789514274824 - UTGIVEN: 2004

    English Segmental Phonetics for Finns is specifically written for Finnish-speaking university students of English. After a short introduction to the phonetic description and classification of speech sounds in general, the book focuses on the phonetics and pronunciation of standard British (RP) Engli[...]

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    från 243.00 kr
  16. The Dynamics of Ancient Empires (Pocket)

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    Ian (EDT) Morris, Walter (EDT) Scheidel, Ian (EDT) Morris

    ISBN: 9780199758340 - UTGIVEN: 2010-09

    Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparat[...]

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    från 419.00 kr
  17. Israel's Secret Wars (Pocket)

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    Ian Black, Benny Morris, Ian Black

    ISBN: 9780802132864 - UTGIVEN: 199206

    This is the first documented, comprehensive history of all three of Israel's intelligence services, from their origins in the 1930s, through Israel's five wars, up to the present, with a new chapter updating the book through the Gulf War. Highly readable and exhaustively researched, it provides the [...]

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    från 169.00 kr
  18. The Political Writings (Pocket)

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    John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro

    ISBN: 9780872201903 - UTGIVEN: 199310

    This welcome anthology presents for the first time in one volume John Dewey's major political writings. Ranging throughout his career, the selections display Dewey's philosophical method, his controversial views on war and education, his essential contributions to democratic theory, and his distinct[...]

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    från 139.00 kr