Posted:2010-07-23 | Category:Other
Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exempl...
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Posted:2010-07-23 | Category:Other
François Raffoul approaches the concept of responsibility in a manner that is distinct from its traditional interpretation as accountability of the willful subject. Exploring responsibility in the works of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levinas, Heidegger...
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Posted:2010-07-23 | Category:Other
This engrossing and meticulously researched volume reexamines the decisions made by Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff in the crucial months leading up to the Battle of the Bulge. In late August 1944 defeat of the Wehrmacht seemed assured. On Decembe...
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Posted:2010-07-22 | Category:Other
Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a decision making approach to foreign policy analysis. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome. In addition to coverage of the rational model of decision making, level...
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Posted:2010-07-22 | Category:Other
The EPA was established to enforce the environmental laws Congress enacted during the 1970s. Yet today lethal toxins still permeate our environment, causing widespread illness and even death. Toxic Loopholes investigates these laws, and the agency ch...
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Posted:2010-07-22 | Category:Other
The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. What law of armed conflict/international humanitarian law applies to particular armed conflicts? Does that ...
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Posted:2010-07-22 | Category:Other
This book serves as a tool to help patients and families deal rationally with the perplexing and often irrational world of healthcare. With contributions from leading healthcare specialists, Surviving Health Care: A Manual for Patients and their Fami...
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Posted:2010-07-22 | Category:Other
The rise of modern science and the proclaimed 'death' of God in the nineteenth century led to a radical questioning of divine action and authorship - Bultmann's celebrated 'demythologizing'. Remythologizing Theology moves in another direction that be...
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Posted:2010-07-22 | Category:Other
The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods to describe through fiction the sorts of experienc...
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Posted:2010-07-22 | Category:Other
Should we make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances enable us to do so? Matti Häyry asks this question in the context of genetic testing and selection, cloning and stem cell research, gene therapies and enh...
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