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Zwischen Rechtsverständnissen, nach denen es nur juridische, nicht aber moralische Rechte geben kann, und einem individualethischen Ansatz, nach dem Personen moralische Rechte haben, gibt es einen anhaltenden Streit. Im Kontext mit der Bestimmung des Verhältnisses von Recht und Moral gibt es darüber hinaus ein zweites Spannungsfeld: die Frage, ob das Recht einer Begründung durch Moral bedarf, wenn es nicht nur auf Legalität, sondern auch auf...
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In the first groundbreaking volume of a new series, acclaimed Napoleonic scholar Gareth Glover brings together previously unpublished material relating to the Battle of Waterloo. The range and unique nature of much of the research will intrigue and fascinate enthusiasts and historians alike.
The wealth of hitherto unseen British material contained in Volume I includes: a series of letters written by a senior officer on Wellington's staff to Sir Thomas...
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La ironía es mucho más que una figura literaria que trasciende lo literal para jugar con lo equívoco. Es un instrumento para superar, rebasar y desbordar lo que una sociedad entiende como límite. La ironía romántica nace de una actitud vital que busca subvertir el sentido común y cancelar la autoridad de lo normativo en un ejercicio de libertad subjetiva, en el que creación y aniquilación se confunden. Por ello, lo irónico se acerca a lo...
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For centuries the Atlantic world has been a site of encounter and exchange, a rich point of transit where one could remake one's identity or find it transformed. Through this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Laura R. Prieto and Stephen R. Berry offer vivid new accounts of how individuals remapped race, gender, and sexuality through their lived experience and in the cultural imagination. Crossings and Encounters is the first single volume to...
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Christopher Prendergast is professor emeritus of French literature at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King's College and the British Academy. He is the general editor of the Penguin Proust, and his many books include Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic (Princeton).
An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars
This book provides an engaging,...
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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews...
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Tirol ganz nah: unter vier Augen neu erlebt!
Fünf bekannte Tiroler Persönlichkeiten, fünf faszinierende Leben, fünf Erzählungen ganz persönlicher Momentaufnahmen, die man nicht vergisst: der 210-fache-Formel-1-Starter Gerhard Berger berichtet von seinen Ambitionen, einem Leben auf der Überholspur – auf dem glühenden Asphalt und fern davon; Geschäftsführerin, Unternehmerin und Sprecherin der Tiroler Adler Runde, Ingeborg Freudenthaler...
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Philip Nord is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. His books include France 1940: Defending the Republic. Katja Guenther is associate professor of history at Princeton. She is the author of Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines. Max Weiss is associate professor of history and Near Eastern studies at Princeton. His books include In the Shadow of Sectarianism:...
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Designed for survey courses-yet in-depth enough to support intensive discussion-these seventeen classic essays traverse the history of the American West, from women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California to the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, from homesteading and mining to the Great Depression and World War II. Provocative and illuminating.
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Scholars in COVID Times documents the new and innovative forms of scholarship, community collaboration, and teaching brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this volume, Melissa Castillo Planas and Debra A. Castillo bring together a diverse range of texts, from research-based studies to self-reflective essays, to reexamine what it means to be a publicly engaged scholar in the era of COVID.
Between social distancing, masking, and remote teaching-along...
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Le 24 février 2022, la guerre frappait à nouveau à nos portes. Depuis lors, toutes les grandes puissances sont concernées. Le monde en porte d'ores et déjà les stigmates. L'OTAN est sortie de son état de « mort cérébrale » et l'Europe pourrait être la prochaine victime.
Le projet européen de sécurité et de défense est considérablement fragilisé. Entre les pays qui croient qu'une défense européenne est nécessaire et ceux qui ne...
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Welcoming over 700 delegates across the two-day event, the 2021 Tolkien Society summer seminar was the highest attended event in the Society's history. It invited scholars to consider the role that diversity plays in Middle-earth's linguistic and literary make-up: how does he explore race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, religion and faith, and age? How do different fandoms receive his works? How can varying perspectives enrich our understanding...
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Este libro reune la colaboracion de tres importantes escritores, asi como la de dieciseis destacados investigadores, en torno a la obra del escritor mexicano Mario Bellatin. Con un abordaje critico variado y multidisciplinario, cada seccion del libro resalta los distintos ejes tematicos que surgen de la misma obra de este escritor; a saber: la transliteratura, la filosofia, el cuerpo, el humor, el genero y la estetica. Ademas, el libro cuenta con...
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A partir de los ejes centrales, memoria y violencia, el libro traza un recorrido por los textos literarios y testimoniales publicados por exmilitantes del movimiento armado socialista en Mexico, desde fines de la decada de los setenta hasta nuestros dias. Pese a la amplia produccion escrituraria y practicas de memoria, estas dificilmente han sido reconocidas en su doble estatuto politico y estetico. El libro analiza, la dinamica de formacion y disputas...
15) First in Last Out: The Post-war Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marines Commandos
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The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of postwar Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before published, or quoted at length. Prepared in 1951 at the height of the Korean War by the Chief of Amphibious Warfare and the Commandant General Royal Marines, this seventy-page aide memoir is, in essence, the distillation of major lessons learned by the British wartime...
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From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of industrialism, and transnational discussions of poverty, urbanization, women's work, and sympathy provided a means of understanding and debating social...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Alienist tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Caleb Carr's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of The Alienist includes: Historical context; Chapter-by-chapter overviews; Profiles of the main characters; Detailed timeline of key events;...
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In October of 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood set out through Alabama on what would be the final campaign of the Army of Tennessee. One event in particular, overlooked and misunderstood for generations, portended what was to follow and is the subject of Noel Carpenter's Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hood's "Slight Demonstration" at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign.
In this fascinating and meticulously detailed...
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Ethical Theory in Global Perspective provides an easy-to-teach introduction to ethical theory from a uniquely global perspective. In addition to key Western ethical theories-such as virtue ethics, consequentialism, various deontological theories, and care ethics-moral theories from a range of East Asian, South Asian, and African philosophical traditions and schools are also discussed, including Akan philosophy, Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Great Gatsby tells you what you need to know-before or after you read F. Scott Fitzgerald's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald includes: • Historical contex • tChapter-by-chapter summaries • Analysis of the main...
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