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ordered by best selling| The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectaton and Social Change, 950-1050 | |||
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| Brief The essays in this book challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millennium. Several basic questions unify the essays: What chronological and theological assumptions underlay apocalyptic and millennial speculati...Read More |
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| The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor | |||
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Author(s) : David S. Landes | ||
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| Brief The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a c...Read More |
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| Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility -- Iran, Israel, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Iran, Israel and U.S. Foreign Policy) | |||
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Author(s) : Kenneth Stein, Gary Sick, Daniel Levy, David Menashri, Marc Gopin, Ruth Lande, Reuven Firestone, Gina Nahai, Asher Lopatin, Dora Levy | ||
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| Brief Iran is much in the news these days as the West — and Israel — figure out how to address a potentially nuclear Iran, strategically and diplomatically. On what basis are Iran’s policies forged — how pragmatic, or ideological, or for that matter, how foreboding, are they? Is the Iranian leader...Read More |
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| Acacia: Die Fernen Lande (German Edition) | |||
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Author(s) : David Anthony Durham | ||
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| Brief Ein fantastisches Epos mit dem Flair eines großen historischen RomansDariel Akkaran ist zwar häufig anderer Meinung als seine Schwester, der Königin von Acacia, dennoch dient er ihr treu. Und auch als sie ihn auf eine selbstmörderische Mission in die Fernen Lande schickt, gehorcht er ihr. Er hof...Read More |
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| The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times (Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) | |||
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| Brief Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs--and their innovations--have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur'...Read More |
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| Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses | |||
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Author(s) : David S. Landes | ||
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| Brief From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, a fascinating look at the crossroads of kin and coin David S. Landes has earned a reputation as a brilliant writer and iconoclast among economic historians. In his latest acclaimed work, he takes...Read More |
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| The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present | |||
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Author(s) : David S. Landes | ||
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| Brief In this new edition of his classic history on revolution and economic development in Europe, David Landes reasserts his original arguments in the light of current debates about globalization and comparative economic growth. Questions about why Europe was the first to industrialize and the viability ...Read More |
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| Wohlstand und Armut der Nationen: Warum die einen reich und die anderen arm sind (German Edition) | |||
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Author(s) : David Landes | ||
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| Brief Das Standardwerk zur WirtschaftsgeschichteKaum eine Frage ist umstrittener und stärker mit Ideologie befrachtet als die, warum manche Länder wirtschaftlich äußerst erfolgreich sind, während andere unfähig scheinen, aus ihrer Armut herauszufinden. Liegt es am Klima? An der Kultur? An der Politi...Read More |
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| The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914 (Blackwell History of the World) | |||
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Author(s) : C. A. Bayly | ||
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| Brief This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’ at this time than is commonly thought.Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world historyReveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’, even at ...Read More |
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| Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry | |||
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Author(s) : Vincent Carroll, David Shiflett | ||
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| Brief In "Christianity on Trial," Vincent Carroll and David Shiflett do not shrink from confronting the tragedies that have been perpetrated throughout the ages in the name of Christianity. But they argue that the current indulgence of anti-Christian rhetoric in our culture not only involves bad taste, bu...Read More |
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