Politics, Economics & Law: Shaping the Modern World
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She is But a Woman
Queenship in Scotland 1424–1463
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781910900499
Pub Date: 2025-11-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: John Donald
304 Pages
She is But a Woman, the first in-depth study of medieval Scottish queens, investigates the relationship between gender and power in the medieval Scottish court by exploring the art of queenship as practised...
The Tobacco Lords
Scotland and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780859767255
Pub Date: 2024-07-16
Format: Paperback
Imprint: John Donald
224 Pages
In the eighteenth century, Glasgow and its outports became the dominant force in the highly lucrative tobacco commerce from the Americas to Europe.This prize-winning book explains why such remarkable...
Adenauer
Eine Geschichte in Bildern - A Story in Pictures
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9783777439082
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
280 Pages
Konrad Adenauer, who was Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany for 14 years from 1949 to 1963, is still well known today. All the important stages and politically significant events in his life are documented here in photographs.
Bridging Troubled Waters
Australia and Asylum Seekers
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781925588385
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Australian Scholarly Publishing
270 Pages
Australian discussion of asylum seekers is polarised by slogans of ‘Stop the Boats’ and ‘Bring them here’. Both sides have good arguments and blind spots. And both miss the details: how most asylum seekers reach Australia; changing public attitudes; policies that work or do damage. Surveying a wide range of evidence, new insights are presented.
DOCS - Demand-Oriented, Culture-Sensitive Housing in Oman
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9783643152626
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: LIT Verlag
172 Pages
After five decades of rampant growth, Oman is challenged torethink its urbanization patterns. The continuous expansionof the footprint in major cities as the method the responseto the increasing housing...
Political Torture in the Twentieth Century
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9788869773402
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mimesis International
204 Pages
Unanimously banned and condemned, torture has been used in many countries throughout the 20th century. Ruxandra Cesereanu’s book gives us an overview of the phenomenon of torture, to refresh our collective memory.
Faith in Democracy
The Political Power of Religion during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9788869773754
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mimesis International
300 Pages
An historical reconstruction on the role played by the Brazilian Catholic Church during the military dictatorship that governed the country from 1964 to 1985.
Digital Citizenship
The Crisis of the Western Idea of Democracy and the Participation on Digital Networks
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9788869774027
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mimesis International
178 Pages
Today, the Western idea of society, founded on a contract between citizens and limited to the cohabitation of human subjects (just as the idea of citizenship is based on the fundamental rights of people) faced with the challenges of the pandemic, of climate change and those posed by the latest generation of intelligent networks, turns out to be ina
She is But a Woman
Queenship in Scotland 1424–1463
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781910900499
Pub Date: 2025-11-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: John Donald
304 Pages
The Tobacco Lords
Scotland and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780859767255
Pub Date: 2024-07-16
Format: Paperback
Imprint: John Donald
224 Pages
Adenauer
Eine Geschichte in Bildern - A Story in Pictures
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9783777439082
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
280 Pages
Bridging Troubled Waters
Australia and Asylum Seekers
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781925588385
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Australian Scholarly Publishing
270 Pages
DOCS - Demand-Oriented, Culture-Sensitive Housing in Oman
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9783643152626
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: LIT Verlag
172 Pages
Political Torture in the Twentieth Century
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9788869773402
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mimesis International
204 Pages
Faith in Democracy
The Political Power of Religion during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9788869773754
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mimesis International
300 Pages
Digital Citizenship
The Crisis of the Western Idea of Democracy and the Participation on Digital Networks
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9788869774027
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mimesis International
178 Pages