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On the daimonion of Socrates : Plutarch
Plutarch's dialogue On the daimonion of Socrates is a unique combination of exciting historical romance and serious philosophical and religious discussion. The volume offers a range of essays on themes providing further insights into this masterly literary piece: on the historical, religious and philosophical background and on thematic connections with other works by Plutarch
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- 9783161501388
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- SAPERE
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- 900 DAI
State and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organisation of public craft production and the complementary activities of the private sector. It offers detailed knowledge of shipbuilding and printing. Moreover, it contributes to the research …
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- 9789048537938
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- 402 pages
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- Social Histories of Work in Asia
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- 900
Handbook Global History of Work
What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? Did workers ever protest? If so, how? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook.
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- 9783110424584,
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- 604 pages
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- De Gruyter Reference
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- 900
The Power of Systems How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World
The International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), an international think tank established jointly by the United States and Soviet Union in Austria in 1972, was intended to advance scientific collaboration. Until the late 1980s, the IIASA was one of the very few permanent sites where policy scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain could work together to articulate and solve …
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- 9781501703188
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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- 900
New World Objects of Knowledge : A Cabinet of Curiosities
From the late fifteenth century to the present day, countless explorers, conquerors, and other agents of empire have laid siege to the New World, plundering and pilfering its most precious artefacts and treasures. Today, these natural and cultural products—which are key to conceptualizing a history of Latin America—are scattered in museums around the world. With contributions from a renowne…
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- 9781908857835
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- 301 pages
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- 900
Crossing Central Europe : Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000
This volume studies elements of Austro-Hungarian or Central European culture that were common across linguistic, national, and ethnic communities, and shows how some of these commonalities survived or were transformed by the turmoil of the 20th century: two world wars, a major depression between the wars, Stalinism and the Iron Curtain
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- 9781487514686
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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- German and European Studies
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- 900
Law and Time
Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade. This edited collection aims to put law and time scholarship into wider context, advancing conversations on time and temporalities between socio-legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and historians. Through a diverse range of contributions, the collection explores how legal modalities of time emerg…
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- 1351683756
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- 282 halaman
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- 340 LAW
Health Care in Eleventh-Century China
By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times. In ancient China most people were unable to afford a doctor, even in the unlikely case that one lived near their village and was willing to treat peasants. What did they do when their children got sick? The answer is to be found in this …
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-20426-0
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- XVII, 223
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- Archimedes
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- 900 MED h
A Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy Its Theory and Practice, for the Use of El…
James Erskine-Murray (1868–1927) was a Scots expert in wireless technology who studied under Lord Kelvin for six years at Glasgow University before arriving at Trinity College, Cambridge as a research student. He eventually became a telegraphy consultant and published this work in 1907. Its aim was to inform engineers, students, and radio operators about many aspects of a rapidly changing tec…
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- 9780511795411
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home
Targeted at both intrepid travellers and 'readers at home', this two-volume account of Spanish history, topography and culture by Richard Ford (1796–1858) combines the rigour of a gazetteer with the humour and pace of a private travel diary. First published in 1845, as part of John Murray's series of guidebooks, the work made an immediate impact upon the reading public, and it was celebrated …
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- 9781139096157
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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