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Perception of Reality

Robertson, Richard J.
Perception of Reality
Many observers of the world scene in recent decades have raised questions about the future of Western Civilization, and the United States as the foremost exemplar. They see us locked in tangles of inconsistent intentions and self contradictory efforts to remedy growing political and environmental problems. This development may be an inevitable consequence of the evolution of first principles which deteriorate in a civilization as their implica...

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Fractures of the Upper Extremity

Ziran, Bruce H
Fractures of the Upper Extremity
Addressing the region of the upper extremity, this practical reference features contributions from 17 specialists and supplies state-of-the-art descriptions of diverse fractures, treatment approaches and surgical options. It also includes a chapter on nonunions of the upper extremity.

CHF 262.00

Family Matters

Mistry, Rohinton
Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson's disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful ...

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Changing Ashford

Salter, Steve R.
Changing Ashford
Changing Ashford is a trip down memory lane featuring over 200 (many previously unpublished) local views from a collection that has been built up over the last seventeen years.

CHF 22.90

On Political Means and Social Ends

Honderich, Ted
On Political Means and Social Ends
What society should we have, and what can we do to get it? This book sets out to answer these questions beginning with a new essay on the foundation of a liberalism of means and ends, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. Honderich goes on to consider the culmination of liberal thinking in John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. He argues that liberalism is good intentions not carried forward into rational commitment. Conservatism, in its past and its pres...

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Prodigals and Pilgrims

Fliegelman, Jay / Jay, Fliegelman
Prodigals and Pilgrims
The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of Ameri...

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Putting Popular Music in Its Place

Hamm, Charles / Charles, Hamm
Putting Popular Music in Its Place
This volume of essays by the distinguished musicologist Charles Hamm focuses on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with other styles and genres, including classical music, the meaning of popular music for audiences, and the institutional appropriation of this music for hegemonic purposes. Specific topics include the use of popular song to rouse anti-slavery sentiment in mid-nineteenth-century America, the reception of such...

CHF 157.00

MERIAN Schweiz

Jahreszeiten Verlag
MERIAN Schweiz
In jedem Tal ein anderer Zungenschlag - ein Land wie ein kleiner Kontinent. In dem MERIAN Magazin Schweiz: Tessi - Wo die Schweiz Italien trifft St.Moritz - Wo der Wintersport erfunden wurde Basel - Wo die Kunst Zuhause ist Info - 25 Seiten Shopping, Hotels und Sehenswertes

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