This volume creates awareness among spectators about the differences between the past and the present the importance of understanding the past-present relationship and the reasons behind reconstructions that distort the past in films about Antiquity and the Middle Age... Lees meer.

Luck is its own kind of magic in this first book in an electrifying new contemporary fantasy series from the author of the 1 New York Times bestselling Hollows novels. Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magic and that s never going to c... Lees meer.

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010 11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East. Yet these events have not reshaped the region as pundits once predicted. With this volume top experts on the region offer wide-ranging considerations of the c... Lees meer.

Larry is a divorced dad who desperately wants to be closer to his bratty five-year-old daughter Madison and he thinks he s found the answer to his problems when he buys a magic ring he can use to transform into Madison s identical twin. Larry and Madison have lots of f... Lees meer.

Providing photographers of all skill levels with a concise guide to combining analog and digital tools with the goal of making silver gelatin prints in the traditional darkroom this book offers the most comprehensive treatment of lith printing focusing on materials wh... Lees meer.

Describes the proper historical development of seamanship among the major navies of the world. In order to explain even the most complex evolution clearly over 350 line drawings were specially commissioned. Every aspect of handling a man-of-war is detailed and illustra... Lees meer.

Beyond Exchange. Revisiting Leadership as a Relationship emerged in response to scholarly calls to steer away from the exchange rhetoric and give-and-take conceptualizations in the study of leader-follower interactions and instead shift the focus to the fundamental... Lees meer.

Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age explores the dynamics at play between what are usually understood as two very different forms of Islam namely Sufism and Salafism. Sufism is commonly understood as the peaceful and mystical dimension of Islam whereas Salafism i... Lees meer.

Modernity according to Bob Goudzwaard and Craig Bartholomew is not a single ideology but rather a tension between four worldviews. In conversation with students from around the world and drawing upon a variety of sources and disciplines the authors propose ways to tr... Lees meer.

A key work on the nature of contemporary capitalism by one of the most influential living writers on the Left. Samir Amin remains one of the world s most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capita... Lees meer.

The field of economics has proliferated in complexity and importance since the Second World War. Alessandro Roncaglia recounts the history of the different approaches marginalist neoclassical Keynesian Austrian monetarism rational expectations institutionalist e... Lees meer.

The years following the 2008 financial crisis produced a surge of political discontent with populism conspiracism and Far Right extremism rising across the world. Despite this timing many of these movements coalesced around cultural issues rather than economic grieva... Lees meer.

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A leading critic s acclaimed story of the photo boom during the crucial decades of the 1970s and 80s A leading critic s acclaimed story of the photo boom during the crucial decades of the 1970s and 80s Grundberg . . . is a vibrant opinionated authoritativ... Lees meer.