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For over a century, the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently, fi
Part of the practical, highly illustrated Operative Techniques series, this fully revised title by Drs. Glenn B. Pfeffer, Mark Easley, Beat Hintermann, Andrew Sands, and Alastair Younger brings you up
This lavishly illustrated book celebrates one of the most influential and successful retail centers in the world, from its opening in 1965--when it changed the retail landscape by inviting European de
Now in paperback, this beautiful and important collection of more than 150 of Van Gogh's letters paired with more than 250 works of art Vincent Van Gogh wrote hundreds of letters to his brother Theo
The period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating and remarkable events in living memory. Laboring beneath a daily burden of fear, sacrifice, deprivation and uncertainty, soldiers and civi
Presents numerous color photographs of current British holders of such offices as the Herb Strewer to the Queen, The Most Noble Order of the Garter, Lord Great Chamberlain, the High Constable of Sea a
An ambitious theoretical and empirical study of the effect of political institutions on leadership survival, the character of public policy, and economic development.
Set in the heart of the African rainforest, Chimpanzee tells the tale of a newborn chimpanzee named Oscar whose mother is taken away by a rival group of chimpanzees. Left alone without a mother, Oscar
