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The lady & the Virgin The lady & the Virgin Penny Schine Gold Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues tha… OL120458W
NEGOTIATED REVOLUTIONS: THE CZECH REPUBLIC, SOUTH AFRICA AND CHILE NEGOTIATED REVOLUTIONS: THE CZECH REPUBLIC, SOUTH AFRICA AND CHILE George Lawson xi, 272 pages ; 24 cm OL13635664W
Le social à l'épreuve des parcours de vie Le social à l'épreuve des parcours de vie Didier Vrancken Analyse conjointe des politiques sociales, plus souvent axées sur la trajectoire des individus, leur parcours d'emploi, de vie, de formation et d'insertion, et du mouvement de dérégulation de l'Etat … OL18559002W
Beyond Power On Women Men and Morals Beyond Power On Women Men and Morals Marilyn French This examination of the nature and effects of power draws on the wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, history, political science, law, and theology to investigate the sources of patriar… OL1860024W
The Great Escape The Great Escape Angus Deaton A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuries The world is a better place t… OL19367028W
Routledge Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society Routledge Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society Stephen Hilgartner,Sahra Gibbon,Barbara Prainsack The Handbook provides an essential resource at the interface of Genomics, Health and Society, and forms a crucial research tool for both new students and established scholars across biomedicine and s… OL20930688W
Canadian working-class history Canadian working-class history Laurel Sefton MacDowell,Ian Walter Radforth "Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings, Third Edition, is an updated version of the bestselling reader that brings together recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and so… OL21181770W
Précis d'histoire européenne Précis d'histoire européenne Jean Charles Asselain Comment est-on passé, en politique, de l'affrontement des modèles, puis du dialogue des deux Europe à la difficile construction de la Communauté ? La culture, longtemps au service des États, est-elle… OL24293157W
Thèmes essentiels d'actualité 2012-2013 en QCM Thèmes essentiels d'actualité 2012-2013 en QCM Eddy Fougier La plupart des thèmes au coeur de l'actualité sont abordés ici : les relations internationales, les droits de l'homme, le terrorisme, la guerre en Irak, la guerre en Afghanistan, le conflit au Proche… OL24302445W
Collapse Collapse Jared Diamond,Ricardo García Pérez "In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much… OL276557W
The latest craze The latest craze Jeff Fleischer "Human history is full of examples of irrational mass behavior, from 1600s Tulip Mania to the Tickle Me Elmo rush of the 1990s. Greed, whimsy, fear, and madness have driven us to lose our minds over … OL28169596W
L'enchaînement des millénaires L'enchaînement des millénaires Jean-Louis Roy Panorama des évènements de l'an 2000 ayant des répercussions prévisibles pour le siècle en cours. Un bilan chronologique, précédé d'un texte d'introduction, p. 11-27. [SDM]. OL28949938W
Ḥoref ha-ʻoṭeh otanu Ḥoref ha-ʻoṭeh otanu Shulamith Shahar '... introducing a wide range of topics, data, and methodological approaches in order to offer a balanced picture... Shahar's volume is a good summary ... with useful notes and bibliography ... and t… OL3239299W
The Great Transformation The Great Transformation Karl Polanyi "In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polonyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analys… OL3617884W
Nineteenth-century cities Nineteenth-century cities Yale Conference on the Nineteenth-Century Industrial City New Haven 1968.,Richard Sennett,Stephen Thernstrom,Stephan Thernstrom Research on the frontiers of urban studies was the subject of a conference on nineteenth-century cities held in November 1968 at Yale University. These papers from the conference attempt to define wh… OL7212453W
Prostitution in Mediaeval Society (Women in Culture & Society) Prostitution in Mediaeval Society (Women in Culture & Society) Leah Lydia Otis Prostitution in Medieval Society, a monograph about Languedoc between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, is also much more than that: it is a compelling narrative about the social construction of s… OL9348079W