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The righteous mind
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Jonathan Haidt |
A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book explains the American culture wars and refutes the "New Atheists." |
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Blessed
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Kate Bowler |
How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and… |
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Dialogues on cultural studies
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Fengzhen Wang,Shaobo Xie |
"Shaobo Xie and Fengzhen Wang pose a wide-ranging set of questions to a panel of North America's leading cultural critics. What emerges is a remarkable collection of interviews and dialogues that dis… |
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A conflict of visions
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Thomas Sowell |
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts which endure for generations or for centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. This book maintains that the enduring politica… |
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Yellow peril!
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John Kuo Wei Tchen,Dylan Yeats |
"The "yellow peril" is one of the most long-standing and pervasive racist ideas in Western culture--indeed, this book traces its history to the Enlightenment era. Yet while Fu Manchu evokes a fading … |
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Hamas
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W.R.F. Kortenoeven |
Geschiedenis en gedachtegoed van de Palestijnse, islamitische militante organisatie die zich gewapenderhand verzet tegen Israël. |
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La sociedad del espectáculo
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Donald Nicholson-Smith,Guy Debord,Guy Debord,Ron. Adams |
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the pres… |
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The Roots of Nazi Psychology
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Jay Y. Gonen |
Was Hitler a moral aberration or a man of his people? This topic has been hotly argued in recent years, and now Jay Gonen brings new answers to the debate using a psychohistorical perspective, conten… |
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The Nazi Conscience
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Claudia Koonz |
The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic communi… |
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Exits from the labyrinth
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Claudio Lomnitz-Adler |
"Scholarly contribution to the understanding of national culture. First part studies cultural production and ideology in Morelos and in the Huasteca Potosina. Second part focuses on history of legiti… |
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