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Quest for Status Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy
ISBN: HB: 9780300236040, Yale University Press, April 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko argue that the desire for world status plays a key role in shaping the foreign policies of China and Russia. Applying social identity theory – the idea that individuals derive part of their identity from lar...
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Qur'an and the Bible Text and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300181326, Yale University Press, May 2018
1032 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred scripture of Islam, the third Abrahamic faith, has generally been considered separately. Noted religious scholar Gabriel Said Reynolds draws on centuries of Q...
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Question of Intervention John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect
ISBN: PB: 9780300230604, Yale University Press, October 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country's affairs is one of the most important concerns in today's volatile world. Taking John Stuart Mill's famous 1859 essay "A Few Words on Non-Intervention" as his starting point, in...
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Questions on Love and Charity Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23-46
ISBN: PB: 9780300195415, Yale University Press, June 2016
432 pp., 21x14 cm
A fresh translation of quaestiones from the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, edited by Robert Miner. This volume provides direct access to the medieval theologian's deepest thinking about the supreme goal of human life – blessedness-and the virtue...
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£19,99
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Question of Balance Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies
ISBN: PB: 9780300209396, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.
As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken centre stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues...
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Queen Caroline of Ansbach Cultural Politics at the Early Eighteenth-Century Court
ISBN: HB: 9780300197778, Yale University Press, March 2014
232 pp., 26.5x22 cm, 120 colour images, 40 black&white illus.
As the wife of King George II, Caroline of Ansbach became queen of England in 1727. Known for her intelligence and strong character, Queen Caroline wielded considerable political power until her death in 1737. She was enthusiastic and energetic in he...
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Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
ISBN: HB: 9780300178852, Yale University Press, June 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 59 black&white illus.
This book tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnes Sorel, the first officially recognized royal mistress in 1444, including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici,...
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£38,00
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Quiet World Living with Hearing Loss
ISBN: PB: 9780300194654, Yale University Press, January 2013
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.
Some 28 million people in America and 350 million people worldwide live with hearing loss. How do these people and their families cope? What are their experiences of pain, humor, and hope? What support do medicine and technology now offer them, and w...
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Quiet Revolution The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America
ISBN: PB: 9780300181432, Yale University Press, June 2012
360 pp., 21x14 cm
In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, ho...
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Quaker Experiences in International Conciliation
ISBN: PB: 9780300183115, Yale University Press, November 2011
338 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
As far back as the early 1900s, the Quakers have been engaged in a program of quiet private diplomacy that won them a Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. During the turbulent 1960s, hey acted as unofficial conciliators in several tense situations. This compre...
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