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  • The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion

    What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? These forward-looking essays address the new thinkers and movements that have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Levinas and how they will reshape Continental philosophy of religion in the years to come. They look at the ways concepts such as liberation, sovereignty, and post-colonialism have engaged ... Read more

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  • The Contemporary Middle East

    Foreign Intervention and Authoritarian Governance Since 1979

    Series series Blackwell History of the Contemporary World
    Provides a balanced historical narrative of the contemporary causes of conflict in the Middle East, ideal for students and scholarsThe recent history of the Middle East has involved unprecedented violence and war. Contemporary Middle East: Foreign Intervention and Authoritarian Governance Since 1979 explores the causes of the sustained turbulence of the region by focusing on three separate yet ... Read more

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  • Transforming the World

    Global Political History since World War II

    by Keith Robbins ...
    An ambitious and engaging narrative survey that charts the history of the world from a political perspective, from 1937 to the post-9/11 era. Providing a wide-ranging assessment of global interactions in peace and war since World War II, Robbins connects the crises, conflicts and accommodations that have brought us to the still-troubled present. ... Read more

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  • Churchill

    by Keith Robbins ...
    Series series Profiles In Power
    Keith Robbins provides an excellent introduction to Winston Churchill's dramatic rise to power and traces the unpredictable way his career moved between triumph and tragedy**.** Providing a vivid picture of the political landscapes through which he moved, it outlines his career and uncovers what made possible Churchill's leading role in national and world affairs. ... Read more

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  • The Eclipse of a Great Power

    Modern Britain 1870-1992

    by Keith Robbins ...
    Series series Foundations of Modern Britain
    Covers both the expansion and the decline of the British Empire and the reasons behind this sudden eclipse in power. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Great Britain

    Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness since 1500

    by Keith Robbins ...
    Series series The Present and The Past
    This is a timely exploration of national identity in Great Britain over nine hundred years of history. Our attitudes to the nation state are changing - national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and growing pressures for regional assemblies. In his vigorous new survey, Professor Robbins provides the background to these changing attitudes. He considers the development as well as the possible ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion

    Series series Philosophy of Religion
    What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? These forward-looking essays address the new thinkers and movements that have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Levinas and how they will reshape Continental philosophy of religion in the years to come. They look at the ways concepts such as liberation, sovereignty, and post-colonialism have engaged ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The First World War

    The tragic slaughter of the trenches is imprinted on modern memory; but it is more difficult to grasp the wider extent and significance of the First World War. This book gives a clear chronological account of the campaigns on the Western and Eastern Fronts and then moves on to investigate areas that many studies ignore - the war poets, the diplomacy of war aims and peace moves, logistics, and 'the ... Read more

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  • The History of Oxford University Press: Volume IV

    1970 to 2004

    Edited by Keith Robbins ...
    Series series History of Oxford University Press
    The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. Beginning with the first presses set up in Oxford in the fifteenth century and the later establishment of a university printing house, it leads through the publication of bibles, scholarly works, and the Oxford English Dictionary, to a twentieth-century expansion that created the largest university press in the ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

    by Tom Robbins ...
    Narrated by Keith Szarabajka ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 16 min

    "Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller."--Thomas PynchonIn Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, his seventh and biggest novel, the wise, witty, always gutsy Tom Robbins brings onstage the most complex and compelling character he has ever created.Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government, a ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Tibetan Peach Pie

    A True Account of an Imaginative Life

    by Tom Robbins ...
    Narrated by Keith Szarabajka ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 27 min

    Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir--wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates—provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Villa Incognito

    by Tom Robbins ...
    Narrated by Barrett Whitener ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 41 min

    Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War.Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.Imagine just those things (don’t even try to imagine the love story) and you’ll have a foretaste of Tom Robbins’s eighth and perhaps most ... Read more

    $13.95 USD