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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Mir Taqi Mir (1723¿1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished Urdu poet, composed his ghazals in a distinctive Indian style arising from the Persian tradition. Here, the lover and beloved live in a world of extremes: the outsider is the hero and death is preferred to the beloved¿s indifference. Ghazals offers a collection of Mir¿s finest work.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In reality, state-sponsored hacking is covert, insidious, and constant. It is also much harder to prevent. Ben Buchanan reveals the cyberwar that¿s already here, reshaping the global contest for geopolitical advantage.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 412 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mir Taqi Mir (1723¿1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished Urdu poet, composed his ghazals in a distinctive Indian style arising from the Persian tradition. Here, the lover and beloved live in a world of extremes: the outsider is the hero and death is preferred to the beloved¿s indifference. Ghazals offers a collection of Mir¿s finest work.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of animality in works by Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and other black writers, delving into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that emerge from being viewed as a subgenre of the human.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'How has unbelief come to dominate so many Western societies The usual account invokes the advance of science and rational knowledge. Ryrie's alternative, in which emotions are the driving force, offers new and interesting insights into our past and present.'-Charles Taylor, author of A Secular AgeWhy have societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular We think we know the answer, pointing to science and reason as the twin culprits, but in this lively, startlingly original reconsideration, Alec Ryrie argues that people embraced unbelief much as they have always chosen their worldviews: through the heart more than the mind.Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, he shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. As Protestant radicals eroded time-honored certainties and ushered in an age of anger and anxiety, some defended their faith by redefining it in terms of ethics, setting in motion secularizing forces that soon became transformational. Unbelievers tells a powerful emotional history of doubt with potent lessons for our own angry and anxious times.'Well-researched and thought-provoking.Ryrie is definitely on to something right and important.'-Christianity Today'A beautifully crafted history of early doubt.Unbelievers covers much ground in a short space with deep erudition and considerable wit.'-The Spectator'Ryrie traces the root of religious skepticism to the anger, the anxiety, and the 'desperate search for certainty' that drove thinkers like.John Donne to grapple with church dogma.'-New Yorker.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 700 poems of Hindi poet Biharilal¿s Satsai weave amorous narratives of the god Krishna and the goddess Radha with hero and heroine motifs, bridging divine and worldly love. This new translation presents 400 couplets from the seventeenth-century classic. He Spoke of Love brims with rivalries, secret trysts, and the sorrows of separated lovers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Elsa Goveia Book PrizeWinner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race RelationsWinner of the P. Sterling Stuckey Book PrizeWinner of the Harriet Tubman PrizeWinner of the Phillis Wheatley Book AwardFinalist for the Cundill Prize'Brilliant.groundbreaking.Brown's profound analysis and revolutionary vision of the Age of Slave War-from the too-often overlooked Tacky's Revolt to the better-known Haitian Revolution-gives us an original view of the birth of modern freedom in the New World.'-Cornel West'Not only a story of the insurrection, but 'a martial geography of Atlantic slavery,' vividly demonstrating how warfare shaped every aspect of bondage.Forty years after Tacky's defeat, new arrivals from Africa were still hearing about the daring rebels who upended the island.'-Harper's'A sobering read for contemporary audiences in countries engaged in forever wars.It is also a useful reminder that the distinction between victory and defeat, when it comes to insurgencies, is often fleeting: Tacky may have lost his battle, but the enslaved did eventually win the war.'-New YorkerIn the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended their domain, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. In this contentious atmosphere, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica organized to throw off that yoke by violence. Their uprising-which became known as Tacky's Revolt-featured a style of fighting increasingly familiar today: scattered militias opposing great powers, with fighters hard to distinguish from noncombatants. Even after it was put down, the insurgency rumbled throughout the British Empire at a time when slavery seemed the dependable bedrock of its dominion. That certitude would never be the same, nor would the views of black lives, which came to inspire both more fear and more sympathy than before.Tracing the roots, routes, and reverberations of this event, Tacky's Revolt expands our understanding of the relationship between European, African, and American history as it speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The US Constitution says nothing about a presidential cabinet, yet this institution has grown powerful. Lindsay M. Chervinsky tells the story of George Washington¿s cabinet, an ad hoc panel that responded to emergencies of the day. It is supposed to be the Senate¿s job to advise the president, but the first cabinet changed that expectation forever.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In reality, state-sponsored hacking is covert, insidious, and constant. It is also much harder to prevent. Ben Buchanan reveals the cyberwar that¿s already here, reshaping the global contest for geopolitical advantage.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Worlds of Knowledge rediscovers the works of authors from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and challenges the frequent focus in travel studies on English-language texts. Written by experts in a wide range of fields, this interdisciplinary volume sheds new light on the range, innovation, and erudition of travel narratives by women.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Epic of Ram, Volume 6, Ram and his allies fight the army of Ravan in a climactic battle, culminating in the demon king's death. Ram and Sita reunite and board a flying palace to return home. This edition features the Avadhi text in the Devanagari script alongside a new free verse English translation of the beloved Ramayana story.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Megan Black argues that the U.S. Department of the Interior, known for managing domestic natural resources and operating public parks, constantly supports and projects American power abroad. In the guise of sharing expertise globally, Interior has helped the U.S. maintain key benefits of empire without the burden of playing the imperialist villain.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Theft of a Tree, by the sixteenth-century poet Nandi Timmana, recounts how Krishna stole the p¿rij¿ta, a wish-granting tree, from the king of the gods. Krishna gifts the tree to his wife Satyabhamäwho must temporarily relinquish it to enjoy endless happiness. The text is presented in the Telugu script alongside the first English translation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Poems from the Guru Granth Sahib offers spiritual lyrics from the Sikhs¿ sacred book of ethics, philosophy, and theology. This new English translation includes celebrated long hymns and innovative short poems by Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh religion. It is presented here with the text in Gurmukhi, the script developed by the Guru himself.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The History of Akbar by Abu'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. The eighth and final volume includes the conquest of Ahmadnagar, prince Salim's rebellion, and the emperor's final days. The Persian text is presented in the Naskh script along with a new English translation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Does class determine economic options, or is class in our heads-a matter of interpreting symbols and meanings Cultural theorists have made the second claim, sidelining materialism. Now, amid deepening inequality, Vivek Chibber defends materialist analysis of class power, while arguing that we still have something to learn from cultural frameworks.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista critics, whose ideas about economic growth and global inequality transformed our approach to development and changed the course of the twentieth century.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to Carolina. Behind the upheaval was the Susquehannock Indians. Their shrewd responses to settler violence altered the future course of life and government for colonists and Indigenous peoples from the Great Lakes to the Deep South.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The final work of the esteemed philosopher William Demopoulos supplants logical empiricism's accounts of physical theories, which fail to satisfactorily engage modern physics. Arguing for a new appreciation of the tightly woven character of theory and evidence, Demopoulos offers novel insights into the distinctive nature of quantum reality.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The pre-Gäge¿a Navya-Ny¿ya treatise Up¿dhidarpäa (UD) deals with the up¿dhi, a key concept in the Navya-Ny¿ya theory of inference. This volume is the first published edition and translation of the only manuscript of the UD. Notes have been added to elucidate the historical context of the authors, works, and philosophical doctrines in the UD.