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Essential Letters and Sounds: Essential Phonic Readers: Oxford Reading Level 3: Seeds - Rachel Russ - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Essential Letters and Sounds: Essential Phonic Readers: Oxford Reading Level 3: Seeds - Rachel Russ - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds. Essential Letters and Sounds is a systematic synthetic phonics programme validated by the Department for Education. These readers complement your existing decodable readers from Oxford University Press and can be used alongside them to support the teaching of Essential Letters and Sounds. Seeds allows children to apply their phonics learning from Reception, Spring 1, Week 1 of Essential Letters and Sounds.

DKK 91.00
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Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales: Level 3: Ling and the Queen - Jenny Roberts - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales: Level 3: Ling and the Queen - Jenny Roberts - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The queen wants a successor - and an honest one. As a test of their honesty, she gives people seeds to grow into trees. However, the seeds are bad and cannot grow. Ling plants her seed and is sad when it doesn''t grow. Everyone else grows trees by using other seeds. Who will the queen choose? The Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales series includes 36 enchanting stories from all over the world, complementing the original Traditional Tales titles published in 2011. They are a perfect introduction to different cultures, traditions and values. All the stories are carefully levelled and matched to the phonics progression of the Oxford Reading Levels, enabling children to read the stories independently. The stories can also be used alongside other phonics programmes, such as Floppy''s Phonics and Essential Letters and Sounds. The inside cover notes will guide teachers and parents/carers in supporting their children when reading the stories. The stories will delight children while developing the essential reading skills of decoding and comprehension. Written and illustrated by authors and artists from around the world, these tales are a true global series, perfect for any child anywhere.

DKK 87.00
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The Account Book of Richard Latham, 1724-1767 - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Account Book of Richard Latham, 1724-1767 - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This account book of a small yeoman farmer in Lancashire, running from 1724 (just after his marriage) to his death in 1767, provides a record of expenditure on domestic, personal, and farming items. It is unique in offering a detailed view of household life and domestic economy in a stratum of society from which very few documents of any sort have survived.Shedding light on the informal economy of the locality, entries cover payment for services, clothing, household goods, seeds, farming equipment, servants, medical expenses, books and education. A computer-generated concordance provides a comprehensive listing of all references likely to be of interest to historians.

DKK 836.00
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Dig Monkey Dig! - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Dig Monkey Dig! - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Monkey has discovered a jar of seeds, but what are they for? Children will laugh out loud at Monkey''s funny mishaps in this introduction to the science of plant lifecycles. With hilarious illustrations by Tony Neal, Dig Monkey Dig! is perfect for reading with very young children who are exploring science for the first time. The book also features fun activities to provide little ones with hands-on learning and caregiver tips for how to get the most out of the book while you read. Children can learn more with Monkey and friends in Animal Academy: Frog Can Float!; Get off Bear!; and Too Heavy Elephant!

DKK 99.00
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Medieval English Travel - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Medieval English Travel - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organized by type of voyage. This anthology presents some texts for the first time in a modern edition. The first section consists of six companion essays on ''Places, Real and Imagined'', ''Maps and the Organization of Space'', ''Encounters'', ''Codes and Languages'', ''Trade and Exchange'', and ''Politics and Diplomacy''.The organizing principle for the anthology is one of expansive geography. Starting with local English narratives, the section moves to France, en-route destinations, the Holy Land, and the Far East. In total, the anthology contains twenty-six texts or extracts, including new editions of Floris & Blancheflour, The Stacions of Rome, The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, and Chaucers ''Squire''s Tale'', in addition to less familiar texts, such as Osbern Bokenham''s Mappula Angliae, John Kay''s Siege of Rhodes, 1480, and Richard Torkington''s Diaries of Englysshe Travell.The supporting bibliographies, in turn, take a functional approach to travel, and support the texts by elucidating contexts for travel and travellers in five areas: ''commercial voyages'', ''diplomatic and military travel'', ''maps, rutters, and charts'', ''practical needs, languages, and currencies'', and ''religious voyages''.

DKK 267.00
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The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice - Thom Brooks - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice - Thom Brooks - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Global justice is an exciting area of refreshing, innovative new ideas for a changing world facing significant challenges. Not only does work in this area often force us to rethink about ethics and political philosophy more generally, but its insights contain seeds of hope for addressing some of the greatest global problems facing humanity today. The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice has been selective in bringing together some of the most pressing topics and issues in global justice as understood by the leading voices from both established and rising stars across twenty-five new chapters. This Handbook explores severe poverty, climate change, egalitarianism, global citizenship, human rights, immigration, territorial rights, and much more.

DKK 476.00
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The Evolution of Life Histories - Stephen C. (professor Of Zoology Stearns - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Evolution of Life Histories - Stephen C. (professor Of Zoology Stearns - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book introduces life history evolution to postgraduate students just beginning their research in population biology, ecology, or evolutionary biology. It discusses major analytical tools, gives examples of their applications, and provides problems for discussion at the end of each chapter. It will interest all biologists wishing to understand the evolution of the life cycle and the causes of phenotypic variation in fitness, and it contains the seeds of applications of life history theory to population dynamics, behaviour, and community ecology.Care is taken in Part I to build up the tools needed for a well-rounded evolutionary explanation: demography, quantitative genetics, reaction norms, trade offs and phylogenetic/comparative analysis. Part II discusses the evolution of major life history traits. This is a comprehensive, up-to-date text in a field that holds a central position in modern ecology and evolution.

DKK 707.00
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Essential Letters and Sounds: Essential Phonic Readers: Oxford Reading Levels 1+-3: Mixed Pack of 12 - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Essential Letters and Sounds: Essential Phonic Readers: Oxford Reading Levels 1+-3: Mixed Pack of 12 - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds. Essential Letters and Sounds is a systematic synthetic phonics programme validated by the Department for Education. These readers complement your existing decodable readers from Oxford University Press and can be used alongside them to support the teaching of Essential Letters and Sounds. This pack of Essential Phonic Readers includes one of each title at Oxford Reading Levels 1+-3. Titles include Get the Duck!; Fish, Fish, Fish!; The Fun Run; Seeds, Off We Zoom!; Fix It!; Malik and the Owl Cup; Bats Versus Bugs; The Saturn Rocket; On the Reef; Rabbit in the Well; Is It a Garden?

DKK 738.00
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Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper: Oxford Level 4: Plants for Dinner - Becca Heddle - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper: Oxford Level 4: Plants for Dinner - Becca Heddle - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Roots, seeds, fruits or leaves? Discover what we can eat in Plants for Dinner. The fiction book that accompanies this title is The Stinky Plant. Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper is a series of paired fiction and non-fiction books linked by curriculum-related topics. Each pair consists of an engaging story featuring well-loved characters and a compelling non-fiction book. These topic-linked pairings will develop and deepen their reading comprehension and foster a love of reading across both text types. This book is one of six titles at Oxford Level 4, which are phonically decodable featuring a small number of pre-taught, non-decodable topic words to enrich the texts and support language development. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it is easy to match every child with the right book and enable them to progress.

DKK 96.00
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Island Cross-talk - Tomas O'crohan - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Island Cross-talk - Tomas O'crohan - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Written between 1919 and 1925, ''Island Cross-Talk'' was the first book to come out of the Blasket Islands - that tiny, remote community off the west coast of Kerry. Springing from a powerful oral tradition, it captured the moment of transition from speech to writing, and sowed the seeds of a rich and extraordinary flowering of literature that was to make the Blaskets famous throughout the world. In these vivid, unadorned sketches from his diary, Tomas O''Crohan writes from the immediacy of his experience: the beauty and the dangers of the island and the sea; the hardship, poverty, and hunger; but also the flashes of humour, the friendships, the intensity of life. In 1953 the Great Blasket was abandoned to the seagulls and the silence. Tomas O''Crohan composed his own epitaph, and that of his community, when he wrote ''the like of us will never be again''.

DKK 165.00
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A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? - Boyd (professor Of Modern British History Hilton - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? - Boyd (professor Of Modern British History Hilton - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once more a great imperial nation, as well as the world''s strongest power and dominant economy, having benefited from what has sometimes (if misleadingly) been called the ''first industrial revolution''. In the meantime it survived a decade of invasion fears, and emerged victorious from more than twenty years of ''war to the death'' against Napoleonic France. But if Britain''s external fortunes were in the ascendant, the situation at home remained fraught with peril. The country''s population was growing at a rate not experienced by any comparable former society, and its manufacturing towns especially were mushrooming into filthy, disease-ridden, gin-sodden hell-holes, in turn provoking the phantasmagoria of a mad, bad, and dangerous people. It is no wonder that these years should have experienced the most prolonged period of social unrest since the seventeenth century, or that the elite should have been in constant fear of a French-style revolution in England. The governing classes responded to these new challenges and by the mid-nineteenth century the seeds of a settled two-party system and of a more socially interventionist state were both in evidence, though it would have been far too soon to say at that stage whether those seeds would take permanent root. Another consequence of these tensions was the intellectual engagement with society, as for example in the Romantic Movement, a literary phenomenon that brought English culture to the forefront of European attention for the first time. At the same time the country experienced the great religious revival, loosely described under the heading ''evangelicalism''. Slowly but surely, the raffish and rakish style of eighteenth-century society, having reached a peak in the Regency, then succumbed to the new norms of respectability popularly known as ''Victorianism''.

DKK 542.00
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The Molecular Organography of Plants - Quentin Cronk - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Molecular Organography of Plants - Quentin Cronk - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

From the cells of aquatic algae to the majestic redwoods towering 100 metres above the California coast, the history of plant evolution has been one of increasing complexity. The underlying rationale for this book is to answer the question: How, when land plant embryos at a few-celled stage are essentially comparable, do plants achieve such radically different adult phenotypes, from mosses to tree-ferns, and grasses to oak trees? The Molecular Organography of Plants chronicles the origin, and importance, of the complex plant organs that have allowed plants to shape the earth''s biosphere, and seeks to explain why and how the genetic mechanisms governing these developmental trajectories have diverged so much. It provides a detailed account of the organs produced by land plants (stems, roots, leaves, seeds, flowers) into which is incorporated what is rapidly becoming known of the molecular mechanisms responsible. Plant organs are therefore discussed in the context of the evolution of development ("evo-devo"), and their basis in molecular developmental genetics is described. The result is a novel synthesis of classical morphology and molecular developmental biology that takes a broad look at the evolution of plant form.

DKK 712.00
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Ringtone - Yves L. (solvay Chaired Professor Of Technological Innovation Doz - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Ringtone - Yves L. (solvay Chaired Professor Of Technological Innovation Doz - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In less than three decades, Nokia emerged from Finland to lead the mobile phone revolution. It grew to have one of the most recognizable and valuable brands in the world and then fell into decline, leading to the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft. This book explores and analyzes that journey and distils observations and learning points for anyone keen to understand what drove Nokia''s amazing success and sudden downfall. With privileged access to Nokia''s senior managers over the last twenty years followed by a more concerted research agenda from 2015, the authors describe and analyze, the various stages in Nokia''s journey. The book describes leaders making strategic and organizational decisions, their behavior and interactions, and how they succeeded and failed to inspire and engage their employees. Perhaps most intriguingly, it opens the proverbial ''black box'' of why and how things actually happen at the top of organizations.Why did things fall apart? To what extent were avoidable mistakes made? Did the world around Nokia change too fast for it to adapt? And, did Nokia''s success contain the seeds of its failure?

DKK 462.00
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The Catholicity of the Church - Avery Dulles - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Catholicity of the Church - Avery Dulles - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Avery Dulles, well-known for several previous works in ecclesiology, including Models of the Church, here surveys a theme that demands new treatment in the present global and ecumenical context. He deals with questions that are vital for the identity of churches that designate themselves Catholic, and for the relationship between these churches and Protestant forms of Christianity. The prospects of Catholicism are realistically appraised.The Catholicity of the Church reproduces, in slightly revised form, the Martin D''Arcy Lectures delivered by Fr Dulles at Campion Hall, University of Oxford.''In theology such as this the seeds of real unity between divided Christendom are being sown.'' B.L. Horne, ''This is a fine book, providing a framework for fruitful dialogues among Christians of all traditions.'' Journal of Theological Studies Expository Times''This is a refreshing and challenging book, and is of considerable ecumenical importance.'' Oliver Rafferty, The Month''At the heart of ecclesiology is the concept of catholicity, and in tackling the nature of the Church''s catholicity Fr Dulles has courageously addressed himself to the crucial ecumenical question.'' Roger Greenacre, Theology''doing honour to the memory of Martin D''Arcy both for its realism and for its renewal of our sense of Catholicism.'' Fergus Kerr, The Tablet

DKK 526.00
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Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 8: The House of Bindia's Dreams - Nandini Nayar - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 8: The House of Bindia's Dreams - Nandini Nayar - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Bindia''s parents work long hours, and can''t afford to repaint the house. But Bindia dreams of a brightly coloured home in green, red and pink. She''s not sure how to make it happen... until she meets her neighbour ''Plant Lady'', who gives her some seeds and lots of encouragement!This book is from Readerful''s Independent Library. It is for children aged 6 to 7 to read without support. Readerful is a reading library specially designed to motivate children to read more. The series offers contemporary, inclusive books for children from 4 to 11 years, including: Books for Sharing: picture books to be read aloud by an adult for inspiring reading sessionsIndependent Library: fiction, graphic texts, character mini-series and non-fiction for children to read independentlyRise: fully decodable books for older struggling readers to read independently.How Readerful works: - Read aloud the Books for Sharing for magical reading sessions that motivate children to read more. - Then encourage children to choose a book to read by themselves, from Readerful''s Independent Library or from Rise. You''ll find links between the books'' topics, vocabulary, characters and authors - all designed to keep children reading, boost their vocabulary and develop their knowledge of the world around them.

DKK 107.00
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The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton''s observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of the tragedy that finally overwhelms her. The House of Mirth is a lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon women of Wharton''s generation. Herself born into Old New York Society, Wharton watched as an entirely new set of people living by new codes of conduct entered the metropolitan scene. In telling the story of Lily Bart, who must marry to survive, Wharton recasts the age-old themes of family, marriage, and money in ways that transform the traditional novel of manners into an arresting modern document of cultural anthropology. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

DKK 107.00
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The Aesthetics of Melancholia - Luis F. Lopez Gonzalez - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Aesthetics of Melancholia - Luis F. Lopez Gonzalez - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the intersection between medicine and literature in medieval Iberian literature and culture. Its overarching argument is that thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Iberian authors revalorized the interconnection between the body, the mind, and the soul in light of the evolving epistemology of medicine. Prior to the reintroduction of classical medical treatises through Arab authors into European cultures, mental disorders and bodily diseases were primarily attributed to moral corruption, demonic influence, and superstition. The introduction of novel regimens of health as well as treatises on melancholia into academic institutions and into the cultural landscape provided the tools for newly minted authors to understand that psychosomatic illnesses stemmed from malfunctions of the body''s biochemical composition. This book demonstrates that the earliest books written in the Iberian vernaculars contain the seeds that effect the shift from a theocentric worldview to a humanistic one. The volume features close readings of multiple texts, including medical treatises and religious writings, and King Alfonso X''s Cantigas de Santa Maria, Juan Manuel''s Conde Lucanor, and Juan Ruiz''s Libro de buen amor. Even though these texts differ in literary genre, rhetorical strategy, and even purpose, this study argues that they collectively employ humoral pathology and melancholic discourses as a means of underscoring the frailty and transience of human life by showing how somatic conditions sicken the body, mind, and soul unto death.

DKK 805.00
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Blossoms - Maxine (retired Singer - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Blossoms - Maxine (retired Singer - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

How do plants, even if still buried underground, know that it''s their time to bloom? What signals them to begin the challenging task of making flowers, and how do they make the variety of flower shapes, colours, and scents? What kind of instructions does the plant carry? Flowers enrich the beauty of meadows and gardens, but of course, they are not there simply to please us. Biologically, blossoms form a critical aspect of the reproductive cycle of many plants. In this book, the distinguished scientist Maxine Singer explains what we have pieced together about the genetics behind flowering. She describes in a clear and accessible account the key genes which, regulated by other genes, modulated by epigenetic effects, and responding to environmental cues, cause plants to flower at a particular time, and define the variety of flowers. The remarkably intricate processes involved in making flowers have evolved in nature alongside the pollinating birds and insects that the flowers must attract if there is to be another generation. The processes involved in flowering have only been unravelled in the past twenty years, and the implications for ensuring production of food, including fruits and seeds, are profound. This is cutting-edge science, and we have much still to learn, but the story being revealed that lies behind the flowers in our gardens, parks, and fields is proving astonishing.

DKK 182.00
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One of Ten Billion Earths - Karel (astrophysicist Schrijver - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

One of Ten Billion Earths - Karel (astrophysicist Schrijver - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author highlights how, within two decades of the discovery of the first planets outside the Solar System in the 1990s, scientists concluded that planets are so common that most stars are orbited by them.The lives of exoplanets and their stars, as of our Solar System and its Sun, are inextricably interwoven. Stars are the seeds around which planets form, and they provide light and warmth for as long as they shine. At the end of their lives, stars expel massive amounts of newly forged elements into deep space, and that ejected material is incorporated into subsequent generations of planets.How do we learn about these distant worlds? What does the exploration of other planets tell us about Earth? Can we find out what the distant future may have in store for us? What do we know about exoworlds and starbirth, and where do migrating hot Jupiters, polluted white dwarfs, and free-roaming nomad planets fit in? And what does all that have to do with the habitability of Earth, the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life, and the operation of the globe-spanning network of the sciences?

DKK 358.00
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One of Ten Billion Earths - Karel (astrophysicist Schrijver - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

One of Ten Billion Earths - Karel (astrophysicist Schrijver - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author highlights how, within two decades of the discovery of the first planets outside the Solar System in the 1990s, scientists concluded that planets are so common that most stars are orbited by them.The lives of exoplanets and their stars, as of our Solar System and its Sun, are inextricably interwoven. Stars are the seeds around which planets form, and they provide light and warmth for as long as they shine. At the end of their lives, stars expel massive amounts of newly forged elements into deep space, and that ejected material is incorporated into subsequent generations of planets.How do we learn about these distant worlds? What does the exploration of other planets tell us about Earth? Can we find out what the distant future may have in store for us? What do we know about exoworlds and starbirth, and where do migrating hot Jupiters, polluted white dwarfs, and free-roaming nomad planets fit in? And what does all that have to do with the habitability of Earth, the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life, and the operation of the globe-spanning network of the sciences?

DKK 203.00
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The Death of the French Atlantic - Alan (emeritus Professor Of History Forrest - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Death of the French Atlantic - Alan (emeritus Professor Of History Forrest - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France''s Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country''s competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power. The first was war, especially war at sea against France''s most consistent enemy and commercial rival in the eighteenth century, Great Britain. A series of colonial wars, from the Seven Years'' War and the War of American Independence to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars did much to drive France out of the North Atlantic.The second was anti-slavery and the rise of a new moral conscience which challenged the right of Europeans to own slaves or to sacrifice the freedom of others to pursue national economic advantage. The third was the French Revolution itself, which not only raised French hopes of achieving the Rights of Man for its own citizens but also sowed the seeds of insurrection in the slave societies of the New World, leading to the loss of Saint-Domingue and the creation of the first black republic in Haiti at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This proved critical to the economy of the French Caribbean, driving both colons and slaves from Saint-Domingue to seek shelter across the Atlantic world, and leaving a bitter legacy in the French Caribbean. It has also created an uneasy memory of the slave trade in French ports like Nantes, La Rochelle, and Bordeaux, and has left an indelible mark on race relations in France today.

DKK 473.00
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Politics and Social Visions - Maurizio Ferrera - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Politics and Social Visions - Maurizio Ferrera - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The starting point of this book is the ''civil war'' of ideas that broke out during the early 2010s about the purpose and even the desirability of the European Union as a polity, with a number of right-wing populist formations openly advocating for exiting the Union. The sovereign debt crisis triggered a spiral of ideological decommunalization: national leaders seemed to have lost that sense of ''togetherness'' and mutual bonds that had been laboriously developed over decades of integration. Politics and Social Visions explores this politically disruptive process from an ideational perspective, on the assumption that symbols and visions play a crucial role. In processes of polity formation, ideologies offer competing partisan views, but tend to converge along the ''communal'' dimension, which defines the nature and boundaries of the emerging polity. This convergence has been a challenge for the EU since its origins, as it has required the construction of a coherent and acceptable image of Europe as a compound polity of nation-states with a divisive past. Maurizio Ferrera offers a reconstruction of how the main ideological currents have struggled - and often failed - to reconfigure their horizontal profiles (i.e. their images of the national within Europe) into a new vertical profile (i.e. an image of the European within the national). The challenge has been especially demanding for European left-wing parties, which have been largely unable to forge a shared and recognizable ''social vision'' of the European Union. Only during the COVID pandemic have the seeds of a novel communal consensus emerged that might prove capable of defeating the anti-communal views of Eurosceptic ideologies and free market technocrats.

DKK 403.00
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Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good - Marta Jimenez - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good - Marta Jimenez - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Marta Jimenez presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle''s account of the role of shame in moral development. Despite shame''s bad reputation as a potential obstacle to the development of moral autonomy, Jimenez argues that shame is for Aristotle the proto-virtue of those learning to be good, since it is the emotion that equips them with the seeds of virtue. Other emotions such as friendliness, righteous indignation, emulation, hope, and even spiritedness may play important roles on the road to virtue. However, shame is the only one that Aristotle repeatedly associates with moral progress. The reason is that shame can move young agents to perform good actions and avoid bad ones in ways that appropriately resemble not only the external behavior but also the orientation and receptivity to moral value characteristic of virtuous people.Through an analysis of the different cases of pseudo-courage and the passages on shame in Aristotle''s ethical treatises, Jimenez argues that shame places young people on the path to becoming good by turning their attention to considerations about the perceived nobility and praiseworthiness of their own actions and character. Although they are not yet virtuous, learners with a sense of shame can appreciate the value of the noble and guide their actions by a genuine interest in doing the right thing. Shame, thus, enables learners to perform virtuous actions in the right way before they possess practical wisdom or stable dispositions of character. This proposal solves a long-debated problem concerning Aristotle''s notion of habituation by showing that shame provides motivational continuity between the actions of the learners and the virtuous dispositions that they will eventually acquire

DKK 752.00
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Cultures of Plague - Jr. Cohn - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Cultures of Plague - Jr. Cohn - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop.This study of plague imprints from academic medical treatises to plague poetry highlights the most feared and devastating epidemic of the sixteenth-century, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. From erudite definitions, remote causes, cures and recipes, physicians now directed their plague writings to the prince and discovered their most ''valiant remedies'' in public health: strict segregation of the healthy and ill, cleaning streets and latrines, addressing the long-term causes of plague-poverty. Those outside the medical profession joined the chorus. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians along with those outside the profession questioned the foundations of Galenic and Renaissance medicine, even the role of God. Assaults on medieval and Renaissance medicine did not need to await the Protestant-Paracelsian alliance of seventeenth-century in northern Europe. Instead, creative forces planted by the pandemic of 1575-8 sowed seeds of doubt and unveiled new concerns and ideas within that supposedly most conservative form of medical writing, the plague tract. Relying on health board statistics and dramatized with eyewitness descriptions of bizarre happenings, human misery, and suffering, these writers created the structure for plague classics of the eighteenth century, and by tracking the contagion''s complex and crooked paths, they anticipated trends of nineteenth-century epidemiology.

DKK 659.00
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