Origins

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DR. NAEEM CHISHTI
PAKISTAN AFFAIRS: From Ideological Origins to Contemporary Challenges
In a world of escalating complexity and geopolitical flux, few nations command as layered a historical, ideological, and strategic presence as Pakistan. Pakistan Affairs: From Ideological Origins to Contemporary Challenges offers an authoritative and lucid account of Pakistan’s evolution—from...
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JD Jackson
Once Upon a Nightmare: The Dark Origins of Fairy Tales: You Can't Make This Stuff Up! The Strangest True Stories in History
Happily ever after? Not even close. Before they were bedtime stories, fairy tales were blood-soaked cautionary tales full of murder, mutilation, betrayal, and soup made from children. ( Yes, really. ) In Once Upon a Nightmare , we rip off the glittery facade and dig into the dark, bizarre origins...
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Eric CHAISSON
Cosmic dawn: The origins of matter and life
Cosmic Dawn describes a highly interdisciplinary tour of billions of years of cosmic history, an epochal saga drawing on every field of modern science astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, geology and anthropology to address the two most fundamental problems of all: the origins of matter and life....
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Maya Tudor
The Promise of Power: The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan
Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies while others are perpetually prone to instability and authoritarianism? Despite broadly similar historical and political legacies, India's and Pakistan's regimes diverged radically after independence. In The Promis...
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Richard L Perry
Sources Of Our Liberties: Documentary Origins Of Individual Liberties In The United States Constitution And Bill Of Rights
""Sources of Our Liberties"" is a comprehensive book written by Richard L. Perry that explores the origins of individual liberties in the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. The book provides a detailed analysis of the historical documents and events that influenced the development of the...
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H. Zeynep Bulutgil
The Origins of Secular Institutions: Ideas, Timing, and Organization
An original theory and meticulous analysis of how advocates of political secularization emerged historically and why they succeeded in some contexts but not others. Why do some countries adopt secular institutions while others do not? In The Origins of Secular Institutions , Zeynep Bulutgil deve...
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Robert Storey
The Lost Prophet: Ancient Origins Book 6
There’s something they missed... and it’s almost here. Newly elected president John Harrison Henry is fighting to save the nation from nefarious forces that are hell-bent on chaos and destruction. Whilst a brave few fight against the might of the Global Meteor Response Council that rules the w...
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Rock Brynner
Natural Power: The New York Power Authority's Origins and Path to Clean Energy
The late Governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, once said: "You almost never hear about the New York Power Authority, but you should. It would do us all a lot of good: you can see government at its very best." Natural Power: The New York Power Authority's Origins and Path to Clean Energy tells the story...
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E. Fuller Torrey
Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience re...
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CHIC ORIGINS
CHIC ORIGINS Glass Candle Holder Set of 3, Gold Metal House-Shaped Candle Holders with Textured Glass for Wedding Decor, Elegant Table Centerpieces &
Versatile Candle Holder Set: Includes 3 sizes (Large: 7.4x2.7x2.16", Medium: 5.1x2.7x2.16", Small: 3.9x3.9x2.16") plus 3 decorative strings and screwdriver. (Note: no power supply included, empty inside, not for real candles) Elegant Church-Inspired Design: Featuring house-shaped frames, hammered gl...
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Morris M. Faierstein
The Dybbuk: Its Origins and History (Western Esoteric Traditions)
A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk , from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore. The Dybbuk is the first comprehensive study of the historical and kabbalistic sources of the dybbuk phenomenon, from the first recorded case of dybbuk possession in Safed in 1571...
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Jonathan Burns
The Descent of Madness: Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain
Drawing on evidence from across the behavioural and natural sciences, this book advances a radical new hypothesis: that madness exists as a costly consequence of the evolution of a sophisticated social brain in Homo sapiens. Having explained the rationale for an evolutionary approach to psychosis, t...
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David Kaiser
American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War
Fought as fiercely by politicians and the public as by troops in Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War--its origins, its conduct, its consequences--is still being contested. In what will become the classic account, based on newly opened archival sources, David Kaiser rewrites what we know about this confl...
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Ronnie Rebona
The Forgotten Empire: Origins, Architecture, and the Evidence of a Hidden Past (The Tartarian Empire Series)
The Forgotten Empire: Origins, Architecture, and the Evidence of a Hidden Past What if civilisation did not rise from savagery—but fell from brilliance? This opening volume of The Tartarian Empire Series exposes the forgotten blueprint of an advanced world whose cities resonated with geometry,...
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Gabriela Gavrilov
US-Russian Commercial Relations 1763-1933: Origins of Russophobia
US–Russian Commercial Relations 1763–1933: Origins of Russophobia provides a new look at Russia's sweeping history and events that shaped the modern world. Concise and compelling, this account of Russia's modern history offers a new perspective on some of the most important events of the past ce...
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Tom Higham
The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins
A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans, based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology   “Conveys the thrill of archaeological discovery.”—Alexander Larman, The Observer “Packs in startling discoveries, impressive insights and the occasional debunk...
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Barbara Ehrenreich
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
An ALA Notable Book A New York Times Notable Book In Blood Rites , Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Blood Rites takes us on an original journey from the elaborate hu...
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Wolfgang Muller
Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition: A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington
In this volume dedicated to medieval canon law expert Kenneth Pennington, leading scholars from around the world discuss the contribution of medieval church law to the origins of the western legal tradition. The stellar cast assembled by editors Wolfgang P. Müller and Mary E. Sommar includes younge...
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Robert Louis Wilken
Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom
From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke “Robert Louis Wilken’s new masterpiece.”—George Weigel, First Things   In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their r...
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Konrad Schmid
Genesis and the Moses Story: Israel's Dual Origins in the Hebrew Bible (Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures)
Konrad Schmid is a Swiss biblical scholar who belongs to a larger group of Continental researchers proposing new directions in the study of the Pentateuch. In this volume, a translation of his Erzväter und Exodus , Schmid argues that the ancestor tradition in Genesis and the Moses story in Exodus ...
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