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(H/B) THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHIPBUILDING
"The study of ship remains begins with the recording of seemingly trivial details: the thickness of a plank, the numbers and sizes of nails, the direction of an adze stroke, the color and texture of stains in half-rotten bits of wood. In fact, some of those details and measurements are trivial, but it is often difficult to distinguish the trivial from the significant until long after the recording is finished. Those tool marks and stains, grain patterns and botched repairs, are the voices of the people who owned, built, and sailed the vess...
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(P/B) HABITS OF THE BALKAN HEART
When Communism fell in Eastern Europe in 1989, euphoria spread with the expectation of liberal democracy and a New World Order. But in what had been Yugoslavia, a brutal war broke out and giddy optimism gave way to brutality and perplexed despair. Sociologist Stjepan Mestrovic, writing with Slaven Letica and Miroslav Goreta and drawing on theories of social character propounded by such thinkers as de Tocqueville, Veblen, and Bellah, sheds new light on the conflicts in the Balkans. The authors demonstrate that ancient ethnic, social, and na...
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(H/B) HABITS OF THE BALKAN HEART
Almost as soon as Communism fell in Eastern Europe in 1989, Western politicians and intellectuals concluded that the West had "won" the Cold War and that liberal democracy had triumphed over authoritarianism in the world. Euphoria spread with the expectation of a New World Order. Within months, the giddy optimism began to fade, especially in the face of what soon became a brutal war in former Yugoslavia. Why did Serbia choose to replicate many of Germany's methods and aims from World Wars I and II, including ethnic cleansing (read "genocid...
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