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Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World OrderGordian Knot explores how African decolonization remade the international order of        the mid-twentieth century. In looking closely at the apartheid debate, the book        shows the way South Africa's policies shaped the global conversation about rights        and race and eroded...

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One of the most widely read and studied texts composed in Late Antiquity is the        prison diary of Vibia Perpetua, a young woman of the elite classes who was martyred        in March of the year 202 or 203 C.E. in Carthage, as part of a civic celebration        honoring Caesar Geta. She was well-married and had recently become the mother of...

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Second EditionElectron tunnelling spectroscopy as a research tool has strongly advanced        understanding of superconductivity. This book explains the physics and        instrumentation behind the advances illustrated in beautiful images of atoms, rings        of atoms and exotic states in high temperature superconductors, and summarizes...