How To Still The Mind Through Meditation
A practical way to find inner peace and stability, to face the world.
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War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500-2000
War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500-2000
In War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000, Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius offers a remarkable look into the evolution of the European continent and the modern state system. In 36 provocative lectures, he allows us to peer through the revealing lens of statecraft to show us its impact on war, peace, and power and how that impact may well be felt in the future—an approach that historians have been using for thousands of years.
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