Why Do We Do What We Do? Motivation in History and the Social Sciences / / Ramsay MacMullen.

Why we do what we do is a matter of great interest to everyone, and everyone seems to have had their say about it - philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, economists, and historians perhaps the most, case by case. Occasionally the specialists have offered their ideas to a genera...

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Place / Publishing House:Warsaw : : De Gruyter,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (172 pages)
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