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An urgent plea for much needed reforms to legal education The period from 2008 to 2018 was a lost decade for American law schools. Employment resul...

Lavishly illustrated and impressively interdisciplinary, Inventing Exoticism narrates a vital chapter in the history of European exoticism and Euro...

Reducere. New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene. Currently, there is no other place in the Americas where su...

Publisher: She Writes PressAuthor(s): Shelley Blanton-StroudNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 215 x 21Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. ...

Reducere. The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. T...

Reducere. To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, aut...

Reducere. For a happy relationship with your cat, go beyond the looks and make your pick based on demonstrated breed behavior. This is the advice of the Hart...

"A number of maps included throughout this book refer readers to https: //purefood.lafayette.edu/. The maps included here are static versions of a ...

Reducere. DescriptionLong before we began to speak of "public intellectuals, " the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among ma...

DescriptionAfter centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century riddled with dictatorships, indigenous peoples in Bolivia embarked upon a...

There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "e...

A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century

Reducere. A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever written Euclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainhead...

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literat...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Benjamin RobertsonNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 214 x 139 x 18Cover type...

Reducere. In recent decades churches have accommodated people with disabilities in various ways. Through access ramps and elevators and sign language, disabl...

Reducere. Often labeled neo-Nazis or right-wing extremists, radical nationalists in the Nordic countries have always relied on music to voice their oppositio...

Experiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their cruc...

DescriptionFrom everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can rein...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can rein...

DescriptionOnce seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media outlets present it as dangerous to the U.S., Europe...

In a polemic against the unexamined foundations and stagnant state of the field, Benjamin Schreier critically analyzes a series of professionally p...

Reducere. Connect with your higher nature-a practical guide to universal spirituality A spiritual awakening is taking place around the globe-and you can be a...

On August 7, 1989, Congressman Mickey Leland departed on a flight from Addis Ababa, with his thirteen-member delegation of Ethiopian and American r...

Reducere. Simple, filling, and flavorful recipes to help guys like you get cooking Kiss takeout and frozen food goodbye as you learn how easy it is to start ...

Reducere. In February 1933, Adolf Hitler had only a tenuous grasp on power. Chancellor of Germany for merely four weeks, he led a fragile coalition governmen...

Provides a guided tour of some of the most significant tabby structures found along the American southeastern coast and includes more than two hund...

Reducere. Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates...

For neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's there is no unifying biology, explaining why every attempt to cure them has fail...

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval...

Reducere. Explore WWII from the front lines in this teen history book Help history come alive in a way that's easy for teens to connect with and enjoy. World...

A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today's international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial ...

Reducere. Freakonomics for the law--the revolutionary behavioral science insights into how the law fails to reduce misbehavior. Why do some laws radically ch...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Benjamin R. CohenNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 24Cover typ...

Reducere. "We're Not Leaving" is a compilation of powerful first-person narratives told from the vantage point of World Trade Center disaster workers-police ...

Reducere. From the front office to the family room, sabermetrics has dramatically changed the way baseball players are assessed and valued by fans and manage...

Contributor(s): Author: Benjamin LessingOver the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well...

Description-Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities--what Michel Foucault deemed...

Reducere. These Bible passages, reflections, and prayers will lead women through the Bible, from Eve to the women at the empty tomb and in the early church. ...

Reducere. DescriptionWith experience as both a trial and appellate judge, Charles Benjamin Schudson knows the burdens on judges. With engaging candor, he tak...

DescriptionThe contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing a...

Reducere. This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, takes readers back to the roots of historical archaeology. B...

Reducere. Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were alre...

Over the last three decades, numerous radical right populist parties (RRPP) have emerged, developed, and strengthened their electoral weight in Wes...

Reducere. The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border i...

DescriptionIntroduction to Abstract Algebra presents a breakthrough approach to teaching one of math's most intimidating concepts. Avoiding the pit...

Reducere. DescriptionThe little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life I...

Reducere. Making wine on Europe's largest active volcano doesn't come easy. Frequent changes in topography, elevation, and weather influence each vintage and...

DescriptionLegend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monster--a deformed flying horse with glowing red eyes...

Reducere. The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasian civilizations. Using challenging land and maritime routes, merchants an...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Benjamin Van RooijNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 143 x 222 x 26Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. In 1973, Leonard and Edith Ehrlich chose to undertake a daunting task that would ultimately become their greatest work: conducting over thirty year...

Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian...