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Tyler Burge offers an agenda-setting, scientifically rigorous account of the most primitive form of representational mind: perception. He explains ...

This book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism, and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It highlights shifts in 'another ...

This book discusses the relevance of philosophy courses within the undergraduate curriculum as integral to the self-formation that is at the heart ...

Reducere. Farah's landmark Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Ses...

During the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863, Sgt. William Harvey Carney picked up the fallen flag from his lifeless comrade. He waved the flag for all...

Reducere. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments, often disregarded, have unexpected relevance today. The Ninth Amendment, based on the idea of "pre-existing rights ...

Reducere. The manual describes LISP, a formal mathematical language. LISP differs from most programming languages in three important ways. The first way is i...

Reducere. Named a 2007 Book of Distinction by the Sir John Templeton Foundation. The special edition of this award winning book celebrates the 200th birthday...

This Element is an introduction to controversies concerning the structure of knowledge and justification. It explains clearly the main arguments fo...

Tyler Burge offers an agenda-setting, scientifically rigorous account of the most primitive form of representational mind: perception. He explains ...

Reducere. This comprehensive and accessibly written book brings together in one place for the first time the wealth of debates within cyberpsychology. Is the...

Reducere. Pauline Allen translates Frederick Field's text of John Chrysostom's twelve homilies on Paul's Letter to the Colossians. Chrysostom concentrates in...

This volume offers a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory through the lens of morphology, crucially collapsing the distinction between th...

Reducere. During his forty-five-year career, William Wyler (1902-1981) pushed the boundaries of filmmaking with his gripping storylines and innovative depth-...

Reducere. Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer st...

Reducere. Today, the concept of the refugee as distinct from other migrants looms large. Immigration laws have developed to reinforce a dichotomy between tho...

Studies into religion and violence often put religion first. Ren Girard started with violence in his book Violence and the Sacred and used the Durk...

Reducere. The state of Iowa is just as well known for prominent wrestlers as it is acres of corn and beans. That gives the state the mighty distinction of fe...

Reducere. NOW IN AN ENLARGED PRINT EDITION With a historian's precision, Luke's Gospel shows painstaking care both in detail and in expression. Of equal dist...

Colonel Moses Hazen's 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first "national" regiments in the American army. Created by the Continental Congress, it...

Reducere. The Epistle of James has long been a reminder that the Tree of Life-Christ's Cross and Gospel-was planted in rich, Jewish soil. James, steeped in I...

A law professor and former prosecutor reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, are at the root of the problems that plague ...

Reducere. American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground no...

Reducere. The gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. DonaldAs A SEAL and combat medic, M...

Reducere. Starting in Wazir Bagh, a small mohalla in Kashmir, Vidhu Vinod Chopra's life has been well and truly unscripted. Over the last thirty years, he ha...

A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human term...

Reducere. This is the classic WW2 sniping handbook. The author had much experience in sniping on the western front in the First World War, and he wrote his e...

Native identity is usually associated with a particular place. But what if that place is the ocean? Once Were Pacific explores this question as it ...

Reducere. Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has be...

Have you been striving for more in your spiritual journey? What if everything you could ever hope for in your relationship with God was placed in y...

Reducere. The story of the Blackshirt Movement in Great Britain has been well documented. What has never been adequately recorded before is the highly develo...

Reducere. Most histories of Reconstruction deal primarily with political issues and the larger conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, notherners and so...

Reducere. "In this carefully written study of the constituents of human decision making, Robert Sokolowski lays an elaborate groundwork to develop the import...

"Heterosexuality" is assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm. This work challenges the common notion that the distinction between he...

Reducere. Award-winning graphic novelist Matt Phelan delivers a darkly stylized noir Snow White set against the backdrop of Depression-era Manhattan. The sce...

Reducere. Is your toddler going through the "whacky one's, " "terrible two's, " "troublesome three's, " or "fudgesicle four's/five's?" Or could their behavio...

Reducere. Basil of Caesarea is considered one of the architects of the Pro-Nicene Trinitarian doctrine adopted at the Council of Constantinople in 381, which...

A compelling argument that the Internet of things threatens human rights and security and that suggests policy prescriptions to protect our future ...

Reducere. An affecting memoir from the country's youngest sommelier, tracing her path through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant world At just twent...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific re...

Reducere. The book of Zechariah is "the longest and most obscure" of the Twelve Minor Prophets, Jerome remarked. That may have been the reason why in 386 he ...

Reducere. Jamie Moynihan had the unique distinction of being the officer commanding the group of volunteers who carried out the first armed attack on crown f...

Reducere. Otto Brunner contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had been shaped by the nineteenth-century nation state ...

DescriptionSylvia Ji's haunting, seductive and psychedelically tinged portrayals of women offer a whole new slant on femininity, and blur the line ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat could be more innocent than a crossword puzzle? A game to while away an idle hour, a diversion for the lonely. And yet its cunning ...

General Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the Civil War years, on the frontier. Fighting the Indians, he earned the dis...

In Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, Ernest Heming...

Reducere. In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of th...

As the distinction between domestic and international is increasingly blurred along with the line between internal and external borders, migrants--...

The set includes extensive grammar, dialogues, and conversations, as well as tone distinction, manipulation, and...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

Reducere. DescriptionCabeza de Vaca came to the New world in 1527 as part of a Spanish expedition to conquer the region north of the Gulf of Mexico. His expl...

Reducere. No judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the mo...

DescriptionArmy Air Force pilot Jim Muri flew his torpedo-equipped B-26 bomber on a daring mission of survival that helped win the Battle of Midway...

Reducere. The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently domin...

Reducere. For more than fifty years and for millions of readers around the world, the New Daily Study Bible commentaries have been the ideal help for both de...

DescriptionA provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots.W...

Reducere. Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controv...

Reducere. An introduction to the concepts and principles of sound design practice, with more than 175 exercises that teach readers to put theory into practic...

In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of their augmented claims to holiness. Because c...

Did Christ assume a fallen human nature? "What is not assumed is not healed." So goes the Chalcedonian maxim articulated by Gregory of Nazianzus re...

DescriptionIn Kyrios Christos, Wilhelm Bousset argues that the Hellenistic Church's declaration of "Jesus as Lord" is a transformation of the pre-C...

Reducere. America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50...

In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization...

Reducere. This book reconceptualizes the history of U.S. immigration and citizenship law from the colonial period to the beginning of the twenty-first centur...

Reducere. DescriptionThis text serves as an accessible introduction to the law of contract. The headings chosen for examination track the main points in the ...

The battle of Gettysburg was the largest engagement of the Civil War, and--with more than 51, 000 casualties--also the deadliest. The highest regim...

Responding to questions put to him at a Roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating d...

Dinah is a prostitute who lives with a Rastafarian fisherman on the Dungle, the rubbish heap where the very poorist squat. She refuses to accept hi...

DescriptionCarson City has the distinction of being one of the least populated state capitals in the nation, but its contributions to Nevada's hist...