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DescriptionIdentity has become a central feature of national conversations: identity politics and identity crises are the order of the day. We cele...

"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best descr...

Reducere. Since Mill's seminal work On Liberty, philosophers and political theorists have accepted that we should respect the decisions of individual agents ...

White is not a book about colors. It is rather Kenya Haras attempt to explore the essence of "White", which he sees as being closely related to the...

Reducere. Bordering all but two of South America's other nations and by far Latin America's largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and...

Reducere. Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. As we...

This book discusses the most important techniques available for longitudinal data analysis, from simple techniques such as the paired t-test and su...

Reducere. Chronicling the underappreciated black tradition of bearing arms for self-defense, this book presents an array of examples reaching back to the pre...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steven J. JensenLiving the Good Life presents a brief introduction to virtue and vice, self-control and weakness, misery an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kay Hardy CampbellFawzia returns home to Jeddah in 1978, after attending college in Lebanon, and takes up secretly with her...

The history of National Socialism as a movement and a regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-centur...

Contributor(s): Author: Hayden WhiteSince its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understand...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dhan Gopal MukerjiEditor: Gordon ChangEditor: Akhil GuptaA person of rare talent and broad appeal, Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890...

Contributor(s): Author: Robert KeganThe Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems--the individual's effort ...

DescriptionWhat would happen if elephants disappeared? Trace the repercussions of a world without elephants in writer and illustrator Lily Williams...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth "betita" MartinezNamed the 2009 AAUP Best of the Best - Outstanding Book Distinction The history of Mexican Ameri...

DescriptionHow did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern sta...

DescriptionAccording to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples o...

Reducere. DescriptionYoga for Better Bones shows you how to practice Yoga safely if you have osteoporosis or low bone density. This Second Edition of Yoga fo...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness is a translation of Edmund Husserl's Vorlesungen zur Ph nomenologie des inneren Zeitbew...

DescriptionWhat does it mean to think about technology philosophically? Why try? These are the issues that Carl Mitcham addresses in this work, a c...

Reducere. If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this bo...

Reducere. On the morning of July 21, 1918--in the final year of the First World War--a new prototype of German submarine surfaced three miles off the coast o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laura Vaccaro SeegerHow many shades of blue are there?There's the soft blue of a baby's cherished blanket, the ocean blue o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sandra MarkleIn 2007 only thirty Amur leopards remained in the wild. Scientists knew they needed to do more to help these b...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Servais O. P. Pinckaers As Alasdair MacIntyre notes in the preface, the work of Pinckaers attracted strongand fully justifi...

Reducere. On the morning of July 21, 1918--in the final year of the First World War--a new prototype of German submarine surfaced three miles off the coast o...

Reducere. DescriptionCharles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was an American philosopher, physicist, mathematician, and the founder of pragmatism. Despite his imp...

DescriptionThis book introduces a theory of music analysis that one can use to explore aspects of segmentation and associative organization in a wi...

Reducere. In this new and brilliantly organized book of essays, Anthony Giddens discusses three main theoretical traditions in social science that cut across...

A Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of the YearAn Avery O. Craven Award FinalistA Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn April 1865, Robert...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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. 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...

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. 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...

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

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

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...

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

Reducere. TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era takes a deep dive into writing for today's audiences, against the backdrop of a rap...

Reducere. There have been many books written about Johnny Cash, but The Man in Song is the first to examine Cash's incredible life through the lens of the so...

The relationship among Judaism, Gnosticism, and Christianity perpetually eludes easy description. While it is clear that by the second and third ce...

Contributor(s): Author: Emile SimpsonAs a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afgha...

Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions that exist in nature. It also has the distinction of being the oldest, weakest, and most diffic...

Reducere. At the age of five, Shirley Temple became the world's most famous and acclaimed child-the most talented, beautiful child performer ever to capture ...

Reducere. One of Glamour's Best Books of Summer * An Us Weekly Trending Title "A delicious beach read." -People "Relatable characters round out a fun, fast r...

Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio AgambenTranslator: Kevin AttellThe end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both mes...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles de LintDe Lint's first adult fantasy novel in 8 years weaves a rich tapestry of story with classic CdL elegance. Yo...

Reducere. The Year without a Purchase is the story of one family's quest to stop shopping and start connecting. Scott Dannemiller and his wife, Gabby, are fo...

Reducere. What is significant about this revision of the 1963 Grail Psalms? The translation bears the distinction of being a liturgical psalter. It differs i...