Dominant Character. The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane, Paperback - Samanth Subramanian

The bold and brilliant biography of maverick British scientist J.B.S. Haldane, one of the twentieth-century's greatest thinkers, by an award-winnin...

The bold and brilliant biography of maverick British scientist J.B.S. Haldane, one of the twentieth-century's greatest thinkers, by an award-wining...

Reducere. J. B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama--from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first in...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016The vivid and haunting story of Sri Lanka and its brutal thirty...

How to Feel explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch, reconnecting us to what is arguably our most important sen...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Dominic D. P. JohnsonIllustration(s): 13 b/w illus. 8 tables.Number of pages: 392Publication date: ...

An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas ...

Publisher: PM PressNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Kirk HellikerRede...

We are told that we live in a post ideological era; that we have moved 'beyond Left and Right'; and that we are 'all in it together'. Democracy has...

Publisher: Spokesman BooksAuthor(s): Ruth DerhamNumber of pages: 210Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 232 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

This book reads Oscar Wilde's literary texts in relation to his open support for revolutionaries, along with his expressions of solidarity with Iri...

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Reducere. Long out of print and impossible to find, The Science of Character was for many years Ludwig Klages' only book translated into English. A tour de f...

This volume shows not only how authenticity came to define a variety of social contexts, but also how it helped to lay the groundwork for the neoli...

Women and ETA is the first book-length study of women in radical Basque nationalism. It uses a unique body of oral history interviews to examine th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Sigrid SchmalzerEditor: Daniel S. ChardEditor: Alyssa BotelhoFor the first time, this book compiles original documents from...

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A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes.

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An examination of the part played by violent non-state actors in Middle Eastern and North African current affairs. Individual chapters on the Islam...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor S. Pearl BrilmyerIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Collection: Thinkin...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the major accomplishments of the Occupy movement has been to draw global attention to the massive disparity of income, wealth, an...

Lumbering State, Restless Society offers a comprehensive and compelling understanding of modern Egypt. Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly ...

DescriptionOne of the great classics of Scottish history, The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves folklore, social comment and economic history in ...

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Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that...

From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism today.

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Reducere. In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement o...

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This book challenges the conceptual and practical effectiveness of resistance to achieve social and political change, and considers an alternative ...

Reducere. Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of colo...

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DescriptionStephen Mansfield, the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author, has highlighted the growing popularity of Mormonism―a belief system...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor S. Pearl BrilmyerIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 296Collection: Thinkin...

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By shedding light on the ideas and practices of the Chinese Youth Party, Nagatomi Hirayama offers an indispensable lens through which to view the f...

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