Honor Bound: How a Cultural Ideal Has Shaped the American Psyche, Paperback - Ryan P. Brown

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An exploration of the ways that social media shapes how we eat, and how to make it work for us, from registered nutritionist Pixie Turner.

An exploration of the ways that social media shapes how we eat, and how to make it work for us, from registered nutritionist Pixie Turner.

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The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that sparked a national conversation about America's new progressive, multiracial majority, updat...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jennifer A. DeltonIllustration(s): 10 b/w illus. 1 table.Number of pages: 392Publication date: 2022...

DescriptionDo you think sex only shapes our lives in the bedroom? Think again.Your breakfast cereal. Your neighborhood's crime rate. Even your Amaz...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Sathnam SangheraNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 31Cover type: Paperback / ...

This study of Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo (2012-2020) answers three questions: How could Abe Shinzo remain in power for nearly a decade? Wha...

Reducere. Weaving together personal stories, legal opinion and political debate, Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom looks at the questions surrounding...

Upon its first publication in 2001 as the inaugural volume in The New Press People's History series, edited by the late Howard Zinn, Ray Raphael's ...

Reducere. WE THE PRESIDENTS explores how American presidents over the last century, from Warren G. Harding to Donald Trump, have shaped today's issues. Every...

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Reducere. This book reconsiders the question of Martin Luther's relationship with Rome in all its sixteenth-century manifestations: the early-modern city he ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Steven G. EpsteinIllustration(s): 7 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 400Pu...

Each of the women in this series stepped out of the bounds of physical and social expectations to pursue her personal vision through photography. S...

Reducere. One hundred original profiles of the most influential African-Americans of the twentieth century. Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would ...

For years, student pharmacists have jerry-built a pocket-sized collection of figures and tables containing key clinical information that they look ...

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of bi...

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Reducere. Psychology's Grand Theorists argues that the three schools in psychology that have been dominant historically--the psychodynamic, behavioral, and p...

This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passo...

This book describes Trumpism: the strong allegiance to former President Donald Trump that is in evidence among a sizable portion of the US populati...

A new translation of two of Plato's dialogues, Timaios and Kritias, with commentary and critical discussion including an exploration of how the tal...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Steven G. EpsteinIllustration(s): 7 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 400Pu...

DescriptionThe first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyistFounded in 1895, the National Association of Manu...

DescriptionAre homecoming games and freshman composition, Twitter feeds and scholarly monographs really mortal enemies? Media U presents a provocat...

Reducere. Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The internationa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicholas P. MoneyThe great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part of o...

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Reducere. The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen...

From bronze axes of the Viking conquests to the American homesteader's felling axe, this is a tool that has shaped human history like few others. A...

Reducere. Psyche Unbound: Essays in Honor of Stanislav Grof is an extraordinary compilation of 22 essays that honor the path-breaking lifework of Stanislav G...

Reducere. Written by leading mental health professionals, this warm and accessible parenting book for children with chronic illnesses offers clear, practical...

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Reducere. At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected U.S. president was forced to confront an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Musl...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old -- the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge...

The epic story of the origin of calculus

Reducere. Welcome to the second edition of Perspectives and Open Access Anthropology We are delighted to bring to you this novel textbook, a collection of ch...

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