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Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace, Paperback - Alan M. Kraut

224,99 RON

This study traces the American tradition of the suspicion of immigrant populations spreading disease. From the cholera outbreak of the 1930s to the...

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Reclaiming Lives from Sexual Violence. Understanding Shame through Innovative Narrative Therapy, Paperback - Dale Johns

223,99 RON

This book demonstrates an innovative approach to using narrative therapy in counselling people who have been subject to childhood sexual abuse. It ...

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Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo, Paperback - Nigel Rothfels

223,99 RON 239,99 RON

Reducere. To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages...

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Everyday Life in Ancient Rome, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Lionel Casson

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lionel CassonIn Everyday Life in Ancient Rome, Lionel Casson offers a lively introduction to the society of the times. Inst...

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Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West, Paperback - Donald C. Jackson

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. Most water control projects in the American West depend on huge gravity dams, whose stability lies in massive quantities of concrete and earth or r...

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The Good War in American Memory, Paperback - John Bodnar

220,99 RON

The "Good War" in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodn...

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Classical Guitar Making: A Modern Approach to Traditional Design, Hardcover - John S. Bogdanovich

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. What a thrill for any musician: playing a fine-sounding instrument that he or she has lovingly crafted from scratch. With this richly illustrated m...

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Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Leukemia, Paperback - Candis Morrison

218,99 RON

DescriptionJohns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Leukemia is a concise, easy-to-follow "how to" guide that puts you on a path to wellness by explaining ...

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Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry, Paperback - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

218,99 RON

Originally published in 1766, the Laoco n has been called the first extended attempt in modern times to define the distinctive spheres of art and p...

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Women in Wartime. Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century, Paperback - ***

218,99 RON

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.Publishe...

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Bizarre Bioethics. Ghosts, Monsters, and Pilgrims, Paperback - ***

218,99 RON

Bizarre Bioethics invites students, researchers, policymakers and teachers interested in ethics and health care to think about the value perspectiv...

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Ethically Challenged. Private Equity Storms US Health Care, Hardback - Laura Katz Olson

218,99 RON

The first book to comprehensively address private equity and health care, Ethically Challenged raises the curtain on an industry notorious for its ...

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From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America, Paperback - Beth L. Bailey

216,99 RON 232,99 RON

Reducere. Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting ther...

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Lacrosse Legends of the First Americans, Paperback - Thomas Vennum

216,99 RON 232,99 RON

Reducere. An ancient Native American sport, lacrosse was originally played to resolve conflicts, heal the sick, and develop strong, virile men. In Lacrosse L...

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Historic Photos of Gettysburg, Hardcover - John S. Salmon

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Battle of Gettysburg July 1-July 3, 1863, fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was considered the bloodiest ba...

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The Scapegoat, Paperback - Rene Girard

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rene GirardTranslator: Yvonne FrecceroWidely regarded as one of the most profound critics of our time, RenGirard has pursue...

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Annotations to Finnegans Wake, Paperback (4th Ed.) - Roland McHugh

214,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Roland McHughRoland McHugh's classic Annotations to Finnegans Wake provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with ...

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Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy, Paperback - William G. Weissert

214,99 RON

DescriptionIn this classic text, William G. Weissert and Carol S. Weissert describe how government and private interests help define health policy....

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Tensor Calculus for Physics: A Concise Guide, Paperback - Dwight E. Neuenschwander

214,99 RON

DescriptionUnderstanding tensors is essential for any physics student dealing with phenomena where causes and effects have different directions. A ...

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Lupus Encyclopedia, Paperback - Donald Thomas

213,99 RON

Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease that can affect any system and organ in the body. For the 1.4 million people in the United St...

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Saving Endangered Species: Lessons in Wildlife Conservation from Indianapolis Prize Winners, Hardcover - Robert W. Shumaker

213,99 RON

Wildlife conservation is at a critical juncture. While large, charismatic mammals may be the first animals that come to mind--the mere 3, 000 wild ...

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Becoming T. S. Eliot. The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

Focusing on the period from 1909 to 1915, this incisive portrait of Eliot as a budding writer is as much a study of Eliot himself as it is a study ...

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No Kids Allowed. Children's Literature for Adults, Paperback - Michelle Ann Abate

213,99 RON

Abate examines how board books, coloring books, bedtime stories, and series detective fiction written and published specifically for adults questio...

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Baroque Modernity. An Aesthetics of Theater, Paperback - Joseph (Skidmore College) Cermatori

213,99 RON

Baroque Modernity will appeal to readers in a wide array of disciplines, including comparative literature, theater and performance, art and music h...

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Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy, Paperback - Larry Diamond

213,99 RON

Contributor(s): Editor: Larry DiamondEditor: Marc F. PlattnerEditor: Christopher WalkerOver the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldene...

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A History of Public Health, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - George Rosen

213,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: George RosenForeword by: Pascal James ImperatoIntroduction by: Elizabeth FeeSince publication in 1958, George Rosen's class...

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The Road to Universal Health Coverage: Innovation, Equity, and the New Health Economy, Paperback - Jeffrey L. Sturchio

213,99 RON

DescriptionLike many ambitious global goals, universal health coverage (UHC) remains an aspiration for many countries. The World Health Organizatio...

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The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation, Paperback - Trevor Owens

213,99 RON

DescriptionMany people believe that what is on the Internet will be around forever. At the same time, warnings of an impending "digital dark age"--...

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Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education, Hardcover - David J. Staley

213,99 RON

DescriptionHow can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today--MOOCs especially--focus on tra...

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Buddhisms: An Introduction, Paperback - John S. Strong

213,99 RON

"Exemplary for its organization and writing, this work is likely to become the standard single-volume text on Buddhism for the student, whether wit...

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Bears of the North. A Year Inside Their Worlds, Hardback - Wayne Lynch

213,99 RON

Informed by Lynch's nearly forty years of experience observing and photographing bears in the wild, and aided by sophisticated digital photo techno...

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The Black President. Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama, Hardback - Claude A., III Clegg

213,99 RON

Combining lively prose with a balanced, nonpartisan portrait of Obama's successes and failures, The Black President will be required reading not on...

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Making Liberalism New. American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

These problems-from the abortion debate to the scope of executive power-remain an indelible feature of American politics.Publisher: Johns Hopkins U...

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Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

Coetzee, Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind reveals important convergences between modernist writers, experimental psychology, and a...

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Sage on the Screen. Education, Media, and How We Learn, Hardback - Bill Ferster

213,99 RON

Accessibly written and full of explanatory art, Sage on the Screen offers fresh insight into the current and future uses of instructional technolog...

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Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Socie, Paperback - Steven

213,99 RON

Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities an...

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Suffrage at 100. Women in American Politics since 1920, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

Rafshoon, Bianca Rowlett, Sarah B. Rowley, Ana Stevenson, Barbara Winslow, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Nancy Beck YoungIllustrations: 23 Illustrations, black...

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Downward Mobility. The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel, Paperback - Katherine Binhammer

213,99 RON

An audacious epilogue arms humanists with the argument that, in order to save the planet from unsustainable growth, we need to read more novels.

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The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America, Hardcover - Jonathan Zimmerman

213,99 RON

American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. But we've heard that complaint for the past 150 years, as critics have denounced the poo...

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Behind the Mirror. The Story of a Pioneer in Autism Treatment and Her Work with Children on the Spectrum, Paperback - Sabine Oishi

213,99 RON

Demystifying the experience of autism, Behind the Mirror is a groundbreaking account of possibilities and hope.Illustrations: 10 Illustrations, bla...

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Global Perspectives on Higher Education, Paperback - Philip G. Altbach

213,99 RON

Provocative and wide-ranging, Global Perspectives on Higher Education considers how the international exchange of ideas, students, and scholars has...

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Astrobiology. An Introduction, third edition, Paperback - Michael Gross

213,99 RON

From neutron star mergers to the survival skills of tardigrades, this fascinating book is an ideal primer for students or anyone curious about life...

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Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex, Paperback - Timothy Wientzen

213,99 RON

The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expr...

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The Mediterranean World. From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

Structured around four interlocking themes-mobility, state development, commerce, and frontiers-this beautifully illustrated book brings new dimens...

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Narrative as Virtual Reality 2. Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media, Paperback - Marie-Laure Ryan

213,99 RON

Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simul...

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Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture is essential reading for anyone invested in the ever-changing state of literary culture.

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From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence, Hardcover - Hannah L. F. Cooper

213,99 RON

Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first for...

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Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health, Hardcover - Alexandra Brewis

213,99 RON

Stigma is a dehumanizing process, a method of shaming and blaming that is embedded in our beliefs about who does and does not have value within soc...

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From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932. The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

Hounshell chronicles how painfully Ford learned this lesson and recounts how the successful mass production of automobiles led to the establishment...

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Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative, Paperback - Paul B. Armstrong

213,99 RON

How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes t...

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Modernism After Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature, Paperback - Mara de Gennaro

213,99 RON

Existing studies of literary modernism generally read Anglophone Atlantic texts through the lens of critical theories emanating from Europe and Nor...

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Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science After the Second World War, Paperback - Douglas M. O'Reagan

213,99 RON

During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included ...

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Antibiotic Era. Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics, Hardback - Scott H. Podolsky

213,99 RON

Only by understanding the historical forces that have shaped our current situation, Podolsky argues, can we properly understand and frame our choic...

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Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist, Paperback - Johanna Drucker

213,99 RON

The poet Ilia Zdanevich, known in his professional life as Iliazd, began his career in the pre-Revolutionary artistic circles of Russian futurism. ...

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Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics, Paperback - Ben Glaser

213,99 RON

In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of fr...

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Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson, Paperback - Rayvon Fouche

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. According to the stereotype, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century inventors, quintessential loners and supposed geniuses, worked in splendid...

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Women in Greek Myth, Paperback - Mary R. Lefkowitz

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. In the first edition of Women in Greek Myth, Mary R. Lefkowitz convincingly challenged narrow, ideological interpretations of the roles of female c...

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Watermen, Paperback - Randall S. Peffer

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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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The Politics of the Anthropocene, Paperback - John S. Dryzek

209,99 RON

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-tho...

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Beyond Madness. The Pain and Possibilities of Serious Mental Illness, Hardback - Rachel A. Pruchno

209,99 RON

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Rachel A. PruchnoNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 238 x 29Cover type...

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722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York, Paperback - Clifton Hood

208,99 RON 223,99 RON

Reducere. When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue--the longes...

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Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I - John Ellis

206,99 RON 221,99 RON

Reducere. Millions of men lived in the trenches during World War I. More than six million died there. In Eye-Deep in Hell, the author explores this unique an...

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Academic Capitalism and the New Economy. Markets, State, and Higher Education, Paperback - Gary Rhoades

205,99 RON

Defining the terms of academic capitalism in the new economy, this groundbreaking study offers essential insights into the trajectory of American h...

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Design for Change in Higher Education, Hardback - ***

205,99 RON

A playbook that grounds theory in practice, Design for Change in Higher Education is aimed at faculty, staff, and students engaged in the important...

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Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott, Paperback - John S. D. Eisenhower

204,99 RON 219,99 RON

Reducere. The hero of the War of 1812, the conqueror of Mexico City in the Mexican-American War, and Abraham Lincoln's top soldier during the first six month...

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Friday, Paperback - Michel Tournier

204,99 RON

Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Acad mie Fran aise, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the ma...

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Baba Yaga. The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale, Paperback - Andreas Johns

202,99 RON

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Andreas JohnsNumber of pages: 356Collection: International FolkloristicsPublication date: 2004Dimens...

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Communicate for a Change. Revitalizing Conversations for Higher Education, Hardback - ***

201,99 RON

Breaking new ground in terms of both its subject matter and its format, Communicate for a Change is an accessible and engaging catalyst that will k...

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Fiction of Narrative. Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007, Paperback - Hayden V. White

201,99 RON

The Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars ...

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Space and the American Imagination, Paperback - Howard E. McCurdy

201,99 RON

Fully revised and updated since its original publication in 1997, Space and the American Imagination includes a reworked introduction and conclusio...

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