The Urge: Our History of Addiction, Hardcover - Carl Erik Fisher

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Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Carl Erik FisherNumber of pages: 400Collection: The Addicted BrainPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x ...

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions, both in terms of its history and ideo...

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This is the largest selection, in any language, of the writings of Erik Satie (1866-1925). Although once dismissed as an eccentric, Satie has come ...

DescriptionHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation ...

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A true story which looks at the life of William E. Dodd, the American ambassador to Hitler's Germany in 1933, and his family. They noticed the many...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by lo...

The Cardiff and South Wales Cook Book celebrates the best of the region's food scene with over 30 recipes from a wide selection of contributors inc...

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The World of Eric Carle Around the Farm Sound Book has an attached 30-button audio module that enables children to connect sound to 30 unique anima...

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Reducere. Theological firebrand Peter Rollins asserts that mainstream Christianity reduces God to an idol, made in our own image, for the purpose of providin...

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An argument that the system of boards that license human-subject research is so fundamentally misconceived that it inevitably does more harm than g...

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One of the great science and health revelations of our time is the danger posed by meat-eating. Every day, it seems, we are warned about the harm p...

Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers ...