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Foucault and the Iranian Revolution. Gender and the Seductions of Islamism, Paperback - Kevin B. Anderson

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On the Shoulders of Giants - The Post-Italianate Edition, Paperback - Robert K. Merton

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Untying Things Together. Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory, Hardback - Professor Eric L. Santner

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The Nature of the Future. Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North, Paperback - Emily Pawley

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The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1. Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia, Paperback - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Crossing the Boundaries of Life. Gunter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology, Hardback - Karl S. Matlin

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Constructing Basic Liberties. A Defense of Substantive Due Process, 1, Paperback - James E. Fleming

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Teaching Expertise in Three Countries. Japan, China, and the United States, Paperback - Akiko Hayashi

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Crossing the Boundaries of Life. Gunter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology, Paperback - Karl S. Matlin

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The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities, Hardcover - Brian Ladd

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How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual, Paperback - Dan Bouk

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Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers, " American capitalism embraced "risk"--and proceeded to number our days...

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Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze, Paperback - Shane Vogel

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Worlds Before Adam. The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform, Paperback - Martin J. S. Rudwick

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Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy. The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism, Paperback - S. M. Amadae

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After the Map. Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century, Paperback - William Rankin

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Amber Waves. The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop, Paperback - Catherine Zabinski

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Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger, Paperback - Albert Hofstadter

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Living in the Future. Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement, Hardback - Victoria W. Wolcott

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Pure Adulteration. Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food, Paperback - Benjamin R. Cohen

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Prisms of the People. Power and Organizing in Twenty-First Century America, Paperback - Michelle Oyakawa

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A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement, Paperback - Anthony Powell

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Lost Mars: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet, Paperback - Mike Ashley

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Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters, Paperback - Martin J. S. Rudwick

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The Chinese Maze Murders: A Judge Dee Mystery, Paperback - Robert Van Gulik

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The Western Flyer: Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries, Hardcover - Kevin M. Bailey

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Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species, Paperback - Ursula K. Heise

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Open Secret. The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton, Hardback - Nicholas L. Syrett

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A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Paperback - Anthony Powell

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Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory, Paperback - David Garland

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Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War, Paperback - Arthur Koestler

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Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises, Paperback - Bryan a. Garner

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Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition, Paperback - Jonathan Rauch

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Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy. Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism, Paperback - Leo Strauss

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On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters, Paperback - Matthew Desmond

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The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life, Paperback - Patricia Ewick

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On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing, Paperback - Owen Whooley

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The Eyes of the World. Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo, Hardback - James H. Smith

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Privilege of Being Banal. Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris, Paperback - Elayne Oliphant

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White Market Drugs. Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America, Hardback - David Herzberg

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What about Mozart? What about Murder?: Reasoning from Cases, Paperback - Howard S. Becker

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Open Secret. The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton, Paperback - Nicholas L. Syrett

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The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity, Paperback - Alan Wolfe

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Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England, Paperback - Elaine Leong

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The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon, Paperback - Hussein Fancy

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The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century, Hardcover - Alex Csiszar

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Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry - Albert Borgmann

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Speaking into the Air. A History of the Idea of Communication, Paperback - John Durham Peters

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Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann Von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society, Hardcover - M. Norton Wise

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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, Third Edition, Paperback - John D'Emilio

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Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History, Paperback - Ernest Gellner

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Wild Mammals in Captivity: Principles and Techniques for Zoo Management, Second Edition, Paperback - Devra G. Kleiman

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The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy, Paperback - Suzanne Mettler

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Myth of the Imperial Presidency - How Public Opinion Checks the Unilateral Executive, Paperback - Douglas Kriner

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Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory, Paperback - Edward Hall

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After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America, Paperback - E. C. Pielou

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Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control, Paperback - Amy E. Lerman

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Black Wave. How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters, Hardback - Daniel P Aldrich

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The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality, Paperback - Benjamin Kahan

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