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Yves Lafrance
PRONOIA: The World Conspires in Your Favor
PRONOIA - The World Conspires in Your Favor By Yves Lafrance What if the world was not against you, but for you? What if every detour, delay, and silence were not obstacles, but signs inviting you to trust life again? In an age ruled by fear, doubt, and control, PRONOIA invites a radical shift in p...
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Richard Barker
Case*Method: Entity Relationship Modelling
Now data analysts, strategists and data administrators can learn the powerful technique of entity relationship modelling from this definitive guide. In a lucid instructional style, Richard Barker shows how the data modelling technique can be applied to develop high-quality, integrated information sy...
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Steven A. Cook
The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square (Council on Foreign Relations (Oxford))
The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a lynchpin of the US's Middle East strategy, receiving more aid than any nation except Israel. This is not the first time that the world...
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HARRY BRIGHOUSE
On Education (Thinking in Action)
What is education for? Should it produce workers or educate future citizens? Is there a place for faith schools - and should patriotism be taught? In this compelling and controversial book, Harry Brighouse takes on all these urgent questions and more. He argues that children share four fundamental ...
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Mother Angelica
Mother Angelica on Suffering and Burnout
From the spiritual writings and reflections of Mother Angelica comes this lucid and life-transforming book for anyone who struggles with suffering, or finds difficulty in persevering in your daily responsibilities. Mother Angelica provides consolation and advice that only a spiritual mother can prov...
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Elise Blackwell
Hunger: A Novel
In the wake of the Siege of Leningrad in 1941, during which hundreds of thousands of people starved to death, a scientist charged with protecting a collection of rare seeds that could provide food is forced to make a terrible choice. An unnamed scientist, now safely ensconced in New York City, looks...
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Thomas Lewis
A General Theory of Love (Vintage)
This original and lucid account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being draws on the latest scientific research. Three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with...
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Pauline Rosenau
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences
Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Ros...
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Virginia Cox
The Italian Renaissance: A Cultural History
The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In this magisterial study, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in cultural history. Her lucid and absorbing book explores key artistic, literary and intellectual developments, as w...
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Anthony A. Hoekema
Saved by Grace
A comprehensive, dynamic, and eminently practical presentation of the biblical teaching on salvation. In discussing the facets of the working out of salvation -- the role of the Spirit, union with Christ, the gospel call, regeneration, conversion, repentance, and so on -- Hoekema does away with the ...
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Lev Menand
The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis
Do the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality? The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned, government-chartered banks. But over the years, the erosion of banking law and the rise of alternative forms of mon...
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Roxana Robinson
A Perfect Stranger: And Other Stories
In Roxana Robinson’s lucid and elegant prose, her characters’ inner worlds open up to us, revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs, their secrets, and their longings. These people tell us the truth–not only about themselves, their relationships, and their lives, but a...
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Michael Dummett
Truth and Other Enigmas
This collection of Michael Dummett’s philosophical essays, spanning more than twenty years, ranges in topic from time to the philosophy of mathematics, but is unified by a steady philosophical outlook. The essays are, in one way or another, informed by Dummett’s concern with metaphysical questio...
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Nicholas Thomas
In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories
In this collection of essays, Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. Basing his claims on wide-ranging historical and ethnographic research and building on his celebrated studies of ex...
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Jonathan Arac
Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel
This book records a major critic’s three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people’s lives―that is, politics. A preference for impurity and a search for how to analyze and explain it are guiding threads in this book as its chapters pursue the comp...
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Lewis Lockwood
Beethoven: The Music and the Life
An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” ― New York Review of Books . This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent per...
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Margot Livesey
The Road from Belhaven: A Novel
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy , an unforgettable novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in nineteenth-century Scotland “Bewitching and seductive.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions for Yo...
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Daniel Dubuisson
The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology
In this book, anthropologist and historian of religion Daniel Dubuisson contests Mircea Eliade's theory of the existence of a universal Homo Religiosus and argues that "religion" as a discrete concept is a Western construct, an invention of nineteenth-century scholars who created it as a field of ...
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Noam Chomsky
Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs
In this still-timely classic, Noam Chomsky argues that the real “rogue” states are the United States and its allies. Chomsky turns his penetrating gaze toward U.S. involvement in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America to trace the enduring combined effects of military d...
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Serge Moscovici
The Making of Modern Social Psychology: The Hidden Story of How an International Social Science was Created
This fascinating book makes an important contribution to the history of the social sciences. It tells the largely hidden story of how social psychology became an international social science, vividly documenting the micro-politics of a virtually forgotten committee, the Committee on Transnational So...
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