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Rebecca West
A Train of Powder
Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness. The centerpiece of the book is "Greenho...
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Richard W. Pound
Inside the Olympics: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Politics, the Scandals, and the Glory of the Games
"You won't always agree with Dick Pound...but his 'no holds barred' approach to so many major issues will keep you reading all night long." —Dick Ebersol, Chairman, NBC Sports and Olympics "The Olympic Games exist for the benefit of the athletes and not the IOC. Many IOC members still don't get ...
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Roger Lowenstein
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
“ Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.” —Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal “ Ways and Means , an account of the Union’s fina...
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C. Bradley Thompson
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty
America's finest eighteenth-century student of political science, John Adams is also the least studied of the Revolution's key figures. By the time he became our second president, no American had written more about our government and not even Jefferson or Madison had read as widely about questions o...
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Melanie Marquis
Carl Llewellyn Weschcke: Pioneer & Publisher of Body, Mind & Spirit
The Inspiring Life and Unmatched Influence of a True New Age Visionary To the countless people he inspired, Carl Llewellyn Weschcke will forever be known as the Father of the New Age. This vivid and entertaining book tells Carl's story, from a childhood influenced by his Spiritualist grandfather to ...
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Geoffrey Kirk
Without Precedent: Scripture, Tradition, and the Ordination of Women
Though the ordination of women has been hotly debated in a number of churches (and in particular in the world-wide Anglican Communion) there has been a strange silence on the subject from academic theologians. "They have left the debate," says the author of this book, "for the most part, to the also...
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Michael Reid
Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond   “Comprehensive and engaging.”—Gideon Rachman, Financial Times   Spain’s transition to democracy after Franco’s long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three d...
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Steven Mailloux
Rhetorical Power
In this provocative and forcefully written book, Steven Mailloux takes issue with the validity of a number of distinctions commonly made in contemporary literary theory and cultural studies―distinctions between theory and history, reader and text, truth and ideology, aesthetics and politics. Maill...
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Morton Shane
Intimate Attachments: Toward a New Self Psychology
Offering new ways of thinking about the intimate connections between analyst and patient, this lucid, clinically oriented volume presents an innovative model of psychoanalytic change. The authors integrate current findings in self psychology, attachment and infant research, and developmental systems...
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Robert J. Miller
A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma
“At the end of the Trail of Tears there was a promise,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the decision issued on July 9, 2020, in the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma . And that promise, made in treaties between the United States and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation more than 150 years earl...
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Jess Olson
Jewish Culture: A Quick Immersion
“Among the most lucid, authoritative accounts of Jewish culture in the English language. A work of impressive breadth, great intelligence and clarity.” — Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University "Jess Olson guides his readers thr...
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Daniel Miller
Materiality (Politics, History, and Culture)
Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the immaterial is not easily separated from the mat...
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Robert Barron
The Priority of Christ: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism
For a long time, Christians have tried to bridge the divide between Christianity and secular liberalism with philosophizing and theologizing. In The Priority of Christ , Bishop Robert Barron shows that the answer to this debate--and the way to move forward--lies in Jesus. Barron transcends the usua...
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Allen C. Guelzo
Reconstruction: A Concise History
The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with...
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Nicholas Sargent
Dream Journey Stream: A 10-Junction Map for Remembering, Entering, and Integrating Dreams
Dreams are not random images that disappear with morning light. They are a living stream — and you can learn how to enter it. In Dream Journey Stream , dream practitioner and author Nicholas Sargent offers a clear, experiential map for working with dreams as an ongoing practice rather than a on...
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Tim James
Wines of the New South Africa: Tradition and Revolution
Sought after by European aristocrats and a favorite of Napoleon Bonaparte, the sweet wines of Constantia in the Cape Colony were considered to be among the world’s best during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During the first democratic elections in 1994, South Africa began to re-emerge on...
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Jazmina Barrera
Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes
“Eminently worthy of acclaim.” ― Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far) An intimate exploration of motherhood, Linea Nigra approaches the worries and joys of childbearing from a diverse range of inspirations and traditions, from Louise Bourgeois to Ursula K. Le Guin to the indigenous Nahua m...
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William Kent
Data and Reality: A Timeless Perspective on Perceiving and Managing Information in Our Imprecise World, 3rd Edition
Let's step back to the year 1978. Sony introduces hip portable music with the Walkman, Illinois Bell Company releases the first mobile phone, Space Invaders kicks off the video game craze, and William Kent writes Data and Reality . We have made amazing progress in the last four decades in terms of ...
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Herman Westerink
Seduction, Drive and Repetition: Freud's Metaphysics of Trauma (Figures of the Unconscious)
This book makes the compelling argument that the key to understanding Freud's clinical writings and psychoanalytical theories lies in his trauma theory. The authors argue that Freud never truly abandoned his initial trauma theory – the seduction theory – in favour of the Oedipus complex and the ...
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