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Keith J. Laidler
Science and Sensibility: The Elegant Logic of the Universe
Science has produced the vast information explosion that barrages us daily with data both trivial and profound. Though people seem eager to acquire more and more information, few understand what to do with it or how to integrate it into a coherent worldview. Paradoxically, as information has increas...
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Robert Stam
Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
Subversive Pleasures offers the first extended application of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media, and cultural studies. With extraordinary interdisciplinary and multicultural range, Robert Stam explores issues that include the "translinguistic" critiquw of Saussurean semiotics a...
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Thomas S. Kidd
Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father
A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin’s faith “Kidd vividly brings Franklin’s spiritual quest to life throughout his book, and he provides a direct line from Franklin’s beliefs to those we see around us today.”—Randy Dotinga, Christian Science Mon...
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Heidi M Levitt
Essentials of Critical-Constructivist Grounded Theory Research (Essentials of Qualitative Methods Series)
This book provides a step-by-step description of how to use critical-constructivist grounded theory (CCGT) methods. This flexible approach can aid researchers in investigating topics within psychological, interpersonal, and sociocultural contexts. It leads readers to reflexively examine their res...
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Georges Simenon
The Carter of 'La Providence' (Inspector Maigret)
“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré A tragic tale of lost identity, and a mystery that only Inspector Maigret can solve “What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white b...
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Cornelia Dean
Against the Tide
Americans love to colonize their beaches. But when storms threaten, high-ticket beachfront construction invariably takes precedence over coastal environmental concerns―we rescue the buildings, not the beaches. As Cornelia Dean explains in Against the Tide , this pattern is leading to the rapid de...
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Paul R. Kolbet
Augustine and the Cure of Souls: Revising a Classical Ideal (Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity)
Augustine and the Cure of Souls situates Augustine within the ancient philosophical tradition of using words to order emotions. Paul Kolbet uncovers a profound continuity in Augustine's thought, from his earliest pre-baptismal writings to his final acts as bishop, revealing a man deeply indebted to...
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Lee Dian Dian Rainey
Confucius and Confucianism: The Essentials
This comprehensive introduction explores the life and teachings of Confucius, and development of Confucian thought, from ancient times to the present today. Demonstrates the wisdom and enduring relevance of Confucius’s teachings – drawing parallels between our 21 st century society and that of...
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Sharon Greenwald
Sixty-ninth Street Suicide: A Memoir of Divorce, Depression and Defining My Why
After suffering depression following a catastrophic event at 17, Sharon Greenwald knows she’ll commit suicide one day. But she never considers what would happen if she survived. Not even a lifelong eating disorder stemming from an abortion, watching her father and best friend take their last breat...
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Richard Whatmore
The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis
A landmark study of of one of the most controversial periods in history, from an eminent historian The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical...
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Michael B. Oren
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of Ally — now featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ri...
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Bernd Heinrich
Bumblebee Economics
Describes the complex ecological relationship between bees and their environment, including the ways they regulate their body temperature and what role they play in the pollination of plants Lively and lucid...To read this book is to enrich a summer's day and a winter's dreaming. (Howard E. Evans N...
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J. I. Packer
Concise Theology
A Concise Introduction to Biblical Doctrine "Theology is for doxology and devotion―that is, the praise of God and the practice of godliness.” ― From the Preface Theology is important for the Christian life. And though it is marked by many complex terms and doctrines, there is yet what J. I. P...
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Lene Handberg
Dream Wisdom: Embedded in Buddhist Psychology, Philosphy, and the Dream Yoga (Ud-Education)
Tibetan dream work has an extensive history that includes pre-Buddhist folk tradition, Bön and Buddhism. There is little literature on the pre-Buddhist traditions, but we have living evidence of this folk tradition which points to its lasting effect on the way contemporary Tibetan folk culture deal...
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Julian Young
The Philosophy of Tragedy: From Plato to Žižek
This book is an exhaustive survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present. From Aristotle to Žižek the focal question has been: why, in spite of its distressing content, do we value tragic drama? What is the nature of the “tragic effect”? Some philosophers point to a certain...
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Randa Hamwi Duwaji
Revival of the IQRA! Principle
This book is a welcome addition to the library of contemporary Islamic studies. Although the subject matter is highly scholarly in nature, the lucid style of the author makes it accessible to scholars and lay persons alike. It makes unique and significant contributions in its selection of the topic,...
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Michelle Rodriguez
The Toltec Legacy: Wisdom to Live by in the New Dawn
Hollywood A-lister Michelle Rodriguez and Mexican healer Sergio Magaña reveal the incredible truth of ancient Toltec wisdom. This book offers a golden future for our planet, equipping readers with Toltec self-development tools. As prophesied by the Toltecs, the world is moving into a new age of c...
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Laura van den Berg
The Third Hotel: A Novel
"[A] future cult classic." ― The New York Times Book Review "There’s Borges and Bolaño, Kafka and Cortázar, Modiano and Murakami, and now Laura van den Berg." ― The Washington Post Finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award. Named a Best Book of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Huffington Post ,...
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James M. McPherson
Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War
James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom , his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times , called "history writing of t...
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Zakir Husain
Women in Kolkata’s IT Sector: Satisficing Between Work and Household (SpringerBriefs in Sociology)
Based on a survey of women workers in Kolkata’s IT sector, this book argues that growth of the IT sector has created a demand for skilled professionals. This has provided scope for highly educated urban women to create a space of self-expression and enjoy enhanced status and prestige within their ...
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