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Lisa Jardine
The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London
“Fascinating. . . . Jardine takes a complex view, according Hooke with the respect and dignity that eluded him for so long. . . [and] with this compelling and empathetic portrait, she succeeds in making a convincing case for his place in history. . . [as] a founding father in Europe’s scientific...
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Leston Havens
Coming to Life: Reflections on the Art of Psychotherapy
To penetrate the opaque, to lift the weight and let the self escape its frozen image―this is the essence of psychotherapy, a process described with extraordinary grace and warmth in this book. In remarkably candid portraits of patients at odds with themselves, Leston Havens takes us through the wo...
$26.66
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Nina Bandelj
Economy and State (Economy and Society)
Should governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers offer a uniquely sociological perspective to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. From defining property rights and ...
$23.98
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Zara S. Steiner
Britain and the Origins of the First World War: Second Edition
How and why did Britain become involved in the First World War? Taking into account the scholarship of the last twenty-five years, this second edition of Zara S. Steiner's classic study, thoroughly revised with Keith Neilson, explores a subject which is as highly contentious as ever. While retainin...
$37.32
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Douglas Stuart
Creating the National Security State: A History of the Law That Transformed America
For the last sixty years, American foreign and defense policymaking has been dominated by a network of institutions created by one piece of legislation--the 1947 National Security Act. This is the definitive study of the intense political and bureaucratic struggles that surrounded the passage and in...
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Louis Fisher
Presidential War Power
A classic and bestselling work by one of America’s top Constitutional scholars, Presidential War Power garnered the lead review in the New York Times Book Review and raised essential issues that have only become more timely, relevant, and controversial in our post-9/11 era. In this third editi...
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Robert L. Reymond
The Reformation's Conflict With Rome: Why it must continue
Foreword by R. C. Sproul. Written in an inoffensive yet honest way, Robert Reymond has studied the essential divisions between Roman Catholics and the Reformed church to find out the real issues and points of conflict. Reymond looks at historical watersheds of doctrine, the development of Roman C...
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Propertius
The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow. Many of the poems here pay tribute to Cynthia, Prop...
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Paul Lay
Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate (A Year In . . .)
'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian . ***************** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Char...
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Doraiswami Ramkrishna
Population Balances: Theory and Applications to Particulate Systems in Engineering
Engineers encounter particles in a variety of systems. The particles are either naturally present or engineered into these systems. In either case these particles often significantly affect the behavior of such systems. This book provides a framework for analyzing these dispersed phase systems and d...
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Mehran Kamrava
The Modern Middle East, Third Edition: A Political History since the First World War
From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava’s classic treatise on the making of the contemporary Middle East remains essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this div...
$37.33
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Martin H. Krieger
The Scholar's Survival Manual: A Road Map for Students, Faculty, and Administrators
The product of a lifetime of experience in American universities, The Scholar's Survival Manual offers advice for students, professors, and administrators on how to get work done, the path to becoming a professor, getting tenured, and making visible contributions to scholarship, as well as serving...
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Astra Taylor
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a “New Civil Rights Leader” by the Los Angeles Times , provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we...
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Elaine Treharne
Text Technologies: A History (Stanford Text Technologies)
The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest periods of traceable communication―perhaps as early as 60,000 BCE―to the present day. At its core, it examines the material history of communication:...
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Ahmed N U
GENERALIZED FUNCTIONALS OF BROWNIAN MOTION AND THEIR APPLICATIONS: NONLINEAR FUNCTIONALS OF FUNDAMENTAL STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
This invaluable research monograph presents a unified and fascinating theory of generalized functionals of Brownian motion and other fundamental processes such as fractional Brownian motion and Levy process — covering the classical Wiener–Ito class including the generalized functionals of Hida a...
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Zeynep Pamuk
Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society
A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologies Our ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics and climate change to artificial intelligence and nuc...
$24.98
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Donald A. Barr
Introduction to US Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
The fourth edition of the essential guide to the contemporary US health care system. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Health care reform has been a dominant theme in public discourse for decades now. The passage of the Affordable Care Act was a major milestone, but ...
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Lisa Olstein
Dream Apartment
In Dream Apartment , Lisa Olstein builds a world of night-rabbits, bodiless shadows, and networks of wind where ode and elegy meet. Devoted equally to the long arc and the sharp fragment, Lisa Olstein’s fifth collection maps the lucid ache at the center of night where “darkness stands in/for li...
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Mathematics Of Flame Trataka: Change your life in 36 days
In This Book, You’ll Discover: - Why a candle flame is the ultimate "focus hack"—and how it beats modern gadgets for deep concentration. - The Golden Ratio of Trataka—the exact mathematical distance for maximum neural impact. (Yes, science has an answer!) - Pineal Gland Activation or Myth? Wha...
$18.62
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J. Dudley Andrew
Concepts in Film Theory (Galaxy Books)
A remarkable continuation of Dudley Andrew's classic, The Major Film Theories , this work focuses on the key concepts in film study: perception, representation, signification, narrative structure, adaptation, evaluation, identification, figuration, and interpretation. Beginning with a lucid introdu...
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