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William G. Bowen
Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education (The William G. Bowen Series)
Why colleges and universities should change their governance systems―and what could happen if they don't Do higher education institutions have what it takes to reform effectively from within? Locus of Authority argues that every issue facing today's colleges and universities, from stagnant deg...
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Kate Rigby
Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental
The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to ...
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Peter Edelman
Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Awarded "Special Recognition" by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards Finalist for the American Bar Association's 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award Named one of the "10 books to read after you've read Evicted " by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Essential reading for anyone tryi...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Finger and the Moon: Zen Teachings and Koans
Jodo’s interpretations of the stories and koans of Zen master Ejo Takata • Offers more than 60 Zen teaching tales, initiatory stories, koans, and haikus for self-realization and spiritual awakening • Each story or koan is accompanied by the author’s lucid and penetrating commentary, bl...
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the late G. B. Caird
New Testament Theology
This is a new and masterly presentation of New Testament theology by one of the leading religious scholars of this century. It takes the unique step of setting up an imaginary dialogue on the central concepts of the Christian faith between the various authors of the New Testament themselves, thus ca...
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J. Bruce Bruce Brackenridge
The Key to Newton's Dynamics: The Kepler Problem and the Principia
While much has been written on the ramifications of Newton's dynamics, until now the details of Newton's solution were available only to the physics expert. The Key to Newton's Dynamics clearly explains the surprisingly simple analytical structure that underlies the determination of the force nece...
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Joseph Sandler
Projection, Identification, Projective Identification
This book focuses on all aspects of projection and identification, and addresses the problems and perplexities of projective identification. It is based on the First Conference of the Sigmund Freud Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Addressing the problems and perplexities of projective ...
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Derek Gregory
Geographical Imaginations
Geographical Imaginations is at once a profound and penetrating reading of geography as a discipline and a discourse, and also an imaginative and sustained attempt to situate that discourse within the fabric of contemporary social theory. Its focus is on understanding the ways in which social life ...
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Mark J. Boone
The Conversion and Therapy of Desire: Augustine's Theology of Desire in the Cassiciacum Dialogues
The first fruits of the literary career of St. Augustine, the great theologian and Christian philosopher par excellence, are the dialogues he wrote at Cassiciacum in Italy following his famous conversion in Milan in 386 AD. These four little books, largely neglected by scholars, investigate knowledg...
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Matthew Santa
Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Period Music
Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Period Music is the first book to present a comprehensive course text on advanced analysis of rhythm and meter. This book brings together the insights of recent scholarship on rhythm and meter in a clear and e...
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James W. Joseph
Between Realism and Reality: The Reagan Administration and International Debt
This book uses a complex interdependence model to explain U.S. policy on international debt between 1981 and 1985. The author analyzes four cases: the administration's decision in early 1982 to pay interest due from Poland to U.S. banks on hundreds of millions of dollars in agricultural credits; the...
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George A. Giuliani
The Comprehensive Guide to Special Education Law: Over 400 Frequently Asked Questions and Answers Every Educator Needs to Know about the Legal Rights
It is vital for all professionals in the field of education to have a practical understanding of the laws that are in place to protect the children with whom they work. "The Comprehensive Guide to Special Education Law" is a detailed yet accessible introduction to federal law as it applies to the ri...
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John Matthews
Encyclopaedia of Celtic Myth and Legend: A Definitive Sourcebook of Magic, Vision, and Lore
In Encyclopedia of Celtic Myth and Legend, authors John and Caitlin Matthews have compiled one of the most comprehensive collections of Celtic lore ever, drawing from every known source from the Celts' well-known classics, to neglected sources and forgotten archives. Their fresh translations and luc...
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Scot McKnight
A New Vision for Israel: The Teachings of Jesus in National Context (Studying the Historical Jesus)
The most important development in historical Jesus studies is the recent attempt to understand Jesus as a national prophet concerned with the salvation of Israel.  A New Vision for Israel  furthers this line of inquiry by showing how Jesus' teachings are to be understood in relation to his role as...
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Gershom Scholem
From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth
"A serene, lucid and stylish essay in intellectual autobiography that at the same time commemorates a vanished world."— Times Literary Supplement "An extraordinary life—one that itself takes on symbolic, if not mystical, significance." —Robert Coles From Berlin to Jerusalem portrays the dual d...
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Anil K. Jain
Introduction to Biometrics (Texts in Computer Science)
This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and techniques used in biometric recognition to students, practitioners, and non-experts in the field. Specifically, the book describes key methodologies used for sensing, feature extraction, and matching of commonly used biometric modalities such as...
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Russell Cooper
Coordination Games
This book studies the implications of macroeconomic complementarities for aggregate behavior. The presentation is intended to introduce Ph.D. students into this sub-field of macroeconomics and to serve as a reference for more advanced scholars. The initial sections of the book cover the basic framew...
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John Blades
Shakespeare: The Histories (Analysing Texts, 26)
The History plays established Shakespeare's reputation as an enormously popular and dramatic storyteller, demonstrating his skill in drawing such astonishing characters as Richard III and Sir John Falstaff. Featuring detailed analyses of extracts, John Blades guides the student through four of Shake...
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Loren Cannon
The Politicization of Trans Identity: An Analysis of Backlash, Scapegoating, and Dog-Whistling from Obergefell to Bostock
Two LGBTQ affirmative US Supreme Court Rulings occurred in the second decade of the twenty-first century: the 2015 Obergefell ruling in support of same sex marriage, and the 2020 Bostock decision ruling that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited by Title...
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David Parrish
Nothing I See Means Anything: Quantum Questions, Quantum Answers
This book, full of lucid, penetrating insights into consciousness, definitively closes the gap between mind, matter, and cosmic intelligence. Parrish elegantly identifies the pathways to highest consciousness—a place we all are but don’t know it. This book, full of lucid, penetrating insights ...
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