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Falezern
Falezern 33 in Folding Bed Cover, With Metal Zipper and Adjustable Drawstring, Dustproof and Waterproof, Thickened Storage Cover for Fold Up Cot
PERFECT FIT SIZE: The rollaway bed cover fits perfectly for rollaway beds of most folded size up to 33’’L x 13’’W x 42’’H. Plenty of room for single rollaway beds, zipped easily even with the mattress, sheets or pillow over top, and adjustable with drawstrings to fit different sizes of f...
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Kimberly A. Hamlin
From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America
From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women’s responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women’s rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of nineteenth-century women, raised on the idea that...
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Michael D. Kelleher Ph.D
When Good Kids Kill
In recent years, the incidence of violent crime committed by teenagers has escalated, a fact that has hardly escaped the news media. When faced with the challenge of understanding and explaining such occurences in the headlines, one is tempted to rely upon the truism: There are good kids and there a...
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Anthony W. Lee
On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (Volume 1) (Defining Moments in Photography)
Soon after Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book was published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers, then and in subsequent generations, would come to know the war. Gardner's classic also became foundational in the history of American pho...
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Dalai Lama
The Path to Enlightenment
In this extensive teaching, the Dalai Lama beautifully elucidates the meaning of the path to enlightenment through his own direct spiritual advice and personal reflections. Based upon a very famous Tibetan text, this teaching presents in practical terms the essential instructions for the attainment ...
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Harry Clor
On Moderation: Defending an Ancient Virtue in a Modern World
Moderation suffers in today's culture of excesses. In resuscitating this discarded virtue, Harry Clor unveils the intrinsic power of moderation to influence and engage, from the public square to the deeply personal. A mature book from a senior scholar, On Moderation answers critics of this misunde...
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Will Pearson
Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again
Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts! mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theo...
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Carl H. Hamann
Electrochemistry
This second, completely updated edition of a classic textbook provides a concise introduction to the fundamental principles of modern electrochemistry, with an emphasis on applications in energy technology. The renowned and experienced scientist authors present the material in a didactically skilful...
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Anténor Firmin
The Equality of Human Races: Positivist Anthropology
Rediscovering an early scientific challenge to racism This is the first paperback edition of the only English-language translation of the Haitian scholar Anténor Firmin's The Equality of the Human Races, a foundational text in critical anthropology first published in 1885 when anthropology was j...
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Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill
War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2016 Today, nations increasingly carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Policies governing everything from trade and investment to energy and exchange rates are wielded as tools to win diplomatic allies, punish adversaries, and coerce those in between...
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Mark Durie
The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom
The Third Choice provides a compelling introduction to Islam on the basis of its primary sources, the Quran and the life of Muhammad. Topics covered include the sharia; interpretation of the Quran; abrogation; women's rights (including female genital mutilation); lawful deception (taqiyya); Muhammad...
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Thubten Chodron
Buddhism for Beginners
This easy-to-understand introduction to Buddhism is “written for people wanting to understand basic Buddhist principles and how to integrate them into their lives” (H.H. the Dalai Lama) This user’s guide to Buddhist basics takes the most commonly asked questions—beginning with “What is ...
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Witold Hurewicz
Lectures on Ordinary Differential Equations (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Hailed by The American Mathematical Monthly as "a rigorous and lively introduction," this text explores a topic of perennial interest in mathematics. The author, a distinguished mathematician and formulator of the Hurewicz theorem, presents a clear and lucid treatment that emphasizes geometric met...
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Helge Kragh
Universe: A Guide to Everything
A sweeping, reflective history of how we’ve tried to understand the universe. The physical universe is a most peculiar concept, not only different from the objects it contains but also from space itself. Cosmology—the science that seeks to explain it—has always differed from other sciences,...
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Hinderaker
Boston’s Massacre
George Washington Prize Finalist Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati Prize “Fascinating… Hinderaker’s meticulous research shows that the Boston Massacre was contested from the beginning… [Its] meanings have plenty to tell us about America’s identity, past and present.” ― Wall Str...
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Frederick Copleston
History of Philosophy Volume 9: 19th and 20th Century French Philosophy
Copleston's ninth volume of his A History of Philosophy masterfully takes in over 150 years of French thought from the French Revolution to the mid-twentieth century. Frederick Copleston was Professor of the History of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at London University. This ele...
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Susan McClary
Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal
In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introdu...
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Zygmunt Bauman
Thinking Sociologically
In this lucid, stimulating and original book, Zygmunt Bauman and Tim May explore the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations which structure our view of the world. The authors elucidate key concepts in sociology: for example, individualism versus community, and privilege versus deprivation. Wh...
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Matthew Guerrieri
The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Los Angeles Magazine 's #1 Music Book of the Year This revelatory book of music history examines what is perhaps the best known and most-popular symphony ever written—and its famous four-note opening. Reaching...
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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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