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Matthias Benzer
The Sociology of Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno is a widely-studied figure, but most often with regard to his work on cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics. The Sociology of Theodor Adorno provides the first thorough English-language account of Adorno's sociological thinking. Matthias Benzer reads Adorno's sociology through si...
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Martin L. Gross
The Conspiracy of Ignorance: The Failure of American Public Schools
Never before have public school students been so poorly educated.  On national exams, almost 40 percent of fourth graders are reading at "below basic" levels, and in international contests in math and science, our seventeen-year-olds score near the bottom. In a shocking expose of the Educational ...
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Anthony A. Barrett
Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire―and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and fiddled while the city burned. It...
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Robert Boyd
A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species (The University Center for Human Values Series)
How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species Human beings have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability―people are just smarter tha...
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Claude Traunecker
The Gods of Egypt
The Gods of Egypt , first published in France in 1992 and now in its third French edition, is a short, elegant, and highly accessible survey of ancient Egyptian religion. The clarity and brevity of Claude Traunecker's book make it especially valuable to readers seeking an authoritative introduction...
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Allison Benis White
Please Bury Me in This
The speaker in Please Bury Me in This grieves the death of her father and the loss of several women to suicide while contemplating her own death and the nature of language as a means of human connection that transcends our temporal lives. This book is also concerned with the intergenerational trauma...
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Jeremy Cooper
Discord
Charting the course of the intense and at times fractious relationship between middle-aged composer Rebekah Rosen and the young star-saxophonist Evie Bennet, Discord is a wry and insightful exploration of creative collaboration.  Jeremy Cooper, the author of Brian , returns with Discord , a su...
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Freeman Dyson
Advanced Quantum Mechanics (Second Edition)
Exceeds maximum length of 2000 characters; Reviews of the First Edition “… one can profit significantly from the insight into the physics beneath the apparatus, and the extensive and detailed treatment of some problems. Therefore it may be very useful as an additional source in the preparation o...
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Jan Spiller
Astrology for the Soul
A famous spiritual astrologer shares how to uncover the secrets hidden in your birth chart that hold the key to your future. “This is required reading for anyone on the spiritual path to fulfilling their soul’s destiny.”—Harold Bloomfield, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of H...
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Quentin Faulkner
Wiser Than Despair: The Evolution of Ideas in the Relationship of Music and the Christian Church
This book addresses a highly complex and elusive matter: why the Christian Church was able to contribute so generously to music from its earliest days through the 18th century and why it has suffered since that time from a creeping artistic paralysis. Modern attitudes and assumptions often find the ...
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Coline Covington
Who’s to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial
Who’s to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial presents a psychoanalytic exploration of blame and collective guilt in the aftermath of large-scale atrocities that cause widespread trauma and victimization. Coline Covington explores various aspects of social and collective guilt and considers how both ...
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Farook Rahaman
The Special Theory of Relativity: A Mathematical Approach (La Matematica per il 3+2)
This textbook expounds the major topics in the special theory of relativity. It provides a detailed examination of the mathematical foundation of the special theory of relativity, relativistic mass, relativistic mechanics, and relativistic electrodynamics. As well as covariant formulation of relativ...
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Antonio Eduardo Alonso
Commodified Communion: Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life
WINNER, 2021 HTI BOOK PRIZE Resist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States. And for many theologians, the source and summit of Christian cultural resistance is the Eucharist. In Commodified Communion , Antonio Eduardo Alonso...
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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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Christoph Johannes Zech
Multislice-CT of the Abdomen (Diagnostic Imaging)
This book provides a lucid summary of modern multislice CT imaging of the abdomen, with a focus on the essential imaging findings. After a concise technical introduction, the most important abdominal diseases are described and illustrated with high-quality images. Sections are devoted to the liver a...
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John Prados
The Hidden History of the Vietnam War
This careful examination of key strategies, events, and personalities in the conflict sheds fresh light on the high points of the Vietnam experience and punctures the enduring mythologies of the war. A model of lucid writing and fair judgement. -Thomas Powers The author of seven books, including two...
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Alex Dubilet
The Self-Emptying Subject: Kenosis and Immanence, Medieval to Modern
Against the two dominant ethical paradigms of continental philosophy–Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics of the Other and Michel Foucault’s ethics of self-cultivation― The Self-Emptying Subject theorizes an ethics of self-emptying, or kenosis , that reveals the immanence of an impersonal and disposs...
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Govert Schilling
The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book A BBC Sky at Night Best Book “An impressively comprehensive bird’s-eye view of a research topic that is both many decades established and yet still at the very cutting edge of astronomy and physics.” ―Katie Mack, Wall Street Journal “Schilling has craft...
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John D. Caputo
In Search of Radical Theology: Expositions, Explorations, Exhortations (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
This sparkling collection of essays invites readers to join a seasoned scholar on his journey to catch “radical theology” in action, both in the Church and our culture at large. Capturing a career’s worth of thought and erudition, this rich volume treats readers to creative thought, careful ...
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Darian R. Lockett
Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon
Biblical Foundations Book Awards Finalist The Catholic Epistles often get short shrift. Tucked into a few pages near the back of our Bibles, these books are sometimes referred to as the "non-Pauline epistles" or "concluding letters," maybe getting lumped together with Hebrews and Revelation. Yet th...
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