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Leigh Anne Duck
The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism (The New Southern Studies)
How could liberalism and apartheid coexist for decades in our country, as they did during the first half of the twentieth century? This study looks at works by such writers as Thomas Dixon, Erskine Caldwell, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison to show how representations of time ...
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Rowan Williams
The Lion's World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams offers fascinating insight into The Chronicles of Narnia, the popular series of novels by one of the most influential Christian authors of the modern era, C. S. Lewis. Lewis once referred to certain kinds of book as a "mouthwash for the imagination."...
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Lee Smolin
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
A daring new vision of quantum theory from one of the leading minds of contemporary physics Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of atoms, radiation, and so much else, from elementary particles and basic forces to the behavior of materials. Bu...
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Bryan Magee
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
Richard Wagner's devotees have ranged from the subtlest minds (Proust) to the most brutal (Hitler). The enduring fascination with his works arises not only from his singular fusion of musical innovation and theatrical daring, but also from his largely overlooked engagement with the boldest investiga...
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Eric Steinhart
More Precisely: The Math You Need to Do Philosophy
More Precisely provides a rigorous and engaging introduction to the mathematics necessary to do philosophy. It is impossible to fully understand much of the most important work in contemporary philosophy without a basic grasp of set theory, functions, probability, modality and infinity. Until now, ...
$70.00
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Ernest Callenbach
Ecology, Revised and Expanded: A Pocket Guide
Offering essential environmental wisdom for the twenty-first century, this lively, compact book explains more than sixty basic ecological concepts in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. From Air and Biodiversity to Restoration and Zoos, Ecology: A Pocket Guide forms a dynamic web of ideas that can be en...
$17.42
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Tony Rothman
A Little Book about the Big Bang
A concise introduction to the greatest questions of modern cosmology. What came before the big bang? How will the universe evolve into the future? Will there be a big crunch? Questions like these have no definitive answers, but there are many contending theories. In A Little Book about the Big Ba...
$24.95
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Wilfred M. McClay
Land of Hope Young Reader's Edition: An Invitation to the Great American Story Volume 1
A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call home. American History for Middle School  — Grades 6-8  The FIRST book in a two-volume narrative for Young Readers studying Land of Hope   VOLUME ONE: SHAPING A NEW N...
$23.73
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Prof Gabrielle M. M. Spiegel
The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
This study of familiar medieval histories and chronicles argues that the historian should be aware of the discursive nature, literary modes, and ideological investments of such texts as well as the social circumstances to which they were applied and by which they were generated. Postmodernism has ch...
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Ken McLeod
A Trackless Path
18th century Tibetan mystic Jigmé Lingpa wrote a number of poems on the practice of Dzogchen, one of the great wisdom traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. In A Trackless Path renowned translator and teacher Ken McLeod offers a beautiful and evocative translation of one of these poems. Illumined by his o...
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John R. Gillis
The Development of European Society, 1770-1870
Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1977, this provocative study is based on the idea that current Third World problems of modernization may be able to shed light on the period of European history from roughly 1770 to 1870. Includes extensive charts and maps. An indispensable teaching book....
$65.99
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Stephen D. Brookfield
Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults (Jossey Bass: Adult & Continuing Education)
Praise for Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults "Stephen Brookfield has used his gifts for clear thinking and lucid writing to produce this theoretically informed, immensely practical book on how the dynamics of power and adult teaching intersect. It should be required reading for everyone who t...
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Peter Brooks
The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
In this lucid and fascinating book, Peter Brooks argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the nineteenth century, he moves on to Balzac and Henry James to show how these "realist" novelists created fictio...
$33.00
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Jonathan B. Losos
Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
A major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works   Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out...
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Beth Roy
Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict
Fascinating in its combination of personal stories and analytical insights, Some Trouble with Cows will help students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and rights in a small community. Using first-person ...
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Dyson Freeman
ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS (SECOND EDITION)
Renowned physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson is famous for his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons policy and bold visions for the future of humanity. In the 1940s, he was responsible for demonstrating the equivalence of the two formulations of quantum electrodynamics -- Richard Feynman...
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Laing Z. Matthews
Healing in Sleep: The Science and Spirit of the Night’s Medicine
Every night, the universe rehearses creation inside you. Your body dissolves into darkness, your mind releases its grip on the day, and something larger begins to work through you — quietly repairing, reordering, and remembering what you truly are. Healing in Sleep reveals that sleep is not idlen...
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Robert Helmer MacArthur
Geographical ecology; patterns in the distribution of species
First published in 1972 and now available for the first time in paperback, this book is the summation of the life work of one of the most influential scientists of our time. Of permanent interest in the history and philosophy of science, it is also frequently cited in the current ecological literatu...
$200.24
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J. Thompson
Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect
Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affe...
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Robert Wrigley
Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (Penguin Poets)
One of his generation's most accomplished poets, Robert Wrigley is renowned for his ironic, powerful, and lucid style as well as his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Earthly Meditations features nineteen original poems alongside a collection of sixty-one poems chosen from his first ...
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