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Lawrence O. Gostin
Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic
A penetrating analysis of the close relationship between public health and human rights, this book makes a compelling case for synergy between the two fields. Using the AIDS pandemic as a lens, the authors demonstrate that health is closely related to human dignity and individual rights--human right...
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Meghaa Gupta
Uncoded: A Technological History of Independent India
"Rewires how we think of nation-building" —Charles Assisi, technology columnist at  Hindustan Times From factories to farms, battlefields to boardrooms, clinics to classrooms—in the years since Independence, modern technology has swept through all corners of Indian life. But back in 1947,...
$8.99
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Brian Holden Reid
The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
A definitive biography that sheds light on the life and times of one of the Civil War's most important generals. William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War. His March to the Sea, which resulted in a devast...
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George R. Mastroianni
Of Mind and Murder: Toward a More Comprehensive Psychology of the Holocaust
How could the Holocaust have happened? How can people do such things to other people? Questions such as these have animated discussion of the Holocaust from our earliest awareness of what had happened. These questions have engaged the lay public as well as academics from many different fields. Psych...
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John Roberts
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World (The Oxford Reference Collection)
This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. Authoritative, wide-ranging, and unrivalled in its accessibility, The Oxford Dictionary ...
$59.00
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Derek Hastings
Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and National Socialism
Derek Hastings here illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of early Nazi history, going back to the years after World War I--when National Socialism first emerged--to reveal its close early ties with Catholicism. Although an antagonistic relationship between the Catholic Church and H...
$45.99
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Martin Heidegger
Country Path Conversations (Studies in Continental Thought)
First published in German in 1995, volume 77 of Heidegger's Complete Works consists of three imaginary conversations written as World War II was coming to an end. Composed at a crucial moment in history and in Heidegger's own thinking, these conversations present meditations on science and technol...
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Jean Lave
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)
In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the ...
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Lawrence Friedman
The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet
Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and political insight, Fromm dissected the sadomasochistic appeal of brutal dictators while also eloquently cham...
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Gary Weiss
Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie
A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all time Back in the fall of 2016 we heard the news about the passing of Eddie Antar, "Crazy ...
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Eric Van Young
A Life Together: Lucas Alaman and Mexico, 1792-1853
An eminent historian’s biography of one of Mexico’s most prominent statesmen, thinkers, and writers Lucas Alamán (1792–1853) was the most prominent statesman, political economist, and historian in nineteenth‑century Mexico. Alamán served as the central ministerial figure in the national...
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Jan Joosten
The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew: A New Synthesis Elaborated on the Basis of Classical Prose (Jerusalem Biblical Studies)
The verbal system of Biblical Hebrew has been a daunting challenge for Hebraists, Bible scholars, and comparative Semitists. Already in ancient versions we see translators struggling with it. Good understanding of the verbal system is of vital importance not only for grammarians, but also for exeget...
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Ken Ludwig
How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare   William Shakespeare’s plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization and contain the finest writing of the past 450 years. Many of the best novels, plays, poetry, and films in th...
$22.92
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Charles Nordhoff
Mutiny on the Bounty; Men Against the Sea; Pitcairn's Island: The Bounty Trilogy (Classic Reprint)
The enduring sea tale of mutiny, survival, and the human stories behind a famous voyage unfolds in three linked narratives. This edition compiles the Bounty mutiny, Bligh’s perilous crossing, and the later Pitcairn settlement into one gripping account of courage, error, and endurance. Drawing on A...
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Simon Gindikin
Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists
This revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists contains a wealth of new information about the lives and accomplishments of more than a dozen scientists throughout five centuries of history: from the first steps in algebra up to new achie...
$69.40
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Anne Somerset
Elizabeth I
Glitteringly detailed and engagingly written, the magisterial Elizabeth I brings to vivid life the golden age of sixteenth-century England and the uniquely fascinating monarch who presided over it. A woman of intellect and presence, Elizabeth was the object of extravagant adoration by her contempo...
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Margaret Crastnopol
Micro-trauma (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)
Micro-trauma: A psychoanalytic understanding of cumulative psychic injury explores the "micro-traumatic" or small, subtle psychic hurts that build up to undermine a person’s sense of self-worth, skewing his or her character and compromising his or her relatedness to others. These injuries amount t...
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Pam Houston
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us." On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatur...
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Patrick Casement
On Learning from the Patient (Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions)
On Learning from the Patient is concerned with the potential for psychoanalytic thinking to become self-perpetuating. Patrick Casement explores the dynamics of the helping relationship - learning to recognize how patients offer cues to the therapeutic experience that they are unconsciously in sea...
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Mark Eric Williams
Understanding U.S.-Latin American Relations
This book examines U.S.–Latin American relations from an historical, contemporary, and theoretical perspective. By drawing examples from the distant and more recent past―and interweaving history with theory―Williams illustrates the enduring principles of International Relations theory and prov...
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