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Kate Palmer Albers
The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph
We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current cultural moment that allows us to recognize what has always been a basic and foundational, yet unseen, c...
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Ben Zuckerman
Extraterrestrials: Where Are They? (Volume 0)
Is it possible that extraterrestrial life forms exist within our Galaxy, the Milky Way? This book offers a critical analysis by leading experts in a range of sciences, of the plausibility that other intelligent lifeforms do exist. Exploration of the Solar System, and observations with telescopes tha...
$47.31
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Charles Tilly
Contentious Performances (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The book accomplishes three main things. Firs...
$27.39
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Alan Lightman
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
From the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams —“an elegant and moving paean to our spiritual quest for meaning in an age of science" ( The New York Times Book Review). • The basis for the public television series SEARCHING with Alan Lightman. As a physicist, Alan Lightman has alway...
$11.33
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A. Douglas Stone
Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
The untold story of Albert Einstein's role as the father of quantum theory Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in ...
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Barry Eichengreen
Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System - Third Edition
Essential reading for understanding the international economy―now thoroughly updated Lucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroughly updated to cover recent events that have shaken the global economy, Globalizing Capital is an indispensable account of the past 150 years of international...
$32.49
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Nathaniel C. Comfort
The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control
This biographical study illuminates one of the most important yet misunderstood figures in the history of science. Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), a geneticist who integrated classical genetics with microscopic observations of the behavior of chromosomes, was regarded as a genius and as an unorthodo...
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Unity Dow
Saturday Is for Funerals
In the year 2000 the World Health Organization estimated that 85 percent of fifteen-year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of AIDS. In Saturday Is for Funerals we learn why that won't happen. Unity Dow and Max Essex tell the true story of lives ravaged by AIDS—of orphans, bereaved parents, ...
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Jonathan Kirshner
An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena. Jonathan Kirshner identifies the fundamental flaws of classical reali...
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Héctor Beltrán
Code Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology)
How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiences In Code Work , Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from...
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Justin Steinberg
Spinoza (Classic Thinkers)
Benedict de Spinoza is one of the most controversial and enigmatic thinkers in the history of philosophy. His greatest work,  Ethics  (1677), developed a comprehensive philosophical system and argued that God and Nature are identical. His scandalous  Theological-Political Treatise  (1670) provok...
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Ali Rahnema
Political History of Modern Iran, The: Revolution, Reaction and Transformation, 1905 to the Present
From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes’ destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its high hopes, broken promises, repression and ...
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Michel Foucault
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews
Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary currency throughout the Western intellectual community. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most important published essays, translated from th...
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Steve Moyise
Paul and Scripture: Studying the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
There are over one hundred explicit quotations of Scripture in Paul's letters and at least two hundred allusions. The coming of Jesus and the birth of the church caused Paul to look at the Scriptures with new eyes, sometimes clarifying what was written and sometimes reinterpreting it. This volume il...
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Walt Harrington
The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family
When Walt Harrington was first invited to Kentucky to hunt with his African American father-in-law and his country friends--Bobby, Lewis, and Carl--he was a jet-setting reporter for The Washington Post with a distaste for killing animals and for the men’s brand of old-fashioned masculinity. But ov...
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Reinhard Hutter
Dust Bound for Heaven: Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas
In Dust Bound for Heaven Reinhard Hütter shows how Thomas Aquinas's view of the human being as dust bound for heaven weaves together elements of two questions without fusion or reduction. Does humanity still have an insatiable thirst for God that sends each person on an irrepressible religious qu...
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John Calvin
Calvin's New Testament Commentary, John 11-21, Volume 5
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This volume is one of twelve classic commentaries by John Calvin, theologian par excellence of the Reformation, whose expositions of Scripture remain as relevant as ever. Edited by David W. Torrance and Thomas F. Torrance, these t...
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Lizzy Rockwell
How Do You Feel?
Do you feel happy? Sad? Silly? Angry? This simple book helps children and parents talk about feelings, and includes a Feelings Faces Poster! With simple, sparse language, and bright, expressive illustrations, Lizzy Rockwell introduces very young readers to a wide range of emotions. Detailed art en...
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John M. G. Barclay
Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews
  Seminal essays from a leading New Testament scholar For the past twenty years, John Barclay has researched and written on the social history of early Christianity and the life of Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora. In this collection of nineteen noteworthy essays, he examines points of compa...
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Betty Anderson
A History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues
A History of the Modern Middle East offers a comprehensive assessment of the region, stretching from the fourteenth century and the founding of the Ottoman and Safavid empires through to the present-day protests and upheavals. The textbook focuses on Turkey, Iran, and the Arab countries of the Midd...
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