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Kurt Snyder
Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia (Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars wer...
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Andrew Porwancher
The Devil Himself: A Tale of Honor, Insanity, and the Birth of Modern America (New Narratives in American History)
Nicholas Dukes and Captain Adam Nutt were two men with much in common. Both were prominent members of Pennsylvanian society in the 1880s, both had studied law under the same mentor, and both shared an intimate connection to the beautiful Lizzie Nutt: Dukes was her debonair fiancé, Nutt her doting f...
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Robert A. Schneider
The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion (The Life of Ideas)
Charts the long history of resentment, from its emergence to its establishment as the word of the moment. The term “resentment,” often casually paired with words like “hatred,” “rage,” and “fear,” has dominated US news analysis since November 2016. Despite its increased use, this...
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Ayesha Ramachandran
The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was tr...
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Jan Greenberg
Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop
“IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY will be world famous for 15 minutes.” The Campbell’s Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The Flowers. The work created by Andy Warhol elevated everyday images to art, ensuring Warhol a fame that has far outlasted the 15 minutes he predicted for everyone els...
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W. R. Scott
Group Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Well-organized and clearly written, this undergraduate-level text covers most of the standard basic theorems in group theory, providing proofs of the basic theorems of both finite and infinite groups and developing as much of their superstructure as space permits. Contents include: Isomorphism Theor...
$21.95
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Lorraine M. Wright
Beliefs: the heart of healing in families and illness (Families & Health)
In this seasoned and lucid book, a team of female clinicians offers professional practitioners and families a means for uncovering, distinguishing, and challenging a family's belief system to facilitate healing. Professionals often will privilege their own stories about illness, but the authors of t...
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Mark Ethan Grotelueschen
The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I
This book provides the most comprehensive examination of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) combat doctrine and methods ever published. It shows how AEF combat units actually fought on the Western Front in World War I. It describes how four AEF divisions (the 1st, 2nd, 26th, and 77th) planned and c...
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Kevin Mitchell
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
An evolutionary case for the existence of free will Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free w...
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Jay Belsky
The Nature of Nurture: Rethinking Why and How Childhood Adversity Shapes Development
From a leading expert on child development, a radical evolutionary perspective on how childhood experiences shape later life. Children who grow up in troubled circumstances―experiencing deprivation or instability, living in a dangerous neighborhood or an abusive family―are more prone to aggres...
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Iris Bohnet
What Works: Gender Equality by Design
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Best Business Book of the Year, 800-CEO-READ Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias ...
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Edward K. Kaplan
Holiness in Words: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Poetics of Piety (Suny Series, Judaica)
A strategy for reading Heschel's major works, as well as a new route to understanding religious writing in general: a lucid study of modern religious and ethical thought using literary criticism. Holiness in Words: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Poetics of Piety is both an introduction to reading Hesche...
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Dana Frank
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times
4 stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression Drawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard histories of the Depres...
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Louis A. Jr. Perez
The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography
A century after the Cuban war for independence was fought, Louis Pérez examines the meaning of the war of 1898 as represented in one hundred years of American historical writing. Offering both a critique of the conventional historiography and an alternate history of the war informed by Cuban source...
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Vicente L. Rafael
Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation
In Motherless Tongues , Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Moving across a range of colonial and postcolonial settings, he demonstrates translation's agency in the...
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Devaka Premawardhana
Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique (Contemporary Ethnography)
Pentecostalism—Africa's fastest growing form of Christianity—is known for displacing that which came before. Yet anthropologist Devaka Premawardhana witnessed neither massive growth nor dramatic rupture in the part of Mozambique where he worked. His research opens a new paradigm for the study of...
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Francis J. Moloney
Life of Jesus in Icons: From the Bible of Tbilisi
This classic gift and study Bible offers durable, high-quality bindings and other convenient features: • Full-color presentation/record section • Full-color maps • Book introductions/outlines • List of popes • Suggested readings for the liturgical year • The purpose of the Bible • The ...
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Brennan O'Donnell
The Passion of Meter: A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art
The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth’s metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth’s attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of “common l...
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Christine L Johnson
Triumphant Death: Grace, Holiness, and Death in the Theology of John Wesley (Wesleyan and Methodist Explorations)
Every believer must grapple with issues of mortality, yet the topic of death is rarely addressed in the church today. For those who wish to reflect deeply upon a Christian understanding of death, John Wesley offers a rich, theological perspective on death and dying. The theme of death played a signi...
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Ryan D. Enos
The Space between Us: Social Geography and Politics
The Space between Us brings the connection between geography, psychology, and politics to life. By going into the neighborhoods of real cities, Enos shows how our perceptions of racial, ethnic, and religious groups are intuitively shaped by where these groups live and interact daily. Through the len...
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