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Bruce David Forbes
America's Favorite Holidays: Candid Histories
America’s Favorite Holidays explores how five of America’s culturally important holidays—Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving—came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Deftly distilling info...
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Marie-Laure Ryan
A New Anatomy of Storyworlds: What Is, What If, As If (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative)
The question of how narratives actually do the work of world-building transcends disciplines: from cosmology to philosophy, digital culture, popular culture, and literary theory. In A New Anatomy of Storyworlds , Marie-Laure Ryan investigates the narratological importance of the concept of world in...
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Judith D. Schwartz
The Reindeer Chronicles: And Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth
“Compelling, Fascinating, sometimes unexpectedly moving, this vitally important book is, above all, a springboard for hope and transformation.”—Isabella Tree “A lucid and compelling look at the global movement of ecological rehabilitation.”— The Boston Globe In a time of uncertain...
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M. Ethan Katsh
The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law
Highly publicized legal cases, such as those involving libel verdicts, obscenity prosecutions, the First Amendment, and other areas of media law have focused attention on only one part of the media's impact on law. This study, the first to explore the broad influence of computers and television on t...
$116.82
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Bernhard Schlink
Olga: A Translated Epic Romance of a Prussian Orphan and Aristocrat Separated by World War Two
“Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow [Bernhard Schlink’s] story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.”— Booklist “A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.”— Evening Standard A...
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Anirban DasGupta
Probability for Statistics and Machine Learning: Fundamentals and Advanced Topics (Springer Texts in Statistics)
This book provides a versatile and lucid treatment of classic as well as modern probability theory, while integrating them with core topics in statistical theory and also some key tools in machine learning. It is written in an extremely accessible style, with elaborate motivating discussions and num...
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Richard J. Chorley
Introduction to Geographical Hydrology (Collected Works of Richard J. Chorley)
Originally published in this form in 1971, the content of this book was originally part of a larger composite volume ‘Water, Earth and Man’ (1969) which provided a synthesis of hydrology, geomorphology and socio-economic geography. This volume brings together the systematic theme of spatial aspe...
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Michael Witmore
Shakespearean Metaphysics (Shakespeare Now!)
Metaphysics is usually associated with that part of the philosophical tradition which asks about 'last things', questions such as: How many substances are there in the world? Which is more fundamental, quantity or quality? Are events prior to things, or do they happen to those things? While he wasn'...
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John Hill
How to Build a Skyscraper
An architectural expert tours 46 of the world's most significant skyscrapers. "A useful ready-reference work and a treat for architecture buffs." -- Booklist "Handsome color photographs, fact-packed summaries and crisp drawings (especially, a lucid cutaway look at each skyscraper) enhance his bit...
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Allen Mandelbaum
Lectura Dantis: Inferno: A Canto-by-Canto Commentary
The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy . Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as "exactly what we have wait...
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Toby E. Huff
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective
Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo’s discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman ...
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David Biale
Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought
The story of the origins and development of a Jewish form of secularism Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular trad...
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Steven Pinker
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a “fascinating” ( Financial Times ), brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but “superlatively gifted science writer” ( Th...
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Benjamin J. Segal
The Book of Esther: A Commentary and History
Few volumes reflect understandings as varied as that of the Book of Esther. Embraced by many but disliked by others, it has constantly engaged its readers in new dialogue. On each reading, one is again drawn to the issues it confronts: family dynamics, intergroup relations, celebration, armed resist...
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Rita Carter
Exploring Consciousness
Rita Carter ponders the nature, origins, and purpose of consciousness in this fascinating inquiry into the toughest problem facing modern science and philosophy. Building on the foundation of her bestselling book Mapping the Mind, she considers whether consciousness is merely an illusion, a by-pro...
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Elizabeth Callaway
Eden's Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities)
In the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment. Its deceptively simple definition as the variation among living organisms masks its status as a hotly contested term both within the sciences and more broad...
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Judy Kronenfeld
King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance
Taking King Lear as her central text, Judy Kronenfeld seriously questions the critical assumptions of much of today’s most fashionable Shakespeare scholarship. Charting a new course beyond both New Historicist and deconstructionist critics, she suggests a theory of language and interpretation th...
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Yasmin Saikia
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971
Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act...
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Byron Sherwin
Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism
Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism is a clear, accessible 'primer' and introduction to the major teachings of the Jewish mystics, to various dominant forms of Jewish mystical experiences, as well as to many of the significant texts that constitute classical Jewish mystical literature, and...
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Perri Knize
Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey
NEW YORK TIMES "EDITOR'S CHOICE."  WASHINGTON POST "BEST OF 2008." This "lucid yet lyrical, analytical yet deeply affecting" ( Washington Post) memoir of one woman's immersion in a fascinating, international piano subculture, reminds us that reason can't always account for what calls to us, bu...
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