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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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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...
$55.19
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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...
$55.90
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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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Jo Van Steenbergen
A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800: Empire, Dynastic Formations, and Heterogeneities in Pre-Modern Islamic West-Asia
A History of the Islamic World, 600 – 1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region’s history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era. Containing two chronological parts and fourteen c...
$33.39
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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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Tim Whitmarsh
Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism
The “Second Sophistic” traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book prop...
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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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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...
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Joy Fielding
Jenny Cooper Has a Secret: A Novel
In this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places , a dementia patient reveals a deadly secret—and one woman must decide whether to believe her. “An epic murder mystery . . . This novel is a delight, tugging at your heartstrings as it...
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Charles Taylor
Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal , exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal , Charles Taylor’s 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was...
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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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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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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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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...
$19.47
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John J. Jr. Pitney
After Reagan: Bush, Dukakis, and the 1988 Election (American Presidential Elections)
Upon the 2018 death of George H. W. Bush, pundits and politicians mourned the passing of an exemplar of the statesmanship and bipartisan ethos of an earlier day. The judgment, though sound, would have shocked observers of the 1988 election that put Bush in the White House. From a scholar who played ...
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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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