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Daniel Pipes
The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah and the West
The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses triggered a furor that pitted much of the Islamic world against the West over issues of blasphemy and freedom of expression. The controversy soon took on the aspect of a confrontation of civilizations, provoking powerful emotions...
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Tzvi Novick
Introduction to the Scriptures of Israel: History and Theology
In this distinctive textbook for Hebrew Bible courses, author Tzvi Novick’s approach is thematic rather than chronological. Sorting the books according to their historical context, theological claims, and literary conventions, Novick examines and elucidates the historical and intellectual developm...
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Emma Ruth Rundle
The Bella Vista: Poems
“In The Bella Vista Emma Ruth Rundle’s sinuous lyric moves deftly between moods, syntax firing across synapses of image and sound, illuminating the pulverizing at-once-ness of daily living, loving, in the new world.”  —Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! and Pilgrim Bell "rip up this book, ...
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Julia Serano
99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel
Kat Cataclysm is an ethically non-monogamous bisexual woman and absurdist short fiction writer. 99 Erics is a humorous account of Kat’s experiences writing a book called 99 Erics, which is about her experiences dating ninety-nine different people named Eric. It is more surreal than slutty. Not tha...
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Shalini Satkunanandan
Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics beyond the Moral Calculus
Careful attention to contemporary political debates, including those around global warming, the federal debt, and the use of drone strikes on suspected terrorists, reveals that we often view our responsibility as something that can be quantified and discharged. Shalini Satkunanandan shows how Plato,...
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Atul P. Godse
Electronic Circuits: Theory, Analysis and Design
The book covers all the aspects of theory, analysis and design of Electronic Circuits for the undergraduate course. It provides all the essential information required to understand the operation and perform the analysis and design of a wide range of electronic circuits, including MOSFET as a switchi...
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Dan Ariely
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves
Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational , examines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in this groundbreaking look at the way we behave: The (Honest) Truth About Dishone...
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Robert E. Carter
The Kyoto School: An Introduction
An accessible discussion of the thought of key figures of the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy. This book provides a much-needed introduction to the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy. Robert E. Carter focuses on four influential Japanese philosophers: the three most important members of the K...
$31.95
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Karol Berger
A Theory of Art
What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most? Will art created today be likely to play a role in our lives as profound as that of the best art of the past? A Theory of Art shifts the focus of aesth...
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Donald Keene
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture)
Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. According to Donald Keene, Yoshimasa was the only shogun to leave a las...
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Crawford Young
The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State
Zaire, apparently strong and stable under Presdident Mobutu in the early 1970s, was bankrupt and discredited by the end of that decade, beset by hyperinflation and mass corruption, the populace forced into abject poverty. Why and how, in a new african state strategically located in Central Africa an...
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Greta Thunberg
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. Th...
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Carmen Bugan
Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir
Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, August 2013 Finalist for the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing, April 2013 (UK) Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years  Carmen Bugan grew up a...
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Glen Van Brummelen
The Doctrine of Triangles: A History of Modern Trigonometry
An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentieth The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550 and concluding in the 1900s. Glen Van Brummelen tells the story of trigonom...
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Craig S. Keener
Romans: A New Covenant Commentary
A helpfully concise commentary on Paul's letter to the early Christians in Rome, which the Apostle wrote just a few years before the outbreak of Nero's persecution. Keener examines each paragraph for its function in the letter as a whole, helping the reader follow Paul's argument. Where relevant, he...
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Noam Chomsky
Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
This book offers chapters written by Chomsky just before the 2000 Intifada and up through October 2002, when 9-11 and a prospective military campaign against Iraq add new pressures to age-old conflicts. “After 9/11 everything we were selling was an analysis of the Middle East. I've ordered 100 cop...
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Larisa V. Shavinina
Beyond Knowledge (Educational Psychology Series)
Some aspects of giftedness and creativity cannot be explained by cognitive, developmental, personality, or social approaches considered in isolation. At the intersection of these approaches is something invisible, deeply hidden, but at the same time very important--the extracognitive facets of high ...
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Michael J. Gilmour
Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan and Scripture
Bob Dylan has had a profound influence on the shape of modern pop music (folk, rock, blues) and as a modern literary figure. He has also attracted enormous attention from both professional and amateur "interpreters". In this book Gilmour offers a thorough study of Dylan's reading of scriptures. He...
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Mary Beth Ingham
The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus: An Introduction
In this much-anticipated work, distinguished authors Mary Beth Ingham and Mechthild Dreyer present an accessible introduction to the philosophy of the thirteenth century Franciscan John Duns Scotus. Based on their expert knowledge of Scotus, this text brings together key insights of Scotus's theory ...
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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives
Legitimacy and Force, Volumes One and Two are the state papers of Jeane J. Kirkpatrick as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations. The volumes feature all of the ambassador's UN and congressional testimonies, addresses, speeches and statements and a broad selection of speech...
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