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Jozef Nauta
Statistics in Clinical Vaccine Trials
- First comprehensive text on the current state of the statistical methodology for clinical vaccines trials - Many worked-out real-life examples - SAS codes for the more complex examples provided From the book reviews: "The presentation of the book is lucid. The author is to be congratulated for mi...
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Andrew Hodgson
The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry
At the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Hodgson equips the reader for the challenging and rewarding experience of unlocking poetry, considering the key questions about language, technique, feelin...
$22.00
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Alec Groysman
Corrosion for Everybody
People seldom enjoy corrosion. They usually perceive it as a nasty phenomenon with which they must cope. Yet many people, far from the corrosion field, come across it because of their professional duty. Lawyers, historians, doctors, architects, philosophers, artists, and archeologists, to name a few...
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Antonio Zadra
When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds
"A truly comprehensive, scientifically rigorous and utterly fascinating account of when, how, and why we dream. Put simply, When Brains Dream is the essential guide to dreaming." ―Matthew Walker, author of Why We Sleep Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and ...
$16.07
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John W. Lawrence
Abstract Algebra: A Comprehensive Introduction (Cambridge Mathematical Textbooks)
Through this book, upper undergraduate mathematics majors will master a challenging yet rewarding subject, and approach advanced studies in algebra, number theory and geometry with confidence. Groups, rings and fields are covered in depth with a strong emphasis on irreducible polynomials, a fresh ap...
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Edward M. Hallowell M.D
Worry: Hope and Help for a Common Condition
Here is the first book to explore every facet of the most common and debilitating emotional state: worry. While a healthy level of worry can help us perform efficiently at work, anticipate dangers, and learn from past errors, in its extreme forms worry can become "toxic"--poisoning our pleasures, sa...
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Francis Wade
Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other' (Asian Arguments)
In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of refugees since the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The wa...
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Anita Brookner
Falling Slowly (Vintage Contemporaries)
In Falling Slowly , Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing...
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Thomas Bell
Exhale Twice as Long: My Street-Tested, Science-Backed Journey to Profound Presence and Emotional Freedom
Exhale Twice as Long takes the reader on an epic journey of self-discovery and personal transformation by weaving spiritual memoir with science-backed personal development to unlock the mysterious link between the mind, body, and breath. The author systematically unveils the story of how he develop...
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Philip B. Yampolsky
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son. Purported to be the recorded words of the famed Huin...
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Daniel Morgan
Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema
With Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema , Daniel Morgan makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s, some of the most notoriously difficult works in contemporary cinema. Through detailed analyses of extended seque...
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Thomas Cleary
The Taoist Classics: The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary, Vol. 3
This collection of translated texts includes:    •  Vitality, Energy, Spirit: A Taoist Sourcebook: An extraordinarily rich and diverse collection of Taoist writings from the fifth century BCE to modern times.    •  The Secret of the Golden Flower: The Classic Chinese Book of Life:...
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Adam Freedman
The Party of the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese
A “lighthearted but lucid explanation of legalese” that offers something for language lovers and legal eagles alike (William Safire, The New York Times Magazine ) For better or for worse, the instruction manual for today’s world is written by lawyers. Everyone needs to understand this manual...
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Serge Leclaire
Psychoanalyzing: On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Scarcely any theoretical discourse has had greater impact on literary and cultural studies than psychoanalysis, and yet hardly any theoretical discourse is more widely misunderstood and abused. In Psychoanalyzing , Serge Leclaire offers a thorough and lucid exposition of the psychoanalysis that has...
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Perry Mehrling
The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort
How the U.S. Federal Reserve began actively intervening in markets Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street , published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a...
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Mark Juergensmeyer
Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
Beneath the histories of religious traditions--from biblical wars to crusading ventures and great acts of martyrdom--violence has lurked as a shadowy presence. Images of death have never been far from the heart of religion's power to stir the imagination. In this wide-ranging and erudite book, Mark ...
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Caroline Finkel
Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire “Lucid, judicious and enjoyable.” ( Times Literary Supplement ) The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its...
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Peter Atkins
Four Laws That Drive the Universe
The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal--everything is moved or restrained by four simple laws. Written by Peter Atkins, one of the world's leading authorities on thermodynamics, this powerful a...
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Andrew Hodgson
The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry
At the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Hodgson equips the reader for the challenging and rewarding experience of unlocking poetry, considering the key questions about language, technique, feelin...
$94.00
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Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sacred Teachings)
“A wonderful translation, full of contemporary insight yet luminous with eternal truth.”—Jacob Needleman The Yoga Sutras were cast in their present form in India around the third century b.c. Yoga is from the Sanskrit root meaning “union,” and a sutra is a thread or aphoristic verse. Th...
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