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Clifford M. Gross
Too Good To Fail: Creating Marketplace Value from the World’s Brightest Minds (Management for Professionals)
Too Good to Fail: Creating Marketplace Value form the World’s Brightest Minds is a guide for senior managers seeking to address their need to rapidly develop globally innovative products with constrained R&D budgets. It creates a practical strategy to address and bring together, for the first tim...
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Kay Halasek
A Pedagogy of Possibility: Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies
In a book that itself exemplifies the dialogic scholarship it proposes, Kay Halasek reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian perspective, focusing on both the discipline's theoretical assumptions and its pedagogies. Framing her discussions at every level of the discipline—theoretical, ...
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Geoffrey D. Claussen
Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought (JPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought)
How do modern Jews understand virtues such as courage, humility, justice, solidarity, or love? In truth: they have fiercely debated how to interpret them. This groundbreaking anthology of musar (Jewish traditions regarding virtue and character) explores the diverse ways seventy-eight modern Jewish t...
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Stanley R. Sloan
Defense of the West: Transatlantic security from Truman to Trump, Second edition (Manchester University Press)
Written in a lively and readable style by the world’s leading authority on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and US-European relations, Defense of the West is the history of a transatlantic security relationship that has endured for over seventy years. This latest edition of a classic work l...
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Martin Plant
Drug Nation: Patterns, problems, panics & policies
Humans have been using psychoactive (mind-altering) drugs since ancient times. Barely a day goes by without a drug related issue reaching the headlines, and drugs, in some way or other, affect all of our lives, whether by our own use, the use of those we know, or even from just being a victim of dru...
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Denys Turner
Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait
Leaving so few traces of himself behind, Thomas Aquinas seems to defy the efforts of the biographer. Highly visible as a public teacher, preacher, and theologian, he nevertheless has remained nearly invisible as man and saint. What can be discovered about Thomas Aquinas as a whole? In this short, co...
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Matthias Benzer
The Sociology of Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno is a widely-studied figure, but most often with regard to his work on cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics. The Sociology of Theodor Adorno provides the first thorough English-language account of Adorno's sociological thinking. Matthias Benzer reads Adorno's sociology through si...
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Richard W. Pound
Inside the Olympics: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Politics, the Scandals, and the Glory of the Games
"You won't always agree with Dick Pound...but his 'no holds barred' approach to so many major issues will keep you reading all night long." —Dick Ebersol, Chairman, NBC Sports and Olympics "The Olympic Games exist for the benefit of the athletes and not the IOC. Many IOC members still don't get ...
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Keith Cuthbertson
Quantitative Financial Economics: Stocks, Bonds and Foreign Exchange (Financial Economics and Quantitative Analysis Series)
Quantitative Financial Economics Quantitative Financial Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to models of economic behaviour in financial markets, focusing on analysis in discrete time. Following the huge success of the first edition, this second edition has been fully revised and updated...
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ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūniyyah
The Principles of Sufism (Library of Arabic Literature, 4)
'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi devotees, 'A'ishah received a thorough religious education and memorized the Quran at age eight. A mystic and a prolific poet and writer, she composed ...
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Laura van den Berg
The Third Hotel: A Novel
"[A] future cult classic." ― The New York Times Book Review "There’s Borges and Bolaño, Kafka and Cortázar, Modiano and Murakami, and now Laura van den Berg." ― The Washington Post Finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award. Named a Best Book of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Huffington Post ,...
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Albert Taylor
Soul Traveler: A Guide to Out-of-Body Experiences and the Wonders Beyond
A concise, easy-to-understand introduction to out-of-body experiences Former NASA aeronautical engineer and space researcher Albert Taylor believes that there is much we can learn from out-of-body experiences. In Soul Traveler , he shines a light into the tunnel of the unconscious mind, offers a...
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Roger J. Sullivan
Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory
This comprehensive, lucid, and systematic commentary on Kant's practical (or moral) philosophy is sure to become a standard reference work. Kant is arguably the most important moral philosopher of the modern period, yet, prior to this detailed study, there have been no attempts to treat all of his w...
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Simon Gathercole
Defending Substitution: An Essay on Atonement in Paul (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
In recent decades, the church and academy have witnessed intense debates concerning the concept of penal substitution to describe Christ's atoning sacrifice. Some claim it promotes violence, glorifies suffering and death, and amounts to divine child abuse. Others argue it plays a pivotal role in cla...
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Matt Stansberry
Rust Belt Arcana: Tarot and Natural History in the Exurban Wilds
An insightful take on the Tarot through the lens of the industrial Midwest, and a beautiful piece of nature writing in its own right. What can the Tarot tell us about the flora and fauna of the industrial Midwest? In what ways might this ancient practice connect us to the Rust Belt today? Rust Belt...
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Kimberly A. A. Goyette
Education in America (Sociology in the Twenty-First Century) (Volume 3)
Education in America provides an essential, comprehensive introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing on social inequality, Kimberly A. Goyette calls into question Horace Mann’s famous proclamation that education is the “great equalizer...
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Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene: 50th Anniversary Edition
Celebrating 50 years with a new anniversary edition, this critically acclaimed international bestseller has sold millions of copies and been translated into over 30 languages. Among the most influential and enduring science books of all time, The Selfish Gene is a classic in every sense of the w...
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Lori Ostlund
After the Parade: A Novel
The debut novel from award-winning author Lori Ostlund—“smart, resonant, and imbued with beauty” ( Publishers Weekly ) that “provides considerable pleasure and emotional power” ( The New York Times Book Review )—about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a tragicomic...
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John Butt
Bach: Mass in B Minor (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
The Mass in B Minor is arguably Bach's greatest single work. This short guide considers the work from many angles, offering the reader basic information in a concise and accessible form. John Butt gives an absorbing account of the work's genesis, its historical context, and its reception by later ge...
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Frank Summers
Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text
In Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text, Frank Summers provides thorough, lucid, and critically informed accounts of the work of major object relations theorists: Fairbairn, Guntrip, Klein, Winnicott, Kernberg, and Kohut. His expositions achieve distinction on two co...
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