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Carol Owens
Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child
Lacan did not say or write very much about the psychoanalysis of children. There is no doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children in his work. Instead, his 1956-1957 seminar on 'the object relation' and his 'Note on the Child' of 1969 have been adopted by Lacanian analysts working with children as p...
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Vernon Hyde Minor
Art History's History
Written in jargon-free, reader-friendly language, this is one of the first volumes to make art historical theory accessible to those at the introductory level. A review of contemporary theory of art history provides readers with lucid prose and concrete examples. Discussion of eighteenth- and n...
$49.33
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Anténor Firmin
The Equality of Human Races: Positivist Anthropology
Rediscovering an early scientific challenge to racism This is the first paperback edition of the only English-language translation of the Haitian scholar Anténor Firmin's The Equality of the Human Races, a foundational text in critical anthropology first published in 1885 when anthropology was j...
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Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill
War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2016 Today, nations increasingly carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Policies governing everything from trade and investment to energy and exchange rates are wielded as tools to win diplomatic allies, punish adversaries, and coerce those in between...
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Mona Hassan
Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History
In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the myriad meanings of the caliphate for Muslims aro...
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Mark Durie
The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom
The Third Choice provides a compelling introduction to Islam on the basis of its primary sources, the Quran and the life of Muhammad. Topics covered include the sharia; interpretation of the Quran; abrogation; women's rights (including female genital mutilation); lawful deception (taqiyya); Muhammad...
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Peter Beinart
The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris
“Why do we succumb to hubris? Peter Beinart has written a highly intelligent and wonderfully readable book that answers the question by looking at a century of American foreign policy. As with everything Beinart writes, it is lucid, thoughtful and strikingly honest.” — Fareed Zakaria, author o...
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Charlotte J Frisbie
Kinaalda
Kinaaldá, the ceremony associated with the onset of a girl’s puberty, is an important Navajo rite within the Blessingway complex. Derived from the experiences of Changing Woman, the puberty ceremony has been passed through generations and continues to be observed throughout Navajoland. An acknowl...
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Tiffany Jenkins
Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life
An Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliantly original . . . endlessly fascinating' – Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen 'An intricate cultural history . . . thought-provoking' – The Sunday Times 'Lucid and elegant' – The Telegraph From ancient times to our digital present, Strange...
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Robert J. Miller
A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma
“At the end of the Trail of Tears there was a promise,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the decision issued on July 9, 2020, in the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma . And that promise, made in treaties between the United States and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation more than 150 years earl...
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Chongmin Song
The Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method: Introduction to Theory and Implementation (Wiley Series in Computational Mechanics)
An informative look at the theory, computer implementation, and application of the scaled boundary finite element method   This reliable resource, complete with MATLAB, is an easy-to-understand introduction to the fundamental principles of the scaled boundary finite element method. It establishes t...
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Michael Reid
Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond   “Comprehensive and engaging.”—Gideon Rachman, Financial Times   Spain’s transition to democracy after Franco’s long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three d...
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Steven Mailloux
Rhetorical Power
In this provocative and forcefully written book, Steven Mailloux takes issue with the validity of a number of distinctions commonly made in contemporary literary theory and cultural studies―distinctions between theory and history, reader and text, truth and ideology, aesthetics and politics. Maill...
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Owen D. Jones
Force of Nature: Understanding Evolution's Deepest Logic―and Putting It to Use
An eye-opening exploration of natural selection’s power and how it can help human society flourish. Most of us learned about natural selection in our school days and remember the basics of how it drives evolution, plus a few of its everyday implications, like the risks of overusing antibiotics. Ye...
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Scott Bukatman
Hellboy's World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins
Hellboy, Mike Mignola’s famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World  shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their ma...
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Stephen M. Fallon
Milton among the Philosophers: Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-Century England
While Johnson charged that Milton "unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy," Stephen M. Fallon argues that the relationship between Milton's philosophy and the poetry of Paradise Lost is a happy one. The author examines Milton's thought in light of the competing philosophical systems th...
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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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Douglas Vickers
Divine Redemption and the Refuge of Faith
The time-honored theology that the Reformation bequeathed to us is now being discounted even in many evangelical churches. New perspectives challenge old verities. The need to return to biblical foundations is urgent. In Divine Redemption and the Refuge of Faith, Douglas Vickers has raised the press...
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Mondher Bellalah
Exotic Derivatives and Risk: Theory, Extensions and Applications
This book discusses in detail the workings of financial markets and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, focusing specifically on standard and complex derivatives. The subjects covered range from the fundamental products in OTC markets, standard and exotic options, the concepts of value at risk, credit d...
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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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