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Misha Glenny
The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War, Third Revised Edition
“Vigorous, passionate, humane, and extremely readable. . . For an account of what has actually happened. . . Glenny’s book so far stands unparalleled.”— The New Republic The fall of Yugoslavia tells the whole, true story of the Balkan Crisis—and the ensuing war—for those around the wo...
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John D. Caputo
In Search of Radical Theology: Expositions, Explorations, Exhortations (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
This sparkling collection of essays invites readers to join a seasoned scholar on his journey to catch “radical theology” in action, both in the Church and our culture at large. Capturing a career’s worth of thought and erudition, this rich volume treats readers to creative thought, careful ...
$31.00
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Darian R. Lockett
Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon
Biblical Foundations Book Awards Finalist The Catholic Epistles often get short shrift. Tucked into a few pages near the back of our Bibles, these books are sometimes referred to as the "non-Pauline epistles" or "concluding letters," maybe getting lumped together with Hebrews and Revelation. Yet th...
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Brian P. Levack
The Witchcraft Sourcebook
The Witchcraft Sourcebook , now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period between 1400 and 1750, when more than 100,000 people - mos...
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Farook Rahaman
The Special Theory of Relativity: A Mathematical Approach (La Matematica per il 3+2)
This textbook expounds the major topics in the special theory of relativity. It provides a detailed examination of the mathematical foundation of the special theory of relativity, relativistic mass, relativistic mechanics, and relativistic electrodynamics. As well as covariant formulation of relativ...
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Kenneth S. Rogoff
The Curse of Cash: How Large-Denomination Bills Aid Crime and Tax Evasion and Constrain Monetary Policy
“A brilliant and lucid new book” (John Lanchester, New York Times Magazine ) about why paper money and digital currencies lie at the heart of many of the world’s most difficult problems―and their solutions In The Curse of Cash , acclaimed economist and bestselling author Kenneth Rogoff e...
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Immanuel Wallerstein
The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the t...
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D. C. Lau
Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare: A Translation of the Classic Chinese Work of Philosophy and Strategy (Chinese Philosophy Culture)
A classic of both military strategy and Eastern philosophy from the fourth century B.C.E. Sun Bin's Art of Warfare is an essential text of Chinese military philosophy and of strategy in general. This book, lost for over two thousand years and rediscovered only in 1972, has not yet reached the prom...
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Tim Marshall
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place)
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography , a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” ( The Washington Post ) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile future. Tim Marshall’s global bes...
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Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche
Dzogchen Dream Yoga: How to Practice Dreamtime Awareness
Develop lucid awareness in dreams as a foundation for spiritual practice • Draws on the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism to offer a progression of dream yoga practices, including pre-sleep purification, correct postures, and visualizations • Offers practical instructions for identifying ...
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Audrey Wasser
The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form
The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new wo...
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Michael Heinrich
How to Read Marx's Capital: Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters
An accessible companion to Karl Marx's essential Capital With the recent revival of Karl Marx's theory, a general interest in reading Capital has also increased. But Capital ―Marx’s foundational nineteenth-century work on political economy―is by no means considered an easily understood t...
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Jordi Folck
Primera memòria d’Abel M. (Catalan Edition)
Estimat, No sé qui ets, ni conec el teu nom, ni com has arribat a la meva vida, ni els anys que tens, ni el color dels teus ulls, ni he tastat els teus llavis, però si estàs llegint les meves lletres, voldrà dir que t’estimo. Que aquestes cartes, que no llegirà mai ningú altre, t’estaven r...
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Rosine Lefort
Birth of the Other
   Originally published as Naissance de l' Autre (1980), Birth         of the Other offers a rare look at language acquisition from a Lacanian         perspective. In 1951-52 Rosine Lefort conducted the treatment of two largely         preverbal children, guiding them...
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Tze-Yin Teo
If Babel Had a Form: Translating Equivalence in the Twentieth-Century Transpacific
“The likeness of form between Chinese and English sentences,” writes the American Sinologist Ernest Fenollosa around 1906, “renders translation from one to the other exceptionally easy.” If Babel Had a Form asks not if his claim may be true, but what its phantasmic surprise may yet do. In ...
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Robert Boyd
A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species (The University Center for Human Values Series)
How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species Human beings have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability―people are just smarter tha...
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Claude Traunecker
The Gods of Egypt
The Gods of Egypt , first published in France in 1992 and now in its third French edition, is a short, elegant, and highly accessible survey of ancient Egyptian religion. The clarity and brevity of Claude Traunecker's book make it especially valuable to readers seeking an authoritative introduction...
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Robert P. George
Clash Of Orthodoxies: Law Religion & Morality In Crisis
In The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis , Robert George tackles the issues at the heart of the contemporary conflict of worldviews. Secular liberals typically suppose that their positions on morally charged issues of public policy are the fruit of pure reason, while those...
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Lawrence Raab
The Invention Of Everyday Life
There’s nobody else writing quite like Lawrence Raab, with his confident, efficient elegance, about the mysterious ways in which what we think and what can be known so often betray one another. In this marvelous new poem, “The Invention of Everyday Life,” we find the poet recounting several se...
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Eugene Vale
Vale's Technique of Screen and Television Writing
Vale's Technique of Screen and Television Writing is an updated and expanded edition of a valuable guide to writing for film and television. Mr. Vale takes the aspiring writer through every phase of a film's development, from the original concept to the final shooting script. Teachers of the craft a...
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