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Carl J. Richard
Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers
This lively and engaging book is the only popular work to explore the profound impact of Ancient Greece and Rome on the founding fathers. Recounting the stirring stories the founders encountered in their favorite histories of Greece and Rome, renowned scholar Carl J. Richard explores what they learn...
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Nigel Atkinson
Richard Hooker and the Authority of Scripture, Tradition and Reason
There is no doubt that Richard Hooker (1554-1600) is one of the most important writers in the history of the Church of England. However, since John Henry Newman presented him as a "theologian of the via media" he has been consistently overlooked by evangelical Anglicans. This well-documented and det...
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Peter D. Spencer
The Structure and Regulation of Financial Markets
This lucid text brings together and explains the main theoretical developments in economic thinking about financial markets, institutions, and regulations over the last twenty-five years. It relates the theory of asymmetric information to the main financial developments in the US, UK, and other Angl...
$98.19
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Reiner Stach
Kafka: The Years of Insight
Telling the story of Kafka's final years as never before―the third volume in the acclaimed definitive biography This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924―a period during which the w...
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Michio Kaku
Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe
The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation takes readers on an exciting excursion into the discoveries that have led scientists to the brightest new prospect in theoretical physics today: superstring theory.  What is superstring theory and why is it i...
$9.99
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Michael Flower
The Seer in Ancient Greece
The seer ( mantis ), an expert in the art of divination, operated in ancient Greek society through a combination of charismatic inspiration and diverse skills ranging from examining the livers of sacrificed animals to spirit possession. Unlike the palm readers and mediums who exist on the fringe of ...
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Jennifer Lee
As I Dream of You: A Graphic Novel
STARRED REVIEWS from Publishers Weekly , Kirkus , and SLJ ! Franny and Sam are each other’s entire world. So what do you do when your world ends? Frozen ’s Jennifer Lee and Lunar New Year Love Story ’s LeUyen Pham deliver a tour de force young adult romance with a supernatural twist. ...
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Terence Irwin
Classical Thought (History of Western Philosophy)
Covering over 1000 years of classical philosophy from Homer to Saint Augustine, this accessible, comprehensive study details the major philosophies and philosophers of the period--the Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Neoplatonism. Though the emphasis is on quest...
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Michael Durey
Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American Republic
In the transatlantic world of the late eighteenth century, easterly winds blew radical thought to America. Thomas Paine had already arrived on these shores in 1774 and made his mark as a radical pamphleteer during the Revolution. In his wake followed more than 200 other radical exiles—English Di...
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Philip K. Howard
The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom
In pursuit of fairness at any cost, we have created a society paralyzed by legal fear: Doctors are paranoid and principals powerless. Little league coaches, scared of liability, stop volunteering. Schools and hospitals start to crumble. The common good fades, replaced by a cacophony of people claimi...
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David P. Williamson
The Design of Approximation Algorithms
Discrete optimization problems are everywhere, from traditional operations research planning problems, such as scheduling, facility location, and network design; to computer science problems in databases; to advertising issues in viral marketing. Yet most such problems are NP-hard. Thus unless P = N...
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John S. Rigden
Hydrogen: The Essential Element
Seduced by simplicity, physicists find themselves endlessly fascinated by hydrogen, the simplest of atoms. Hydrogen has shocked, it has surprised, it has embarrassed, it has humbled--and again and again it has guided physicists to the edge of new vistas where the promise of basic understanding and m...
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Deborah Kapchan
Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace (Music / Culture)
The sacred and musical phenomenon of trance A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long partic...
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Egbert H. Huizing
Functional Reconstructive Nasal Surgery
Professor Huizing's brilliant text with Dr. John de Groot's magnificent surgical drawings on functional reconstructive nasal surgery is now available in a new and updated second edition. Maintaining its focus on modern surgical concepts and techniques, the book now also includes state-of-the-art con...
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Paisley Rekdal
Appropriate: A Provocation
A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination. How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In ...
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Sadri Hassani
Mathematical Methods: For Students of Physics and Related Fields (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Intended to follow the usual introductory physics courses, this book has the unique feature of addressing the mathematical needs of sophomores and juniors in physics, engineering and other related fields. Many original, lucid, and relevant examples from the physical sciences, problems at the ends of...
$100.72
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Quiara Alegría Hudes
Water by the Spoonful (Revised TCG Edition)
“How many plays make us long for grace? Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Hudes is such a rare play; it is a yearning, funny, deeply sad and deeply lyrical piece, a worthy companion to Hudes’s Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue . The play infects us with the urge to find connection within our families...
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Giancarlo Ghirardi
Sneaking a Look at God's Cards: Unraveling the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics - Revised Edition
Quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of subatomic particles, seems to challenge common sense. Waves behave like particles; particles behave like waves. You can tell where a particle is, but not how fast it is moving--or vice versa. An electron faced with two tiny holes will travel through...
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Mary L. Coloe
God Dwells with Us: Temple Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel (Scripture)
The image of the Temple speaks of a building, of a place of God's heavenly presence, and yet the experience of many Christians has been of God's indwelling in the human heart. In God Dwells with Us , Mary Coloe crosses the centuries through John's Gospel text and plunges into the experience of the ...
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Nathan Goldstein
Figure Drawing: The Structural Anatomy and Expressive Design of the Human Form (Mysearchlab Series for Art)
Appropriate for all beginning and intermediate courses in Art, Basic Drawing, Figure Drawing, or Life Drawing. Providing a concise but comprehensive survey of all matters pertaining to drawing the human figure, this well-illustrated and accurate guide demonstrates the interplay of structure, anatomy...
$146.16
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