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John Gunther
Inside U.S.A.
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Gunther’s classic portrait of America John Gunther’s Inside series were among the most popular books of reportage of the 1930s and 1940s. For Inside U.S.A. , his magnum opus, Gunther set out from California and visited every state in the country, offer...
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Harry Gonshor
LMS: 110 Introduction Theory of Surreal Numb (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, Series Number 110)
The surreal numbers form a system which includes both the ordinary real numbers and the ordinals. Since their introduction by J. H. Conway, the theory of surreal numbers has seen a rapid development revealing many natural and exciting properties. These notes provide a formal introduction to the theo...
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F. Allan Hanson
The Trouble with Culture: How Computers Are Calming the Culture Wars
How the computer revolution can ease polarization and help calm the culture wars. 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In this highly original book, anthropologist F. Allan Hanson reveals an entirely unanticipated but vital link between two of the most widely discussed features of contempo...
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John Cottingham
On the Meaning of Life (Thinking in Action)
The question 'What is the meaning of life?' is one of the most fascinating, oldest and most difficult questions human beings have ever posed themselves. In an increasingly secularized culture, it remains a question to which we are ineluctably and powerfully drawn. Drawing skillfully on a wealth of t...
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Katta Gopalakrishna Murty
Computational And Algorithmic Linear Algebra And N-Dimensional Geometry
This undergraduate textbook on Linear Algebra and n -Dimensional Geometry, in a self-teaching style, is invaluable for sophomore level undergraduates in mathematics, engineering, business, and the sciences. These are classical subjects on which there are many mathematics books in theorem-proof styl...
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Nora Treatbaby
Our Air
A debut poetry collection about Earth and to Earth that contemplates imposed systems—gender, capitalism, time, wage and exploitation—and how they are mapped onto us, the trees, and the planet. Immersed in a tangled weave of contemporary life where big box stores and suburban parking lots coexist...
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Paul McMahon
Island of Woods: How Ireland Lost its Forests and How to Get them Back
Forestry in Ireland has never been so contentious. Over the last century the area of Irish woodland has increased tenfold, mostly through the planting of imported conifer species; government policy is to plant more trees to supply industry and to tackle climate change, both urgent priorities. But th...
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Badri Raina
Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth
In his works, from Oliver Twist to Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens reveals a continuum of artistic as well as social development over a period of four decades. In this highly original study, Badri Raina relates Dickens' novels thoroughly to one another, illuminating the works by seeing them in te...
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Adam Hanieh
Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East (The Global Middle East, Series
Framed by a critical analysis of global capitalism, this book examines how the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are powerfully shaping the political economy of the wider Middle East. Through unprecedented and fine-grained empirical research - encompassing sectors such as agribusiness, real...
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James W. Joseph
Between Realism and Reality: The Reagan Administration and International Debt
This book uses a complex interdependence model to explain U.S. policy on international debt between 1981 and 1985. The author analyzes four cases: the administration's decision in early 1982 to pay interest due from Poland to U.S. banks on hundreds of millions of dollars in agricultural credits; the...
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Shoba Ranganathan
Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) combine elements of computer science, information technology, mathematics, statistics, and biotechnology, providing the methodology and in silico solutions to mine biological data and processes, for knowledge discovery. In the era of molecular diagno...
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Robert L. Woolfolk
Treating Somatization: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
This lucidly written guide presents an innovative approach for treating somatization disorder and related problems, such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic fatigue syndrome. The authors' program integrates cognitive-behavioral techniques with strategies to build emotional self-aw...
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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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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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Barbara R. Rossing
The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation
A leading New Testament scholar exposes the myth of “The Rapture” and restores the Book of Revelation’s true message of God’s love “Lucid and passionate.” — Harper’s The idea of “The Rapture”—the return of Christ at the end of times to rescue and deliver born-again Christ...
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Kenneth J. Heineman
A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh
Our popular image of the era of the Great Depression is one of bread lines, labor wars, and leftist firebrands. Absent from this picture are religiously motivated social reformers, notably Catholic clergy and laity. In A Catholic New Deal , Kenneth Heineman rethinks the religious roots of labor org...
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Steven A. Cook
The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square (Council on Foreign Relations (Oxford))
The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a lynchpin of the US's Middle East strategy, receiving more aid than any nation except Israel. This is not the first time that the world...
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Richard S. Hess
Israelite Religions: An Archaeological and Biblical Survey
Archaeological excavation in the Holy Land has exploded with the resurgence of interest in the historical roots of the biblical Israelites. Israelite Religions offers Bible students and interested lay leaders a survey of the major issues and approaches that constitute the study of ancient Israelit...
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Mother Angelica
Mother Angelica on Suffering and Burnout
From the spiritual writings and reflections of Mother Angelica comes this lucid and life-transforming book for anyone who struggles with suffering, or finds difficulty in persevering in your daily responsibilities. Mother Angelica provides consolation and advice that only a spiritual mother can prov...
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C. R. Gallistel
Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience (Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition)
Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades.  A provocat...
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