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Dana Frank
Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism
"[An] eloquent, lucid history of Buy American campaigns." —Robin D. G. Kelley With the election of Donald Trump, economic nationalism has re-emerged as a patriotic rallying cry. But are imports and “foreigners” really to blame for the disappearance of good jobs in the United States? Tracin...
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Rita Carter
Exploring Consciousness
Rita Carter ponders the nature, origins, and purpose of consciousness in this fascinating inquiry into the toughest problem facing modern science and philosophy. Building on the foundation of her bestselling book Mapping the Mind, she considers whether consciousness is merely an illusion, a by-pro...
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John R. Gillis
The Development of European Society, 1770-1870
Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1977, this provocative study is based on the idea that current Third World problems of modernization may be able to shed light on the period of European history from roughly 1770 to 1870. Includes extensive charts and maps. An indispensable teaching book....
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Sonya O. Rose
What is Gender History? (What is History?)
This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic texts in the field and the latest literature, the author examines the origins and development of the ...
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Ben Bramble
Lunacy: Ten False Promises of the New Space Age
Why we shouldn’t colonize Mars or the Moon, or even vacation there If certain business titans, corporations, and governments have their way, humans will someday be living, working, and vacationing in space. This is the much-vaunted New Space Age, and in Lunacy , philosopher Ben Bramble explains...
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Joseph S. Nye Jr
The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone
What role should America play in the world? What key challenges face us in the century to come, and how should we define our national interests? These questions have been given electrifying new significance in the wake of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. Not since Rome has any nation ha...
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Linda M. G. Zerilli
A Democratic Theory of Truth
A critique of the concept of truth presupposed by the post-truth debate—and a bold new vision for a more pluralistic citizenry. We say that we live in a “post-truth” era because disinformation threatens our confidence in the existence of a shared public world. Affirming objective truth may...
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Mary Elizabeth Elizabeth Berry
Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (Volume 12)
A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, t...
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Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 – 1961) is hailed as one of the key philosophers of the twentieth century. Phenomenology of Perception is his most famous and influential work, and an essential text for anyone seeking to understand phenomenology. In this GuideBook Komarine Romdenh-Romluc introduces...
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Alison Weir
Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife: A Novel (Six Tudor Queens)
“A sharp and lucid blend of grim fact and stylish fiction” ( Publishers Weekly ), this thrilling novel in New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir’s Six Tudor Queens series follows Katharine Parr, King Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife, and the romantic intrigue after his death that th...
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S. M. Blinder
A Primer on Quantum Chemistry
A Primer on Quantum Chemistry A practical and accessible guide to the applications of quantum chemistry Quantum chemistry, the branch of physical chemistry which applies quantum mechanical principles to the study of chemical systems, has become an integral part of the study of matter. Concerned with...
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Josie Varga
A Call From Heaven: Personal Accounts of Deathbed Visits, Angelic Visions, and Crossings to the Other Side
What happens when we die? Do we really die alone? What if death is not the end but a new beginning? As the dying prepare to leave this world, they often begin to get a glimpse of what lies beyond through deathbed visits from deceased loved ones, strangers, and angelic or divine figures. Religious b...
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Catherine Joan Casey
Critical Analysis of Organizations: Theory, Practice, Revitalization
`Catherine Casey has written an excellent book that provides a lucid and comprehensive critical analysis of organizations.…[It] extends in reach and relevance beyond the specific field of organization studies and the sociology of organizations to encompass broader intellectual developments that ha...
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Brendan Byrne SJ
Sacra Pagina: Romans (Volume 6)
This commentary adopts a literary-rhetorical approach, viewing the letter as an instrument of persuasion designed to transform readers through a celebratory presentation of the Gospel. Reflecting upon the fate of Jews and Gentiles, Paul wins his audience to a vision of a God who always acts inclusiv...
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Eugenia Toledo
Trazas de mapas, trazas de sangre / Map Traces, Blood Traces
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish in a bilingual edition by Carolyne Wright. In 2008, Seattle-based poet Eugenia Toledo revisited her native Chile to reconnect with places and people from her past. With poet and translator Carolyne Wright, Toledo traveled the length of the c...
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Steven J. Ellman
Freud's Technique Papers: A Contemporary Perspective
Freud's Technique Papers incorporates Freud's papers on psychoanalytic method alongside commentary on current perspectives of the material. The papers address the role of transference, dream interpretation, clinical issues, and termination of treatment. Freud's papers are accompanied by sidebar com...
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Gabriella Safran
Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-sky
The man who would become S. An-sky―ethnographer, war correspondent, author of the best-known Yiddish play, The Dybbuk ―was born Shloyme-Zanvl Rapoport in 1863, in Russia’s Pale of Settlement. His journey from the streets of Vitebsk to the center of modern Yiddish and Hebrew theater, by way of...
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Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History)
The Renaissance marked a turning point in Europe’s relationship to Arabic thought. On the one hand, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues, it was the period in which important Arabic traditions reached the peak of their influence in Europe. On the other hand, it is the time when the West began to forget, and ...
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Eoin Devereux
Understanding the Media
This is a lucid and lively introduction to key concepts and developments in media and media studies. The new edition, with updated case studies and a good range of online reading, is a valuable resource for both students and lecturers. - Chindu Sreedharan, Bournemouth University "Has expanded ...
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Aaron Cometbus
A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309
Radical subcultures in an unlikely place Told in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists and musicians from throughout the conservative South and earned national renown. The house at 309 6...
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