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Averroes
Averroes on Plato's "Republic"
"Because of the importance of Averroes (as a Muslim he is significant for both Platonic and Islamic thought), it is good to have Lerner's new and thoughtful interpretation, with lucid introduction, three helpful appendixes, glossary, and index."―Library Journal "This is a fine translation of a ver...
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Kimberly A. A. Goyette
Education in America (Sociology in the Twenty-First Century) (Volume 3)
Education in America provides an essential, comprehensive introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing on social inequality, Kimberly A. Goyette calls into question Horace Mann’s famous proclamation that education is the “great equalizer...
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Reginald Horsman
The New Republic: The United States of America 1789-1815 (Longman History of America)
Reginald Horsman's powerful and comprehensive survey of the early years of the American Republic covers the dramatic years from the setting up of the US Constitution in 1789, the first US presidency under George Washington, and also the presidencies of Adams, Jeffersen and Madison. A major strength ...
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Andrew Bennett
This Thing Called Literature (xx xx)
What is this thing called literature? Why should we study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, this beautifully written book establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and rewarding subject to study. Bennett...
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Patrick Laude
Shimmering Mirrors: Reality and Appearance in Contemplative Metaphysics East and West
A study of comparative metaphysics that explores the concepts of Reality and Appearance and their relevance to contemporary religious consciousness. In this pioneering work of comparative metaphysics, Patrick Laude delves into Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish concepts of Reality and...
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Ted Cadsby
Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World
We have always struggled, as human beings. But our struggle today is exacerbated by a gap between the increasingly complicated world we have created and the default ways we think about it. Twenty-first-century challenges are qualitatively different from the ones that generations of our ancestors fac...
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John Stillwell
Naive Lie Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
In this new textbook, acclaimed author John Stillwell presents a lucid introduction to Lie theory suitable for junior and senior level undergraduates. In order to achieve this, he focuses on the so-called "classical groups'' that capture the symmetries of real, complex, and quaternion spaces. These ...
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Todd Johnson
The Sweet By and By: Five Women in a Nursing Home Find Friendship, Courage, and Humor in Life and Death – A Novel
Meet five North Carolina women who are about to change the way you think about friendship. For Rhonda, a gritty, fun-loving hairdresser in tight jeans, the sights and smells of Ridgecrest Nursing Center are depressing. But before she can change her mind about working there, two residents glue themse...
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Jordan Troeller
Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury
How a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children. For most of modern history, to be an artist and a mother was to embody a contradiction in terms. This “awful dichotomy,” as painter Alice Neel pu...
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Roberto Suro
Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America
Strangers Among Us is a lucid, informed, and cliché-shattering examination of Latino immigration to the United States--its history, the vast transformations it is fast producing in American society, and the challenges it will present for decades to come. In making vivid an array of people, places, ...
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Zachary Markwith
One God, Many Prophets: The Universal Wisdom of Islam
"This book demonstrates not only that Islam is compatible with religious diversity, inclusivity and plurality; it also shows, through a dazzling array of insights, that these values go to the very heart of the Islamic message. Using arguments which are both academically cogent and spiritually sensit...
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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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Josh Rosenblatt
Why We Fight: One Man’s Search for Meaning Inside the Ring – A Pacifist Philosopher's Journey into Violence and Fear Through Martial Arts
Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing A physical and philosophical mediation on why we are drawn to fight each other for sport, what happens to our bodies and brains when we do, and what it all means Anyone with guts or madness in him can get hit by someone who knows ho...
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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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George C. Herring
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States)
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume ...
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Herman Bavinck
Essays on Religion, Science, and Society
Mature reflections from one of the greatest Reformed theologians Herman Bavinck, the premier theologian of the Kuyper-inspired, neo-Calvinistic revival in the late-nineteenth-century Netherlands, is an important voice in the development of Protestant theology. This volume, now in paper, is the cap...
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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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Yasmin Saikia
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971
Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act...
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Jürgen Renn
The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene
A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technology This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines...
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Khenchen Palden Sherab
Tara's Enlightened Activity: An Oral Commentary on the Twenty-One Praises to Tara
The female Buddhist deity Tara is an object of devotional worship and meditative practice for Tibetan Buddhists everywhere, both male and female. She clears away fears, overpowers negative emotions, and enables all beings to reach enlightenment. She has special resonance as a source of female spirit...
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