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Matt Ridley
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
“A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” ( Wall Street Journal ) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Genome Brilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of rom...
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Christopher Rovee
New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life (Lit Z)
New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today's impassioned debates about method back to the discipline’s early professional era, when an unprecedented makeover of American higher education with far-reaching social consequences resulted in wha...
$25.97
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Matityahu Glazerson
Building Blocks of the Soul: Studies on the Letters and Words of the Hebrew Language
In this intensive study of Hebrew letters and words, Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson uses gematria (interpretive Jewish numerology) to reveal the mysterious correlation between Jewish ethics and practices and the numeric values of Hebrew words which name and describe them. This profound and lucid explorat...
$74.75
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Carmen Boullosa
Texas: The Great Theft
"Mexico's greatest woman writer."—Roberto Bolaño "A luminous writer . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic"— Miami Herald An imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen Boullosa shows herself to be at the height of her powers with h...
$9.19
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Graham T. Smith
Machine Tool Metrology: An Industrial Handbook
Maximizing reader insights into the key scientific disciplines of  Machine Tool Metrology , this text will prove useful for the industrial-practitioner and those interested in the operation of machine tools. Within this current level of industrial-content, this book incorporates significant usage ...
$116.99
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Kehinde Andrews
Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (Blackness in Britain)
Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis, the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter activists of today. At its core it argues that racism ...
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Charles W. Dolan
Prestressed Concrete: Building, Design, and Construction
This textbook imparts a firm understanding of the behavior of prestressed concrete and how it relates to design based on the 2014 ACI Building Code. It presents the fundamental behavior of prestressed concrete and then adapts this to the design of structures. The book focuses on prestressed concrete...
$109.99
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Damien Keown
Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
This Very Short Introduction offers readers a superb overview of the teachings of the Buddha, as well as a succinct guide to the integration of Buddhism into daily life. What are the distinctive features of Buddhism? Who was the Buddha, and what are his teachings? Words such as "karma" and "nirvana"...
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Yanqi Tong
Transitions from State Socialism: Economic and Political Change in China and Hungary
Exploring the transformation of state socialism through a comparative study of the reform experiences of China and Hungary, this book focuses on the relationship between economic and political change. Despite following parallel paths through much of the reform period, China and Hungary diverged dras...
$117.00
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R.N. Bethel Ann Powers
Nursing Home Ethics: Everyday Issues Affecting Residents with Dementia
Designated a Doody's Core Title! Winner of an A.J.N. Book of the Year Award! Bethel Ann Powers gives a comprehensive and thoughtful examination of the ethical issues that arise in long-term care. The first two chapters set the stage by exploring the pre-nursing home experiences of families living wi...
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John Ferling
Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800
It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the Ele...
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Steven J. Zipperstein
Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism
Here is a long overdue biography of the guiding intellectual presence—and chief internal critic—of Zionism during the movement's formative years between the 1880s and the 1920s. Ahad Ha'am ("One of the People") was the pen name of Asher Ginzberg (1856-1927), a Russian Jew whose life intersected ne...
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Miller
A Promise Kept
“At the end of the Trail of Tears there was a promise,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the decision issued on July 9, 2020, in the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma . And that promise, made in treaties between the United States and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation more than 150 years earl...
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Sarah Jaffe
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
An examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. “An indispensable guide to the broader dynamics of work in the contemporary moment.” — Nation You’re told that...
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Catherine L. Albanese
Reconsidering Nature Religion (Rockwell Lecture Series)
Looks at how nature and religion come together, where nature functions as an absolute that grounds and orients life, and religion being the way that people use this absolute of nature to form a meaningful life. Original. "Catherine Albanese deftly argues that a range of practices, including osteopat...
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Robert Skidelsky
How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes    What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater we...
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Steven Roman
Lattices and Ordered Sets
This book is intended to be a thorough introduction to the subject of order and lattices, with an emphasis on the latter. It can be used for a course at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level or for independent study. Prerequisites are kept to a minimum, but an introductory course in abstract ...
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Kate Fullbrook
Free Women: Ethics and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction
In this sensitive and incisive study of eleven major twentieth-century women novelists, Kate Fullbrook traces the ethical and aesthetic impulses that have shaped their fiction. The result is a profoundly important way of reading women writers in the light of a new ethics for women. This book captur...
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Lionel S. Lewis
When Power Corrupts
"It is often said that the American academic, protected by tenure, is free to do pretty much as he or she pleases. Lewis argues that this freedom is largely an illusion. Faculty actions are greatly limited by governing boards and the academic administrators they appoint, who control institutional re...
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Toby Martinez de las Rivas
Black Sun
Toby Martinez de las Rivas is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged in recent times; to some, a modern-day William Blake. The Guardian described Terror , his first book, as 'visionary' and 'exciting', the New Statesman as 'remarkable', and all combined to praise its brave an...
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