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Robert H. Lowie
Indians of the Plains
First published in 1954, Robert H. Lowie's Indians of the Plains surveys in a lucid and concise fashion the history and culture of the Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. The author visited various tribes from 1906 to 1931, observing them carefully, participating in thei...
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Robyn Faith Walsh
The Origins of Early Christian Literature
Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities. Whether described as documenting intra-group 'oral traditions' or preserving the collective perspectives of their fellow Christ-followers, these writers are ...
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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...
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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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Russell Jacoby
On Diversity: The Eclipse of the Individual in a Global Era
It could be argued—and esteemed historian of ideas Russell Jacoby does so here—that the less diversity there is, the more we talk about it. But what does the term actually mean? Where does it come from? What are its intellectual precedents? Moreover, how do we square our recognition of the impo...
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Frances Dickey
The Modern Portrait Poem: From Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound
In The Modern Portrait Poem, Frances Dickey recovers the portrait as a poetic genre from the 1860s through the 1920s. Combining literary and art history, she examines the ways Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Swinburne, and J. M. Whistler transformed the genre of portraiture in both painting and p...
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Elizabeth Kolbert
Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World
A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her N...
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Eyjólfur K. Emilsson
PLOTINUS Ennead VI.4 and VI.5: On the Presence of Being, One and the Same, Everywhere as a Whole: Translation with an Introduction and Commentary (The
Ennead  VI.4-5, originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus’ most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intelligible and the sensible realms, addressing and coalescing two central issues in Platonism: the nature of the soul-body relationship and the natur...
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Giovanni Lattanzi
Kambo Iboga Ayahuasca: Synergy of Entheogens
Kambo is the secretion of the amphibian Phyllomedusa Bycolor , which forms part of the tradition of some Amazonian tribes. Iboga is the bark of the root of the Tabernante Iboga plant, traditionally used by Pygmies in the forests of Central Africa and by the Bwiti cult, Gabon’s national religion...
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John Cruickshank
The Novelist as Philosopher: Studies in French Fiction, 1935-1960
?Despite the complexity of many of these authors discussed, each of the examinations, in its own way, is remarkably lucid and readable....All in all, this collection makes for intelligent reading.?-Virginia Quarterly Review "Despite the complexity of many of these authors discussed, each of the exa...
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Katherine M Trumpener
Bardic Nationalism
This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain's overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw our picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the lineages of the novel, and the literary history...
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Fred Diamond
A First Course in Modular Forms (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 228)
This book introduces the theory of modular forms with an eye toward the Modularity Theorem:All rational elliptic curves arise from modular forms. The topics covered include • elliptic curves as complex tori and as algebraic curves, • modular curves as Riemann surfaces and as algebraic curves,...
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Frank E. Yeomans
Otto Kernberg: A contemporary Introduction (Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis)
In this book, Frank E. Yeomans, Diana Diamond, and Eve Caligor provide a systemic review of Otto Kernberg’s multiple contributions to psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychology, and our understanding of the mind and group behavior. The book spans the full scope of Kernberg’s career, both highlightin...
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William Beik
Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution (Volume 0)
This lucid and wide-ranging survey is the first comparative study in English to explore popular uprisings in the cities of seventeenth-century France. Through close analysis of eyewitness narratives from protesters and authorities in more than fifteen cities, William Beik examines the complex social...
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Benjamin D. Sommer
The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel
Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion, in the Textual Studies Category, as the best book in religious studies focusing on textual analysis published in 2009. - Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Award from the Association for Jewish Studies, as...
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Sophie Salvo
Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century
Enriches contemporary debates about gender and language by probing the histories of the philosophy and sciences of language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers the prehistory of the i...
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George Makari
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind. Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of h...
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Nanni Balestrini
The Unseen
For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy ( Autonomia ). Its “politics of refusal” united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since...
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Michael A. Lebowitz
Following Marx: Method, Critique and Crisis (Historical Materialism)
What does it mean to follow Marx? In this examination of Marx’s methodology combined with specific applications on topics in political economy such as neo-Ricardian theory, analytical Marxism, the falling rate of profit, crisis-theory, monopoly-capital, advertising, and the capitalist state, this ...
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