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Perry Anderson
Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War
‘A book unlike any other on the 1914 debate … a wealth of sharp and compelling reflections on how and why historians argue as they do, why they rethink, abandon or double down on their positions, and how politics and emotion flow into the writing of history and back out of it into the world’ ...
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Kimberly Delude
Freddie the Fly: Bee On, Buzz Off
" Freddie, our lovable fly, is tappin’ and flappin’ his way to trouble. He whirls around to and fro, buzzing from one distraction to another. Is it any wonder he forgets his lunch, fails his spelling test and leaves the house semi-undressed? Freddie is a go-go-go kind of guy who has no time ...
$11.95
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Lauren Redniss
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future
From the National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive, comes a dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage that grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its danger and its beauty, why it happens and what it means. WINNER OF THE PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY ...
$19.34
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Cary Hazlegrove
Nantucket: Seasons on the Island
A tiny haven 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, Nantucket is one of America's few remaining island treasures. From its cheerful, red cranberry bogs in the fall and the quiet desolation of winter to its profusion of daffodils in the spring and warm, sunny beaches in summer, Nantucket lends itse...
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Peter J. Katzenstein
Anti-Americanisms in World Politics (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
Anti-Americanism has been the subject of much commentary but little serious research. In response, Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Keohane have assembled a distinguished group of experts, including historians, polling-data analysts, political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists, to expl...
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Michael T. Romano
Empowering Teachers with Technology: Making It Happen
Today, teachers are still using the book, chalkboard, and teacher-talk model of education developed in the Industrial Age. Author and teacher, Michael Romano, recognizes that there is a need to find out why and to determine how to empower teachers with the remarkable information technology that ...
$46.00
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Professor Helma Lutz
The New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy
The New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy. Expertly addressing the thorny questions that surround the increasing number of migrant domestic workers and cleaners, child...
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Parsons
How to End a War
How and when should we end a war? What place should the pathways to a war's end have in war planning and decision-making? This volume treats the topic of ending war as part and parcel of how wars begin and how they are fought – a unique, complex problem, worthy of its own conversation. New essays ...
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Anne Woappi
How Not To Lose Your Virginity
One secret. One decision. And everything she thought she knew unravels. Annabelle Wilson has always played it safe. Perfect grades. Perfect daughter. Perfect future. But her freshman year at college isn’t going the way she planned. When she’s exposed for being a virgin, it shatters the version o...
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Jim Leeke
From the Dugouts to the Trenches: Baseball during the Great War
2018 SABR Baseball Research Award Winner Baseball, like the rest of the country, changed dramatically when the United States entered World War I, and Jim Leeke brings these changes to life in From the Dugouts to the Trenches . He deftly describes how the war obliterated big league clubs and larg...
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George Wallace
Operation Golden Dawn
When a Chinese spymaster uses an Islamic terrorist to attack Western interests in the Pacific, a US Navy submarine is sent in to prevent disaster. ____________________________________ Mustafa al Shatar, one of the world's most dangerous terrorists, lives only for vengeance. Indonesian Navy Admiral S...
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Edward W. Said
On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain (Vintage)
In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists. "These studies . . . buzz with excitement and intelligence and demonstrate...the extraordinary range of Said’s intellectual interests.” —Frank Kermode, L...
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John Swinton
Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care: Practical Theology in a Multidisciplinary Context
Written by significant researchers and practitioners within the field, this unique collection of key texts introduces the reader to practical theology. It critically explores the way in which the spiritual dimension of pastoral care has entered into constructive dialogue with other disciplines and w...
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Trent Preszler
Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America
Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A sweeping natural history of the humble trees that built nations, sparked wars, and became the world's most cherished holiday tradition. Every December, millions of people around the globe adorn their homes, offices, and ...
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Malcolm Barnard
Fashion Theory: A Reader (Routledge Student Readers)
From its beginnings in the fifteenth century, intensified interest in fashion and the study of fashion over the last thirty years has led to a vast and varied literature on the subject. This collection of essays surveys and contextualizes the ways in which a wide range of disciplines have used a va...
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Patricia Tyson Stroud
The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World
Winner of the 2001 Literary Award from The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Cited as one of the Best Books of 2000 by Library Journal In the early years of the Republic, America was a land filled with uncharted flora and fauna, a treasure-trove for every naturalist in the world. One such naturalist was Ch...
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Graham Parsons
How to End a War: Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair
How and when should we end a war? What place should the pathways to a war's end have in war planning and decision-making? This volume treats the topic of ending war as part and parcel of how wars begin and how they are fought – a unique, complex problem, worthy of its own conversation. New essays ...
$73.97
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Rika Devos
Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War (Ashgate Studies in Architecture)
This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959. The volume gives a fascinating account of architecture assuming the role of the carrier of war-related...
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Benjamin Vrbicek
Don't Just Send a Resume: How to Find the Right Job in a Local Church
When God says, “Follow me,” do you know how? If you work in Christian ministry, it’s likely that at some point in your career God will call you from one church to another. Do you know how to make this transition effectively? Moving can be scary and full of questions: Where do I start the job ...
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Gabriel Weinberg
Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Most startups don’t fail because they can’t build a product. Most startups fail because they can’t get traction.  Startup advice tends to be a lot of platitudes repackaged with new buzzwords, but Traction is something else entirely.   As Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares learned from t...
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