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Exploring the impact of globalization on governance structures in the modern European political economy, this volume…

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This book helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about exhaustion. By uniting the mind with the…

Explains the meaning and far-flung implications of the general theory of relativity and other mysteries of modern physics by…

Attempts to discern the role of personality in helping or hindering creative production. This book assesses the traits…

Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions. This book examines the aesthetic…

This book is a layperson's guide to understanding chemical risk. The toxicologist Gerald A. LeBlanc offers a nontechnical…

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\nBernard E. Harcourt develops a transformative theory and practice that builds on worldwide models of successful…

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Denis Lacorne traces the emergence of the modern notion of religious tolerance in order to rethink how we should respond to…

My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and…

\nBernard E. Harcourt calls for moving beyond the complacency of decades of philosophical detours and to harness critical…

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\nPart memoir, part clinical case, part theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body. Jamieson Webster traces…

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\nIdentifying a crucial link between poetic form and the forming of attention, Lucy Alford offers a new terminology for how…

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Distinguished poet and novelist Jay Parini presents some of his best writings-both classic and previously unpublished…

Accommodating Protest explores the subculture framing the behavior of lower-middle-class women in Cairo and evaluates their…

This collection of original essays develops new, intertextual approaches to thinking about rock music.…

Produkt Living with the Dragon - Page, Benjamin (Gordon Scott Fulcher Professor of Decision Making, Northwestern University)…

Why are politicians often quick to dismiss professors as irrelevant, their undertakings purely 'academic', while scholars…

Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative.…

Using the media's coverage of the death of Princess Diana as a departing point, Wheeler Dixon presents a sharply critical…

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\nDrawing on groundbreaking personal interviews as well as decades of research from psychologists and others, John Horgan…

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Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997.…

Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of utopia and their counterutopian…

\nIn this groundbreaking ethnographic analysis of crypto economies and their global markets and communities, Koray Caliskan…

\nKonrad Michel, a leading psychiatrist and acclaimed expert, draws on decades of experience to offer necessary new ways of…

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\nThis groundbreaking book explains why and how so many people consume little or no news despite unprecedented abundance and…

Explains how to write simply and directly, describes the basics of organization, and briefly reviews grammar and punctuation.…

This textual analysis of the six Paramount films directed by Josef von Sternberg which starred Marlene Dietrich, probes the…

Hanan has translated six of the twelve stories in the Sh'ier lou collection, which is the most famous individual collection…

A well-informed portrait, part social critique, part memoir, of sexual mores and homosexuality in provincial Mexico.…

Produkt In Love and Struggle - Jolly, Margaretta (Centre for Continuing Education at The Sussex Institute, University of…

Drawing on feminist criticism, cultural studies, and new historicist ideas, Kowaleski-Wallace suveys eighteenth century…

The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors…

This book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement, which, organized largely by housewives, led to the passage…

\nA searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said\'s dislocated past and a…

At a time when many proclaim the death of active investing, Rupal J. Bhansali makes a call for its renaissance.…

This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. Through a wide range…

\nThis book is an introduction to programming with Python for MBA students and others in business positions who need a crash…

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