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Stephen E Braude has studied the para-normal in everyday life, from extrasensory perception and psychokinesis to mediumship…

This translation is considered by many to be the definitive edition of de Tocqueville's classic work. Annotated, and with…

Thanks to the ready availability of political news today, informed citizens can protect and promote their own interests and…

Barebacking - when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex - has incited a great deal of shock,…

What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our…

Offers a collection of fifty-three essays. This book reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of…

Offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an emerging great power whose claims to rightness often spill over…

Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer. This title introduces readers to some…

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Includes thirty articles on communicable illness published in the pages of "Scientific American" magazine since 1993. This…

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With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically…

This text juxtaposes cases from law and literature to view the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both…

Produkt Rule Breaking and Political Imagination - Shepsle, Kenneth A. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University…

America's education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs…

Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to "Walden," a…

From the Model T to the SUV, this title reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new - in fact,…

Robert M. Entman develops a powerful new model of how media framing works - a model that allows him to explain why the media…

This book includes Janowitz's seminal work, "The Military in the Political Development of New Nations," with additional new…

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\nAn optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our…

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Everything that lives will die. That's the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age. A giant fungus…

The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as…

The essays in this collection by the noted French philosopher Paul Ricoeur grew out of a series of invited lectures given in…

Explores language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system. This work explains how Hopi notions of…

Spanning the arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the twentieth century, this title gives an account that…

These posthumous essays by Joan Kelly, a founder of women's studies, represent a profound synthesis of feminist theory and…

Suitable for students and scholars, this title presents an introduction to one of the richest texts in the history of…

Examining Genesis in a philosophical light, this book presents it as the enduring story of humanity itself. It contains…

Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. This title offers both a theory of how stories shape us and a useful…

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