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A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York After 1950 (Book)

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

ISBN:9780691149363

In the second half of the twentieth century Dominicans became New York City's largest, and poorest, new immigrant group. They toiled in garment factories and small groceries...more details
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Alban Berg and His World (Book)

Christopher Hailey

ISBN:9780691148564

"Alban Berg and His World" is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenberg's musical revolution was balanced by a lifelong devotion to the warm sensuousness of Viennese musical tradition and a love of lyric utterance...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:361

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Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Book)

Ann Laura Stoler

ISBN:9780691146362

"Along the Archival Grain" offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the nineteenth-century Netherlands Indies...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:314

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Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market (Book)

Noah Horowitz

ISBN:9780691148328

Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices of living artists' works have been driven to unprecedented heights...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:384

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Articulations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art (Book)

Jerome Silbergeld

ISBN:9780691148601

What does it mean to say that some of the best Chinese contemporary art is made in America, by Americans? Through words and images, this book challenges the artificial and narrowly conceived definitions of Chinese contemporary art that dominate current discussion...more details
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Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life (Book)

Oren Izenberg

ISBN:9780691148663

"Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In "Being Numerous...more details
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Birds of the Middle East: Second Edition (Book)

Richard Porter

ISBN:9780691148441

"Birds of the Middle East" is now the most field-ready and comprehensive guide to the fantastic birds of this region. This fully revised and updated second edition covers all species--including vagrants--found in the Arabian Peninsula (including Socotra)...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:384

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Collective Animal Behavior (Book)

David J T Sumpter

ISBN:9780691148434

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions...more details
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Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government (Book)

Corey Brettschneider

ISBN:9780691149301

When the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy based on the guarantee of "substantive due process" embodied by the Constitution...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:192

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Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought (Book)

Agnar Sandmo

ISBN:9780691148427

In clear, nontechnical language, this introductory textbook describes the history of economic thought, focusing on the development of economic theory from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" to the late twentieth century.

The text concentrates on the most important figures in the history of economics...more details
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Essays on Giordano Bruno (Book)

Hilary Gatti

ISBN:9780691148397

This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these essays were originally written in Italian and appear here in English for the first time. Bruno (1548-1600) is principally famous as a proponent of heliocentrism...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:353

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Games Prisoners Play: The Tragicomic Worlds of Polish Prison (Book)

Marek M Kaminski

ISBN:9780691149325

On March 11, 1985, a van was pulled over in Warsaw for a routine traffic check that turned out to be anything but routine. Inside was Marek Kaminski...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:248

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Gauguin: Maker of Myth (Book)

Belinda Thomson

ISBN:9780691148861

This major reevaluation of Paul Gauguin presents the artist and his work in an entirely new light. The vivid, unnaturalistic colors and bold outlines of Gauguin's paintings and the strong...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:255

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Group Problem Solving (Book)

Patrick R Laughlin

ISBN:9780691147901

Experimental research by social and cognitive psychologists has established that cooperative groups solve a wide range of problems better than individuals. Cooperative problem solving groups of scientific researchers...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:168

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Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit (Book)

Robert B Pippin

ISBN:9780691148519

In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the "Phenomenology of Spirit," Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:120

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History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage (Book)

Beth S Wenger

ISBN:9780691147529

Most American Jews today will probably tell you that Judaism is inherently democratic and that Jewish and American cultures share the same core beliefs and values. But in fact...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:282

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How Big Banks Fail, and What to Do about It (Book)

Darrell Duffie

ISBN:9780691148854

Dealer banks--that is, large banks that deal in securities and derivatives, such as J. P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs--are of a size and complexity that sharply distinguish them from typical commercial banks. When they fail...more details
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How to Cure a Fanatic (Book)

Amos Oz

ISBN:9780691148632

Internationally acclaimed novelist Amos Oz grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed firsthand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism. In two concise...more details
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Inner Sanctum: Memory and Meaning in Princeton's Faculty Room at Nassau Hall (Book)

Karl Kusserow

ISBN:9780691148618

"Inner Sanctum" takes readers inside the Faculty Room of Princeton University's historic Nassau Hall. It explores the Faculty Room's role as the symbolic center of Princeton and venerable repository of its institutional memory...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:127

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Lessons Learned: Reflections of a University President (Book)

William G Bowen

ISBN:9780691149622

"Lessons Learned" gives unprecedented access to the university president's office, providing a unique set of reflections on the challenges involved in leading both research universities and liberal arts colleges. In this landmark book...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:168

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Meetings of the Mind (Book)

David Damrosch

ISBN:9780691149387

Comic in tone and serious in intent, this book gives a vivid portrait of academic life in the nineties. With campus populations and critical perspectives changing rapidly...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:217

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Nightjars, Potoos, Frogmouths, Oilbird, and Owlet-Nightjars of the World (Book)

Nigel Cleere

ISBN:9780691148571

This is the ultimate identification guide to the nightjars, potoos, frogmouths, Oilbird, and owlet-nightjars of the world. Covering all 135 known species of these elusive and cryptically plumaged birds...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:464

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Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas (Book)

Julian Havil

ISBN:9780691148229

Math--the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions--usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes--conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true: Conclusions that...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:196

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Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman (Book)

Arnold Weinstein

ISBN:9780691148243

"Northern Arts" is a magnificent and provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights...more details
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Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art (Book)

Alexander Nehamas

ISBN:9780691148656

Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins...more details
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Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy (Book)

Pascal Bruckner

ISBN:9780691143736

Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion--one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:256

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Resolving Ecosystem Complexity (Book)

Oswald J Schmitz

ISBN:9780691128481

An ecosystem's complexity develops from the vast numbers of species interacting in ecological communities. The nature of these interactions...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:173

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Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (Book)

Erich S Gruen

ISBN:9780691148526

Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians...more details
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The Best Writing on Mathematics: 2010 (Book)

Mircea Pitici

ISBN:9780691148410

This anthology brings together the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in mathematics...more details
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The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales (Book)

Balazs Bela

ISBN:9780691147116

A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:177

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The Crossley Id Guide: Eastern Birds (Book)

Richard Crossley

ISBN:9780691147789

This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes birding by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:529

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The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions (Book)

Neil J Smelser

ISBN:9780691149356

Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorly understood by policymakers, the media, and the general public. "The Faces of Terrorism" is the first serious interdisciplinary examination of terrorism in all its facets. What gives rise to it...more details
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The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Book)

Feldman Noah

ISBN:9780691148045

Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His scholarship has defined the stakes in the Middle East today. Now...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:189

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The Figure of Faust in Valery and Goethe: An Exegesis of Mon Faust (Book)

Kurt Weinberg

ISBN:9780691063041

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The Judge as Political Theorist: Contemporary Constitutional Review (Book)

David Robertson

ISBN:9780691144047

"The Judge as Political Theorist" examines opinions by constitutional courts in liberal democracies to better understand the logic and nature of constitutional review. David Robertson argues that the constitutional judge's role is nothing like that of the legislator or chief executive...more details
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The Poetry Lesson (Book)

Codrescu Andrei

ISBN:9780691147246

"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall)...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:128

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The Politics of Backwardness in Hungary, 1825-1945 (Book)

Andrew C Janos

ISBN:9780691101231

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The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment (Book)

Julian E Zelizer

ISBN:9780691149011

"The Presidency of George W. Bush" brings together some of today's top American historians to offer the first in-depth look at one of the most controversial U.S. presidencies. Emotions surrounding the Bush presidency continue to run high--conservatives steadfastly defend its achievements...more details
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The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History (Psl Edition)

Eli Maor

ISBN:9780691148236

By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this ubiquitous geometric theorem. Maor shows that the theorem...more details
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The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna (Book)

David Sorkin

ISBN:9780691149370

In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism...more details
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The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System (Book)

Kenneth R French

ISBN:9780691148847

In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:167

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Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses (Book)

Taylor Walsh

ISBN:9780691148748

Over the past decade, a small revolution has taken place at some of the world's leading universities, as they have started to provide free access to undergraduate course materials--including syllabi...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:296

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When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Book)

Mark A R Kleiman

ISBN:9780691148649

Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults--a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. Even as the prisoner head count continues to rise...more details
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Who Are the Criminals?: The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan (Book)

John Hagan

ISBN:9780691148380

How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff prison sentences...more details
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Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? (Book)

Robin Archer

ISBN:9780691149349

Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:368

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Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume III: The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (Book)

Wilhelm Dilthey

ISBN:9780691149332

This volume provides Dilthey's most mature and best formulation of his Critique of Historical Reason. It begins with three "Studies Toward the Foundation of the Human Sciences...more details
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Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume IV: Hermeneutics and the Study of History (Book)

Wilhelm Dilthey

ISBN:9780691149318

The philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) has had a significant and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:432

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