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A Heart for the Work: Journeys Through an African Medical School (Book)

Claire L Wendland

ISBN:9780226893273

Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But...more details
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A Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic (Book)

George William Van Cleve

ISBN:9780226846682

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. But increasingly during the contested politics of the early republic...more details
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A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers (Book)

Ellen Wohl

ISBN:9780226904788

This book explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world....more details
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After Life (Book)

Eugene Thacker

ISBN:9780226793719

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Attila: Drama Lirico in a Prologue and Three Acts by Temistocle Solera and Francesco Maria Piave (Book)

Giuseppe Verdi

ISBN:9780226853321

Verdi’s "Attila," his ninth opera, had its premiere at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice in March 1846. Based on the German play "Attila...more details
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Believing and Seeing: The Art of Gothic Cathedrals (Book)

Roland Recht

ISBN:9780226706078

  In" Believing and Seeing," Roland Recht argues that preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works. In addition to the great cathedrals of France...more details
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Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics (Book)

Jonathan Wyn Schofer

ISBN:9780226740096

While imparting their ethical lessons, rabbinic texts often employ vivid images of death, aging, hunger, defecation, persecution, and drought. In "Confronting Vulnerability...more details
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Crime and Justice, Volume 39 (Book)

Michael H Tonry

ISBN:9780226808819

Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists...more details
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Demography and the Economy (Book)

John B Shoven

ISBN:9780226754727

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Erotic Triangles: Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java (Book)

Henry Spiller

ISBN:9780226769592

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Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition (Book)

Jonathan Rosenbaum

ISBN:9780226726656

The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse and ever-evolving practice...more details
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Gutai: Decentering Modernism (Book)

Ming Tiampo

ISBN:9780226801667

"Gutai "is the first book in English to examine Japan’s best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings...more details
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Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality (Book)

Kristen Schilt

ISBN:9780226738079

The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars...more details
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Kant and Phenomenology (Book)

Tom Rockmore

ISBN:9780226723402

Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century--and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept. His views influenced a variety of important later thinkers...more details
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Marriage and Cohabitation (Book)

Arland Thornton

ISBN:9780226798677

Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's 500-year history of marriage, the authors of this work reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where marriage and the relationships between women and men have changed dramatically. While many people still choose to marry without first cohabiting...more details
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Music in German Philosophy: An Introduction (Book)

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

ISBN:9780226768380

Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few of their writings on the subject have been translated into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner...more details
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Obama's Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America (Book)

Michael Tesler

ISBN:9780226793832

Barack Obama's presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era...more details
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On Communication and Social Influence: Selected Papers (Book)

Gabriel Tarde

ISBN:9780226789712

Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim...more details
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Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London (Book)

Caitlin Zaloom

ISBN:9780226978147

In" Out of the Pits," Caitlin Zaloom shows how traders, brokers, and global financial markets have adapted to the digital age. Drawing on her firsthand experiences as a clerk and a trader...more details
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Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City (Book)

Alfred Thomas

ISBN:9780226795409

A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:204

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Royko in Love: Mike's Letters to Carol (Book)

Mike Royko

ISBN:9780226730783

Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have legions of devoted fans who still wonder "what Royko would have said" about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he hardly ever wrote or talked about...more details
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Science in the Age of Computer Simulation (Book)

Eric Winsberg

ISBN:9780226902043

Computer simulation was first pioneered as a scientific tool in meteorology and nuclear physics in the period following World War II, but it has grown rapidly to become indispensible in a wide variety of scientific disciplines...more details
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The Complete Poems: The 1554 Edition of the "Rime," a Bilingual Edition (Book)

Gaspara Stampa

ISBN:9780226770727

Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. Although she was lauded for her singing during her lifetime...more details
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The Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science (Book)

S M Reid-Henry

ISBN:9780226709178

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The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness (Book)

Richard S Wortman

ISBN:9780226907758

Until the nineteenth century, the Russian legal system was subject to an administrative hierarchy headed by the tsar, and the courts were expected to enforce...more details
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The Fear of Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations (Book)

Tzvetan Todorov

ISBN:9780226805757

The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation--exacerbated by terrorist attacks in the United States...more details
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The History of Continental Philosophy (Book)

Alan D Schrift

ISBN:9780226740461

From Kant to Kierkegaard, from Hegel to Heidegger, continental philosophers have indelibly shaped the trajectory of Western thought since the eighteenth century. Although much has been written about these monumental thinkers...more details
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The Nazi Symbiosis: Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich (Book)

Sheila Faith Weiss

ISBN:9780226891767

The Faustian bargain--in which an individual or group collaborates with an evil entity in order to obtain knowledge, power, or material gain--is perhaps best exemplified by the alliance between world-renowned human geneticists and the Nazi state. Under the swastika...more details
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The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer (Book)

David Waines

ISBN:9780226869865

Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world’s truly great travelers. Born in fourteenth-century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo...more details
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The Poetics of Repetition in English and Chinese Lyric Poetry (Book)

Cecile Chu-Chin Sun

ISBN:9780226780207

For more than half a century, Chinese-Western comparative literature has been recognized as a formal academic discipline, but critics and scholars in the field have done little to develop a viable...more details
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The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art (Book)

Wendy Steiner

ISBN:9780226772196

Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria's Secret and "America's Next Top Model" to the snapshots we post on Facebook and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:240

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The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (Book)

Steven Shapin

ISBN:9780226750255

Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? "The Scientific Life" is historian Steven Shapin's story about who scientists are...more details
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The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti (Book)

Kate Ramsey

ISBN:9780226703794

After Haiti’s recent earthquake, various American commentators—from Pat Robertson to David Brooks—joined a long tradition of blaming Vodou for the country’s woes. "The Spirits and the Law" examines that vexed history...more details
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The Thinking Student's Guide to College: 75 Tips for Getting a Better Education (Book)

Andrew Lawrence Roberts

ISBN:9780226721149

Each fall, thousands of eager freshmen descend on college and university campuses expecting the best education imaginable: inspiring classes taught by top-ranked professors...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:174

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Tourist in Hell (Book)

Eleanor Wilner

ISBN:9780226900322

Eleanor Wilner's poems attempt to absorb the shock of the wars and atrocities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In their litany of loss...more details
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Tuhami, Portrait of a Moroccan (Book)

Vincent Crapanzano

ISBN:9780685049969

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Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century (Book)

Marjorie Perloff

ISBN:9780226660615

What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information-- a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago...more details
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Why Iowa?: How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process (Book)

David P Redlawsk

ISBN:9780226706962

If Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, most commentators believe that he would not have been able to go on to capture the Democratic nomination for president. "Why Iowa? "offers the definitive account of those early weeks of the campaign season: from how the Iowa caucuses work and what motivates the candidates' campaigns...more details
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