The Book of Naturalists

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• Anyone curious about animals, nature, or the history of biology will find much of interest in this ample and varied collection. Reflecting his infecti... Lees meer

Haunted Museum

Jonah Siegel

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• For centuries, southern Europe, and Italy in particular, has offered writers far more than an evocative setting for important works of literature. The... Lees meer

From the Calculus to Set Theory 1630-1910

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• From the Calculus to Set Theory traces the development of the calculus from the early seventeenth century through its expansion into mathematical anal... Lees meer

Life's Devices

Steven Vogel

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• This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is to ... Lees meer

Managing Mexico

Sarah Babb

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• Just one generation ago, lawyers dominated Mexico's political elite, and Mexican economists were a relatively powerless group of mostly leftist nation... Lees meer

Demokratia

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• This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. Th... Lees meer

Rice as Self

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

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• Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachmen... Lees meer

Goethe, Volume 11

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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• Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, a... Lees meer

Fearful Symmetry

Northrop Frye

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• This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further tow... Lees meer

Made to Measure

Philip Ball

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• Made to Measure introduces a general audience to one of today's most exciting areas of scientific research: materials science. Philip Ball describes h... Lees meer

The Naturalist in Britain

David Elliston Allen

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• At once a major resource for historians of science and an excellent introduction to natural history for the general reader, David Allen's The Naturali... Lees meer

Homosexuality and American Psychiatry

Ronald Bayer

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• In 1973, after several years of bitter dispute, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association decided to remove homosexuality from its... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions

Stephan Haggard, Robert R Kaufman

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• In the last two decades, there has been a widespread movement from authoritarian to democratic rule among developing countries, often occurring agains... Lees meer

Princeton Problems in Physics with Solutions

Nathan Newbury, Mark Newman

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• Aimed at helping the physics student to develop a solid grasp of basic graduate-level material, this book presents worked solutions to a wide range of... Lees meer

Understanding Institutional Diversity

Elinor Ostrom

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• The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inq... Lees meer

A Phoenix in the Ashes

John Hull Mollenkopf

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• In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-driven, deal-oriented, economi... Lees meer

Analogies at War

Yuen Foong Khong

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• From World War I to Operation Desert Storm, American policymakers have repeatedly invoked the "lessons of history" as they contemplated taking their n... Lees meer

Making Democracy Work

Robert D Putnam, Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Y Nanetti

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• "A classic." --New York Times "Seminal, epochal, path-breaking . . . a Democracy in America for our times."-- The Nation From the bestselling author o... Lees meer

Furta Sacra

Patrick J Geary

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• To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a rev... Lees meer

Feminists, Islam, and Nation

Margot Badran

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• The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range... Lees meer

Turbulence in World Politics

James N Rosenau

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• In this ambitious work a leading scholar undertakes a full-scale reconceptualization of international relations. Turbulence in World Politics is an en... Lees meer

The Private Worlds of Dying Children

Myra Bluebond-Langner

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• Winner of the Margaret Mead Award A classic, moving study of terminally ill children that emphasizes their agency and shows how we can relate to dying... Lees meer

Goethe, Volume 5

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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• An authoritative English translation of Goethe's classic autobiographical account of war and conquest in the age of revolution In August 1792, Goethe ... Lees meer

The Abolitionist Legacy

James M McPherson

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• Building on arguments presented in The Struggle for Equality , James McPherson shows that many abolitionists did not retreat from Reconstruction, as h... Lees meer