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Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
HarperCollins
Following up her highly acclaimed Girl Meets God, author Lauren F. Winner has written an engrossing reflection of literary grace and spiritual wisdom with Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis.As she lives through a failed marriage and the loss of …
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One Generation's Pursuit of Perfection - and Profit - in California
HarperCollins
FromDavid Darlington, author of the acclaimed Angels Visits (published inpaperback as Zin), comes an inside look at howa handful of visionary winemakers has transformedand been transformed bytheCalifornia wine industry over the past four decades. In the tradition of TheWidow Clicquot …
HarperCollins
The Collins College Outline for Introduction to Business provides students with a detailed overview of the basic business studies curriculum. This guide covers business foundations, the global economy, company structure and formation, personnel and production management, labor-management relations, marketing concepts …
HarperCollins
Do you love romance? Do you love reading? Do you love The Bachelor? Are you from Texas? If you answered yes to any two of those questions, do we ever have a book for you.Huffington PostAs the longtime host of …
NYU Press
An accessible compilation of primary and secondary scholarship on the frequently misunderstood First World WarAlmost 100 years after the Treaty of Versailles was signed, World War I continues to be badly understood and greatly oversimplified. Its enormous impact on the …
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Why Men Sexually Abuse Children
NYU Press
A holistic sociological approach that explores why offenders sexually abuse childrenThe sexual abuse of children is one of the most morally unsettling and emotionally inflammatory issues in American society today. It has been estimated that roughly one out of every …
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Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation
NYU Press
How reconsidering digital media and participatory cultures from the standpoint of disability allows for a full understanding of accessibility. While digital media can offer many opportunities for civic and cultural participation, this technology is not equally easy for everyone to …
View book details for Making the Empire Work
Labor and United States Imperialism
NYU Press
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military …
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Law, Technology, and Reproduction in An Uneasy Age
NYU Press
Defining the Family: Law, Technology, and Reproduction in an Uneasy Age provides a sweeping portrait of the family in American law from the nineteenth century to the present. The family today has come to be defined by individuality and choice. …
View book details for Phantom Limb
Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology
NYU Press
Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever knowna pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often persisting with uncanny realness long after fleshy limbs have been traumatically, surgically, or congenitally lost. The …
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The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I
NYU Press
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the …
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Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture
NYU Press
Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture considers the visual languages, politics, and poetics of personal appearance. Dandyism has been most closely associated with influential caucasian Western men-about-town, epitomized by the 19th century style-setting of Oscar Wilde and by …
NYU Press
Criminaltribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies and memorializations arethe characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can helpsocieties transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from civil war topeace, and from state-sponsored extra-legal violence to a rights-respectingrule of law. Over the last …
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Auschwitz and After
Princeton University Press
Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? After the Holocaust, survivors often reported feeling guilty for living when so many others had died, and in the 1960s psychoanalysts and psychiatrists in the United …
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Listening to Greek and Latin Poetry
Princeton University Press
This book concerns the way we read--or rather, imagine we are listening to--ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Through clear and penetrating analysis Mark Edwards shows how an understanding of the effects of word order and meter is vital for appreciating …
View book details for Korean Endgame
A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement
Princeton University Press
Nearly half a century after the fighting stopped, the 1953 Armistice has yet to be replaced with a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War. While Russia and China withdrew the last of their forces in 1958, the United States …
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The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts
Princeton University Press
The 2000 Presidential election ended in a collision of history, law, and the courts. It produced a deadlock that dragged out the result for over a month, and consequences--real and imagined--that promise to drag on for years. In the first …
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The International Monetary Fund and the Post-Communist Transition
Princeton University Press
With the end of the Cold War, the International Monetary Fund emerged as the most powerful international institution in history. But how much influence can the IMF exert over fiercely contested issues in domestic politics that affect the lives of …
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Aristocrats and Emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome
Princeton University Press
Rome's transition from a republican system of government to an imperial regime comprised more than a century of civil upheaval and rapid institutional change. Yet the establishment of a ruling dynasty, centered around a single leader, came as a cultural …
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Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Investigations in Amae
NYU Press
"Surprisingly readable and studded with nuggets of insight."The Daily Yomiuri "This insightful, well-written, fascinating book offers new understandings, not only of Japan, but also of American culture. It is essential for those in anthropology, psychology, sociology, and psychiatry who are …
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Lesbian Readings
NYU Press
The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions as The New York Review of Books now pair her with William Shakespeare in promotional advertisements; her face …
OpenStax College
Algebra and Trigonometry provides a comprehensive and multi-layered exploration of algebraic principles. The text is suitable for a typical introductory Algebra and Trigonometry course, and was developed to be used flexibly. The modular approach and the richness of content ensures …
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View book details for Spatmittelalterliche Heroldskompendien
Referenzen adeliger Wissenskultur in Zeiten gesellschaftlichen Wandels (Frankreich und Burgund, 15. Jahrhundert)
De Gruyter
Die spatmittelalterlichen Heroldskompendien bieten einen wesentlichen Zugang zur Geschichte des Heroldsamtes wie insgesamt zur adeligen Kultur und Lebenswelt. Neben Traktaten zum Heroldswesen enthalten sie vor allem Texte zu adeligen Zeremonien (Turniere, Gerichtskampfe, Obsequien) wie allgemein zur Welt des Adels, dessen …
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Wilder Publications, Inc.
Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine celebrates twenty years in genre publishing with his latest effort, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. This anthology contains fourteen nicely varied stories by some of the top names in genre publishing …
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Gesetz uber die Zwangsversteigerung und die Zwangsverwaltung
De Gruyter
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