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View book details for Reaching for the Moon
A Short History of the Space Race
Fifty years after the Moon landing, a new history of the space race explores the lives of both Soviet and American engineers At the dawn of the space age, technological breakthroughs in Earth orbit flight were both breathtaking feats of …
A powerful case for the global market economy The debate on globalization has reached a level of intensity that inhibits comprehension and obscures the issues. In this book a highly distinguished international economist scrupulously explains how globalization works as a …
View book details for Swindler Sachem
The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England
Indians, too, could play the land game for both personal and political benefit According to his kin, John Wompas was no sachem, although he claimed that status to achieve his economic and political ends. He drew on the legal and …
View book details for The Athenaeum
More Than Just Another London Club
A compelling history of the famous London club and its members impact on Britains scientific, creative, and official life When it was founded in 1824, the Athenum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on …
View book details for The Constitution of Empire
Territorial Expansion and American Legal History
The Constitution of Empire offers a constitutional and historical survey of American territorial expansion from the founding era to the present day. The authors describe the Constitutions design for territorial acquisition and governance and examine the ways in which practice …
View book details for The Finest Traditions of My Calling
One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine
A deeply concerned physician reflects on todays doctor-patient relationships and offers a compelling vision of a better way to practice medicine Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We …
View book details for Fighting Windmills
Encounters with Don Quixote
Cervantes Don Quixote is the most widely read masterpiece in world literature, as appealing to readers today as four hundred years ago. In Fighting Windmills Manuel Duran and Fay R. Rogg offer a beautifully written excursion into Cervantes great novel …
View book details for Eureka
How Invention Happens
This witty and inspiring book chronicles the long history of discovery and ingenuity which gave rise to a eureka moment when a dream of invention became a reality for the first time Tracing the long pre-history of five twentieth-century inventions …
An exploration of a new and richly promising discipline within science studies: the psychology of science In this book, Gregory Feist reviews and consolidates the scattered literatures on the psychology of science, then calls for the establishment of the field …
View book details for Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?
And Other Essays
From one of todays keenest critics comes a collection of essays on poetry, religion, and the connection between the two Adam Kirsch is one of todays finest literary critics. This collection brings together his essays on poetry, religion, and the …
View book details for Hawthorn
The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages
An engaging introduction to the ancient hawthorn tree and its varied roles in human history One of humankinds oldest companions, the hawthorn tree is bound up in the memories of every recorded age and the plot lines of cultures across …
View book details for Sustaining Lake Superior
An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
A compelling exploration of Lake Superiors conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that …
View book details for American Zion
The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War
The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times through about 1830, numerous …
View book details for Trade Secrets
Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power
During the first decades of Americas existence as a nation, private citizens, voluntary associations, and government officials encouraged the smuggling of European inventions and artisans to the New World. At the same time, the young republic was developing policies that …
View book details for Global Rules
America, Britain and a Disordered World
The Second World War created and the Cold War sustained a special relationship? between America and Britain, and the terms on which that decades-long conflict ended would become the foundation of a new world order. In this penetrating analysis, a …
View book details for Matthew within Sectarian Judaism
An Examination
A renowned scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls argues for reading the Gospel of Matthew as the product of a Jewish sect In this masterful study of what has long been considered the most Jewish gospel, John Kampen deftly argues …
View book details for Life After Faith
The Case for Secular Humanism
A positive assessment of secularism and the possibilities it offers for a genuinely meaningful life without religion Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternativehow anyone might live a fulfilling life without …
View book details for Birders of Africa
History of a Network
In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnography, scientific publications, private archives, and interviews, …
View book details for Race, Nation, Translation
South African Essays, 1990-2013
The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoe Wicomb, one of South Africas leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first …
View book details for Interpreting Communicative Language Teaching
Contexts and Concerns in Teacher Education
The emergence of English as a global language, along with technological innovations and the growing need for learner autonomy, is changing language teaching rapidly and profoundly. With these changes come new demands and challenges for teaching education programs. This authoritative …
View book details for Fugitive Landscapes
The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest StudiesIn the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten …
View book details for Into the Black
JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004
In the decades since the mid-1970s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has led the quest to explore the farthest reaches of the solar system. JPL spacecraftVoyager, Magellan, Galileo, the Mars rovers, and othershave brought the planets into close …
The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely …
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Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, …
View book details for Spy Capitalism
ITEK and the CIA
What happens when the world of venture capital collides with the world of espionage? To find the answer, Jonathan E. Lewis takes us inside the executive suite at Itek Corporation during the Cold War years from 1957 to 1965. Itek …
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