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Why Using More Than One Language Matters Now More Than Ever
A compelling argument about the importance of using more than one language in todays world In a world that has English as its global language and rapidly advancing translation technology, its easy to assume that the need to use more …
This engaging and helpful book is both a thoughtful celebration of the learning process and a practical guide to becoming a better student. Written by the authors of the acclaimed Elements of Teaching, it is designed to help students of …
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A New Monetary History of China
A thousand-year history of how Chinas obsession with silver influenced the countrys financial well-being, global standing, and political stability"A wonderful book for understanding one thousand years of Chinese monetary history."--Debin Ma, Hitotsubashi University This revelatory account of the ways in …
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The Führer's Hidden Passion
An expose of Hitlers relationship with film and his influence on the film industry A presence in Third Reich cinema, Adolf Hitler also personally financed, ordered, and censored films and newsreels and engaged in complex relationships with their stars and …
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Advice for Patients by Patients
Millions of peoplemany of them younger than we care to believeare living in the aftermath of a heart attack, and it is vital for them to learn how to reduce the risk factors for subsequent heart problems. This unique and …
View book details for The Watchful Clothier
The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist
A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, two and a half million words later, in 1768. Recently rediscovered and brilliantly interpreted by historian Matthew Kadane, Ryders diary provides an …
In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories …
A concerned activist takes the conservation movement to task and shows us what we stand to gain when conservation succeeds Critics of environmental laws complain that such rules often burden people unequally, restrict individual liberty, and undercut private property rights. …
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The Law of Misrepresented Intent
How can a promise be a lie? Answer: when the promisor never intended to perform the promise. Such incidences of promissory fraud are frequently litigated because they can result in punitive damages awards. And an insincere promisor can even be …
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The Evidence of Marginalia
When readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselveswhat they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time …
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The Question of Legitimacy
The Supreme Courts intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W. Bush has left the White House. This vitally important book brings together a broad range of preeminent legal scholars who address the …
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"What Thou Lovest Well . . ."
A loving and admiring companion for half a century to literary titan Ezra Pound, concert violinist Olga Rudge was the muse who inspired the poet to complete his epic poem, The Cantos, and the mother of his only daughter, Mary. …
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Reconstructing English as a Discipline
In this lucid book an eminent scholar, teacher, and author takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. Robert Scholes offers a thoughtful and witty intervention in current debates about educational and cultural values …
A critical edition of ONeills most complex and difficult play, designed for student readers and performers This critical edition of Eugene ONeills most complex and difficult play helps students and performers meet the works demanding cultural literacy. William Davies King …
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Toward a Constitutional Ideal
An impassioned argument for the role of courts as a moral and social agent for change and protecting the vulnerable The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual liberty from intrusion by government, but …
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St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 4
A fresh, new translation of Augustines fourth work as a Christian convert The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually …
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The New Russian Empire
How will Russia redraw post-Soviet borders? In the wake of recent Russian expansionism, political risk expert Agnia Grigas illustrates howfor more than two decadesMoscow has consistently used its compatriots in bordering nations for its territorial ambitions. Demonstrating how this policy …
Mary Wollstonecrafts visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present womens rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecrafts groundbreaking feminist argument includes illuminating essays …
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Most Companies Stop Growing--Yours Doesn't Have To
Virtually all corporations stagnate at some point in their lifetime, and only one in ten ever recaptures a sustainably high growth rate. Why? Very few large companies manage to avoid stalls in revenue growth. These stalls are not attributable to …
View book details for From Ellis Island to JFK
New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration
In the history, the very personality, of New York City, few events loom larger than the wave of immigration at the turn of the last century. Today a similar influx of new immigrants is transforming the city again. Better than …
A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing life during which Frederic Raphael …
What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans? A distinguished group of scholars analyzes the long, complex structural and environmental causes of discrimination and their effects on African-Americans. The authors examine the impact of poverty, poor health, poor …
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How to Transform Punishment in America
In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus. We agree that many prison terms are too long, especially for nonviolent drug offenders; that long-term isolation is a bad idea; …
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Intervention, the State, and the Dynamics of Peace Formation
Western strugglesand failuresto create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse. In this groundbreaking …
Although people have been altering earths landscapes to some extent for tens of thousands of years, humankind today is causing massive changes to the planet. Such widespread environmental change is accompanied by accelerating rates of species extinction. In this book, …
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