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The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin
Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the worlds understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word genocide and propelled the …
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Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 19241941
This is the first history of the Jewish agricultural colonies that were established in Crimea and Southern Ukraine in 1924 and that, fewer than 20 years later, ended in tragedy. Jonathan Dekel-Chen opens an extraordinary window on Soviet rural life …
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Internal Slave Trades in the Americas
Yale University Press
This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays …
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The New Science Behind Our Human Origins
A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is …
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Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up
A critique of contemporary education along with an imaginative yet practical alternative This engaging book presents a frontal attack on current forms of schooling and a radical rethinking of the whole education process. Kieran Egan, a prize-winning scholar and innovative …
"We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of Iceman is its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality. . . . Life, in Iceman, is what it is in Schopenhauer: illusion."from the foreword by …
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Weimar's Fallen Statesman
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a figure of great intellectual power who ran the German state, however briefly, during one of its most tumultuous periods, and whose life was "the essence of German Jewish history." This deeply informed biography …
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From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall
The first history of the Cold War focusing on the Soviet dimension, based on previously inaccessible archives The phrase Cold War was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: We …
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Revolution as a Way of Life
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by the celebrated authorEmma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously …
In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Platos most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the …
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Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside
Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in early America.Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together …
View book details for From the New Deal to the New Right
Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism
A compelling account of the rise of the modern right in America The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The regions transition from …
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How the American Government Works
In this wide-ranging new volume, one of our most important and perceptive scholars of the workings of the American government investigates political parties, politicians, elections, and policymaking to discover why public policy emerges in the shape that it does. David …
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Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History
An even-handed, comprehensive assessment of conservative thought in America, from the Constitutional Convention to the present This lively book traces the development of American conservatism from Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Daniel Webster, through Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Herbert …
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An Ancient People Debating Its Future
In this powerful book one of the most important Jewish thinkers in the world today grapples with issues that increasingly divide Israels secular Jewish community from its religious Zionists. Addressing the concerns of both communities from the point of view …
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The Darkening Landscape of Modern Times, 1905-1917
The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg …
In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age …
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The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
In this sequel to his influential work The Craftsman, Richard Sennett explores how we can learn to cooperate in the intensely tribal, competitive, and self-interested cultures we inhabitA whirlwind of big ideas. Sennett is a worthy warrior, armed with abundant …
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Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War
In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called the barbarians descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, …
A new, affordable paperback edition of one ONeills late masterpieces Eugene ONeills last completed play, A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his autobiographical Long Days Journey Into Night. Moon picks up eleven years after the events described …
It is now forty years,? Walter Houghton writes, since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole.? Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject …
Delmira Agustini (18861914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse, especially …
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New York, 1917-1929
A groundbreaking account of the early history of rent control Written by one of the countrys foremost urban historians, The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nations largest …
An acclaimed scholar provides the most comprehensive examination available of the Islamic scientific tradition and its relationship to religion and philosophy In this wide-ranging and masterful work, Ahmad Dallal examines the significance of scientific knowledge and situates the culture of …
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A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
The story of the worlds highest peaks and the remarkable people who have sought to climb them The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, …
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