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<DIV><DIV>In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history become...

<DIV><DIV><DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Blue mountains, golden fields, gin and tonics on the terrace--once it had seemed the most idyllic place on ear...

Known for helping students develop the qualitative, conceptual foundation that gets them thinking like chemists, this market-leading text is designed for students with solid mathem...

This comprehensive introduction to probability and statistics will give you the solid grounding you need no matter what your engineering specialty. Through the use of lively and re...

<P>Neil Campbell and Jane Reece's <B><I>BIOLOGY</I> </B>remains unsurpassed as the most successful majors biology textbook in the world. This text has...

<strong>Identifying the moves that matter in academic writing in ways that students can readily understand and apply.<br /></strong> <em>"They Say / I Say"...

An award-winning instructor and practicing therapist, Ronald Comer brings an unmatched range of experience and depth of understanding to the teaching of abnormal psychology. It is ...

The acknowledged leader and standard in general chemistry, this book maintains its effective and proven features—clarity of writing, scientific integrity, currency, strong exercise...

Master the power of Photoshop CS3 with <br>an internationally renowned photographer by your side.<br><br>Adobe's Photoshop CS3 comes with powerful new features wi...

What skills will be the most valuable in the coming century? How can our country ensure that all its citizens have a share in the new global economy? The author of The Next America...

This novel describes the plight of Madjid, a second-generation Algerian growing up in Paris, who is caught between two cultures. In his desperate attempts to make sense of unfamili...

<p>A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, <b>Simone de Beauvoir</b>'s <b>Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter</b&...

The United States holds the dubious distinction of having the most unequal income distribution of any advanced industrialized nation. While other developed countries face simil...

<b>Public Finance 8/e</b> benefits from the combined efforts of Harvey Rosen’s market-leading book and new co-author Ted Gayer’s research and government agency experien...

<strong><em>Macroeconomics</em> is the most exciting new economics textbook in a generation.</strong> Charles Jones distills modern macroeconomics as it ...

A renowned historian and Resistance fighter --later executed by the Nazis --analyzes at first hand why France fell in 1940. Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months ...

<DIV><DIV>One of the most respected translations of this key work of 18th-century philosophy, this text includes a brief introduction to the two works as well as abunda...

The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelect...

An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, <i>Sidewalk</i> takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or ...

<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">Nearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? F...

<p>For many students, calculus can be the most mystifying and frustrating course they will ever take. <i>The Calculus Lifesaver</i> provides students with the ess...

When Matthiessen went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard, he undertook his five-week trek as winter snows were...

<P>Three Case Histories</P> <P> </P>...

From the shelter of a protective family, to the lessons of tragedy and independence, this is an indelible portrait of a harsh and beautiful country and the inspiring story of a re...

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"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style o...

With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya....

First published in 1979, <i>The White Album </i>is a mosaic<i> </i>of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and persona...

This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elici...

These travel diaries capture the essence and exuberance of the young legend, Che Guevara. In January 1952, Che set out from Buenos Aires to explore South America on an ancient No...

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespea...

Illustrated throughout with stills from the film, The Arts of Looking is a unique appreciation of the art of Alfred Hitchcock, made even more valuable by the first publication in a...

The author of "Where the Buffalo Roam" provides an unprecedented portrait of today's college experience as the world of academe goes about reinventing itself, seeking to reconcile ...

This best-selling text by John Taylor, now released in its second edition, introduces the study of uncertainties to lower division science students. Assuming no prior knowledge, th...

Spain has produced two books that changed the course of world literature: <i>Don Quixote</i> and <i>Lazarillo de Tormes.</i> Lazarillo is the first picaresq...

Available in both paperback and vinyl cover, these dictionaries feature: high impact cover design in striking "Berlitz" blue, in-keeping with the whole "Berlitz" range for increase...

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This pocket dictionary on French includes vocabulary specially geared toward the needs of business users, tourists and students. It is written by native speakers, incorporates betw...

Throughout all seven editions, "Organic Chemistry" has been designed to meet the needs of the "mainstream," two-semester, undergraduate organic chemistry course. This best-selling ...

Written for the laboratory that accompanies the sophomore/junior level courses in Organic Chemistry, Zubrick is a paperback student guide to the basic techniques of the Organic Che...

In collaboration with Wavefunction, we have created a cross-function CD-ROM that contains an electronic model-building kit and a rich collection of molecular models that reveal the...

<i>Northanger Abbey </i>is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of t...

Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature’s most famous epigrams. W...

Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a black cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threat...

Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have money, but lack practically every other credential. Mur...

<div><div><i>Gulliver's Travels</i>, by <b>Jonathan Swift</b>, is part of the <i>Barnes & Noble Classics</i><i> </i>...

The new and updated edition of this accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of the comparative physiology of animals within an environmental context. <br><li>...

<strong>Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critic...

Order and Disorder, the first epic poem by an Englishwoman, has never before been available in its entirety. The first five cantos were printed anonymously in 1679, but fifteen fur...

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living ...

<strong>This Norton Critical Edition of arguably the greatest work of political theory written in the English language contains the bulk of Hobbes's treatise, including all...

‘Trenton is where I learned about hunger, where it became personal for me, where it shed a thick hide of abstraction and touched my life, if only from the outside looking in. It is...

Hannah Arendt’s authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postsc...

Antigone defending her integrity and ideals to the death, Oedipus questing for his identity and achieving immortality - these heroic figures have moved playgoers and readers since ...

<DIV><DIV>A new expanded version of the classic account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, as told by Aztec voices—with a new Postscript by the editor<br><br&g...

<P> Each edition includes: <P><BR> • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play <P> • Full explanatory notes conveniently place...

A reprint of the Library of Liberal Arts edition of 1964. <P>This anthology features unabridged translations of Diderot's best work as a literary artist, including those w...

A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modern <p>Praise for The Tower and the Bridge <p>"Fascinating and informative....

Human rights is one of the most important geopolitical issues in the modern world. Jesus Christ is the centre of Christianity. Yet there exists almost no analysis of the significan...

An invaluable resource for readers seeking to understand how traditional religious ideas and values relate to modern ideas of human rights, how Western models of human rights are p...

Dialogue on the conflict between religious fundamentalism and women's rights is often stymied by an "all or nothing" approach: fundamentalists claim absolute religious freedom, whi...

Contains rules of grammar phrased as direct orders and provides the principal requirements of plain English style. Concentrates on fundamentals: the rules of usage and principles ...

No Other Way Out provides a powerful explanation for the emergence of popular revolutionary movements, and the occurrence of actual revolutions, during the Cold War era. This swee...

<DIV><DIV><DIV>The first of its kind, <I>A Pocket Style Manual</I> continues to help student writers get answers to their writing and research questio...

This timely collection of essays offers one of the first serious efforts to assess the record of American foreign policy over the course of the twentieth century. The essays compr...

Originally published by Cambridge in 1991, this text has become an indispensable volume not only for teachers and students of international history and political science, but also ...

A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.<br><br>For Justice Breyer, the Constitution’s prim...

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scal...

Translated into a dozen languages, printed in hundreds of editions, and read by millions of people, Franklin’s autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other boo...

Revised to include new selections and updated bibliographical material, the second edition of this popular sourcebook offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. The sele...

Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations to 1913 presents a straightforward, balanced, and comprehensive history of American international relations from the Ame...

This #1 best-seller has successfully introduced thousands of students to the intricate relationship between biology and psychology. This Eighth Edition redefines the high standard ...

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<p>Each volume in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combines the traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with a critical synthesis of cultur...

More than 100,000 people, mainly women, were prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft between 1450 and 1750. This new anthology looks at the connections between gender and witchcraft...

<p>Selected by <i>Choice</i> magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book, 2001<br /><br />The highly-acclaimed first edition of this book chronicled the ...

Fearlessly, Brian Levack tackles a vast, complex subject and reduces it to a concise and lucid synthesis with consummate skill, challenging old assumptions and casting light into t...

In <I>No Place to Hide,</i> award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., pulls back the curtain on an unsettling trend: the emergence of a data-driven s...

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For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>Maus</i>, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. &lt...

<B>The instant <I>New York Times</I> bestseller interpreting the controversial long-lost gospel</B> <BR><BR> The recently unearthed Gospel of Ju...

<i>The Seventh Million</i> is the first book to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on diaries, intervi...

This book is a concise guide to and analysis of the complexities of modern Jewish politics in the interwar European and American diaspora. "Jewish politics" refers to the different...

Yekl (1896), the first novel upon which the much acclaimed film Hester Street was based, was probably the first novel in English that had a New York East Side immigrant as its hero...

<DIV>In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. ...

A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness (1902) exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European c...

As "Daniel Deronda" opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in t...

Oral tales establish relationships between storytellers and their listeners. Yet most printed collections of folktales contain only stories, stripped of the human contexts in which...

The book that launched America's urban legend obsession! <I>The Vanishing Hitchhiker</I> was Professor Brunvand's first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a ...

This new collection of Aristotle's political writings provides the student with all the necessary materials for a full understanding of his work as a political scientist. In additi...

How was magic practiced in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices that characterized this fascinating period? Richard Kieckhefer surveys the growth ...

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"WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? HOT AGAIN, 30 YEARS AFTER DEBUT." So ran the headline this past October in the Seattle Times. Actually, it has been "hot"—the best-selling job-huntin...

<DIV><DIV>The true story of basketball lives as much off the court as on the hardwood; it is about politics and race and cultural clashes as heated as a final-four buzz...

A hit with both law school-bound students and their counselors, this concise handbook provides the practical advice today's pre-laws need to gain admission to first-choice schools....

Writing the personal statement, or application essay, can be the hardest part of applying to graduate or professional school. This guide shows how to do it correctly, revealing the...

The personal statement is the single most important part of a graduate school application, and yet very few applicants know how to write one that will gain them admittance to the p...

This is a practical anthology of some of the best elementary problems in different branches of mathematics. They are selected for their aesthetic appeal as well as their instructio...

<I>Introduction to Sociology</I>, Fifth Edition, organizes the core concepts of modern sociology around the unifying theme of globalization. Taking a comparative approa...

<p> Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out....

Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war. Like naviga...

<p>From gifted new writer Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves...

Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark ...

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<p><strong><strong>“A stirring history of the tribal sovereignty movement.”—Publishers Weekly</strong></strong> For generations, Indian people suffer...

A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of the Year<br>Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award<br>Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award<br><br>I...

<div>American readers were introduced to the award-winning Sudanese author Leila Aboulela with <i>Minaret</i>, a delicate tale of a privileged young African Musli...

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to...

A beautiful, wrenching debut chronicling the life of a family struggling for survival during the Armenian genocide in Turkey, in 1915.<br><br>After forty years in Venic...

Introduction by Peter Eisenman <P>Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement <i>La Tendenza</i>, is also one of the m...

<p> Stem cell research, genetically modified crops, animals developed with personalized human organs for transplantation, and other previously inconceivable biotech applicati...

<div>Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. “Of all tasks, describing the contents of a b...

<DIV>In Woolf's final novel, villagers present their annual pageant, made up of scenes from the history of England, at a house in the heart of the country as personal dramas ...

In 1952, Hellman joined the ranks of intellectuals and artists called before Congress to testify about political subversion. Terrified yet defiant, Hellman refused to incriminate h...

"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing ...

Regarded as one of the most difficult languages to learn for native English speakers by the U.S. State Department, Arabic is gaining both prominence and importance in America. Rece...

The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-...

In the "Oresteia" - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of ...

A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II, this classic novel, originally published in 1965, is a dark masterpiece that ex...

Each line of the original Middle English is followed by a line of modern English "translation." Includes biography of Chaucer, interpretive introduction....

<DIV><DIV><DIV><I>FieldWorking</I>, Bonnie Stone Sunstein and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater's acclaimed textbook, is an engaging guide to the fundamentals...

This anthology contains 34 articles published since 1977 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. Articles illustrate how behaviorists think about and...

This new edition of Animal Behavior has been completely rewritten with coverage of much recent work in animal behavior, resulting in a thoroughly up-to-date text. Notable is the in...

This third edition of the Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary covers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary Spanish and English, with brand-new words ...

From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created stories featuring African American religio...

Paul Frymer argues provocatively that two-party competition in the United States leads to the marginalization of African Americans and the subversion of democracy. Scholars have lo...

This collection of previously untranslated court documents, testimonials, and letters portrays the Spanish Inquisition in vivid detail, offering fresh perspectives on such topics a...

Liberals have acclaimed, and conservatives decried, reliance on courts as tools for changes. But while debate rages over whether the courts <i>should</i> be playing su...

<DIV>The Anti-Federalists, in Herbert J. Storing's view, are somewhat paradoxically entitled to be counted among the Founding Fathers and to share in the honor and study devo...

<DIV><DIV>The first of its kind, <I>A Pocket Style Manual</I> continues to help student writers get answers to their writing and research questions. Its con...

Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is a classic of modern Protestant religious thought that powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and ...

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Reissued with a new preface: the Pulitzer Prize-winning book that is "quite simply the best book ever written on the Scopes Trial and its place in American history and myth." &...

One of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world is the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge...

Written by distinguished historians of science and religion, the thirty essays in this volume survey the relationship of Western religious traditions to science from the beginning...

Three lectures on evolution delivered by Ernst Haeckel at The Academy of Music Berlin in 1905. These lectures provide a concise history of the theory of evolution up to that point ...

<P>This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every part. The book was designed f...

At a time when religion and science are seen by many to be antagonists locked in a battle to the death, Professor Hooykaas offers a startling proposition: modern science, he sugges...

Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In <em>Living With Darwin</em>, Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling arou...

Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: <I>The Standard Edition of the Complete Psycho...

The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, ...

<DIV><DIV>When first published, Gruber’s <I>Public Finance and Public Policy</I> brought a refreshingly contemporary approach.  It was the first text writte...

Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, ...

Discourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental prefer...

In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary ha...

It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. T...

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the aut...

This compact, comprehensive and illustrated history of ancient Greece takes us from the Stone Age roots of Greek civilisation to the early Hellenistic period following the death of...

"He is a remarkably skillful interpreter of the positivist legal philosophers and probably the most stimulating current contributor to discussion of the issues they raised."--Thoma...

A classic treatise on practical leadership and power politics....

Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace s...

The noted political philosopher offers a moving meditation on the political meanings of the biblical story of Exodus -- from oppression to deliverance and the promised land.<P&g...

This book confronts moral skepticism by using contemporary analytical tools to provide basic accounts of values and principles, community and "common good," justice and human right...

Generally regarded as the definitive work on totalitarianism, this book is an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political movements. Arendt was one of the first...

<p> With the incisiveness and lucid style for which he is renowned, Ronald Dworkin has written a masterful explanation of how the Anglo-American legal system works and on wh...

<P>"With this elegant sweep, the author has parted the curtain to reveal a gaseous windbag behind the bombast attending the miraculous claims of today's wizards. Bravo" <B...

<P>Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Authors' biographies...

<p> What is law? What is it for? How should judges decide novel cases when the statutes and earlier decisions provide no clear answer? Do judges make up new law in such case...

<i>Cognitive Psychology, Fourth Edition</i>, presents a coherent overview of cognitive psychology organized in terms of themes that cut across topic areas. Written by w...

<p>The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." <i>Democ...

Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nici...

FROM THE OLD DIPLOMACY TO THE NEW, 1865-1900, 2ND ED.<BR> By ROBERT BEISNER <BR> 195 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-833-X) <BR> Historians have long argued abou...

This new edition presents 'The Grand Inquisitor' together with the preceding chapter, 'Rebellion', and the extended reply offered by Dostoevsky in the following sections, entitles ...

Professor Walzer offers a provacative analysis of the social roots of Puritanism and in the process mounted a fresh tilt at Max Weber's tattered sails. He has also death the Marxis...

This book uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century Massachusetts as a setting in which to examine several ideas about deviant behavior in society. Combining sociology and histor...

This chilling exploration of the criminal mind posits new and surprising explanations of criminal behavior, from juvenile delinquency to cold-blooded murder. ...

<b>From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands o...

<b>Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.</b><br><br>In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majori...

<p>Emilio Gentile, an internationally renowned authority on fascism and totalitarianism, argues that politics over the past two centuries has often taken on the features of r...

<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>In this biography, author and scholar Harold C. Livesay examines the life and legacy of Andrew Carnegie, one of the greatest captains of indus...

A troubling look at the wide-ranging consequences of mass incarceration. <P>Over a quarter of the adult population in America has criminal records on file with federal or ...

Translated by Aubrey de S&eacutelincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola....

Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. <i>Amusing the Million</...

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The highly acclaimed account of one renowned company's labor struggles in its rise to global power. Globalization is the lead story of the new century, but its roots reach back nea...

Plutarch’s vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of their remarkable Greek city-state betwe...

<DIV>This carefully researched study of America's greatest showman, huckster, and impresario is both an inclusive analysis of the historical and cultural forces that were the...

The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every ...

The Second Edition of Organic Chemistry maintains all the innovative features of the first edition in a sleeker, slimmer, and easier-to-navigate design. Hailed by J Chem Ed as “th...

Soutions to Exercises to accompany Organic Chemistry, 2nd edition by Thomas Sorrell. Theis manual includes solutions for every exercise in the text....

* Praised by students and faculty for its clarity, use of humor, and appropriate amount of detail.<br> * Emphasis on safety in the lab encourages students to maintain safe...

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Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years that followed, Luther clarified and defended his position in numerous writi...

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and ...

In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an...

Stanley Hauerwas presents an overall introduction to the themes and method that have distinguished his vision of Christian ethics. Emphasizing the significance of Jesus’ life and t...

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity....

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Urban decay can sap the determination—not to mention the soul—of anyone who experiences it. But there are forces that can and do reverse it. They are not spectators, or critics, ...

<DIV><DIV><DIV>David Myers’s <I>Psychology</I> is a textbook like no other—always fresh, always introducing effective new tools for teaching and learn...

Presents comprehensive coverage of this discipline, with a strong research base and a student-oriented approach. Difficult technical topics such as neuroanatomy, neuropsychology an...

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This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste o...

"Our Mutual Friend" centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Th...

In this elegantly constructed redefinition of the economic history of early modern Britain, Keith Wrightson combines the research of economic historians with the insights of social...

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"Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Withou...

The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eatin...

This introductory undergraduate text provides a detailed introduction to the key analytical techniques of classical mechanics, one of the cornerstones of physics. It deals with all...

Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization which dominat...

Based on a series of controlled comparisons among regimes and states, Valerie Bunce's book argues that two factors account for the remarkable collapse of the socialist dictatorship...

In this timely study of the different approaches of America and Europe to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty, the authors describe just how different the two continent...

Astrobiology involves the study of the origin and history of life on Earth, planets and moons where life may have arisen, and the search for extraterrestrial life. It combines the ...

<p><i>Power, Speed, and Form</i> is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876...

International Economics, the best-selling textbook in the field, is written by two of the world's preeminent economists. Both the real trade portion of the book and the monetary po...

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<p><b>The Poisonwood Bible</b> is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to t...

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespea...

<DIV>Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of "biopower," studying the foundations of this new technology of po...

<p><i>Will to Live</i> tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthroug...

<P>In the mid-1950s, with planning and funding from the United States, Mexico embarked on an ambitious campaign to eradicate malaria, which was widespread and persistent. Thi...

<p>The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and ...

This popular book is written by the award-winning teacher, Dr. Leon Gordis of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He introduces the basic principles...

This intermediate, modular approach to German grammar serves as both reference handbook and practice manual. The organization of the 30 chapters allows instructors to teach sequent...

From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee S...

<i>Gender, Race, Class, and Health</i> examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on health. The author...

A proven success. The best-selling college textbook of any kind. Thoroughly class tested and enthusiastically endorsed by millions of students and their instructors at more than ...

Computer Networks, 4E is the only introductory computer networking book written by authors who have had first-hand experience with many of the protocols discussed in the book, who ...

With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a bril...

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<strong>The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an avalanche of interest in networks.</strong> In this remarkable book...

<p> Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's <i>A Theory of Justice</i> has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number...

This classic work of political ethics has radically reconfigured the way that we think about war. From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the...

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<DIV>Until now it has been impossible to read the full story of the relationship between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Their dramatic rupture at the height of the Cold W...

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A real-life thriller about the corporate takeover of our most basic resource. <P>In a shocking exposé, <I>Blue Gold</I> shows why, as the vice president of the...

In his award-winning book WATER, Marq de Villiers provides an eye-opening account of how we are using, misusing, and abusing our planet's most vital resource. Encompassing ecologic...

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The foremost dramatist of his age, Ibsen changed theatre forever with his realistic dialogue and depiction of contemporary social problems. Here are four of his greatest works: &lt...

Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colo...

<P>These critically hailed translations of <I>The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters</I> and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russia...

Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, "Endgame" was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957. HAMM - Clov! CLOV - Yes. H...

Strindberg's most important and most frequently performed playsThe Father, Miss Julie, A Dream Play, The Dance of Death, and The Ghost Sonataare gathered together here in t...

By the year 2050, Earth's population will double. If we continue with current farming practices, vast amounts of wilderness will be lost, millions of birds and billions of insects ...

What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times <P> "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of M...

Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and s...

Uncover Effective Engineering Solutions to Practical Problems With its clear explanation of fundamental principles and emphasis on real world applications, this practical text will...

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Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Since its first publication, Richard Tuck's edition of Leviathan has been ...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-?ve years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they br...

In this widely acclaimed verse translation of Homer's great epic, Robert Fagles combines the skills of poet and scholar. He brings the energy of contemporary language to this endur...

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, <I>The Sun Also Rises</i> is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful wri...

<P>Justin McCarthy's introductory survey traces the whole history of the Ottoman Turks from their obscure beginnings in central Asia, through the establishment and rise of th...

The essays in this book deal with the appropriateness of "dirty hands" in politics the widely-held view that politics is a dirty business and those who engage in it can't help but ...

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Since 1945, the United States has manufactured and deployed more than 70,000 nuclear weapons to deter and if necessary fight a nuclear war. Some observers believe the absence of a...

<p>This text, which is the second volume in the best selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation ...

<DIV><B>KEY BENEFIT</B>: Now in its third edition, this book teaches physical concepts using computer simulations. The text incorporates object-oriented programmi...

Developed for Harvard University's Expository Writing Program, Writing with Sources describes the main principles and methods of integrating and citing sources in scholarly work, a...

<DIV>The story of a wealthy, insular Jewish family in Fascist Italy just before the outbreak of World War II. The source of an acclaimed feature film directed by Vittorio De ...

This edition of the earliest account of Iroquis culture includes scholarly notes on the historical context of New Netherland and corrects some significant errors and omissions in p...

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Like Rothman’s earlier books, The Discovery of the Asylum and Conscience and Convenience, this study of the transformation of the relationship between doctors and patients from the...

The histories told about American Indian and European encounters on the frontiers of North America are usually about cultural conflict. This book takes a different tack by looking...

A unique collection captures a dramatic and controversial war and the brilliant generation of American journalists who reported it.<br><br>This one-volume selection, dr...

The members of South Korea's middle class define themselves by the choices they make about occupation, family, lifestyle, education, and marriage. Lett examines each of these to sh...

Though the "Revised Edition of A Theory of Justice", published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to...

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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">From its inception, Atlantic City has always been a town dedicated to the fast buck, and this wide-reaching history offers a riveting account o...

The steady expansion of college enrollment rates over the last generation has been heralded as a major step toward reducing chronic economic disparities. But many of the polici...

<strong>The fiasco that sank millions of Americans, including one journalist, who thought he knew better.</strong> A veteran <em>New York Times</em> econo...

<strong>A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative ...

First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. This second edition builds upon and updates Omi ...

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This reference volume makes available for convenient personal and classroom use nearly 200 entries selected from the <i>New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics,</...

Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, b...

"The most acute rendering of an era's sensibility is its poetry," wrote the editors in their preface to the first edition. Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revis...

Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G M A Grube's masterful translation of the Republic as the edition of choice for their study and teac...

An essential resource for students of Arabic and English alike, this dictionary contains the most up-to- date vocabulary in handy reference form. With more than 18,000 entries, it ...

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Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional a...

An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize,...

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This Norton Critical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most widely read novel appears during the bicentennial anniversary year of his birth. The text of <I>The Scarlet Letter&...

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneerin...

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Upon its publication in 1845, <I>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself</I> became an immediate best-seller. In addition to ...

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Written for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the Spanish language, this book integrates language-skills instruction with subject-matter content. It ensures a smoo...

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awake...

At a time in our post-9/11 world when fundamentalist forces appear to dominate Islam, a vibrant and consequential discourse has emerged from many prominent writers seeking to chang...

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</p>The United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities. And yet less than 60 percent of the stu...

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<DIV><DIV><I>The Struggle for Black Equality</I> is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant inte...

2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Wa...

"A rich and compelling narrative, as taut and suspenseful as good fiction. In places, Stories of Scottsboro is almost heartbreaking, not least because Goodman shows what people fel...

During the civil rights movement, epic battles for justice were fought in the streets, at lunch counters, and in the classrooms of the American South. Just as many battles were wag...

Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of t...

If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established...

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful e...

<p>A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, <b>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</b> becomes a personal and philosophic...

<DIV><i><b>The Washington Post</b></i><b>’s must-read guide to the health care overhaul</b><BR> <BR> What now? Despite the ran...

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist,...

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VOLUME I: Africa <BR>VOLUME II: Europe, Central Asia, and Other Regions <BR>(volumes sold separately) <P>The two volumes of Understanding Civil War build up...

This book presents a theory to account for why and when politics revolves around one axis of social cleavage instead of another. It does so by examining the case of Zambia, where p...

By the renowned author of <i>Things Fall Apart</i>, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corru...

In the ongoing battle against global poverty, the countries of Africa continue to present the greatest challenge. African Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the...

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dra...

This book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African state structures large...

Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farmers' interests, these countrie...

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Written for the full year or three term Calculus-based University Physics course for science and engineering majors, the publication of the first edition of Physics in 1960 launche...

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PRINCIPLES OF MODERN CHEMISTRY has long been considered the standard book for the course, and this modern text has been significantly revised at the sentence level to make it more ...

In this fascinating book, the renowned astrophysicist J. Richard Gott leads time travel out of the world of H. G. Wells and into the realm of scientific possibility. Building on th...

First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twe...

The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace and security to be attained? Hobbes' answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan...

<B>Two cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy</B> <BR><BR> John Stuart Mill was a prodigious thinker who sharply c...

Marx: Later Political Writings brings together the most important texts in political philosophy written by Marx after 1848. All are in new translations, and the collection is intro...

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This is a completely new translation of one of the great works of Western political thought. In addition to Tom Griffith's vivid, dignified and accurate rendition of Plato's text,...

The first English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant (1767-1830), one of the most important of the French political figures in the aftermath of the revol...

<em>Discourses on Livy</em>, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, <em>The Prince</em>. Equally contro...

When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present d...

Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, "The Politics" still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued a...

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In Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. His sweeping account of ...

The classic first story about literature’s most beloved pachyderm. After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended by t...

Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's <I>Republic</I> that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translatio...

This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text—the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory an...

This accessible and enlightening history provides insights into the fascinating genre of apocalyptic literature, showing how the apocalypse encompasses far more than popular views ...

<DIV>Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the lives of the many...

<DIV>The tea ceremony affects nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life. This is a hardcover gift edition of the bestselling book that introduced Western aud...

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<DIV><DIV>For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologis...

<P>"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other national story hol...

Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well.  Virgil's <i>Aeneid</i> is as eterna...

This handsomely designed book brings together for the first time the outstanding work of four Swiss engineers and their teachers who form the most impressive group of structural ar...

<blockquote><i>"This is a book about that most admirable of human virtues-- courage. 'Grace under pressure,' Ernest Hemingway defined it. And these are the stories of t...

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Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and N...

Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory of political transitions. It is one in which political regimes ultimately depend on the ...

<p> In January 2003, Kenya was hailed as a model of democracy after the peaceful election of its new president, Mwai Kibaki. By appointing respected longtime reformer John Gi...

This program provides an ample, flexible, communication-oriented framework for use in the beginning and intermediate Portuguese classroom. It takes a highly interactive approach to...

Is economic development conducive to political democracy? Does democracy foster or hinder material welfare? These two questions are examined by looking at the experiences of 135 c...

<div><div>With advice for finding, evaluating, and documenting sources, this handy booklet covers the essential information students need for college research assignmen...

The aristocratic vampire that haunts the Transylvanian countryside has captivated readers' imaginations since it was first published in 1897. Hindle asserts that Dracula depicts an...

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Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, <i>The Communist Manifesto</i> is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels de...

In The Public and Its Problems, a classic of social and political philosophy, John Dewey exhibits his strong faith in the potential of human intelligence to solve the public's prob...

Includes a new Afterword<br><br>Finalist for the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award<br><br>One of the world’s foremost authorities on the s...

<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Written by renowned scholar and former policymaker Joseph Nye,<I> Understanding International Conflicts</I> is a brief and penetrating intr...

<p><strong>In <em>The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed</em>, professors Waltz and Sagan resume their well-known dialogue concerning nuclear pro...

<em>Metamorphoses</em>--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-R...

<P>Described both as "the Hobbes of our age" and as "the philosophical godfather of Nazism," Carl Schmitt was a brilliant and controversial political ...

For undergraduate courses in World Music and Introductory Ethnomusicology, and for use as a supplementary text in general Music Appreciation courses. This dynamic introductory tex...

Non-academic readers have at their disposal a mountain of historical works written at every conceivable level of popularization and specialization. But most of these works are devo...

<p> Buddha was a revolutionary. His practice was subversive; his message, seditious. His enlightened point of view went against the norms of his day—in his words, "against th...

<i>A Companion to Latina/o Studies</i> is a collection of 40 original essays written by leading scholars in the field, dedicated to exploring the question of what 'Lati...

<p> This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of h...

Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, <i>Black Metropolis</i> remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Based on a mass of research conducted by Works ...

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Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary editi...

<p>Your hands-on guide to real-world applications of linear algebra</p> <p>Does linear algebra leave you feeling lost? No worries —this easy-to-follow guide ex...

<P> <I>Catch-22</I> is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the...

Judicial and political power are inextricably linked in America, but by the time John Roberts and Samuel Alito joined the Supreme Court, that link seemed more important, more signi...

With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas ...

<strong>"Magisterial history...one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —<i>New York Times Book Review</i></strong> In 19...

Written by a team based at one of the world's leading centres for linguistic teaching and research, the second edition of this highly successful textbook offers a unified approach ...

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Following World War II, Japan's postwar constitution forbade the country to wage war or create an army. However, with the emergence of the cold war in the 1950s, Japan was urged to...

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<DIV><DIV>This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Grah...

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Known for helping students develop the qualitative, conceptual foundation that gets them thinking like chemists, this market-leading text is designed for students with solid mathem...

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Now in its fifth edition, Vector Calculus helps students gain an intuitive and solid understanding of this important subject. The book’s careful account is a contemporary balance b...

A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself....

This undergaduate text uses original essays, cases and materials to study the very enterprise by which a constitution is interpreted and a constitutional government created. It exp...

<P>This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not ...

<p><i>Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists</i> is a groundbreaking book that will radically change our understanding of the capitalist system, particularly the ...

<p>In some of Western culture's earliest writings, Hesiod defined the basic economic problem as one of scarce resources, a view still held by most economists. Diocletian trie...

With a vast collection of works spanning ancient to contemporary art - including Roman ceramics and mosaics, Chinese bronzes and calligraphy, Mayan ceramics, Old Master prints, and...

<P>In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the island’s exotic native culture. Although t...

<P>This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dream...

Gain a better understanding of chemical processes. <br> <br> This text will provide you with a realistic, informative introduction to chemical processes. Thi...

<p>Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we...

In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrend...

This best-selling classical mechanics text, written for the advanced undergraduate one- or two-semester course, provides a complete account of the classical mechanics of particles,...

<p>In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many American...

Newly revised, this edition of "Hamlet" features an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life and world; an editor's introduction; a note on the sources; dramatic criticism from the...

<i>Cloud Nine</i> is an inventive, surrealistic and entertaining look at sexual repression and sexual role conditioning.<br>The first act takes placei n Victorian...

A compelling autobiographical testament to the spiritual pilgrimage of a woman who, in her own words, dedicated herself "to bring[ing] about the kind of society where it is easier ...