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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"...

This exciting new version of the classic text, <i>Social Cognition</i>, describes the increasingly complete link between neuroscience and culture. Highlighting the cutt...

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...

Anton Chekhov revolutionized Russian theater through his inimitable portrayals of characters faced with complex moral dilemmas. This Norton Critical Edition includes five of Chekho...

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 ...

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...

"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...

A masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, this novel is one of the most significant and outspoken literary documents ever to come out of Soviet Russia. A brutal depiction of life in...

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...

<p>With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from t...

<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 ...

‘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 ...

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, <I>Storm of Steel</I> illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen th...

<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...

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...

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, this reader uses a carefully selected group of primary sources and analytical essays to allow students to test the interpreta...

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 ...

<p>In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college with few academic pretensions. But Wilson had a blueprint for ...

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On the eve of his inauguration as President, Woodrow Wilson commented, 'It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.' As America was...

"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...

Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful para...

<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...

<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...

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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...

The most commonly used 510 Russian verbs are arranged alphabetically in a table format, one verb per page with English pronunciation and translation. Verbs are fully conjugated and...

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...

This translation of Dante's "Inferno" aims to preserve Dante's natural style while capturing the movement of the original Italian verse. The blank verse rendition of the poet's jou...

<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...

The translation into English verse of one of Molière’s most masterful and most popular plays. “A continuous delight from beginning to end” (Richard Eberhart). Introduction by Richa...

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, ...

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 ...

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An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest pas...

<b><u>Winner of the Booker of Bookers</u></b><br>Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s indepen...

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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Practical, user-friendly, comprehensive <ul> <li>The HarperCollins Spanish Concise Dictionary, 3rd Edition offers up-to-date coverage of contemporary Spanish -- from br...

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...

The annotated text of this modern classic. It assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. Edited with a pr...

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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<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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A math book for “non-math” people, this book—based on a popular course at Harvard University—communicates to readers some idea of the mathematical view of world, and what attracts ...

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...

<strong>This beautiful, affordable volume collects the first half of Gilbert's modern-day classic, featuring the acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the Central Ame...

There has always been a close connection between physics and music. From the great days of ancient Greek science, ideas and speculations have passed backward and forward between na...

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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<em>The Cold War</em> contains a selection of official and unofficial documents which provide a truly multi-faceted account of the entire Cold War era. The experiences...

<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...

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