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(Week of August 30th, 2009)
August 29th, 2009 by WebGnome
The Parallax View
Â?iÂ?ek, Slavoj
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: April 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?
Â?iÂ?ek, Slavoj ; Milbank, John ; Davis, Creston (Editor)
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: April 24, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Christian Theology
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
Afary, Janet
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 27, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 442 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate
Alexander, Jeffrey C. ; Jay, Martin (Contributor) ; Giesen, Bernhard (Contributor) ; Rothberg, Michael (Contributor) ; Manne, Robert (Contributor) ; Glazer, Nathan (Contributor)
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: July 27, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
¤ Category:
Reflections on Life, Death, and the Constitution
Anastaplo, George
¤ University Press of Kentucky
¤ Publication Date: July 2009
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire
Ando, Clifford ; Ando, C.
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: March 10, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 266 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life and Politics in Britain, North America, and France
Auslander, Leora
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: March 9, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Antagonistics: Capital and Power in an Age of War
Balakrishnan, Gopal
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: May 5, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 200 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
The Constitution in 2020
Balkin, Jack ; Siegel, Reva
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: May 26, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?
Bauman, Zygmunt
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Beckwith, Christopher I.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 5, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 496 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Beiser, Frederick C. (Editor)
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: November 17, 2008
¤ Paperback ( 444 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Herodotean Inquiries
Benardete, Seth
¤ St. Augustines Press
¤ Publication Date: August 10, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 230 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History
Benite, Zvi Ben-Dor
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: September 4, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid Empire
Bennison, Amira K.
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 22, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Bernstein, William J.
¤ Grove Press
¤ Publication Date: May 6, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 496 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Shakespeare’s Ideas
Bevington, David
¤ Wiley-Blackwell
¤ Publication Date: August 25, 2008
¤ Paperback ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now
Bevington, David
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: May 1, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Jewish Music and Modernity
Bohlman, Philip
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: November 26, 2008
¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Music
Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New
Bohlman, Philip V. (Editor) ; Gilman, Sander L. (Foreword)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: March 30, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 240 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
Theory of the Subject
Bosteels, Bruno (Translator) ; Bosteels, Bruno
¤ Continuum
¤ Publication Date: July 28, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Bowler, Peter J.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Vietnam at War
Bradley, Mark Philip
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: May 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: History: South East Asian
Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA
Brady, Catherine
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: April 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 408 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Racial Justice in the Age of Obama
Brooks, Roy L.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 20, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 262 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing
Brown, David S.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: May 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History
Bulliet, Richard W.
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 184 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates: On the “Nicomachean Ethics”
Burger, Ronna
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: August 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Philosophical Logic
Burgess, John P.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 26, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 168 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Reading the Qur’an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560
Burman, Thomas E.
¤ University of Pennsylvania Press
¤ Publication Date: May 8, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 328 pages )
¤ Category: History: Medieval
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century
Burrow, John
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: April 7, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 544 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
Butler, Judith
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: May 19, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 192 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
Camille, Michael
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: June 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 464 pages )
¤ Category: Art
The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
Canaday, Margot
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 26, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Queer Studies
The Present Alone is Our Happiness: Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson
Carlier, Jeannie ; Davidson, Arnold ; Djaballah, Marc (Translator) ; Calrier, Jeannie
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: December 23, 2008
¤ Paperback ( 216 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Communication Power
Castells, Manuel
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: August 31, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 608 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972
Chen, Anthony S.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 424 pages )
¤ Category:
Ending Wars
Cochrane, Feargal
¤ Polity
¤ Publication Date: January 9, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: International Relations
Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor
Cohen, Ted
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 15, 2008
¤ Hardcover ( 104 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Love in Africa
Cole, Jennifer (Editor) ; Thomas, Lynn M. (Editor) ; Thomas, Lynn M.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: June 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 280 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory
Collins, Randall
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 23, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 584 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Ethnicity, Inc.
Comaroff, Jean ; Comaroff, Jean
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: July 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 236 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World
Cook, Mariana ; Gunning, Robert Clifford (Introduction)
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 21, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Mathematics
Why Evolution Is True
Coyne, Jerry A.
¤ Viking Adult
¤ Publication Date: January 22, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Crawford, Matthew B.
¤ Penguin Press HC, The
¤ Publication Date: May 28, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation
Crichlow, Michaeline ; Northover, Patricia ; Northover, Patricia
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2009
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: History: Latin American
Deleuze and Performance
Cull, Laura
¤ Edinburgh University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Orientalism and Islam: European Thinkers on Oriental Despotism in the Middle East and India
Curtis, Michael
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 8, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 392 pages )
¤ Category:
Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America
Cusac, Dr. Anne-Marie
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 18, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present
Damrosch, David (Editor) ; Melas, Natalie (Editor) ; Buthelezi, Mbongiseni (Editor)
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 458 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Reference
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World [DECKLE EDGE]
Davidson, James
¤ Random House
¤ Publication Date: May 26, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 832 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
Theology of Money
Davis, Creston (Series Editor) ; Surin, Kenneth (Series Editor)
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2009
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Building the Devil’s Empire: French Colonial New Orleans
Dawdy, Shannon Lee
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: September 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
Decety, Jean (Editor) ; Ickes, William (Editor)
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: April 30, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: Cognitive Science
Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance
DeNardis, Laura ; DeNardis, L.
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo
Derby, Lauren
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2009
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category:
Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969
Diamond, Andrew J.
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2009
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Chicago
Inventing Equal Opportunity
Dobbin, Frank
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
¤ Category:
The Hindus: An Alternative History
Doniger, Wendy
¤ Penguin Press HC, The
¤ Publication Date: March 19, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 800 pages )
¤ Category: History: South Asian
Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery
Drescher, Seymour
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 27, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 488 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Anthropological Futures
Dumit, Joseph (Series Editor)
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2009
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction
Durantaye, Leland de la
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 4, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 488 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist
Elster, Jon
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 27, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 212 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology
Endersby, Dr. Jim
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 5, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 544 pages )
¤ Category: Science
All about Almodovar: A Passion for Cinema
Epps, Brad (Editor) ; Kakoudaki, Despina (Editor)
¤ Univ Of Minnesota Press
¤ Publication Date: May 21, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 488 pages )
¤ Category: Film Studies
Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework
Estlund, David M.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 24, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Cosmopolitan Islanders: British Historians and the European Continent
Evans, Richard J.
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920â??2000
Eyferth, Jacob
¤ Harvard University Asia Center
¤ Publication Date: June 30, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 335 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
Fader, Ayala
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 9, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 280 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes
Forester, John
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: August 6, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 240 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
Foster, Benjamin R. ; Foster, Karen Polinger
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Ancient Near East
Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
Fourcade, Marion
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 29, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land
Friedson, Steven M.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2009
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Music
Life and Death in the Third Reich
Fritzsche, Peter
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Gambetta, Diego
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 16, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The City at Its Limits: Taboo, Transgression, and Urban Renewal in Lima
Gandolfo, Daniella
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2009
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685
Gaukroger, Stephen
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: January 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 576 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
Gere, Cathy
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: May 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Perspectives in Computation
Geroch, Robert
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: August 31, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Mathematics
Nietzsche: Writings from the Early Notebooks
Geuss, Raymond (Editor) ; Nehamas, Alexander (Editor) ; Löb, Ladislaus (Translator)
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 29, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 328 pages )
¤ Category:
Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared
Geyer, Michael (Editor) ; Fitzpatrick, Sheila (Editor)
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: December 8, 2008
¤ Paperback ( 548 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Politics of Climate Change
Giddens, Anthony ; Giddens
¤ Polity
¤ Publication Date: May 4, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Environmental Studies
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Giddings, Paula J.
¤ Harper Paperbacks
¤ Publication Date: March 3, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 832 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
The Theological Origins of Modernity
Gillespie, Michael Allen
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: August 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Cultural Turn in U. S. History: Past, Present, and Future
Glickman, Lawrence B. (Editor) ; O’Malley, Michael (Editor) ; Glickman, Lawrence B.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: February 1, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 464 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Montaigne in Motion
Goldhammer, Arthur (Translator) ; Goldhammer, Arthur
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: May 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 360 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Jacob’s Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History
Goldstein, David B.
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 12, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
Gooding-Williams, Robert
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters
Goodman, Dena
¤ Cornell University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2009
¤ Paperback ( 386 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Film, a Sound Art
Gorbman, Claudia (Translator) ; Delogu, C. Jon (Translator) ; Delogu, C. Jon
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 26, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 528 pages )
¤ Category:
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
Grafton, Anthony
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 31, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 432 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity
Graham, Loren ; Kantor, Jean-Michel
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 31, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Mathematics
Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization
Grewal, Mr. David Singh
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 16, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
Grossmann, Atina
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 27, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Soft Subversions, New Edition: Texts and Interviews 1977–1985 (Semiotext
Guattari, Félix ; Lotringer, Sylvère (Editor) ; Wiener, Chet (Translator) ; Wittman, Emily (Translator) ; Stivale, Charles J. (Introduction)
¤ Semiotext
¤ Publication Date: June 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges
Gutierrez, Ramon A. (Editor) ; Zavella, Patricia (Editor) ; Segura, Denise A. ; Trevizo, Dolores
¤ University of Illinois Press
¤ Publication Date: April 28, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy
Gutting, Gary
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 27, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture
Hagedorn, John M. ; Davis, Mike
¤ Univ Of Minnesota Press
¤ Publication Date: June 12, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 240 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
On the Death and Life of Languages
Hagege, Claude ; Gladding, Jody (Translator)
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 22, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Linguistics
What Do Gay Men Want?: An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity
Halperin, David
¤ University of Michigan Press
¤ Publication Date: December 12, 2008
¤ Paperback ( 184 pages )
¤ Category: Queer Studies
The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course
Hammack, Phillip L. ; Cohler, Bertram J.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: March 6, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 496 pages )
¤ Category: Queer Studies
Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology
Harman, Oren (Editor) ; Dietrich, Michael (Editor) ; Dritschilo, William (Contributor) ; Weber, Bruce (Contributor) ; Despret, Vinciane (Contributor) ; Sepkoski, David (Contributor)
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 1, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Learning to Teach Through Discussion: The Art of Turning the Soul
Haroutunian-Gordon, Sophie
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 18, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 240 pages )
¤ Category: Education
Kierkegaard’s Concept of Despair
Harshav, Barbara (Translator) ; Illbruck, Helmut (Translator) ; Illbruck, Helmut
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 7, 2005
¤ Hardcover ( 168 pages )
¤ Category: Christian Theology
Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom
Harvey, David
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 17, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
HAYEK ON HAYEK: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DIALOGUE
HAYEK, F A ; Kresge, S. ; Wenar, Leif
¤ Liberty Fund Inc.
¤ Publication Date: November 30, 2008
¤ Paperback ( 177 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Technology: A World History
Headrick, Daniel R.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: April 1, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 200 pages )
¤ Category:
From Mesopotamia to Iraq: A Concise History
Heine, Peter ; Heine, Peter ; Nissen, Hans J.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2009
¤ Paperback ( 192 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers
Hermanowicz, Joseph C. ; Hermanowicz, Joseph C. Stars are not enough
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: May 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: Science
“ARE ECONOMISTS BASICALLY IMMORAL?”: AND OTHER ESSAYS ON ECONOMICS, ETHICS, AND RELIGION BY PAUL HEYNE
Heyne, Paul ; Brennan, Geoffrey ; Waterman, A. M. C.
¤ Liberty Fund Inc.
¤ Publication Date: November 30, 2008
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation
Hinton, Alexander Laban (Editor) ; LewisO’Neill, Kevin (Editor) ; Sanford, Victoria (Editor) ; E.Hutchinson, Sharon (Contributor) ; E.Burnet, Jennie (Contributor) ; Dwyer, Leslie (Contributor)
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
Hirschkind, Charles
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 9, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
Ho, Karen
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2009
¤ Paperback ( 392 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
On Empire
Hobsbawm, Eric
¤ New Press
¤ Publication Date: July 1, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 128 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century
Hoffman, Adina
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 464 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
Holston, James
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 26, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: History: Latin American
Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange
Huang, Alexander C. Y.
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing
Hunt, D. Bradford
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: July 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 392 pages )
¤ Category: Chicago
History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood
Inglis, Fred
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 26, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 400 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752
Israel, Jonathan I.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: January 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 983 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions
IV, Edward E. Curtis (Editor) ; Sigler, Danielle Brune (Editor)
¤ Indiana University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Black Theology
Constraining Chance: Georges Perec and the Oulipo
James, Alison
¤ Northwestern University Press
¤ Publication Date: February 2009
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture
Jelavich, Peter ; Jelavich, P.
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: March 31, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome: Readings in Propertius and His Genre
Johnson, W. R.
¤ Ohio State University Press
¤ Publication Date: February 22, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome
Johnson, William A ; Parker, Holt N
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: February 5, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
Saving God: Religion after Idolatry
Johnston, Mark
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 26, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Judt, Tony
¤ Penguin Two
¤ Publication Date: March 31, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 464 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century
Kagan, Jerome
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 27, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 324 pages )
¤ Category: Psychology
Regarding Heros
Karsh, Yousuf ; Travis, David (Editor) ; Karsh, Yousuk (Illustrator)
¤ David R Godine
¤ Publication Date: May 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Photography
Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America
Katzew, Ilona (Editor) ; Deans-Smith, Susan (Editor)
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 23, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: History: Latin American
Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction
Kaur, Raminder (Editor) ; Mazzarella, William (Editor)
¤ Indiana University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 8, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan
Kawashima, Ken ; Chow, Rey (Series Editor) ; Harootunian, Harry (Series Editor)
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2009
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
The Life and Death of Democracy
Keane, John
¤ W.W. Norton & Co.
¤ Publication Date: August 17, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 992 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Horse in Human History
Kelekna, Pita
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 13, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 474 pages )
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Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
Kerr, Roy (Afterword) ; Kerr, Roy
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
Khalidi, Rashid
¤ Beacon Press
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When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
Kleiman, Mark A. R.
¤ Princeton University Press
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Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us
Koretz, Daniel
¤ Harvard University Press
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Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity
Korsgaard, Christine M.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology
Korsgaard, Christine M.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds
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¤ Doubleday Religion
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Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
Kronman, Anthony T.
¤ Yale University Press
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African American Urban History since World War II
Kusmer, Kenneth L. (Editor) ; Trotter, Joe W. (Editor)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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My Teaching
Lacan, Jacques ; Macey, David
¤ Verso
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How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment
Lamont, Prof. Michèle
¤ Harvard University Press
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Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature
Lange, Marc
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification
Langton, Rae
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass
Lee, Maurice S. (Editor)
¤ Cambridge University Press
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The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems
Levi, Mark
¤ Princeton University Press
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On Nuclear Terrorism
Levi, Michael
¤ Harvard University Press
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Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis
Lewis, Robert
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript, Vol. 1: Facsimile
Long, Pamela O. (Editor) ; McGee, David (Editor) ; Stahl, Alan M. (Editor, Translator) ; Stahl, Alan M.
¤ MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 732 pages )
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The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript, Vol. 2: Transcription and Translation
Long, Pamela O. (Editor) ; McGee, David (Editor) ; Stahl, Alan M. (Editor)
¤ MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2009
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Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities
Lorentzen, Lois Ann (Editor) ; Chun, Kevin M. ; Gonzalez, Joaquin Jay
¤ Duke University Press
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Descartes’s Changing Mind
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¤ Princeton University Press
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Maternal Effects in Mammals
Maestripieri, Dario (Editor) ; Mateo, Jill M. (Editor)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade
Maggi, Armando
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal
Majumdar, Rochona
¤ Duke University Press
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Weber, Habermas and Transformations of the European State: Constitutional, Social, and Supranational Democracy
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¤ Cambridge University Press
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Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands
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¤ Duke University Press
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The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
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¤ Cambridge University Press
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The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas
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¤ Princeton University Press
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It’s About Time: Understanding Einstein’s Relativity
Mermin, N. David
¤ Princeton University Press
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Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City
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¤ Duke University Press
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Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial
Miller, James A.
¤ Princeton University Press
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Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
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¤ Columbia University Press
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Maurice Bowra: A Life
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¤ Columbia University Press
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¤ Cambridge University Press
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Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District
Moskos, Peter
¤ Princeton University Press
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Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution
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¤ Harvard University Press
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Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females
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¤ Harvard University Press
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Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience
Mynott, Jeremy
¤ Princeton University Press
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¤ Harvard University Press
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¤ Princeton University Press
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Imperial City: Rome under Napoleon
Nicassio, Susan Vandiver
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Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology
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¤ University of Illinois Press
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The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses
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The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India’s Future
Nussbaum, Martha C.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany
Nyhart, Lynn K.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
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¤ Princeton University Press
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The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist
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¤ Duke University Press
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Modernism and the Ordinary
Olson, Liesl
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Globalization: A Short History
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Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory
Paredez, Deborah
¤ Duke University Press
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Against a Hindu God: Buddhist Philosophy of Religion in India
Patil, Parimal G.
¤ Columbia University Press
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La Patria del Criollo: An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala
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¤ Duke University Press
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When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects
Petryna, Adriana
¤ Princeton University Press
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Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics
Pettit, Philip
¤ Princeton University Press
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Paradoxical Life: Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice
Ph.D, Andreas Wagner
¤ Yale University Press
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Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future
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¤ Columbia University Press
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1688: The First Modern Revolution
Pincus, Dr. Steve
¤ Yale University Press
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Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life
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¤ Cambridge University Press
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Political Thought and History: Essays on Theory and Method
Pocock, J.G.A.
¤ Cambridge University Press
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The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India
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The Perils of Global Legalism
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A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ‘08 and the Descent into Depression
Posner, The Honorable Richard A.
¤ Harvard University Press
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For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom
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¤ Yale University Press
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Raftopoulos, Athanassios
¤ The MIT Press
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¤ Yale University Press
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Major Themes of the Qur’an: Second Edition
Rahman, Fazlur ; Moosa, Ebrahim
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession
Ram, Haggai
¤ Stanford University Press
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Hatred of Democracy
Rancière, Jacques ; Corcoran, Steve
¤ Verso
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Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind
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¤ The MIT Press
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A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini’s Writings on Democracy, Nation Building, and International Relations
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¤ Princeton University Press
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The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood
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¤ Princeton University Press
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Reeves, Richard
¤ Overlook TP
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Reiss, John
¤ University of California Press
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Torture and Democracy
Rejali, Darius
¤ Princeton University Press
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The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript, Vol. 3: Studies
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¤ MIT Press
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The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought
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¤ University Of Chicago Press
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¤ Duke University Press
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Giordano Bruno: Philosopher Heretic
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¤ Princeton University Press
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Rupke, Nicolaas
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The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism
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¤ NYU Press
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Safford, Sean
¤ Harvard University Press
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Portraits
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¤ Seagull Books
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¤ Columbia University Press
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¤ Yale University Press
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Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity
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¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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¤ Yale University Press
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¤ Yale University Press
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¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Through the Poet’s Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky
Shallcross, Bozena
¤ Northwestern University Press
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¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
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¤ Princeton University Press
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¤ Princeton University Press
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Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times
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Small, Mario Luis
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¤ University of Michigan Press
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Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution
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¤ Princeton University Press
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The Future of Secularism
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The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life
Stark, David
¤ Princeton University Press
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After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
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¤ Princeton University Press
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Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution
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¤ Princeton University Press
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¤ Princeton University Press
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Sunstein, Cass R.
¤ Harvard University Press
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Sunstein, Cass R. ; Sunstein, Cass R.
¤ Penguin
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What Color Is the Sacred?
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¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Therborn, Göran
¤ Verso
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¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Race and Erudition
Todd, Jane Marie (Translator) ; Todd, Jane Marie
¤ Harvard University Press
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We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law
Tsesis, Professor Alexander
¤ Yale University Press
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Tuominen, Miira
¤ University of California Press
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Secular Cycles
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¤ Princeton University Press
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Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History
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¤ University Of Chicago Press
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After the Death of God
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¤ Columbia University Press
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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi
¤ Harvard University Press
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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Wacquant, Loïc
¤ Duke University Press
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The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
Walls, Laura Dassow
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Thinking Politically: Essays in Political Theory
Walzer, Professor Michael ; Miller, David (Editor) ; Miller, David
¤ Yale University Press
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Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time
Wasserstein, Bernard
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Watkins-Hayes, Celeste
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
Weitz, Eric D.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
The Mathematics of Sex: How Biology and Society Conspire to Limit Talented Women and Girls
Williams, Wendy M. ; Williams, Wendy
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: September 2, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Women’s Studies
Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics
Wilson, Rob
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
Wilson, William Julius ; Gates Jr., Henry Louis (Series Editor)
¤ W.W. Norton & Co.
¤ Publication Date: March 9, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss
Wiseman, Boris (Editor)
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 29, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 350 pages )
¤ Category:
Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape
Wolfe, Alan (Editor) ; Owens, Erik C. (Editor)
¤ Baylor University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2009
¤ Paperback ( 516 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887–1934
Wright-Rios, Edward
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2009
¤ Paperback ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: History: Latin American
Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality
Yablo, Stephen
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: February 2009
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
Why Arendt Matters
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 14, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 240 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Comparative Journeys: Essays on Literature and Religion East and West
Yu, Anthony C.
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: November 3, 2008
¤ Hardcover ( 432 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It
Zittrain, Jonathan ; Lessig, Lawrence
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 17, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
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