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October 13th, 2009 by Front Table
The Parallax View
Â?iÂ?ek, Slavoj
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: April 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
Afary, Janet
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 27, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 442 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
More Than Genes: What Science Can Tell Us About Toxic Chemicals, Development, and the Risk to Our Children
Agin, Dan
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: October 2, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 416 pages )
¤ Category:
Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future
Ali, Saleem
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 27, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category:
The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind
Allen, John S.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category:
Escape from Empire: The Developing World’s Journey through Heaven and Hell
Amsden, Alice H. ; Amsden, Alice H. ; Amsden, A.
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 224 pages )
¤ Category:
Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a
An-Na`im, Abdullahi Ahmed
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
Reflections on Life, Death, and the Constitution
Anastaplo, George
¤ The University Press of Kentucky
¤ Publication Date: June 2, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 312 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
Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities
AnnLorentzen, Lois (Editor, Contributor) ; JayGonzalez, Joaquin (Editor, Contributor) ; M.Chun, Kevin (Editor, Contributor) ; DucDo, Hien (Editor, Contributor) ; Howe, Cymene (Contributor) ; Zaraysky, Susanna (Contributor)
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2009
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Experiments in Ethics
Appiah, Kwame Anthony
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category:
For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India
Arondekar, Anjali ; Grewal, Inderpal (Series Editor) ; Kaplan, Caren (Series Editor) ; Wiegman, Robyn (Series Editor)
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2009
¤ Paperback ( 232 pages )
¤ Category: Queer Studies
Burying Don Imus: Anatomy of a Scapegoat
Awkward, Michael
¤ Univ Of Minnesota Press
¤ Publication Date: August 20, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 232 pages )
¤ Category: Media Studies
Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem
Balaguer, Mark
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: December 31, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category:
Antagonistics: Capital and Power in an Age of War
Balakrishnan, Gopal
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: May 5, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 200 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Baron, Dennis
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: September 24, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 280 pages )
¤ Category: Writing & Publishing
Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
Barrow Jr., Mark V.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 512 pages )
¤ Category:
The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower
Barsky, Robert F.
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category:
Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic: Democratic Practice in South India
Bate, Bernard
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 14, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category:
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 Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I
Bennington, Geoffrey (Translator) ; Bennington, Geoffrey
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: November 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism
Berman, Eli ; Berman, E.
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 280 pages )
¤ Category:
The Heritage of Our Times
Bloch, Ernst ; Plaice, Neville ; Plaice, Stephen
¤ Polity
¤ Publication Date: September 22, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category:
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 ( 367 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Can Islam Be French?: Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State
Bowen, John R.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 28, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 242 pages )
¤ Category:
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
Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
Boyarin, Daniel
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: November 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 408 pages )
¤ Category:
Vietnam at War
Bradley, Mark Philip
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: May 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: History: South East Asian
Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas
Brandom, Robert B.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category:
Black Men Can’t Shoot
Brooks, Scott N.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: June 22, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
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
Cultural Hybridity
Burke, Peter
¤ Polity
¤ Publication Date: October 12, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 160 pages )
¤ Category:
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
Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems
Callebaut, Werner (Editor) ; Rasskin-Gutman, Diego (Editor) ; Simon, Herbert A. (Foreword)
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 471 pages )
¤ Category: Science
The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II
Callon, Michel (Foreword) ; Hecht, Gabrielle ; Callon, Michel
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 486 pages )
¤ Category: Science
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
Radical Embodied Cognitive Science
Chemero, Anthony
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Cognitive 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
Household Gods: The British and their Possessions
Cohen, Deborah
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 27, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
Philosophy, Politics, Democracy: Selected Essays
Cohen, Joshua
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 408 pages )
¤ Category:
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. ; Thomas, Lynn M.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: June 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 280 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics
Collini, Stefan
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: October 25, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category:
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
Beyond Moral Judgment
Crary, Alice
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 252 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
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 ( 328 pages )
¤ Category: History: Latin American
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:
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: August 23, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 458 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Reference
The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability
Darwall, Stephen
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 362 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
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 ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Obsession: A History
Davis, Lennard J.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Health & Medicine
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 ( 432 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 10, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Chicago
Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations
Dietler, Michael (Editor) ; Lopez-Ruiz, Carolina (Editor)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture
Dodds, Jerrilynn Denise ; Menocal, Maria Rosa ; Balbale, Abigail Krasner
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2010
¤ Paperback ( 395 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
Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America
Dugatkin, Lee Alan
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 184 pages )
¤ Category:
Anthropological Futures
Dumit, Joseph (Series Editor)
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2009
¤ Paperback ( 424 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Loneliness as a Way of Life
Dumm, Thomas
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2008
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction
Durantaye, Leland de la
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 4, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 488 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. ; Zuckerman, Harriet ; Groen, Jeffrey A. ; Brucker, Sharon M.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 18, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 368 pages )
¤ Category:
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
Incomplete Revolution: Adapting Welfare States to Women’s New Roles
Esping-Andersen, Gosta
¤ Polity
¤ Publication Date: September 8, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 200 pages )
¤ Category:
Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework
Estlund, David M.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 23, 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
How It Works: Recovering Citizens in Post-Welfare Philadelphia
Fairbanks II, Robert P.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: September 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young
Ferguson, Ann (Editor) ; Nagel, Mechthild (Editor)
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: October 8, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 280 pages )
¤ Category:
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
Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land
Friedson, Steven M.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: September 15, 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
The Trials of Academe: The New Era of Campus Litigation
Gajda, Amy
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 360 pages )
¤ Category:
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 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice
Gapasin, Fernando ; Gapasin, Fernando
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: October 19, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category:
Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad
Garber, Daniel
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: September 28, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 464 pages )
¤ Category:
Perspectives in Computation
Geroch, Robert
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 1, 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:
Politics of Climate Change
Giddens, Anthony ; Giddens
¤ Polity
¤ Publication Date: May 4, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Environmental Studies
The Theological Origins of Modernity
Gillespie, Michael Allen
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: August 15, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Jerusalem: City of Longing
Goldhill, Simon
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category:
The Race between Education and Technology
Goldin, Claudia ; Katz, Lawrence F.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 496 pages )
¤ Category:
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux
Goldstein, Jan ; Bertrand, Alexandre-Jacques-François
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 18, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 264 pages )
¤ Category:
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
Goluboff, Risa L.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category:
Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars
Goodall, Amanda H.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 18, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category:
In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
Gooding-Williams, Robert
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
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
A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience
Gross, Charles G.
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: November 30, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
Grossmann, Atina
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
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 Hagege ; Gladding, Jody (Translator)
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 22, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Linguistics
Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity
Hall, John R.
¤ Polity
¤ Publication Date: July 27, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 296 pages )
¤ Category:
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
How Do You Know?: The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge
Hardin, Russell
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 26, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Commonwealth
Hardt, Michael ; Negri, Antonio
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
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
Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom
Harvey, David
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 17, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
What is Migration History
Harzig, Christiane ; Hoerder, Dirk ; Gabaccia, Donna
¤ Polity
¤ Publication Date: August 17, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 200 pages )
¤ Category:
The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation
Heller-Roazen, Daniel
¤ Zone Books
¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 300 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
Hirschkind, Charles
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 1, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
On Empire
Hobsbawm, Eric
¤ New Press
¤ Publication Date: July 1, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 128 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
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
Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
Honig, Bonnie
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 13, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 218 pages )
¤ Category:
Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange
Huang, Alexander C. Y.
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 19, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Mythematics: Solving the Twelve Labors of Hercules
Huber, Michael
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 28, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 216 pages )
¤ Category:
Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities
J.Fischer, Michael M. (Series Editor) ; Dumit, Joseph (Series Editor)
¤ Duke University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 1, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
The Unsustainable American State
Jacobs, Lawrence (Editor) ; King, Desmond (Editor) ; Jacobs, Lawrence
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: October 2, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 360 pages )
¤ Category:
Constraining Chance: Georges Perec and the Oulipo
James, Alison
¤ Northwestern University Press
¤ Publication Date: February 3, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
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
Saving God: Religion after Idolatry
Johnston, Mark
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 26, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda
Juergensmeyer, Mark
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: October 13, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting
Jullien, FranCois ; Todd, Jane Marie (Translator)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: November 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Art
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War
Kaes, Anton
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 13, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 326 pages )
¤ Category:
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
The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can’t Help the Poor
Karelis, Prof. Charles H.
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 21, 2009
¤ Paperback ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Regarding Heros
Karsh, Yousuf ; Travis, David (Editor) ; Karsh, Yousuk (Illustrator)
¤ David R Godine
¤ Publication Date: May 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Photography
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
Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
Kerr, Roy (Afterword) ; Kerr, Roy
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 1, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 150 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding
Kingsbury, Noel
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 15, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 512 pages )
¤ Category:
Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
Klein, Gary
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us
Koretz, Daniel
¤ Harvard University Press
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Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds
Kraemer, Joel L.
¤ Doubleday Religion
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This Incredible Need to Believe
Kristeva, Julia ; Brahic, Beverley Bie (Translator)
¤ Columbia University Press
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Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
Kronman, Prof. 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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From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution
Laubichler, Manfred D. (Editor) ; Maienschein, Jane (Editor)
¤ The MIT Press
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The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass
Lee, Maurice S. (Editor)
¤ Cambridge University Press
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State, Space, World: Selected Essays
Lefebvre, Henri ; Elden, Stuart (Editor) ; Brenner, Neil (Translator) ; Moore, Gerald (Translator)
¤ Univ Of Minnesota Press
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Nietzsche and Morality
Leiter, Brian (Editor) ; Sinhababu, Neil (Editor)
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed–and What to Do About It
Lerner, Josh
¤ Princeton University Press
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Levi, Mark
¤ Princeton University Press
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Levi, Michael
¤ Harvard University Press
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A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
Lewis, George E.
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¤ Yale University Press
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¤ The MIT Press
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¤ Hardcover ( 732 pages )
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¤ The MIT Press
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¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Martin, John Levi
¤ Princeton University Press
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¤ Columbia University Press
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¤ Columbia University Press
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¤ Princeton University Press
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¤ Duke University Press
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