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(Week of February 14th, 2010)

February 13th, 2010 by Front Table



  • The Signature of All Things: On Method
  • Agamben, Giorgio ; Santo, Luca di ; Atell, Kevin
  • ¤ Zone Books
  • ¤ Publication Date: December 31, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 150 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • 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:


  • Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
  • Akerlof, George A. ; Kranton, Rachel E.
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 10, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 200 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • The New Old World
  • Anderson, Perry
  • ¤ Verso
  • ¤ Publication Date: December 15, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 592 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
  • Arthur, W. Brian
  • ¤ Free Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: August 11, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Science


  • The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World
  • Bainbridge, William Sims
  • ¤ The MIT Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: March 31, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Media Studies


  • Mussulman Culture
  • Bartold, Vasily Vladimirovich ; Suhrawardy, Shahid.
  • ¤ Oxford University Press, USA
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 28, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 150 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Islamic Studies


  • The Return to Keynes
  • Bateman, Bradley ; Hirai, Toshiaki ; Marcuzzo, Maria Cristina
  • ¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 15, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Economics


  • Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
  • Becker, Gary S. ; Posner, Richard A.
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: November 1, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 384 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Economics


  • 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: March 16, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 496 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Doing and Being: An Interpretation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Theta
  • Beere, Jonathan
  • ¤ Oxford University Press, USA
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 4, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 384 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 Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being
  • Bok, Derek
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 21, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 272 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science


  • Can Islam Be French?: Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State
  • Bowen, John R.
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 8, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 242 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Anthropology


  • Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp
  • Browning, Christopher R.
  • ¤ W. W. Norton & Company
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 18, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 375 pages )
  • ¤ Category: History: European


  • The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism
  • Bruckner, Pascal ; Rendall, Steven
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 25, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science


  • Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism
  • Burnouf, Eugene ; Buffetrille, Katia ; Lopez Jr., Donald S.
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 15, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 616 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Buddhist Studies


  • Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
  • Butler, Judith
  • ¤ Verso
  • ¤ Publication Date: May 19, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 193 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
  • Byrd, Rudolph P. ; Cole, Johnnetta Betsch ; Guy-Sheftall, Beverly
  • ¤ Oxford University Press, USA
  • ¤ Publication Date: April 21, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
  • ¤ Category: African American Studies


  • A Tenth of a Second: A History
  • Canales, Jimena
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 15, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
  • ¤ Category: History: Historiography


  • In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
  • Carney, Judith ; Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas
  • ¤ University of California Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 27, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
  • ¤ Category: African American Studies


  • Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor
  • Cohen, Ted
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 15, 2008
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 104 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Philosophy


  • The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected
  • Cole, Jonathan R.
  • ¤ PublicAffairs
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 12, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 640 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Education


  • America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
  • Craig, Campbell ; Logevall, Fredrik
  • ¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 448 pages )
  • ¤ Category: History: United States


  • Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power
  • Cumings, Bruce
  • ¤ Yale University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: November 17, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 672 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970
  • Darwin, John
  • ¤ Cambridge University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 814 pages )
  • ¤ Category: History: British & Irish


  • Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations
  • Dietler, Michael ; Lopez-Ruiz, Carolina
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 1, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 344 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


  • Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia
  • Dunham, S. Ann ; G.Dewey, Alice ; I.Cooper, Nancy ; Soetoro-Ng, Maya ; W.Hefner, Robert
  • ¤ Duke University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: December 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 368 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Anthropology


  • Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities
  • Ehrenberg, Ronald G. ; Zuckerman, Harriet ; Groen, Jeffrey A. ; Brucker, Sharon M.
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 28, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 368 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Education


  • No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life
  • Espenshade, Thomas J. ; Radford, Alexandria Walton ; Chung, Chang Young
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 12, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 576 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Education


  • Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935
  • Faye, Emmanuel ; Smith, Michael B ; Rockmore, Tom
  • ¤ Yale University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: November 24, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 464 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Philosophy


  • The Trials of Academe: The New Era of Campus Litigation
  • Gajda, Amy
  • ¤ Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 360 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Education


  • Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture
  • Gilroy, Paul
  • ¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 1, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • When Souls Had Wings: Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought
  • Givens, Terryl ; Tanner, John
  • ¤ Oxford University Press, USA
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 8, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 400 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Philosophy


  • Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux
  • Goldstein, Jan ; Bertrand, Alexandre-Jacques-François
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 28, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 264 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars
  • Goodall, Amanda H.
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 28, 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


  • Happiness Around the World: The paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires
  • Graham, Carol
  • ¤ Oxford University Press, USA
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 8, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 240 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method
  • Guicciardini, Niccolò
  • ¤ The MIT Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 30, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 448 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Commonwealth
  • Hardt, Michael ; Negri, Antonio
  • ¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 1, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 448 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism


  • Learning to Teach Through Discussion: The Art of Turning the Soul
  • Haroutunian-Gordon, Prof. Sophie
  • ¤ Yale University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: August 18, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 240 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom
  • Harvey, David
  • ¤ Columbia University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: July 17, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science


  • Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France
  • Haynes, Christine
  • ¤ Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 15, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 346 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Books about Books


  • Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present
  • Headrick, Daniel R.
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: November 9, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 412 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World
  • Herf, Jeffrey
  • ¤ Yale University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: November 30, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
  • Honig, Bonnie
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: August 24, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 218 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science


  • The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel’s Social Theory
  • Honneth, Axel ; Lob, Ladislaus
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: March 25, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 96 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Philosophy


  • Mythematics: Solving the Twelve Labors of Hercules
  • Huber, Michael
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 8, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 216 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Mathematics


  • 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:


  • A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
  • Israel, Jonathan
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 26, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
  • ¤ Category: History: European


  • The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
  • James, Harold
  • ¤ Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Economics


  • Valences of the Dialectic
  • Jameson, Fredric
  • ¤ Verso
  • ¤ Publication Date: November 2, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 625 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
  • Johns, Adrian
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 15, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 640 pages )
  • ¤ Category: History: Historiography


  • Surviving Death
  • Johnston, Mark
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 24, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 408 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Philosophy


  • Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
  • Joseph, Peniel E.
  • ¤ Basic Civitas Books
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 5, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
  • ¤ Category: African American Studies


  • The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting
  • Jullien, FranCois ; Todd, Jane Marie
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: December 1, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Art


  • A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music
  • Katz, Ruth
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 2, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 384 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Music


  • Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory
  • Klein, Ursula ; Spary, E. C.
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: April 1, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 408 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Science


  • Perpetual Inventory
  • Krauss, Rosalind E.
  • ¤ The MIT Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: March 31, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Art


  • This Incredible Need to Believe
  • Kristeva, Julia ; Brahic, Beverley Bie
  • ¤ Columbia University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 25, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 136 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment
  • Lamont, Prof. Michèle
  • ¤ Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: March 31, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Education


  • The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
  • Landes, David S. ; Mokyr, Joel ; Baumol, William J.
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 31, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 608 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Economics


  • The Anatomy of Bias: How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options
  • Lauwereyns, Jan
  • ¤ The MIT Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 28, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Playing the Fool: Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times
  • Lerner, Ralph
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: December 15, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 144 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Literary Criticism


  • The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC
  • Manning, J. G.
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: November 2, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 282 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race, and Scholarship
  • Marchand, Suzanne L.
  • ¤ Cambridge University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: August 17, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 560 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • On Compromise and Rotten Compromises
  • Margalit, Avishai
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 12, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 232 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Social Structures
  • Martin, John Levi
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: July 27, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 448 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
  • Melia, Fulvio ; Kerr, Roy
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 1, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 150 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Science


  • The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University
  • Menand, Louis ; Gates Jr., Henry Louis
  • ¤ W. W. Norton & Company
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 18, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 176 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Education


  • The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850
  • Mokyr, Joel
  • ¤ Yale University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 16, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 550 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Economics


  • The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
  • Muhammad, Khalil Gibran
  • ¤ Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 15, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 392 pages )
  • ¤ Category: African American Studies


  • Capitalism and the Jews
  • Muller, Jerry Z.
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 24, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 272 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Judaic Studies


  • Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008
  • Nagel, Thomas
  • ¤ Oxford University Press, USA
  • ¤ Publication Date: December 18, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 184 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Philosophy


  • From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
  • Nussbaum, Martha C.
  • ¤ Oxford University Press, USA
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 18, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
  • O’Brien, Michael J. ; Shennan, Stephen J.
  • ¤ The MIT Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: December 31, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
  • Oakley, Prof. Francis C.
  • ¤ Yale University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: March 23, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
  • ¤ Category: History: Medieval


  • 1688: The First Modern Revolution
  • Pincus, Dr. Steve
  • ¤ Yale University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 29, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 664 pages )
  • ¤ Category: History: British & Irish


  • The Perils of Global Legalism
  • Posner, Eric A.
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 1, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination
  • Purdy, Jedediah
  • ¤ Yale University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: March 23, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 240 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Legal Theory


  • The Emancipated Spectator
  • Rancière, Jacques ; Elliot, Gregory
  • ¤ Verso
  • ¤ Publication Date: November 2, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 144 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • The Promise of Salvation: A Theory of Religion
  • Riesebrodt, Martin ; Rendall, Steven
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: March 1, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Christian Theology


  • Great Books, Bad Arguments: “Republic”, “Leviathan”, and “The Communist Manifesto”
  • Runciman, W. G.
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 21, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 138 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science


  • Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
  • Sandel, Michael J.
  • ¤ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 15, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Philosophy


  • Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society?: Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism
  • Schwartz, Seth
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 21, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
  • Scott, Professor James C.
  • ¤ Yale University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 464 pages )
  • ¤ Category: History: South East Asian


  • Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
  • Searle, John
  • ¤ Oxford University Press, USA
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 12, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Philosophy


  • The Idea of Justice
  • Sen, Professor Amartya
  • ¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 30, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 496 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Philosophy


  • Better Living through Economics
  • Siegfried, John J.
  • ¤ Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 1, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 324 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • The Calculus of Selfishness
  • Sigmund, Karl
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 24, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 192 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Science


  • The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution
  • Slauter, Eric
  • ¤ University Of Chicago Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: May 1, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 392 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Literary Criticism


  • Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life
  • Small, Mario Luis
  • ¤ Oxford University Press, USA
  • ¤ Publication Date: July 2, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 312 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science


  • Why America Is Not a New Rome
  • Smil, Vaclav
  • ¤ The MIT Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: March 1, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 232 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science


  • To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
  • Smith, Suzanne E.
  • ¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 25, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
  • ¤ Category: African American Studies


  • Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics
  • Stears, Marc
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 24, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science


  • The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition
  • Sternhell, Zeev ; Maisel, Mr. David
  • ¤ Yale University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: December 22, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 544 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science


  • Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power
  • Sullivan, Robert E.
  • ¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: December 15, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 624 pages )
  • ¤ Category: History: British & Irish


  • Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things
  • Taves, Ann
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: September 28, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 240 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Anthropology


  • The Brain and the Meaning of Life
  • Thagard, Paul
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: February 14, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 292 pages )
  • ¤ Category:


  • Conversations on Ethics
  • Voorhoeve, Alex
  • ¤ Oxford University Press, USA
  • ¤ Publication Date: October 16, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 272 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Philosophy


  • The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, and Memory
  • Watkins, Glenn ; Abbado, Claudio
  • ¤ W. W. Norton & Company
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 25, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 384 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Music


  • A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad
  • Wistrich, Robert S.
  • ¤ Random House
  • ¤ Publication Date: January 5, 2010
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 1200 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Judaic Studies


  • Hobbes and the Law of Nature
  • Zagorin, Perez
  • ¤ Princeton University Press
  • ¤ Publication Date: November 16, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 176 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Philosophy


  • Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
  • Zukin, Sharon
  • ¤ Oxford University Press, USA
  • ¤ Publication Date: December 18, 2009
  • ¤ Hardcover ( 312 pages )
  • ¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science

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