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A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations
Adib-moghaddam, Arshin
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 338 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
A Quiet Revolution
Ahmed, Leila
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Islamic Studies
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle ; Bartlett, Robert C. ; Collins, Susan D.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
American Property
Banner, Stuart
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 355 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Zellig Harris
Barsky, Robert F.
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 353 pages )
¤ Category: Linguistics
Blind Spots
Bazerman, Max H. ; Tenbrunsel, Ann E.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 216 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Early Writings, 1910-1917
Benjamin, Walter ; Eiland, Howard
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 303 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
The Third City
Bennett, Larry
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 241 pages )
¤ Category: Chicago
The American Crucible
Blackburn, Robin
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Paperback ( 498 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Too Much to Know
Blair, Ann M.
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 397 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
The School of Rome
Bloomer, W. Martin
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 294 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History
Boustan, Ra’anan S. ; Kosansky, Oren ; Rustow, Marina
¤ University of Pennsylvania Press
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
Ancestral Memory in Early China
Brashier, K. E.
¤ Harvard University Asia Center
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 470 pages )
¤ Category:
Changes of State
Brett, Annabel S.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 242 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Christian Materiality
Bynum, Caroline Walker
¤ Zone Books (NY)
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 408 pages )
¤ Category: History: Medieval
Braintrust Braintrust
Churchland, Patricia S.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Cognitive Science
Democracy Remixed
Cohen, Cathy J.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: September 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
Archaeologies of Colonialism
Dietler, Michael
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Muhammad and the Believers
Donner, Fred McGraw
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Islamic Studies
Divining a Digital Future
Dourish, Paul ; Bell, Genevieve
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category:
Haldane, Mayr, and Beanbag Genetics
Dronamraju, Krishna
¤ Oxford University Press
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 274 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Why Marx Was Right
Eagleton, Terry
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 258 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
Making Volunteers
Eliasoph, Nina
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Liberal Arts at the Brink
Ferrall, JR. Victor E.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Education
The Law of Life and Death
Foley, Elizabeth Price
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Essays on Anscombe’s “Intention”
Ford, Anton ; Hornsby, Jennifer ; Stoutland, Frederick
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 324 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
After Herder
Forster, Michael N.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: August 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 400 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Courage of Truth
Foucault, Michel ; Davidson, Arnold I. ; Burchell, Graham
¤ Palgrave MacMillan
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 356 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Lost Age of Reason
Ganeri, Jonardon
¤ Oxford Univ Pr
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 284 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Convicting the Innocent
Garrett, Brandon L.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 367 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Exceptional People
Goldin, Ian ; Cameron, Geoffrey ; Balarajan, Meera
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 371 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue
Grafton, Anthony ; Weinberg, Joanna ; Hamilton, Alastair
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 380 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
The Little Book of String Theory
Gubser, Steven S.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: February 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 174 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Makers of Modern India
Guha, Ramachandra
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Paperback ( 500 pages )
¤ Category: History: South Asian
Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic
Gustafson, Sandra M.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 271 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
The Illusion of Free Markets
Harcourt, Bernard E.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Kids Don’t Want to Fail
Harris, Angel L.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Education
Richard Bentley
Haugen, Kristine Louise
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 333 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Children of Fire
Holt, Thomas C.
¤ Hill & Wang
¤ Publication Date: October 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 438 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
Political Essay on the Island of Cuba
Humboldt, Alexander Von ; Kutzinski, Vera M. ; Ette, Ottmar
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 496 pages )
¤ Category: History: Latin American
Representing Capital
Jameson, Fredric
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
Line in the Sand
John, Rachel St.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Recruiting Young Love Recruiting Young Love Recruiting Young Love
Jordan, Mark D.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Queer Studies
What Ever Happened to Modernism?
Josipovici, Gabriel
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa
Kaegi, Walter E.
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 345 pages )
¤ Category: History: Medieval
Political Theology
Kahn, Paul W.
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 207 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Human Dignity
Kateb, George
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 238 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Becoming Yellow
Keevak, Michael
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
A Most Dangerous Book
Krebs, Christopher B.
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 303 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
The Ideological Origins of American Federalism
Lacroix, Alison L.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
The Age of Doubt
Lane, Christopher
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 233 pages )
¤ Category: History: British & Irish
The Joy of Secularism
Levine, George
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 259 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Offensive Internet
Levmore, Saul X. ; Nussbaum, Martha Craven
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 299 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
The Theory of Rules
Llewellyn, Karl N. ; Schauer, Fredrick
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 168 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Histories of Computing
Mahoney, Michael Sean ; Haigh, Thomas
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Paperback ( 260 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Malcolm X
Marable, Manning
¤ Viking Books
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 594 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
Law and the Culture of Israel
Mautner, Menachem
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 270 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Violette Noziere
Maza, Sarah
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
The Theory That Would Not Die
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Statistics
Redeeming Democracy in America
McWilliams, Wilson C. ; Deneen, Patrick J. ; McWilliams, Susan Jane
¤ University Press of Kansas
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 335 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Why Leaders Lie
Mearsheimer, John J.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 142 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Seeing Double
Meltzer, Francoise
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 280 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Nuns Behaving Badly
Monson, Craig
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 241 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
A Philosophical Retrospective
Montefiore, Alan
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 201 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Vico and Naples
Naddeo, Barbara Ann
¤ Cornell University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 300 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Nixon, Rob
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 370 pages )
¤ Category: Environmental Studies
The Shock of the Ancient
Norman, Larry F.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Not for Profit Not for Profit
Nussbaum, Martha C.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 178 pages )
¤ Category: Education
Creating Capabilities
Nussbaum, Martha Craven
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 237 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Cutting the Fuse
Pape, Robert Anthony ; Feldman, James K.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 349 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Animal Part
Payne, Mark
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 164 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Group Experiment and Other Writings
Pollock, Friedrich ; Adorno, Theodor W. ; Perrin, Andrew J. ; Olick, Jeffrey K.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: February 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 203 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
The Executive Unbound
Posner, Eric A. ; Vermeule, Adrian
¤ Oxford University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 249 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
The Commodification of Academic Research
Radder, Hans
¤ University of Pittsburgh Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 350 pages )
¤ Category: Education
Fault Lines
Rajan, Raghuram G.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Knowledge Matters
Rhoten, Diana ; Calhoun, Craig
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: February 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 560 pages )
¤ Category: Education
Tonality and Transformation
Rings, Steven
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Music
Age of Fracture
Rodgers, Daniel T.
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 360 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Common Sense
Rosenfeld, Sophia A.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 337 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Einstein Before Israel Einstein Before Israel
Rosenkranz, Ze’Ev
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 364 pages )
¤ Category: Science
The Inner Life of Empires
Rothschild, Emma
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 496 pages )
¤ Category: History: British & Irish
Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza
Roy, Sara
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 319 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
The Pursuit of Laziness Pursuit of Laziness
Saint-Amand, Pierre ; Gage, Jennifer Curtiss
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Max Weber in America
Scaff, Lawrence A.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 311 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Thinking in an Emergency
Scarry, Elaine
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 157 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Crafting of the 10,000 Things
Schafer, Dagmar
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
Crossing Borders
Schneider, Dorothee
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 316 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
The Language of Thought
Schneider, Susan
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 259 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Tri-Faith America
Schultz, Kevin M.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture
Shallcross, Bozena
¤ Indiana University Press
¤ Publication Date: February 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 181 pages )
¤ Category: History: Eastern European
The View of Life
Simmel, Georg ; Andrews, John A. Y. ; Levine, Donald N. ; Silver, Daniel
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 203 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Monsters of the Gevaudan
Smith, Jay M.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 378 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
A Biblical Translation in the Making
Steiner, Robert C.
¤ Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 350 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
Penser Avec Whitehead
Stengers, Isabelle ; Chase, Michael
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover - French ( 554 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Living Constitution
Strauss, David A.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: May 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 150 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Hobbes’s Critique of Religion & Related Writings
Strauss, Leo ; Bartlett, Gabriel ; Minkov, Svetozar
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 167 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Front Page Economics
Suttles, Gerald D. ; Jacobs, Mark D.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: December 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Government Versus Markets
Tanzi, Vito
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 376 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Dilemmas and Connections
Taylor, Charles
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: February 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 414 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Collected Writings on Chinese Cultural History
Tsuen-Hsuin, Tsien
¤ Columbia Univ Pr
¤ Publication Date: September 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 0 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
Religion Enters the Academy
Turner, James
¤ University of Georgia Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 132 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
The Politics of Imagining Asia
Wang, Hui ; Huters, Theodore
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 360 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
What Was African American Literature?
Warren, Kenneth W.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 180 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Cicero in Letters
White, Peter
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: July 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 235 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power
Xuetong, Yan ; Bell, Daniel A. ; Zhe, Sun ; Ryden, Edmund
¤ Princeton Univ Pr
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 300 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
The Lost Children
Zahra, Tara
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 308 pages )
¤ Category: History: Eastern European
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