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(Week of July 10th, 2011)
July 9th, 2011 by Front Table
A Quiet Revolution
Ahmed, Leila
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Islamic Studies
Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy
Badiou, Alain ; Bosteels, Bruno
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 186 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Constitutional Redemption
Balkin, Jack M.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 298 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
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
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
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
The Poverty of Clio
Boldizzoni, Francesco
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 228 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
A Cooperative Species
Bowles, Samuel ; Gintis, Herbert
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 262 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
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: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 408 pages )
¤ Category: History: Medieval
Rome Rome
Carandini, Andrea ; Sartarelli, Stephen
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 184 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
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
Poetry and the Police
Darnton, Robert
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Archaeologies of Colonialism
Dietler, Michael
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Why Niebuhr Now?
Diggins, John Patrick
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 152 pages )
¤ Category: Christian Theology
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: April 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
Gustav Mahler
Fischer, Jens Malte
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 766 pages )
¤ Category: Music
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 ( 313 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Courage of Truth
Foucault, Michel ; Gros, Frederic ; Burchell, Graham
¤ Palgrave MacMillan
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 364 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Lost Age of Reason
Ganeri, Jonardon
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions
Gigerenzer, Gerd ; Gray, J. A. Muir
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 391 pages )
¤ Category: Health & Medicine
Debt
Graeber, David
¤ Melville House Publishing
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 544 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
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
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
Peddling Protectionism
Irwin, Douglas A.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: February 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 244 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Representing Capital
Jameson, Fredric
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 158 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
Essays from the Edge
Jay, Martin
¤ University of Virginia Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 266 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Love’s Vision
Jollimore, Troy
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 220 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
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
Becoming Yellow
Keevak, Michael
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 219 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
Yuck!
Kelly, Daniel
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Ideological Origins of American Federalism
Lacroix, Alison L.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
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
Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science
Livingstone, David N. ; Withers, Charles W. J.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 536 pages )
¤ Category: Science
The Theory of Rules
Llewellyn, Karl N. ; Schauer, Fredrick
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 168 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Dialogues with Davidson
Malpas, Jeff ; Follesdal, Dagfinn
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Levant
Mansel, Philip
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 470 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Malcolm X
Marable, Manning
¤ Viking Books
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 594 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
Love
May, Simon
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 294 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Violette Noziere
Maza, Sarah
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Bourgeois Dignity
McCloskey, Deirdre N.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 571 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
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 ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Nuns Behaving Badly
Monson, Craig
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 241 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Changing Homelands
Nair, Neeti
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 343 pages )
¤ Category: History: South Asian
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
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
On What Matters 2 Volume Set
Parfit, Derek ; Scheffler, Samuel
¤ Oxford University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 1364 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Animal Part
Payne, Mark
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 164 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Hegel on Self-Consciousness
Pippin, Robert B.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: December 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 120 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
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
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 243 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
Rosenkranz, Ze’Ev
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: Science
The Inner Life of Empires
Rothschild, Emma
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 483 pages )
¤ Category: History: British & Irish
The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P’Ing Mei
Roy, David Tod
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 1016 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
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
Economics of Good and Evil
Sedlacek, Tomas
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
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
Evolution
Shapiro, James A.
¤ FT Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Science
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
States of Credit
Stasavage, David
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
A Biblical Translation in the Making
Steiner, Robert C.
¤ Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 188 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
Thinking with Whitehead
Stengers, Isabelle ; Chase, Michael ; Latour, Bruno
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 531 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Living Constitution
Strauss, David A.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: May 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 150 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Philosophical Writings
Strawson, P. F.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 258 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Government Versus Markets
Tanzi, Vito
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 376 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Collected Writings on Chinese Cultural
Tsien, Tsuen-Hsuin
¤ Columbia Univ Pr
¤ Publication Date: September 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 453 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
Unlocking the Gates
Walsh, Taylor ; Bowen, William G.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: December 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Education
The Politics of Imagining Asia
Wang, Hui ; Huters, Theodore
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 360 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
The Beach Beneath the Street
Wark, McKenzie
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 197 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
What Was African American Literature?
Warren, Kenneth W.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 180 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power
Xuetong, Yan ; Bell, Daniel A. ; Zhe, Sun ; Ryden, Edmund
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 300 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
Responsibility for Justice
Young, Iris Marion
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 193 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Lost Children
Zahra, Tara
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 308 pages )
¤ Category: History: Eastern European
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