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What teachers need to know about language
This book shows what teachers need to know about language to work effectively with diverse students. It gives examples of the many aspects of teaching and learning in which language is a key, and it suggests how teacher education programs can help teachers gain the knowledge and skills they need ...
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The evolution of fire
A Katie Couric Media Summer Reading Selection"The Evolution of Fire is stunningly written—vivid in imagery, in the braiding together of language, and in the honoring of every person it shines a light on."—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This YearFrom the celebrated author of Limber, a ...
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Governing growth
A groundbreaking account of how politics and economics have interacted in Western democracies over the past eighty yearsHow do capitalist economies change over time? And what political consequences follow? In Governing Growth, Peter Hall traces the interactions between politics and economics in W...
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I know the psychology of rats
“I hope the reader will find the book interesting because there is a story in it . . . Of a deeply passionate Indian and world citizen. The one who, in 1987, said: ‘I know the psychology of rats.’ Kundan Shah died on 7 October 2017.”
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Cold war reckonings
Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritarian regimes of the so-called free world.
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Women in power
Linda Robinson—an award-winning journalist and foreign policy expert—tells the powerful stories of the women on the frontlines of the battle between democracy and authoritarianism.
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Gender and the dismal science
This book is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics. Blending rich historical detail with extensive empirical data, Ann Mari May examines the structural and institutional factors that excluded women, from graduate education to academic publi...
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From ethnophobia to anti-semitism
Why did late Stalinism turn antisemitic? Matthias Vetter traces it to Stalinist terror against “foreign” minorities, reading Soviet Judeophobia and anti-Gypsyism as part of an ethnicized Cold War xenophobia. Jews were cast as Western agents—“anti-Zionism” masking antisemitism—with echoes in Kreml...
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Climate fault lines
How the unequal burdens of climate change are reshaping both domestic and international politicsClimate change is no longer an abstraction, as the world experiences extreme heat, rising sea levels, and brutally destructive wildfires. In Climate Fault Lines, Alexander Gazmararian and Helen Milner ...
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Mental health | atmospheres | video games
Video game are an atmospheric medium of hitherto unimagined potential. Is the medium too powerful, too influential? A danger to our mental health or an ally during the darkest of times? This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2019 and...
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How to find happiness
Does happiness come from the pursuit of pleasure or moral virtue? A vivid new translation of Cicero’s exploration of a timeless question“Of course, we all want to be happy.” So wrote the Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. He and his fellow Greek and Roman philosophers...
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Fighting for new york
Fighting for New York is a pragmatic account of health-focused social movements over the past several decades.
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The time-travels of the man who sold pickles and sweets
Ibn Shalaby, like many Egyptians, is looking for a job. Yet, unlike most of his fellow citizens, he is prone to sudden dislocations in time. Armed with his trusty briefcase and his Islamic-calendar wristwatch, he bounces uncontrollably through Egypt’s rich and varied past, with occasional return ...
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Brain flows
A pioneering theory of how brain network flows compose the neural symphonies that make us who we areWhat enables us not only to comprehend the world but also to find meaning in it? How does a brain engender a mind? In Brain Flows, cognitive neuroscientist Michael Cole argues that movements (flows...
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The king's slaves
A provocative account of how empire and absolutism institutionalized slavery in AmericaThe original draft of the Declaration of Independence condemned British kings for supporting slavery in their empire. England’s two seventeenth-century revolutions were in part a reaction to the crown’s proslav...
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The coffeehouse
Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making...
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On the horizon of world literature
On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by “world literature” as a discursive framework of classifications that co...
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Dressed for dissent
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the wake of the Second Intifada and energized by the Arab Spring, young Palestinian designers have used fashion to voice the...
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Antiquity in gotham
The first detailed study of “Neo-Antique” architecture applies an archaeological lens to the study of New York City’s structuresSince the city’s inception, New Yorkers have deliberately and purposefully engaged with ancient architecture to design and erect many of its most iconic buildings and mo...
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Free will in civil law
This monograph offers the first comprehensive English-language study of free will as a foundational concept in Ukrainian civil law. Examining its role across property, contract, liability, intellectual property, and inheritance, it shows how free will shapes autonomy, consent, and legal responsib...
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Marketing radicalism
The commodification and marketing of nationalism in a populist-governed countryMost accounts of populist politics revolve around political parties, electoral politics, eroding democratic institutions, media, and political propaganda. In Marketing Radicalism, Virág Molnár examines instead populism...
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Going low
Going Low examines how the offensive style of contemporary politics challenges liberal democratic institutions. Considering the rise of illiberal politics and debates about the limits of free speech, Finbarr Curtis draws on the insights of religious studies to rethink provocation and transgression.
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Diasporic connections
Reighan Gillam shows how Afro-Brazilians draw on African American history and culture to argue that Brazil is typical, not exceptional, emphasizing common experiences across the African diaspora.
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Islam in prison
Are you a prison officer who feels nervous about dealing with Muslims on the wings? Are you a prison chaplain who wants to know how your chaplaincy affects the lives of prisoners? Are you a policymaker who needs a robust base of evidence for Islam in prison? Are you an academic or a journalist s...
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Preprogrammed
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.How much of your life is preprogrammed? Presets, or default settings on technology, can be found everywhere, from predictive text...
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Cold war city
The untold story of West Berlin, the island city deep inside the Soviet bloc that withstood the decades-long confrontation between the USSR and the WestLocated more than one hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain, West Berlin served as a stage on which the confrontation between nuclear-armed super...
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Recognition and ambivalence
This book brings together leading scholars in social and political philosophy to develop new perspectives on recognition and its role in social life. It begins with a debate between Axel Honneth and Judith Butler, the first sustained engagement between these two major thinkers on this subject.
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Persian without petrification
Persian Without Petrification tackles error fossilization in Persian learning, especially among Arabic speakers. Based on longitudinal data from 312 learners, it presents a task-based, research-driven approach that fosters native-like accuracy through meaning-focused communication, corpus evidenc...
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Physical concepts in immunology
A unique introduction to immunology that shows how concepts from statistical physics can help to illuminate the complexities of the immune systemModern immunology is a relatively young science, with many questions still unanswered. Increasingly, theoretical and computational approaches rooted in ...
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Cairo contested
This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume—with an updated introduction to take account of the dramatic events of early 2011—explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of co...
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Infectious liberty
Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government regulation to a series of Romantic-era debates and their literary consequences. Through a series of careful readings, Robert Mitchell shows how a ...
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The muqaddimah
Volume two of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged editionWritten by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or “Introduction,” is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the ...
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Art after liberalism
Art after Liberalism is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging social crises. It is also an inquiry into emergent ways of living, acting, and making art in the company of others.
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Microbial processes in environmental engineering
Microbial Processes in Environmental Engineering explores recent developments in microbial biotechnology and environmental engineering, serving as an essential resource for researchers, practitioners and students seeking to contribute to environmental sustainability through microbial applications.
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Ideology in u.s. foreign relations
How does the history of U.S. foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the lens of ideology? This book explores the ideological landscape of international relations from the colonial era to the present. It offers a foundational statement on the intellectual history of U.S. foreign ...
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Lotty rosenfeld
Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces is a companion publication to the eponymous, first US retrospective of Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld
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Thinking ai
Can a computer program think like a human?“Can machines think?” Ever since Alan Turing posed this question in an influential 1950 paper, it has been central to research in artificial intelligence. More than seventy-five years after Turing’s paper, we grapple with it every time we wonder if Watson...
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Research exposed
Research Exposed offers in-depth, behind-the-scenes accounts of doing empirical social science in the era of digital communication. Through firsthand descriptions of innovative research projects, it shares lessons learned from over a dozen scholars’ cutting-edge work.
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Beyond the silk road
A global history of economic exchange across ancient AfroeurasiaBeyond the Silk Road presents a new economic history of ancient empires from East Asia to the Mediterranean and North Africa during a period of intense empire building, transformation, and interaction. Leaving behind the obsolete ide...
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The policing mind
How does it feel to be a police officer in the UK? What happens in the brains of officers, particularly in high-risk roles such as counter-terrorism and child sexual exploitation? Jessica Miller uses the most recent neuroscience and real-life examples to explore risks to individual resilience, be...
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Information
Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts from more than forty texts by theorists and critics who have helped establish the notion of the “information age” or expand upon it.
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The politics of digital pharmacology
New types of distraction, self-observation, and control into our societies are an epochal challenge. Following Bernard Stiegler's concept of pharmacology, Heidenreich and Weber-Stein propose to view these new forms as digital pharmaka. Properly dosed, they can enable new self-relationships and fo...
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Keystone serbia
Serbia is no peripheral state but Europe’s geopolitical linchpin. Miroslav I. Emejdi shows how Kosovo, China’s advance, Russia’s leverage, and Western missteps have turned Serbia into a strategic vulnerability—and argues that only swift EU membership for the Western Balkans can secure lasting Eur...
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For a just republic
In this magisterial account of Indian politics over the past seventy-five years, the renowned scholar Partha Chatterjee challenges common notions of “state” and “nation,” arguing for a more capacious understanding of “the people.”
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Creative man
An essential exploration of creativity by one of the twentieth century’s foremost Jungian psychologistsThough said to be C. G. Jung’s favorite and most innovative student, Erich Neumann provoked controversy within the Jungian community. While his work presents a wealth of material illustrating Ju...
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Chimpanzee memoirs
This book brings together a range of chimpanzee experts who tell powerful personal stories about their lives and careers. It features some of the world’s preeminent primatologists—including Jane Goodall and Frans de Waal—as well as representatives of a new generation from varied backgrounds.
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The physicist’s way
A Nobel Prize–winning physicist illuminates how physicists think about and do physicsWhat principles guide physicists’ ways of thinking and the practice and culture of the discipline? In The Physicist’s Way, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist P.J.E. Peebles argues that definite assumptions underpi...
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Just right
Drawing on psychological research, neuroscience, philosophy, clinical insight, and vivid real-world examples, Just Right uncovers the hidden mechanisms that quietly shape our preferences, emotions, relationships, and perception of the world. These same forces even affect entire societies swinging...
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Concrete utopianism
Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian p...
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