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Abominable science!
A captivatingly illustrated general-interest book confronting the persistent myths of cryptozoology.
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Design for learning
Through a rich combination of empirical research, policy analysis, and real-world case studies, Designing for Learning offers a comprehensive framework for creating inclusive, effective, and future-oriented learning environments.
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Crooked, but never common
In Crooked, but Never Common, Stuart Klawans combines a critic’s insight and a fan’s enthusiasm to offer deeper ways to think about and enjoy Preston Sturges’s work. He provides an in-depth appreciation of all ten of the writer-director’s major movies.
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Exploring social work
Exploring various aspects of social work from an anthropological perspective, this original book uses an ‘outsider’ position to develop a reflexive dialogue with social workers from England and elsewhere in Europe. Bell, an anthropologist, worked alongside social work educators and social worker...
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Unauthorized welfare
The evolution of federal welfare policies between the 1930s and the 1970s, and the roots of today’s anti-immigrant politicsBetween 1935 and 1972, US federal welfare policy did not distinguish between citizens and noncitizens. Noncitizens, including unauthorized immigrants, were eligible for Socia...
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Equal under the algorithm
Seeing fairness through a computational lensMore and more of the decisions that shape our lives are driven by algorithms: what healthcare we receive, what loans we are offered, whom we date, the news we read, the schools we attend, and the jobs we get. These systems do not merely assist human dec...
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Horses, horses, in the end the light remains pure
A fusion of fiction, history, and memoir that replicates the experience of trauma and its effect on memory in ways reminiscent of Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn.
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The power of podcasting
Siobhán McHugh dissects what makes a good podcast and outlines how you can create one yourself. She blends practical insights into and critical analysis of the art of audio storytelling. Packed with case studies, history, tips, and techniques, this book introduces readers to the possibilities of ...
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Decadent, stricken, dying
In this electrifying text, Western civilisation is stripped of its alibis and exposed as the foundation of modern brutality. What shocks is not the violence itself, but the clarity: fascism was not an aberration, but a return.
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Big american writer
Big American Writer recasts Jack Kerouac as an ethnic, bilingual author, demonstrating that his French Canadian upbringing and background were formative to his breakthrough literary achievements.
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Misogyny beyond the west
Centered on the Golden Forum, Hong Kong’s only right-leaning online community with a distinct subculture, Misogyny Beyond the West explores how misogyny manifests and circulates online in times of sociopolitical upheaval.
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Kinship and killing
Through close readings of Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist texts, Katherine Wills Perlo proves that our relationship with animals shapes religious doctrine, particularly through the tension between animal exploitation and the bonds of kinship. She pinpoints four different strategies for c...
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Japan, south korea, and the united states nuclear umbrella
Terence Roehrig provides a detailed and comprehensive look at the nuclear umbrella in northeast Asia in the broader context of deterrence theory and U.S. strategy. Roehrig argues that the nuclear umbrella is most important as a political signal demonstrating commitment to the defense of allies an...
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Sport from the perspective of peer groups
This book explores how communitisation emerges within adolescent peer groups and how it influences their engagement in physical education.
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Foreign language learning
Foreign Language Learning: The Role of Language, Culture, and Literacy sheds light on the intricate and dynamic interplay between language learning, cultural understanding, and literacy development.
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Entanglements
This book challenges established ideas of world literature by rethinking the concept along the notion of “entanglements”: as a field of criss-crossing relations of literary activity beyond the confines of literary canons, cultural containers, or national borders.
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Championing child care
Why has child care legislation developed along its present course? How did the political players influence lawmakers? What do the politics of child care legislation over the past thirty years indicate for the future? Based on more than one hundred interviews with legislators and executive branch ...
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Negative capability
First published in 1939, Walter Jackson Bate’s seminal study of John Keats’s “negative capability” remains the definitive account of one of the central ideas of Romantic poetics.
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Global perspectives on megatrends
Berthold M. Kuhn and Dimitrios L. Margellos analyze future global trends. They discuss megatrends such as climate change and sustainability, digitalization, growing inequalities, urbanization and smart cities, green economy, and sustainable finance, as well as new trends in democracy and governan...
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Entrepreneurship and innovation in brics economies
This comprehensive book offers a multifaceted exploration of entrepreneurship and innovation across BRICS nations, comprising various themes. It provides an overview of the challenges faced by SMEs, the dynamics of risk management, technology transfer, and global value chains, particularly in the...
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Beyond banks
How new technology is rapidly changing the nature of money and the way we payA diverse and growing range of financial institutions and platforms—from PayPal and Venmo to WeChat, Alipay, and the brave new world of stablecoins—has harnessed new technology to disrupt the system of money and payments...
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Why socialism?
Albert Einstein argues that competition distorts democracy, corrodes education, and leaves human life precarious and small. Against it, he proposes something unfashionable: a society organized for cooperation rather than profit.
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Cultures of representation
Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe.
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Words on screen
A poetic investigation into the many ways that the written word is used in cinema
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Advancing leadership and collaboration in project management
Advancing Leadership and Collaboration in Project Management delivers evidence-based strategies for improving communication, leadership and team dynamics, grounded in Malaysian industry research with globally applicable insights.
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Fascist mythologies
Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers—Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt—to consider fascism as a form of political mythmaking. At a moment when forces redolent of fascism cast a shadow over world affairs, this book provides a timely critical analysis o...
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The undiscovered dewey
The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that inquiry proceeds from the uncertainty of human activity. Dewey separated the meaningfulness of inquir...
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Quelling the demons' revolt
In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. Quelling the Demons’ Revolt is centered on the rebellion led by Wang Ze in 1047–48, warning of the vulnerability of a world plagued by dem...
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Octopus x
How a citizen scientist uncovered a strange kind of octopus that defied everything the experts thought they knew about these enigmatic creaturesIn the late 1970s, Panamanian diver and artist Arcadio Rodaniche observed a mysterious colony of striped octopuses off the coast of Panama. Unlike any oc...
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If destruction be our lot
Written in the shadow of mob violence, this early speech is a chilling meditation on how republics decay: not by invasion, but by contempt for institutions, by complecancy, by the rise of reckless ambition, by the people themselves.
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Building blocks for greater corporate success
This book emphasizes new ways of using Duality Strategic Thinking (DT) that enable readers to solve management problems arising from the differing, but interlocking, needs and expectations of all stakeholders. It provides methods to solve such problems with an understanding of the interactive rel...
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The market power of technology
Mordecai Kurz develops a comprehensive integrated theory of the dynamics of market power and income inequality. He shows that technological innovations are not simply sources of growth and progress: they sow the seeds of market power. Technological market power tends to rise, increasing inequalit...
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A short course in reading french
This textbook teaches the basics of French grammar, reinforcing its lessons with exercises and key practice translations. A systematic guide, the volume is a critical companion for university-level students learning to read and translate written French into English; for graduate scholars learning...
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Ai and political freedom
A leading tech insider reveals how AI may threaten our democratic institutions and enable autocracy—and how to guard against thisAmerican democracy is under pressure, as institutions that we once thought stable suddenly seem precarious. At the same time, artificial intelligence has taken over muc...
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East asia’s troubled democracies
Drawing on extensive multilingual research, Christopher Carothers traces the forces undermining democracy in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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Sex in city plants, animals, fungi, and more
This book explores the natural history of sex in urban bacteria, fungi, plants, and nonhuman animals. Kenneth D. Frank illuminates the reproductive behavior of scores of species.
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Making sense of the alt-right
During the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political lexicon: “alt-right.” George Hawley provides an accessible introduction to this troubling racist movement, detailing its origins, evolution, methods, and core belief in white nationalism through exclusive interviews and a careful...
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The first political order
The First Political Order is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy...
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Eternity by the stars
At once lucid and vertiginous, scientific and hallucinatory, Blanqui’s text stands as one of the strangest cosmological speculations of the nineteenth century—and one of its most haunting.
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Beyond the campus
Beyond the Campus: The Power of E-Mentoring in Modern Higher Education explores how mentoring can be intentionally redesigned for the digital age.
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Defiant bodies
This edited volume explores everyday forms of resistance in contemporary Belarus. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, it shows how art, humor, education, and diaspora culture become grassroots arenas of contestation, revealing how ordinary people creatively navigate and challenge authoritarian...
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Industry and intelligence
The conceptual artist Liam Gillick writes a genealogy of contemporary art, arguing that we need to appreciate its engagement with history. He takes a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, underscoring the industry and intelligence of artists as they have responded to incremental dev...
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Letters from prison
Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) was one of the most original political thinkers in Western Marxism and an exceptional intellectual. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom, yet he wrote extensive letters while incarcerated, rich w...
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The future of seeing
Daniel K. Sodickson—a physicist and biomedical imaging innovator—explores the rich history and surprising future of vision, from the evolution of eyes to emerging high-tech devices.
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Alladi memorial lectures 3
Alladi Memorial Lectures, volume 3, is a collection of essays brought out by The Alladi Memorial Trust, comprising fourteen annual lectures delivered between 2001 and 2025
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Wagner
Wagner as revolutionary philosopher: a new reading of a trilogy of texts written by the composer in the aftermath of the failed Dresden UprisingForced into exile to avoid arrest after taking part in the failed Dresden Uprising in 1849, Richard Wagner turned to philosophical writing, producing in ...
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The green butterfly
To the older generations in her native Slovakia, Hana Ponická is well known for her successful children’s books and courageous fight against the communist regime. This political biography is the first ever written about Ponická, despite her being a household name in Slovakia.
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Reckoning with racial capitalism
This book develops a critical theory of racial capitalism and argues that it is indispensable to understanding and contesting the neoliberal present.
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Think in public
Think in Public presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the distinctive approach of the online magazine Public Books to public scholarship. Today’s leading thinkers offer a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitali...
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Bird on the street
Blending natural history with science memoir, Bird on the Street traces how starlings illuminate the mechanisms of evolution and the relationship between humans and wildlife.
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