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A poisoned chalice

A Poisoned Chalice tells the story of a long-forgotten criminal case: the poisoning of the communion wine in Zurich's main cathedral in 1776. The story is riveting and mysterious, full of bizarre twists and colorful characters--an anti-clerical gravedigger, a hard-drinking drifter, a defrocked mi...

A policy travelogue

It is the first full-length ethnographic study of policy movement that combines both horizontal (across states) and vertical (within states) movement. It complements the focus on key players (e.g., the United States) by focusing on players not considered central (e.g., Aotearoa/New Zeala...

A political economy of the senses

Revives the key concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight the resistance to neoliberal capitalism now forming

A politics of melancholia

Why melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst for political renewalMelancholia is wrongly condemned as a condition of withdrawal and despair that alienates its sufferer from community. Countering that misconception, A Politics of Melancholia reclaims an understanding of melanc...

A portrait of america

Portrait of America describes our nation’s changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities. Celebrated authorJohn Iceland covers various topics, i...

A portrait of the artist as a young man

After a scandal breaks out involving a famous Irish Nationalist politician, Stephen Dedalus finds his family being torn apart over their differing opinions of the matter. Shaken by all the fighting and animosity, Stephen begins to wonder where he can place his faith. Questioning the Irish and Cat...

A possible peace between israel and palestine

In 2003, after two years of negotiations, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed a model peace treaty. The document, popularly called the Geneva Initiative, contained detailed provisions resolving all outstanding issues between Israel and the Palestinian people, including drawing a...

A possible trust

A Possible Trust is a selection of Ronna Bloom's poetry by poet and editor Phil Hall. The book includes an introduction by Hall, and an afterword by Bloom that traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work.

A postmodern accounting theory

Drawing upon frameworks employed in the human sciences, Breton builds a multi-faceted theory of accounting, conceiving it as a fundamentally social activity that puts preparers of financial statements in contact with users in order to help them make economic decisions, and analyzing the behavior ...

A power governments cannot suppress

Zinn's upbeat look at our political moment and inspiring flashes of democracy, resistance, and hope.

A practical companion to the constitution

This is the most comprehensive and readable one-volume reference book in print, accessible to lay readers and specialists alike, on the meaning of the American Constitution as the Supreme Court has interpreted it. It is an indispensable tool for students and lay persons who want to understand tod...

A practical education

The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "skills," unqualified for a professional career, underemployed. But studying for the joy of learning turns out to be surprisingly practical. Unlike career-focused education, liberal education prepares graduates for anything and everything—and ...

A practical guide for edtpa implementation

This book is a practical guide for edTPA implementation, written by experienced teacher educators. It addresses challenges and provides strategies for effective implementation. Organized into four sections, it explores different aspects of edTPA, offering guidance for faculty and teacher candidates.

A practical guide to commercial real estate transactions

A practical guide to exemplary professional development schools

This book shares stories of 8 successful Professional Development Schools (PDS), offering practical ideas for new and existing partnerships. It highlights clinical preparation, teacher development and professional growth. It's a valuable resource for academic faculty transitioning to a PDS model,...

A practitioner's guide to data governance

Data governance looks simple on paper, but in reality it is a complex issue facing organizations. In this practical guide, data experts Uma Gupta and San Cannon look to demystify data governance through pragmatic advice based on real-world experience and cutting-edge academic research.

A preface to economic democracy

Tocqueville pessimistically predicted that liberty and equality would be incompatible ideas. Robert Dahl, author of the classic A Preface to Democratic Theory, explores this alleged conflict, particularly in modern American society where differences in ownership and control of corporate enterpris...

A prelude to quantum field theory

A concise, beginner-friendly introduction to quantum field theoryQuantum field theory is a powerful framework that extends quantum mechanics in ways that are essential in many modern applications. While it is the fundamental formalism for the study of many areas of physics, quantum field theory r...

A pretty sight

David O'Meara finds defiance amid decay and oblivion, with guest appearances from Sid Vicious, Socrates, and Sophie Scholl.

A primer in biological data analysis and visualization using r

This text is an engaging, practical, and lab-oriented introduction to R for students in the life sciences. This second edition has been revised to be current with the versions of R software released since the book’s original publication. It features updated terminology, sources, and examples thro...

A primer on business analytics

This book offers a comprehensive overview of business analytics for both technical and business backgrounds. It covers the field in the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution, focusing on financial institutions and data science techniques. It also discusses building data-driven teams, executive...

A primer on critical thinking and business ethics

Encapsulating new developments in Critical Thinking skills for MBA students, in the form of a broad-based cross disciplinary primer in business management, with a special focus on business ethics.

A primer on mapping class groups

The study of the mapping class group Mod(S) is a classical topic that is experiencing a renaissance. It lies at the juncture of geometry, topology, and group theory. This book explains as many important theorems, examples, and techniques as possible, quickly and directly, while at the same time g...

A private history of happiness

*A Private History of Happiness* offers a fresh look at happiness that belonged to particular days as they were lived by real people—across many centuries and from around the world—and shows how these women and men experienced their varied moments of joy. From many written sources, notably person...

A private life

From one of China's most celebrated contemporary novelists comes this riveting tale of a young woman's emotional and sexual awakening. Set in the turbulent decades of the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square incident, A Private Life exposes the complex and fantastical inner life of a you...

A promised land, a perilous journey

In this collection by 19 authors, the relationship between the transfer of goods and ideas across borders, especially the US-Mexican line, yields interesting reflections on globalization and developing a global mind.

A proper knowledge

A novel of autism and obsession by a winner of the Commonwealth Gold Medal for Fiction.

A prophecy of empire

The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius was one of the medieval world’s most popular and widely translated texts. Composed in Syriac in Mesopotamia in the seventh century, this supposed revelation presented a new, salvific role for the Roman Empire, whose last emperor, it prophesied, would help bring ...

A prophet has appeared

Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources that describe the rise of Islam. A Prophet Has Appeared brings this approach to the classroom. T...

A proximate remove

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 might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature and how might this literature reorient the ...

A quarter of an hour

In 2013, Leanne O’Sullivan’s husband Andrew suffered a severe infection in his brain. He spent just over three weeks in a coma, during which time his temperature soared to 42 degrees. When he finally woke it immediately became clear that his memory had been almost completely destroyed; he didn’t ...

A queen in bucks county

2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST! An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor. In A Queen in Bucks County, our protagonist Turner, who both is and is not the writer, makes his pleasurable way through miserable space. Men “buy him things,” lovers...

A queer theory of the state

In A Queer Theory of the State, Samuel Clowes Huneke asks how queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state.

A queer way of feeling

A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intimacy, and kinship. Pasting cross-dressed ph...

A question mark above the sun

Did Kenneth Koch actually write a beloved Frank O’Hara poem? Kent Johnson guarantees… you’ll never see poetry the same again?

A question of choice

A memoir filled with “valuable, passionate insights” from the lawyer who argued the landmark Roe v. Wade case to the Supreme Court (Kirkus Reviews).More than 40 years ago, the highest court in the land handed down a decision that would forever alter the lives of women throughout the United States...