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Marriage as a fine art
An unconventional take on the oldest convention.
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Neuroenology
A pioneer of neurogastronomy writes an engaging treatment of the brain’s role in creating the taste of wine.
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Jingji xue
Based on extensive research, Jingji Xue considers how economics, as a concept as well as an intellectual discipline, was introduced and developed in China. Paul B. Trescott identifies the Chinese who studied economics in the West and evaluates their roles in teaching, research, and publication in...
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This place, these people
A photographic and vernacular portrait of disappearing midwestern farm places.
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Tracing the sign of the cross
Following World War II, millions of U.S. Catholics were poised to attain the American dream, while at Vatican Council II, the liberal vision of the church seemed finally to triumph. Yet by the end of the twentieth century, American Catholicism was in crisis, plagued by grave ideological divisions...
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Ambitious and anxious
Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of the wave of Chinese students across American higher-education based on research in both Chinese high schools and U.S. institutions. Ma argues that their experiences embody the duality of ambition and anxiety that arises from transformative social change...
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The islamic context of the thousand and one nights
In this fascinating study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi shows how deeply Islamic heritage and culture is embedded in the tales of The Thousand and One Nights (known to many as the Arabian Nights) and how this integration invites readers to make an Islamic milieu. Conservative Islam dismisses The Thousand ...
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The size of government
Vaclav Rybacek argues that many studies have underestimated the size of government, leading to erroneous policy recommendations and an unrealistic assessment of a government’s ability to meet its debts. Drawing on Austrian economic theory, the book offers a more robust methodology for the measure...
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Vital conversations
A prescription for healing the broken relationship at the heart of American health care.
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Guilty knowledge, guilty pleasure
William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take poetry at its word,...
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The yale-china association
The Yale-China Association's long legacy of work in China places it among the premier American organizations engaged in international service. Founded in 1901, Yale-China built on a long tradition of Yale's graduates founding churches, schools, and colleges in far-flung places. In time, the organ...
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Chinese film classics, 1922–1949
Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. Christopher Rea reveals the uniqueness and complexity of Republican China’s cinematic masterworks, from the comedies and melodramas of the silent era to talkies and musicals of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Romania since 1989
The history of post-communist Romania has largely been read through a prism of political and economic change: the rise of democracy and capitalism snuffed out the crimes of communism, and the country rejoiced at the prospect of increased liberty and prosperity. World authorities on the history of...
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Mutual aid groups, vulnerable and resilient populations, and the life cycle
The contributors to this volume examine the role of mutual aid groups and social workers in helping members of oppressed, vulnerable, and resilient populations regain control over their lives. The chapters reveal the ways in which mutual aid processes help individuals overcome social and emotiona...
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The origins of schizophrenia
The Origins of Schizophrenia synthesizes key findings on a devastating mental disorder that has been increasingly studied over the past decade. Advances in epidemiology, translational neuroscience technology, and molecular and statistical genetics have recast schizophrenia's neurobiological natur...
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Asār-us-sanadīd
This volume joins together in English for the first time the two editions of Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan’s classic account of the monuments and environs of precolonial Delhi. Translator Rana Safvi’s annotations and appendices trace the historical development of the text between 1847 and 1854, before th...
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Take charge of your own ageing
Tackling the social determinants of health forms an integral part of the response to ageing demographic changes.
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Analytical skills for community organization practice
This guide promotes the use of analytical skills in community organization practice, including information gathering and processing, legislative research, needs assessment, participatory action research, political analysis, population forecasting and social indicator analysis, power analysis, pro...
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Transforming the legacy
To serve the increasing numbers of individuals who have survived interpersonal and domestic violence, or as refugees, have sought asylum from political violence, armed conflict, or torture, Transforming the Legacy presents an innovative relationship-based and culturally informed couple therapy pr...
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Saffron shadows and salvaged scripts
This book tells an ethnographic story of a secret literary culture that has recently emerged from its cocoon. Until 2012, Myanmar (also known as Burma) was ruled for fifty years by one of the most paranoid and repressive censorship regimes in history. The military junta enforced strict reading an...
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Politics recovered
Politics Recovered brings together prominent scholars to develop the idea of what it might mean to theorize politics “realistically.” By exploring the nature, distinctiveness, and prospects of realist thought, it shows how political theory can provide meaningful and compelling answers to the fund...
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Daoist philosophy and literati writings in late imperial china
This volume first explores the transformation of Chinese Daoism in late imperial period through the writings of prominent literati scholars of the period. In such a cultural context it then launches an in-depth investigation into the Daoist dimensions of the Chinese narrative masterpiece, The Sto...
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Women of color on the rise
Social workers have long fought to bring diversity, inclusiveness, and economic justice to the communities in which they serve, but for decades the internal practices of the profession have contradicted its public persona, perpetuating myths and misconceptions about women of color and their abili...
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Assessment in social work practice
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Four jews on parnassus—a conversation
This book features a CD of rarely performed music, including a specially commissioned rap by Erik Weiner of Walter Benjamin's "Thesis on the Philosophy of History." Theodor W. Adorno was the prototypical German Jewish non-Jew, Walter Benjamin vacillated between German Jew and Jewish German, Gersh...
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The columbia guide to the latin american novel since 1945
In this expertly crafted, richly detailed guide, Raymond Leslie Williams explores the cultural, political, and historical events that have shaped the Latin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In addition to works originally composed in English, Williams covers novels writt...
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Parmenides
Alain Badiou’s 1985 seminar on Parmenides initiated his ongoing dialogue with the pre-Socratic philosopher and set out some of the foundational ideas of his own major philosophical works, including Being and Event.
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Poetic machinations
Traces the proliferation of formally experimental poetry to a growing fascination with allegory in philosophy, linguistics, critical theory, and aesthetics.
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Teenage suicide notes
In Teenage Suicide Notes, sociologist Terry Williams pores over the writings of a diverse group of troubled youths to better grasp the motivations behind teenage suicide and to humanize those at risk of taking their own lives. Williams evaluates young people in rural and urban contexts and across...
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Circling round explicitness
With characteristic erudition and acuity across a breathtaking range of subjects, Ray Tallis explores how explicitness connects with fundamental ontological, metaphysical and epistemological questions that takes us closer to understanding what it is to be, to be human, and our connection with the...
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The hitchcock annual anthology
This collection showcases the best essays from the six issues of film studies' leading platform for Hitchcock scholarship. Contributions include works by Charles Barr, Thomas Elsaesser, Mark Rappaport, Michael Walker, and Slavoj iek, among others, covering Hitchcock's entire oeuvre, from his ea...
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Webs of corruption
Webs of Corruption is an innovative study demonstrating that terrorist and criminal activity intersect more narrowly than is widely believed. Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence P. Markowitz analyze the links between the drug trade and terror financing in Central Asia, finding that state security s...
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French hospitality
The award-winning novelist and author of the international bestseller Racism Explained to My Daughter uses his own experience to illuminate the experience of the Other in his adopted land—and everywhere. A Moroccan who emigrated to France in 1971, Tahar Ben Jelloun draws upon his own encounters w...
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Poverty in a rich society
This book brings together some of Hong Kong’s and the U.K.’s leading experts to examine poverty in Hong Kong. It advances the theory and practice of poverty and social exclusion measurement, and will inspire comparative research and policy analyses for better policy initiatives.
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Being human
Challenging commonly held biological, religious, and ethical beliefs, internationally well known historian of science Roger Smith boldly argues that human nature is not some "thing" awaiting discovery but is active in understanding itself. According to Smith, "being human" is a self-creation made...
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The dictator's dictation
In these elegant essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Gin...
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Revolution within
Book argues that the social reform movement in Kerala contributed to the growth of progressive democratic movements there.
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The new city
Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape.
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Relativism and religion
Traces the roots of contemporary anti-relativist fears to the antimodern rhetoric of the Catholic Church and rescues a form of philosophical relativism for modern, pluralist societies.
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Kuhn's legacy
Bojana Mladenović offers a novel analysis of Thomas Kuhn’s central philosophical project. Kuhn’s Legacy demonstrates the vitality of Kuhn’s philosophical project and its importance for the study of the philosophy and history of science today.
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Hot carbon
There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. In Hot Carbon, John F. Marra tells the untold story of this scientific revolution, weaving together the workings of the many disciplines that employ carbon-14 with gripping tales of the individuals who pioneered its possibilities.
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A field of honor
Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine to the Revolution offers a multilevel study of the intellectual, social, and institutional contexts of dramatic authorship and the world of playwrights in ...
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Reflections of twentieth century hungary
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To be an arab in israel
To Be an Arab in Israel fills a long-neglected gap in the study of Israel and the contemporary Arab world. Whether for ideological reasons or otherwise, both Israeli and Arab writers have yet to seriously consider Israel's significant minority of non-Jewish citizens, whose existence challenges co...
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India's israel policy
India's foreign policy toward Israel is a subject of deep dispute. Throughout the twentieth century arguments have raged over the Palestinian problem and the future of bilateral relations. Yet no text comprehensively looks at the attitudes and policies of India toward Israel, especially their dev...
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Confronting the climate challenge
Confronting the Climate Challenge presents a unique framework for evaluating the impacts of U.S. climate-policy options. Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead demonstrate that these policies—if designed correctly—not only can reduce emissions at low cost but also can avoid burdening low-income house...
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Just like us
Just Like Us is a pathbreaking exploration of what foreignness has meant across American history. Thomas Borstelmann traces American ambivalence about non-Americans, identifying a paradoxical perception of foreigners as suspiciously different yet fundamentally sharing American values at heart ben...
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The politics of medicaid
In 1965, the United States government enacted legislation to provide low-income individuals with quality health care and related services. Initially viewed as the friendless stepchild of Medicare, Medicaid has grown exponentially since its inception, becoming a formidable force of its own. Funded...
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New york’s yiddish theater
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled...
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