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A Life for a Life: Life Imprisonment: America's Ot...
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James A. Paluch, Jr., is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole. In this remarkably perceptive book, he offers the reader a detailed account of the daily realities of prison life in its mundane essentials, from the culture of the cellblock to the etiquette of the yard and the mess hal..
A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Nob...
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H.L.A. Hart was the pre-eminent legal philosopher of the twentieth century. As a scholar he single-handedly reinvented the philosophy of law and revolutionized our understanding of law as a social institution. Hart's approach to legal philosophy was at once disarmingly simple and breathtakingly ambi..
A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Col...
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The year 2000 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of A Little Commonwealth by Bancroft Prize-winning scholar John Demos. This groundbreaking study examines the family in the context of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Basing his work on physical artif..
A Little history of Canada, Second Edition
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On a blustery night in December 1775, a snowstorm saved Canada from American invasion, the attackers unprepared for Quebec's northern climate. Throughout his concise history, award-winning author H.V. Nelles reminds us of such fateful events, whether strategic or happenstance, that have shapedCanada..
A Magic Web: The Forest of Barro Colorado Island
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The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes. What does the forest look like How do the activities of this forest's plants and animals create a community Now, i..
A map of misreading
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The second volume in Harold Bloom's series of works which reveal his theory of revisionism, demonstrating his theory that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defence against the influence of precursor poems. Author: Bloom, Harold Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding..
A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of th...
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A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, 2/e, is a clearly written, comprehensive overview of American constitutional development. Covering the country's history from the founding of the English colonies up through the latest decisions of the Supreme Court, thistwo-volume w..
A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of th...
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A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, 2/e, is a clearly written, comprehensive overview of American constitutional development. Covering the country's history from the founding of the English colonies up through the latest decisions of the Supreme Court, thistwo-volume w..
A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of th...
$37.48
A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States is a clearly written, comprehensive overview of American constitutional development. Covering the country's history from the founding of the English colonies up through the latest decisions of the Supreme Court, this two-volume work p..
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oxford School Shakespea...
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The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard's best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each play ispresente..
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oxford School Shakespea...
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Critical and historical notes accompany this comedy of fairies, star-crossed lovers, and workmen trying to put on a wedding celebration play. Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0198320213 ISBN-13: 9780198320210..
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children--filled as it is with a marvelous mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophist..
A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Ad...
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Product Description"Much madness is divinest sense," wrote Emily Dickinson, "And much sense the starkest madness." The idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most divine poetry, has been with us since antiquity. In his critical and clinical intro..
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to ...
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Second Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through themoderniz..
A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Oxf...
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The importance and the beauty of modern quantum field theory resides in the power and variety of its methods and ideas, which find application in domains as different as particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter, statistical mechanics and critical phenomena. This book introduces the reader to th..
A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexand...
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Conflicts and controversies at home and abroad have led Americans to focus on Islam more than ever before. In addition, more and more of their neighbors, colleagues, and friends are Muslims. While much has been written about contemporary American Islam and pioneering studies have appeared on Muslim ..
A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class ...
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At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and Marlon Brando's Johnny in The Wild One, musicians like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, and activists like the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Theseemotions enabl..
A Nation Transformed by Information: How Informati...
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This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since.By the time of the founding of the United States, there was a postal..
A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, ...
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Dispelling myths, answering questions, and stimulating thoughtful avenues for further inquiry, this highly absorbing reference provides a wealth of specific information about over 200 North American Indian groups in Canada and the United States. Readers will easily access important historical and co..
A New Engagement?: Political Participation, Civic ...
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In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, A New Engagement challenges the conventional wisdom that today's youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy. In order to understand the current nature o..
A New History of India
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After more than twenty-five years in print, A New History of India continues to be the most readable and popular one-volume history of India available. Now in its eighth edition, this acclaimed text features updated scholarship and bibliographic material throughout and integrates new research on suc..
A New History of India
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The fifth edition of a history of India. Author: Wolpert, Stanley A. Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0195029496 ISBN-13: 9780195029499..
A new history of India
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The fifth edition of a history of India. Author: Wolpert, Stanley Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0195021533 ISBN-13: 9780195021530..
A New History of Western Philosophy
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The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hailed as "wonderfulauthoritativehugely rewarding" (Times Higher Education Supplement) and "genial and highly accessible" (London Review of Books). Now these four splendid books have been combined into on..
A Not-so-dismal Science: A Broader View of Economi...
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Many of economics' greatest successes have been outside the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Economic ideas have been the intellectual focus in the study of law, while in the study of politics, economists and political scientists using economics-type methods are uniquely influential. In soc..