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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation
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Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac has enthralled generations of nature lovers and conservationists and is indeed revered by everyone seriously interested in protecting the natural world. Hailed for prose that is "full of beauty and vigor and bite" (The New York Times), it is perhaps thefinest exa..
A Sanskrit-English Dictionary
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Etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, this edition has been enlarged and improved with the collaboration of E. Leumann and C. Cappeller. Author: Monier-Williams, Sir Monier Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Hardcover Language:..
A Short History of Christian Thought
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What do Christians believe and why do they believe it What are the historical roots of modern Christian doctrines, and what logical connections link them together This concise introduction to Christian thought provides thorough yet succinct answers to these and other important questions, incorpora..
A Short History of French Literature
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This book traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the present. Within its remarkably brief compass, it offers a wide-ranging, personal, and detailed--though selective--account of major writers and movements. Developments in French literature are presented in an innovative way,..
A Short History of Philosophy
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In this accessible and comprehensive work, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins cover the entire history of philosophy--ancient, medieval, and modern, from cultures both East and West--in its broader historical and cultural contexts. Major philosophers and movements are discussed along with less well..
A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legenda...
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Where did the Jews come from How did they retain their strong sense of community through centuries of dispersion How have the Jews of the present, with their proud ethnic identity and thriving national home, emerged out of the downtrodden Jews of the past Such questions arise naturally in the min..
A Short History of the Western Liturgy
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A Short History of the Western Liturgy An Account and some Reflections Author: Klauser, Theodor Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0192132237 ISBN-13: 9780192132239..
A Short History of the World
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Here is a compact and affordable edition of J. M. Robert's acclaimed world history. Vividly written and beautifully illustrated, it brings the outstanding breadth of scholarship and international scope of the larger volume within the grasp of most readers. Completely up-to-date, comprehensiveyet suc..
A Sicilian Romance (Oxford World's Classics)
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In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthinepassages of Si..
A Social History of American Technology
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For over 250 years American technology has been regarded as a unique hallmark of American culture and an important factor in American prosperity. Despite this American history has rarely been told from the perspective of the history of technology. A Social History of American Technology fillsthis ga..
A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in th...
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This collected volume, edited by Ron Suny and Terry Martin, shows how the Soviet state managed to create a multiethnic empire in its early years, from the end of the Russian Revolution to the end of World War II. Bringing together the newest research on a wide geographic range, from Russia to Centra..
A Study of History, Vol. 2: Abridgement of Volumes...
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Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent enterprise preserves the method, atmosphere, te..
A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contempl...
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"The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts," writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. "Not a technique but a skill, it harnesses the winds of grace that lead us out into the liberating sea of silence."In this companion volume to his bestselling Into the Silent Land, Laird focu..
A Survey of Metaphysics
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A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, A Survey of Metaphysics covers all of the most important topics in the field. It adopts the fairly traditional conception of metaphysics as a subject that deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of reality ..
A Theory of Economic History (Oxford Paperbacks)
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About the AuthorThe late J.R. Hicks was formerly Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Oxford University. Author: Hicks, Sir John R. Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0198811632 ISBN-13: 9780198811633..
A Theory of the Good and Right
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Developing the concept of a moral code and defining "Morally right" actions by rational persons, this book discusses important traditional philosophical inquiries about what is good and right through analyses of contemporary psychological theories of action and motivation. Author: Brandt, Richard B...
A Tramp Abroad (1880) (The Oxford Mark Twain)
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A Tramp Abroad, published in 1880, is Mark Twain's second travel book, a sequel to his immensely popular The Innocents Abroad. Here Twain returns to Europe in the company, as Russell Banks puts it in his introduction, of a genial "goad, guide, and all-purpose straight man" modeled on hisfriend and r..
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Know...
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In this exceptional work Berkeley makes the striking claim that physical things consist of nothing but ideas and therefore do not exist outside the mind. This claim establishes him as the founder of the idealist tradition in philosophy. The text printed in this volume is the 1734 edition of the Prin..
A Treatise of Human Nature
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Reprinted from the original edition in three volumes and edited, with an analytical index, by L. A. Selby-Bigge. Revised by P. H. Nidditch. Author: Hume, David Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0198245882 ISBN-13: 9780198245889..
A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin...
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Known principally as the father of Wolfgang Amadeus, Leopold Mozart was a distinguished musician in his own right. An excellent violinist and composer, his greatest contribution to music was his Treatise on Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing. Published at Ausburg in 1756 it was the major work ..
A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy
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It is zero hour for a new US water policy! At a time when many countries are adopting new national approaches to water management, the United States still has no cohesive federal policy, and water-related authorities are dispersed across more than 30 agencies. Here, at last, is a vision for what we ..
A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and...
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Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controve..
A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and...
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Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bittercontrover..
A Woman Doing Life: Notes from a Prison for Women
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A Woman Doing Life is the only book that tells stories of women in prison from the inside out. Author and inmate Erin George draws a vivid and uniquely raw portrait of female life in prison, detailing her own responses to incarceration as well as her observations of prison relationships, deathand si..
A World History
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Global in scope, William McNeill's widely acclaimed one-volume history emphasizes the four Old World civilizations of the Middle East, India, China, and Europe, paying particular attention to their interaction across time as well as the impact on historical scholarship in light of the most recent ar..