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A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer...
$31.79
A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of creative forces and social pressures that have produced the computer is personified here in the creators of instruments of computation, and their machines or tables; t..
A Concise History of China
$14.62
The centuries-long complexity of China's political experience, the richness of its culture, and the drama of its economic unfolding are the hallmarks of this short but sweeping history. China's own history is entwined with its response to the West in a rich tapestry depicting its peoples, rulers, an..
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (New...
$20.22
Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman's masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit..
A Democracy at War: America’s Fight at Home and ...
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As America fought to defend democracy in Europe and Asia during World War II, its own democratic politics both aided and impeded the war effort at home and the military campaigns abroad. Now, in a broad-ranging social, political, military, and diplomatic history, William O’Neill reveals how the Unit..
A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New ...
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In a compelling history of the Jewish community in New York during four decades of mass immigration, Tony Michels examines the defining role of the Yiddish socialist movement in the American Jewish experience.The movement, founded in the 1880s, was dominated by Russian-speaking intellectuals, includ..
A First Language: The Early Stages
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For many years, Roger Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, ..
A Fugitive from Utopia: The Poetry of Zbignew Herb...
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The leading Polish poet still residing in his native land, Zbigniew Herbert as not been the subject of a book-length study in English until now. Stanislaw Baranczak, himself a poet, critic, and translator, emigrated from Poland only in 1981, and is therefore eminently qualified to supply a politico-..
A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Fede...
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ReviewA brilliant and insightful analysis and action plan to make our government work. Bravo!--Donna Shalala, Former Secretary of Health and Human Services and President of the University of MiamiEver since Hurricane Katrina, we have bemoaned the costs of incompetent government. But Paul Light has d..
A Hazardous Inquiry: The Rashomon Effect at Love C...
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Love Canal. We hear these words and quickly recoil, remembering a community poisoned by toxic waste. Twenty years after the incident, Allan Mazur reexamines the circumstances that made this upstate New York neighborhood synonymous with ecological catastrophe and triggered federal "Superfund" legisla..
A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentiet...
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This important book on economic development in the modern Middle East examines, for the first time, the separate national economies of the Arab states, including the Gulf, Israel, and Turkey, from 1918 to the present. It describes the main trends within each economy based on the best available stati..
A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vl...
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Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed History of Twentieth-Century Russia through 2002, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world..
A History of Molecular Biology
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Every day it seems the media focus on yet another new development in biology--gene therapy, the human genome project, the creation of new varieties of animals and plants through genetic engineering. These possibilities have all emanated from molecular biology.A History of Molecular Biology is a comp..
A History of Negro Education in the South: From 16...
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Book by Bullock, Henry Allen Author: Bullock, Henry Allen Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674399501 ISBN-13: 9780674399501..
A History of the Jewish People
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EX - Library book with all the usual stamps and markings. Some shelf wear. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Author: Haim H. Ben-Sasson Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674397304 ISBN-13: 9780674397309..
A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghani...
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The conflict in Afghanistan looms large in the collective consciousness of Americans. What has the United States achieved, and how will it withdraw without sacrificing those gains The Soviet Union confronted these same questions in the 1980s, and Artemy Kalinovsky’s history of the USSR’s nine-year ..
A Matter of Principle
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Essays examine the political basis of law, legal interpretation, economic factors in law, reverse discrimination, and censorship Author: Dworkin, Ronald Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674554604 ISBN-13: 9780674554603..
A Matter of Principle
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This is a book about the interplay of urgent political issues and hotly debated questions of moral philosophy. The controversies it joins are old; but history has given them fresh shape. For example, whether judges should and do make law is now of more practical importance than ever before, as recen..
A New History of French Literature
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This splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D. to the present decade is the most imaginative single-volume guide to the French literary tradition available in English.Conceived for the general reader, this volume presents French literature not as a simple inventory of authors or title..
A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the E...
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Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note of powerful, tempered optimism. He lays out a fresh approach to American poetry at large, the first in several decades, expounding a defense of the art t..
A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises ...
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What is the pitch of philosophy Something thrown, for us to catch A lurch, meant to unsettle us The relative position of a tone on a scale A speech designed to persuade This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now ..
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawren...
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When this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography first appeared in 1976, it rescued T.E. Lawrence from the mythologizing that had seemed to be his fate. In it, John Mack humanely and objectively explores the relationship between Lawrence’s inner life and his historically significant actions.Extensive inte..
A Progress of Sentiments: Reflections on Hume’s ...
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Annette Baier’s aim is to make sense of David Hume’s Treatise as a whole. Hume’s family motto, which appears on his bookplate, was “True to the End.” Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about “truth and falsehood, reason and folly.” By the end, we can..
A Reunion of Trees: The Discovery of Exotic Plants...
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This is a travel story of trees and shrubs as rousing as the adventures of Marco Polo. Stephen Spongberg’s vividly written and lavishly illustrated account tells of intrepid and extraordinary explorers who journeyed to the far corners of the globe and brought back to Europe and North America a wealt..
A Small City in France
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The picturesque town of Dreux, 60 miles west of Paris, quietly entered history in 1821, when Victor Hugo won the hand of his beloved there. Another century and a half would pass before the town made history again, but this time there was nothing quiet about it. In 1983, Jean-François Le Pen’s Nation..
A Sor Juana Anthology
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Traces the life of the seventeenth century Hispanic poet, shares a selection of her poetry, and discusses her place in the history of Latin American literature Author: Sor Juana Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674821203 ISBN-13: 9780674821200..