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Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Li...
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Historically and culturally, the societies that produced still-life painting could hardly be more diverse. What is it then, that allows us to place such different types of images within a single category Norman Bryson writes about this subject with skill and eloquence in "Looking at the Overlooked...
Loose Connections: Joining Together in America’s...
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It has become common to lament Americans' tendency to pursue individual interests apart from any institutional association. But to those who charge that Americans are at home watching television rather than getting involved in their communities, Robert Wuthnow answers that while certain kinds of civ..
Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People
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Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) played a role in almost every important social and economic movement during his long life: trade unionism, trust busting, progressivism, woman suffrage, scientific management, expansion of civil liberties, hours, wages, and unemployment legislation, Wilson's New Freedom..
Lucan: The Civil War (Loeb Classical Library No. 2...
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Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, 3965 CE), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In 60 CE at a festival in Emperor Nero's honour Lucan praised him in a panegyric and was promoted to one or two minor offices. But havin..
Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietna...
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Traditionally seen as a master of domestic politics, Lyndon Johnson is frequently portrayed as inept in foreign relations, consumed by the war in Vietnam, and unable to provide vision or leadership for the Western alliance. In this persuasive revisionist history, Thomas Alan Schwartz takes issue wit..
Magic in the Ancient World (Revealing Antiquity, N...
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Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct access to the gods, for material gains as well as spiritual satisfaction. In this fascinating survey of magical beliefs and practices from the sixth century B.C.E. through late an..
Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America
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In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial Americans became enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. This exotic wood, imported from the West Indies and Central America, quickly displaced local furniture woods as the height of fashion. Over the next century, consumer demand for maho..
Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New W...
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Sometime around 1500 AD, an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world’s most influential crops one that would transform the future of Africa and of the Atlantic world. Africa’s experience with maize is distinctive ..
Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical
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From 1925 to 1951--three chaotic decades of depression, war, and social upheaval--Jewish writers brought to the musical stage a powerfully appealing vision of America fashioned through song and dance. It was an optimistic, meritocratic, selectively inclusive America in which Jews could at once lose ..
Making Contact: Uses of Language in Psychotherapy
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Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology to studies of clinical method and the psychiatric schools, Leston Havens has been working toward a general theory of therapy. It often seems that twentieth-century psychiatry, sect-ridden, is a Tower of Babel, as Havens once characterized it. ..
Making Democracy in the French Revolution (Harvard...
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This book reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Scholars currently argue that the French Revolution did not significantly contribute to the development of modern political values. They no longer hold that the ..
Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dile...
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You're young, ambitious, entering the field of your dreams; you're on your own, the competition is fierce--and then you see your chance: the big story, the big role, the big discovery. But you'll have to cut a few corners, bend the rules, cheat a bit. What choices will you make After studying more t..
Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and D...
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What would something unlike us--a chimpanzee, say, or a computer--have to be able to do to qualify as a possible knower, like us To answer this question at the very heart of our sense of ourselves, philosophers have long focused on intentionality and have looked to language as a key to this conditi..
Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall ...
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In the wake of million-dollar scandals brought about by Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, and their like, Wall Street seems like the province of rampant individualism operating at the outermost extremes of self-interest and greed. But this, Mitchel Abolafia suggests, would be a case of missing the real c..
Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life
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Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy described to a colleague, to daydreams between chores. Stories are what we use to make sense of the world. But how does this work In Making Stories, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner examines this pervasive ..
Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations...
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This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of mistreatment by states and to reconciliation among former antagonists, ..
Management and Morale
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Management and Morale Author: Roethlisberger, F. J. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674546504 ISBN-13: 9780674546509..
Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History: ...
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Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. “What is most impressive,” Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris declared in 1956, “is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming inevitability of the whole process.” Th..
Marihuana reconsidered
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Nice clean 1971 hardcover in its white dustjacket with black, red and green writing on front from Harvard Press. Author: Grinspoon, Lester Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674548353 ISBN-13: 9780674548350..
Marijuana Reconsidered: A Psychiatrist's Analysis ...
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From Publishers WeeklyThis new edition of Harvard Medical School professor Grinspoon's 1971 study of the medical, social and legal aspects of pot use features a new introduction by the author.Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Author: Grinspoon, Lester Publisher: Harvard University Pr..
Markets and Diversity
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A staunch neoclassical economist, Sherwin Rosen drew inspiration from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, particularly his theory of compensating wage differentials, which Rosen felt was central to all economic problems involving product differentiation and spatial considerations. The main theme of his ..
Masters of the Keyboard: A Brief Survey of Pianofo...
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Book by Apel, Willi Author: Apel, Willi Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674553004 ISBN-13: 9780674553002..
Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tell...
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How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can’t tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignore..
Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work
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Underestimated until recently in America, Melanie Klein was a leading figure in psychoanalytic circles from the 1920s until her death in 1960. From the moment she read Freud’s paper On Dreams she was enraptured, converted, and dedicated to psychoanalysis. She was the first European psychoanalyst to ..
Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societie...
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Hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories, repression--these and numerous additional topics are explored in this timely collection of essays by eminent scholars in a range of disciplines. This is the first book on memory distortion to unite contributions from cognitive psychology, ..