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Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent...
$13.97
If legal scholar Richard Epstein is right, then the New Deal is wrong, if not unconstitutional. Epstein reaches this sweeping conclusion after making a detailed analysis of the eminent domain, or takings, clause of the Constitution, which states that private property shall not be taken for public us..
Techniques of Modern Orchestral Conducting: Second...
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Book by Grosbayne, Benjamin Author: Grosbayne, Benjamin Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674872266 ISBN-13: 9780674872264..
Terror and Progress-USSR: Some Sources of Change a...
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Book by Moore Jr, Barrington Author: Moore Jr, Barrington Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674874501 ISBN-13: 9780674874503..
That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atroci...
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Listen to a short interview with James DawesHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneAfter the worst thing in the world happens, then what What is left to the survivors, the witnesses, those who tried to help What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future, and to stop th..
The 1960s (1960-1968): New Wave, New Cinema, Reeva...
$21.79
In the turbulent sixties, the provocative French film journal Cahiers du Cinéma was at its most influential and controversial. The first successes of the New Wave by major Cahiers contributors such as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and Claude Chabrol focused intern..
The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of Jam...
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Book by Eco, Umberto Author: Eco, Umberto Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0674006356 ISBN-13: 9780674006355..
The Alhambra
$35.84
GRABAR, O,: THE ALHAMBRA, , 1978, 230 p, figuras,Encuadernacion original, Nuevo, Author: Grabar, Oleg Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674015568 ISBN-13: 9780674015562..
The Ambiguity of Play
$26.77
Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities Is it power, pursued in games of prowess Fate, deployed in games of chance Daydreaming, enacted in art Or is it just frivolity ..
The American Political Economy: Macroeconomics and...
$15.85
Here is the most comprehensive and authoritative work to date on relationships between the economy and politics in the years from Eisenhower through Reagan. Extending and deepening his earlier work, which had major impact in both political science and economics, Douglas Hibbs traces the patterns in ..
The American Political Economy: Macroeconomics and...
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Here is the most comprehensive and authoritative work to date on relationships between the economy and politics in the years from Eisenhower through Reagan. Extending and deepening his earlier work, which had major impact in both political science and economics, Hibbs traces the patterns in and sour..
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Cultur...
$51.66
The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illuso..
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Cultur...
$15.89
The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illuso..
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (The W. E. B. Du ...
$11.45
Speaking wisely and provocatively about the political economy of race, Glenn C. Loury has become one of our most prominent black intellectuals and, because of his challenges to the orthodoxies of both left and right, one of the most controversial. A major statement of a position developed over the p..
The Apostolic Fathers, Vol. 1: I Clement, II Cleme...
$34.02
The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament times. Some of them were accorded almost Scriptural authority in the early Church. This new Loeb edition of these essential texts reflects current idiom a..
The Art of Ancient Egypt
$78.60
THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION..From the awesome grandeur of the great pyramids to the delicacy of a face etched on an amulet, the spellbinding power of the art of ancient Egypt persists to this day. This beautifully illustrated book conducts us through the splendors of this world..
The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the A...
$24.39
Ingenious automatons which appeared to think on their own. Dubious mermaids and wild men who resisted classification. Elegant sleight-of-hand artists who routinely exposed the secrets of their trade. These were some of the playful forms of fraud which astonished, titillated, and even outraged ninete..
The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the ...
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Americans today “know” that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. Through statistics like these, we feel that we understand our fellow citizens. But remarkably, such data-..
The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and ...
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Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so indirect methods are required to make sense of their behavior. Here, a political sc..
The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Fli...
$60.51
Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.But this volume offers something unique. For the first time in the history of Beowulf scho..
The Bhagavad Gita
$9.45
To most good Vishnuites, and to most Hindus, the Bhagavad G t is what the New Testament is to good Christians. It is their chief devotional book, and has been for centuries the principal source of religious inspiration for many millions of Indians.In this two-volume edition, Volume I contains on fa..
The Bill of Rights
$14.36
Focuses on the Supreme Court's right of judicial review and its effect on the freedom of the individual Author: Hand, Learned Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674073002 ISBN-13: 9780674073005..
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repre...
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Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amass..
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West
$8.67
In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of univer..
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and...
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At a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, ..
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and...
$12.32
At a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, ..