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The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient Wor...
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This journey to the beginnings of the physician's art brings to life the civilizations of the ancient world--Egypt of the Pharaohs, Greece at the time of Hippocrates, Rome under the Caesars, the India of Ashoka, and China as Mencius knew it. Probing the documents and artifacts of the ancient world w..
The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient Wor...
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This journey to the beginnings of the physician’s art brings to life the civilizations of the ancient world Egypt of the Pharaohs, Greece at the time of Hippocrates, Rome under the Caesars, the India of Ashoka, and China as Mencius knew it. Probing the documents and artifacts of the ancient world wi..
The Heart of William James
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On the one hundredth anniversary of the death of William James, Robert Richardson, author of the magisterial William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, assembles a wide-ranging selection of essays and writings that reveal the evolution of James’s thought over time, especially as it was c..
The Hellenistic World: Revised Edition
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The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of monarchies and city-states that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to India. F. W. Walbank’s lucid and authoritative history of that Hellenistic wo..
The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden
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In this text - the result of a life-long critical and imaginative engagement with Auden's works - Anthony Hecht identifies and traces consistent habits of thought and belief within the poet's extensive and varied writings and through his celebrated conversions and repudiations. Anthony Hecht is the ..
The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the V...
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Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endea..
The Histories, Volume VI: Books 28-39. Fragments (...
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Product DescriptionThe historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 bce) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns..
The Hollow Core: Private Interests in National Pol...
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Critics of the policy-making process argue that private interest groups exert too much influence on the decisions of government, but only rarely has this proposition been examined systematically. The Hollow Core draws on interviews with more than 300 interest groups, 800 lobbyists, and 300 governmen..
The Homeless
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How widespread is homelessness, how did it happen, and what can be done about it These are the questions explored by Christopher Jencks, America’s foremost analyst of social problems. Jencks examines the standard explanations and finds that the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, the invent..
The Homevoter Hypothesis: How Home Values Influenc...
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Just as investors want the companies they hold equity in to do well, homeowners have a financial interest in the success of their communities. If neighborhood schools are good, if property taxes and crime rates are low, then the value of the homeowner’s principal asset his home will rise. Thus, as W..
The Human Measure: Social Thought in the Western L...
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Book by Kelley, Donald Author: Kelley, Donald Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674415000 ISBN-13: 9780674415003..
The Human Skeleton
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A detailed look at the skeletal system covers bone structure, growth, joints, functions, diseases, and reconstruction Author: Bichell, David Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674416104 ISBN-13: 9780674416109..
The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle agains...
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Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions..
The Iliad: Volume II, Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical ...
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Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result--a chai..
The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre,...
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This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who died, at age 37, in 1955. Long before the rise of Cultural Studies as an academic pursuit, in the pages of the best literary magazines of the day, Robert Wa..
The Intelligence Establishment
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Book by Ransom, Harry Howe Author: Ransom, Harry Howe Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674458168 ISBN-13: 9780674458161..
The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern ...
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Why are there restaurants Why would anybody consider eating to be an enjoyable leisure activity or even a serious pastime To find the answer to these questions, we must accompany Rebecca Spang back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a thing to eat: a ..
The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in t...
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Death, wrote Walter Benjamin, lends storytellers all their authority. How do trials, in turn, borrow their authority from death This book offers a groundbreaking account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice.Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the D..
The Kindness of Children
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Visiting a London nursery school, Vivian Paley observes the schoolchildren's reception of another visitor, a handicapped boy named Teddy, who is strapped into a wheelchair, wearing a helmet, and barely able to speak. A predicament arises, and the children's response--simple and immediate--offers Pal..
The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Th...
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The Last Revolutionaries tells a story of unwavering political devotion: it follows the lives of German communists across the tumultuous twentieth century. Before 1945, German communists were political outcasts in the Weimar Republic and courageous resisters in Nazi Germany; they also suffered Stali..
The Later Roman Empire: AD 284-430
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Marked by the shift of power from Rome to Constantinople and the Christianization of the Empire, this pivotal era requires a narrative and interpretative history of its own. Averil Cameron, an authority on later Roman and early Byzantine history and culture, captures the vigor and variety of the fou..
The Later Roman Empire: AD 284-430
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Marked by the shift of power from Rome to Constantinople and the Christianization of the Empire, this pivotal era requires a narrative and interpretative history of its own. Averil Cameron, an authority on later Roman and early Byzantine history and culture, captures the vigor and variety of the fou..
The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of F...
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Will the United States have an educational caste system in 2030 Drawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this powerful book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation’s largest and most rapidly growing minority group. Richly i..
The Law of Life and Death
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Are you alive What makes you so sure Most people believe this question has a clear answer that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But they are dead wrong. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions ..
The Law of Peoples: with "The Idea of Public Reaso...
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This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on libe..