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American Law and the Constitutional Order: Histori...
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This is the standard reader in American law and constitutional development. The selections demonstrate that the legal order, once defined by society, helps in molding the various forces of the social life of that society. The essays cover the entire period of the American experience, from the coloni..
American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution
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A study of the American Revolution focuses on its psychological causes, its relationship to European ritual, and the thinking of its major leaders Author: Shaw, Peter Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674026446 ISBN-13: 9780674026445..
American Railroads and the Transformation of the A...
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452 page hard cover 1971 Second Edition book detailing the economic history of the rail industry and transportation after the Civil War. Author: Fishlow, Albert Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674028503 ISBN-13: 9780674028500..
American Umpire
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Commentators call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, often a destructive empire. In American Umpire, Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman explores key turning points in history from George Washington to Barack Obama. She challenges the notion that the United..
America’s Struggle against Poverty, 1900-1994 (r...
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THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITIONIn this probing history of twentieth-century American attitudes toward the poor, James Patterson explores how we have viewed poverty and what our welfare reformers have tried to do about it. It is a history broad in scope--and one that is especially p..
Amsterdam
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Product DescriptionCosmopolitan, stylish, even a little decadent, Amsterdam--"the Venice of the North"--is a city of legendary beauty. From a twelfth-century settlement of wooden huts at the mouth of the River Amstel, it had become by the late sixteenth century one of the great cultural capitals of ..
An Anatomy of Values: Problems of Personal and Soc...
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An interesting group of essays discussing moral choices, relationships, and human emotions. College level material. Author: Fried, Charles Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674031512 ISBN-13: 9780674031517..
An Appetite for Poetry
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Frank Kermode is the preeminent practitioner of the art of criticism in the English-speaking world. As such his task entails the readiness to evaluate in general terms the widest range of texts, both ancient and modern, and also the ability to make public sense of the seemingly arcane debates about ..
An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
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This book contains the most sustained and serious attack on mainstream, neoclassical economics in more than forty years. Nelson and Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime. They marshal significant objections to the fundamental neoclassical assum..
Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe
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Rescuing the premodern family from the grim picture many historians have given us of life in early Europe, Ancestors offers a major reassessment of a crucial aspect of European history and tells a story of age-old domesticity inextricably linked, and surprisingly similar, to our own.An elegant summa..
Ancient Cyprus (British Museum)
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This concise survey is an introduction to the art and culture of ancient Cyprus, from the time of the first settlers around 7000 B.C. to the end of the Roman period in the late fourth century A.D.. Author: Tatton-Brown, Veronica Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Paperback Language: Englis..
Ancilla to Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete T...
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This book is a complete translation of the fragments of the pre-Socratic philosophers given in the fifth edition of Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Author: Freeman, Kathleen Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0674035011 ISBN-13: 9780674035010..
Aramis, or The Love of Technology
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Bruno Latour has written a unique and wonderful tale of a technological dream gone wrong. The story of the birth and death of Aramis the guided-transportation system intended for Paris is told in this thought-provoking and fictional account by several different parties: an engineer and his professor..
Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945 (R...
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In the spring of 1933, the Nazi government began its campaign to eliminate "modern" tendencies in German art--with particular emphasis on architecture--and to eradicate what it chose to call "art bolshevism." The Bauhaus, by then an internationally famous center of avant garde design, was shut down...
Architecture, You and Me: The Diary of a Developme...
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Book by Giedion, Sigfried Author: Giedion, Sigfried Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674044509 ISBN-13: 9780674044500..
Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogue...
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More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide; veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes; bred..
Arguing the Just War in Islam
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Jihad, with its many terrifying associations, is a term widely used today, though its meaning is poorly grasped. Few people understand the circumstances requiring a jihad, or "holy" war, or how Islamic militants justify their violent actions within the framework of the religious tradition of Islam. ..
Aristotle, XIX, Nicomachean Ethics (Loeb Classical...
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Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-47); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Min..
Aristotle: Art of Rhetoric, Volume XXII (Loeb Clas...
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Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-47); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Min..
Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey
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Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in Concert Music BooksProposing that Arnold Schoenberg has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenberg’s place in music history to explore the composer’s fascinating world in a series of ..
Art Matters
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In the face of a great work of art, we so often stand mute, struck dumb. Is this a function-perhaps the first and foremost-of aesthetic experience Or do we lack the words to say what we feel Countering current assumptions that art is valued only according to taste or ideology, Peter de Bolla gives..
Art, Myth, and Ritual: The Path to Political Autho...
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A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx’s concept of an “Asiatic” mode of production, Wittfogel’s “hydraulic hypothesis,” and cultural-materialist theories on the importan..
Arthur Miller: 1915 - 1962
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This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim. Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over sixty years, writing a wide variety of plays -..
As Good As It Gets: What School Reform Brought to ...
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Take an economically and racially diverse urban school district emerging from a long history of segregation. Add an energetic, capable, bridge-building superintendent with ambitious district-wide goals to improve graduation rates, school attendance, and academic performance. Consider that he was wel..
As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life...
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America in the 1950s: the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new national phenomenon. It was a time when how things looked--and how we looked--mattered, a decade of design that comes to vibrant life in As Seen on TV. From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination wit..