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The Natural History of Alcoholism: Causes, Pattern...
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About the AuthorGeorge E. Vaillant is Professor of Psychiatry, ; Director of the Study of Adult Development, Harvard University Health Services; and Director of Research in the Division of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Author: Vaillant, George E. Publisher: Harvard University Press Bindi..
The Nature of Mass Poverty
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Book by Galbraith, John Kenneth Author: Galbraith, John Kenneth Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0674605357 ISBN-13: 9780674605350..
The Nature of the Common Law
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Much of our law is based on authoritative texts, such as constitutions and statutes. The common law, in contrast, is that part of the law that is established by the courts. Common law rules predominate in some areas of law, such as torts and contracts, and are extremely important in other areas, suc..
The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Le...
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Who filled the ranks of the most infamous political party in history This book is an in-depth study of the various groups that made up the membership and the leadership of the Nazi party in Germany from its beginnings to its destruction. First published in 1983 it was the first full-scale descripti..
The Negev: The Challenge of a Desert, First Editio...
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In December 1966, the New York Times reported, "An experimental farm in the middle of Israel's arid southern desert proved its success in an unusual way this year. It had a surplus problem." This happy surplus was the outcome of two decades of scientific study of ancient desert agriculture, which ha..
The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 19...
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Listen to a short interview with Mary WatersHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneSalsa has replaced ketchup as the most popular condiment. A mosque has been erected around the corner. The local hospital is staffed by Indian doctors and Philippine nurses, and the local grocery store is owned b..
The New Competition: Institutions of Industrial Re...
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In this new book, Michael Best argues that we are currently witnessing the emergence of new principles of production and business organization in the industrial societies of the West. The "old competition", based on large-scale industrial production, is giving way to new forms of competition based o..
The Oaten Flute: Essays on Pastoral Poetry and the...
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Book by Poggioli, Renato Author: Poggioli, Renato Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674629507 ISBN-13: 9780674629509..
The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reput...
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The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom. The alluring combination of sophisticated technology with low barriers to entry and instantaneous outreach to millions of users has mesmerized libertarians and communitarians alike. Lawmakers have joined the celebration, passing the Communicat..
The One Best System: A History of American Urban E...
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The One Best System presents a major new interpretation of what actually happened in the development of one of America's most influential institutions. At the same time it is a narrative in which the participants themselves speak out: farm children and factory workers, frontier teachers and city sup..
The Orchids: Natural History and Classification
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This lively examination of the structure, classification, evolution, and ecology of the Orchidaceae will appeal to anyone with an eye for beauty or a bent for natural history. It will provide professional biologists and amateur orchidists alike with a deeper understanding--and a thoroughly new class..
The Parthenon
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Praise for the previous edition:"Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building in Western history."-Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic"In her brief but compendious volume [Beard] says that the more we find out about this mysterious structure, the less we know. Her book is..
The Pasteurization of France
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What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist Although every town in France has a street named for Louis Pasteur, was he alone able to stop people from spitting, persuade them to dig drains, influence them to undergo vaccination Pasteur’s success depended upon a whole netwo..
The Philosophy of Childhood
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So many questions, such an imagination, endless speculation: the child seems to be a natural philosopher--until the ripe old age of eight or nine, when the spirit of inquiry mysteriously fades. What happened Was it something we did--or didn't do Was the child truly the philosophical being he once ..
The Philosophy of the Church Fathers: Volume 1: Fa...
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Harvard University Press takes pride in publishing the third edition of a work whose depth, scope, and wisdom have gained it international recognition as a classic in its field. Harry Austryn Wolfson, world-renowned scholar and most lucid of scholarly writers, here presents in ordered detail his lon..
The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Commun...
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This magnificent account of the coming of age of physics in America has been heralded as the best introduction to the history of science in the United States. Unsurpassed in its breadth and literary style, Daniel J. Kevles’s account portrays the brilliant scientists who became a powerful force in br..
The Populist Response to Industrial America: Midwe...
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Populism progressive or retrogressive force Posing this question, Norman Pollack draws on Populist manuscripts and newspapers, the best evidence for the movement's response to industrialism. In the words of farmers and workers, Populism springs to life, ceasing to be an abstraction. The author conc..
The Power of News
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Some say it's simply information, mirroring the world. Others believe it's propaganda, promoting a partisan view. But news, Michael Schudson tells us, is really both and neither; it is a form of culture, complete with its own literary and social conventions and powerful in ways far more subtle and c..
The Principles of Psychology, Vols. 1-2 (2 Volumes...
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The publication of William James's acknowledged masterpiece marked a turning point in the development of psychology as a science in America. This new paperback edition of The Principles Psychology, prepared according to modern standards of textual scholarship. presents the complete authoritative tex..
The Problem of Order: What Unites and Divides Soci...
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At the end of the twentieth century, many fear that the bonds holding civil society together have come undone. Yet, as the noted scholar Dennis Wrong shows us, our generation is not alone in fearing a breakdown of social ties and a descent into violent conflict. Modern masters such as Hobbes, Rousse..
The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century (T...
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"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, and his words have proven sadly prophetic. As we enter the twenty-first century, the problem remains--and yet it, and the line that defines it, have shifted in subtle but significant ways. This b..
The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: ...
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Lucien Febvre’s magisterial study of sixteenth century religious and intellectual history, published in 1942, is at long last available in English, in a translation that does it full justice. The book is a modern classic. Febvre, founder with Marc Bloch of the journal Annales, was one of France’s le..
The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert H...
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Law and economics is the leading intellectual movement in law today. This book examines the first great law and economics movement in the early part of the twentieth century through the work of one of its most original thinkers, Robert Hale. Beginning in the 1890s and continuing through the 1930s, p..
The Promised City: New York’s Jews, 1870-1914, R...
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Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the Rester Street markets, the sweatshops, the birth of Yiddish theatre in America, and the founding of important Jewish newspapers and labor movements. The boo..
The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology
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The whole destiny of America is contained in the first Puritans who landed on these shores, wrote de Tocqueville. These newcomers, and the range of their intellectual achievements and failures, are vividly depicted in The Puritans in America. Exiled from England, the Puritans settled in what Cromwel..