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The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France s...
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From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. In this provocative study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation a nation where reality and myth commingle to confound understanding has..
The Victorians and Ancient Greece
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Focuses on Victorian culture, assessing the immense influence the ancient Greeks had on British classical education, the images and themes of George Eliot's writings, Christian sensibility, decorative arts, and English playing fields during the nineteenth century Author: Jenkyns, Richard Publisher: ..
The Victorians and Ancient Greece
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Focuses on Victorian culture, assessing the immense influence the ancient Greeks had on British classical education, the images and themes of George Eliot's writings, Christian sensibility, decorative arts, and English playing fields during the nineteenth century Author: Jenkyns, Richard Publisher: ..
The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in Franc...
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In August 1870, during a fair in the isolated French village of Hautefaye, a gruesome murder was committed in broad daylight that aroused the indignation of the entire country. A young nobleman, falsely accused of shouting republican slogans, was savagely tortured for hours by a mob of peasants who ..
The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality
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This book is a profound reexamination of the role of the German army, the Wehrmacht, in World War II. Until very recently, the standard story avowed that the ordinary German soldier in World War II was a good soldier, distinct from Hitler's rapacious SS troops, and not an accomplice to the massacres..
The Wisdom of the Ego
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One of America's preeminent psychiatrists draws on his famous Study of Adult Development to give us an exhilarating look at how the mind's defenses work. What we see as the mind's trickery, George Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy. What's more, it can reveal the mind at its most creative and ma..
The Woman in the Surgeon's Body
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Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. The combat with death is carried out in the operating room, where the intrepid surgeon challenges the forces of destruction and disease. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters this closely guarded ar..
The Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface a...
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What does it mean to be female Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly..
The Working Class in Weimar Germany: A Psychologic...
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Book by Fromm, Erich Author: Fromm, Erich Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674959256 ISBN-13: 9780674959255..
The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of F...
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Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films as well as his fresh look at Godard, Bergman, and other great European directors will be of lasting interest to movie-viewers and intelligent ..
The World We Created at Hamilton High
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In this wonderfully evocative picture of an urban American high school and its successes and setbacks over the past thirty-five years, Gerald Grant works out a unique perspective on what makes a good school--one that asserts moral and intellectual authority without becoming rigidly doctrinaire or lo..
The World within War: America's Combat Experience ...
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Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one ..
The World, the Text, and the Critic
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This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of Beginnings and the controversial Orientalism, Edward Said demonstrates that modern critical discourse has been impressively strengthened by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucaul..
The Young Professional's Survival Guide: From Cab ...
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Imagine yourself in your new job, doing your best to make a good impression and your boss asks you to do something that doesn’t feel right, like fudge a sales report, or lie to a customer. You have no idea how to handle the situation, and your boss is hovering. When you’re caught off guard, under pr..
They Never Want to Tell You: Children Talk About C...
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They Never Want to Tell You transcends the negative metaphors and clichés of life-threatening disease, to give voice to the culture of cancer and to the behavior and attitudes of those who function within that culture-as patients, medical professionals, family, and friends.In these extraordinary nar..
Thinking about the Earth: A History of Ideas in Ge...
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Not quite a history of geology, Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. Beginning with a discussion of "organic" views of the earth in ancient cultures, David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, c..
Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural...
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A discipline is emerging called cultural psychology; it will serve as a force of renewal for both anthropology and psychology. In this book Richard Shweder presents its manifesto. Its central theme is that we have to understand the way persons, cultures, and natures make each other up. Its goal is t..
Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Varia...
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As a young anthropologist, Sidney Mintz undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Fifty years later, the eminent scholar of the Caribbean returns to those experiences to meditate on the societies and on the island people who befriended him. These reflections illuminate continuities and..
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor ...
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Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould’s command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and developed an immense fol..
Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public Schoo...
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For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Ameri..
To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-Ame...
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Joyce Malcolm illuminates the historical facts underlying the current passionate debate about gun-related violence, the Brady Bill, and the NRA, revealing the original meaning and intentions behind the individual right to “bear arms.” Few on either side of the Atlantic realize that this extraordinar..
To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights ...
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The story of the civil rights movement typically begins with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and culminates with the 1965 voting rights struggle in Selma. But as Martha Biondi shows, a grassroots struggle for racial equality in the urban North began a full ten years before the rise of the movemen..
Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation ...
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Health, safety, and environmental regulations have been traditionally perceived as distinct entities from trade policy, yet today they have become intertwined on a global scale. In this pioneering work, David Vogel integrates environmental, consumer, and trade policy, and explicitly challenges the c..
Transnational Relations and World Politics (Center...
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Book by Author: Keohane, Robert Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0674904826 ISBN-13: 9780674904828..
Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone
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With genetically modified crops we have entered uncharted territory--where visions of the triumph of biotechnology in agriculture vie with dire views of medical and environmental disaster. For two years Mark L. Winston traveled this fraught territory at home and abroad, listening to farmers, industr..