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What Price Fame?
$39.98
In a world where more people know who Princess Di was than who their own senators are, where Graceland draws more visitors per year than the White House, and where Michael Jordan is an industry unto himself, fame and celebrity are central currencies. In this intriguing book, Tyler Cowen explores and..
What's Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive J...
$31.60
The search for equality has been an enduring one in the United States. Yet there has been little significant change in the distribution of wealth over the generations, while the political ideology of socialism has been rejected outright by most people. In a sensitive rendering of data, Jennifer Hoch..
When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Eur...
$11.45
Here is a lively study of marriage and the family during the Reformation, primarily in Gemany and Switzerland, that dispels the commonly held notion of fathers as tyrannical and families as loveless.Did husbands and wives love one another in Reformation Europe Did the home and family life matter to..
When the King Took Flight
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On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die ..
When the King Took Flight
$13.54
On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die ..
When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an...
$12.21
The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. How did financial markets and institutions-commonly perceived as marginal and elitist at the beginning of the twentieth century-c..
Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools
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What do America’s children learn about American history, American values, and human decency Who decides In this absorbing book, Jonathan Zimmerman tells the dramatic story of conflict, compromise, and more conflict over the teaching of history and morality in twentieth-century America.In history, ..
Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minorit...
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ReviewThe book is fascinating-powerfully argued, richly documented, fair and respectful to those who disagree. Not only is the scholarship excellent, but the public policy questions Thernstrom raises are important questions that deserve to be debated in public. (Aaron Wildavsky University of Califor..
Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservative...
$80.74
Some observers see American academia as a bastion of leftist groupthink that indoctrinates students and silences conservative voices. Others see a protected enclave that naturally produces free-thinking, progressive intellectuals. Both views are self-serving, says Neil Gross, but neither is correct...
Why Government Succeeds and Why It Fails
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This book looks beyond politics to show how the ability of the U.S. government to implement policies is strongly affected by various economic constraints. These include the credibility of the policies, the ability of government to commit to them, the extent to which firms and consumers rationally an..
Why People Die by Suicide
$17.83
In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known What could we have done And always, unremittingly: Why Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by suicide, this book offers the clearest account e..
Why the Wild Things Are: Animals in the Lives of C...
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Whether they see themselves as King of the Wild Things or protector of Toto, children live in a world filled with animals--both real and imaginary. From Black Beauty to Barney, animal characters romp through children's books, cartoons, videos, and computer games. As Gail Melson tells us, more than t..
Winnicott
$32.45
Although he founded no school of his own, D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) is now regarded as one of the most influential contributors to psychoanalysis since Freud. In over forty years of clinical practice, he brought unprecedented skill and intuition to the psychoanalysis of children. This critical new..
Women in Ancient Greece
$9.04
To read the history of ancient Greece as it has been written for centuries is to enter a thoroughly male world. This book, a comprehensive history of women in the Archaic and Classical Ages, completes our picture of ancient Greek society.Largely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Gr..
Women's Work and Family Values, 1920-1940
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Examines the social trends, during the period between the two World Wars, that led to the increased employment of women and the redefinition of their role in society Author: Wandersee, Winifred D. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674955358 ISBN-13: 9..
Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing
$25.40
One of the cruelest abuses of slavery in America was that slaves were forbidden to read and write. Consigned to illiteracy, they left no records of their thoughts and feelings apart from the few exceptional narratives of Frederick Douglass and others who escaped to the North-or so we have long belie..
Working Space
$28.10
Working Space affords a rare opportunity to view painting from the inside out, through the eyes of one of the world’s most prominent abstract painters. Frank Stella describes his perception of other artists’ work, as well as his own, in this handsomely illustrated volume.Stella uses the crisis of re..
Xenophon: Memorabilia. Oeconomicus. Symposium. Apo...
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In Memorabilia or Memoirs of Socrates and in Oeconomicus, a dialogue about household management, we see the philosopher through Xenophon's eyes. Here, and in the accompanying Symposium we also obtain insight on life in Athens. The volume concludes with Xenophon's Apology, an interesting complement t..
Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud i...
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Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. With Paul in the army from 1914 through 1919, they were forced to conduct their marriage mostly by correspondence. Drawing upon the hundreds of letters they wrote, Martha Hanna tells their ..
“Here, the People Rule”: A Constitutional Popu...
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Democracy its aspirations, its dangers is what, most fundamentally, our Constitution is about. The question, Richard Parker argues in this powerful book, is how to imagine our democracy. Provocative in style and substance, this manifesto challenges orthodoxies of constitutional legal studies, partic..
“It Changed My Life”: Writings on the Women’...
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“It changed my life.” That’s what Betty Friedan heard over and over from women throughout the United States after the publication of her radical best-seller, The Feminine Mystique, sparked the beginning of contemporary feminism. The first stirring and uncertain years of the women’s movement helped m..