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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Rus...
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What is the “real Russia” What is the relationship between national dreams and kitsch, between political and artistic utopia and everyday existence Commonplaces of daily living would be perfect clues for those seeking to understand a culture. But all who write big books on Russian life confess the..
Commonsense Justice: Jurors' Notions of the Law
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For the first time in our history, U.S. prisons house over a million inmates, enough to populate a city larger than San Francisco. Building prisons is the new growth industry, as the American public reacts to a perceived increase in violence and politicians take a hard line toward crime. But this ea..
Commonsense Justice: Jurors’ Notions of the Law
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For the first time in our history, U.S. prisons house over a million inmates, enough to populate a city larger than San Francisco. Building prisons is the new growth industry, as the American public reacts to a perceived increase in violence and politicians take a hard line toward crime. But this ea..
Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Stru...
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Compares the historical conditions that led to three abrupt cultural changes, and reexamines theories of social development Author: Wuthnow, Robert Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 067415164X ISBN-13: 9780674151642..
Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women...
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The wrenching decision facing successful women choosing between demanding careers and intensive family lives has been the subject of many articles and books, most of which propose strategies for resolving the dilemma. Competing Devotions focuses on broader social and cultural forces that create wome..
Concerto Conversations: With a 68-minute CD (Charl...
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The concerto has attracted relatively little attention as a genre, Joseph Kerman observes, and his urbane and wide-ranging Norton Lectures fill the gap in a way that will delight all music listeners. Kerman addresses the full range of the concerto repertory, treating both the general and the particu..
Confessions, Vol. 1: Books 1-8 (Loeb Classical Lib...
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Augustinus (354430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a rhetorician, plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts in search of truth, joining for a time the Manichaean society. He became a t..
Congregations in America
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More Americans belong to religious congregations than to any other kind of voluntary association. What these vast numbers amount to--what people are doing in the over 300,000 churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples in the United States--is a question that resonates through every quarter of Americ..
Constituencies and Leaders in Congress: Their Effe...
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Product Description This study may be the most sophisticated statistical study of legislative voting now in print. The author asks why legislators, especially U.S. senators, vote as they do. Are they influenced by their constituencies, party, committee leaders, the President By taking a relatively ..
Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Co...
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This book argues that the Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect, on which legal scholars have focused, is the degree to which the Constitution acts as a binding set of rules that can be neutrally interpreted and externally enforced by the courts against government actors. This is the proc..
Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia
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Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its sufferers in the fear of leaving safe havens such as home. Paradoxically, while at this safe haven, agoraphobics spend much of their time ruminating over past p..
Contested Commodities
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Not only are there willing buyers for body parts or babies, Radin observes, but some desperately poor people would be willing sellers, while better-off people find such trades abhorrent. Radin observes that many such areas of contested commodification reflect a persistent dilemma in liberal society:..
Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Si...
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Review“A witty, erudite, and original synthesis, which in spite of its brevity gives density and connectedness to two centuries of American political thought.” John Higham, The Johns Hopkins University“Daniel Rodgers offers a vivid retelling of the American political experience as a contest of words..
Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives f...
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Charges of abandoned standards issue from government offices; laments for the loss of the best that has been thought and said resound through university corridors. While revisionists are perplexed by questions of value, critical theory haunted by the heresy of relativism remains captive to classical..
Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World ...
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John Riddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century with forays into Victorian England a topic that until now has evaded the pens of able historians.Riddle’s thesis is, quite simply, that the ancient world did indeed possess effe..
Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World ...
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John Riddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century with forays into Victorian England--a topic that until now has evaded the pens of able historians.Riddle's thesis is, quite simply, that the ancient world did indeed possess eff..
Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Anci...
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This book examines the development of the theory and practice of constitutionalism, defined as a political system in which the coercive power of the state is controlled through a pluralistic distribution of political power. It explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Re..
Cosmic Rays
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Day in and day out, cosmic rays from the far reaches of space pass through our bodies, yet modern astrophysics has still to unlock all their secrets. Though many details about cosmic rays remain enigmatic, next to electromagnetic radiation they convey more information about the universe beyond the s..
Counterfactuals
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Lewis, David K. Author: Lewis, David K. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674175409 ISBN-13: 9780674175402..
Country and Court: England, 1658-1714
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Book by Jones, J.R. Author: Jones, J.R. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0674175352 ISBN-13: 9780674175358..
Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook
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The coup is the most frequently attempted method of changing government, and the most successful. Coup d’État outlines the mechanism of the coup and analyzes the conditions political, military, and social, that gives rise to it. In doing so, the book sheds much light on societies where power does in..
Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Educa...
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In real life, Mitchell Stevens is a professor in bustling New York. But for a year and a half, he worked in the admissions office of a bucolic New England college that is known for its high academic standards, beautiful campus, and social conscience. Ambitious high schoolers and savvy guidance couns..
Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Com...
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What explains the national economic success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan What can be learned from the long-term championship performances of leading business firms in each country How important were specific innovations by individual entrepreneurs And in the end, what is the ..
Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Gov...
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A seminal figure in the field of public management, Mark H. Moore presents his summation of fifteen years of research, observation, and teaching about what public sector executives should do to improve the performance of public enterprises. Useful for both practicing public executives and those who ..
Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early...
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Sacrifice--ranging from the sacrifice of virgins to circumcision to giving up what is most valued--is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason for these practices Something that might explain why religions of so many different cultures share so many rituals and ..