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Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History, Volume V...
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Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 8020 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complet..
Dionysos at Large (Revealing Antiquity) (English a...
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As the perpetual stranger Dionysos is the embodiment of strangeness. He is nowhere at home, and yet in another sense the world is his home. Detienne evokes the manic activity of Dionysos in myths that connect him with the shedding of blood, the pouring of wine, and the ejaculation of semen. Author: ..
Discovering : Inventing Solving Problems at the Fr...
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Root-Bernstein (natural science and physiology, Michigan State) attempts to understand how scientists invent through an imaginary reconstruction of the arguments, reflections, and games of six fictional characters. The index is of names only. TheRoot-Bernstein (natural science and physiology, Michig..
Discovery of the Conservation of Energy
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Book by Elkana, Yehuda Author: Elkana, Yehuda Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674212401 ISBN-13: 9780674212404..
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of...
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No judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France’s leading sociologist focuses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of..
Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police...
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W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary some foundational myths of the black vernacular remain inescapable, even as they come under increasing pressure from..
Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary
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Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges at the risk of intellectual stagnation to dismiss most academic discourse as opaque and divorced from reality. I..
Doctors' Plot of 1953
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A survivor of the Doctor's Plot of 1953 recalls his imprisonment, and describes the climate of antisemitism and the state of medicine and science during the Stalinist era. Author: Rapoport, Yakov Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674214773 ISBN-13: 97..
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews
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Nadine Gordimer has written of J.M. Coetzee that his "vision goes to the nerve-centre of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer's mastery of tension and elegance". "Doubling the Point" takes the reader to the cen..
Drug Addiction and Drug Policy: The Struggle to Co...
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This book is the culmination of five years of impassioned conversations among distinguished scholars in law, public policy, medicine, and biopsychology, about the most difficult questions in drug policy and the study of addictions. As these intensely argued chapters show, the obvious answers are alw..
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man
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In May of 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany were marching through France. In the face of this devastating advance, one of World War II’s greatest acts of heroism would be a retreat: the evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk.In Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man, we are given an unprecedented vision..
Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory
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The tasks of macroeconomics are to interpret observations on economic aggregates in terms of the motivations and constraints of economic agents and to predict the consequences of alternative hypothetical ways of administering government economic policy. General equilibrium models form a convenient c..
Dynamic Statutory Interpretation
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Contrary to traditional theories of statutory interpretation, which ground statutes in the original legislative text or intent, legal scholar William Eskridge argues that statutory interpretation changes in response to new political alignments, new interpreters, and new ideologies. It does so, first..
Early Language
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Describes and illustrates the stages and mechanisms of language acquisition, demonstrating that the child's striking linguistic inventions and systematic errors provide the key to understanding the acquisition of language Author: de Villiers, Jill G. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Pape..
East Is a Big Bird: Navigation and Logic on Puluwa...
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Puluwat Atoll in Micronesia, with a population of only a few hundred proud seafaring people, can fulfill anyone's romantic daydream of the South Seas. Thomas Gladwin has written a beautiful and perceptive book which describes the complex navigational systems of the Puluwat natives, yet has done so p..
Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6 (Loeb Classi...
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Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems i..
Economic Response: Comparative Studies in Trade, F...
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Hardcover. Dust jacket is marked and scored. Jacket spine is faded. Jacket leading corners and spine ends are worn and nicked. Hardcover spine ends are a little bumped. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM Author: Kindleberger, Charles P. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: H..
Education for Thinking
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What do we want schools to accomplish The only defensible answer, Deanna Kuhn argues, is that they should teach students to use their minds well, in school and beyond.Bringing insights from research in developmental psychology to pedagogy, Kuhn maintains that inquiry and argument should be at the c..
Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius
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Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics. By exploring how these men differed in their worldview, in their work, and in their day this book provides powerf..
Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery
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In this finely written companion to Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, Bonnie Costello gives a compelling use of Bishop and her ways of seeing and writing. Author: Costello, Bonnie Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 067424690X ISBN-13: 9780674246904..
Empire
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Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and legal transformations taking place across the gl..
Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in t...
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Empires of the Sand offers a bold and comprehensive reinterpretation of the struggle for mastery in the Middle East during the long nineteenth century (1789-1923). This book denies primacy to Western imperialism in the restructuring of the region and attributes equal responsibility to regional power..
Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937
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In this integration of law and economic ideas, Herbert Hovenkamp charts the evolution of the legal framework that regulated American business enterprise from the time of Andrew Jackson through the first New Deal. He reveals the interdependent relationship between economic theory and law that existed..
Environmental Health: Fourth Edition
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Dramatic changes in the field of environmental health since the Third Edition was published in 2004 demand a new, radically updated version of this essential textbook.Based on the recommendations of advisory bodies and federal agency regulations, as well as a thorough review of the scientific litera..
Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledg...
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How does science create knowledge Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr Cetina compares two of the most important and intriguing epistemic cultures of our day, those in high energy physics and mol..