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17th-18th Century Flemish Painting: State Hermitag...
$66.96
Among the many treasures of The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is its remarkable collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Flemish paintings more than five hundred in all including key works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, Snyders, and Teniers. Forming the core of the Hermitage’s Fl..
50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understandi...
$8.99
This compelling book introduces a wide range of psychiatric symptoms and their treatments. Written for anyone concerned about his or her own mental health or about symptoms observed in family members or close friends, the book is packed with useful and reassuring information. It is both easy to read..
A bias for hope: Essays on development and Latin A...
$43.61
A bias for hope: Essays on development and Latin America Author: Hirschman, Albert O Publisher: Yale University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0300014562 ISBN-13: 9780300014563..
A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in...
$9.19
This absorbing book takes us back to the busy, colorful world of a Netherlandish Catholic bishop and his flock during the age of Reformation. It is drawn from a rare journal, one of many kept by Mathias Hovius from 1596 to 1620 while he was Archbishop of Mechelen (part of modern Belgium). Elegantly ..
A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Coopera...
$9.15
In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help the left attain its social and political goals...
A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of P...
$11.45
Argues that Freud was an atheist and that atheism was an important prerequisite for his development of psychoanalysis Author: Gay, Professor Peter Publisher: Yale University Press Binding: hardcover Language: english ISBN-10: 0300040083 ISBN-13: 9780300040081..
A Grand Strategy for the West: The Anachronism of ...
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From Publishers WeeklyTimed to coincide with the Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in November, here are the Henry L. Stimson Lectures delivered at Yale by the former chancellor of West Germany. Schmidt's subtitle sums up his view that the West desperately needs to repair its present disarray, which f..
A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Ec...
$64.19
This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United States during the Second..
A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland a...
$9.49
This practical and knowledgeable guidebook is the first to deal comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic "horseshoes" of Brittany. Filled with fascinating information, useful maps, and arresting photographs, this invaluable resource describe..
A Hausa-English Dictionary
$42.39
This up-to-date volume, the first Hausa-English dictionary published in a quarter of a century, is written with language learners and practical users in mind. With over 10,000 entries, it primarily covers Standard Nigerian Hausa but also includes numerous forms from Niger and other dialect areas of ..
A History of European Socialism
$23.16
"This is a serious and accomplished synthesis....Biographical vignettes enliven the presentation of ideas, and references to studies of regional diversities...give the narrative and uncommonly rich texture....Lucid and illuminating....It is the best book on the subject to put into the hands of our s..
A History of South Africa, Third Edition
$8.60
Presents a comprehensive history of the country, from its earliest human settlements, to events prior to European colonisation, to the Dutch occupation and the years of apartheid, to its success in becoming an independent nation. Author: Leonard Thompson Publisher: Yale University Press Binding: Pap..
A Life of James Boswell
$10.32
This moving biography reassesses James Boswell's achievements and uncovers the breadth of his world, extending from the royal courts and drawing rooms of London to the city's unsavory underworld. Peter Martin dispels the notion that Boswell's masterly Life of Johnson was an accidental work of genius..
A Little History of Science
$11.02
Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its power. From ancient Greek philosophers through Ei..
A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Ho...
$8.43
Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experie..
A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Ho...
$14.61
In this fascinating look at the home lives of middle class men in nineteenth-century England, John Tosh shows how contradictions in Victorian ideals of domesticity and masculinity shaped men`s lives. Responding to the conflicts associated with being absent from home for the working day or longer, Vi..
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, V...
$56.70
This book is the second volume in John Meier's masterful trilogy on the life of Jesus. In it he continues his quest for the answer to the greatest puzzle of modern religious scholarship: Who was Jesus To answer this Meier imagines the following scenario: "Suppose that a Catholic, a Protestant, a Je..
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, V...
$44.61
A leading scholar of the historical Jesus clarifies and illuminates Jesus’ teachings on Jewish lawJohn Meier’s previous volumes in the acclaimed series A Marginal Jew are founded upon the notion that while solid historical information about Jesus is quite limited, people of different faiths can neve..
A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Cultur...
$37.55
What accounts for our tastes Why and how do they change over time In this innovative book Stanley Lieberson analyzes children’s first names to develop an original theory of fashion. Children’s names provide an opportunity to view the pure mechanisms of fashion, unaffected by commercial interests t..
A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Cultur...
$25.57
What accounts for our tastes Why and how do they change over time In this innovative book Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. Children's names provide an opportunity to view the pure mechanisms of fashion, unaffected by commercial interests t..
A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools
$13.98
A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools is a nondenominational, ecumenical collection of over 400 hymns and 100 psalms designed especially for worship services in academic communities. Hymns and spiritual songs are drawn from many countries and many different traditions. A number of hymns appear in th..
A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation ...
$21.97
In pursuit of a powerful, common-sense argument about realism, renowned scholar A. D. Nuttall discusses English eighteenth-century and French neo-classical conceptions of realism, and considers Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and both parts of King Henry IV as a prolonged..
A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss
$13.31
Some 28 million people in America and 350 million people worldwide live with hearing loss. How do these people and their families cope What are their experiences of pain, humor, and hope What support do medicine and technology now offer them, and what is on the horizon In this engaging and practi..
A Religious History of the American People
$10.96
This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century’s choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the..
A Rich Spot of Earth: Thomas Jefferson's Revolutio...
$14.55
Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today, he would no doubt feel fully at home in the 1,000-foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favored are thriving. Extensively and painstakingly restored under Peter J. Hatch's brilliant direction, Jefferson's ..