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Examines the relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II. This work argues... Læs mere
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This book explores the similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights, tornado sirens) and... Læs mere
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This is a systematic account of the law and economics of the American family. It explores the implications of economics for family... Læs mere
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This book not only explains the Cold War mindset that determined global policy for much of the twentieth century, but also reveals how the search to define a foreign threat can shape the ways in which that threat is actually met.
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Compared to the wealth of information available to us about classical tragedy and comedy, not much is known about the culture of pantomime, mime, and... Læs mere
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Prohibition was aggressively promoted—and spectacularly unsuccessful—in New York City. In the first major work on the subject in 25 years, and the only full... Læs mere
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Focusing on the Palestinian refugee camp at Ain al-Helweh, Rougier documents how Sunni fundamentalists, through their own... Læs mere
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In the twenty years between his last collection of essays and his death in 2000, Quine continued his work and occasionally modified his position on central philosophical issues. This volume collects the main essays from this last, productive period of Quine’s prodigious career.
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Alongside Rosamond Purcell’s stunning photographs, Linnea Hall and René Corado offer an engaging history of egg collecting, the provenance of the specimens in the photographs, and the biology, conservation, and ecology of the birds that produced them.
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In a remarkably innovative reconstruction of constitutional history, Robert Burt traces the controversy over judicial supremacy back to the founding fathers.
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This Faustian tale of the spiritual disintegration of a young minister, written in the 1890s, deals subtly and powerfully with the impact of science on innocence and the collective despair that marked the transition into the modern age.
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Here, for the first time, we have a comprehensive account of the death penalty in the United States. Stuart Banner tells the story of dramatic changes, over four... Læs mere