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Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thoughtby George Christopher WilliamsISBN 0691026157 (0-691-02615-7)
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The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subcultureby Howard P. ChudacoffISBN 069102796X (0-691-02796-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture'Book summary:In this engaging new book, Howard Chudacoff describes a special and fascinating world: the urban bachelor life that took shape in the late nineteenth century, when a significant population of single men migrated to American cities. Rejecting the restraints and dependence of the nineteenth-century family, bachelors found sustenance and camaraderie in the boarding houses, saloons, pool halls, cafes, clubs, and other institutions that arose in response to their increasing numbers. Richly illustrated, anecdotal, and including a unique analysis of "The National Police Gazette" (the most outrageous and popular men's publication of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century), this book is the first to describe a complex subculture that continues to affect the larger meanings of manhood and manliness in American society.
The figure of the bachelor--with its emphasis on pleasure, self-indulgence, and public entertainment--was easily converted by the burgeoning consumer culture at the turn of the century into an ambiguously appealing image of masculinity. Finding an easy reception in an atmosphere of insecurity about manhood, that image has outdistanced the circumstances in which it began to flourish and far outlasted the bachelor culture that produced it. Thus, the idea of the bachelor has retained its somewhat negative but alluring connotations throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Chudacoff's concluding chapter discusses the contemporary "singles scene" now developing as the number of single people in urban centers is again increasing.
By seeing bachelorhood as a stage in life for many and a permanent status for some, Chudacoff recalls a lifestyle that had a profoundimpact on society, evoking fear, disdain, repugnance, and at the same time a sense of romance, excitement, and freedom. The book contributes to gender history, family history, urban history, and the study of consumer culture and will appeal to anyone curious about American history and anxious to acquire a new view of a sometimes forgotten but still influential aspect of our national past. [via]
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Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translationby Ahmed AliISBN 0691020469 (0-691-02046-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation'Book summary:In one of the most popular English versions of the Qur'an, Ahmed Ali has succeeded in bringing all of the subtlety, depth, and spiritual power of Islam into his translation of this peerless scripture. Without distorting the English, Ali, a highly regarded author in his own right, renders the poetry of the original Arabic into lines of elegance and rhythm. And not wanting to leave the reader with a false belief in the ability of one language to fully capture another, Ali retains the Arabic side by side with the English, exhorts the reader to refer to it, and offers explanatory notes where necessary. For the curious, the convert, or the devout, Ahmed Ali's Al-Qur'an will bring all readers closer to the glory of God. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Archimedesby E.J. DijksterhuisISBN 0691024006 (0-691-02400-6)
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Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Communityby J. Robert OppenheimerISBN 0691024340 (0-691-02434-0)
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Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialismby Mahmood MamdaniISBN 0691027935 (0-691-02793-5)
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Raceby Amy Gutmann, Anthony AppiahISBN 0691026610 (0-691-02661-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Colour/Why the World Isn't Greyby Hazel RossottiISBN 0691023867 (0-691-02386-7)
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Conceptual Revolutionsby Paul ThagardISBN 0691024901 (0-691-02490-1)
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Concluding Unscientific Postscripts to Philosophical Fragmentsby Sren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad HongISBN 0691020817 (0-691-02081-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concluding Unscientific Postscripts to Philosophical Fragments'Book summary:In philosophical fragments the pseudonymous author johannes climacus explored the question: what is required in order to go beyond socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? written as an afterword to this work, concluding unscientific postscript is on one level a philosophical jest, yet on another it is climacus's characterization of the subjective thinker's relation to the truth of christianity. At once ironic, humorous, and polemical, this work takes on the "unscientific" form of a mimical-pathetical-dialectical compilation of ideas. Whereas the movement in the earlier pseudonymous writings is away from the aesthetic, the movement in postscript is away from speculative thought. Kierkegaard intended postscript to be his concluding work as an author. The subsequent "second authorship" after the corsair affair made postscript the turning point in the entire authorship. Part one of the text volume examines the truth of christianity as an objective issue, part two the subjective issue of what is involved for the individual in becoming a christian, and the volume ends with an addendum in which kierkegaard acknowledges and explains his relation to the pseudonymous authors and their writings. The second volume contains the scholarly apparatus, including a key to references and selected entries from kierkegaard's journals and papers [via]
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The Contested Cityby John H. MollenkopfISBN 0691022208 (0-691-02220-8)
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Coral Reef Fishes: Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean Including the Red Seaby Robert Myers, Ewald LieskeISBN 0691026599 (0-691-02659-9)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universeby Helge KraghISBN 0691026238 (0-691-02623-8)
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Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotenceby Jon D. LevensonISBN 0691029504 (0-691-02950-4)
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Critique of Religion and Philosophyby Walter KaufmannISBN 0691020019 (0-691-02001-9)
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The Cult of the Virgin Mary: Psychological Originsby Michael P. CarrollISBN 0691028672 (0-691-02867-2)
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The Democratic Imagination in America: Conversations With Our Pastby Russell L. HansonISBN 0691022380 (0-691-02238-0)
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Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local Capital in Brazilby Peter EvansISBN 0691021856 (0-691-02185-6)
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Dictionary of the History of Scienceby W.F. Bynum, E. Janet Browne, Roy Porter, W.F BynumISBN 0691023840 (0-691-02384-0)
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The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideasby Charles Coulston GillispieISBN 0691023506 (0-691-02350-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas'Book summary:From Galileo's analysis of motion to the theories of evolution and relativity, Charles Gillispie takes us on a masterly tour of the world of scientific ideas. The history of modern science is portrayed here as the development of objectivity through the study of nature.
In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles Gillispie began teaching Humanities 304, one of the first undergraduate courses offered anywhere in the world on the history of science. From start to finish--Galileo to Einstein--Gillispie introduced the students to the key ideas and individuals in science. The Edge of Objectivity arose out of this course.
It must have been a lively class. The Edge of Objectivity is pointed, opinionated, and selective. Even at six hundred pages, the book is, as the title suggests, an essay. Gillispie is unafraid to rate Mendel higher than Darwin, Maxwell above Faraday. Full of wry turns of phrase, the book effectively captures people and places. And throughout the book, Gillispie pushes an argument. He views science as the progressive development of more objective, detached, mathematical ways of viewing the world, and he orchestrates his characters and ideas around this theme.
In the forty-five years since the publication of The Edge of Objectivity, historians of science have established a full-fledged discipline. They have focused increasingly on the social context of science rather than its internal dynamics, and they have frequently viewed science more as a threatening instance of power than as an accumulation of knowledge. Nevertheless, Gillispie's book remains a sophisticated, fast-moving, idiosyncratic account of the development of scientific ideas over four hundred years, by one of the founding intellects in the history of science.
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Either/Or, Part Iby Soren KierkegaardISBN 0691020418 (0-691-02041-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Either/Or, Part I'Book summary:Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian Andersen and irony. The pseudonymous volumes of Either/Or are the writings of a young man (I) and of Judge William (II). The ironical young man's papers include a collection of sardonic aphorisms; essays on Mozart, modern drama, and boredom; and "The Seducer's Diary." The seeming miscellany is a reflective presentation of aspects of the "either," the esthetic view of life.
Part II is an older friend's "or," the ethical life of integrated, authentic personhood, elaborated in discussions of personal becoming and of marriage. The resolution of the "either/or" is left to the reader, for there is no Part III until the appearance of Stages on Life's Way. The poetic-reflective creations of a master stylist and imaginative impersonator, the two men write in distinctive ways appropriate to their respective positions.
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Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughterby Karl Kerenyi, Ralph ManheimISBN 0691019150 (0-691-01915-0)
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The Essential Jungby Anthony Storr, C. G. JungISBN 0691024553 (0-691-02455-3)
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Essential Jungby C. G. JungISBN 0691029350 (0-691-02935-0)
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The Essential Kierkegaardby Seren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad HongISBN 0691019401 (0-691-01940-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Kierkegaard'Book summary:This is the most comprehensive anthology of Søren Kierkegaard's works ever assembled in English. Drawn from the volumes of Princeton's authoritative Kierkegaard's Writings series by editors Howard and Edna Hong, the selections represent every major aspect of Kierkegaard's extraordinary career. They reveal the powerful mix of philosophy, psychology, theology, and literary criticism that made Kierkegaard one of the most compelling writers of the nineteenth century and a shaping force in the twentieth. With an introduction to Kierkegaard's writings as a whole and explanatory notes for each selection, this is the essential one-volume guide to a thinker who changed the course of modern intellectual history.
The anthology begins with Kierkegaard's early journal entries and traces the development of his work chronologically to the final The Changelessness of God. The book presents generous selections from all of Kierkegaard's landmark works, including Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Works of Love, and The Sickness unto Death, and draws new attention to a host of such lesser-known writings as Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air. The selections are carefully chosen to reflect the unique character of Kierkegaard's work, with its shifting pseudonyms, its complex dialogues, and its potent combination of irony, satire, sermon, polemic, humor, and fiction. We see the esthetic, ethical, and ethical-religious ways of life initially presented as dialogue in two parallel series of pseudonymous and signed works and later in the "second authorship" as direct address. And we see the themes that bind the whole together, in particular Kierkegaard's overarching concern with, in his own words, "What it means to exist; . . . what it means to be a human being."
Together, the selections provide the best available introduction to Kierkegaard's writings and show more completely than any other book why his work, in all its creativity, variety, and power, continues to speak so directly today to so many readers around the world.
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The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Explorationby Robert D. Ballard, Will HivelyISBN 0691027404 (0-691-02740-4)
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Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeingby R. L. GregoryISBN 0691024561 (0-691-02456-1)
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 0691025258 (0-691-02525-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Over a hundred years ago, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his two-dimensional characters.
A first-rate fictional guide to the concept of multiple dimensions of space, the book will also appeal to those who are interested in computer graphics. This field, which literally makes higher dimensions seeable, has aroused a new interest in visualization. We can now manipulate objects in four dimensions and observe their three-dimensional slices tumbling on the computer screen. But how do we interpret these images? In his introduction, Thomas Banchoff points out that there is no better way to begin exploring the problem of understanding higher-dimensional slicing phenomena than reading this classic novel of the Victorian era.
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From Ritual to Romanceby Jessie L. WestonISBN 0691021074 (0-691-02107-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Ritual to Romance'Book summary:Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding "The Waste Land," Jessie Weston's book has continued to attract readers interested in ancient religion, myth, and especially Arthurian legend. Weston examines the saga of the Grail, which, in many versions, begins when the wounded king of a famished land sees a procession of objects including a bleeding lance and a bejewelled cup. She maintains that all versions defy uniform applications of Celtic and Christian interpretations, and explores the legend's Gnostic roots.
Drawing from J. G. Frazer, who studied ancient nature cults that associated the physical condition of the king with the productivity of the land, Weston considers how the legend of the Grail related to fertility rites--with the lance and the cup serving as sexual symbols. She traces its origins to a Gnostic text that served as a link between ancient vegetation cults and the Celts and Christians who embellished the story. Conceiving of the Grail saga as a literary outgrowth of ancient ritual, she seeks a Gnostic Christian interpretation that unites the quest for fertility with the striving for mystical oneness with God.
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Gays and the Military: Joseph Steffan Versus the United Statesby Joseph Steffan, Marc Wolinsky, Kenneth S. Sherrill, Richard B. Cheney, United States District CourtISBN 0691019444 (0-691-01944-4)
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Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infiniteby Joseph Warren DaubenISBN 0691024472 (0-691-02447-2)
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The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Placesby F. E. PetersISBN 069102619X (0-691-02619-X)
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History of AIDS: Emergence and Origin of a Modern Pandemicby Russell C. Maulitz, Mirko D. Grmek, Jacalyn DuffinISBN 0691024774 (0-691-02477-4)
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A History of Mathematicsby Carl B. BoyerISBN 0691023913 (0-691-02391-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Mathematics'Book summary:What do you mean there's no chapter 0? Whether or not you think that's a deficit, A History of Mathematics more than makes up for it with its depth and engaging analysis of the development of the "flawless science." Historian Carl B. Boyer designed it as a practical textbook for communicating math's complex timelines to interested college students in 1968; Uta C. Merzbach has gently revised it to bring it in line with current thought. Much of the early chapters are untouched, with new 19th- and 20th-century chapters covering Boyer's omissions and new and revised references guiding the reader to additional resources.
From the origins of numbering to the future of computing, the authors strive for comprehensive examination and clear, simple explanations. Some of the math will daunt those who have never taken college-level courses (or have forgotten what they learned), but some of the more elaborate technical material can be skipped if needed. Especially helpful is the extensive timeline-appendix that proceeds from the beginning of time to the late 20th century. Whether you're using it to gain a better understanding of mathematics or to broaden your awareness of the historical record, A History of Mathematics will help you make sense of the wide world of numbers. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Honor & Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing As a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseballby Kenneth S. GreenbergISBN 069102734X (0-691-02734-X)
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Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneumby Andrew Wallace-HadrillISBN 0691029091 (0-691-02909-1)
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Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolismby Mircea Eliade, Philip MairetISBN 069102068X (0-691-02068-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism'Book summary:Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.
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In Quest of the Heroby Alan Dundes, Otto Rank, RaglanISBN 0691020620 (0-691-02062-0)
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Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinianby Louis H. FeldmanISBN 069102927X (0-691-02927-X)
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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: The Classical Texts and Their Interpretation From Covenant to Communityby F. E. PetersISBN 0691020442 (0-691-02044-2)
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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: The Classical Texts and Their Interpretation The Word and the Law and the People of Godby F. E. PetersISBN 069102054X (0-691-02054-X)
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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: The Classical Texts and Their Interpretation The Works of the Spiritby F. E. PetersISBN 0691020558 (0-691-02055-8)
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Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defenceby G. A. CohenISBN 0691020086 (0-691-02008-6)
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Kierkegaard Anthologyby Robert BretallISBN 0691019789 (0-691-01978-9)
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Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917by Michael F. HammISBN 0691025851 (0-691-02585-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917'Book summary:In a fascinating "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in late Imperial Russia, and is now the capital of independent Ukraine. After a concise account of Kiev's early history, Hamm focuses on the city's dramatic growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first historian to analyze how each of Kiev's ethnic groups contributed to the vitality of the city's culture, he also examines the violent conflicts that developed among them. In vivid detail, he shows why Kiev came to be known for its "abundance of revolutionaries" and its anti-Semitic violence.
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The King's Two Bodiesby Ernst KantorwitzISBN 0691020183 (0-691-02018-3)
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Laws of the Game: How the Principles of Nature Govern Chanceby Ruthild Winkler, Eigen, Manfred and Winkler, RuthildISBN 0691025665 (0-691-02566-5)
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To illustrate their argument, the authors turn to classic games--backgammon, bridge, and chess--and relate them to physical, biological, and social applications of probability theory and number theory. Further, they have invented, and present here, more than a dozen playable games derived from scientific models for equilibrium, selection, growth, and even the composition of RNA.
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Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Lifeby Simon Schaffer, Steven ShapinISBN 0691024324 (0-691-02432-4)
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Literary Language & Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Agesby Erich Auerbach, Ralph ManheimISBN 0691024685 (0-691-02468-5)
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Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Moldsby George W. HudlerISBN 0691028737 (0-691-02873-7)
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Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the Peopleby Josiah OberISBN 0691028648 (0-691-02864-8)
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A close reading of the speeches exposes both egalitarian and elitist elements in Athenian popular ideology. Ober demonstrates that the vocabulary of public speech constituted a democratic discourse that allowed the Athenians to resolve contradictions between the ideal of political equality and the reality of social inequality. His radical reevaluation of leadership and political power in classical Athens restores key elements of the social and ideological context of the first western democracy.
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A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Lawby Amy Gutmann, Antonin Scalia, Gordon S. Wood, Laurence H. Tribe, Ronald Dworkin, May Ann GlendonISBN 0691026300 (0-691-02630-0)
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The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crisesby Theodore ZiolkowskiISBN 0691026831 (0-691-02683-1)
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Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Ageby Daniel ChirotISBN 0691027773 (0-691-02777-3)
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Mortals and Immortalsby Jean-Pierre Vernant, Froma I. ZeitlinISBN 0691019312 (0-691-01931-2)
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The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Historiesby Partha ChatterjeeISBN 0691019436 (0-691-01943-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories'Book summary:In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power. These nationalists divided their culture into material and spiritual domains, and staked an early claim to the spiritual sphere, represented by religion, caste, women and the family, and peasants. Chatterjee shows how middle-class elites first imagined the nation into being in this spiritual dimension and then readied it for political contest, all the while "normalizing" the aspirations of the various marginal groups that typify the spiritual sphere.
While Chatterjee's specific examples are drawn from Indian sources, with a copious use of Bengali language materials, the book is a contribution to the general theoretical discussion on nationalism and the modern state. Examining the paradoxes involved with creating first a uniquely non-Western nation in the spiritual sphere and then a universalist nation-state in the material sphere, the author finds that the search for a postcolonial modernity is necessarily linked with past struggles against modernity.
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The Nature of Rationalityby Robert NozickISBN 0691020965 (0-691-02096-5)
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A New Aristotle Readerby Aristotle, J. L. AckrillISBN 0691020434 (0-691-02043-4)
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New Authoritarianism in Latin Americaby David CollierISBN 0691021945 (0-691-02194-5)
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The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floorby J. E. GordonISBN 0691023808 (0-691-02380-8)
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Nietzsche, Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichristby Walter Arnold KaufmannISBN 0691019835 (0-691-01983-5)
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Responding to the powerful myths and countermyths that had sprung up around Nietzsche, Kaufmann offered a patient, evenhanded account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas. Without ignoring or downplaying the ugliness of many of Nietzsche's proclamations, he set them in the context of his work as a whole and of the counterexamples yielded by a responsible reading of his books. More positively, he presented Nietzsche's ideas about power as one of the great accomplishments of modern philosophy, arguing that his conception of the "will to power" was not a crude apology for ruthless self-assertion but must be linked to Nietzsche's equally profound ideas about sublimation. He also presented Nietzsche as a pioneer of modern psychology and argued that a key to understanding his overall philosophy is to see it as a reaction against Christianity.
Many scholars in the past half century have taken issue with some of Kaufmann's interpretations, but the book ranks as one of the most influential accounts ever written of any major Western thinker.
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One World: The Interaction of Science and Theologyby John PolkinghorneISBN 0691024073 (0-691-02407-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology'Book summary:John C. Polkinghornes renowned trilogy on the compatibility of religion and science is back in print.One World (originally published in 1986) introduces issues in science and religion that Dr. Polkinghorne subsequently continued in Science and Providence and Science and Creation. The books have been widely acclaimed individually and as a series.[via]
In the new preface to One World, Dr. Polkinghorne assesses his original writing of this book, pointing to themes that have remained important to his thinking and topics that have been expanded and modified through recent scientific discoveries. In fact, he contends, in todays postmodern culture the issue of what we can know and how we can gain knowledge is one of even greater criticality than it was in 1986.
Both science and religion explore aspects of reality, providing a basis for their mutual interaction as they present their different perspectives onto the one world of existent reality, Polkinghorne argues. In One World he develops his thesis through an examination of the nature of science, the nature of the physical world, the character of theology, and the modes of thought in science and theology. He identifies points of interaction and points of potential conflict between science and religion. Along the way, he discusses creation, determinism, prayer, miracles, and future life, and he explains his rejection of scientific reductionism and his defense of natural theology.
Science does not have an absolute superiority over other forms of knowledge, nor does religion have all the answers. Both are searching for the truth. Both explore the universe as it is and submit to the evidence before them. And both must be open to continual correction.We live in one world. Polkinghornes insights continue to illuminate it as a world in which science and religion can stimulate and benefit each other.
Why do I regard this book as so important? Primarily because it makes sense of the scientific enterprise and the pursuit of theology, and in doing so it makes sense of the universe. . . . For arguing this so persuasively and with clarity and caution we owe him grateful thanks. The Expository TimesMore editions of One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology:
The Origins of the Korean War: The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-1950by Bruce CumingsISBN 069102538X (0-691-02538-X)
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Our Lives Before the Law: Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudenceby Judith A. BaerISBN 0691019452 (0-691-01945-2)
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Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technologyby Robert McCormick AdamsISBN 0691026343 (0-691-02634-3)
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Philosophy of the Enlightenmentby Ernst CassirerISBN 0691019630 (0-691-01963-0)
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The Politics of Social Policy in the United Statesby Margaret Weir, Ann Shola Orloff, Theda SkocpolISBN 0691028419 (0-691-02841-9)
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Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Moneyby Robert WuthnowISBN 0691028923 (0-691-02892-3)
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Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and Intrusionsby Pauline Marie RosenauISBN 0691023476 (0-691-02347-6)
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The Pre-Socratics: A Collection of Critical Essaysby Alexander P.D. MourelatosISBN 0691020884 (0-691-02088-4)
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Proclus: A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elementsby Glenn R. MorrowISBN 0691020906 (0-691-02090-6)
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The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern Americaby Elizabeth LunbeckISBN 0691025843 (0-691-02584-3)
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Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyo Traditionby Jane Marie LawISBN 069102894X (0-691-02894-X)
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Pursuing Happiness: American Consumers in the Twentieth Centuryby Stanley LebergottISBN 0691025991 (0-691-02599-1)
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Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Scienceby Roland Omnes, Arturo SangalliISBN 0691027870 (0-691-02787-0)
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The Quotable Einsteinby Alice Calaprice, Albert EinsteinISBN 0691026963 (0-691-02696-3)
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Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working Class Organizersby Staughton Lynd, Alice LyndISBN 0691028257 (0-691-02825-7)
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Rice As Self: Japanese Identities Thru Timeby Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyISBN 0691021104 (0-691-02110-4)
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The Rise of Statistical Thinking 1820-1900by Theodore M. PorterISBN 069102409X (0-691-02409-X)
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Rural Scenes and National Representation: Britain, 1815-1850by Elizabeth K. HelsingerISBN 0691021465 (0-691-02146-5)
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Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Backgroundby Paul AvrichISBN 0691026041 (0-691-02604-1)
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Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Cultureby William EamonISBN 0691026025 (0-691-02602-5)
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Sense of Musicby Victor ZuckerkandlISBN 0691027005 (0-691-02700-5)
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Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954by Piero GleijesesISBN 0691025568 (0-691-02556-8)
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Short History of Medieval Philosophyby Julius R. WeinbergISBN 0691019568 (0-691-01956-8)
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The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great Power Among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese During the Early Middle Agesby Christopher I. BeckwithISBN 0691024693 (0-691-02469-3)
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To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infiniteby Eli MaorISBN 0691025118 (0-691-02511-8)
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Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900by Stanley J. SteinISBN 0691022364 (0-691-02236-4)
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Wagnerby Barry MillingtonISBN 0691027226 (0-691-02722-6)
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Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrageby Lee Ann BanaszakISBN 0691026394 (0-691-02639-4)
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William Blakeby William Blake, William VaughanISBN 0691029423 (0-691-02942-3)
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The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Lifeby Richard H. ThalerISBN 0691019347 (0-691-01934-7)
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A Woman, a Man, and Two Kingdoms: The Story of Madame D'Epinay and the Abbe Galianiby Francis SteegmullerISBN 0691024898 (0-691-02489-8)
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Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in Americaby Steven J. RossISBN 0691024642 (0-691-02464-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America'Book summary:This path-breaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could transform lives and when the cinema was a battleground for control of American consciousness. Steven Ross documents the rise of a working-class film movement that challenged the dominant political ideas of the day. Between 1907 and 1930, worker filmmakers repeatedly clashed with censors, movie industry leaders, and federal agencies over the kinds of images and subjects audiences would be allowed to see. The outcome of these battles was critical to our own times, for the victors got to shape the meaning of class in twentieth- century America.Surveying several hundred movies made by or about working men and women, Ross shows how filmmakers were far more concerned with class conflict during the silent era than at any subsequent time. Directors like Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and William de Mille made movies that defended working people and chastised their enemies. Worker filmmakers went a step further and produced movies from A Martyr to His Cause (1911) to The Gastonia Textile Strike (1929) that depicted a unified working class using strikes, unions, and socialism to transform a nation. J. Edgar Hoover considered these class-conscious productions so dangerous that he assigned secret agents to spy on worker filmmakers.Liberal and radical films declined in the 1920s as an emerging Hollywood studio system, pressured by censors and Wall Street investors, pushed American film in increasingly conservative directions. Appealing to people's dreams of luxury and upward mobility, studios produced lavish fantasy films that shifted popular attention away from the problems of the workplace and toward the pleasures of the new consumer society. [via]
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