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David Alff
The Northeast Corridor

All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor.Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be Americ…

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Ryan L Allen
Adventures in the Archaic

Examines how four intellectuals with ties to the French social sciences articulated a new primitivist sensibility between 1945 and 1975.We tend to associate primitivism with the nostalgic idealization of …

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Santiago Anria, Kenneth M Roberts
Polarization and Democracy in Latin America

An insightful examination of Latin America's contemporary democratic landscape and how it is marked by patterns of polarization and volatility.Although Latin American democracies have shown considerable r…

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Maneesh Arora
Parties and Prejudice

"Anti-minority rhetoric in American politics has grown more overt. What were once fringe comments on Stormfront have now become typical campaign appeals from many mainstream politicians. This is the …

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Arthur Bahr
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object.In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at the four poems and twelve i…

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Keith Michael Baker
Jean-Paul Marat

A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution--Jean-Paul Marat.Who better to pen an authoritative biography of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-93) than pr…

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Peter Balakian
New York Trilogy

"New York Trilogy is comprised of three, long, multi-sequence poems ("A-Train/Ziggurat/Elegy," "Ozone Journal," and "No Sign") that first appeared in Peter Balakian's la…

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Edward Baring
Vulgar Marxism

Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education. For the past hundred years, "vulgar Marxism" has bee…

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Mark V Barrow
Gator!

What this intriguing--and unsettling--apex predator reveals about Americans' attempts to control and connect with the natural world.Both a flesh-and-blood critter and the stuff of legend, the alligator in…

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Larry M Bartels, Katherine J Cramer
The Politics of Social Change

How did we get to this point in American politics? Drawing on insights from an unprecedented decades-long study of ordinary Americans' political lives, this book tells the story of how, why, and when our …

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David W Bates
An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.We imagine that we are both in control of and controlled by our bodies-autonomous and yet automatic. T…

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David Bather Woods
Arthur Schopenhauer

An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with Arthur Schopenhauer's pessimism.Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) almost was…

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Gary Stanley Becker,
The Economic Approach

Now in paperback, a revealing collection from the intellectual titan whose work shaped the modern world.As an economist and public intellectual, Gary S. Becker was a giant. The recipient of a Nobel Prize,…

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Ingmar Bergman
The Magic Lantern

"When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood." Bergman,…

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Jesse Bering
The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson

The untold story of an iconoclastic scientist: a psychiatrist who dedicated his career to documenting consciousness after death.While Ian Stevenson (1918-2007) was an academic psychiatrist with a serious …

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Jillian Berman
Sunk Cost

"Student loan horror stories are seemingly endless. And yet, since research continually shows that the clearest road to financial stability is a college degree, Americans continue to make the optimis…

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Jeffrey M Berry, James M Glaser, Deborah J Schildkraut
Everyday Democracy

"How the everyday habits and attitudes of ordinary liberals and conservatives shape the health of American democracy. In Everyday Democracy, Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser, and Deborah J. Schildkr…

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Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Sikh Kirtan and Its Journeys

An unprecedented portrait of Sikh devotional music demonstrating how musical traditions shift to meet changing needs.Kirtan --the sung expression of sacred verses--spans the Indian subcontinent, but it pl…

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Fannie Bialek
Love in Time

"Love cannot be everlasting, much as we might desire it to be so. So, what is love in a life that begins and ends? How does it feel to love as a finite being, imperfectly as we may? In Western philos…

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Ravinder S Binning
The Medieval Art of Fear

A bold new approach to medieval art and architecture's shaping of psychosomatic experience. > Moving between early monastic spaces in Egypt and major urban centers like Constantinople from the fourth…

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