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Why Veganism Matters

Gary Francione

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science,
• Most people care about animals, but only a tiny fraction are vegan. The rest often think of veganism as an extreme position. They certainly do not bel... Lees meer

Pantheologies

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

• Paperback | Engels
• Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical--that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the universe itse... Lees meer

Better Data Visualizations

Jonathan Schwabish

• Paperback | Engels
• Now more than ever, content must be visual if it is to travel far. Readers everywhere are overwhelmed with a flow of data, news, and text. Visuals can... Lees meer

Conversations

Ai Weiwei

• Paperback | Engels
• Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, an... Lees meer

The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries

Donald R Prothero

• Hardcover | Engels
• The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective. De... Lees meer

Aging Behind Prison Walls

Tina Maschi, Keith Morgen

• Paperback | Engels
• Today, more than 200,000 men and women over age fifty are languishing in prisons around the United States. It is projected that by 2030, one-third of ... Lees meer

Duchamp Is My Lawyer

Kenneth Goldsmith

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. What started out... Lees meer

Oil Powers

Victor McFarland

• Paperback | Engels
• Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States and Saudi Arabia have built a close but often troubled alliance. In this critical history, Victor M... Lees meer

The Ages of Globalization

Jeffrey D Sachs

• Hardcover | Engels
• Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term fut... Lees meer

Film Studies, Second Edition

Ed Sikov

• Paperback | Engels | Film and Culture
• Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation... Lees meer

The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks

Donald R Prothero

• Paperback | Engels
• Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth's past. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook... Lees meer

Woe from Wit

Alexander Griboedov

• Paperback | Engels | Russian Library
• Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, i... Lees meer

China's Green Religion

James Miller

• Paperback | Engels
• How can Daoism, China's indigenous religion, give us the aesthetic, ethical, political, and spiritual tools to address the root causes of our ecologic... Lees meer

Fantastic Fossils

Donald R Prothero

• Hardcover | Engels
• Nothing fills us with a sense of wonder like fossils. What looks at first like a simple rock is in fact a clue that reveals the staggering diversity o... Lees meer

Exploding Stars and Invisible Planets

Fred Watson

• Hardcover | Engels
• What happens to space and matter near a black hole? Where did the moon come from? How do we know what stars are made of? Are we alone in the universe?... Lees meer

Cook, Taste, Learn

Guy Crosby

• Hardcover | Engels | Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
• Cooking food is one of the activities that makes humanity unique. It's not just about what tastes good: advances in cooking technology have been a con... Lees meer

History of Art in Japan

Nobuo Tsuji

• Paperback | Engels
• History of Art in Japan is a fully illustrated overview of Japanese art, written by one of Japan's most distinguished art historians. This masterful a... Lees meer

After the Crash

• Hardcover | Engels
• The 2008 crash was the worst financial crisis and the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. It triggered a complete overhaul of th... Lees meer

Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can

Herbert S Terrace

• Hardcover | Engels | Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
• In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A you... Lees meer

The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945

Olivier Wieviorka

• Hardcover | Engels | European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• In just three months in 1940, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France fell to the Nazis. The German occupation of Western Eu... Lees meer

Social Media and the Public Interest

Philip M Napoli

• Hardcover | Engels
• Facebook, a platform created by undergraduates in a Harvard dorm room, has transformed the ways millions of people consume news, understand the world,... Lees meer

Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods

E Fuller Torrey

• Paperback | Engels
• Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have att... Lees meer

The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries

Donald R Prothero

• Hardcover | Engels
• Today, any kid can rattle off the names of dozens of dinosaurs. But it took centuries of scientific effort--and a lot of luck--to discover and establi... Lees meer

Worlds of Journalism

• Paperback | Engels | Reuters Institute Global Journalism
• How do journalists around the world view their roles and responsibilities in society? Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than... Lees meer