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Environmental Law for Biologists

Tristan Kimbrell

• Hardcover | Engels
• Environmental law has an unquestionable effect on the species, ecosystems, and landscapes that biologists study--and vice-versa, as the research of th... Lees meer

The Oldest Living Things in the World

Rachel Sussman

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked wi... Lees meer

The Angel in the Marketplace

Ellen Wayland-Smith

• Hardcover | Engels
• The popular image of a midcentury adwoman is of a feisty girl beating men at their own game, a female Horatio Alger protagonist battling her way throu... Lees meer

Educated in Romance

Dorothy C Holland

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Achievement, and College Culture
• Is romance more important to women in college than grades are? Why do so many women enter college with strong academic backgrounds and firm career goa... Lees meer

Soft Patriarchs, New Men

W Bradford Wilcox

• Paperback | Engels | Morality and Society
• In the wake of dramatic, recent changes in American family life, evangelical and mainline Protestant churches took markedly different positions on fam... Lees meer

The Nature of Scientific Evidence

• Paperback | Engels
• An exploration of the statistical foundations of scientific inference, The Nature of Scientific Evidence asks what constitutes scientific evidence and... Lees meer

ISA Genzken

Lisa Lee

• Hardcover | Engels
• The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the art... Lees meer

From Old Regime to Industrial State

Richard H Tilly, Michael Kopsidis

• Hardcover | Engels | Markets and Governments in Economic History
• In From Old Regime to Industrial State , Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany's industrialization. While ... Lees meer

Operationism in Psychology

Uljana Feest

• Paperback | Engels
• Analyzes psychological research to offer insights into how methodological and ontological questions are intertwined. Psychology has seen an intense de... Lees meer

Everything for Sale

Robert Kuttner

• Paperback | Engels
• In this highly acclaimed, provocative book, Robert Kuttner disputes the laissez-faire direction of both economic theory and practice that has been gai... Lees meer

Making War in Côte d'Ivoire

Mike McGovern

• Hardcover | Engels
• After a brief period of active combat in 2002, the conflict in Côte d'Ivoire settled into a pattern of neither war nor peace until the 2010 elections ... Lees meer

Abundant Earth

Eileen Crist

• Paperback | Engels
• In Abundant Earth , Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction ... Lees meer

Redeeming American Political Thought

Judith N Shklar

• Paperback | Engels
• Noted political philosopher Judith Shklar declined to write a book about American political thought because, she once claimed, "the subject is too har... Lees meer

Amber Waves

Catherine Zabinski

• Hardcover | Engels
• A biography of a staple grain we often take for granted, exploring how wheat went from wild grass to a world-shaping crop. At breakfast tables and bak... Lees meer

The Governance of Not-For-Profit Organizations

• Paperback | Engels | National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
• Not-for-profit organizations play a critical role in the American economy, but little attention is paid to the pressures and challenges that affect th... Lees meer

Shoot!

Luigi Pirandello

• Paperback | Engels | Cinema and Modernity
• Originally published in Italian in 1915, Shoot! is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on t... Lees meer

Anonymous

Thomas Degloma

• Paperback | Engels
• A rich sociological analysis of how and why we use anonymity. In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social landscape. There are coun... Lees meer

Intimacies

Leo Bersani

• Paperback | Engels
• Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities ... Lees meer

Picturing Political Power

Allison K Lange

• Paperback | Engels
• Lange's examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals the power of images to change history. For ... Lees meer

Power to the Partners

Maraam A Dwidar

• Paperback | Engels
• A vital examination of how social and economic justice organizations overcome resource disadvantages and build political power. Why do some coalitions... Lees meer

Globes

Sylvia Sumira

• Hardcover | Engels
• The concept of the earth as a sphere has been around for centuries, emerging around the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century BC, and eventually bec... Lees meer

A Surgical Temptation

Robert Darby

• Paperback | Engels
• In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors u... Lees meer

James Joyce and the Irish Revolution

Luke Gibbons

• Hardcover | Engels
• A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization. When revolutionaries seized Dublin during the 1916 Easter Risi... Lees meer

Rehabilitating Lochner

David E Bernstein

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this timely reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court decision, David E. Bernstein provides a compelling survey of the history and background of Lo... Lees meer