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George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Two Sides

George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from...

Author: Rosalyn Schanzer ,  Rosalyn Schanzer
ISBN: 9780792273493
Format: Hardback
$44.75

This unique approach to the story of the American Revolution weaves the tale around two quite similar leaders--George...  Read More >>

Kripke's Wittgenstein: Meaning, Rules, and Scepticism

Kripke's Wittgenstein: Meaning, Rules, and Scepticism...

Author: Ali Hossein Khani
ISBN: 9781839990151
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book examines Kripke's influential interpretation of Wittgenstein's later philosophy, as presented in his celebrated...  Read More >>

Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Daodejing

Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Daodejing

Author: Xiaogan Liu ,  Ai Yuan
ISBN: 9783032001054
Format: Hardback
$465.72

Part 6 brings new questions to the ancient texts, and explores how they can respond to contemporary concerns on...  Read More >>

The Art and Craft of Japanese Cooking: Artisans, Chefs, Recipes

The Art and Craft of Japanese Cooking: Artisans, Chefs,...

Author: Nancy Singleton Hachisu ,  Alice Waters
ISBN: 9784805319895
Format: Hardback
$59.99

In this striking, highly personal volume, acclaimed cookbook author Nancy Singleton Hachisu introduces readers to...  Read More >>

Akila Berjaoui: The Possible Dream

Akila Berjaoui: The Possible Dream

Author: Akila Berjaoui
ISBN: 9783791394060
Format: Hardback
$99.00

Building on the sensual style of her previous book, The Last Days of Summer, this evocative collection of sunlit...  Read More >>

Sustainable Landscapes Across the Mediterranean (CrossMED 2024—V1): Interdisciplinary Approaches in Cultural Landscape Management in the Built Environment

Sustainable Landscapes Across the Mediterranean (CrossMED...

Author: Federico Camerin ,  Antonio Luis Pérez
ISBN: 9783032072542
Format: Hardback
$569.22

This book explores sustainable development and resilience in Mediterranean landscapes, focusing on architecture,...  Read More >>

The Social Audience of Prayer: A Rhetorical and Canonical Study of Individual Lament Psalms

The Social Audience of Prayer: A Rhetorical and Canonical...

Author: W. Derek Suderman
ISBN: 9781646023516
Format: Hardback
$250.00

Lament psalms are often imagined as private cries to God. Yet most laments are also directed outward—toward friends,...  Read More >>

The Aquatic Metropolis: Urban Design and Environmental Change in Tenochtitlan-Mexico City

The Aquatic Metropolis: Urban Design and Environmental...

Author: John F. López (University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780271100418
Format: Hardback
$146.00

For centuries, both the Aztec and the Spanish sought to control catastrophic flooding in Tenochtitlan and later...  Read More >>

Azrael: Encounters with the Angel of Death in Islamicate Thought and Culture

Azrael: Encounters with the Angel of Death in Islamicate...

Author: Dunja Rašić (independent)
ISBN: 9780271101484
Format: Hardback
$125.00

The archangel Azrael enforces the divine command that all living things must return to God in death. The very word...  Read More >>

Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain

Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism...

Author: Rebecca Jane Morgan
ISBN: 9780745351759
Format: Paperback
$43.99

A landmark history of trans activism in Britain, and a map for the road ahead  Read More >>

Polish Minds That Shaped World Philosophy

Polish Minds That Shaped World Philosophy

Author: Piotr Nowak
ISBN: 9781839998546
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This is the story about twenty-eight Polish philosophers who shaped both the continental and the analytical traditions...  Read More >>

Central Bank Independence and Inflation: Lessons from Latin America

Central Bank Independence and Inflation: Lessons from...

Author: Luis I. Jácome
ISBN: 9781647126872
Format: Hardback
$222.00

A history of the institutional reform of monetary policy in Latin America, with lessons for today After years of...  Read More >>

A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s

A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical...

Author: Russell Rickford
ISBN: 9781469690797
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Nestled between Brazil, Venezuela, and Suriname, Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state in mainland South...  Read More >>

Virginia's Forgotten Founder: The World of Robert Carter Nicholas

Virginia's Forgotten Founder: The World of Robert Carter...

Author: Brent Tarter
ISBN: 9780813955025
Format: Hardback
$277.00

The first biography of a neglected but crucial revolutionary figure and fascinating window into his world Study...  Read More >>

Walter Carnielli on Reasoning, Paraconsistency, and Probability

Walter Carnielli on Reasoning, Paraconsistency, and...

Author: Henrique Antunes ,  Alfredo Roque Freire
ISBN: 9783032110268
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book is a collection of essays and research articles honoring Walter Carnielli and his work. It brings together...  Read More >>

Games of Contingency: Ideal Types, Debates and Conceptual Histories of Politics

Games of Contingency: Ideal Types, Debates and Conceptual...

Author: Kari Palonen
ISBN: 9783032116697
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book offers reflections and applications of politics as an activity. It focuses on a selection of Kari Palonen's...  Read More >>

Symptom Invented: Lacan and the History of Marxism

Symptom Invented: Lacan and the History of Marxism

Author: Max Maher
ISBN: 9783032122667
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book is about Jacques Lacan’s place in the history of Marxist thought. It argues that psychoanalysis, as understood...  Read More >>

Worlds in a Stochastic Universe: On the Emergence of World Histories in Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics

Worlds in a Stochastic Universe: On the Emergence of...

Author: Alexander Ehmann
ISBN: 9783032146311
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book develops a detailed account of the emergence of world histories from the discontinuous, stochastic micro...  Read More >>

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea

Translating hell: Vernacular theology and apocrypha...

Author: Stephen C. E. Hopkins (Assistant Professor)
ISBN: 9781526175038
Format: Hardback
$194.99

A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England,...  Read More >>

India and imperial vulnerability: Knowledge, aesthetics and subjects in British discourses of disaster, 1763-1939

India and imperial vulnerability: Knowledge, aesthetics...

Author: Pramod K Nayar
ISBN: 9781526178114
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This is a study of disasters cyclones, earthquakes and famines in British India, 1770-1934, through a reading...  Read More >>

The Carolingian South

The Carolingian South

Author: Sam Ottewill-Soulsby ,  Graeme Ward
ISBN: 9781526176301
Format: Hardback
$217.99

The Carolingian South brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine the impact...  Read More >>

Critical theory and the political

Critical theory and the political

Author: Anastasia Marinopoulou
ISBN: 9781526172624
Format: Hardback
$206.99

The book explores whether critical theory constitutes a political argument for modernity as well as an argument...  Read More >>

Underground Shelters of Cappadocia, Turkey

Underground Shelters of Cappadocia, Turkey

Author: Ali Yamaç ,  Ezgi Tok
ISBN: 9783032160942
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book provides a comprehensive account of the underground shelters in the Cappadocia region of Central Anatolia....  Read More >>

Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

Author: Rita Filanti
ISBN: 9781526177063
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This study of Voltairine de Cleyre's transnational anarchism focuses on her work as pedagogue and translator to...  Read More >>

The Life of St. Stephen the Younger: A Translation, with Notes and Historical Commentary

The Life of St. Stephen the Younger: A Translation,...

Author: Tyler T. Travillian ,  Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen
ISBN: 9780815361930
Format: Hardback
$242.00

The translation of The Life of St. Stephen the Younger details the unique birth narrative, monastic life, and martyrdom...  Read More >>

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