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The Tobacco Takers: Puritanism, Smoking, Health, and the Archaeology of Bodily Care

The Tobacco Takers: Puritanism, Smoking, Health, and...

Author: Diana DiPaolo Loren (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781538189344
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Utilizing archaeological, archival, and visual sources, this book reconsiders tobacco and smoking in the 17th-century...  Read More >>

The Metamodern Cinema of Taika Waititi

The Metamodern Cinema of Taika Waititi

Author: Kevin Corbett
ISBN: 9781666955750
Format: Hardback
$180.00

In this book, Kevin Corbett demonstrates the prominent role of metamodern cinematic elements in Taika Waititi’s...  Read More >>

Moral Luck and Christian Philosophical Theology: A Molinist Perspective

Moral Luck and Christian Philosophical Theology: A Molinist...

Author: Mark B. Anderson
ISBN: 9781666960105
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This study explores the intersection of moral luck and Christian theology by advancing and developing a counterfactual...  Read More >>

Edith Stein and Max Scheler in Dialogue

Edith Stein and Max Scheler in Dialogue

Author: Eric Mohr ,  Timothy A. Burns
ISBN: 9781666965452
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This volume brings together philosophers and theologians to explore connections between Stein and Scheler’s work,...  Read More >>

French Ethics and the Economics of Freedom: From Politics to Moral Obligation

French Ethics and the Economics of Freedom: From Politics...

Author: Nathalie Nya
ISBN: 9781793639790
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Drawing on Naomi Zack’s analysis of race and ethics, this book develops a moral ethics of obligation around the...  Read More >>

Emotions and Community: An Ontological Account

Emotions and Community: An Ontological Account

Author: Daniel Rueda Garrido
ISBN: 9781666974096
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Through an ontological approach, this book redefines emotions as embodied actions and explores how fundamental emotions...  Read More >>

Karl Marx’s Ethics of Human Flourishing

Karl Marx’s Ethics of Human Flourishing

Author: Sam Badger
ISBN: 9781666966145
Format: Hardback
$170.00

How did Marx’s moral views inform his critique of capitalism? This book argues that Marx developed an ethic of human...  Read More >>

Existential Intelligence: The Ontology of Ambiguity and Education

Existential Intelligence: The Ontology of Ambiguity...

Author: Sevket Benhür Oral
ISBN: 9781666971699
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book develops an ontological approach to understanding existential intelligence and its connections to democracy...  Read More >>

The Heyday of Willie, Duke, and Mickey: New York City Baseball's Golden Age amid Integration

The Heyday of Willie, Duke, and Mickey: New York City...

Author: Robert C. Cottrell (Writer, retired professor)
ISBN: 9798881842574
Format: Hardback
$60.00

This book provides a new perspective on the postwar golden age of New York City baseball. Alongside the Dodgers,...  Read More >>

Liberating Jesus: Christian Ethics for Privileged People

Liberating Jesus: Christian Ethics for Privileged People...

Author: Kristopher Norris (Alliance of Baptists denomination, USA)
ISBN: 9798881805654
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Accessible and student-friendly introduction to Christian Ethics that draws upon interwoven threads of liberationist,...  Read More >>

Mexico: A Concise Illustrated History

Mexico: A Concise Illustrated History

Author: John W. Sherman
ISBN: 9798881804602
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This accessible, sweeping survey of Mexican history, from pre-Columbian times to the present, introduces critical...  Read More >>

Discourses at Play: A Rhetorical Exploration of Historical Crises Using the Language of Games

Discourses at Play: A Rhetorical Exploration of Historical...

Author: Todd S. Frobish
ISBN: 9781666970012
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Provides rhetorical critics a new method, ""rhetorical gameplay,"" for the evaluation of large-scale and real-world...  Read More >>

Unseen Scars: Vicarious Trauma at Holocaust Museums, Exhibitions, and Memorial Sites

Unseen Scars: Vicarious Trauma at Holocaust Museums,...

Author: Julie J. Golding (Holocaust Museum and Center for Tolerance and Education) ,  Michael Berenbaum (American Jewish University)
ISBN: 9798216381228
Format: Hardback
$220.00

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the pedagogical and psychological issues and challenges encountered...  Read More >>

Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia

Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime...

Author: Mitra Sharafi
ISBN: 9781501785986
Format: Paperback
$64.99

""The high era of forensic science in colonial India and Burma (circa 1900) was driven by deception anxiety and...  Read More >>

Between Liberty and Stability: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Enduring Difficulty of Building and Maintaining a Regime

Between Liberty and Stability: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,...

Author: Bruce A. Hunt, Jr. ,  Robert E. Ross
ISBN: 9798765189023
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book gives much needed attention to John Adams’ and Thomas Jefferson’s decades-long intellectual rivalry, showcasing...  Read More >>

Making a Life: Catholic Social Teaching and the Meaning of Work

Making a Life: Catholic Social Teaching and the Meaning...

Author: Kate Ward
ISBN: 9780567726933
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Drawing on the tradition of Catholic social teaching, ethicist Kate Ward re-envisions the meaning of work in American...  Read More >>

Performing Pilgrimage to the Lourdes of Wales: St Winefride’s Well and its Pilgrims

Performing Pilgrimage to the Lourdes of Wales: St Winefride’s...

Author: Kathryn Hurlock
ISBN: 9781837723386
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This is the first scholarly study of Britain's oldest pilgrimage site in continuous use, St Winefride's Well. Since...  Read More >>

The Spectral Palestinian: Presence before Politics

The Spectral Palestinian: Presence before Politics

Author: John Randolph LeBlanc (University of Texas at Tyler)
ISBN: 9781666962147
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A political theorist’s reading of works by three older Palestinian political voices reveal Palestinians who defy...  Read More >>

Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 Volume 1: Soviet Air Power in the Baltic 1940–41

Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 Volume 1: Soviet Air...

Author: Mikhail Timin
ISBN: 9781804518762
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 Volume 2: The Eve of War, Early 1941

Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 Volume 2: The Eve of...

Author: Mikhail Timin
ISBN: 9781804519615
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Introducing the Medieval Bear

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Author: Karen Sullivan
ISBN: 9781837723751
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears...  Read More >>

Red Army Faction Volume 1: The Group Baader Meinhof, 1970-1976

Red Army Faction Volume 1: The Group Baader Meinhof,...

Author: David Francois
ISBN: 9781806720422
Format: Paperback
$49.99

From 1970 to 1998, the Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) was one of the most notorious far-left terrorist organisations. ...  Read More >>

Armies, Allies and Enemies of The Khmer Empire Volume 1: The Khmer Empire and its Army

Armies, Allies and Enemies of The Khmer Empire Volume...

Author: Mark G. Fry
ISBN: 9781804519950
Format: Paperback
$75.00

Using extensive, new photographic reference material from three primary Khmer temple sources, this book focuses...  Read More >>

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