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    Nature (Unabridged)

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    1 hour 50 min

    Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Recent advances in zoology, botany, and geology confirmed Emerson's intuitions about the intricate relationships of Nature at large. The publication of Nature is usually taken ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Religious Sense

    New Revised Edition

    The Religious Sense, the fruit of many years of dialogue with students, is an exploration of the search for meaning in life. Luigi Giussani shows that the nature of reason expresses itself in the ultimate need for truth, goodness, and beauty. These needs constitute the fabric of the religious sense, which is evident in every human being everywhere and in all times. So strong is this sense that it ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Black Wave

    A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them

    “I told God that if he would let us survive this night, I would make it mean something worthwhile. And then, somehow, I felt calmer than I have ever felt. Unreasonably so. Irrationally so. I looked over the scene of our wrecked life and I smiled–a crazy smile for sure–and I looked through the dark at the mad beauty of it.”–Jean SilverwoodAn exhilarating true-life adventure of one family’s ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience

    Edited by Jean Decety, John T. Cacioppo ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    The complexities of the brain and nervous system make neuroscience an inherently interdisciplinary pursuit, one that comprises disparate basic, clinical, and applied disciplines. Behavioral neuroscientists approach the brain and nervous system as instruments of sensation and response; cognitive neuroscientists view the same systems as a solitary computer with a focus on representations and ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Portrait Tales

    Fables, memories, things he's read, things he's seen, transposed or made up, the stories gathered in Portrait Tales take the reader around the world, hopping through art history, with imaginative flair for the caustic or extravagant, yet always telling detail: from an impossible portrait of Jesus in 50 AD, which somehow brings J.L. Godard into the picture, to the 14th c. Ottoman Empire, to China's ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • A Seventh Man

    A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe

    Series series The Essential John Berger
    Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker—the material circumstances and the inner experience—and, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • French Cruisers, 1922–1956

    A technical analysis and pictorial history of the French navy cruisers built in the early to mid-twentieth century.The French produced some of the most striking and innovatory interwar cruiser designs. A large amount of new information about these ships has become available over the past twenty years in France, but this book is the first to make this accessible to an English-speaking readership ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Custom

    Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa

    How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expected, indigenous sovereigns are instead a rising force, often wielding substantial power and legitimacy despite major changes in the workings of the global political economy in the post–Cold War era—changes in which they are themselves deeply implicated ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shaping a Science of Social Work

    Professional Knowledge and Identity

    Shaping a Science of Social WorkÂprovides a basic framework for a social work science within the context of academic disciplinarity and professional identity. Drawn from discussions at the annual IslandWood retreats for social work scholars, this book centers on a realist/critical-realist perspective by outlining the basic constructs, domains, and characteristics of a science that will inform the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Second Science Fiction Novel MEGAPACK®

    I’m pleased to continue our Science Fiction Novel MEGAPACK® series with another collection of great SF novels, published originally between 1959 and 2011. Fans of classic science fiction with enjoy this set. A highlight is The Asteroid Murder Case, by the late Arthur Jean Cox, which is based on a story by Ross Rocklin. (See Jean’s introduction for more information). Also included are:Not in ... Read more

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  • Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition

    Acculturation, Identity, and Adaptation Across National Contexts

    Series series Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions
    The Classic Edition of 'Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition', first published in 2006, includes a new introduction by the editors, describing the ongoing relevance of this volume in the context of future challenges for this vital field of study. It emphasizes the importance of continued actions and policies to improve the quality of interactions between multiple ethno-cultural groups, and ... Read more

    Was $72.99 USD Now $64.99 USD

  • Virtue and Terror

    Translated by John Howe ...
    Robespierre’s justification of the Terror in the French RevolutionRobespierre’s defence of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written. It has an extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its proponents. Yet today the French Revolution is celebrated as the event which gave ... Read more

    $9.99 USD