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The Obligation Mosaic
$105.00Many argue that “civic duty” explains why Americans engage in politics, but what does civic duty mean, and does it mean the same thing across communities? Why are people from…
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The Open-Ended City
$29.95Texas Historical Commission Award of Excellence in Media Achievement, Texas Historical Commission In 1980, David Dillon launched his career as an architectural critic with a provocative article that asked “Why Is…
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The Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham: On Direct Vision Bks.1-3
$64.00The Kitab al-mana?ir or Book of Optics of Ibn al-Haytham, composed in the second quarter of the 11th century AD, consists of seven books (or maqalas) which may be…
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The Other Dark Matter
$26.00Grossly ambitious and rooted in scientific scholarship, The Other Dark Matter shows how human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource—if we make better use of it. The average person…
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The Other Windrush
$99.00Between the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971 Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from the Caribbean. In…
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The Oyster and the Eagle
$30.00We are currently updating our website and have not yet posted complete information for this title. Many of our books are in the Google preview program, which allows readers to…
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The Peculiar Possum
$12.99“Addresses bullying and empathy in an easy, accessible way” —New York Post The Nocturnals 8-book Early Reader Collection encourages kids at all reading levels who like adventurous stories featuring unusual…
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The Pensive Citadel
$25.00A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor. In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university…
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The Perfect Fit
$105.00The Perfect Fit shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women’s shoes. We know a lot about how clothing and shoes are made…
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The Pharisees
$54.99A multidisciplinary appraisal of the Pharisees: who they were, what they taught, and how they’ve been understood and depicted throughout historyFor centuries, Pharisees have been well known but little understood—due…
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The Philosopher’s Toothache
$99.95The Philosopher’s Toothache proposes that early modern Stoicism constituted a radical mode of performance. Stoicism—with its focus on bodily sensation, imagined spectatorship, and daily mental and physical exercise—exists as what…
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The Phoenicians
$25.00Drawing on an impressive range of archaeological and textual sources and a nuanced understanding of biases, this book offers a valuable reappraisal of the enigmatic Phoenicians. The Phoenicians is a…
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