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The Puzzle People
$24.95Given the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in the…
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The Shadow Of The Mills
$37.95The profound disruption of family relationships caused by industrialization found its most dramatic expression in the steel mills of Pittsburgh in the 1880s. The work day was twelve hours, and…
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The Six Questions
In the late twenties, actors and directors of the Group Theatre, who were pioneering the use of Stanislavski’s teachings, saw the value of teaching ballet and the emerging modern dance….
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The Spencers of Amberson Avenue
$21.95This appealing memoir introduces the family of Charles Hart Spencer and his wife Mary Acheson: seven children born between 1884 and 1895. It also introduces a large Victorian house in…
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The Steel Workers
$37.95This classic account of the worker in the steel industry during the early years of the twentieth century combines the social investigator’s mastery of facts with the vivid personal touch…
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The Thaw Generation
$37.95The Thaw Generation offers an insider’s look at the Soviet dissident movement–the intellectuals who, during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras, dared to challenge an oppressive system and demand the rights…
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The Time Of Freedom
$34.95“The time of freedom” was the name that plantation workers—campesinos—gave to Guatemala’s national revolution of 1944–1954. Cindy Forster reveals the critical role played by the poor in organizing and sustaining…
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The Volcano Sequence
$17.00A bold, erotic,and spiritual collection of poetry from well-respected poet and critic Alicia Suskin Ostriker, whose previous two books were both National Book Award finalists. “This is a book written…
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Theories On The Scrap Heap
$35.95In a recent issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Cullen Murphy wrote that “It is always a little disconcerting when audacious scientific theories come a cropper.” In this case, he was…
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Theory and Method In The Neurosciences
$75.00Theory and Method in the Neurosciences surveys the nature and structure of theories in contemporary neuroscience, exploring many of its methodological techniques and problems. The essays explore basic questions about…
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Thomas Mellon And His Times
$38.95Publicly available for the first time, Pittsburgh entrepreneur, judge, and banker Thomas Mellon’s autobiography includes maps and rarely seen photographs. The preface by his grandson Paul Mellon and the foreword…
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Thunder In the Mountains
$20.00The West Virginia mine war of 1920–21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and…
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