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Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict (Ancient Society and History)
Book Title Author(s) : Christopher Haas
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Second only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologians—among them Philo, Origen, Arius, Athanasius, Hypatia, Cyril, and John Philoponus. Now, in Alexandria in Late Antiquity, Christopher Haas offers the...Read More

What's Wrong with Postmodernism?: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
Book Title Author(s) : Professor Christopher Norris
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In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the "postmodern-pragmatist malaise" of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds a continuing critical impulse--an "enlightened or emancipatory interest"--in thinkers like Derrida, de Man, Bhaskar, and Habermas. Offering a provoca...Read More

Privatizing the Public University: Perspectives from across the Academy
Book Title Author(s) : Stanley O. Ikenberry, Michael K. McLendon, Christine G. Mokher, Robert C. Lowry, Robert Toutkoushian, Peter D. Eckel, Christopher C. Morphew, Gabriel Kaplan
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With public colleges and universities facing substantial budget cuts and increased calls for accountability, more institutions now rely on private revenue streams for support. As market-driven policies and behaviors become more commonplace, some cautious critics sound the alarm, while others watchin...Read More

Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
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The essays in Global Social Change explore globalization from a world-systems perspective, untangling its many contested meanings. This perspective offers insights into globalization's gradual and uneven growth throughout the course of human social evolution. In this informative and exciting ...Read More

Night's Dinner and a Movie (Vampire Love Story and Getting Yours)
Book Title Author(s) : H.T. Night
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Sink your teeth into "Vampire Love Story", and enjoy the romantic comedy "Getting Yours!"Vampire Love StoryJosiah Reign is a lover and a fighter. Out for a simple jog, he happens upon a young woman who needs help. So Josiah does what he does best. He takes on her attackers...all five of them, in fac...Read More

Abraham Lincoln: A Life
Book Title Author(s) : Michael Burlingame
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In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript...Read More

Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, the Individual, and Culture in American Social Thought, from Veblen to Mills (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
Book Title Author(s) : Professor Christopher Shannon
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"The anthropological idea of 'culture' has provided twentieth-century American intellectuals with an ideology for the relentless textualization of everyday life through social-scientific inquiry. In this book I argue that the rise of 'culture' as a mode of critical self-consciousness has fostered a ...Read More

Hamlet
Book Title Author(s) : William Shakespeare
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in the Kingdom of Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius for murdering the old King Hamlet, Claud...Read More

 

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