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Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst (Women in Culture and Society) Best Price: $15.95 In Bound and Determined , Christopher Castiglia gives shape for the first time to a tradition...	In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism Best Price: $17.99 This book is my first by Cavell, having been referred to him by a good friend, and let me just...	Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz Best Price: $28.70 Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back...	I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah!: Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers Best Price: $56.15 The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth...	Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present Best Price: $14.00 Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics....



Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism, and the Transformation of Knowledge Best Price: $20.26 In working to build a sense of nationhood, Ghana has focused on many social engineering...	Love and Death in Renaissance Italy Best Price: $19.50 While I agree with the reviewer quoted on Amazon that Mr. Cohen inserts his comments and voice...	The Nature and Processes of Preverbal Learning: Implications from Nine-Month-Old Infants' Discrimination Problem Solving (Monographs of the Society) In a sequence of carefully designed studies, the authors document infants' abilities to...	Dr. Golem: How to Think about Medicine Best Price: $13.45 Dr. Golem explores some of the mysteries and complexities of medicine while untangling the...	Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919 (Historical Studies of Urban America) Best Price: $27.29 Building the South Side explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and...



The Pope's Body Best Price: $20.69 While the Pope is alive, he is the Vicar of Christ and in many ways in the embodiment of the...	America Lost and Found: An English Boy's Wartime Adventure in the New World Best Price: $12.00 Excellent, make sure you also read "England, First and Last", the sequel; you will be...	Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation Best Price: $12.10 Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and...	The Journey Back Best Price: $21.23 "Professor Baker offers the richest analysis we have of black literature in its full...	Sleeping Beauty: A One-Artist Dictionary (Project Tango: Artists and Writers Together) Best Price: $19.75 The dictionary. The ubiquitous high-gloss fashion ad. The fraught relationship between artist...

Death and Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism) Best Price: $97.47 Combining literary criticism and feminist analysis, Death and Dissymmetry radically...	Death and Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism) Best Price: $24.78 Combining literary criticism and feminist analysis, Death and Dissymmetry radically...	Louise Bourgeois' Spider: The Architecture of Art-Writing Best Price: $23.99 This review by Wayne Andersen was published in Common Knowledge. Louise Bourgeois's...	The Word and the Law Best Price: $28.98 Milner Ball takes an experimental journey into the inner life of law and the careers of men and...	How Healthy Are We?: A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De) Best Price: $23.99 How physically and psychologically healthy are Americans at midlife? And why do some experience...

Family, Law, and Community: Supporting the Covenant Best Price: $36.78 In the wake of vast social and economic changes, the nuclear family has lost its dominance, both...	Pascal Programming for Music Research Best Price: $74.97 In computer-time, Alexander Brinkman's book (released in 1989) is of ancient vintage,...	Visualizing American Empire: Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines Best Price: $21.21 Having previously read David Brody's articles in Prospects and other journals I've been...	Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s Best Price: $19.94 Nick Bromell is a poet -essayist who has turned, over the the years, in a fermentation like that...	By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America Best Price: $16.97 The spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism, and the challenge to slavery...

The Nature of Diversity: An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery Best Price: $49.77 All living things on earth?from individual species to entire ecosystems?have evolved through...	A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences Best Price: $2.99 For too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scientists have felt forced to choose between...	The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts Best Price: $39.06 In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and...	The Script of Life in Modern Society: Entry into Adulthood in a Changing World Best Price: $44.97 Social scientists generally agree that relations between the different life stages in advanced...	This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now Best Price: $12.71 Many readers first encounter Shakespeare?s plays in a book rather than a theater. Yet...

A General History of Quadrupeds: The Figures Engraved on Wood Best Price: $53.38 In the late eighteenth century, the British took greater interest than ever before in observing...	Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy Best Price: $23.45 I enjoyed reading this book far more than I imagined I would. Though the detail of the third...	One Must Also Be Hungarian Best Price: $12.24 This little book with it's light coloured spine beckoned to me from between two doorstop...	Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series) Best Price: $18.00 Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia...	The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression Best Price: $23.83 This by far the best research I have read on the subject of architecture. Suzanne Blier takes a...

A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology Best Price: $30.00 In the centenary year of Leonard Bloomfield's birth, this abridgment makes available a...	Topics in Empirical International Economics: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert E. Lipsey (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) Best Price: $21.71 In this timely volume emanating from the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in...	A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books) Best Price: $23.24 Almost everything can be construed as ironic, as Wayne C. Booth shows, but there are different...	Now Don't Try to Reason with Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age Best Price: $28.59 In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned ?middle...	The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America Best Price: $19.39 Sometime in the first half of the twentieth century, a coterie of fire ants came ashore from...

Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the "Nicomachean Ethics" Best Price: $14.66 What is the good life for a human being? Aristotle?s exploration of this question in the ...	The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa: With E. D. Swinton's "The Defence of Duffer's Drift" Best Price: $7.55 I had the pleasure to serve with both authors from 1999-2001 in the only heavy Cavalry Regiment...	The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World Best Price: $32.38 The Evolution of Grammar focuses on two issues: first, is it possible to discover diachronic...	American Pronghorn: Social Adaptations and the Ghosts of Predators Past Best Price: $69.99 Pronghorn antelope are the fastest runners in North America, clocked at speeds of up to 100...	Risk Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) Best Price: $32.50 Our current social security system operates on a pay-as-you-go basis; benefits are paid almost...

Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (English and Portuguese Edition) Best Price: $19.48 Luis de Camoes is generally considered the greatest writer in the Portuguese language - on a par...	The Risks of Financial Institutions (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) Best Price: $28.99 Until about twenty years ago, the consensus view on the cause of financial-system distress was...	Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God (Religion and Postmodernism) Best Price: $25.00 How can one think and name an inconceivable and ineffable God? Christian mystics have approached...	The Night is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) Best Price: $15.94 The Night is Young is a poignant, personal account of ethnographic observations concerning...	Fighting Like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings Best Price: $18.66 I read just read this book and I think that it is a really great book. It was really interesting...

Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa Best Price: $23.24 This book contains a collection of essays concerning withcrafts effect on things ranging from...	Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison Best Price: $17.39 There's a fair amount of research on locked up men, but what about the women who love them? ...	Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution Best Price: $11.82 Let's see now--a dozen dogs eating their heads off so that you can run them in sled races...	A Scholar's Guide to Geographical Writing on the American and Canadian Past (University of Chicago Geography Research Papers) Best Price: $90.90 More than 9,000 books, dissertations, and articles from 1850 to 1990 are listed in this...	Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology Best Price: $22.48 This is a tour de force, an extraordinary examination of the imagination. Crapanzano writes...

Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers: & Other Unusual Relationships Best Price: $13.95 Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew...	Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Aircraft Crashes Best Price: $28.95 In Fatal Words, Cushing describes the many ways flights can be placed in jeopardy through...	Barrio: Photographs from Chicago's Pilsen and Little Village (Chicago Visions and Revisions) Best Price: $23.54 I am no book critic, but I am an armature photographer and a native of the Pilsen neighborhood...	Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind: The Early Writings of Charles Darwin Best Price: $22.47 First published in 1974 as a companion volume to Darwin on Man by Howard E. Gruber,...	Becoming Historians Best Price: $59.95 In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a...

The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going Best Price: $7.85 This book, which I would term as modern classic in the field, is a perennial read for higher...	"So What Are You Going to Do with That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia Best Price: $6.99 a. Loved this book. It delves into accepting your feelings about academia, has numerous examples...	The Meaning of Whitemen: Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World Best Price: $69.97 A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, ?the whiteman? has come to personify the...	Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies Best Price: $19.89 Symbolic interactionism, resolutely empirical in practice, shares theoretical concerns with...	Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) Best Price: $8.35 Howard S. Becker's Tricks of the Trade is an invitation to sit in on a graduate seminar in...

Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric Best Price: $39.13 With ths group of scholars contributing, one would have high expectations. Although I probably...	Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) Best Price: $33.57 Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures?most lamentably, the...	Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (Women in Culture and Society) Best Price: $10.79 Of course Bederman is "biased," she is a human being trying to understand something...	Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics Best Price: $27.97 Can politics be studied scientifically, and if so, how? Assuming it is impossible to justify...	Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals Best Price: $44.50 "Ecosystems" is 500+ pages, and could easily be expanded to ten times that. ...

Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals Best Price: $10.45 There was a time when evolutionary biologists really believed Tennyson's famous description...	Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) Best Price: $23.99 Mara Beller has written an exciting and very valuable portrait of physicists engaged in making a...	The Tragedy and Comedy of Life: Plato's Philebus Best Price: $225.00 Benardete is very good on the details. For instance, Socrates must abstract from the cause-or...	When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) Best Price: $4.50 The recent crop of books that criticize the media is overdue. Many of my friend and colleagues...	When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) Best Price: $7.35 Some of the previous reviews of this book are written clearly by those with a political axe to...

The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual...	The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography Best Price: $11.43 One Christmas, when Ingmar Bergman was 10 years old, a wealthy aunt gave his older brother a...	Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and their Strategies for Peace, 1945-1989--Louise Weiss (France), Leo Szilard (USA), E. P. Thompson (England), Danilo Dolci (Italy) Best Price: $12.90 A terribly interesting book for anyone interested in well-written and throroughly researched...	The Permanent Revolution: The French Revolution and Its Legacy, 1789-1989 Best Price: $60.98	For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals Best Price: $12.00 I was prepared to warm to this book because of its promised inclusion of other amateur endeavors...

The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report) Best Price: $73.13 The editors of "The Defining Moment" pose an interesting set of questions: Did the...	Globalization in Historical Perspective	Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida Best Price: $24.95 Let's begin with the following from Derrida: "And does terrorism have to work only...	The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage Best Price: $22.00 Both the editorial review and "Braveheart" make an error about the concept of...	American Indians and Christian Missions: Studies in Cultural Conflict (Chicago History of American Religion) Best Price: $21.00 Summary Bowden characterizes Christian missionary activities among native Americans as...

Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey Best Price: $118.80 Bowler and Morus (B&M henceforth) set themselves two projects in this book. First, to...	Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in Political Ads Work (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) It is common knowledge that televised political ads are meant to appeal to voters' emotions,...	Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History Best Price: $8.40 This book probably will not satisfy readers primarily interested in economic theory, or readers...	Fighting Like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings Best Price: $18.66 I read just read this book and I think that it is a really great book. It was really interesting...	Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa Best Price: $23.24 This book contains a collection of essays concerning withcrafts effect on things ranging from...

Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison Best Price: $17.39 There's a fair amount of research on locked up men, but what about the women who love them? ...	Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution Best Price: $11.82 Let's see now--a dozen dogs eating their heads off so that you can run them in sled races...	A Scholar's Guide to Geographical Writing on the American and Canadian Past (University of Chicago Geography Research Papers) Best Price: $90.90 More than 9,000 books, dissertations, and articles from 1850 to 1990 are listed in this...	Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology Best Price: $22.48 This is a tour de force, an extraordinary examination of the imagination. Crapanzano writes...	Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers: & Other Unusual Relationships Best Price: $13.95 Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew...

Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Aircraft Crashes Best Price: $28.95 In Fatal Words, Cushing describes the many ways flights can be placed in jeopardy through...	Barrio: Photographs from Chicago's Pilsen and Little Village (Chicago Visions and Revisions) Best Price: $23.54 I am no book critic, but I am an armature photographer and a native of the Pilsen neighborhood...	Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind: The Early Writings of Charles Darwin Best Price: $22.47 First published in 1974 as a companion volume to Darwin on Man by Howard E. Gruber,...

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