Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2011
ISBN 10: 0809030535 ISBN 13: 9780809030538
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. The sleek electronic tools that have become so ubiquitous-laptops, iPods, eReaders, and smart phones-are all powered by lithium batteries. Chances are youve got some lithium on your person right now. But aside from powering a mobile twenty first-century lifestyle, the third element on the periodic table may also hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a smart power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and the wind and use them when we need them, lithium-a metal half as dense as water, created in the first minutes after the Big Bang and found primarily in some of the most uninhabitable places on earth-is the key to setting us on a path toward a low-carbon energy future. Its also shifting the geopolitical chessboard in profound ways.In Bottled Lightning, the science reporter Seth Fletcher takes us on a fascinating journey, from the salt flats of Bolivia to the labs of MIT and Stanford, from the turmoil at GM to cutting-edge lithium-ion battery start-ups, introducing us to the key players and ideas in an industry with the power to reshape the world. Lithium is the thread that ties together many key stories of our time: the environmental movement; the American auto industry, staking its revival on the electrification of cars and trucks; the struggle between first-world countries in need of natural resources and the impoverished countries where those resources are found; and the overwhelming popularity of the portable, Internet-connected gadgets that are changing the way we communicate. With nearly limitless possibilities, the promise of lithium offers new hope to a foundering American economy desperately searching for a green-tech boom to revive it.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2006
ISBN 10: 0809095270 ISBN 13: 9780809095278
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A provocative new book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context--from 1492 to today Americans like to tell their countrys story as if the United States were naturally autonomous and self-sufficient, with characters, ideas, and situations unique to itself. Thomas Bender asks us to rethink this exceptionalism and to reconsider the conventional narrative. He proposes that America has grappled with circumstances, doctrines, new developments, and events that other nations, too, have faced, and that we can only benefit from recognizing this.Benders exciting argument begins with the discovery of the Americas at a time when peoples everywhere first felt the transforming effects of oceanic travel and trade. He then reconsiders our founding Revolution, occurring in an age of rebellion on many continents; the Civil War, happening when many countries were redefining their core beliefs about the nature of freedom and the meaning of nationhood; and the later imperialism that pitted the United States against Germany, Spain, France, and England. Industrialism and urbanization, laissez-faire economics, capitalism and socialism, and new technologies are other factors that Bender views in the light of global developments.A Nation Among Nations is a passionate, persuasive book that makes clear what damage is done when we let the old view of America alone in the world falsify our history. Bender boldly challenges us to think beyond our borders.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 1995
ISBN 10: 0809030438 ISBN 13: 9780809030439
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryIn this study of the fateful encounters between Europe and Asia on the shores of a legendary sea, Neal Ascherson explores the disputed meaning of community, nationhood, history, and culture in a region famous for its dramatic conflicts. What makes the Back Sea cultures distinctive, Ascherson agrues, is the way their comonent parts came together over the millennia to shape unique communities, languages, religions, and trade. As he shows with skill and persuasiveness, Black Sea patterns in the Caucasus, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Turkey, and Greece have linked the peoples of Europe and Asia together for centuries.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill n Wang Pub, 1998
ISBN 10: 0809055457 ISBN 13: 9780809055456
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A look at the politics, religion, and culture of the late 1930s reflects on the experiences of Jewish refugees in Bolivia.
Verlag: Brand: Hill n Wang, 1979
ISBN 10: 0195542258 ISBN 13: 9780195542257
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pp. 240, numerous figures, illustrations, and photographs. Publishers orange cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, pictorial dustjacket, lettered in black on cover and spine, lg 8vo. This is an abridged version of the sixth edition of The Origin of Species. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the titlepage.
Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 1957
ISBN 10: 0809000083 ISBN 13: 9780809000081
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. This muckraking classic attacked corrupt election practices and shady dealings in businesses and city governments across the nation. Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other notorious political abuses of the time, the book set the style for future investigative reporting.
Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2011
ISBN 10: 0809034174 ISBN 13: 9780809034178
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always treat them separately? In this groundbreaking new book, renowned historian Thomas C. Holt challenges this form to tell the story of generations of African Americans through the lived experience of the subjects themselves, with all of the nuances, ironies, contradictions, and complexities one might expect.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2007
ISBN 10: 0809097176 ISBN 13: 9780809097173
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen? What caused the cold war in the first place, and why did it last as long as it did?The distinguished historian Melvyn P. Leffler homes in on four crucial episodes when American and Soviet leaders considered modulating, avoiding, or ending hostilities and asks why they failed: Stalin and Truman devising new policies after 1945; Malenkov and Eisenhower exploring the chance for peace after Stalins death in 1953; Kennedy, Khrushchev, and LBJ trying to reduce tensions after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962; and Brezhnev and Carter aiming to sustain détente after the Helsinki Conference of 1975. All these leaders glimpsed possibilities for peace, yet they allowed ideologies, political pressures, the expectations of allies and clients, the dynamics of the international system, and their own fearful memories to trap them in a cycle of hostility that seemed to have no end.Lefflers important book illuminates how Reagan, Bush, and, above all, Gorbachev finally extricated themselves from the policies and mind-sets that had imprisoned their predecessors, and were able to reconfigure Soviet-American relations after decades of confrontation.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 1976
ISBN 10: 0809001233 ISBN 13: 9780809001231
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. <div>Revised to include important new scholarship, James Brewer Stewart's eloquent survey of the abolitionist movement is also a superb analysis of how the antislavery movement reinforced and transformed the dominant features of pre-Civil War America. Revealing the wisdom and na veté of the crusaders' convictions and examining the social bases for their actions, Stewart demonstrates why, despite the ambiguity of its ultimate victory, abolition has left a profound imprint on our national memory.<br></div>
Verlag: Brand: Hill n Wang Pub, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809027577 ISBN 13: 9780809027576
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A cultural study draws on advertisements, etiquette manuals, sermons, and surveys, offering insight into how many modern Jewish-American observances have been adapted and developed into distinctive forms of expression. By the author of Our Gang.
Verlag: Brand: Hill Wang Pub, 1996
ISBN 10: 080909603X ISBN 13: 9780809096039
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A thoughtful portrait of Kas Maine, an African farmer, healer, and tribal patriarch, describes life for disenfranchised blacks under South African apartheid and the effects of tribal custom and tradition on his life.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill Wang Pub, 1998
ISBN 10: 0809096641 ISBN 13: 9780809096640
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1. A distinguished legal historian explores the big cases--such as Roe v. Wade--that appeared before the Supreme Court while it was led by liberal Chief Justice Earl Warren and the effect those landmark decisions have had on both legal precedent and the American society.
Verlag: Brand: Hill n Wang, 1972
ISBN 10: 080901369X ISBN 13: 9780809013692
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Later prt. In this magnificent collection of essays, Barthes explores the myths of mass culture taking subjects as diverse as wrestling, films, plastic and cars, deciphering the symbols and signs within familiar aspects of modern life and, in so doing, unmasking the hidden ideologies and meanings which implicitly affect our thought and behaviour.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2008
ISBN 10: 0809044412 ISBN 13: 9780809044412
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. The Hundred Days, Franklin Roosevelts first fifteen weeks in office, have become the stuff of legend, a mythic yardstick against which every subsequent American president has felt obliged to measure himself. The renowned historian Anthony J. Badger cuts through decades of politicized history to provide a succinct, balanced, and timely reminder that Roosevelts accomplishment was above all else an exercise in exceptional political craftsmanship. Declaring that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself, Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933 confronting 25 percent unemployment, bank closings, and a nationwide crisis in confidence.From March 9 to June 16, FDR sent Congress a record number of bills, all of which passed easily. From legalizing the sale of beer to providing mortgage relief to millions of Americans, Roosevelt launched the New Deal that conservatives have been working to roll back ever since. Badger emphasizes Roosevelts political gifts even as the president and his brain trust of advisers, guided by principles, largely felt their way toward solutions to the nations manifold problems. Reintroducing the contingency that marked those fateful days, Badger humanizes Roosevelt and suggests a far more useful yardstick for future presidents: the politics of the possible under the guidance of principle.
Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2009
ISBN 10: 080909536X ISBN 13: 9780809095360
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861.Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between 1820 and 1850, patterns of trade and production drew the North and South together and allowed sectional leaders to broker a series of compromises. After midcentury, however, all that changed as the rise of the Great Lakes economy reoriented Northern trade along east-west lines. Meanwhile, in the South, soil exhaustion, concerns about the countrys westward expansion, and growing ties between the Upper South and the free states led many cotton planters to contemplate secession. The war that ensued was truly a clash of extremes.Sweeping from the 1820s through Reconstruction and filled with colorful portraits of leading individuals, Clash of Extremes emphasizes economics while giving careful consideration to social conflicts, ideology, and the rise of the antislavery movement. The result is a bold reinterpretation that will challenge the way we think about the Civil War.
Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2011
ISBN 10: 0809095432 ISBN 13: 9780809095438
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Non fiction Books of 2011. From modest beginnings as a tea shop in New York, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company became the largest retailer in the world. It was a juggernaut, the first retailer to sell $1 billion in goods, the owner of nearly sixteen thousand stores and dozens of factories and warehouses. But its explosive growth made it a mortal threat to hundreds of thousands of mom-and-pop grocery stores. Main Street fought back tooth and nail, enlisting the state and federal governments to stop price discounting, tax chain stores, and require manufacturers to sell to mom and pop at the same prices granted to giant retailers. In a remarkable court case, the federal government pressed criminal charges against the Great A&P for selling food too cheaply-and won. The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America is the story of a stunningly successful company that forever changed how Americans shop and what Americans eat. It is a brilliant business history, the story of how George and John Hartford took over their fathers business and reshaped it again and again, turning it into a vertically integrated behemoth that paved the way for every big-box retailer to come. George demanded a rock-solid balance sheet; John was the marketer-entrepreneur who led A&P through seven decades of rapid changes. Together, they built the modern consumer economy by turning the archaic retail industry into a highly efficient system for distributing food at low cost.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill Wang, 1967
ISBN 10: 0809007398 ISBN 13: 9780809007394
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. Book by Anouilh, Jean.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 1979
ISBN 10: 0809048035 ISBN 13: 9780809048038
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. The classic history of women on America's frontiers, now updated and thoroughly revised. FRONTIER WOMEN is an imaginative and graceful account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions of women to the development of the American frontier. Author Julie Roy Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to include the perspectives of African American and Native American women.
Verlag: Brand: Hill n Wang, 1964
ISBN 10: 0809012073 ISBN 13: 9780809012077
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. The story is of a young man Andri in a mythical country named Andorra. Andri is wrongly taken for a Jew, until in his isolation he comes to accept his differences with a mixture of pride and obstinacy.
Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 1976
ISBN 10: 0809069334 ISBN 13: 9780809069330
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Very slightest of wear to the dust jacket, pages nice and clean, no writing or highlighting. A very nice copy. All our books are individually inspected, rated and described. Never EX-LIB unless specifically listed as such.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2001
ISBN 10: 0809088541 ISBN 13: 9780809088546
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Strange Victory is a riveting book about France and Germany in the years leading up to World War II. Why did Hitler turn against France in the Spring of 1940 and not before? And why were his poor judgement and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive earlier, when it might have led to victory? What explains France's failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan?Skillfully weaving together decisions of the high commands with the confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field, the distinguished diplomatic historian Ernest R. May offers many new insights into the tragic paradoxes of the battle for France.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2004
ISBN 10: 0809075563 ISBN 13: 9780809075560
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. The amazing life of the explorer who first mapped the West and forever changed nineteenth-century AmericaThe career of John Charles Frémont (1813-90) celebrates and ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's important new biography demonstrates Frémont's vital importance to the history of American empire, and his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West.As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Frémont stood at the center of the vast federal project of Western exploration and conquest. His expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public's imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation's destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, the Pathfinder.But Frémont was more than an explorer. Chaffin's dramatic narrative includes Frémont's varied experiences as an entrepreneur, abolitionist, Civil War general, husband to the remarkable Jessie Benton Frémont, two-time Republican presidential candidate, and Gilded Age aristocrat.Chaffin brings to life the personal and political experiences of a remarkable American whose saga offers compelling insight into the conflicts, tensions, and contradictions at the core of America's lust for empire and its conquest of the trans-Missouri West.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 1989
ISBN 10: 0809074478 ISBN 13: 9780809074471
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it.Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill n Wang, 1965
ISBN 10: 0809007347 ISBN 13: 9780809007349
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. The paperback book(volume one) is in excellent condition. Pages are clean, binding is tight. Few spots on the front cover and few scratches on the back cover. We carefully wrap and ship your book within 24 hours of order. (J-12).
Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2005
ISBN 10: 0809046377 ISBN 13: 9780809046379
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einsteins. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory-the basis of computers and the Internet-to the problem of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible.Shannon and MIT mathematician Edward O. Thorp took the Kelly formula to Las Vegas. It worked. They realized that there was even more money to be made in the stock market. Thorp used the Kelly system with his phenomenonally successful hedge fund, Princeton-Newport Partners. Shannon became a successful investor, too, topping even Warren Buffetts rate of return. Fortunes Formula traces how the Kelly formula sparked controversyeven as it made fortunes at racetracks, casinos, and tradingdesks. It reveals the dark side of this alluring scheme, which isfounded on exploiting an insiders edge.Shannon believed it was possible for a smart investor to beatthe market-and Fortunes Formula will convince you that he was right. William Poundstone is the bestselling author of nine nonfiction books, including Labyrinths of Reason and The Recursive Universe. In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory-the basis of computers and the Internet-to the problem of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible.Shannon and MIT mathematician Edward O. Thorp took the "Kelly formula" to Las Vegas. It worked. They realized that there was even more money to be made in the stock market. Thorp used the Kelly system with his phenomenonally successful hedge fund, Princeton-Newport Partners. Shannon became a successful investor, too, topping even Warren Buffett's rate of return. Fortune's Formula traces how the Kelly formula sparked controversyeven as it made fortunes at racetracks, casinos, and tradingdesks. It reveals the dark side of this alluring scheme, which isfounded on exploiting an insider's edge.Shannon believed it was possible for a smart investor to beatthe market-and Fortune's Formula will convince you that he was right. "Fortune's Formula may be the world's first history book, gambling primer, mathematics text, economics manual, personal finance guide and joke book in a single volume. Poundstone comes across as the best college professor you ever hand, someone who can turn almost any technical topic into an entertaining and zesty lecture."-The New York Times Book Review "Fortune's Formula may be the world's first history book, gambling primer, mathematics text, economics manual, personal finance guide and joke book in a single volume. Poundstone comes across as the best college professor you ever hand, someone who can turn almost any technical topic into an entertaining and zesty lecture."-The New York Times Book Review "Seldom have true crime and smart math been blended together so engagingly"-The Wall Street Journal"An amazing story that gives a big idea the needed star treatment . . . Fortune's Formula will appeal to readers of such books as Peter L. Bernstein's Against the Gods, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled by Randomness, and Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed. All try to explain why smart people take stupid risks. Poundstone goes them one better by showing how hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management, for one, could have avoided disaster by following the Kelly method."-Business Week "Poundstone, a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, takes us from chalkboard to stock market and back as he explains the 'Kelly formu.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill n Wang, 1982
ISBN 10: 0809030365 ISBN 13: 9780809030361
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. "Over 1, 250 entries, entertainingly written, compact, convenient, alphabetically arranged. A handy reference book alphabetically arranged and useful to anyone interested in North American birds. It offers a highly readable, authoritative, and witty introduction to basic aspects of ornithology. It includes indispensable, comprehensive essays on flight, song, migration, and other fundamentals of bird physiology and behavior; thorough accounts of bird feeding, field identification, banding and other bird-oriented pursuits; definitions of technical and birding terms, summaries of major bird groupings; thumbnail sketches of outstanding ornithological authorities, descriptions of well-known birding localities. "
Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2006
ISBN 10: 0809076098 ISBN 13: 9780809076093
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. An unforgettable report on one man's hajj--the sacred rite that brings millions of Muslims to Mecca every year In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to observe the hajj as an anthropologist but also to experience it as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non-Muslims. Here is his intimate, intense, and detailed account of the Hajj--a rare and important document by a subtle, learned, and sympathetic writer. Hammoudi describes not just the adventure, the human pressures, and the social tumult--everything from the early preparations to the last climactic scenes in the holy shrines of Medina and Mecca--but also the intricate politics and amazing complexity of the entire pilgrimage experience. He pays special heed to the effects of Saudi bureaucratic control over the Hajj, to the ways that faith itself becomes a lucrative source of commerce for the Arabian kingdom, and to the Wahhabi inflections of the basic Muslim message. Here, too, is a poignant discussion of the inner voyage that pilgrimage can mean to those who embark on it: the transformed sense of daily life, of worship, and of political engagement. Hammoudi acknowledges that he was spurred to reconsider his own ideas about faith, gesture, community, and nationality in unanticipated ways. This is a remarkable work of literature about both the outer forms and the inner meanings of Islam today.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 1994
ISBN 10: 0809096668 ISBN 13: 9780809096664
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Argues that America's defeat in Vietnam and challenges to the status quo have created a crisis in American identity, and have given birth to a reactionary new war culture.
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Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2009
ISBN 10: 0809074656 ISBN 13: 9780809074655
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1. Alva No is one of a new breed-part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist-who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: Do away with the two hundred-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain. Our culture is obsessed with the brain-how it perceives; how it remembers; how it determines our intelligence, our morality, our likes and our dislikes. Its widely believed that consciousness itself, that Holy Grail of science and philosophy, will soon be given a neural explanation. And yet, after decades of research, only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscious-how it gives rise to sensation, feeling, and subjectivity-has emerged unchallenged: We dont have a clue. In this inventive work, No suggests that rather than being something that happens inside us, consciousness is something we do. Debunking an outmoded philosophy that holds the scientific study of consciousness captive, Out of Our Heads is a fresh attempt at understanding our minds and how we interact with the world around us.
Verlag: Brand: Hill and Wang, 2000
ISBN 10: 0809089068 ISBN 13: 9780809089062
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A dramatic narrative-and reinterpretation-of Germany's six-week campaign that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in spring 1940.Before the Nazis killed him for his work in the French Resistance, the great historian Marc Bloch wrote a famous short book, Strange Defeat, about the treatment of his nation at the hands of an enemy the French had believed they could easily dispose of. In Strange Victory, the distinguished American historian Ernest R. May asks the opposite question: How was it that Hitler and his generals managed this swift conquest, considering that France and its allies were superior in every measurable dimension and considering the Germans' own skepticism about their chances?Strange Victory is a riveting narrative of those six crucial weeks in the spring of 1940, weaving together the decisions made by the high commands with the welter of confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field. Why did Hitler want to turn against France at just this moment, and why were his poor judgment and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive when it might have led to victory? What explains France's failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan? It is May's contention that in the future, nations might suffer strange defeats of their own if they do not learn from their predecessors' mistakes in judgment.
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