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Carlo Rovelli
'A dazzling book ... the new Stephen Hawking' Sunday Times The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchantin... (Description from external book data)
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Henrik Fexeus
Henrik Fexeus, a Swedish communication expert, explains how to read body language, interpret nonverbal signals, and use psychology-based tec... (Automatically generated book description)
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Eric Klinenberg
How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting n... (Description from external book data)
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Michael Gross
For seventy-five years, it s been Manhattan s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apa... (Description from external book data)
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Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier, the father of Virtual Reality ... a high-tech genius (Sunday Times), tells the extraordinary story of how in just over three... (Description from external book data)
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Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypcal goddesses as a way of describing behavior patterns and personality traits is... (Description from external book data)
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Vicki S. Helgeson
Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, Psychology of Gender reviews the research and issues surrounding gender from multipl... (Description from external book data)
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Thomas J. Holt
This book offers a comprehensive and integrative introduction to cybercrime. It provides an authoritative synthesis of the disparate literat... (Description from external book data)
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George Lipsitz
Attacking the common view that whiteness is a meaningless category of identity, Lipsitz shows that public policy and private prejudice insur... (Description from external book data)
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Sally Denton
When Kentucky Blueblood Drew Thornton parachuted to his death in September 1985 ”carrying thousands in cash and 150 pounds of cocaine ”the g... (Description from external book data)
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Sebastian Junger
A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe. Throughout history, humans have been dr... (Description from external book data)
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Henry Jenkins
What the future fortunes of [Gramsci s] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifi... (Description from external book data)
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Eric Klinenberg
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which mea... (Description from external book data)
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Andrés Reséndez
The Other Slavery is nothing short of an epic recalibration of American history, one that s long overdue (Description from external book data)
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Jean Shinoda Bolen
At some point after fifty, every woman crosses a threshold into the third phase of her life. As she enters this uncharted territory -- one t... (Description from external book data)
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Philip Jenkins
Perhaps nothing evokes more universal disgust as child pornography. The world of its makers and users is so abhorrent that it is rarely disc... (Description from external book data)
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Bruce Schneier
In today's hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is crucial. Issues of trust are critical to solving problems as di... (Description from external book data)
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Kelly Weill
A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject ... (Description from external book data)
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Zillah R. Eisenstein
The Female Body and the Law provides an original and incisive reexamination of the dynamics of sexual equality. Eisenstein contends that sex... (Description from external book data)
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Richard L Currier
Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story. Although we usually think of te... (Description from external book data)
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Kevin R. Grazier
Get excited for the 2021 Denis Villeneuve Dune film release, starring Timothée Chalamet, with The Science of Dune! Since its original public... (Description from external book data)
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Tony Schwartz
Utilizes the resonance principle to explain the ways in which the electronic media is reviving nonlinear communication in modern society (Description from external book data)
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David Eagleman
What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the enemy of memory not time, but other memories? How can a blind perso... (Description from external book data)
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Bryan S. Turner
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. Th... (Description from external book data)
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Rodney Stark
How religious are Americans these days? How many still believe in God, in Biblical miracles, in heaven and hell? Do people pray? How much mo... (Description from external book data)
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Gary Hoppenstand
Popular Culture: The Basicsis a fast-paced and lively introduction to the theories and methods of popular culture studies. Opening with a de... (Description from external book data)
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Gert Jan Hofstede
This unique training book contains an abundance of exercises, dialogues, stories and simulations that put Geert Hofstede's five dimensions o... (Description from external book data)
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Jodi O'Brien
Entries discuss the impact gender has had on cultural beliefs and practices, social and economic organizations, and individual lives. (Description from external book data)
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Rita Smith Kipp
This fascinating story of a Dutch Reformed mission among the Karo of North Sumatra chronicles the field's first fifteen years - 1889-1904. P... (Description from external book data)
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Mark Q Sutton
Illuminating the world of archaeology. Archaeology conveys the excitement of archaeological discovery and explains how archaeologists think ... (Description from external book data)
