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Featured Titles

monopolyAgainst Intellectual Monopoly

Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine

"Intellectual property" – patents and copyrights – have become controversial. We witness teenagers being sued for "pirating" music – and we observe AIDS patients in Africa dying due to lack of ability to pay for drugs that are high priced to satisfy patent holders.

imperfectWriting Well
The Essential Guide

Mark Tredinnick

Writing Well is a guide to expressive creative writing and effective professional prose. The author, a poet, writer, editor and teacher, explains the techniques required for stylish and readable writing. Everyone who wants to improve their writing can benefit from this book.

flynnHexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi
Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games

Based off of Gardener's enormously popular Scientific American columns, his puzzles and challenges can now fascinate a whole new generation!

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On Scandal

Ari Adut

Scandal is the quintessential public event. Here is the first general and comprehensive analysis of this ubiquitous moral phenomenon. Taking up wide-ranging cases in society, politics, and art, Ari Adut shows when wrongdoings generate scandals and when they do not.

flynnWhere Have All the Liberals Gone?
Race, Class, and Ideals in America

James R. Flynn

In Where have all the Liberals Gone? Professor Flynn analyzes the black marriage market, the case for affirmative action, the folly of Iraq, and the liberal failure of will. He traces the history of American idealism from Jefferson to the followers of Leo Strauss.

imperfect Future Imperfect

Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World

David D. Friedman

Future Imperfect describes and discusses a variety of technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications, and how to deal with them.

 

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darkness The Deepening Darkness
Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future

Carol Gilligan, David A. J. Richards

In addition to examining why we are at war, this book explains many other aspects of our present situation including why movements of ethical resistance are often accompanied by a freeing of sexuality and why we are witnessing an aggressive fundamentalism at home and abroad.

pinkardA Revolution in Taste
The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800

Susan Pinkard

Modern French habits of cooking, eating, and drinking were born in the Ancien Regime, radically breaking with culinary traditions that originated in antiquity and creating a new aesthetic. This new culinary culture saw food and wine as important links between human beings and nature.

Featured Textbooks

Evolutionary Psychology

Lance Workman, Will Reader

The second edition of this highly acclaimed textbook gives an introduction to the fascinating science of evolutionary psychology.

Digital Integrated Circuit Design
From VLSI Architectures to CMOS Fabrication

Hubert Kaeslin

This practically oriented textbook covers the important aspects of VLSI design using a top-down approach, reflecting the way digital circuits are actually designed.

 

Featured Journals

Politics and Religion

Ted Jelen, Sabrina Ramet

This new peer-reviewed journal provides original research into all aspects of the relationship between politics and religion around the world.

Austrian History Yearbook

Gary B. Cohen, Pieter Judson

Founded in 1965 by R. John Rath, the Austrian History Yearbook remains the only English-language peer-reviewed journal devoted to the history of the territories in Central Europe that were formerly under Habsburg rule

Library Picks

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad

Edited by Laurence Davies...

This landmark nine-volume set offers the complete letters of Joseph Conrad in the highly acclaimed authorized Cambridge edition.

Science and Civilisation in China

Donald B. Wagner

Established by the late Joseph Needham, renowned China scholar, the Science and Civilisation in China series is unrivaled in scope and content.

Featured Websites

Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology

Stephen M. Stahl

The bestselling series in psychopharmacology is back in a new edition! The Third Edition has new chapters, new images, and covers the latest advances in an accessible manner.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition

Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner...

WINNER: Honorable Mention, Dartmouth Medal. RUSA Outstanding Reference Award, Booklist Editor's Choice, LIBRARY JOURNAL Best of Reference in 2006