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The Logos Reader
The University Press of Kentucky 2005; US$ 30.00Founded in 2002, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture was established in response to the increasing erosion of a left political culture and the new possibilities for international political engagement and cooperation produced by the Internet. Many of the best known intellectual representatives of what might be termed a "rational radicalism"... more...
Places of Encounter
Westview Press 2012; US$ 38.00Using a place-based approach by focusing on specific locations at critical historical moments of historical transformation, Places of Encounter provides a unique alternative to world history anthologies or survey texts. more...
Clio Wired
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 28.99In these visionary essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" who champion technological breakthroughs and the "digitalskeptics" who fear the end of traditional humanistic scholarship, Rosenzweig re-envisions academic... more...
Places of Encounter
Westview Press 2012; US$ 38.00Using a place-based approach by focusing on specific locations at critical historical moments of historical transformation, Places of Encounter provides a unique alternative to world history anthologies or survey texts. more...
Dispatches from the Occupation
Talonbooks 2012; US$ 16.95Investigates one of philosophy's ongoing preoccupations? change ?articulating its patterns across disciplines and through eras, from Ancient Rome to the Occupy Movement. more...
How to Lose a War
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableFrom the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. How to Lose a War chronicles some of the most remarkable strategic catastrophes and doomed military adventures of overreaching invaders and clueless defenders?whether the failure was a result of poor planning, miscalculations,... more...
Tales of Times Square
Feral House 2012; US$ 16.95The classic account of New York City's sleaziest district returns with seven new chapters. more...
The Story of America
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 18.95In The Story of America , Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written... more...
Ideas under Fire
Fairleigh Dickinson 2012; US$ 89.99The history of Western philosophy and science is marked by numerous moments when a major development has emerged from conditions that are manifestly adverse to intellectual activity. This book surveys a wide range of such cases, and considers how these achievements were possible and how adversity helped shape the ideas that emerged from these conditions.... more...
All about Coffee
F+W Media 2012; US$ 11.95The original homage to the world's most extraordinary drink! In 1922, William H. Ukers wrote the definitive work on coffee. As the founder of The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal , an industry magazine still active today, he spent seventeen years traveling the world and uncovering everything there was to know about both the bean and the beverage. From... more...









