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Excellence Without a Soul
PublicAffairs 2007; US$ 15.95A Harvard professor and former Dean of Harvard College offers his provocative analysis of how America's great universities are failing students and the nation more...
Many Pious Women
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 140.00This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. Many Pious Women is an annotated translation with extensive introductory essays of a unique 16th-century manuscript from Italy in Western Yiddish. It details the participation in the Querelle des Femmes and Power of Women topos... more...
Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobials
Marcel Dekker Inc 2001; US$ 199.95This work examines methods used by bacteria to develop resistance to antimicrobial agents, and describes concepts that can be applied to create effective antibiotics and strategies to minimize the emergence and global spread of refractory strains. more...
Improving the Army Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES)
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This report provides an assessment of The Army Plan (TAP) 2000-2015, the document that provides the initial programming guidance to the Army Program Evaluation Groups. The authors identify several problems, including mixing of operational and institutional functions, overlapping areas, overly broad and inappropriate mission areas, unwieldy structure,... more...
Blown to Bits
Pearson Education 2008; US$ 24.99Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and ones: bits. We can?t escape this explosion of digital information and few of us want to?the benefits are too seductive. The technology has enabled unprecedented innovation, collaboration,... more...
One Hand Jerking
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 16.95Counterculture legend Paul Krassner gazes on the fires of pop culture, politics and celebrity and returns unscathed to help us make sense of our senseless world, with an introduction by Lewis Black (The Daily Show) and a foreword by Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Le Show). From cults to pornography, from Charles Manson to Homer Simpson, from the war... more...
Teaching America
R&L Education 2011; US$ 25.99This book taps the best American thinkers to answer the essential American question: How do we sustain our experiment in government of, by, and for the people? Authored by an extraordinary and politically diverse roster of public officials, scholars, and educators, these chapters describe our nation's civic education problem, assess its causes,... more...
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980
University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 40.00Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields, frequently on the initiative of individual... more...
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