Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide
 Clarity Triumphs Over Cliche: If you will read just one book about Darfur, I can't imagine a better choice. Nothing else I've read so deftly sorts through Darfur's complex history, making clear how geographic, economic, social and political strands of [... more]
$24.00
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The Science of Illusions
You Can't Believe Your Eyes: Optical illusions are profound; they indicate that at the most basic level, seeing can lead to believing in things that are not true. Even more deeply and disturbingly, they show that we don't respond to or make judgements on [... more]
$26.95
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The Search for God in Ancient Egypt
Useful and interesting reading for all: First published in 1984, this book is finally available in English. The author offers his views on Ancient Egyptian religion, theology and piety. In the various chapters (The Cosmos, Myth, The New Gods, Theodicy [... more]
$23.95
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Extinct Birds (Comstock books)
Amazon.com Review: Ornithologists estimate that there have been 150,000 avian species since birds first appeared millions of years ago. If that figure, based on incomplete evidence, is correct, writes Errol Fuller, then nearly 94 percent of those species [... more]
$65.00
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Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography
The Development of a Necessary Hero: Every culture has need for stories about the outlaw hero. Odysseus, in way, was one, as was William Tell, and John Wayne as the Ringo Kid. Jesus's story certainly conforms to the myth of the "good outlaw," [... more]
$27.95
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No Small Change: Pension Funds and Corporate Engagement
A timely book: Tess Hebb is right on the money. The financial crash of 2008 and onset of a global recession has destroyed trillions in pension funds and other retirement savings. The colossal financial failures and bankruptcies that helped to create [... more]
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Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the ...
How activist scientists helped end the Cold War: This is an excellent survey of how activist scientists in East and West interacted, throughout the four decade Cold War, to advance arms control goals: the Test Ban, the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty, and [... more]
$22.95
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Ferdinand De Saussure
Review of Culler, _Ferdinand de Saussure_: Ferdinand de Saussure, an outstanding linguist of the late 19th century, lectured on general linguistics at the University of Geneva intermittently from 1907 to 1911. The _Cours de Linguistique Generale_ was not [... more]
$12.95
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Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide, Third Edition (Crises ...
Clarity Triumphs Over Cliche: If you will read just one book about Darfur, I can't imagine a better choice. Nothing else I've read so deftly sorts through Darfur's complex history, making clear how geographic, economic, social and political strands of [... more]
$17.95
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Blood On The Snow: The Killing Of Olof Palme
The 89 Steps: Stairway to an Unsolved Murder: *** & 1/2 stars On February 28, 1986, Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden was gunned down in the streets of Stockholm while walking home, without any security details, from the movies. According to [... more]
$32.50
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Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary ...
Absurd Attempts to Clean Up Literature: 1857 was an important year for literature, and for sex. It was either an _annus mirabilis_ or _annus horribilis_, depending on your point of view. _Horribilis_, says Elisabeth Ladenson in _Dirt for Art's Sake: [... more]
$17.95
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Catholics And Contraception: An American History (Cushwa ...
"Catholics and Contraception" (Some Clues as to Why Catholic Teaching Gets Misconstrued): While browsing through a college bookstore, I recently came across Catholic University of America (CUA) Professor Leslie Woodcock Tentler's " [... more]
$29.95
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