Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the ...
 Great collection which explores anthropology & AI: Diane Forsythe was trained in both anthropology and artificial intelligence, and her work offers insights to both of these realms. It's a pleasure to have her work collected and published ( [... more]
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The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
The Inhumanist: Who was Robinson Jeffers? - A high priest of Nature? A proto-ecologist visionary? A lyric expounder of Fascism? An enemy of civilisation? An implacable misanthrope who spent his last years in his secluded lodging overlooking the Pacific, [... more]
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God's Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and ...
Queer - and very very good: Here are four papers, of a distinctly dubious nature, that were written by Professor Moore over a number of years (and having gone through a number of versions) that are now presented in conjunction with Moore's interest, no, [... more]
$29.95
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A Portuguese-English Dictionary
Excellent resource for learning Portuguese.: The Collins Pocket Gems are good at quick English<->Portuguese translations, but eventually you will advance beyond translating things back and forth and start to read Portuguese literature. At that [... more]
$85.00
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Genji & Heike: Selections from The Tale of Genji and The ...
Most Readable Genji!: I disagree with the reviewer who thought Dr. McCullough's translation is unwieldy. I have read Waley, Seindesticker and McCullough and I only wish McCullough had printed a full version. It is difficult to present tenth century ideas [... more]
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The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition ...
Thorough, scholarly but overlong: The Soviet Union suffered two horrendous famines in the early 20th century but the US was only allowed to help with the first one. The 1921-1923 famine, coming hard on the heels of the Russian Civil War and World War I [... more]
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The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition ...
Thorough, scholarly but overlong: The Soviet Union suffered two horrendous famines in the early 20th century but the US was only allowed to help with the first one. The 1921-1923 famine, coming hard on the heels of the Russian Civil War and World War I [... more]
$77.95
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Between Pacific Tides: Fifth Edition
The standard field guide for the Pacific Coast of the USA: I can't believe that someone else has not reviewed this excellent guide to the intertidal biota of the Pacific Coast. This book has set the standard for reference guides to marine life along the [... more]
$31.95
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Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional ...
Insfrastructure is THE Leader: The one thing that our San Diego city fathers haven't a clue about has to do with infrastructure. Now, before I lose you because infrastructure is not a known attention getter, here's the punchline. Read Steve Erie's new [... more]
$23.95
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A History of Japan to 1334
Good, if somewhat dated: First published in the late 1950s and early 1960s, George Sansom's three-volume history of Japan is still a valuable English-language introduction, though it does show its age in a few ways. This first volume surveys the history [... more]
$36.95
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The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. ...
Speech act theory seductively charged: Shoshana Felman originally published this venture under the title "The Literary Speech Act" in 1984. Because it had made little impression Stanford University Press repackaged this intriguing Lacanian-bent [... more]
$19.95
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Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Gather the Fragments...: "Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts back to mythology" (xviii). This statement is likely one of the most explosive philosphical theses penned in the 20th century, for not only did it give [... more]
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