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Published by Brand: Hill n Wang, 1979
ISBN 10: 0195542258ISBN 13: 9780195542257
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pp. 240, numerous figures, illustrations, and photographs. Publishers orange cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, pictorial dustjacket, lettered in black on cover and spine, lg 8vo. This is an abridged version of the sixth edition of The Origin of Species. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the titlepage.
Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2010
ISBN 10: 080909469XISBN 13: 9780809094691
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Prada stores carry a few obscenely expensive items in order to boost sales for everything else (which look like bargains in comparison). People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay. How? By charging 99 cents. That price has a hypnotic effect: the profit margin of the 99 Cents Only store is twice that of Wal-Mart. Why do text messages cost money, while e-mails are free? Why do jars of peanut butter keep getting smaller in order to keep the price the same? The answer is simple: prices are a collective hallucination. In Priceless, the bestselling author William Poundstone reveals the hidden psychology of value. In psychological experiments, people are unable to estimate fair prices accurately and are strongly influenced by the unconscious, irrational, and politically incorrect. It hasnt taken long for marketers to apply these findings. Price consultants advise retailers on how to convince consumers to pay more for less, and negotiation coaches offer similar advice for businesspeople cutting deals. The new psychology of price dictates the design of price tags, menus, rebates, sale ads, cell phone plans, supermarket aisles, real estate offers, wage packages, tort demands, and corporate buyouts. Prices are the most pervasive hidden persuaders of all. Rooted in the emerging field of behavioral decision theory, Priceless should prove indispensable to anyone who negotiates.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 1997
ISBN 10: 0809094886ISBN 13: 9780809094882
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly clearheaded book, John Bryan Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, the basic data, and the issues at stake in China's present, crisis-ridden present situation.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 1957
ISBN 10: 0809000083ISBN 13: 9780809000081
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This muckraking classic attacked corrupt election practices and shady dealings in businesses and city governments across the nation. Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other notorious political abuses of the time, the book set the style for future investigative reporting.
Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 1989
ISBN 10: 0809074478ISBN 13: 9780809074471
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it.Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2001
ISBN 10: 0809095211ISBN 13: 9780809095216
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The crises--and failures--of modernization in Japan, as seen up close by a resident expertJapan is a nation in crisis, and the crisis goes far beyond its well-known economic plight. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the crisis on a broad scale, from the failure of Japan's banks and pension funds to the decline of its once magnificent modern cinema. The book takes up for the first time in the Western press subjects such as the nation's endangered environment--its seashores lined with concrete, its roads leading to nowhere in the mountains. It describes Japan's "monument frenzy," the destruction of old cities such as Kyoto and construction of drab new cities, and the attendant collapse of the tourist industry.All these unhealthy developments are, Kerr argues, the devastating boomerang effect of an educational and bureaucratic system designed to produce manufactured goods--and little else. A mere upturn in economic growth will not quickly remedy these severe internal problems, which Kerr calls a "failure of modernism." He assails the foreign experts who, often dependent on Japanese government and business support, fail to address these issues. Meanwhile, what of the Japanese people themselves? Kerr, a resident of Japan for thirty-five years, writes of them with humor and passion, for "passion," he says, "is part of the story. Millions of Japanese feel as heartbroken at what is going on as I do. My Japanese friends tell me, 'Please write this--for us.'"
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Published by Brand: Hill n Wang Pub, 1999
ISBN 10: 0809064049ISBN 13: 9780809064045
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Tackling the mystery of who killed Stalin's most prized orator, and one of the Soviet Union's most charismatic leaders, this lively biographical opens Cold War-era Soviet records to lay the matter to rest once and for all.
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Published by Brand: Hill n Wang Pub, 1988
ISBN 10: 0809032554ISBN 13: 9780809032556
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Cites the need for the United States to regain an edge in the high-technology marketplace, argues for government support of the business community's scientific research and better training in the sciences for youth.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2011
ISBN 10: 0809034174ISBN 13: 9780809034178
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always treat them separately? In this groundbreaking new book, renowned historian Thomas C. Holt challenges this form to tell the story of generations of African Americans through the lived experience of the subjects themselves, with all of the nuances, ironies, contradictions, and complexities one might expect.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2008
ISBN 10: 0809044412ISBN 13: 9780809044412
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The Hundred Days, Franklin Roosevelts first fifteen weeks in office, have become the stuff of legend, a mythic yardstick against which every subsequent American president has felt obliged to measure himself. The renowned historian Anthony J. Badger cuts through decades of politicized history to provide a succinct, balanced, and timely reminder that Roosevelts accomplishment was above all else an exercise in exceptional political craftsmanship. Declaring that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself, Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933 confronting 25 percent unemployment, bank closings, and a nationwide crisis in confidence.From March 9 to June 16, FDR sent Congress a record number of bills, all of which passed easily. From legalizing the sale of beer to providing mortgage relief to millions of Americans, Roosevelt launched the New Deal that conservatives have been working to roll back ever since. Badger emphasizes Roosevelts political gifts even as the president and his brain trust of advisers, guided by principles, largely felt their way toward solutions to the nations manifold problems. Reintroducing the contingency that marked those fateful days, Badger humanizes Roosevelt and suggests a far more useful yardstick for future presidents: the politics of the possible under the guidance of principle.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2011
ISBN 10: 0809095432ISBN 13: 9780809095438
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Non fiction Books of 2011. From modest beginnings as a tea shop in New York, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company became the largest retailer in the world. It was a juggernaut, the first retailer to sell $1 billion in goods, the owner of nearly sixteen thousand stores and dozens of factories and warehouses. But its explosive growth made it a mortal threat to hundreds of thousands of mom-and-pop grocery stores. Main Street fought back tooth and nail, enlisting the state and federal governments to stop price discounting, tax chain stores, and require manufacturers to sell to mom and pop at the same prices granted to giant retailers. In a remarkable court case, the federal government pressed criminal charges against the Great A&P for selling food too cheaply-and won. The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America is the story of a stunningly successful company that forever changed how Americans shop and what Americans eat. It is a brilliant business history, the story of how George and John Hartford took over their fathers business and reshaped it again and again, turning it into a vertically integrated behemoth that paved the way for every big-box retailer to come. George demanded a rock-solid balance sheet; John was the marketer-entrepreneur who led A&P through seven decades of rapid changes. Together, they built the modern consumer economy by turning the archaic retail industry into a highly efficient system for distributing food at low cost.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2008
ISBN 10: 0809052199ISBN 13: 9780809052196
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Award-Winning Essayist Plies His CraftBrian Hayes is one of the most accomplished essayists active today--a claim supported not only by his prolific and continuing high-quality output but also by such honors as the National Magazine Award for his commemorative Y2K essay titled "Clock of Ages," published in the November/December 1999 issue of The Sciences magazine. (The also-rans that year included Tom Wolfe, Verlyn Klinkenborg, and Oliver Sacks.) Hayes's work in this genre has also appeared in such anthologies as The Best American Magazine Writing, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and The Norton Reader. Here he offers us a selection of his most memorable and accessible pieces--including "Clock of Ages"--embellishing them with an overall, scene-setting preface, reconfigured illustrations, and a refreshingly self-critical "Afterthoughts" section appended to each essay.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2005
ISBN 10: 080908970XISBN 13: 9780809089703
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Americas unfinished revolutionThe revolutionary spirit that runs through American history and whose founding father and greatest advocate was Thomas Paine is fiercely traced in Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. Showing how Paine turned Americans into radicals-and how we have remained radicals at heart ever since-Harvey J. Kaye presents the nations democratic story with wit, subtlety, and, above all, passion.Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like Common Sense-and words such as The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth, We have it in our power to begin the world over again, and These are the times that try mens souls-he not only turned Americas colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war but, as Kaye demonstrates, articulated an American identity charged with exceptional purpose and promise.Beginning with Paines life and ideas and following their vigorous influence through to our own day, Thomas Paine and the Promise of America reveals how, while the powers that be repeatedly sought to suppress, defame, and most recently co-opt Paines memory, generations of radical and liberal Americans turned to Paine for inspiration as they endeavored to expand American freedom, equality, and democracy.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2009
ISBN 10: 0809094533ISBN 13: 9780809094530
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slaverys place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests of their owners. Five other clauses had implications for slavery that were considered and debated by the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the citizens of the states during ratification. This peculiar institution was not a moral blind spot for Americas otherwise enlightened framers, nor was it the expression of a mere economic interest. Slavery was as important to the making of the Constitution as the Constitution was to the survival of slavery.By tracing slavery from before the revolution, through the Constitutions framing, and into the public debate that followed, Waldstreicher rigorously shows that slavery was not only actively discussed behind the closed and locked doors of the Constitutional Convention, but that it was also deftly woven into the Constitution itself. For one thing, slavery was central to the American economy, and since the document set the stage for a national economy, the Constitution could not avoid having implications for slavery. Even more, since the government defined sovereignty over individuals, as well as property in them, discussion of sovereignty led directly to debate over slaverys place in the new republic.Finding meaning in silences that have long been ignored, Slaverys Constitution is a vital and sorely needed contribution to the conversation about the origins, impact, and meaning of our nations founding document.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2006
ISBN 10: 0809095270ISBN 13: 9780809095278
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A provocative new book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context--from 1492 to today Americans like to tell their countrys story as if the United States were naturally autonomous and self-sufficient, with characters, ideas, and situations unique to itself. Thomas Bender asks us to rethink this exceptionalism and to reconsider the conventional narrative. He proposes that America has grappled with circumstances, doctrines, new developments, and events that other nations, too, have faced, and that we can only benefit from recognizing this.Benders exciting argument begins with the discovery of the Americas at a time when peoples everywhere first felt the transforming effects of oceanic travel and trade. He then reconsiders our founding Revolution, occurring in an age of rebellion on many continents; the Civil War, happening when many countries were redefining their core beliefs about the nature of freedom and the meaning of nationhood; and the later imperialism that pitted the United States against Germany, Spain, France, and England. Industrialism and urbanization, laissez-faire economics, capitalism and socialism, and new technologies are other factors that Bender views in the light of global developments.A Nation Among Nations is a passionate, persuasive book that makes clear what damage is done when we let the old view of America alone in the world falsify our history. Bender boldly challenges us to think beyond our borders.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 1997
ISBN 10: 0809078430ISBN 13: 9780809078431
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and distortions and shows how Czechs, Germans, Italians, and Jews have lived and worked together for over a thousand years.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2011
ISBN 10: 0809030535ISBN 13: 9780809030538
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The sleek electronic tools that have become so ubiquitous-laptops, iPods, eReaders, and smart phones-are all powered by lithium batteries. Chances are youve got some lithium on your person right now. But aside from powering a mobile twenty first-century lifestyle, the third element on the periodic table may also hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a smart power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and the wind and use them when we need them, lithium-a metal half as dense as water, created in the first minutes after the Big Bang and found primarily in some of the most uninhabitable places on earth-is the key to setting us on a path toward a low-carbon energy future. Its also shifting the geopolitical chessboard in profound ways.In Bottled Lightning, the science reporter Seth Fletcher takes us on a fascinating journey, from the salt flats of Bolivia to the labs of MIT and Stanford, from the turmoil at GM to cutting-edge lithium-ion battery start-ups, introducing us to the key players and ideas in an industry with the power to reshape the world. Lithium is the thread that ties together many key stories of our time: the environmental movement; the American auto industry, staking its revival on the electrification of cars and trucks; the struggle between first-world countries in need of natural resources and the impoverished countries where those resources are found; and the overwhelming popularity of the portable, Internet-connected gadgets that are changing the way we communicate. With nearly limitless possibilities, the promise of lithium offers new hope to a foundering American economy desperately searching for a green-tech boom to revive it.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2006
ISBN 10: 0809057387ISBN 13: 9780809057382
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Jacobson, Sid; Colon, Ernie (illustrator). First Edition. The 9/11 Report for Every American On December 5, 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report card on the governments fulfillment of the recommendations issued in July 2004: one A, twelve Bs, nine Cs, twelve Ds, three Fs, and four incompletes. Here is stunning evidence that Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, with more than sixty years of experience in the comic-book industry between them, were right: far, far too few Americans have read, grasped, and demanded action on the Commissions investigation into the events of that tragic day and the lessons America must learn.Using every skill and storytelling method Jacobson and Colón have learned over the decades, they have produced the most accessible version of the 9/11 Report. Jacobsons text frequently follows word for word the original report, faithfully captures its investigative thoroughness, and covers its entire scope, even including the Commissions final report card. Colóns stunning artwork powerfully conveys the facts, insights, and urgency of the original. Published on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States, an event that has left no aspect of American foreign or domestic policy untouched, The 9/11 Report puts at every Americans fingertips the most defining event of the century.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 1979
ISBN 10: 0809048035ISBN 13: 9780809048038
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The classic history of women on America's frontiers, now updated and thoroughly revised. FRONTIER WOMEN is an imaginative and graceful account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions of women to the development of the American frontier. Author Julie Roy Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to include the perspectives of African American and Native American women.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 1976
ISBN 10: 0809001233ISBN 13: 9780809001231
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Softcover. Condition: Good. <div>Revised to include important new scholarship, James Brewer Stewart's eloquent survey of the abolitionist movement is also a superb analysis of how the antislavery movement reinforced and transformed the dominant features of pre-Civil War America. Revealing the wisdom and na veté of the crusaders' convictions and examining the social bases for their actions, Stewart demonstrates why, despite the ambiguity of its ultimate victory, abolition has left a profound imprint on our national memory.<br></div>
Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 1958
ISBN 10: 0809007126ISBN 13: 9780809007127
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Presents four works by the contemporary French playwright.
Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 1978
ISBN 10: 0809012391ISBN 13: 9780809012398
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 0. Wings takes us into the strange, terrifying, shattered world of a woman who has suffered a stroke. For the woman, time, place, language, speech and thought have lost their meaning, and as we plunge into her confused mind we are engaged with her in trying to come to term with terror and to re-create order and rediscover reality.
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Published by Brand: Hill n Wang, 1964
ISBN 10: 0809012073ISBN 13: 9780809012077
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The story is of a young man Andri in a mythical country named Andorra. Andri is wrongly taken for a Jew, until in his isolation he comes to accept his differences with a mixture of pride and obstinacy.
Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 1995
ISBN 10: 0809030438ISBN 13: 9780809030439
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryIn this study of the fateful encounters between Europe and Asia on the shores of a legendary sea, Neal Ascherson explores the disputed meaning of community, nationhood, history, and culture in a region famous for its dramatic conflicts. What makes the Back Sea cultures distinctive, Ascherson agrues, is the way their comonent parts came together over the millennia to shape unique communities, languages, religions, and trade. As he shows with skill and persuasiveness, Black Sea patterns in the Caucasus, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Turkey, and Greece have linked the peoples of Europe and Asia together for centuries.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 1986
ISBN 10: 0809001632ISBN 13: 9780809001637
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Argues that Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism have accommodated themselves to predominant social and political mores and require serious self-examination.
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Published by Brand: Hill n Wang, 1972
ISBN 10: 080901369XISBN 13: 9780809013692
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Later prt. In this magnificent collection of essays, Barthes explores the myths of mass culture taking subjects as diverse as wrestling, films, plastic and cars, deciphering the symbols and signs within familiar aspects of modern life and, in so doing, unmasking the hidden ideologies and meanings which implicitly affect our thought and behaviour.
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Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2006
ISBN 10: 0809076098ISBN 13: 9780809076093
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. An unforgettable report on one man's hajj--the sacred rite that brings millions of Muslims to Mecca every year In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to observe the hajj as an anthropologist but also to experience it as an ordinary pilgrim, and to write about it for both Muslims and non-Muslims. Here is his intimate, intense, and detailed account of the Hajj--a rare and important document by a subtle, learned, and sympathetic writer. Hammoudi describes not just the adventure, the human pressures, and the social tumult--everything from the early preparations to the last climactic scenes in the holy shrines of Medina and Mecca--but also the intricate politics and amazing complexity of the entire pilgrimage experience. He pays special heed to the effects of Saudi bureaucratic control over the Hajj, to the ways that faith itself becomes a lucrative source of commerce for the Arabian kingdom, and to the Wahhabi inflections of the basic Muslim message. Here, too, is a poignant discussion of the inner voyage that pilgrimage can mean to those who embark on it: the transformed sense of daily life, of worship, and of political engagement. Hammoudi acknowledges that he was spurred to reconsider his own ideas about faith, gesture, community, and nationality in unanticipated ways. This is a remarkable work of literature about both the outer forms and the inner meanings of Islam today.
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Published by Brand: Hill n Wang, 1965
ISBN 10: 0809007347ISBN 13: 9780809007349
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The paperback book(volume one) is in excellent condition. Pages are clean, binding is tight. Few spots on the front cover and few scratches on the back cover. We carefully wrap and ship your book within 24 hours of order. (J-12).
Published by Brand: Hill and Wang, 2001
ISBN 10: 0809088541ISBN 13: 9780809088546
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Strange Victory is a riveting book about France and Germany in the years leading up to World War II. Why did Hitler turn against France in the Spring of 1940 and not before? And why were his poor judgement and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive earlier, when it might have led to victory? What explains France's failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan?Skillfully weaving together decisions of the high commands with the confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field, the distinguished diplomatic historian Ernest R. May offers many new insights into the tragic paradoxes of the battle for France.
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Published by Brand: Hill n Wang, 1982
ISBN 10: 0809030365ISBN 13: 9780809030361
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Softcover. Condition: Good. "Over 1, 250 entries, entertainingly written, compact, convenient, alphabetically arranged. A handy reference book alphabetically arranged and useful to anyone interested in North American birds. It offers a highly readable, authoritative, and witty introduction to basic aspects of ornithology. It includes indispensable, comprehensive essays on flight, song, migration, and other fundamentals of bird physiology and behavior; thorough accounts of bird feeding, field identification, banding and other bird-oriented pursuits; definitions of technical and birding terms, summaries of major bird groupings; thumbnail sketches of outstanding ornithological authorities, descriptions of well-known birding localities. "