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Yale offers high-quality audio and video recordings of a careful selection of popular lectures, MIT supplies digital materials for nearly all of its courses. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this title traces the evolution of these online courseware projects and considers the impact they may have, both inside elite universities and beyond.

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Explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, this title focuses on the importance of marriage in imperial statecraft, the tense coexistence of empresses in the imperial court, and the critical relationships of mothers and daughters.

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Activists argue about how to define marriage, judges and legislators decide who should benefit from it, and scholars consider how the state should protect those who are denied it. This title argues that marriage, like religion, should be separated from the state. It explains the assumptions hidden in widely held positions and common practices.

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"As different as we all are in situations, needs, and views, we hold the world in common. In this brilliant ethnography, Colin Jerolmack vividly highlights this basic environmental conundrum with his compelling account of the local conflicts over fracking in the countryside around Williamsport, Pennsylvania"--

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Once known for slum-like conditions in its immigrant and working-class neighborhoods, New York City's downtown now features luxury housing, chic boutiques and hotels, and, most notably, a vibrant nightlife culture. While a burgeoning bar scene can be viewed as a positive sign of urban transformation, tensions lurk beneath, reflecting the social con

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Shows graduate students and researchers how to construct theory frames and use them to develop valid empirical hypotheses in the course of empirical social and political research. This title seeks to mobilize the implicit theoretical social knowledge used in everyday life. It also relates theoretical ideas to problems of methodology.

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Offering an explanation for the revolutionary transformation of the Church, this book includes a collection of interviews with the Council's key bishops and cardinals, and primary documents from the Vatican Secret Archive. It says that the pronouncements of the Council are the product of a confrontation between progressives and conservatives.

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Describes the anatomies of venomous snakes, along with their diversity and distribution. This title looks at the various types of snake venom and the ways that each type attacks the body. From bamboo pitvipers to deep-diving seasnakes, and from adders and asps to terciopelos and the massasaugas, it examines these enthralling creatures.

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Using a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, this book explores the originality of Vermeer in the context of 17th-century Dutch painting. It suggests that his confrontation with painting represented a very personal effort to define a new pictorial practice within the classical tradition of his art.

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Capricious, vibrant, and volatile, Vesuvius has been and remains one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes. In its rage, it has destroyed whole cities and buried thousands alive. In its calm, its ashes have fertilized the soil, providing for the people who have lived in its shadows. This book tells the story of this natural phenomenon.

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Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, this title examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. It offers insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being.

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