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From a media expert and network commentator, an engaging guide through the welter of misinformation--generated by politicians and the media alike--that surrounds political campaigns.

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An exploration of human adolescence, this book is unique because of its ethological perspective. The author presents a comprehensive treatment of adolescent development from a functional, evolutionary point of view, providing a research-based description of human adolescence. He also offers a comparative perspective, describing adolescence in other species, human cultures, and historical periods.

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A noted political philosopher offers a moving meditation on the political meanings of the biblical story of Exodus - from oppression to deliverance and the promised land.

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A fascinating, fast-paced coming-of-age storyN set in the bedrooms, computer rooms, and arcades of the 80s, when the first computer kids were pioneering the frontier of digitalculture.

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A provocative look at the contemporary art scene by one of the country's leading art critics.

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Personal fabricators are about to revolutionize the world just as personal computers did a generation ago, and Fab shows us how

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Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States.

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From renowned critic Lee Siegel--hailed as a model of "original thinking and passionate writing"--a sometimes scathing, always thrilling examination of the state of contemporary art and culture, and beyond

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In 1610, the English mariner Henry Hudson set off on a journey to find the Northwest Passage, the water route that Europeans hoped would speed the time of travel to East Asia. But Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage did not go well. This book tells the full story of Hudson and the other 23 men who set sail from London in April 1610.

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A controversial new theory that the origins of spoken language, music, and art lie in the early communication between mothers and infants

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The story of the discovery of America as a product of the long sweep of history

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One of the truly seminal works in modern cultural anthropology, Five Families is a dramatic and forceful account of the men, women, and children of five Mexican families and the impoverished communities in which they live.

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Buckley's first political book in nearly two decades is a revealing memoir ofthe first champion of the conservative movement--Barry Goldwater.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham tells the forgotten story of New York's British prison camps--and the nearly 20,000 patriots who lost their lives there.

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Hoffman provides a brilliant synthesis of family therapy. Starting with Gregory Batesons seminal ideas on social fields, the book examines the key concepts of general systems theory. The author then explores the major schools of family therapy and such figures as Minuchin, Bowen, Whitaker, Haley, Erickson, and Ackerman, as well as the revolutionary work of Selvini Palazzoli.

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This magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societies with the institution of slavery, and traces the evolution of three forms of freedom in the West from antiquity through the Middle Ages.

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A collection of over fifty articles originally published in Freedomways, one of the premier African American intellectual periodicals during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

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A prominent archaeologist uses the latest scientific techniques to interpret the spiritual lives of ancient people.

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In this analysis of developing nations, investment, and global business expansion, Peter Marber identifies the risks and rewards of investing in emerging markets, and reveals new sources of conflict as value systems clash in a game of global economic integration.

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A scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have used,and the courts have accepted,spurious claims by so-called expert witnesses to win astronomical judgments that have bankrupted companies, driven doctors out of practice, and deprived us all of superior technologies and effective, life-saving therapies.

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"Elegant and deeply researched... a powerful antidote to overly gloomy assessments of development aid...Charles Kenny shines a light on the real successes of aid, and he shows us the benefits that additional smart investment can bring."-Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal

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"In Getting Beyond Race, Richard Payne takes the practical approach that race relations are ultimately about ordinary people interacting with each other. Payne argues that confrontation, blaming, and d"