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The Cat Who Went to Heaven
A pet cat begs the artis to include her in a picture of animals paying homage to Buddha - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461718640
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Italy from $50 a Day
Most guidebooks warn that prices in Italy have skyrocketed out of the average traveler's means. Frommer's doesn't buy that, and decided it was time to do what they do best--search out the best values going in hotels and restaurants, finding hidden gems so that frugal travelers don't have to live like student backpackers. This new guide includes tips on how to save money on everything, and hundreds of suggestions for free but memorable sights and experiences. Maps. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461718660
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Complete Idiots Guide to American Revolution
You're no idiot, of course. You know that the American Revolution started when those guys in Boston threw some tea off a boat. Or was it when Paul Revere made his famous ride? Let's face it: when it comes to knowing about our nation's struggle for independence, our grade-school memories are about as trustworthy as Benedict Arnold. Don't blush red (or white, or blue) yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Revolution is an authoritative overview of the conflict, filled with little-known facts that will enlighten even the most educated history buff. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get: - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461718670
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I
For history buffs, students, and anyone interested in the 20th century, this book reveals why World War I began, explores the 'guns of August,' describes the horrors of trench warfare and the first uses of poison gas, and explains why the Americans were so slow to enter the war. From the eastern front to the west, from Gallipoli to the Marne, from the Lafayette Escadrillo to Lawrence fo Arabia, the book tells the whole story of 'the war to end all wars.' - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461718675
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand
Two marketing experts present a comprehensive guide to building a product into a recognized and respected brand and share their radical strategies for marketing effectively on the Internet, urging readers to mix the old with the new when making a marketing plan, in a volume that contains The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding and The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding. Reprint. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461718709
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Moral Believing Animals Human Personhood and Culture
What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory. Smith suggests that human beings have a peculiar set of capacities and proclivities that distinguishes them signifcantly from other animals on this planet. Despite the vast differences in humanity between cultures and across history, no matter how differently people narrate their lives and histories, there remains an underlying structure of human personhood that helps to order human culture, history, and narration. Drawing on important recent insights in moral philosophy, epistemology, and narrative studies, Smith argues that humans are animals who have an inescapable moral and spiritual dimension. They cannot avoid a fundamental moral orientation in life and this, says Smith, has profound consequences f - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461410051
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Making Magic Religion Magic and Science in the Modern World
Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the idea of 'magic' has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to the distinctly modern models of religion and science. As a category, however, magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In Making Magic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that it can best be explained in light of the European and Euro-American drive to establish and secure their own identity as normative: rational-scientific, judicial-ethical, industrious, productive, and heterosexual. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461410075
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Science Religion And The Human Experience
The relationship between science and religion is generally depicted in one of two ways. In one view, they are locked in an inevitable, eternal conflict in which one must choose a side. In the other, they are separate spheres, in which the truth claims of one have little bearing on the other. This collection of provocative essays by leading thinkers offers a new way of looking at this problematic relationship. The authors begin from the premise that both science and religion operate in, yet seek to revery beyond, specific historical, political, ideological, and psychological contexts. How may we understand science and religion as arising from, yet somehow transcending, human experience? The volume is divided into four sections. The first takes a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion in broad terms: as spheres of knowledge or belief, realms of experience, and sources of authority. The other three sections take on topics that have been focal points of conflict between science and religion: the nature of the cosmos, the origin of life, and the workings of the mind. Ultimately, the authors argue, by seeing science and religion as irrevocably tied to human experience we can move beyond simple either/or definitions of reality and arrive at a more rich and complex view of both science and religion. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461410087
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The Uprooted Vine
This is an English translation of Swarnakumari Debi's Bengali social novel Snehalata, which was brought out serially in Bharati between 1889 and 1891. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461410187
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Incentives and Political Economy
Laffont here constructs a normative approach to constitutional design using recent developments in contract theory. He treats poetical economy as the study of the incentive problems created by the delegation of economic policy to self-interested politicians. Treating politicians successively as informed supervisors or residual decision-makers, he characterizes the optimal constitutional responses to the activities of interest groups in various circumstances, as well as the optimal trade-off between flexibility of decision-making and discretion to pursue personal agendas. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461410406
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Nothing That Is A Natural History of Zero
A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics our understanding of the universe would be vastly where did this nothing, this hollow circle, come from? Who created it? And what, exactly, does it mean? Kaplan's The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero beg as a mystery story, taking us back to Sumerian times, and then to Greece and India, piecing together the way the idea of a symbol for nothing evolved. Kaplan shows us just how handicapped our ancestors were in trying to figure large sums without the aid of the zero. (Try multiplying CLXIV by XXIV). Remarkably, even the Greeks, mathematically brilliant as they were, didn't have a zero -- or did they? We follow the trail to the East where, a millennium or two ago, Indian mathematicians took another crucial s - Books Reading - New - 461513834
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Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics Atoms and Molecules
Combined with the other two volumes, this text is a comprehensive treatment of the key experimental methods of atomic, molecular, and optical physics, as well as an excellent experimental handbook for the field. Thewide availability of tunable lasers in the past several years has revolutionized the field and lead to the introduction of many new experimental methods that are covered in these volumes. Traditional methods are also included to ensure that the volumes will be a complete reference source for the field. - Books Reading - New - 461719531
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Mechanics
This text is intended as the basis for an intermediate course in mechanics at the undergraduate level. Such a course, as essential preparation for advanced work in physics, has several major objectives. It must develop in the student a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of mechanics. It should treat in detail certain specific problems of primary importance in physics, for example, the harmonic oscillator and the motion of a particle under a central force. - Books Reading - New - 461666403
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Cumulative Subject Index Volumes 290-319
General Description of the Volume: This is the Cumulative Subject Index for Methods in Enzymology Volumes 290-319. It will supplement the Methods in Enzymology Index Volumes 75, 95, 120, 140, 175, 199,299, 265, and 285. In addition to the Subject Index, this volume includes the complete Contents of every volume indexed, and a Contributor's Index. General Description of the Series: The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for more than forty years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, every volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. Now with more than 300 volumes (all of them still in print), the series contains much material still relevant today--truly an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences. - Books Reading - New - 460684190
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Structural Chemistry of Glasses
Structural Chemistry of Glasses starts with the historical background and importance of glasses, and follows with methods of preparation, structural and bonding theories, and criteria for glass formation including new approaches such as the constraint model. Glass transition is covered, as well as the wide range of theoretical approaches that are used to understand this phenomenon. With over 140 sections, this book captures most of the important and topical aspects of glass science, and will be of use for both newcomers to the subject and experienced practitioners. - Books Reading - New - 461120327
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