Posted:2009-07-29 | Category:Other
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"[Greif] has written a wonderfully textured exploration of the diversity of men's friendships through the lifespan...Highly recommended."--Choice
"Greif has taken interviews with 400 men about their friendships, and comes to...
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Posted:2009-07-29 | Category:Other
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"Jeff McMahan has written a genuinely revolutionary book. He has uncovered a flaw in standard just-war theory.... Once advanced, McMahan's thesis seems obvious, and it is his considerable philosophical merit to make us realize how obvio...
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Posted:2009-07-29 | Category:Other
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Biomedical ethics is a burgeoning academic field with complex and far-reaching consequences. Whereas in Western secular bioethics this subject falls within larger ethical theories and applications (utilitarianism, deontology, tel...
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Posted:2009-07-28 | Category:Other
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"Martin Winkler has assembled a collection of vigorous and highly readable essays by noted classicists and film scholars featuring topics from the representation of Roman history onscreen to the contemporary extra-cinematic discourse abo...
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Posted:2009-07-28 | Category:Other
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A powerful combination of plain English and an innate ability to break down the component parts of a complex subject into a readily digestible form before leading the reader gently through the ensuing maze. - The Naval Review
An extensiv...
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Posted:2009-07-28 | Category:Other
From The New Yorker
Western narratives of the twentieth-century wars in Vietnam, Bradley writes, have “rendered the Vietnamese almost invisible in the making of their own history.” In this corrective study, Bradley skimps on anecdote and...
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Posted:2009-07-28 | Category:Other
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...the notebook offers a rich and vivid demonstration of the ways in which Hardy, astonishingly creative even into his mid-80s, worked persistently with ideas towards so many of the poems which were gathered into the remarkable final volume,...
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Posted:2009-07-28 | Category:Other
From Publishers Weekly
Since the 1979 revolution that transformed Iran, some U.S. decision makers have treated the Islamic Republic as a political monolith, ignoring internal disagreements and political factions in favor of broadly painting Iran's l...
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Posted:2009-07-28 | Category:Other
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Lionel de Rothschild's hard-fought entry into Parliament in 1858 marked the emancipation of Jews in Britain--the symbolic conclusion of Jews' campaign for equal rights and their inclusion as citizens after centuries of discrimina...
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Posted:2009-07-26 | Category:Other
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In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in...
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