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-12%Switched On: Bob Moog and the ...The Moog synthesizer "bent the course of music forever" Rolling Stone declared... The Moog synthesizer "bent the course of music forever" Rolling Stone declared. Bob Moog, the man who did that bending, was a lovable geek with Einstein hair and pocket protectors. He walked into history in 1964 when his homemade contrapt moreDetails
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-13%The Cloning SourcebookAnimal cloning has developed quickly since the birth of Dolly the sheep. Yet m... Animal cloning has developed quickly since the birth of Dolly the sheep. Yet many of the first questions to be raised still need to be answered. What do Dolly and her fellow mouse, cow, pig, goat and monkey clones mean for science? And for society moreDetails
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The War That Forged a Nation: ...More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted ... More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire nation moreDetails
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-11%Birth of Intelligence: From RN...What is intelligence? How did it begin and evolve to human intelligence? Does ... What is intelligence? How did it begin and evolve to human intelligence? Does a high level of biological intelligence require a complex brain? Can man-made machines be truly intelligent? Is AI fundamentally different from human intelligence? In moreDetails
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-10%Xuedou's 100 Odes to Old Cases...Xuedou's 100 Odes to Old Cases is recognized as the seminal discourse in Chan ... Xuedou's 100 Odes to Old Cases is recognized as the seminal discourse in Chan Buddhism, one that has exerted significant influence on the way stories of former teachers (guze) have been appreciated and appropriated for the past t moreDetails
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-15%The Oxford Handbook of Christi...This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law-hi... This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law-historically and today, in the traditional heartlands of Christianity and around the globe. Sixty new chapters by leading scholars provide authoritative and accessible acc moreDetails
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-14%The Rise of Critical Islam: 10...In a richly narrated historical study, Youcef Soufi excavates an Islamic legal... In a richly narrated historical study, Youcef Soufi excavates an Islamic legal culture of critique from the 10th to 13th centuries. Focusing on the practice of mun??ara (disputation), Soufi explores how and why oral debates became a perva moreDetails
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-15%Juvenal and the Satiric Emotio...In his sixteen verse Satires, Juvenal explores the emotional provocations and ... In his sixteen verse Satires, Juvenal explores the emotional provocations and pleasures associated with social criticism and mockery. He makes use of traditional generic elements such as the first-person speaker, moral diatribe, narrative moreDetails
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-14%The Oxford Handbook of the Phe...A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived exp... A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures moreDetails
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-14%Two Nations Indivisible: Mexic...Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in ... Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the moreDetails
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-25%Catalonia: A Cultural HistorySqueezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a viole... Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava moreDetails
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-12%How Free Are We?: Conversation...Free will comes up in everyday conversations all the time. "She did that of he... Free will comes up in everyday conversations all the time. "She did that of her own free will." "He could have done something else instead." "It's my choice." "That's up to you." How we think about free will-and the closely-related concept of mora moreDetails
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-15%The Hippocampus BookThe hippocampus is one of a group of remarkable structures embedded within the... The hippocampus is one of a group of remarkable structures embedded within the brain's medial temporal lobe. Long known to be important for memory, it has been a prime focus of neuroscience research for many years. The Hippocampus Book pr moreDetails
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-20%Abolitionism: A Very Short Int...From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, ... From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ide moreDetails
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-12%Rethinking America: From Empir...For five decades John M. Murrin has been the consummate historian's historian.... For five decades John M. Murrin has been the consummate historian's historian. This volume brings together his seminal essays on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. Collectively, they rethink f moreDetails
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-12%The Radical Imagination of Bla...Historically, many Black women have viewed political participation as a means ... Historically, many Black women have viewed political participation as a means to achieve full equality and improve their status in US society. To this end, Black women have long engaged in politics through activism, voting, mobilization, and seeki moreDetails
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-15%A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts ...In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for... In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular discourse about Islam. Yet doing so has tended to impose an anachronistic conception of "science" o moreDetails
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-13%The Bounds of Defense: Killing...Most people believe that killing someone, while generally morally wrong, can i... Most people believe that killing someone, while generally morally wrong, can in some cases be a permissible act. Most people similarly believe that war, while awful, can be justified. Bradley Jay Strawser examines a set of related moral issues in moreDetails
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-20%Borders: A Very Short Introduc...First published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began with the pre... First published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began with the premise that "we live in a very bordered world." The intervening decade has witnessed a flurry of events and developments that continue to highlight the centrality moreDetails
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-12%Brain Science for Lawyers, Jud...Brain science in the form of neuroscientific evidence now appears frequently i... Brain science in the form of neuroscientific evidence now appears frequently in courtrooms and policy discussions alike. Many legal issues are at stake, such as how to separate the best uses of brain science information from those that are potenti moreDetails
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-14%The Oxford Handbook of America...First brought to the United States in the nineteenth century by Chinese and Ja... First brought to the United States in the nineteenth century by Chinese and Japanese immigrants, Buddhism has become a major feature of the North American religious, cultural, and social landscape. Nearly every form of Asian Buddhism has some pres moreDetails
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-14%Storytelling in Motion: Cinema...How do filmmakers guide viewer attention through the frame using the movement ... How do filmmakers guide viewer attention through the frame using the movement of bodies on screen? What do they seek to communicate with their cinematic choreography, and how were those choices shaped by the industrial conditions available to them moreDetails
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-15%Kod?ly in the Fourth Grade Cla...Since the mid-twentieth century, Zolt?n Kod?ly's child-developmental philosoph... Since the mid-twentieth century, Zolt?n Kod?ly's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other Eng moreDetails
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-15%The Virtue of SolidarityMany today are worried about the global spread of divisive politics, rampant i... Many today are worried about the global spread of divisive politics, rampant inequality, social alienation, and political apathy. They are hungry for meaningful action that will bring about change, yet they are uncertain of how to achieve this. It moreDetails
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-20%The Founding Fathers: A Very S...The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawe... The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"-who got as close to the ideal of the Plat moreDetails
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-20%Reconstruction: A Very Short I...The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American his... The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures was the inability to chart a progressive course f moreDetails
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-13%Before the Scrolls: A Material...Before the Scrolls traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus t... Before the Scrolls traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus to propose a material approach to biblical literature. Although scholars understand that the material of composition was the scroll rather than the codex, they p moreDetails
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-15%The Oxford Handbook of Indigen...Indigenous sociology makes visible what is meaningful in the Indigenous social... Indigenous sociology makes visible what is meaningful in the Indigenous social world. This core premise is demonstrated here via the use of the concept of the Indigenous Lifeworld in reference to the dispossessed Indigenous Peoples from Anglo-colo moreDetails
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-13%Women Moralists in Early Moder...Early modern women writers left their mark in multiple domains-novels, transla... Early modern women writers left their mark in multiple domains-novels, translations, letters, history, and science. Although recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies has enriched our understanding of these accomplishments, less attenti moreDetails
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-14%Core Texts of the S?n Approach...Jeffrey L. Broughton here offers a study and partial translation of Core Texts... Jeffrey L. Broughton here offers a study and partial translation of Core Texts of the S?n Approach (S?nmun ch'waryo), an anthology of texts foundational to Korean S?n (Chan/Zen) Buddhism. Core Texts of the S?n Approach provides a moreDetails
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