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Organic Futures
Struggling for Sustainability on the Small Farm
An exploration of the lived experience of small-scale organic farmers in New England that unpacks how they balance their ideals with economic realities In recent years, the popularity of organically grown...
Copycats and Contrarians
Why We Follow Others... and When We Don't
A multidisciplinary exploration of our human inclination to herd and why our instinct to copy others can be dangerous in today’s interlinked world Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread...
The Dead of the Irish Revolution
The first comprehensive account to record and analyze all deaths arising from the Irish revolution between 1916 and 1921“A monumental new book [and] an incredible piece of research. . . . Formidable,...
Reading Chinese for Proficiency
An Introduction to Signs
This text is designed to facilitate the student's ability to read authentic signs in Chinese. It contains vocabulary, notes with accompanying exercises, self-tests, and authentic illustrations. All signs are given in both...
Communicating in Chinese: Student Lab Workbook
A Series of Exercises for Listening Comprehension
Communicating in Chinese is for the beginning learner. The series now includes three student books and two teacher activity books, and provides the framework for a proficiency-based approach to learning standard...
Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason
In his magnum opus, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas presented his ideas as a whole, providing the first major defense of his philosophy. David Ingram here summarizes...
Read Chinese, Book One
A Beginning Text in the Chinese Character
Expanded Edition
This basic beginning reader covers the first three hundred Chinese characters, in both simplified and traditional forms. The text uses both pinyin and Yale romanization where appropriate, and includes writing and stroke order...
Reclaiming a Conversation
The Ideal of Educated Woman
In this book Jane Roland Martin joins in conversation with five philosophers—Plato, Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, Catharine Beecher, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman—about how women should be educated in an ideal society,...
Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy
Autonomy vs. Control
“Continuing his career-long exploration of modern democracy, Dahl addresses a question that has long vexed students of political theory: the place of independent organizations, associations, or special interest groups within...
Speak Mandarin, Workbook
This is a thorough and expanded revision of Speak Chinese, by M. Gardner Tewksbury (1948), following two decades of classroom use. The twenty-four lessons of the earlier text have been regrouped into twenty, with the...