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I Chronicles 10-29
In this latest addition to the esteemed Anchor Bible series, scholar Gary Knoppers examines one of the most neglected books of the Hebrew Bible and establishes its importance to understanding the nation of Israel.
The Death of the Messiah, From Gethsemane to the Grave, Volume 2
A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels
The Banana Tree at the Gate
A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo
The “Hikayat Banjar,” a native court chronicle from Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as “the banana tree at the gate.” Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to...
At Home in the Law
How the Domestic Violence Revolution Is Transforming Privacy
In the past forty years, the idea of home, which is central to how the law conceives of crime, punishment, and privacy, has changed radically. Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to...
The Daily You
How the New Advertising Industry Is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth
In the new media world, advertisers are deciding who you are, how much you matter, and what you see and do The Internet is often hyped as a means to enhanced consumer power: a hypercustomized media world...
Remedy and Reaction
The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform
Revised Edition
A leading expert explains how Americans trapped themselves in a costly and complicated health system—and came to fight so bitterly about changing it In no other country has health care served as such a...
Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy
Mathematics in the Real World
In this vibrant work, which is ideal for both teaching and learning, Apoorva Khare and Anna Lachowska explain the mathematics essential for understanding and appreciating our quantitative world. They show with examples that...
Climate Cultures
Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this contemporary challenge, drawing together the state-of-the-art thinking in anthropology....
Speed Limits
Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
A leading thinker asks why “faster” is synonymous with “better” in our hurried world and suggests how to take control of our runaway lives We live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets,...
Heroic Failure and the British
From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this...