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All These Worlds Are Yours
The Scientific Search for Alien Life
Where would you look for alien life? An astronomer and science popularizer explains the basics of astrobiology to outline five plausible scenarios for finding extraterrestrials Long before space travel was...
The Némirovsky Question
The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France
A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut...
The New Cosmic Story
Inside Our Awakening Universe
A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration Over the past two...
Crusade and Jihad
The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
What really happened in the centuries of conflict between Europe, Russia, China, America, and the peoples of the Muslim world Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the...
The Playful Entrepreneur
How to Adapt and Thrive in Uncertain Times
A compelling account of how incorporating play into work can help us overcome the uncertainty and turbulence that surrounds work How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer, as Dodgson and...
An Introduction to Medical Spanish
Communication and Culture
Fifth Edition
The updated, fifth edition of the widely used introductory Spanish textbook designed specifically for health care professionals Nurses, physicians, dentists, and other health care professionals increasingly...
Hannibal
A Hellenistic Life
If history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors?"Eve MacDonald has produced a real page-turner in this lucid account of...
Ezekiel 38-48
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
A fresh interpretation of the final major sections of the Hebrew book of Ezekiel, chapters 38-48 Stephen L. Cook offers an accessible translation and interpretation of the final sections of Ezekiel. These...
Entrenchment
Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies
An investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealth Much of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment...
An Oak Spring Herbaria
Herbs and Herbals from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries: A Selection of the Rare Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art in the Collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon
This magnificent compendium is the fourth in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection assembled by Mrs. Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon.