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The Natural Gas Market
Sixty Years of Regulation and Deregulation
Over the past six decades federal regulatory agencies have attempted different strategies to regulate the natural gas industry in the United States. All have been unsuccessful, resulting in nationwide gas shortages or massive...
Harems of the Mind
Passages of Western Art and Literature
Fascinating and mysterious, the idea of the harem long captured the imagination of the West. The Muslim practice of concealing the women of the household from the eyes of alien men tempted Europeans to extravagant...
The Reign of Law
Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America
"A brilliantly innovative and provocative work of pathfinding dimensions."—Robert M. Ireland, Journal of the Early Republic "No scholar of the American constitution or American history can afford not to...
Songs of the Women Trouvères
This groundbreaking anthology brings together for the first time the works of women poet-composers, or trouvères, in northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Refuting the long-held notion that there are...
3000 Years of Chinese Painting AND Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology
Both of these books are being shrink-wraped for special sales. (package set)
Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Israeli Hebrew
This is the first textbook written for the purpose of teaching biblical Hebrew to college-level students who already know some modern, Israeli Hebrew. Marc Brettler provides a clear, comprehensive book with numerous well...
The Origins of the American High School
This engrossing book tells the story of American high schools in the nineteenth century. William Reese analyzes the social changes and political debates that shaped these institutions across the nation—from the first public...
Rituals of Childhood
Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe
In medieval times, when a Jewish boy of five began religious schooling, he was carried from home to a teacher and placed on the teacher's lap. He was then asked to recite the Hebrew alphabet and lick honey from the slate on...
Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity
Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677)—often recognized as the first modern Jewish thinker—was also a founder of modern liberal political philosophy. This book is the first to connect systematically these two aspects of Spinoza's...
Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World
After many years in Asia, Marco Polo wrote one of the most influential books of the past millennium. No mere travel account, Polo’s Book is a work that played a key role in the development of European overseas...