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Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America

How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murder

After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that
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Gurdjieff Reconsidered: The Life, the Teachings, the Legacy
Gurdjieff Reconsidered: The Life, the Teachings, the Legacy
From a master biographer and longtime Gurdjieff practitioner, a brilliant new exploration of the quintessential Western esoteric teacher of the twentieth-century.

The Greek-Armenian teacher G.I. Gurdjieff was one of the most original and provocative spiritual teachers in the twentieth-century West. Whereas much work
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father." ?Charles Kaiser, The Guardian

A mayor’s inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the
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Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America
Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America
This book shows how, through a series of fierce battles over Sabbath laws, legislative chaplains, Bible-reading in public schools and other flashpoints, nineteenth-century secularists mounted a powerful case for a separation of religion and government. Among their diverse ranks were religious skeptics, liberal Protestants, members of...
A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education?providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call “the continuing education of the educated.” By the mid-1920s, the New School had become the place to...
Harnessing the Potential of Digital Post-Millennials in the Future Workplace (Management for Professionals)
Harnessing the Potential of Digital Post-Millennials in the Future Workplace (Management for Professionals)

This book offers strategic leaders with essential information for their most important role:  the change management function of positioning the organization for success into the future. To do so, leaders need to sort through a myriad of forecasts, predictions and weak indicators of change to make timely decisions. This volume...

Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference: Proceedings of the Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference National University of Singapore, 7 - 12 February 2018
Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference: Proceedings of the Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference National University of Singapore, 7 - 12 February 2018

The Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference of 2018 assembled many of Schwinger's students, colleagues, and friends to celebrate this towering figure of twentieth century physics one hundred years after his birth. This proceedings volume collects talks delivered on this occasion. They cover a wide range of topics, all related to...

Decision Economics. Designs, Models, and Techniques  for Boundedly Rational Decisions (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing)
Decision Economics. Designs, Models, and Techniques for Boundedly Rational Decisions (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing)

The special session on Decision Economics (DECON) is a scientific forum held annually, which is focused on sharing ideas, projects, research results, models, and experiences associated with the complexity of behavioural decision processes and socio?economic phenomena. In 2018, DECON was held at Campus Tecnológico de la...

Surrealism at Play (Art History Publication Initiative)
Surrealism at Play (Art History Publication Initiative)
In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by...
The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of...
The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings
The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings
“The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his...
The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (Global Cinema)
The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (Global Cinema)

What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the representation of the child in the cinema of Latin American countries, and demonstrating the place of the child in the movements, genres and styles that have defined that cinema. Deborah Martin combines...

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