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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter

St Martin Press, 2019

The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.

In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO?the first quick-draw duel on the frontier....

Stress and Suffering at Work: The Role of Culture and Society

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This edited collection explores different strands of social constructionist theory and methods to provide a critique of the prevailing discourse of work stress, and introduces a radical new approach to conceptualizing suffering at work. Over the last three decades, stress and other forms of suffering at work...

Sex Magicians: The Lives and Spiritual Practices of Paschal Beverly Randolph, Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron, Anton LaVey, and Others

Destiny Books, 2021

An in-depth look at the lives and occult practices of 12 influential practitioners of sex magic from the 19th century to the present day

• Explores the background and sexual magical beliefs of Paschal Beverly Randolph, Ida Craddock, Aleister Crowley, Maria de Naglowska, Austin Osman Spare, Julius Evola, Franz Bardon,...

Conflicted American Landscapes

MIT Press, 2021

How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity.

Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists...

After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division (Radical Conservatisms)

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021

Nationalism is on the rise across the Western world, serving as a rallying cry for voters angry at the unacknowledged failures of globalization that has dominated politics and economics since the end of the Cold War. In After Nationalism, Samuel Goldman trains a sympathetic but skeptical eye on the trend, highlighting the deep...

Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers: Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as Literature

Cambridge University Press, 2021

Of the Presocratic thinkers traditionally credited with the foundation of Greek philosophy, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles are exceptional for writing in verse. This is the first book-length, literary-critical study of their work. It locates the surviving fragments in their performative and wider cultural contexts, applying intertextual...

Doing Business in Africa: From Economic Growth to Societal Development (Palgrave Studies of Internationalization in Emerging Markets)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book presents insights from cutting-edge international business and management research relating to Africa. Economic growth and foreign investment in the region remains strong, despite some slowing down in recent years. This trend of economic growth and its impact on international trade and FDI has attracted Western businesses,...

Detection of Cell Death Mechanisms: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 2255)

Humana Press, 2020

This volume provides detailed protocols for the performance, analysis, and troubleshooting of in vitro and in vivo experiments related to programmed cell death. Chapters compile conventional techniques such as western blot and qPCR and state-of-the art transmission electron microscopy and...

Pride and Power: A Modern History of Iraq

Hurst, 2021

The story of Iraq is one of resistance. In this groundbreaking study, Johan Franzen offers a contextual modern history of the country, its creation and its struggle for sovereignty.

Iraq's contemporary history is a tale of a diverse people thrown together into a nation-state by imperialist statecraft. From the...

America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present

Knopf, 2021

An important, urgently needed book--a hugely ambitious, illuminating portrait of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and America, and the first book to examine, in all its aspects, the rich and fraught relations between these two powers--once allies, now adversaries. By an admired historian and the author of Untapped:...

The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it

Faber & Faber, 2021

Why do people commit hate crimes? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the globe and throughout history in this vital book.

'Utterly brilliant . . . powerful . . . From personal histories to broader social...

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