Cambridge University Press
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Yukikaze’s War: The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific
$29.95 Add to cartOnly one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armam… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Brett L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 311
- Publish Date: June 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1108837298
- Language: English
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Adultish: The Body Image Book for Life
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Markey, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 100922896X
- Language: English
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability
$29.00 Add to cartThis book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a t… [more below]
- Series: New Directions in Sustainability and Society
- Author: Nelson, Melissa K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 03 2021
- ISBN10: 110845044X
- Language: English
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This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue
$31.00 Add to cartThis Is Not Who We Are examines America’s struggle to be good once it became an undisputed superpower. A unique and compelling insight into how a country’s humanity affects us all, this book is for lo… [more below]
- Author: Shore, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: January 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1009203444
- Language: English
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Understanding DNA Ancestry
$17.00 Add to cart- Series: Understanding Life
- Author: Krimsky, Sheldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1108816037
- Language: English
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Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power
$29.00 Add to cartIn Industry Unbound, Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy. With research based on interviews with scores of tech employees and… [more below]
- Author: Waldman, Ari Ezra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1108492428
- Language: English
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On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present
$26.00 Add to cartI’m not a racist, but… You look good, for your age… She was asking for it… You’re crazy… That’s so gay… Have you ever wondered why certain language has the power to offend? It is often diffi… [more below]
- Author: Stollznow, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1108791786
- Language: English
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A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
$27.00 Add to cartOver the last forty years, scientists have uncovered evidence that if the Universe had been forged with even slightly different properties, life as we know it – and life as we can imagine it – would b… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Geraint F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 110874740X
- Language: English
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Understanding How Science Explains the World
$17.00 Add to cart- Series: Understanding Life
- Author: McCain, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: July 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1108995500
- Language: English
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Abortion Rights: For and Against
$52.42 Add to cartThis book features opening arguments followed by two rounds of reply between two moral philosophers on opposing sides of the abortion debate. In the opening essays, Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczo… [more below]
- Author: Greasley, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: November 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1316621855
- Language: English
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Contraception: The Answers You’ve Been Looking for
$16.00 Add to cartA handy guide to every method of contraception, helping readers decide what works best for them. Covering how each method works, how to use it correctly and how effective it is, the authors expertly e… [more below]
- Series: Understanding Life
- Author: Briggs, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1009124382
- Language: English
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Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone
$41.08 Add to cartThe average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make … [more below]
- Author: Weinstein, Netta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: April 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1009256602
- Language: English
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Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
$63.75 Add to cartIn this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utili… [more below]
- Author: Huang, Xuelei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1009207040
- Language: English
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Understanding Charles Darwin
$21.00 Add to cartThe legend of Charles Darwin has never been more alive or more potent, but by virtue of this, his legacy has become susceptible to myths and misunderstandings. Understanding Charles Darwin examines ke… [more below]
- Series: Understanding Life
- Author: Peterson, Erik L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: September 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1009338595
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Brazil
$35.00 Add to cartThe second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America’s largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil’s history from the arrival of the Portuguese… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Fausto, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: August 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1107635241
- Language: English
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Making a New Deal
$31.00 Add to cartThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as t… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Cohen, Lizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: November 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107431794
- Language: English
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Computability and Logic
$62.33 Add to cartComputability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic cour… [more below]
- Author: Boolos, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: September 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0521701465
- Language: English
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
$30.00 Add to cartIn what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies (Paperback) #61
- Author: Clendinnen, Inga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0521527317
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
$35.00 Add to cartThis book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic ‘Orange Revolution’ … [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0521155118
- Language: English
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Much Like Us: What Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour of Animals
$26.00 Add to cartWhat really differentiates us from our relatives in the animal world? And what can they teach us about ourselves? Taking these questions as his starting point, Norbert Sachser presents fascinating ins… [more below]
- Author: Sachser, Norbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: May 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1108838499
- Language: English
