Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food
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Who cares about foie gras? As it turns out, many do. In the last decade, this French delicacy--the...
Nietzsche's Journey to Sorrento: Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit
Paolo D'Iorio and Sylvia Mae Gorelick
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"When for the first time I saw the evening rise with its red and gray softened in the Naples sky,"...
The I in Team: Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity
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There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports. It isn't the squeak of sneakers or the...
The Craft of Research
Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams and Joseph Bizup
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With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of...
Microbes from Hell
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At the close of the 1970s, the two-domain classification scheme long used by most biologists...
Plant Evolution: An Introduction to the History of Life
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Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively...
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
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The definitive account of Barack Obama’s life before he became the 44th president of the United...
biography politics
Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion
Heinrich Meier and Robert Berman
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Heinrich Meier's guiding insight in Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion is...
What is a Dog?
Raymond Coppinger and Lorna Coppinger
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Of the world's dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food,...
Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images
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American environmentalism is defined by its icons: the "Crying Indian," who shed a tear in response...