Confronting the Challenges of Urbanization in China: Insights from Social Science Perspectives
Youqin Huang, Zai Liang, Steven F. Messner and Cheng Chen
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Since the late 1970s, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of urbanization. In 1978, only...
Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek
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From Sartre to Levinas, continental philosophers have looked to the example of the Jew as the...
Dwelling in the Future: Land Use, Housing, and the Conditions for Contemporary Architectural Production
Pierre D'Avoine and Clare Melhuish
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Drawing together writings, drawings, and photographs produced over the past decade, this volume...
Hit the Road, Jack: Essays on the Culture of the American Road
Gordon E. Slethaug and Stacilee Ford
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All travelers know the seductive power of the open road and its suggestions of possibility, escape,...
The American Jewish Story Through Cinema
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Like the haggadah, the traditional "telling" of the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt that...
The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue: Plurality, Conflict and Elitism in Hindu-Christian-Muslim Relations
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Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and 'interreligious...
What is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic
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What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and...
Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850--1930
Staffan Muller-Wille and Christina Brandt
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This book examines the wide range of scientific and social arenas in which the concept of...
Order and Disorder: Science Essentials for the Non-Scientist
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Order and Disorder is a non-mathematical introduction to the most important ideas in science for...
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
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Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the...