E-Book Preview: December 2017

Friday, December 29, 2017

Family

By:"J. California Cooper"
Published on 2011-01-12 by Anchor

In this wise, beguiling, beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, an award-winning playwright and author paints a haunting portrait of a woman named Always, born a slave, and four generations of her African-American family. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages

By:"Peter Biller","Joseph Ziegler"
Published on 2001 by Boydell & Brewer

Medicine and religion were intertwined in the middle ages; here are studies of specific instances.

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Thursday, December 28, 2017

The Book of Hobbies

By:"Charles William Taussig","Theodore Arthur Meyer"
Published on 2013-10 by

This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.

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Monday, December 25, 2017

The Cambridge Economic History of the United States

By:"Stanley L. Engerman","Robert E. Gallman"
Published on 1996-04-26 by Cambridge University Press

Surveys the economic history of British North America and the early United States to the end of the 18th cenutry

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Sunday, December 24, 2017

The Technology of Orgasm

By:"Rachel P. Maines"
Published on 2001-03-01 by JHU Press

The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Medical authorities, she writes, were able to defend and justify the clinical production of orgasm in women as necessary to maintain the dominant view of sexuality, which defined sex as penetration to male orgasm - a practice that consistently fails to produce orgasm in a majority of the female population. This male-centered definition of satisfying and healthy coitus shaped not only the development of concepts of female sexual pathology but also the instrumentation designed to cope with them.

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Management of Technology

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Published on 1987 by National Academies

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A Sociology of Family Life

By:"Deborah Chambers"
Published on 2012-05-29 by Polity

Explores the growing diversity of family life and new sociological thinking about ‘family’, parenting, childhood and personal life. Presents a comprehensive assessment of recent research and theory.

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Friday, December 22, 2017

The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics

By:"George G. Brenkert","Tom L. Beauchamp"
Published on 2010 by Oxford University Press on Demand

The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics is an up-to-date and in-depth analyses of leading topics and issues and a comprehensive philosophical treatment of business ethics. It contains twenty-four original and detailed chapters by accomplished philosophers in the field, a substantive introduction to the field and to the chapters in the volume, up-to-date recommendations for further reading in each area discussed, and innovative presentations of seldom-addressed issues of business ethics.

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The Truth of Broken Symbols

By:"Robert C. Neville"
Published on 1996 by SUNY Press

This book provides a cross-cultural analysis of how religious symbols function from a theological and philosophical perspective. Showing how religious symbols can be true in various qualified senses, Neville presents a theory of religious symbolism in the American pragmatic tradition extending and elaborating Tillich's claim that religious symbols participate in the divine realities to which they refer and yet must be broken in order not to be idolatrous or demonic. The Truth of Broken Symbols offers a theory of religious symbolism treating reference, meaning, and interpretation, and discussing different functions of religious symbols in theological, practical, and devotional contexts. It shows that religious symbols are to be properly understood as true or false and that symbol-systems such as myths, theologies, or liturgical symbols are to be used to engage divine realities while internally exhibiting semiotic structures of reference, meaning, and interpretation.

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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The Family

By:"Jeff Sharlet"
Published on 2008 by Univ. of Queensland Press

A journalist's penetrating and controversial look at the untold story of Christian fundamentalism's most elite organisation: a self-described 'invisible' global network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful. They are 'the Family' - fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the 'new chosen': congressmen, generals and foreign dictators who meet in confidential 'cells', to pray and plan for a 'leadership led by God', to be won not by force but through 'quiet diplomacy'. Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside its walls. The Family is about the other half of American fundamentalist power - not its angry masses, but its sophisticated elites. In public, they host Prayer Breakfasts; in private they preach a gospel of 'biblical capitalism', military might and American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin and Mao as leadership models, the Family's current leader, Doug Coe, declares, 'We work with power where we can, build new power where we can't'. Part history, part investigative journalism, The Family is a compelling account of how fundamentalism came to be interwoven with American power and the no-holds-barred economics of globalisation. No other book about the Right has exposed the Family or revealed its far-reaching impact on democracy, and no future reckoning of fundamentalism will be able to ignore it.

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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Religion and Cultural Memory

By:"Jan Assmann","Rodney Livingstone"
Published on 2006 by Stanford University Press

In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He develops a persuasive view of the life of the past in such surface phenomena as codes, religious rites and festivals, and canonical texts on the one hand, and in the Freudian psychodrama of repressing and resurrecting the past on the other. Whereas the current fad for oral history inevitably focuses on the actual memories of the last century or so, Assmann presents a commanding view of culture extending over five thousand years. He focuses on cultural memory from the Egyptians, Babylonians, and the Osage Indians down to recent controversies about memorializing the Holocaust in Germany and the role of memory in the current disputes between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East and between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.

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The Entrepreneur

By:"Mark Casson"
Published on 2003-01-01 by Edward Elgar Publishing

This is a second edition on the economic theory of entrepreneurship.

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Friday, December 15, 2017

The 48 Laws Of Power

By:"Robert Greene"
Published on 2010-09-03 by Profile Books

'Machiavelli has a new rival, and Sun-tzu had better watch his back' - New York Times Robert Greene's laws are now famous: Law 1: Never outshine the master. Law 2: Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies. Law 3: Conceal your intentions. Law 4: Always say less than necessary. At work, in relationships, on the street or on the 6 o'clock News: the 48 Laws apply everywhere. For anyone with an interest in conquest, self-defence, wealth, power or simply being an educated spectator, The 48 Laws of Power is one of the most useful and entertaining books ever; it 'teaches you how to cheat, dissemble, feign, fight and advance your cause in the modern world.' (Independent on Sunday). Robert Greene will teach you the distilled wisdom of the masters - illustrated through the tactics, triumphs and failures from Elizabeth I to Henry Kissinger on how to get to the top and stay there. Wry, ironic and clever, this is an indispensable and witty guide to power. The perfect gift book for the power-hungry (and who doesn't want power?); this is the Concise Edition of an international bestseller. From the internationally bestselling author of Mastery, The Art Of Seduction, and The 33 Strategies Of War.

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Thursday, December 14, 2017

The King's Two Bodies

By:"Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz"
Published on 1997 by Princeton University Press

First published in 1957, Ernst Kantorowicz's THE KING'S TWO BODIES traces the \

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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Sport Public Relations 2nd Edition

By:"G. Clayton Stoldt","Stephen W. Dittmore","Scott E. Branvold"
Published on 2012 by Human Kinetics

Sport Public Relations, Second Edition, expresses the roles of public relations and PR professionals as vital components to a sport organization's overall strategies and mediated messages.

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Soda Politics

By:"Dr. Marion Nestle"
Published on 2015-09-07 by Oxford University Press

Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or buy, yet have turned their makers--principally Coca-Cola and PepsiCo--into a multibillion-dollar industry with global recognition, distribution, and political power. Billed as \

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