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  Cultivating Humanity - Martha C. Nussbaum - Google Books

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  How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is…

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  Homosexuality and Civilization - Louis Crompton - Google Books

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  How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of…

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  Japan Encyclopedia - Louis Fr?d?ric, Louis-Frédéric - Google Books

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  "Knowing Japan and the Japanese better," Louis Frédéric states in the introduction to this encyclopedia, "is one of the necessities of modern life." The Japanese have a profound knowledge of every aspect and detail of Western societies. Unfortunately, we…

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  Japan Encyclopedia - Louis Fr?d?ric, Louis-Frédéric - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA812&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

  "Knowing Japan and the Japanese better," Louis Frédéric states in the introduction to this encyclopedia, "is one of the necessities of modern life." The Japanese have a profound knowledge of every aspect and detail of Western societies. Unfortunately, we…

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  The Making of Modern Japan - Marius B. Jansen - Google Books

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  Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the…

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  Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist - Roger Hahan, Roger Hahn - Google Books

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  Often referred to as the Newton of France, Pierre Simon Laplace has been called the greatest scientist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He affirmed the stability of the solar system and offered a powerful hypothesis about its origins.…

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  The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western ... - Thomas S. Kuhn - Google Books

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  For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem…

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  Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary - Avraham Tory - Google Books

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  This remarkable chronicle of life and death in the Jewish Ghetto of Kovno, Lithuania, from June 1941 to January 1944, was written under conditions of extreme danger by a Ghetto inmate and secretary of the Jewish Council. After the war, in order to escape…

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  She Works/he Works: How Two-income Families are Happy, Healthy, and Thriving - Rosalind C. Barnett, Caryl Rivers - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=kopzZLMeICgC&pg=PP1

  This book is based in great part on the results of a study funded by a four-year, 1 million-dollar grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) to Rosalind C. Barnett at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. It was designed to…

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  The Aldo Moro Murder Case - Richard Drake - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=rUohGOGzQ9cC&pg=PA4

  Aldo Moro's kidnapping and violent death in 1978 shocked Italy as no other event has during the entire history of the Republic. It had much the same effect in Italy as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy had in the United States, with both cases…

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