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Madness and Leadership : from Antiquity to the New Common Era
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Subject(s): Political leadership -- Psychological aspects | Power (Social sciences) -- Psychological aspects | Mental illness Summary: Why do scores of followers throughout history become attracted to leaders who demand sacrifice, campaigns of war or other adventures with unpredictable outcomes? Why do they command such powerful control over th

Children's Literature and the Posthuman : Animal, Environment, Cyborg
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Subject(s): Children's literature -- History and criticism Summary: An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children's literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children's fiction offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it m

Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature
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Subject(s): Pain in literature | English literature -- History and criticism -- 18th century | Romanticism -- Great Britain | Literature and medicine -- History -- 18th century -- Great Britain | Human body in literature Summary: "When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emo

The Language and Thought of the Child
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Subject(s): Child psychology | Child development | Children -- Language Summary: This book is for anyone who has ever wondered how a child develops language, thought, and knowledge. Before this classic appeared, little was known of the way children think. In 1923, however, Jean Piaget, the most important developmental psychologist of the twenti

Siberia : a History of the People
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Subject(s): Siberia (Russia) -- History | Siberia (Russia) -- Social life and customs | Siberia (Russia) -- Social conditions | Siberia (Russia) -- Biography Scope and content: "Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives

Calculus : a Complete Introduction
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Subject(s): Calculus -- Textbooks Summary: A bestselling introductory course, this book covers all areas of calculus, including functions, gradients, rates of change, differentiation, exponential and logarithmic functions and integration Contents:Functions -- Variations in functions; limits -- Gradient -- Rate of change -- Differentiation -

Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building
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Subject(s): Sustainable architecture | Architecture -- Environmental aspects Summary: "Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building offers an introduction to green building concepts as well as design approaches that reduce and can eventually eliminate the need for fossil fuel use in buildings while also conserving materials, m

Barack Obama and the Myth of a post-Racial America
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Subject(s): Obama, Barack | Post-racialism -- United States | United States -- Politics and government -- 2009- | United States -- Race relations Political aspects Summary: "The 2008 presidential election was celebrated around the world as a seminal moment in U.S. political and racial history. White liberals and other progressives framed th

twentieth-Century Spain : a History
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Subject(s): Spain -- History -- 20th century Summary: "This is a much-needed new overview of Spanish social and political history which sets developments in twentieth-century Spain within a broader European context. Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, and Carlos Gil Andrés chart the country's experience of democrac

Chantal Mouffe : Hegemony, Radical Democracy, and the Political
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Subject(s): Political sociology | Hegemony | Democracy Summary: "Chantal Mouffe's writings have been innovatory with respect to democratic theory, Marxism and feminism. Her work derives from, and has always been engaged with, contemporary political events and intellectual debates. This sense of conflict informs both the methodological a

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