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A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
Abraham Lewin
Blackwell Pub, 1989
A Strikingly-Balanced Eyewitness Account of German Crimes
Abraham Lewin, the author, is a Jewish eyewitness of events the Warsaw Ghetto. His narratives are in striking contrast to most popular-level Holocaust materials, which portray Poles in a unilaterally negative light while also completely ignoring the negative aspects of ...
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The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy
Ronald Hutton
Blackwell Pub, 1991
An Academic Masterpiece
As a practising pagan of several years now, I'm rather disappointed by the review that dashes this work and author out of hand with a curt, "he must be a Christian" followed by a stream of rhetoric. No, this book isn't the fuzzy little love-love story that pagandom ...
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A History of Ancient Egypt
Nicolas Grimal
Blackwell Pub, 1992
Detailed and scholarly, yet accessable
Seeking a solid overview of Ancient Egyptian history, I chose this book on the strong recommendations of Amazon readers. I was not disappointed. While the book is a bit dated (the English edition came out in 1992), it was more than adequte. Grimal presents a ...
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Modernism As a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture
Robert B. Pippin
Blackwell Pub, 1991
Rehabilitating Philosophical Modernity
If memory serves, Professor Pippin was awarded a MacArthur grant in 2001: $1.5 million over 3 years. Imagine: getting paid half a mil a year to write on things like the problem of human finitude and the possibility of self-determining and self-grounding spontaneous ...
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Introduction to the Study of Dinosaurs
Anthony J. Martin
Blackwell Pub., 2006
great dinosaur book for technical readers
As a student of vertebrate paleontology, I find this book easy to read and extremely detailed. I loved this book and it featured two or three times the information as other dinosaur textbooks such as Dinosaurs: The Textbook, which I also own. I suggest those who want ...
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False Prophets: Fraud and Error in Science and Medicine
Alexander Kohn
Blackwell Pub, 1988
Did Newton fudge his figures? Who counted Mendel's peas? What lay behind Cyril Burt's disturbing statistics on race and intelligence? This work chronicles the famous frauds - from Piltdown man to the Hitler diaries - and unearths some lesser-known incidents buried in the scientific literature. Taking examples from all areas of science and medicine ...
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Carthage: A History
Serge Lancel
Blackwell Pub, 1994
Heavy going but worth it if your truly interested.
I live in Tunisia eight miles from Carthage and read this book immediately upon my arrival. A first class piece of historical writing with no attempt at pleasing the masses. Slow going and often difficult to read, but truly a top reference work for the serious reader ...
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The Rise of the Network Society (Castells, Manuel. Information Age, 1.)
Manuel Castells
Blackwell Pub, 1996
The Rise of Network Society
The Rise of Network Society brings up many important issues regarding globalization and what Manuel Castells calls the network society. He argues that the technological revolution that began in the late 70s in Silicon Valley has had a profound impact on all aspects of ...
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French Feminist Thought: A Reader (Feminist Thought)
Blackwell Pub, 1987
This anthology introduces the English-speaking reader to some of the major elements of recent French feminist thought with a series of full-length essays by French feminists, most of which are translated here for the first time, while some have been collected from scattered journals and reviews. While including contributions from well-known ...
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The Basques (Peoples of Europe)
Roger Collins
Blackwell Pub, 1990
This edition of Collin's history of the Basques includes a substantial new chapter on the recent history of the Basques. He places their struggle for indentity and self-determination within the context of the past 2000 years, and aims to show that to a large extent this has finally been achieved within the democratic Spain which has proceeded the ...
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Ethics: A Feminist Reader
Elizabeth Frazer, Jennifer Hornsby
Blackwell Pub, 1992
The feminist movement has challenged many of the unstated assumptions on which ethics as a branch of philosophy has always rested - assumptions about human nature, moral agency, citizenship and kinship. The twenty-six readings in this book express the discontent of a succession of fiercely articulate women writers, from Mary Wollstonecraft to the ...
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A Companion to Nietzsche (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
Keith Ansell Pearson
Blackwell Pub, 2009
"A Companion to Nietzsche" provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, profiling the most recent research and trends in scholarship. It brings together an international roster of both rising stars and established scholars, including many of the leading commentators and interpreters of Nietzsche. It showcases ...
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The Huns (The Peoples of Europe Series)
E. A. Thompson, Peter Heather
Blackwell Pub, 1995
Not a Review
I'm sure this is a fine book. On this page, I read a review (now deleted, apparently) that mentioned the book by Otto J. Maenchen Helfen titled "the World of the Huns", now sadly out of print. I ordered my copy from amazon marketplace, and found it probably the ...
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New Foundations for Psychoanalysis
Jean Laplanche
Blackwell Pub, 1989
In a study of the various foundations that have been proposed for psychoanalysis Jean Laplanche aims to demonstrate that it cannot be epistemologically grounded in either biology, phylogenesis, mechanics or linguistics. These disciplines are the background against which it emerges in an inaugural gesture which captures something of the emergence ...
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Foucault and the Writing of History
Blackwell Pub, 1994
Michel Foucault is perhaps the most mysterious and certainly among the most influential of twentieth-century thinkers. Although he trained as a philosopher, his writings were almost entirely in the domain of history: fields he sought to combine and, in every sense, to "de-discipline". Yet Foucault's readers have consistently singled out his ...
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