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• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Physics - Quantum Theory"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origi...

• Author(s): Stanislas Dehaene • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Neuropsychology"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work."--Oliv...

• Author(s): Irwin Weintraub • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewish Studies This annotated bibliography documents Jews' significant contributions to American agriculture as farmers, ranch...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Gordon D. Fee • Publisher: Zondervan • Publisher Imprint: Zondervan • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Bible Study GuidesReading the Bible doesn't need to be a difficult journey through strange and bewildering territory. How to Read the Bib...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - Atomic & Molecular"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins...

• Author(s): Dean W. Duncan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This study questions the widely held perception that books, as an artistic medium, are superior to and more respectable...

• Author(s): Daren Callahan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Millions of people practice some form of yoga, but they often do so without a clear understanding ...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): John R. Burch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The Appalachian Mountains are home to many myths and stereotypes, but they are also the focus of intense...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - Electromagnetism"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of hi...

• Author(s): Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: European - GermanThroughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his p...

• Author(s): Lorraine Daston • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryEssays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge.Imagine a world without thin...

• Author(s): Herbert Gans • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralIs NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this ...

• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyRagnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In The Last Three Minutes, Pau...

• Author(s): William S. Strong • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: Intellectual Property - CopyrightAn accessible and comprehensive guide to copyright law, updated to include new developme...

• Author(s): Karl Marx • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas s...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): John Lewis Gaddis • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: United States - 20th Century"Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written." --The Boston Globe "Energetically...

• Author(s): Alberto Manguel • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: LiteraryIn this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew--or thought they knew--Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, in...

• Author(s): Frances B. Jenkins • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ReferenceScience Reference Sources is a selected, up-to-date compilation of about 1600 representative bibliographical and reference tools in the physic...

• Author(s): Jane Gregory | Steven Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsDoes the general public need to understand science? And if so, is it scientists' responsibility to communi...

• Author(s): Robert B. Laughlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsA Nobel Laureate physicist argues that ours is not an age of information but an age of disinformation and ignorance,...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): A. C. Grayling • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralIdeas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundament...

• Author(s): Lauren Slayton • Publisher: Perigee Books • Publisher Imprint: Perigee Books • BISAC: Diet & Nutrition - DietsThe ultimate cheat sheet that sets out a workable and flexible plan for successful weight loss to fit every lifestyle a...

• Author(s): Victor Carl Friesen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a literary discussion of one-half of Zane Grey's Westerns, selected to best show the broad scope of this p...

• Author(s): Herman Hattaway • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)With its penetrating analyses and masterly synthesis of current scholarship, this "wonderfully clear a...