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To the Halls of the Montezumas
The Mexican War in the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 1988
For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe...
by Eric Scerri
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
In 1913, English physicist Henry Moseley established an elegant method for "counting" the elements based on atomic number, ranging them from hydrogen (#1) to uranium (#92). It soon became clear, however, that seven elements were mysteriously missing from the lineup--seven elements unknown...
The Mormon Menace
Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
"It incarnates every unclean beast of lust, guile, falsehood, murder, despotism and spiritual wickedness." So wrote a prominent Southern Baptist official in 1899 of Mormonism. Rather than the "quintessential American religion," as it has been dubbed by contemporary scholars, in...
Pluralism and Democracy in India
Debating the Hindu Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity has been...
Intellectual Privacy
Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech. Courts all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the problems of media gossip with our commitment to free and open public debate for over a century. The rise of the Internet has made this...
Young Catholic America
Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Best Review at the Catholic Press Association Convention Studies of young American Catholics over the last three decades suggest a growing crisis in the Catholic Church: compared to their elders, young Catholics are looking to the Church less as they form their identities, and fewer of them can even...
Beyond Engineering
How Society Shapes Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 1997
We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Reformation. The development of the compass ushered in the Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New World. The cotton gin created the conditions...
by Ananth N. Madhavan
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
In Exchange-Traded Funds and the New Dynamics of Investing, Ananth Madhavan examines the quiet transformation of asset management through the rise of passive or index investing. A closely-related phenomenon is the rise of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). An ETF is an investment vehicle that trades intraday...
The Shock of the Old
Technology and Global History since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clichéd claims about high technology's ability to change the course of history. Now, in The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, radically revising...
by Joseph Dan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism, offers a concise and highly accurate look at the history and character of the various systems developed by the adherents of the Kabbalah. Dan sheds light on the many misconceptions about...
Innovation and Its Enemies
Why People Resist New Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
The rise of artificial intelligence has rekindled a long-standing debate regarding the impact of technology on employment. This is just one of many areas where exponential advances in technology signal both hope and fear, leading to public controversy. This book shows that many debates over new technologies...
German : Biography of a Language
Biography of a Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2010
Thousands of years ago seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic anthropological and historical research Sanders presents a brilliant...
Robot Ethics 2.0
From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical....
City Girls
The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Even before wartime incarceration, Japanese Americans largely lived in separate cultural communities from their West Coast neighbors. Although the Nisei children, the American-born second generation, were U.S. citizens and were integrated in public schools, they were socially isolated in many ways...