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An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati.... (more)

Harry Potter: Book 7

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final of the Harry Potter novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. It chronicles the events directly following Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition

The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition

by Arthur Kleinman

A Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist argues that interpreting the illness experience is an art tragically neglected by modern medical training, and presents a compelling case for bridging the gap between patient and doctor. Based on twenty years of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist argues that diagnosing illness is an art tragically neglected... (more)

Confronting Consumption

Comforting terms such as "sustainable development" and "green production" frame environmental debate by stressing technology (not green enough), economic growth (not enough in the right places), and population (too large). Concern about consumption emerges, if at all, in benign ways--as calls for green purchasing or more recycling, or for small changes in production processes. Many academics, policymakers, and... (more)

The Book of Air and Shadows

by Michael Gruber

A distinguished Shakespearean scholar found tortured to death . . . A lost manuscript and its secrets buried for centuries . . . An encrypted map that leads to incalculable wealth . . . The Washington Post called Michael Gruber's previous work "a miracle of intelligent fiction and among the essential novels of recent years." Now comes his most intellectually provocative and compulsively readable... (more)

Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History

Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History

by Cathy Caruth

"Cathy Caruth has emerged as one of our most innovative scholars on what we call trauma, and on our ways of perceiving and conceptualizing that still mysterious phenomenon".--Robert Jay Lifton, M.D., author of "Hiroshima in America" and "The Protean Self".

The Social Medicine Reader

Anthology featuring writings that discuss how medicine and medical practice are influenced by social, cultural, political, and economic forces. Includes fiction, medical reports, scholarly essays, poetry, case studies, and personal narratives by patients and doctors. For medical students and practitioners. Softcover.

Teaching Nonfiction in AP English (A Guide to Accompany "50 Essays" from Samuel Cohen")

Teaching Nonfiction in AP English (A Guide to Accompany "50 Essays" from Samuel Cohen")

by Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon, Samuel Cohen

Families We Choose

by Kath Weston

Winner of a Ruth Benedict Prize in Anthropology This classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship, and biology.

Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes

by Lillian S. Robinson

Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world. This book will delight and provoke anyone interested in the history of feminism or the importance of comics in contemporary life.

The education of historians in the United StatesDexter Perkins, John L. Snell

The education of historians in the United States

by Dexter Perkins, John L. Snell

King Lear, the New Variorum Edition, edited by Horace Howard Furness.William. Shakespeare

King Lear, the New Variorum Edition, edited by Horace Howard Furness.

by William. Shakespeare

The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature

The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature

by Raphael Dalleo

In the first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship of art, politics and the market. Dalleo and Machado Sáez engage with the major critics from the field to dispute the consensus view of Latino/a literature from the... (more)

Adventures of the Mindintro by Van Doren Thruelsen Richard John Kobler

Adventures of the Mind

by intro by Van Doren Thruelsen Richard John Kobler

A Companion to V.

by J. Kerry Grant

To the uninitiated, Thomas Pynchon's V. seems to defy comprehension with its open-ended and fragmented narrative, huge cast of characters (some 150 of them), and wide range of often obscure references. J. Kerry Grant's Companion to "V." takes us through the novel chapter by chapter, breaking through its daunting surface by summarizing events and clarifying Pynchon's many allusions. The Companion draws... (more)

Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

by Faye Kicknosway

Irreverent and edgy renderings of the American scene.

Great Ideas Today 1974

Contains the following sections: A Symposium on Tradition; Review of the Arts & Sciences; Contemprary Status of a Great Idea (Justice); The Review of A Great Book; Additions to the Great Books Library

The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality

The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality

This anthology examines the social construction of race, class, gender, and sexuality and the institutional bases for these relations. The editor's goal is to help students see race, class, gender, and sexuality as both sources of identity and systems of social stratification.

The Holy Bible

by Crossway Bibles

The English Standard Version (ESV) Bible is an essentially literal Bible translation that combines word-for-word precision and accuracy with literary excellence, beauty, and depth of meaning. Formatted especially for Kindle with chapter-level navigation for each book.

University Studies, Cambridge 1933.Harold [Ed] Wright

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Angels & Demons

by Dan Brown