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And the Crises of CapitalismIn The Enigma of Capital, Harvey provides a sweeping and brilliantly clear        explanation of how the disaster happened, and how we can avoid another like it.          Unlike other commentators, Harvey does not focus on subprime loans or mortgage        securitization as the root cause of the calamity. Instead, he...

Gods are supernatural, and strange. Human attempts to understand them are entangled with the effort to understand all human experience. In contrast to the long-standing dismissal of religion as conservative and traditionalistic, S. C. Humphreys argues that ancient Athenians thought about their rites as well as celebrating them....

William C. Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburgs Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to turn the Union's flank and win the war. Now, LaFantasie has written his gripping biography, an evocative story of Southern life before, during, and after the Civil War, based on exclusive access of family archives....

Brothers and Sisters in American HistoryBased on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of sibling relations in America. Illuminating the evolution of the modern family system, Siblings shows how brothers and sisters have helped each other in the face of the dramatic...

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