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"e;These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly        wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying        with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer        insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity,...

This book presents an innovative challenge to the traditional reading of Paul. Troels Engberg-Pedersen argues that the usual, mainly cognitive and metaphorical ways of understanding central Pauline concepts must be supplemented by a literal understanding that directly reflects Paul's materialist cosmology....

Mystery, emotion and adventure, from the winner of the Carnegie Medal...

In   The House I Live In, award-winning historian Robert J. Norrell offers a truly masterful chronicle of American race relations over the last one hundred and fifty years. This scrupulously fair and insightful narrative--the most ambitious and wide-ranging history of its kind--sheds new light on the ideologies, from white supremacy to black...

Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public HealthIn this book, at once brilliant and accessible, Shrader-Frechette reveals how        politicians, campaign contributors, and lobbyists--and their power over media,        advertising, and public relations--have conspired to cover up environmental disease        and death. She also shows how...

What is 'the void'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - 'nothing' - exist? This little book explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle's theories to black holes and quantum particles, and why our very latest discoveries about the vacuum can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos. -...