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The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza FarneseMedusa's Gaze provides the first dedicated account of the origins and extraordinary survival of an exquisite agate bowl from ancient Alexandria to the modern day as it passed through the hands of some of history's most influentional, and colorful, characters....

The Life of Gypsy Rose LeeWhenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. "e;Thousands have seen me at my--ah--best; and thousands have made no objections."e; Noralee Frankel&'s lively biography, Stripping Gypsy, the first ever published about the highly mythologized Gypsy, examines the...

Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting        Good Advice and When They're Not is the first book to show how and why so much of        today's business advice is flawed, and how managers and executives can better        evaluate advice given to their firmsPractitioners and scholars agree that...

Indians, Indian Tribes, and the ConstitutionBroken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the        United States Constitution and the way that legal analysis and practice have        interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding. As        the book demonstrates, the federal government...

This book is a collection of eleven essays by one of the most interesting moral philosophers currently writing. It examines challenges to liberal thought posed by the changing circumstances of the modern world such as the conflicting tendencies toward global integration, and greater ethnic and communal identification. The author considers whether...

Probing the Great Gospel ConspiracyHow did the Church get Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John instead of Thomas, Mary,        Peter, and Judas? C. E. Hill presents evidence for how and why, despite the numerous        Gospels that appeared in the earliest Christian centuries, four (and only four)        Gospels came to be embraced by the Protestant,...