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I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior
(MIT Press, 2011)Humans are, first and foremost, social creatures. And this, according to the authors of I'll Have What She's Having, shapes--and explains--most of our choices. We're not just blindly driven by hard-wired instincts to hunt ... -
I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant, and Back Again
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Beatrice Longuenesse presents an original exploration of our understanding of ourselves and the way we talk about ourselves. In the first part of the book she discusses contemporary analyses of our use of 'I' in language ... -
Ideal Homes, 1918-39: Domestic Design and Suburban Modernism
(Manchester University Press, 2018)This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm. It ... -
Idealist Ethics
(Oxford University Press, 2016)W. J. Mander examines the nature of idealist ethics, that is to say, the form and content of ethical belief most typically adopted by philosophical idealists. While there exist many studies of the ethical views of individual ... -
The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The public intellectual, as a person and ideal, has a long and storied history. Writing in venues like the New Republic and Commentary, such intellectuals were always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from ... -
Identity-Trajectories of Early Career Researchers: Unpacking the Post-PhD Experience
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)The book asks how we can make sense of career paths for PhD graduates, something that has rarely been systematically studied. It offers a coherent synthesis of the empirically-based insights that arose from the experiences ... -
If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right
(Cornell University Press, 2016)The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that ... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
(University of California Press, 2015)One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned ... -
Illicit Markets, Organized Crime, and Global Security
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explains the existence of illicit markets throughout human history and provides recommendations to governments. Organized criminal networks increased in strength after the enforcement of prohibition, eventually ... -
Illumination: The Shaman’s Way of Healing
(Hay House, 2011)Illumination guides the reader on a healing journey, forged by the timeless wisdom of indigenous cultures and the latest theories of neurobiology. Through various stages in this journey of initiation, we grow to understand ... -
Ilustrado
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)Garnering international prizes and acclaim before its publication, Ilustrado has been called “brilliantly conceived and stylishly executed . . .It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with ... -
The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination (Continuum Studies In Philosophy Of Religion)
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)This is a book about images and imagination and their role in the greatest philosophical debate in the modern era: the debate over the credibility of theism versus naturalism. What is the theistic image of the world and ... -
Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages: Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform
(Cornell University Press, 2015)Around the turn of the first millennium AD, there emerged in the former Carolingian Empire a generation of abbots that came to be remembered as one of the most influential in the history of Western monasticism. In this ... -
Immunological Discourse in Political Philosophy: Immunisation and its Discontents
(Routledge, 2016)Given the propensity of contemporary protection measures such as counterterrorism efforts and fierce protection strategies against viral threats, as well as physical and legal barriers against migration, a number of political ... -
Impious fidelity: Anna Freud, psychoanalysis, politics
(Cornell University Press, 2011)This book could not have been written with-out the original impulse that came from my own very early engagement with the problem of “group upbringing” many years ago in a seminar taught by Edward Steinberg, when I tangled ... -
Implementation Management: High-Speed Strategy Implementation
(Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)Current technological, demographic and globalization trends are not only leading to intensified competition, they also indicate that new business models are rapidly emerging but only to disappear again just as quickly. ... -
Impossible Languages
(MIT Press, 2016)Can there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the physical laws of nature (entropy, for example, or gravity). Are there any such laws ... -
Improving business performance : a project portfolio management approach
(CRC Press, 2016)This book is the outcome of discussions I have had with numerous busi-ness leaders and project portfolio management practitioners on their need for a single reference that covers portfolio, program, and project manage ... -
Improving Profit: Using Contribution Metrics to Boost the Bottom Line
(Apress, 2013)Business of all sizes have a problem: How do you know-in real time-whether you are earning the profit you need to grow or even just stay in business? And which products or services are doing the “heavy lifting” in contributing ... -
Improving Profit: Using Contribution Metrics to Boost the Bottom Line
(Apress, 2013)Business of all sizes have a problem: How do you know—in real time—whether you are earning the profit you need to grow or even just stay in business? And which products or services are doing the “heavy lifting” in contributing ...
