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How Math Explains The World : A Guide To The Power Of Numbers, From Car Repair To Modern Physics

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James D. SteinPublication Details
Book1st edHarperCollins2008Links
Description
In How Math Explains the World, mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. Friendly, entertaining, and fun, How Math Explains the World is the first book by one of California’s most popular math teachers, a veteran of both “math for poets” and Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Studies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) QA8.4 .S72 2008 AVAILABLE
Unequal Crime Decline : Theorizing Race, Urban Inequality, And Criminal Violence

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Karen F. ParkerPublication Details
BookNew York University Press2008Links
Description
Taking into account such indicators as employment, labor market opportunities, skill levels, housing, changes in racial composition, family structure, and drug trafficking, Parker provides statistics that illustrate how these factors do or do not affect urban violence, and carefully considers these factors in relation to various crime trends, such as rates involving blacks, whites, but also trends among black males, white females, as well as others. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV6789 .P39 2008 AVAILABLE
Green Economics : An Introduction To Theory, Policy And Practice

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Molly Scott CatoPublication Details
BookEarthscan2009Description
Green economics offers an alternative to mainstream economics, which views society and the ecosystem as subsets of the wider, limitless global economy. This highly readable introduction explains the axioms of green economics including views on taxation, welfare, money, economic development and work through the work of its inspirational figures including Schumacher, Robertson and Douthwaite. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HC79.E5 C383 2009 AVAILABLE
Sport In A Changing World

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Howard L. Nixon IIPublication Details
BookParadigm Publishers2008Description
In a stressful, turbulent world, sports can be an escape from reality. Throughout he shows how the combined influence of networks of major sports organizations, media corporations, and corporate sponsors is shaping sport around the world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GV706.5 .N593 2008 AVAILABLE
The New Political Economy Of Development : Globalization, Imperialism, Hegemony

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Ray KielyPublication Details
BookPalgrave Macmillan2007Links
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This major new text analyzes changes and continuities in the current international order and their implications for understanding international development in the 21st century. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HD75 .K514 2007 AVAILABLE
The Soulful Science : What Economists Really Do And Why It Matters

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Diane CoylePublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2007Description
To many, Thomas Carlyle’s put-down of economics as “the dismal science” is as fitting now as it was 150 years ago. Building on the popularity of books such as Freakonomics that have applied economic thinking to the paradoxes of everyday life, The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance in how economics is addressing the most fundamental questions–and how it is starting to help solve problems such as poverty and global warming. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HB74.P8 C58 2007 AVAILABLE
The Male Dancer : Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities

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Ramsay BurtPublication Details
Book2nd edRoutledge2007Links
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In this challenging and lively book, Burt examines the representation of masculinity in twentieth century dance. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GV1595 .B87 2007 AVAILABLE
Adam Smith In Beijing : Lineages Of The Twenty-first Century

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Giovanni ArrighiPublication Details
BookVerso2007Description
He examines how the recent US attempt to bring into existence the first truly global empire in world history was conceived in order to counter China’s spectacular economic success of the 1990s, and how the US’s disastrous failure in Iraq has made the People’s Republic of China the true winner of the US War on Terror. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HC427.95 .A77 2007 AVAILABLE
Perfecting Friendship : Politics And Affiliation In Early American Literature

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Ivy SchweitzerPublication Details
BookUniversity of North Carolina Press2006Links
Description
Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. By recovering the public nature of friendship, Schweitzer establishes discourse about affection and affiliation as a central component of American identity and democratic community. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS169.F69 S39 2006 AVAILABLE
What The #$*! Do We (k)now!?

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Captured Light Industries [and] Lord of the Wind Films, LLC. presents [sic] ; written by William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, and Matthew Hoffman ; produced by William Arntz and Betsy Chasse ; directed by Mark Vicente, Betsy Chasse, William ArntzPublication Details
VideoWidescreen ed20th Century Fox Home Entertainment2004Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) PN1995.9.E96 W52 2004 AVAILABLE
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