| 1100003 | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | 0226500438 | 3.82 | 1998 | 1 | 9 | University of Chicago Press | 5:72775 | 4:87000 | 3:65783 | 2:17926 | 1:5717 | total:249201 | 11 | nan | 151 | The most famous book on politics ever written, <i>The Prince</i> remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientif… | 11 |
| 1100004 | Sermons from Duke Chapel: Voices from "A Great Towering Church" | William H. Willimon | 0822334836 | 4.29 | 2005 | 2 | 3 | Duke University Press Books | 5:5 | 4:8 | 3:1 | 2:0 | 1:0 | total:14 | 1 | nan | 384 | Many of America’s greatest Protestant preachers—Paul Tillich, William Sloane Coffin, Barbara Brown Taylor, Fleming Rutledge, Peter J. Gomes, Billy Graham, and others—have spoken powerfully from the pulpit of the “great towering church” that is the spiritual and architectural center of Duke Universit… | 1 |
| 1100007 | The Last Sorcerer | Ethan Russo | 0789012707 | 4 | 2001 | 1 | 1 | Haworth Integrative Healing Press | 5:1 | 4:0 | 3:1 | 2:0 | 1:0 | total:2 | | nan | 368 | nan | |
| 1100009 | The Idea of a University | John Henry Newman | 0300064055 | 4.12 | 1996 | 29 | 5 | Yale University Press | 5:286 | 4:207 | 3:96 | 2:38 | 1:12 | total:639 | 6 | nan | 400 | Since its publication almost 150 years ago, <i>The Idea of a University</i> has had an extraordinary influence on the shaping and goals of higher education. The issues that John Henry Newman raised—the place of religion and moral values in the university setting, the competing claims of liberal and … | 6 |
| 1100010 | Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions | Ronald L. Numbers | 0801857961 | 3 | 1997 | 18 | 11 | Johns Hopkins University Press | 5:0 | 4:1 | 3:2 | 2:1 | 1:0 | total:4 | | nan | 622 | Most religious traditions have a rich, if largely forgotten, heritage of involvement in medical issues of life, death, and health. Religious values influence our behavior and attitudes toward sickness, sexuality, and lifestyle, to say nothing of more controversial subjects such as abortion and eutha… | |
| 1100012 | Inequality Reexamined [Electronic Resource] | Amartya Sen | 0198289286 | 4.11 | 2007 | 1 | 12 | Russell Sage Foundation; Clarendon Press | 5:75 | 4:94 | 3:36 | 2:8 | 1:0 | total:213 | 1 | nan | 222 | nan | 1 |
| 1100013 | The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts and Perspectives | Timothy Matovina | 0292751850 | 3.77 | 1995 | 1 | 1 | University of Texas Press | 5:2 | 4:6 | 3:5 | 2:0 | 1:0 | total:13 | | nan | 146 | As Mexican soldiers fought the mostly Anglo-American colonists and volunteers at the Alamo in 1836, San Antonio's Tejano population was caught in the crossfire, both literally and symbolically. Though their origins were in Mexico, the Tejanos had put down lasting roots in Texas and did not automatic… | |
| 1100020 | Rousseau: 'the Discourses' and Other Early Political Writings | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 0521413818 | 4.05 | 1997 | 13 | 7 | Cambridge University Press | 5:329 | 4:266 | 3:166 | 2:36 | 1:18 | total:815 | | nan | 437 | The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, which together form the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume I contains the earlier writings such as the First and Second Discourses. The American and French Revolutions were profoundly affecte… | |
| 1100021 | How Not to Study Judaism, Examples and Counter-Examples | Jacob Neusner | 0761827838 | 1 | 2004 | 1 | 6 | University Press of America | 5:0 | 4:0 | 3:0 | 2:0 | 1:1 | total:1 | | nan | 176 | In How Not to Study Judaism, Examples and Counter-Examples, Jacob Neusner presents a collection of essays and book reviews that identify the wrong way of conducting the academic study of Judaism. Pointing readers toward the right way to pursue the academic study of Judaism, Nuesner's focus is on the… | |
| 1100025 | Basic Research and Technologies for Two-Stage-To-Orbit Vehicles: Final Report of the Collaborative Research Centres 253, 255 and 259 | Dieter Jacob | 3527277358 | 5 | 2005 | 2 | 12 | Wiley-Vch | 5:1 | 4:0 | 3:0 | 2:0 | 1:0 | total:1 | | nan | 683 | Focusing on basic aspects of future reusable space transportation systems and covering overall design, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, flight dynamics, propulsion, materials, and structures, this report presents some of the most recent results obtained in these disciplines. The authors are members of … | |