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  • Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond

    by Eric Adler ...
    Beginning with a short intellectual history of the academic culture wars, Eric Adler’s book examines popular polemics including those by Allan Bloom and Dinesh D’Souza, and considers the oddly marginal role of classical studies in these conflicts. In presenting a brief history of classics in American education, the volume sheds light on the position of the humanities in general.Adler dissects ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Humanistic Letters

    The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More Correspondence

    Edited by Eric Adler ...
    Irving Babbitt (1865–1933) and Paul Elmer More (1864–1937) were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential movement of literary and social criticism in America. Through their writings on literary, educational, cultural, religious, and political topics, they influenced countless important thinkers, such as T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, Russell Kirk, Benedetto Croce, Werner Jaeger, and George ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • The Battle of the Classics

    How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today

    by Eric Adler ...
    These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? The Battle of the Classics demonstrates the crucial downsides of contemporary apologetics for the humanities and presents in its place a historically informed case for a different ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Case-Based Device Therapy for Heart Failure

    Edited by Ulrika Birgersdotter-Green, Eric Adler ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive practical guide to the plethora of devices that have been developed to support the failing heart. It features easy to follow clinically relevant guidance on mechanical devices used for improving cardiac electrical conduction and cardiac output. Chapters cover indications and implant considerations for the implantable cardioverter defibrillator and cardiac ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Valorizing the Barbarians

    Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography

    by Eric Adler ...
    Series series Ashley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture
    With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Much recent discussion of the topic has centered on the ways in which ancient Roman historians consciously or unconsciously denigrated non-Romans. Similarly, contemporary scholars have downplayed Roman elite anxiety about their empire's expansion.In this ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    How Love Conquered Marriage

    by Stephanie Coontz ...
    Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed ... Read more

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  • Metaphors Be With You

    An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations

    by Mardy Grothe ...
    Respected quotation anthologist and author of Oxymoronica and Viva la Repartee Dr. Mardy Grothe is at his best in Metaphors Be with You, an A to Z dictionary of 2,750 of history’s greatest metaphorical quotations, meticulously curated for writers, readers, and quotation lovers everywhere.In Metaphors Be with You, Dr. Mardy Grothe has created the definitive reference on English’s finest metaphors, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Cardiac Arrhythmia Management

    A Practical Guide for Nurses and Allied Professionals

    Edited by Angela Tsiperfal, Linda K. Ottoboni, Salwa Beheiry, Amin Al-Ahmad, Andrea Natale, Paul J. Wang ...
    Cardiac Arrhythmia Management: A Practical Guide for Nurses and Allied Professionals provides a much-needed resource for nurses and other professionals who work directly with patients being treated for cardiac arrhythmias. Comprehensive in scope, the book covers cardiac arrhythmia conditions and the issues surrounding implantable devices from implant surgery to remote monitoring and ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Thinking About History

    by Sarah Maza ...
    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia E-Book

    In Cardiac and Noncardiac Surgery

    by Joel A. Kaplan ...
    Now in a revised and expanded 7th Edition, Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia helps you optimize perioperative outcomes for patients undergoing both cardiac and noncardiac surgery. Dr. Joel L. Kaplan, along with associate editors, Drs. John G. T. Augoustides, David L. Reich, and Gerard R. Manecke, guide you through today's clinical challenges, including the newest approaches to perioperative assessment ... Read more

    $307.99 CAD

  • Oxymoronica

    Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmiths

    by Mardy Grothe ...

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  • What is Gender History?

    by Sonya O. Rose ...
    Series series What is History?
    This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic texts in the field and the latest literature, the author examines the origins and development of the field and elucidates current debates and controversies. She highlights the significance of race, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD