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  • RECONSIDERING HABERMAS’S COLONIZATION THESIS
    RODERICK CONDON
    This book reconsiders Habermas’s critique of capitalism as a foundation for a critical theory of neoliberalism. Taking criticisms into account, the author refines and redevelops Habermas’s system-lifeworld paradigm in three parts, focusing on system, lifeworld, and communication. The exposition unfolds through a new synthesis and convergence, from within Habermas’s frame, of Ax...

    $1,240.00

  • DRAWING LINES IN SAND AND SNOW
    CONDON
    This important book addresses the major issues facing the North American continent: security, economic integration, border management, corruption, and illegal migration. ...

    $1,160.00

  • LEARNING FROM THE STUDENT'S PERSPECTIVE
    ALISON COOK-SATHER / BRANDON CLARKE / DANIEL CONDON / KATHLEEN CUSHMAN / HELEN DEMETRIOU / LOIS EASTON
    Much has been written about how to engage students in their learning, but very little of it has issued from students themselves. Compiled by one of the leading scholars in the field of student voice, this sourcebook draws on the perspectives of secondary students in the United States, England, Canada, and Australia as well as on the work of teachers, researchers, and teacher ed...

    $1,280.00

  • BEYOND THE GRAVE
    JEFFERY L. CONDON
    A probate lawyer and author of The Living Trust Advisor presents "the best estate planning book in America" ( Wall Street Journal ). "[ Beyond the Grave ] aims to show how proper estate planning leaves your family secure—not at war. . . . [Jeff] Condon's mission is keeping the family, and its assets, together through life and death, using proper inheritance planning." — Los Ang...

    $299.00

  • MIGRATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
    MARGARET BYRON / STÉPHANIE CONDON
    This book presents a comparative perspective on post-war Caribbean migration to Britain and France. Both migrations were responses to the link between former colonies and colonial powers. However, the movements of labor occurred within separately and differently evolving political contexts, affecting the migration outcomes. Today, Caribbean communities in Europe display complex...

    $1,360.00

  • THE ECONOMIC OTHER
    MEGHAN CONDON / AMBER WICHOWSKY
    Economic inequality is at a record high in the United States, but public demand for redistribution is not rising with it. Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky show that this paradox and other mysteries about class and US politics can be solved through a focus on social comparison. Powerful currents compete to propel attention up or down—toward the rich or the poor—pulling politics...

    $559.12

  • PRIZZI'S FAMILY
    RICHARD CONDON
    In this prequel to Prizzi's Honor, the mafia hitman finds himself in more trouble than even he can handle—"earthy, quirky, fast-moving entertainment" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Charley Partanna sits in his office, quietly rigging an election. As the chief executioner for the Prizzi family, he has taken time out of his busy schedule of cold-blooded murder to ensure that ...

    $119.00

  • AN INFINITY OF MIRRORS
    RICHARD CONDON
    A Jewish woman i n love with a Prussian officer moves to Hitler's Berlin in this ominous, "spectacular" novel by the New York Times–bestselling author ( Kirkus Reviews).   Every afternoon, Paule tends to her father's newspaper clippings and listens to his stories. An actor, Paul-Alain Bernheim has a sexual appetite and a lust for life that have made him a legend of the Paris st...

    $149.00

  • MILE HIGH
    RICHARD CONDON
    A Prohibition-era bootlegger builds a savage empire in this "whiplash entertainment" by the author of Prizzi's Honor and The Manchurian Candidate ( Kirkus Reviews). Millions of acres of forest separate Edward Courance West from the outside world. In his remote Adirondack retreat, he is tended by servants dressed in black and green, the color of West's empire—and of money. The s...

    $119.00

  • THE OLDEST CONFESSION
    RICHARD CONDON
    An international art thief meets his match in this clever thriller that's "witty in style, dramatic in plot" from the author of The Manchurian Candidate ( Kirkus Reviews). There are only two people on earth who know that James Bourne is a criminal: his wife and his partner. Although he may be the most distinguished crook in Europe, Bourne has never been arrested. The thieves of...

    $119.00

  • PRIZZI'S GLORY
    RICHARD CONDON
    A crime family goes legit—sort of—and enters politics, in this "razor-sharp satire on the American dream" ( Publishers Weekly). If Charley Partanna is lucky, he can go a few months without falling in love. During these stretches, he's able to focus on his job as chief executioner for the Prizzi family. But once romance strikes, Partanna—a criminal manager who still commits the ...

    $119.00

  • THE WHISPER OF THE AXE
    RICHARD CONDON
    For the sake of vengeance, a woman plots to destroy the US government It's June 1976, and a bullet has shattered Agatha Teel's shoulder. The gunman has fled, gushing blood from a bullet wound of his own, and Teel has just a few minutes to save her own life. She marches herself to the bathroom—the most lavish room she has ever owned—strips, and does what she can to dress the wou...

    $119.00

  • WILEY'S CHAMPIONSHIP BBQ
    WILEY MCCRARY / JANET MCCRARY / AMY PAIGE CONDON
    Recipes for ribs, rubs, and much more from Savannah's legendary "BBQ General." Wiley McCrary has spent more than thirty years preaching the gospel of the Church of the Holy Smoke. As a dedicated evangelist of the 'cue and prize-winning owner of Wiley's Championship BBQ in Savannah, Georgia, he hopes that this photo-filled cookbook will successfully dispel the myths and mysterie...

    $251.00

  • PRIZZI'S HONOR
    RICHARD CONDON
    A darkly funny novel of mobsters, murder, and marriage: "The surprise ending will knock your reading glasses off." — The New York Times   Charley Partanna works as a hitman for the Prizzis, New York's most dangerous crime family. When he meets Irene Walker, an LA-based tax consultant, it's pretty much love at first sight.   But Irene also moonlights as a hit woman—and had a han...

    $164.00

  • WINTER KILLS
    RICHARD CONDON
    A whistleblower looks too deeply into a president's assassination in this darkly satiric conspiracy thriller from the author of The Manchurian Candidate.   It has been more than a decade since the assassination of US President Timothy Kegan, who was gunned down while riding in a motorcade through the streets of Philadelphia. The "lone gunman" responsible was arrested and convic...

    $119.00

  • THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
    RICHARD CONDON
    The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: "Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating." — The New Yorker   A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transf...

    $229.00

  • MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF RNA PROCESSING AND DECAY IN PROKARYOTES
    CONDON, CIARAN
    Nucleic acids are the fundamental building blocks of DNA and RNA and are found in virtually every living cell. Molecular biology is a branch of science that studies the physicochemical properties of molecules in a cell, including nucleic acids, proteins, and enzymes. Increased understanding of nucleic acids and their role in molecular biology will further many of the biological...

    $2,111.00

  • MANUAL OF SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS
    CONDON
    Agotado

    $160.00

  • SURFACE AREA AND POROSITY DETERMINATIONS BY PHYSISORPTION: MEASUREMENTS AND THEORY
    CONDON, JAMES B.
    Surface Area and Porosity Determinations by Physisorption is a practical guide for industry or academics to the measurement of surface area and pore size using the tool of physical adsorption. Starting with a brief description of what physical adsorption is and the raw data that is obtained. The instrumentation for measuring this isotherm is described in some details. Recomme...

    $2,734.00