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  • Microsurgical Reconstruction of the Extremities

    Indications, Technique, and Postoperative Care

    by Leonard Gordon ...
    On April 23, 1906, Alexis Carrel presented his manuscript entitled "The Surgery of Blood Vessels" to the Johns Hopkins Medical Society. His work on the tech nique of small vessel anastomosis and the transplantation of visceral organs earned him the Nobel Prize in 1912. The use of magnification in operative surgery began in 1921 with the work of Nylen, who first employed the microscope for ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Missions, Mantras, Migrants and Microchips

    A History of the Indo-US Encounter, 1492 to the Present

    by Leonard A Gordon ...
    The fame of people like Priyanka Chopra, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Kumail Nanjiani, Indra Nooyi, Mindy Kaling, M. Night Shyamalan, Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) sponsorship of the New York City Marathon, the ubiquitousness of Indian restaurants and yoga studios in many American cities and much else illustrates the close relationship the US and India enjoy today.From the 1780s onwards, there ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Revolutionary Hope

    Essays in Honor of William L. McBride

    by Shane Wahl, Matthew Abraham, Matthew C. Ally, Joseph Catalano, Thomas Flynn, Lewis Gordon, Leonard Harris, Sonia Kruks, Martin Beck Matustik, Constance Mui0, Julien Murphy1, Ronald Santoni2, Sally Scholz3, Calvin Schrag4 ...
    Over the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as a teacher, mentor, and scholar without peer. The author of seven books and more than two hundred book chapters, articles, and reviews, he is a world-renowned expert on the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and a leader in the international community of philosophers. This volume—which celebrates the occasion of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Confrontation over Taiwan

    Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers

    by Leonard H. D. Gordon ...
    Confrontation over Taiwan: Nineteenth Century China and the Powers is a full and detailed account of international relations of Taiwan during the nineteenth century and specifically, the period between 1840 and 1895. During this time the western powers and Japan were engaged in imperialist designs seeking commercial and strategic gain in the South China Sea, which ultimately led to the Japanese ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Civil Rights and Beyond

    African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States

    by Dan Berger, Hannah Gill, Laurie Lahey, Kevin Allen Leonard, Mark Malisa, Gordon Mantler, Oliver A. Rosales, Chanelle Nyree Rose, Jakobi Williams, Alyssa Ribeiro ...
    Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, this book pushes the timeframe for the study of interactions between blacks and a variety of Latino/a groups beyond the standard chronology of the civil rights era. As such, the book merges a host of ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Rose and the Peony

    by Leonard H. D. Gordon ...
    This sensitive romance inspired on a true life story centers on two people who differ in age, ethnicity, religion, and economic background but share common interests. Despite their dissimilar lives, they overcome many obstacles that threaten their growing relationship such as family objections to their marriage and frequent disruptions to their plans. A former love of Kathy and Paul’s infatuation ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Read Aloud With Highlighting and Music

    by Robert Browning, Kate Greenaway, Stella Arman, Gordon Jcob, Leonard Garrison ...
    A classic children's story in a captivating and fun read-aloud edition with word-by-word text highlighting and music. Quality to return to again and again ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Sources of Indian Traditions

    Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

    Edited by Rachel Fell McDermott, Dennis Dalton, Leonard Gordon, Frances Pritchett, Ainslie T. Embree ...
    Series series Introduction to Asian Civilizations
    For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Forgotten Sage

    Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah and the Birth of Judaism as We Know It

    by Maurice D. Harris ...
    Just after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., there lived a poor and ugly nail-maker who was also, for a time, the leading rabbi of his generation. His name was Joshua ben Hananiah, and he helped give us the Judaism we know--the complicated, word-filled tradition of debates, multiple viewpoints, and endless questions. Through his humanity, humility, and occasional audacity, Joshua ... Read more

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    The History of the World's Largest Democracy

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  • Nobody Said Not to Go

    The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn

    by Ken Cuthbertson ...
    "A rip-roaring bio" of the trailblazing New Yorker journalist that "explore[s] both the passion and dissatisfaction that fueled Hahn's wanderlust" ( Entertainment Weekly ).Emily Hahn first challenged traditional gender roles in 1922 when she enrolled in the University of Wisconsin's all-male College of Engineering, wearing trousers, smoking cigars, and adopting the nickname "Mickey." Her love of ... Read more

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  • Three Nights In Havana

    Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World

    by Robert Wright ...
    On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. “Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!” Trudeau would famously shout at the love-in.In this ... Read more

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