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Tom Engelhardt

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TomDispatch Books

"In his searing new book . . . Engelhardt has composed a requiem for a nation turned upside down by the relentless pursuit of global power" (Karen J. Greenberg, author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State).As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of constant war across the greater Middle East an...

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Thomas M. Engelhardt

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Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond

In a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhardt carries that story into the twenty-first century. He explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the younger George Bush headed for the Wild West (Osama bin Laden, “Wanted, Dead or Alive”); how his administration brought “victory culture” roaring back as part of its Global War on Terror and its rush to invade Saddam Husseins's Iraq; and how, f...

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Diane Engelhardt

A handy ESL phrase guide that helps you converse like a native English speaker—now enhanced via app with audio recordings of key expressionsIf you’re an intermediate level speaker of English, you know that idiomatic speech, slang and other English phrases can create a barrier to conversing confidently in casual and work-related situations. In Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills, Premium Third Edition you’ll find a phrase guide that allows you to s...

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Megan Engelhardt

A survivor's meditation on fighting for one's community—where storytelling may be the only thing that saves us when all else is torn away— Milk and Honey, Bitter and Gall is a compact and devastating novella for fans of The Lies of Locke Lamora .In the fractious city of Third Hatch, portals tear open the sky and strand unwilling humans from across space and time. The ever-changi...

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Debby Engelhardt

When a little cat named Jack, crosses the Rainbow Bridge, he is met by Colby, his dog brother. Colby shows Jack around and introduces Jack to lots of new animal friends. Jack and Colby have lots of wonderful adventures On the Other Side of the Rainbow Bridge, while they are waiting to be reunited with their people from their earthly life. There are suggested activities at the end, offering fun ways to remember our beloved pets after they cross over the Rainbow Bridge.

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Jeff Engelhardt

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Studies in Feminist Philosophy

This book charges that just about every philosophical theory of mind or language developed over the past 50 years in the West is systematically inaccurate. Systemic oppression has influenced the processes that theories of mind or language purport to identify; however, that same systemic oppression has also made it so that most middle-to-upper class White men (including most philosophers of mind or language) are ignorant of systemic oppression. Consequently, most theories of mind or languag...

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Marc J. Hetherington, Andrew M. Engelhardt, Jonathan Weiler

Why supporting big government, trade barriers, and unchecked executive power is still conservative—and why MAGA’s worldview is far more coherent than its critics thinkWhen Donald Trump surged to the lead in the 2015 fight for the GOP presidential nomination, bewildered political watchers struggled to understand why, because his policy positions were often at odds with what had been Republican orthodoxy since the days of Ronald Reagan. The Right Way reveals...

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R. Engelhardt, J.W. Hand, F. Kallinowski, M. Molls, E. Scherer, D. van Beuningen, P. Vaupel, C. Streffer

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Medicine (R0)

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Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Deep Generative Models for Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, DGM4MICCAI 2025, held in conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025, in Daejeon, South Korea, during September 2025.The 33 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. These papers deal with recent algorithmic de...

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History (R0)

This book identifies antipathy as an emotion of key concern in Victorian literature and culture by studying discourses and representations of antipathy in fictional and non-fictional texts. The selected texts cover a broad range of thematic concerns and cultural contexts, engaging with different facets, manifestations, and functions of antipathy, and demonstrating its historically specific meanings in nineteenth-century British and imperial literature and culture. The contributors demonstr...

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Alain Quemin

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Keara Engelhardt

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Contextualizing Art Markets

This book presents the first detailed study of the place of contemporary art galleries and gallerists, especially within the art markets of Europe and the United States. Based on the author's field research carried out for over a decade, and combining ethnographic material with quantitative data, the book reveals the major role galleries play in the creation of art value.Despite being pillars of the art market, there has been very little in-depth research on galler...

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Tom Engelhardt

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TomDispatch Books

The creator of TomDispatch.com "focuses on the specific absurdities of American wars . . . strident, passionate, and problem-solving" ( Mother Jones).In 2008, when the US National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected president Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet's "sole superpower" would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing fifteen years hence. In his new book, The United States of Fea...