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Product Description: Three grand themes characterized the twentieth century: crises on a scale that outstripped any in human history; revolutionary ideology and action that brought social and political transformation on a global scale; and new technologies breathtaking in their pace and innovation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780813340098 | Westview Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Three grand themes characterized the twentieth century: crises on a scale that outstripped any in human history; revolutionary ideology and action that brought social and political transformation on a global scale; and new technologies breathtaking in their pace and innovation.

Chronicles the vast range of achievements, events, and personalities that have shaped international history during the twentieth century

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9780517473221 | Outlet, August 1, 1986, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Chronicles the vast range of achievements, events, and personalities that have shaped international history during the twentieth century

A modern reexamination of the biblical story of Abraham in terms of its philosophical, psychological, and mythical aspects

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9780465000050 | Basic Books, February 1, 1981, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: A modern reexamination of the biblical story of Abraham in terms of its philosophical, psychological, and mythical aspects

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9780025482005 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1965, cover price $12.95

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9780199548071 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 10, 2010, cover price $125.00

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9780199548088 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 10, 2010, cover price $45.95

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An articulate assessment of the failure of Western society based solely on the achievement of material wealth to satisfy the basic spiritual needs of man while depriving him of individual dignity and independence

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9780812824650 | Stein & Day Pub, August 1, 1978, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: An articulate assessment of the failure of Western society based solely on the achievement of material wealth to satisfy the basic spiritual needs of man while depriving him of individual dignity and independence

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Analyzing literature, architecture, and patterns of living, the author traces the persistent meanings of modernity, seeing in its chief concerns and expressions a will to change accompanied by a terror of life falling apart

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9780671246020 | Simon & Schuster, December 1, 1981, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Analyzing literature, architecture, and patterns of living, the author traces the persistent meanings of modernity, seeing in its chief concerns and expressions a will to change accompanied by a terror of life falling apart

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9780140109627 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1988), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Analyzing literature, architecture, and patterns of living, the author traces the persistent meanings of modernity, seeing in its chief concerns and expressions a will to change accompanied by a terror of life falling apart

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A completely revised edition of the author's Twentieth-Century Culture, first published in 1988, surveys an exhaustive array of cultural and intellectual subjects, balancing information and opinion and including reviews of a hundred landmark films. Original.

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9780060174514 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1997, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: This examination of America during the twentieth century covers such areas as Victorian culture, modernism, poetry, visual arts, social science, psychoanalysis, and Marxism

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9780060928766 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, April 1, 1998), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Examines America during the twentieth century, covering such topics as Victorian culture, modernism, poetry, visual arts, social science, psychoanalysis, and Marxism

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By Kelly Bulkeley (editor)

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9780791429297 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $58.50

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9780791429303 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $31.95

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Product Description: "A stimulating and readable venture in the history of ideas. Blending arguments and material from philosophy, theology, history and science, Rue addresses a fundamental problem in Western Culture: the crisis of meaning and the eclipse of the shared value system upon which personal wholeness and social coherence in the West have been based...read more

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9780817304287 | Univ of Alabama Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "A stimulating and readable venture in the history of ideas.

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By Lewis Mumford (editor)

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9780836911213 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1951, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Book by

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An essay discussing the dramatic transformation in the twentieth-century relationship between art and society offers insight into the disappearance of artistic standards, the development of esoteric art theories, the growth of avant-garde art, and other topics

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9780316189811 | Little Brown & Co, January 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An essay discussing the dramatic transformation in the twentieth-century relationship between art and society offers insight into the disappearance of artistic standards, the development of esoteric art theories, the growth of avant-garde art, and other topics

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9781138782020, titled "Back to the Future: Modernity, Postmodernity and Locality" | Routledge, August 29, 2014, cover price $125.00
9780044455868 | Unwin Hyman, March 1, 1990, cover price $49.95

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Product Description: In Between Two Ages, Van Wishard has provided us with a masterful synthesis of the main currents of history, ranging over the centuries with an expert's eye to identify the key trends in economics, technology and culture that have led us to this place in time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780738836560 | Xlibris Corp, January 1, 2001, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: In Between Two Ages, Van Wishard has provided us with a masterful synthesis of the main currents of history, ranging over the centuries with an expert's eye to identify the key trends in economics, technology and culture that have led us to this place in time.

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Product Description: The next three decades may be the most decisive 30-year period in the history of mankind. To understand why, Between Two Ages offers an eagle's-eye view of how the cultural, technological and spiritual tectonic plates of life have been clashing and reshaping our lives, and how civilized existence struggles with this epic transformation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780738836553 | Xlibris Corp, January 1, 2001, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: The next three decades may be the most decisive 30-year period in the history of mankind.

By George F. McLean (editor), Miao-Yang Wang (editor) and Xuanmeng Yu (editor)

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9781565180895 | Council for Research in Values &, June 1, 1997, cover price $45.00

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9781565180901 | Council for Research in Values &, June 1, 1997, cover price $17.50

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Locates the roots of the bohemian tradition in the early nineteenth century and traces the course and assesses the significance of its mutation into the protoculture

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9780882292939 | Burnham Inc Pub, December 1, 1977, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Locates the roots of the bohemian tradition in the early nineteenth century and traces the course and assesses the significance of its mutation into the protoculture

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9780882295183 | Burnham Inc Pub, June 1, 1978, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Locates the roots of the bohemian tradition in the early nineteenth century and traces the course and assesses the significance of its mutation into the protoculture

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Can Modernity Survive? displays the full range of Heller’s formidable talents for social and philosophical analysis. The papers collected together here provide an integrated statement of her distinctive position concerning the fate of humankind as we approach the twenty-first century.

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9780745607986 | Polity Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $64.95
9780520072541, titled "Can Modernity Survive?" | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Can Modernity Survive?

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9780691097626 | 2 edition (Bollingen Foundation, August 1, 1970), cover price $99.00

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Product Description: Stop the wedding! Dimitri Makarov's former secretary is getting married, but instead of congratulating the happy couple, the masterful oligarch plans to stop the wedding… For he's just discovered that the blushing bride is also mother to his secret son! Erin Turner thought her luck was changing until Dimitri dispatches her convenient groom with his signature ruthlessness...read more

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9780517554371, titled "Screen World, 1984" | Reissue edition (Crown Pub, November 1, 1988), cover price $4.99 | also contains Screen World, 1984
9780517554425, titled "The Thirties in Vogue" | Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1986, cover price $9.99 | also contains The Thirties in Vogue | About this edition: Gathers photographs, illustrations, and articles about social events, the arts, entertainment, and travel from the thirties issues of Vogue magazine

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9780373138524 | Lgr edition (Harlequin Books, September 15, 2015), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Stop the wedding!
9780263249156 | Gardners Books, September 10, 2015, cover price $6.45 | About this edition: Stop the wedding!

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9781504651943 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 15, 2015), cover price $29.99

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Product Description: Originally published under the General Editorship of Thomas H. Greer, the series emanated from the Humanities Department of Michigan State University. The books remain today perhaps the best sources available for the comprehensive study in one volume of every subject area which might be included in the umbrella of humanities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780155076815 | 3 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, June 1, 1980), cover price $82.95 | About this edition: Originally published under the General Editorship of Thomas H.

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