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  • The Transcendentalists and Their World

    by Robert A. Gross ...
    The Transcendentalists and Their World offers an intimate journey into the life of Concord and a searching cultural study of major American writers.In the year of the nation's bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Minutemen and Their World

    by Robert A. Gross ...
    Series series American Century
    The Bancroft Prize–winning classic of American history now in a revised and expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author.On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the height of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Extinction Gene

    by Robert Gross ...
    A Nobel Prize winning scientist discovers that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by a DNA sequence triggered by global warming sixty million years ago. He now finds that the identical gene in recently extinct and endangered species is becoming active in human beings. He theorizes that current changes in the earth's environment have again triggered the DNA sequence to activity, but is ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Transcendentalists and Their World

    by Robert A. Gross ...
    Narrated by Paul Brion ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 13 min

    The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively in his classic Walden. But Concord from the 1820s through ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Elliptic Tales

    Curves, Counting, and Number Theory

    by Avner Ash, Robert Gross ...
    A look at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in mathematics todayElliptic Tales describes the latest developments in number theory by looking at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in contemporary mathematics—the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. In this book, Avner Ash and Robert Gross guide readers through the mathematics they need to understand this captivating problem.The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Confessions of the Flesh

    The History of Sexuality, Volume 4

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Translated by Robert Hurley ...
    The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault’s acclaimed History of Sexuality, completed just before his death in 1984 and finally available to the publicOne of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault made an indelible impact on Western thought. The first three volumes in his History of Sexuality—which trace cultural and intellectual notions of sexuality, arguing ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Public vs. Private

    The Early History of School Choice in America

    by Robert N. Gross ...
    Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of "public" and "private." How did these distinctions emerge in the first place, and what do they tell us about the more general relationship in the United States between public authority and private enterprise? In Public vs. Private, Robert N. Gross describes how, more than a century ago, public policies ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Summing It Up

    From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory

    by Avner Ash, Robert Gross ...
    The power and properties of numbers, from basic addition and sums of squares to cutting-edge theoryWe use addition on a daily basis—yet how many of us stop to truly consider the enormous and remarkable ramifications of this mathematical activity? Summing It Up uses addition as a springboard to present a fascinating and accessible look at numbers and number theory, and how we apply beautiful ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Regional Businesses in a Changing Global Economy

    The Australian Experience

    Edited by Quamrul Alam, Robert Grose ...
    In a highly globalised trade and investment environment, businesses in regional areas must learn to take advantage of the benefits that stem from their geographical location. This book explains the immense value regional businesses bring to local communities and to Australia as a whole through case studies.The case studies are diverse in nature and highlight how regional businesses utilise their ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A History of the Book in America

    Volume 2: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840

    Edited by Robert A. Gross, Mary Kelley ...
    Volume Two of A History of the Book in America documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic.Between 1790 and 1840 printing and publishing expanded, and literate publics provided a ready market for novels, almanacs, newspapers, tracts, and periodicals. Government, business, and reform drove the dissemination of print. Through laws and subsidies, state and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Minutemen and Their World

    25th anniversary edition

    by Robert A. Gross ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeOn April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town—future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne—soon came to symbolize ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Neurosurgical Operative Atlas

    Functional Neurosurgery

    Edited by Robert E. Gross, Nicholas M. Boulis ...
    A state-of-the-art guide to evolving functional neurosurgery approaches from world-renowned innovatorsFunctional neurosurgery focuses on improving the lives of patients with epilepsy, movement disorders, pain, and psychiatric illnesses. In recent years, approaches ranging from open surgery to minimally invasive techniques have been leveraged to improve daily functioning and quality of life in ... Read more

    $224.99 USD