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View book details for State Theory and Andean Politics
New Approaches to the Study of Rule
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In the last few decades, Andean states have seen major restructuring of the organization, leadership, and reach of their governments. With these political tremors come major aftershocks, regarding both definitions and expectations: What is a state? Who or what makes …
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Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
American literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions over the past two decades that have been consistently described as "turns," whether transnational, hemispheric, postnational, spatial, temporal, postsecular, aesthetic, or affective. In Turns of Event, Hester Blum and a …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Human rights language is abstract and ahistorical because advocates intend human rights to be valid at all times and places. Yet the abstract universality of human rights discourse is a problem for historians, who seek to understand language in a …
View book details for Shakespeare's Stationers
Studies in Cultural Bibliography
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Recent studies in early modern cultural bibliography have put forth a radically new Shakespearea man of keen literary ambition who wrote for page as well as stage. His work thus comes to be viewed as textual property and a material …
View book details for Arendt's Judgment
Freedom, Responsibility, Citizenship
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In Arendt's Judgment, Jonathan Peter Schwartz explores the nature of human judgment, the subject of the planned third volume of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind, which was left unwritten at the time of her death. Arguing that previous …
View book details for Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority
Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century C.E.
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis. These figures were diverse, ambiguous, and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence. …
View book details for The Metropolitan Airport
JFK International and Modern New York
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalitiesMayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among themJFK …
View book details for Citizens of a Christian Nation
Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In America after the Civil War, the emancipation of four million slaves and the explosion of Chinese immigration fundamentally challenged traditional ideas about who belonged in the national polity. As Americans struggled to redefine citizenship in the United States, the …
View book details for Advocating Dignity
Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In Advocating Dignity, Jean H. Quataert explores the emergence, development, and impact of the human rights revolution following World War II. Intertwining popular local and national mobilizations for rights with ongoing developments of a formal international system of rights monitoring …
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The Paradox of Democracy Promotion in Serbia
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The nonviolent overthrow of Balkan dictator Slobodan Milosevic in October 2000 is celebrated as democracy promotion at its best. This perceived political success has been used to justify an industry tasked with "exporting" democracy to countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Tunisia, …
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Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy. He cultivated and …
View book details for User's Guide to Natural Hormone Replacement
Learn How Safe Dietary & Herbal Supplements Can Ease Your Midlife Changes.
Turner Publishing Company
With the health risks associated with conventional hormone-replacement therapy, women are searching for safe and effective ways to reduce hot flashes, prevent osteoporosis, and reduce the risk of heart disease during menopause. In this User's Guide, health writer Kathleen Barnes …
View book details for California Crucible
The Forging of Modern American Liberalism
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In the three decades following World War II, the Golden State was not only the fastest-growing state in the Union but also the site of significant political change. From the late 1940s through the mid-1970s, a generation of liberal activists …
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The User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements focuses on the most popular nutritional supplements, those that consistently attract the most attention - and are the ones most likely to benefit the majority of people. In describing the most popular nutritional supplements, …
View book details for Between Cultures
Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Richard Burton. T. E. Lawrence. Louis Massignon. Chinua Achebe. Orhan Pamuk. The remarkable quintet whose stories make up Jerrold Seigel's Between Cultures are all people who, without ever seeking to exit from the ways of life into which they had …
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Courts and the Law
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The world seems to have reached agreement on a set of ideals regarding state human rights behavior and the appropriate institutions to promote and protect those ideals. The global script for state legitimacy calls for a written constitution or the …
View book details for Pens and Needles
Women's Textualities in Early Modern England
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all …
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Crossroads of the Atlantic World
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Located at the junction of North America and the Caribbean, the vast territory of colonial Louisiana provides a paradigmatic case study for an Atlantic studies approach. One of the largest North American colonies and one of the last to be …
View book details for The Gecko
An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet
Turner Publishing Company
The lizard craze is undeniable, and the small, friendly gecko is a big hit among pet owners. If you are interested in, or have a gecko, this book will give you all the information you need to keep this fascinating …
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The regal history of a revered, elegant breedThey were one of the first wild animals to come under the protection of humans. They have sat at the feet of the Pharaohs. Their likenesses have graced coins, stamps, seals, and coats …
View book details for The Holistic Dog Book
Canine Care for the 21st Century
Turner Publishing Company
"This book is an important contribution to improving the health, well-being and care of our closest animal companion, the dog . No one with a dog should be without this book." --From the Foreword by Dr. Michael W. FoxThe Holistic …
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel that tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to …
View book details for Immigration, Islam, and the Politics of Belonging in France
A Comparative Framework
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Over the past three decades, neither France's treatment of Muslims nor changes in French, British, and German immigration laws have confirmed multiculturalist hopes or postnationalist expectations. Yet analyses positing unified national models also fall short in explaining contemporary issues of …
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Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who …
View book details for The Hot Guide to a Cool, Sexy Menopause
Nurse Barb's Practical Advice & Real-Life Solutions for a Smooth Transition
Turner Publishing Company
Menopause can impact a womans life in a variety of waysthe experiences of which are as varied and unique as each woman who is experiencing them. Nurse Barb wants every woman to know that this is no longer their grand …
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