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The stories are familiar: family disharmony, mourning the loss of a loved one, vengeance, national tyranny, international war, a desire for justice. This new translation by Jeffrey Scott Bernstein, an independent scholar and novelist, preserves the artistry of the original …
Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020). A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian Book of the Year 2020. The …
Dont miss out on the inaugural adventure of the instantly loveable Houdini the Hedgehog as he rolls unexpectedly from one escapade to another. Meet Waffles, Mercy and Morag, too, in this delightful tale of the value of friendship, no matter …
The man known only as Berzerker is half-mortal and half-God, cursed and compelled to violence...even at the sacrifice of his sanity. But after wandering the world for centuries, Berzerker may have finally found a refuge working for the U.S. government …
A Thoroughly Southern Mystery #5 Long ago, the cozy southern town of Hopemore, Georgia fell on dark times after the murder of a little girl shook its easygoing citizens, sending one man to prison and changing the lives of two …
The UNLIMITED POWER era continues as the New Power Rangers - and Lord Drakkon - return to the new universe that Drakkon created in Shattered Grid. But will Drakkon choose to save the New Power Rangers from the surprising threat …
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A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnsons Lives of the Poets, acclaimed …
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Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq
An argument for a dramatically different approach to counterinsurgency, based on a reinterpretation of the nature of counterinsurgency warfare. According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the peoples hearts …
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An Unexpected Kinship
One of todays greatest thinkers ponders a surprising set of similarities between two important forms of the search for truth Despite the differences of their subject matter, science and theology have a cousinly relationship, John Polkinghorne contends in his latest …
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Behind The Scream
Although almost everyone recognizes Edvard Munchs famous painting The Scream, hardly anyone knows much about the man. What kind of person could have created this universal image, one that so vividly expressed all the uncertainties of the twentieth century? What …
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Otaku Culture in a Connected World
In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japans major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japans identity …
This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouris guerrilla conflict, and for the states anomalous experience in Reconstruction. In …
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America on Trial
A fresh assessment of the infamous murder case that exploded into an affair of international concern What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal …
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Essays on the Rule of Law
This provocative book brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the U.S. legal system is contributing to the countrys long postwar decline. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the …
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Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925
The first translation of the writings of Akim Volynsky, the greatest ballet authority of early twentieth-century Russia Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburgs liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the …
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A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq
A gripping personal account of success and failure in Iraq during the crucial first year after the fall of the Baathist regime This compelling book presents an unparalleled record of what happened after U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring …
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A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia
Filled with a remarkable cast of characters and set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance could be the stuff of a great historical novel. But in fact The Pearl tells a true tale, reconstructed in …
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Justice without Government
Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law. The material for the book, collected over the course of forty years of field work by Clinton Bailey, …
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The Economics of the Communist Party
The flow of money to national, regional, and local Soviet communist party organizations, the manner in which money was collected, and how their financial discipline was enforced all yield deep insights into the partys role in the Soviet institutional design. …
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An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century
Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as …
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Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China
Few observers are unimpressed by the economic ambition of China or by the nation's remarkable rate of growth. But what does the future hold? This meticulously researched book closely examines the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese economic system to …
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The Making and Unmaking of One Writer's Great American Novel
A major reassessment of Ralph Ellisons literary legacy that explores the mysteries surrounding his unfinished second novel Ralph Ellison may be the preeminent African-American author of the twentieth century, though he published only one novel, 1952s Invisible Man. He enjoyed …
Ananke is dead. What do the gods do? Whatever they want. What can go wrong? Everything. Literally, everything. The bestselling, critically acclaimed comic by KIERON GILLEN, JAMIE McKELVIE, and MATTHEW WILSON reaches its Imperial Phase, with copious "making of " …
OUTBREAK: Slacker genius Dr. David Loren used to worry about the deadly consequences of his creations from the safety of his laboratory... but not anymore! Deployed to Taiwan to oversee a field test gone awry, will having a SEAL Team …
We live in a world where we 've never seen a monster, and The Magic Order is the reason we sleep safely in our beds. By day, they live among us as our neighbors, friends, and co-workers, but by night …
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