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Politics and Aesthetics
Two languagesGerman and Romanianinform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Muller. Describing her writing as autofictional, Muller depicts the effects of violence, cruelty, and terror on her characters based on her own experiences in Communist Romania …
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The Rise of the Spread Offense and How It Transformed College Football
For the last twenty-five years, the most dominant offensive strategy in college football has been the spread offense, which relies on empty backfields, lots of receivers and passing, and no huddles between plays. Where the spread offense started, why it …
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A Diplomatic History of Israel
The first all-encompassing book on Israels foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, The Star and the Scepter retraces and explains the interactions of Jews with other nations from the ancient kingdoms of Israel to modernity. Starting …
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Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco's Spain, 1939-1982
2023 Hagley Prize for Best Book in Business HistoryBuying into Change examines how the development of a mass consumer society under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (19391975) inserted Spain into transnational consumer networks and set the stage for Spains …
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The Role of Women in the Founding of Americanist Archaeology
This meticulously researched reference work documents the role of women who contributed to the development of Americanist archaeology from 1865 to 1940. Between the Civil War and World War II, many women went into anthropology and archaeology, fields that, at …
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An Illustrated Guide
Legumes of the Great Plains: An Illustrated Guide is an invaluable tool for the identification of more than 114 species of legumes in the Great Plains. In addition to a distribution map, botanical illustration, and an in-depth botanical description, this …
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Upper Nicola Narratives
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation In this book of Native American language research and oral traditions, linguist John Lyon collects Salish stories as told by culture-bearer Lottie …
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The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume One
Master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howards favorite writers. Here at last is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lambs greatest hero, the wolf of the steppes, Khlit the Cossack. Journey …
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Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting
Chosen for 2015 One Book One NebraskaIn 1961, equipped with a masters degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off on a trip around the world. …
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The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon
On December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped into a strange-looking aircraft and roared into aviation history. Developed at the super-secret Skunk Works, the SR-71 …
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Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion
2022 Top Ten Book from Academy of Parish Clergy The teachings of the great twentieth-century Jewish thinker Martin Buber empower us to enter a spiritual dimension that often passes unnoticed in the daily routine. In A Year with Martin Buber, …
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The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate
Every Civil War veteran had a story to tell. But few stories top the one lived by Wright Stephen Batchelor. Like most North Carolina farmers, Batchelor eschewed slaveholding. He also opposed secession and war, yet he fought on both sides …
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Studies in Territoriology
In Animated Lands Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Karrholm focus on territory as a living phenomenonand territoriality as an active and constantly reshaping force. They explore the complexity of territorial production through a series of parallel investigations into fundamental territorial …
Midwife Mildred Harrington is riding back home one evening after checking on one of her pregnant neighbors when she stumbles upon an injured stranger. She soon realizes its her old sweetheart, Pat, from country schooland he may not be telling …
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The Quest for Identity
This concise history tells the story of Turkey, a country caught between the ideologies of East and West. From its beginnings as a disparate group of tribes to its status as the first secular republic in the Islamic world, Ahmad …
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50 Deep Sea Desserts to Inspire Your Imagination
Whether whipping up swimmingly frosted cupcakes, a mermaid tale shaped cake, cake pops, shakes, and more sweet treats from the deep, youll want to dive right in!Enter the world of fantasy and imagine what a party would look like if …
A powerfully written novel offering an intimate look at a beautiful marriage and how bipolar disorder and cancer affect it, Dancing on Broken Glass by Ka Hancock perfectly illustrates the enduring power of love.Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldnt …
Winner of the Bancroft Prize The New York Times Book Review, Editors ChoiceAmerican Heritage, Best of 2009In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of the founding era, Bancroft Awardwinning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping …
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An Introduction and Commentary
New exegetical commentary on the Gospel of Mark for preachers, Bible teachers, non-specialists Mark wrote his Gospel to explain why and how Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God who fulfils God's promises as he proclaims and embodies the …
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Their origin in the spiritual teaching of Evagrius the Hermit
Until recently little has been known about Evagrius of Pontus. His work on the eight evil thoughts was widely influential in the development of the idea of the Seven Deadly Sins in the Western Spiritual tradition. But those who followed …
A rounded and compelling portrait of Jesus as charismatic healer, sage, and prophet, a man living in the power of the spirit and dedicated to radical social change.
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Helping Clients Turn Intentions Into Actions
In Rethinking Adult ADHD, Dr. J. Russell Ramsay provides a firstofitskind exploration of the common beliefs that underlie and reinforce ADHD in adults, and offers a blueprint to help clients overcome ADHD symptoms using cognitive behavior therapy. While negative thinking …
This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the early 1830s and the rise and fall of Chartism in the 1840s. With a …
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Ideas, People and Technologies. Proceedings of the 6th BNU/UCL IOE International Conference in Education
This book gathers selected original papers presented at the Sixth Beijing Normal University - University College London, Institute of Education International Conference in Education, a biennial event organised in partnership between this two universities. Readers will find a wealth of …
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Resisting the Populist Tide
This edited volume revolves around two sets of questions. First, what do the 2019 European elections suggest about the extent to which the mainstream parties of the left are attempting to deal with their decline through an increased, common, emphasis …
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