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The new 'Holly Winter' dog mystery When Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter rejects applicants who want to adopt homeless dogs, she makes a lot of enemies. In dogs Holly trusts, and the dogs she trusts most are her beloved malamutes, …
HarperCollins
She thought her date was out of this world.Actually, he was not of this world . . .We've all been on bad dates, nightmare dates, dreadful experiences that turned out to be uniquely memorable in the very worst way. But …
Severn House Publishers
Rudolf Hess was the most closely guarded prisoner in the world. Forty-five years after his capture in Scotland on a supposed peace mission he was still in Spandau Prison. Why was it necessary to keep him there so long? He …
Severn House Publishers
PI Deets Shanahan takes on the search of his lifetime - When seventy-one-year-old private investigator Deets Shanahan learns from a snippet of news on the Internet that his brother - who disappeared when they were kids - could be somewhere …
Severn House Publishers
Keen family-history researcher Suzie Fewings takes a trip to discover more about her husband's ancestors, but what she finds puts those she loves in danger . . .|Suzie Fewings, a keen family-history researcher, is delighted when her husband, Nick, catches …
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Realignment and the Rise of Two-Party Competition in Virginia, 1945-1980
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Dynamic Dominion tells the dramatic story of Virginia's political transformation from the Second World War to the Reagan Revolution. The cradle of American democracy and thus of the democratic movement that is sweeping the globe today the venerable Old …
View book details for Jim Henson and Philosophy
Imagination and the Magic of Mayhem
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Jim Hensons creations have inspired generations with characters that are among the worlds most recognizable cultural icons. From Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and their Muppet friends to the legendary Sesame Street and Childrens Television Workshop, Henson revolutionized childrens educational …
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Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Reverend Phillips Brooks, author of the beloved Christmas Carol, O Little Town of Bethlehem, was undeniably one of the most popular preachers of Gilded Age America. However, very few critical studies of his life and work exist. In this …
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From Economics to the Intangible
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive look at the values associated with parks and other kinds of protected areas. Much has been written about the importance of parks to the tourism industry, yet the reasons why people …
De Gruyter
Aus dem Inhalt:1. Ur- und Fruhgeschichte2. Die Landesherrschaft der Askanier, Wittelsbacher und Luxemburger (mitte 12. bis Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts)3. Die Festigung der Landesherrschaft durch die hohenzollerschen Kurfursten und der Ausbau der Mark zum furstlichen Territorialstaat wahrend des 15. Jahrhunderts4. …
View book details for Two Strategies for Europe
De Gaulle, the United States, and the Atlantic Alliance
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This timely book explores the often stormy French-U.S. relationship and the evolution of the Atlantic Alliance under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle (1958D1969). The first work on this subject to draw on previously inaccessible material from U.S. and French …
View book details for How Should I Live My Life?
Psychology, Environmental Science, and Moral Traditions
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
A truly cross-disciplinary study of psychology, theology, economics, and environmental science, How Should I Live My Life presents an overview of human beliefs and institutions that have led to the emerging global ecological threats. By viewing societal institutions and the …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Poetry occupied a complex position in the social life of nineteenth-century America. While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the enjoyment of linguistic complexity, many others turned to poems for spiritual and psychic wellbeing, adapted …
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Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleLand ownership was not the sole reason for conflict between Indians and English, Jenny Pulsipher writes in Subjects unto the Same King, a book that cogently redefines the relationship between Indians and …
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A Study in Twentieth-Century Arts and Ideas
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Silvio Gaggi's survey of the vast terrain of twentieth century arts and ideas is unique not only for its scope but also for the clarity and cohesiveness it brings to wide-ranging, seemingly disparate works. By identifying underlying epistemological, aesthetic, and …
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Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
East Timor, the world's newest nation, finally gained its independence in 2002, following half a millennium of Portuguese rule and 24 years of Indonesian occupation. That occupation produced a refugee diaspora spread between Portugal and Australia that has been integral …
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The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews Under Early Islam
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In A Common Justice Uriel I. Simonsohn examines the legislative response of Christian and Jewish religious elites to the problem posed by the appeal of their coreligionists to judicial authorities outside their communities. Focusing on the late seventh to early …
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Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean Diaspora
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The multivocalic rite known as Hosay in the Caribbean developed out of earlier practices originating in Iraq and Iran which diffused to Trinidad by way of South Asian indentured laborers brought to the Caribbean by the British from the mid-1800s …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Changes in human rights environments in Africa over the past decade have been facilitated by astounding political transformations: the rise of mass movements and revolts driven by democratic and developmentalist ideals, as well as mass murder and poverty perpetuated by …
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Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
There emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, linked …
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Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations in western New York, Senecas occupied a significant if ambivalent place within the newly established United …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Underfunded pension liabilities threaten the fiscal stability of many cities. While Detroit's bankruptcy has dominated the headlines, the problem is widespread. With ongoing battles in many localities, policymakers are increasingly turning their attention to the legacy issues surrounding the funding …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Florence Nightingale is best known as a woman of actiona founder of modern nursing, a reformer in the field of public health, and a pioneer in the use of statistics. What is not generally appreciated is that Nightingale was deeply …
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Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
What should historians do with the words of the dead? Inquisition and Power reformulates the historiography of heresy and the inquisition by focusing on depositions taken from the Cathars, a religious sect that opposed the Catholic church and took root …
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