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To the surprise of many people, several pounds of good bacteria populate our digestive tract, help us maintain normal digestion, and protect us against stomach flus, candida overgrowth, and many other types of infection. In this concise book, internationally recognised …
Turner Publishing Company
(From the Foreword) Ticonderoga ships and men have established an impressive naval tradition for nearly two centuries. We have only official records of the Ticonderoga men who sailed and fought the earlier ships. In this volume are the vivid memories …
View book details for The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus
Profayt Duran and Jewish Identity in Late Medieval Iberia
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Until the summer of 1391, when anti-Jewish riots spread across the Iberian peninsula, the person subsequently known as Honoratus de Bonafide, a Christian physician and astrologer at the court of King Joan I of Aragon, had been the Jew Profayt …
Turner Publishing Company
So You Think Your Cat Isn?t Trainable?Imagine your cat climbing a ladder on command, ringing a bell to let you know it?s time to go outside, or leaping from the ground onto your shoulder. Through clear text and entertaining illustrations, …
View book details for Debating the American State
Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 193-197
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies. Among them was the restructuring of the government into an administrative state with a powerful executive leader and a large class of unelected officials. This "leviathan" state was …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The wide-ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish. Whether it is the …
View book details for The Mantle Ranch
A Family's Joys and Sorrows in the Beautiful, Remote Yampa River Canyon
Graphic Arts Books
Queeda Mantle was born on a March day in 1933. In anticipation of her birth, her parents started by horseback out of the remote Yampa Canyon in Northwest Colorado. They were headed for Vernal, Utah, where the Mantles had friends …
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The True Adventures of a Young Canadian Airman During World War 2
Turner Publishing Company
On April 29, 1940, the governments of Canada, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand got together in Ottawa to sign an agreement implementing the "British Commonwealth Air Training Plan". Shortly after the signing of the agreement, several other members of …
View book details for Treat Your Back Without Surgery
The Best Nonsurgical Alternatives for Eliminating Back and Neck Pain
Turner Publishing Company
Treat Your Back Without Surgery is based on the acclaimed Texas Back Institutes successful nonsurgical treatments for back injuries. Providing proven exercises and natural healing techniques, this book helps readers diagnose back problems and relieve pain noninvasively. Also included are …
View book details for Building Fortress Europe
The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
What happens when a region accustomed to violent shifts in borders is subjected to a new, peaceful partitioning? Has the European Union spent the last decade creating a new Iron Curtain at its fringes? Building Fortress Europe: The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier …
View book details for Purchasing Power
The Economics of Modern Jewish History
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
How has the ability of Jews to amass and wield power, within both Jewish and non-Jewish society, influenced and been influenced by their economic activity? Purchasing Power answers this question by examining the nexus between money and power in modern …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Since 2008, the global economic crisis has exposed and deepened the tensions between austerity and social securitynot just as competing paradigms of recovery but also as fundamentally different visions of governmental and personal responsibility. In this sense, the core premise …
View book details for Truth Commissions
Memory, Power, and Legitimacy
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool. Drawing on …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Intrastate conflicts, such as civil wars and ethnic confrontations, are the predominant form of organized violence in the world today. But internal strife can destabilize entire regions, drawing in people living beyond state bordersparticularly those who share ideology, ethnicity, or …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Globalization challenges fundamental principles governing international law, especially with respect to state sovereignty and international relations. This transformation has had a significant impact on the practice of trade law, financial regulation, and environmental law but relatively little effect on one …
View book details for The Anatomy Murders
Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Up the close and down the stair,Up and down with Burke and Hare.Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief,Knox the man who buys the beef.anonymous children's songOn Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes …
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On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We have long recognized …
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The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Despite dramatic improvements in the security environment in most parts of Iraq, still unresolved are many core political issues, foremost of which is the conflict over the city and region of Kirkuk. With immense oil reserves and a diverse population …
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The Ancien Regime of the Novel
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Fiction has become nearly synonymous with literature itself, as if Homer and Dante and Pynchon were all engaged in the same basic activity. But one difficulty with this view is simply that a literature trafficking in openly invented characters is …
View book details for Gesichter der Demokratie
Portrats zur deutschen Zeitgeschichte. Eine Veroffentlichung des Instituts fur Zeitgeschichte Munchen-Berlin
De Gruyter
Hinsichtlich der Kontinuitatsfrage uberwiegt in der deutschen Zeitgeschichtsforschung der Blick auf die Vor- und die Nachgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus. Daneben gibt es aber auch eine andere Entwicklung uber die Zasuren von 1918, 1933, 1945 und 1989/90 hinweg: den muhevollen Weg der …
View book details for Visualisierung und Rhetorisierung von Geschlecht
Strategien zur Inszenierung weiblicher Sexualitat im Mare
De Gruyter
In den letzten Jahren lasst sich innerhalb der Mediavistik ein starker Zuwachs von Forschungsarbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Visualitat verzeichnen, die sich bisher weitestgehend auf Heldenepik, geistliche Literatur und hofischen Roman beschranken. Doch es zeigt sich, dass gerade in der …
View book details for De Veritate - Uber die Wahrheit
1: Wahrheit und Person. 2: Der Streit um die Wahrheit
De Gruyter
De Gruyter
Die Bande 1 und 2 der Reihe VI vereinen die philosophischen Schriften der akademischen Zeit in Leipzig und Altorf (1663 bis 1667) und in vier Abteilungen die Schriften aus der Zeit in Mainz und Frankfurt (Herbst 1667 bis Marz 1672): …
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Platon - Kant - Nietzsche
De Gruyter
Was ist Philosophie, und was heit es zu philosophieren? Diese Frage, die so alt ist wie die Philosophie selbst, findet in vorliegender Arbeit eine wie es auf den ersten Blick scheint uberraschende Antwort: Philosophie ist Spiel, also moglicherweise gar keine …
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