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Phoneme Media
Having achieved professional success in Barcelona at the expense of family life, best friends Montse and Roser are dissatisfied and sexually frustrated. Over an evening cognac, the two friends hatch a plan to find one of Barcelona's many illegal African …
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Korean-English English-Korean
Tuttle Publishing
It's never a good idea to be overly-relient on technology while traveling! Look up words quickly and easily with this great little Korean dictionary. Tuttle Mini Korean Dictionary is ideal for any application where a handy and portable dictionary is …
View book details for A Hemingway Odyssey
Special Places in His Life
Turner Publishing Company
A must-read for Hemingway enthusiasts in the centennial year of his birth, A Hemingway Odyssey contains never-before-published interviews with people who knew him and observations of the special places he frequented, thus revealing how powerfully the waters Hemingway loved influenced …
Dreamscape Media
Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form …
View book details for Finding Still Waters
The Art of Conscious Recovery
Still Waters Pond
Embark on a captivating odyssey that unravels the intertwined narratives of art, recovery, and spiritual introspection. With raw emotion and poignant insights, the author bares the harrowing grip of alcoholism, setting the scene for an epic journey from the depths …
View book details for The Atlantic Coast
A Natural History
Greystone Books
The North Atlantic coast of North Americacommonly known as the Atlantic Coastextends from Newfoundland and Labrador through the Maritime Provinces and the Northeastern United States south to Cape Hatteras. This North Atlantic region belongs to the sea. The maritime influence …
Greystone Books
Everyone knows that the planet is in trouble, but is there a solution? This timely book identifies the most effective ways individuals can be more green in four key areas: home, travel, food, and consumerism. It also describes how citizens …
View book details for Derrida on Being as Presence
Questions and Quests
De Gruyter
Jacques Derridas extensive early writings devoted considerable attention to being as presence, the reality underlying the history of metaphysics. In Derrida on Being as Presence: Questions and Quests, David A. White develops the intricate conceptual structure of this notion by …
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View book details for Vorlesungen uber das Wesen der Religion
Nebst Zusatzen und Anmerkungen
De Gruyter
Der Band enthalt die religionsphilosophischen Vorlesungen, die Feuerbach wahrend der Revolutionszeit vom 1. Dezember 1848 bis zum 2. Marz 1849 im Heidelberger Rathaussaal vor Studenten, Angehorigen des Heidelberger Arbeiter-Bildungsvereins und fortschrittlichen Kreisen des Burgertums gehalten hat. Die Vorlesungen, denen Feuerbach …
View book details for Food on the Page
Cookbooks and American Culture
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
What is American food? From barbecue to Jell-O molds to burrito bowls, its history spans a vast patchwork of traditions, crazes, and quirks. A close look at these foods and the recipes behind them unearths a vivid map of American …
View book details for Capital Gains
Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Recent eventsthe Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among othershave driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most …
View book details for In the Eye of the Animal
Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and artfrom Augustine's renowned "wonder at the agility of the mosquito on the wing," to vivid exegeses of the six days …
View book details for Borderlands of Slavery
The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonagein which a debtor negotiated a …
View book details for Negro League Baseball
The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball …
View book details for To Retire or Not?
Retirement Policy and Practice in Higher Education
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Colleges and universities across the country face huge challenges as their faculties age, their budgets stagnate, and mandatory retirement becomes a thing of the past. In To Retire or Not? the nation's foremost authorities on retirement policy and practice provide …
View book details for The Origins of Freemasonry
Facts and Fictions
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Can the ancestry of freemasonry really be traced back to the Knights Templar? Is the image of the eye in a triangle on the back of the dollar bill one of its cryptic signs? Is there a conspiracy that stretches …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
World War I constituted a milestone in the development of the United States as a world power. As the European powers exhausted themselves during the conflict, the U.S. government deployed its growing economic leverage, its military might, and its diplomacy …
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Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Warner Mifflinenergetic, uncompromising, and reviledwas the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying the peace …
View book details for Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Volume 1
Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The ordines coronationis are essentially the scripts for the coronation of Frankish and French sovereigns. Combining detailed religious, ceremonial, and political material, they are an extraordinarily important source for the study of individual rulers or dynasties, as well as for …
View book details for Colonial Complexions
Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals how …
View book details for "Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries
Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a pinch of salt? …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
"Heterosexuality, this novel forthrightly claims, is a poor substitute for passionate love between menand heterosexuality's historical emergence in the nineteenth century is consequently, Cecil Dreeme laments, a grave misfortune."Christopher Looby, from the IntroductionFreshly returned to New York City from his …
View book details for Argentina Betrayed
Memory, Mourning, and Accountability
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The ruthless military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 betrayed the country's people, presiding over massive disappearances of its citizenry and, in the process, destroying the state's trustworthiness as the guardian of safety and well-being. Desperate relatives risked …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Misunderstanding Terrorism provides a striking reassessment of the scope and nature of the global neo-jihadi threat to the West. The post-9/11 decade experienced the emergence of new forms of political violence and new terrorist actors. More recently, Marc Sageman's understanding …
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Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In 1860, Milton Bradley invented The Checkered Game of Life. Having journeyed from Springfield, Massachusetts, to New York City to determine interest in this combination of bright red ink, brass dials, and character-driven decision-making, Bradley exhausted his entire supply of …
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