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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
Roger Crowley
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• Author(s): Roger Crowley • Publisher: Hyperion Books • Publisher Imprint: Hyperion Books • BISAC: Europe - MedievalA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today. The fall of Constantinopl...
View full detailsThe Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Murasaki Shikibu
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• Author(s): Murasaki Shikibu • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: ClassicsThe world's first novel, in a translation that is "likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come" (The Wall Street Jou...
View full detailsZodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer
Robert Graysmith
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• Author(s): Robert Graysmith • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: Murder - Serial KillersRobert Graysmith's New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own...
View full detailsDiamonds Are Forever
Ian Fleming
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• Author(s): Ian Fleming • Publisher: William Morrow & Company • Publisher Imprint: William Morrow & Company • BISAC: Thrillers - EspionageUSING HIS FORMIDABLE SKILLS OF DECEPTION, JAMES BOND WORKS TO TAKE DOWN AN AMERICAN GANGThe Spangle...
View full detailsWords That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
Frank I. Luntz
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• Author(s): Frank I. Luntz • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: SkillsThe nation's premier communications expert shares his wisdom on how the words we choose can change the course of busines...
View full detailsComing to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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• Author(s): Jon Kabat-Zinn • Publisher: Hyperion Books • Publisher Imprint: Hyperion Books • BISAC: MeditationsCome to your senses with the definitive guide to living a meaningful life from a world expert in the connection between mindfulness an...
View full detailsThe Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern World
Justin Pollard
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• Author(s): Justin Pollard • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt"A lively history of the legendary ancient city, from creation to destruction." -- Kirkus Reviews A short history of nearly everythi...
View full detailsFor Your Eyes Only
Ian Fleming
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• Author(s): Ian Fleming • Publisher: William Morrow & Company • Publisher Imprint: William Morrow & Company • BISAC: Thrillers - EspionageA STUNNING COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT SENDS BOND TO BERMUDA, THE BAHAMAS, AND BEYOND "From a View t...
View full detailsMy Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor
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• Author(s): Jill Bolte Taylor • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Medical (Incl. Patients)"Transformative...[Taylor's] experience...will shatter [your] own perception of the world."--ABC News The astonishing Ne...
View full detailsThe Singularity Is Nearer
Ray Kurzweil
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• Author(s): Ray Kurzweil • Publisher: Viking • Publisher Imprint: Viking • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The noted inventor and fut...
View full detailsThe Long Walk
Stephen King
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• Author(s): Stephen King • Publisher: Pocket Books • Publisher Imprint: Pocket Books • BISAC: Horror - GeneralIn this #1 national bestseller, master storyteller Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a gru...
View full detailsLaughter the Best Medicine: More Than 600 Jokes, Gags & Laugh Lines for All Occasions
Editors of Reader's Digest
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• Author(s): Editors of Reader's Digest • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Form - Jokes & RiddlesLaughter the Best Medicine is a collection of Reader's Digest magazine's funniest jokes, quotes, sto...
View full detailsGift & Award Bible-KJV
Hendrickson Publishers
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• Author(s): Hendrickson Publishers • Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Hendrickson Publishers • BISAC: King James Version - GeneralThe beloved and timeless King James Version is made available in an affordable quality editio...
View full detailsA Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Daniel H. Pink
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• Author(s): Daniel H. Pink • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionNew York Times Bestseller An exciting--and encouraging--exploration of creativity from the author of When: ...
View full detailsAnger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
Thich Nhat Hanh
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• Author(s): Thich Nhat Hanh • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: Buddhism - General (see also Philosophy - Buddhist)"[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth...
View full detailsEconomic Facts And Fallacies
Thomas Sowell
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• Author(s): Thomas Sowell • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette India • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsThomas Sowell's indispensable examination of the most popular economic fallaciesIn Economic Facts and Fal...
View full detailsFrames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner
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• Author(s): Howard Gardner • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition"There's a book I recommend for everybody: It's Howard Gardner's Frames of Mind. It has help...
View full detailsModernity and the Holocaust
Zygmunt Bauman
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• Author(s): Zygmunt Bauman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HolocaustA new afterword to this edition, "The Duty to Remember--But What?" tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence o...
View full detailsModernity and the Holocaust
Zygmunt Bauman
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• Author(s): Zygmunt Bauman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HolocaustA new afterword to this edition, "The Duty to Remember--But What?" tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence o...
View full detailsThe Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
J. Allan Hobson
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• Author(s): J. Allan Hobson • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: GeneralAn investigation into the brain's chemistry and the mechanisms of chemically altered states of consciousness.In this book, J. Allan Hobson ...
View full detailsWanderings
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
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• Author(s): Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn one of the first books devoted to the experience of Sudanese immigrants and ...
View full detailsThe Poet and the King: Jean de la Fontaine and His Century
Marc Fumaroli
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• Author(s): Marc Fumaroli • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press • BISAC: Literary FiguresThe Poet and the King, described by the New York Review of Books as "the finest and most perceptiv...
View full detailsOn the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren (Revised)
Donald B. Kraybill, Carl Desportes Bowman
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• Author(s): Donald B. Kraybill | Carl Desportes Bowman • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Christianity - Denominations On the Backroad to Heaven is a unique guide to the world...
View full detailsReinventing the World Bank
Jonathan R. Pincus, Jeffrey A. Winters
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• Author(s): Jonathan R. Pincus | Jeffrey A. Winters • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Banks & BankingLargely ignored for decades, the World Bank increasingly finds itself at the cent...
View full detailsAmerica Unrivaled: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan
G. John Ikenberry
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• Author(s): G. John Ikenberry • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAmerican power today is without historical precedent, dominating the world system. No oth...
View full detailsHans Conried: A Biography; With a Filmography and a Listing of Radio, Television, Stage and Voice Work
Suzanne Gargiulo
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• Author(s): Suzanne Gargiulo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Hans Conried was once described by the well-known Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper...
View full detailsEtel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist
Lisa Suhair Majaj, Amal Amireh
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• Author(s): Lisa Suhair Majaj | Amal Amireh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General This collection of essays concentrates on Arab-American writer and artist Etel Adnan. Up un...
View full detailsLincoln's Quest for Equality
Carl Wieck
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• Author(s): Carl Wieck • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil WarThe "House Divided" speech helped to win Lincoln the presidency; the Gettysburg Addr...
View full detailsStrategic Computing: Darpa and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993
Alex Roland, Philip Shiman
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• Author(s): Alex Roland | Philip Shiman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThe story of the U.S. Department of Defense's extraordinary effort, in the period from 1983 to 1993, to achieve machine intelligence.Th...
View full detailsSocial Construction of Foreign Policy: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999
Ted Hopf
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• Author(s): Ted Hopf • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this deeply researched book Ted Hopf challenges contemporary theorizing about international relations. He advances what h...
View full detailsMaking Sense of Taste: Food & Philosophy
Carolyn Korsmeyer
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• Author(s): Carolyn Korsmeyer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Food Science - GeneralTaste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the c...
View full detailsWomen of the Homefront: World War II Recollections of 55 Americans
Pauline E. Parker
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• Author(s): Pauline E. Parker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Lois A. Ferguson was a training teacher for college graduates at a Japanese relocation center in Cal...
View full detailsHistory Fair Workbook: A Manual for Teachers, Students, and Parents
Carlita Kosty
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• Author(s): Carlita Kosty • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: HistoryKosty's handbook is appropriate for teachers of middle and high school students (grades 6-12) and provides clear instructions for initiat...
View full detailsMinorities in the Middle East: A History of Struggle and Self-Expression
Mordechai Nisan
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• Author(s): Mordechai Nisan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Middle East - General The struggle for independence by minorities in the Middle East (those people who are non-Arab or non-Mus...
View full detailsThe Hour and the Woman: Harriet Martineau's Somewhat Remarkable Life
Deborah Anna Logan
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• Author(s): Deborah Anna Logan • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Literary FiguresA British journalist and pioneering reformer, Harriet Martineau reigned at the forefr...
View full detailsLiterary Liaisons
Lynette Felber
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• Author(s): Lynette Felber • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsUnhappy relationships are the stuff of fiction--or so Lynette Felber observes as she examine...
View full detailsThe News from Whitechapel: Jack the Ripper in the Daily Telegraph
Alexander Chisholm, Christopher-Michael Digrazia, Dave Yost
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• Author(s): Alexander Chisholm | Christopher-Michael Digrazia | Dave Yost • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Murder - General "Early yesterday morning a horrible murder was discovered in Bu...
View full detailsProlegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure
Ken Hale, Samuel Jay Keyser
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• Author(s): Ken Hale | Samuel Jay Keyser • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study o...
View full detailsLouis Sockalexis: The First Cleveland Indian
David L. Fleitz
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• Author(s): David L. Fleitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian from Maine, was one of the greatest college baseball stars of the 1890s. Following...
View full detailsRealism and Antirealism
William P. Alston
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• Author(s): William P. Alston • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: EpistemologyThroughout the past century, a debate has raged over the thesis of realism and its alternatives. Realism--the ...
View full detailsReinventing Pragmatism
Joseph Margolis
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• Author(s): Joseph Margolis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - PragmatismIn contemporary philosophical debates in the United States "redefining pragmatism" has become the conv...
View full detailsScapegoats: Baseballers Whose Careers Are Marked by One Fateful Play
Christopher Bell
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• Author(s): Christopher Bell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Everyone wants to be able to perform well at important moments, especially in the world of sports, where b...
View full detailsBaudelaire's World
Rosemary H. Lloyd
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• Author(s): Rosemary H. Lloyd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryCharles Baudelaire is often regarded as the founder of modernist poetry. Written with clarity and verve, Baudelaire'...
View full detailsThe Films of Derek Jarman
William Pencak
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• Author(s): William Pencak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Derek Jarman's films explore the possibilities and limitations of same-sex love and self-express...
View full detailsCrepuscular Dawn
Paul Virilio, Sylvere Lotringer, Mike Taormina
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• Author(s): Paul Virilio | Sylvere Lotringer | Mike Taormina • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe "genetic bomb" marks a turn in the history of humanity. The accident is a new for...
View full detailsDer moralische Status menschlicher Embryonen
Gregor Damschen, Dieter Schönecker
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• Author(s): Gregor Damschen | Dieter Schönecker • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyIn der Debatte �ber den moralischen Status menschlicher Embryonen ist nicht immer klar, �ber welche Arg...
View full detailsConfederate Seadog: John Taylor Wood in War and Exile
John Bell
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• Author(s): John Bell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military John Taylor Wood, the grandson of President Zachary Taylor and a nephew of Jefferson Davis, was one of the most daring and ...
View full detailsIndians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire
Timothy J. Shannon
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• Author(s): Timothy J. Shannon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodOn the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany...
View full detailsPier Angeli: A Fragile Life
Jane Allen
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• Author(s): Jane Allen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts "In Pier Angeli, a nineteen-year-old Italian girl, Hollywood has found an actress who eludes th...
View full detailsAusgleichungsrechnung: Eine Einführung Für Studierende Und Praktiker Des Vermessungs- Und Geoinformationswesens
Wolfgang Niemeier
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• Author(s): Wolfgang Niemeier • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: CartographyDie Ausgleichungsrechnung ist fundamental für sämtliche Bereiche des Vermessungswesens. Dieses Buch ist ein einführendes Lehrbuch für Studi...
View full detailsLincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics
Stewart Winger
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• Author(s): Stewart Winger • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)The nature of Abraham Lincoln's religious beliefs is perhaps ...
View full detailsTime Capsules: A Cultural History
William E. Jarvis
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• Author(s): William E. Jarvis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social Time capsules have been used for thousands of years to store for posterity a selection ...
View full detailsThe American Architect from the Colonial Era to the Present
Cecil D. Elliott
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• Author(s): Cecil D. Elliott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History - General The later Colonial era saw a need to replace the buildings hurriedly assembled by earlier colonists, but co...
View full detailsProvincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-De-Siècle Hamburg
Jennifer Jenkins
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• Author(s): Jennifer Jenkins • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralA history of the making of public culture in Imperial Germany, Provincial Modernity challenges traditional accounts ...
View full detailsFrom Shiloh to Savannah
D. Leib Ambrose
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• Author(s): D. Leib Ambrose • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)From the first Union victories in the west at Forts Henry an...
View full detailsThe Power of Institutions: Political Architecture and Governance
Andrew Macintyre
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• Author(s): Andrew Macintyre • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationConventional wisdom holds that "institutions matter." Here, Andrew MacIntyre reveals exa...
View full detailsIf Each Comes Halfway: Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal
Kathryn S. March
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• Author(s): Kathryn S. March • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's Studies - GeneralFor twenty-five years, Kathryn S. March has collected the life stories of the women of a Buddhist ...
View full detailsThe Making of National Money
Eric Helleiner
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• Author(s): Eric Helleiner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsWhy should each country have its own exclusive currency? Eric Helleiner offers a fascinating and unique pe...
View full detailsDomestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy
Kristin A. Kelly
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• Author(s): Kristin A. Kelly • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Abuse - Domestic Partner AbuseAlthough domestic violence is not new, it has only recently been recognized as a problem meri...
View full detailsDreams of the Burning Child
David Lee Miller
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• Author(s): David Lee Miller • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralIn Dreams of the Burning Child, David Lee Miller explores the uncanny persistence of filial ...
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