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Jewish Terrorism in Israel
Ami Pedahzur
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• Author(s): Ami Pedahzur • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: TerrorismAmi Pedahzur and Arie Perliger, world experts on the study of terror and security, propose a theory of violence that...
View full detailsCotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History
Richard Bulliet
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• Author(s): Richard Bulliet • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralA boom in the production and export of cotton made Iran the richest region of the Islamic caliphate i...
View full detailsThe Unfinished Peace: The Council of Foreign Ministers and the Hungarian Peace Treaty of 1947
Mihály Fülöp
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• Author(s): Mihály Fülöp • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: PeaceAlready published to critical acclaim in Romania and France, The Unfinished Peace examines the impact of the Council of Fo...
View full detailsMing Erotic Novellas: Genre, Consumption, and Religiosity in Cultural Practice
Richard Wang
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• Author(s): Richard Wang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseBy analyzing a group of literary (wenyan) novellas, this study of late-Ming material c...
View full detailsFilm and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory
Jorg Schweinitz
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• Author(s): Jorg Schweinitz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular CultureSince the early days of film, critics and theorists have contested the value of formula, cliché, convention...
View full detailsIn the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
Barry Mccrea
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• Author(s): Barry Mccrea • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryIn the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary ...
View full detailsRevelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals
Rachel Mcdermott
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• Author(s): Rachel Mcdermott • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Hinduism - Ritual & PracticesAnnually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor ...
View full detailsFilm and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory
Jorg Schweinitz
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• Author(s): Jorg Schweinitz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSince the early days of film, critics and theorists have contested the value of formula, cli...
View full detailsThe Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid
Scott Lyall
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• Author(s): Scott Lyall • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralFrom the Back CoverAUTHOR-APPROVED The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid Edited by Scott Lyall and Ma...
View full detailsThe Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature
Victor Mair
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• Author(s): Victor Mair • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyIn The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the world's leading sinologis...
View full detailsThe Reeducation Trials in Communist Romania, 1952-1960
Mircea Stanescu
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• Author(s): Mircea Stanescu • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryThe reeducation practices of communist Romania ended in 1951 with the transfer of political prisoners ...
View full detailsThe Novel of Crepuscular Universes: Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, Witold Gombrowicz, Günter Grass, Curzio Malaparte, Heinrich Böll, L.-F.
Ion Vlad
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• Author(s): Ion Vlad • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: European - GeneralIon Vlad investigates the distinct heraldry of "the novel of ideas" and whether this taxonomy is still viable wit...
View full detailsPortraits of 21st Century Chinese Universities: In the Move to Mass Higher Education
Ruth Hayhoe
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• Author(s): Ruth Hayhoe • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis book examines the ways in which Chinas universities have changed in the dramatic m...
View full detailsIndie: An American Film Culture
Michael Newman
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• Author(s): Michael Newman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionAmerica's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storyte...
View full detailsFantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Postâ world War II American Fiction
Stephen Schryer
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• Author(s): Stephen Schryer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAmerica's postWorld War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of univ...
View full detailsPolitics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique: Dialogues
Alfredo Gomez–Muller
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• Author(s): Alfredo Gomez–Muller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book of tightly woven dialogues engages prominent thinkers in a discussion about the role of culture-broa...
View full detailsKnowledge Matters: The Public Mission of the Research University
Diana Rhoten
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• Author(s): Diana Rhoten • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherHigher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens...
View full detailsPolitics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique: Dialogues
Alfredo Gomez–Muller
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• Author(s): Alfredo Gomez–Muller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book of tightly woven dialogues engages prominent thinkers in a discussion about the role of culture-broa...
View full detailsA Time and a Tide: Charles K. Kao: A Memoir
Charles Kao
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• Author(s): Charles Kao • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Personal MemoirsExplores the turbulent rift that forced the author from his family. This groundbreakin...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Sally Potter: Moments of Exchange
Sophie Mayer
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• Author(s): Sophie Mayer • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSally Potter is known for her award-winning films 'Thriller' (1979), 'Orlando' (1992), 'The Tango Lesson' (1997) ...
View full detailsThe Place of Russia in Europe and Asia
Gyula Szvák
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• Author(s): Gyula Szvák • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Russia - GeneralGyula Szvak selects essays from the proceedings of the international seminars that took place between 1998 and 2...
View full detailsPrison Notebooks: Volume 2
Antonio Gramsci
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• Author(s): Antonio Gramsci • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralAntonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in W...
View full detailsNeither Woman Nor Jew: The Confluence of Prejudices in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the Turn of the Century
András Gero
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• Author(s): András Gero • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryAndras Gero contextualizes the racialist, misogynist, and anti-Semitic ideas that influenced publi...
View full detailsHatred and Forgiveness
Julia Kristeva
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• Author(s): Julia Kristeva • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CriticismJulia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) thr...
View full detailsExplaining Institutional Innovation: Case Studies from Latin America and East Asia
Richard Doner
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• Author(s): Richard Doner • Publisher: Social Science Research Council • Publisher Imprint: Social Science Research Council • BISAC: Political EconomyMany believe that economic development is primarily a function of institutions that help societ...
View full detailsHungarian Americans in the Current of History
Steven Béla Várdy
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• Author(s): Steven Béla Várdy • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryIn twelve essays on Hungarian-American history, the authors discuss Louis Kossuth's tumultuo...
View full detailsHong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice
Ayesha Macpherson Lau
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• Author(s): Ayesha Macpherson Lau • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: TaxationHong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice, 2010-2011 is a comprehensive yet practical gui...
View full detailsEarly Childhood Care and Education in the Asia Pacific Region: Moving Towards Goal 1
Nirmala Rao
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• Author(s): Nirmala Rao • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & KinderIn 2000, the global community set six goals as part of the E...
View full detailsAudience Evolution
Philip M. Napoli
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• Author(s): Philip M. Napoli • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesToday's consumers have unprecedented choice in terms of the technologies and platforms that access, produce,...
View full detailsThe Memory of the Habsburg Empire in German, Austrian, and Hungarian Right-Wing Historiography and Political Thinking, 1918-1941
Gergely Romsics
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• Author(s): Gergely Romsics • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryBy reproducing the political and historiographical debates surrounding the legacy of the Habsb...
View full detailsReform and Revolution: 1825-1848
András Gergely
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• Author(s): András Gergely • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralAndrás Gergely focuses on the program, motives, and social background of the Hungarian reform movemen...
View full detailsAfter Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement
Courtney Bender
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• Author(s): Courtney Bender • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThe contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically pr...
View full detailsHungarian-Soviet Relations, 1920-1941
Attila Kolontari
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• Author(s): Attila Kolontari • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryInterwar relations between Hungary and the Soviet Union did not determine the subsequent fate...
View full detailsHungary Under Soviet Domination: 1944-1989
Tibor Valuch
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• Author(s): Tibor Valuch • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryGyörgy Gyarmati and Tibor Valuch chronicle the significant years between the end of the Second Wo...
View full detailsMobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
Allan Formicola
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• Author(s): Allan Formicola • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Volunteer WorkFrom 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Med...
View full detailsMobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
Allan Formicola
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• Author(s): Allan Formicola • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Volunteer WorkFrom 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Med...
View full detailsHaunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma
Gabriele Schwab
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• Author(s): Gabriele Schwab • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyFrom mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives th...
View full detailsTwenty-First Century Motherhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency
Andrea O'Reilly
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• Author(s): Andrea O'Reilly • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesA pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and pr...
View full detailsBuddhist Philosophy of Language in India: Jñanasrimitra on Exclusion
Lawrence J. Mccrea
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• Author(s): Lawrence J. Mccrea • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternJnanasrimitra (975-1025) was regarded by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists as the most important Indian philosoph...
View full detailsBuddhist Philosophy of Language in India: Jñanasrimitra on Exclusion
Lawrence J. Mccrea
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• Author(s): Lawrence J. Mccrea • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternJnanasrimitra (975-1025) was regarded by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists as the most important Indian philosoph...
View full detailsHitchcock Annual: Volume 16
Sidney Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis new issue of the Hitchcock Annual contains studies of Hitchcock and theater, Hitchcock's atheology, and the filmmaker's ...
View full detailsCounter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
Paula Amad
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• Author(s): Paula Amad • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's...
View full detailsTwenty-First Century Motherhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency
Andrea O'Reilly
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• Author(s): Andrea O'Reilly • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesA pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and pr...
View full detailsCounter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
Paula Amad
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• Author(s): Paula Amad • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's...
View full detailsAnimal Ethics in Context
Clare Palmer
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• Author(s): Clare Palmer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyIt is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. ...
View full detailsRevisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale
Christoph Lindner
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• Author(s): Christoph Lindner • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismRevisioning 007 is a lively collection of new essays on the reinvention of James Bond in the 2006 film Casin...
View full detailsContemporary British Drama
David Lane
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• Author(s): David Lane • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFrom the Back CoverEdinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Halliwell and Andy Mousley This series provides acc...
View full detailsI Like Hong Kong: Art and Deterritorialization
Frank Vigneron
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• Author(s): Frank Vigneron • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,Uses comparative aesthetics and the...
View full detailsRelativism: A Contemporary Anthology
Michael Krausz
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• Author(s): Michael Krausz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThe thirty-three essays in Relativism: A Contemporary Anthology grapple with one of the most...
View full detailsSoutheast Asia in the Fifteenth Century: The China Factor
Geoff And Laichen Sun Ed Wade
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• Author(s): Geoff And Laichen Sun Ed Wade • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe essays included offer a distinctive survey of China's imperial foreign policy and...
View full detailsMedieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Lisa Lampert-Weissig
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• Author(s): Lisa Lampert-Weissig • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: MedievalFrom the Back CoverENDORSEMENTS BEING SOUGHT Postcolonial Literary Studies Series Editors: David Johnson an...
View full detailsThe Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: The Contextual Emergence of Mind and Self
Suzanne Kirschner
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• Author(s): Suzanne Kirschner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Developmental - GeneralThe sociocultural turn in psychology treats psychological subjects, such as the mind and the self...
View full detailsEducational Reforms in Russia and China at the Turn of the 21st Century: A Comparative Analysis
Nina Ye. Virevjata
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• Author(s): Nina Ye. Virevjata • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis important study of educational reform in Russia and China brings to the global research community in...
View full detailsThe Sociocultural Turn in Psychology: The Contextual Emergence of Mind and Self
Suzanne Kirschner
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• Author(s): Suzanne Kirschner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Developmental - GeneralThe sociocultural turn in psychology treats psychological subjects, such as the mind and the self...
View full detailsStudying British Cinema: 1990s
Eddie Dyja
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• Author(s): Eddie Dyja • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe 1990s were years of contradiction for British cinema. On the one hand, the exhibition and production of Br...
View full detailsStudying British Cinema: 1990s
Eddie Dyja
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• Author(s): Eddie Dyja • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe 1990s were years of contradiction for British cinema. On the one hand, the exhibition and production of Br...
View full detailsAmerica's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York
Sam Roberts
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• Author(s): Sam Roberts • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn a stunning repudiation of the Democratic machine, John V. Lindsay (1921-2000) captured the New York mayoralty i...
View full detailsStudying TV Drama
Michael Massey
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• Author(s): Michael Massey • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralGraduate students of media studies have benefited from a variety of books on television genres, yet lower ...
View full detailsThe Imaginary Institution of India: Politics and Ideas
Sudipta Kaviraj
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• Author(s): Sudipta Kaviraj • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EssaysFor decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's socia...
View full detailsDisplacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction
Douglas Walrath
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• Author(s): Douglas Walrath • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - ProtestantAs religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they rep...
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