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Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture
Victor Turner
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• Author(s): Victor Turner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryFrom the Back CoverImage and Pilgrimage examines in detail two anthropological important aspects of the practice of p...
View full detailsChironomidae of Japan
Manabu Sasa
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• Author(s): Manabu Sasa • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - EntomologyThe non-biting chironomid midges (Family Chironomidae, Order Diptera) include numbers of s...
View full detailsInternational Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War
Richard Ned Lebow
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• Author(s): Richard Ned Lebow • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis controversial set of essays evaluates and extends international relations theory i...
View full detailsChina's Legal Awakening: Legal Theory and Criminal Justice in Deng's Era
Carlos Wing-Hung Lo
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• Author(s): Carlos Wing-Hung Lo • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralAfter decades of nihilistic rule under Mao Zedong, can legal order be restored in China? How s...
View full detailsAn Introduction to the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong
Brian Morton
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• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThe Marine Parks Bill was passed into law by Hong Kongs Legislative Council on 31 May 1995. This pi...
View full detailsProceedings of the Inernational Conference on Control and Information 1995
Wing Shing Wong
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• Author(s): Wing Shing Wong • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: General
American Effects on Hungarian Imagination and Political Thought: 1559-1848
Geza Zavodszky
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• Author(s): Geza Zavodszky • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralDescribes how the politics and culture of the American colonies - later the United States - had a cru...
View full detailsPopulation Management for Survival and Recovery: Analytical Methods and Strategies in Small Population Conservation
Jonathan Ballou
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• Author(s): Jonathan Ballou • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralPlaces the converging disciplines of wildlife management and captive ...
View full detailsAssisted Living for the Aged and Frail: Innovations in Design, Management, and Financing
Victor Regnier
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• Author(s): Victor Regnier • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkAssisted living is an alternative to the institutional nursing home that uses innovative design, financing and m...
View full detailsPopulation Management for Survival and Recovery: Analytical Methods and Strategies in Small Population Conservation
Jonathan Ballou
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• Author(s): Jonathan Ballou • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralPlaces the converging disciplines of wildlife management and captive ...
View full detailsSakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration
Marius Jansen
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• Author(s): Marius Jansen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanExploring a tumultuous time in Japanese 19th-century history, when the country began to emerge from self-imposed...
View full detailsThe Post-Soviet Nations: Perspectives on the Demise of the USSR
Alexander Motyl
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• Author(s): Alexander Motyl • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: World - Russian & SovietWith the breakup of the Soviet Union and the subsequent creation of the Commonwealth of Indepe...
View full detailsEastern Canons: Approaches to the Asian Classics
Wm. Theodore De Bary
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• Author(s): Wm. Theodore De Bary • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralDesigned for anyone interested in learning more about the aesthetics, history, philosophy and religion ...
View full detailsThe Common Law in Chinese Context
Berry Hsu
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• Author(s): Berry Hsu • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Government - GeneralStudies the extent to which Common Law notions have taken root in Hong Kong, and answers the most fundamen...
View full detailsRebuilding the Inner City: A History of Neighborhood Initiatives to Address Poverty in the United States
Robert Halpern
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• Author(s): Robert Halpern • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis study charts the history of neighbourhood-based initiatives in the USA to illuminate the enduring dil...
View full detailsPrimitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Rey Chow
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• Author(s): Rey Chow • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralChow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a g...
View full detailsThe Brazilian Puzzle: Culture on the Borderlands of the Western World
David J. Hess
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• Author(s): David J. Hess • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralProvides a unique picture of everyday life in Brazil viewed from a comparative perspective. Brazilian...
View full detailsThe Third Reich and the Holocaust in German Historiography: Toward the Historikerstreit of the Mid-1980s
Alfred Low
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• Author(s): Alfred Low • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - GermanyLow is the first historian to focus on the links between earlier post-war German judgments and those of the 1980s...
View full detailsLaughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy
William Paul
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• Author(s): William Paul • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAn engrossing examination of a popular box office genre-the gross-out movie-Laughing Screaming ...
View full detailsUnderstanding Marriage: A Hong Kong Case Study
Katherine P. H. Young
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• Author(s): Katherine P. H. Young • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverHarmony has traditionally been upheld as the essential element in a happy ma...
View full detailsVirtual Design Studio
Jerzy Wojtowicz
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• Author(s): Jerzy Wojtowicz • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationThe Virtual Design Studio establishes a new paradigm for CAD, expanding comp...
View full detailsClinical Social Work
Helen Northen
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• Author(s): Helen Northen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis revised edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary clinical social work, and t...
View full detailsAn Anthology of Romanian Women Poets
Adam Sorkin
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• Author(s): Adam Sorkin • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThe selections represent many generations of poets, from Veronica Micle and Matilda Cugler-Poni in the n...
View full detailsWork and Power in Maale, Ethiopia
Donald Donham
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• Author(s): Donald Donham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsThis book is one of the most successful examples in the Africanist literature of placing structures in ti...
View full detailsDynamics of Regional Politics: Four Systems on the Indian Ocean Rim
W. Howard Wriggins
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• Author(s): W. Howard Wriggins • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralFrom the Back CoverDynamics of Regional Politics explores the patterns of international conflict and coo...
View full detailsFolding of Viscous Layers: Mechanical Analysis and Interpretation of Structures in Deformed Rock
Arvid Johnson
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• Author(s): Arvid Johnson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyFor years, structural geologists have sought a coherent methodology for understanding the forms of s...
View full detailsWaiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince
Wm. Theodore De Bary
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• Author(s): Wm. Theodore De Bary • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThis is an English translation of one of China's greatest works of political literature...
View full detailsCase Studies in Plant Taxonomy: Exercises in Applied Pattern Recognition
Tod F. Stuessy
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• Author(s): Tod F. Stuessy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyDesigned to help students make better taxonomic judgments, this case book contains exercises and case...
View full detailsThe Logic of Force: The Dilemma of Limited War in American Foreign Policy
Christopher Gacek
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• Author(s): Christopher Gacek • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis study examines the disparities between the two dominant American political-militar...
View full detailsMoral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self
Steven Parish
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• Author(s): Steven Parish • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralExplores the interrelationship of mind, self, emotion and the development of moral consciousness in the Nepalese city...
View full detailsThe Empowerment Tradition in American Social Work: A History
Barbara Levy Simon
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• Author(s): Barbara Levy Simon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareAn exploration of the social movements, ideas and beliefs that have been m...
View full detailsThe Faces of Power: United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Clinton
Seyom Brown
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• Author(s): Seyom Brown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis exploration of US policy debates and decisions from the end of World War II to the prese...
View full detailsChild Welfare Research Review: Volume 1
Stephen Wesley
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• Author(s): Stephen Wesley • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis volume culls the most important and provocative research and policy analysis in the child welfare field and...
View full detailsChild Welfare Research Review: Volume 1
Stephen Wesley
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• Author(s): Stephen Wesley • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis volume culls the most important and provocative research and policy analysis in the child welfare field and...
View full detailsThe Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur
Eiichi Shibusawa
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• Author(s): Eiichi Shibusawa • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: GeneralShibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931) is known as the great investment banker-entrepreneur of Meiji Japan, credited with cr...
View full detailsRomania's Communist Takeover: The Radescu Government
Dinu Giurescu
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• Author(s): Dinu Giurescu • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralFocusing on the developments which led to the imposition of a Communist-dominated government in Romani...
View full detailsBison: Mating and Conservation in Small Populations
Carol Cunningham
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• Author(s): Carol Cunningham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Animals - MammalsThis examination of a depopulated species, the North American bison, provides insights into the past and...
View full detailsHills and Streams: An Ecology of Hong Kong
David Dudgeon
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• Author(s): David Dudgeon • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralDespite centuries of human impact and one the highest population densities on Earth, most of Hong Kong is still rur...
View full detailsThe Broken Seals: Part One of the Marshes of Mount Liang
Nai'An Shi
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• Author(s): Nai'An Shi • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralThe story of The Broken Seals branches this way and that, follow...
View full detailsProfessional and Continuing Education in Hong Kong: Issues and Perspectives
Ngok Lee
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• Author(s): Ngok Lee • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Adult & Continuing EducationOne in eight adults in Hong Kong attends part-time education or training programmes of some sor...
View full detailsUp from Communism: Conservative Odysses in American Intellectual Development
John Diggins
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• Author(s): John Diggins • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismThis study explains how the radical experience of a generatio...
View full detailsTracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells: The Enigmatic Smile
Betsey Dexter Dyer
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• Author(s): Betsey Dexter Dyer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Cell BiologyDrawing evidence from molecular biology and the fossil record, this study discusses the evo...
View full detailsQualitative Research in Social Work
Edmund Sherman
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• Author(s): Edmund Sherman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkIn this volume, progressive experts survey recent trends in qualitative study, which relies on small sample grou...
View full detailsWriting News for Broadcast
James Hoyt
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• Author(s): James Hoyt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Radio - GeneralThe authoritative guide to writing for the broadcast medium.
Democracy and Foreign Policy: The Fallacy of Political Realism
Miroslav Nincic
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• Author(s): Miroslav Nincic • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyThis study challenges the belief that liberal democracy is incompatible with an effective ...
View full detailsLaughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy
William Paul
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• Author(s): William Paul • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the Back CoverWilliam Paul's exploration of an extremely popular box office genre - the gr...
View full detailsHimalayan Households: Tamang Demography and Domestic Processes
Tom Fricke
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• Author(s): Tom Fricke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHimalayan Households – Tamang Demography & Domestic Processes [Paperback] Fricke, Tom
The Marine Biology of the South China Sea I & II (2 Vols.)
Brian Morton
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• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Marine BiologyThis is a collection of about 50 papers presented at the First International Conference on th...
View full detailsJapanese Constitutional Law
Percy Luney
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• Author(s): Percy Luney • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralUnder its postwar Constitution, which was promulgated in 1947, Japan adopted the principles of popular s...
View full detailsBetween Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala
David Stoll
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• Author(s): David Stoll • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralChallenging the views of human rights activists, Stoll argues that the Ixils who supported Guatemalan r...
View full detailsContentment and Suffering: Culture and Experience in Toraja
Douglas Hollan
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• Author(s): Douglas Hollan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia provides a rich portrait of Torajan life...
View full detailsBetween Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala
David Stoll
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• Author(s): David Stoll • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralChallenging the views of human rights activists, Stoll argues that the Ixils who supported Guatemal...
View full detailsJapan's Public Sector: How the Government Is Financed
Tokue Shibata
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• Author(s): Tokue Shibata • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: Public Finance
Economic Vulnerability in International Relations: East-West Trade, Investment, and Finance
Beverly Crawford
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• Author(s): Beverly Crawford • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International - GeneralThis study examines claims that vulnerability existed in Western economic relations with the forme...
View full detailsAgricultural Reform in Taiwan: From Here to Modernity?
Irene Bain
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• Author(s): Irene Bain • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - General
Liberals and Communism: The Red Decade Revisted
Frank Warren
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• Author(s): Frank Warren • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismAssesses the nature and extent of communist influence on Amer...
View full detailsIn the Shadow of China: Political Development in Taiwan Since 1949
Steve Tsang
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• Author(s): Steve Tsang • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralFrom a military dictatorship in the early 1950s, Taiwan has evolved into a prosperous, stable and...
View full detailsLiberals and Communism: The Red Decade Revisted
Frank Warren
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• Author(s): Frank Warren • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismAssesses the nature and extent of communist influence on Amer...
View full detailsDemocracy and Right-Wing Politics in Eastern Europe in the 1990s
Joseph Held
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• Author(s): Joseph Held • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis collection of essays traces the roots of right-wing politics in pre-communistic Eastern Europe and ...
View full detailsThe Origins of Democratization in Poland: Workers, Intellectuals, and Oppositional Politics, 1976-1980
Michael H. Bernhard
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• Author(s): Michael H. Bernhard • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyUsing sources from the Polish underground press of the late 1970s, this is a detailed ...
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