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Numerical Linear Algebra: Proceedings of the Conference in Numerical Linear Algebra and Scientific Computation, Kent (Ohio), USA March 13-14, 1992
Lothar Reichel, Arden Ruttan, Richard S. Varga
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• Author(s): Lothar Reichel | Arden Ruttan | Richard S. Varga • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Algebra - LinearNo detailed description available for "Numerical Linear Algebra".
China's Quest for National Identity
Lowell Dittmer, Samuel S. Kim
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• Author(s): Lowell Dittmer | Samuel S. Kim • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHow to define a Chinese national identity remains as hotly contested a question among today's Chi...
View full detailsListening: An Introduction to the Perception of Auditory Events
Stephen Handel
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• Author(s): Stephen Handel • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionListening combines broad coverage of acoustics, speech and music perception psychophysics, and auditory physi...
View full detailsCinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956-1978
Nagisa Oshima, Dawn Lawson
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• Author(s): Nagisa Oshima | Dawn Lawson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe texts in this volume make up an intellectual autobiography that reveals a rare conjunction of personal cando...
View full detailsSpeaking: From Intention to Articulation
Willem J. M. Levelt
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• Author(s): Willem J. M. Levelt • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn Speaking, Willem "Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, accomplishes the formidable t...
View full detailsMarkets or Governments, Second Edition: Choosing Between Imperfect Alternatives
Charles Wolf
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• Author(s): Charles Wolf • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentProvides a formal theory of nonmarket failure, analyzing such problems as redundant costs, monopoly, frequency of unanticip...
View full detailsGeometrie und Physik
Ruedi Seiler, Volker Enss, Werner Müller
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• Author(s): Ruedi Seiler | Volker Enss | Werner Müller • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: EpistemologyKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Geometrie und Physik" verfügbar.
In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time
Calvin Luther Martin
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• Author(s): Calvin Luther Martin • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralLet us re-learn, as hunter-gatherers knew to the core of their being, that this place and it...
View full detailsStranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany
Eric L. Santner
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• Author(s): Eric L. Santner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & Theory
The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism
Albrecht Wellmer
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• Author(s): Albrecht Wellmer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralEssays on Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.The Persistence...
View full detailsManaging Trade Relations in the New World Economy
Thomas Andersson
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• Author(s): Thomas Andersson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: International - GeneralIn the wake of Soviet collapse and a shift in economic emphasis from the Atlantic to the Pacific, this book considers the implicat...
View full detailsFiction and Diction
Gerard Genette, Catherine Porter
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• Author(s): Gerard Genette | Catherine Porter • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & Theory
Morphology by Itself: Stems and Inflectional Classes
Mark Aronoff
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• Author(s): Mark Aronoff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationMost recent research in generative morphology has avoided the treatment of purely morphological phenomena and has focused instead on...
View full detailsSeeking God
Stephen Batalden
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• Author(s): Stephen Batalden • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christianity - OrthodoxOriginating in the symposium on The Recovery of Religious Identity in the Soviet...
View full detailsContrast Sensitivity
Dominic Man-Kit Lam, Robert Shapley
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• Author(s): Dominic Man-Kit Lam | Robert Shapley • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: NeuroscienceThe seventeen contributions present current research in visual signal processing, in the retina and central pathw...
View full detailsPlato's Meno In Focus
Jane M. Day
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• Author(s): Jane M. Day • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThis book brings together a new English translation of Plato's Meno, a selection of articles on themes in the d...
View full detailsDreaming and Storytelling
Bert O. States
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• Author(s): Bert O. States • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisAre dreams merely odd things that happen to us at night, sometimes pleasant, sometimes terrifying, ...
View full detailsOutside the Pale
Elsie B. Michie
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• Author(s): Elsie B. Michie • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshElsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlo...
View full detailsPharsalia: The Earliest Debates Over Original Intent
Lucan, Jane Wilson Joyce
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• Author(s): Lucan | Jane Wilson Joyce • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalLucan's great poem, Pharsalia, recounts events surrounding the decisive battle fought near ...
View full detailsThe Authority of the Consumer
Nicholas Abercrombie, Russell Whiteley Keat
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• Author(s): Nicholas Abercrombie | Russell Whiteley Keat • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Marketing - ResearchThe Authority of the Consumer explores the implications of consumer society' - charting its meanings in ...
View full detailsMarriage as a Covenant: A Study of Biblical Law and Ethics Governing Marriage Developed from the Perspective of Malachi
Gordon Paul Hugenberger
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• Author(s): Gordon Paul Hugenberger • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Biblical Commentary - Old Testament - GeneralThis book focuses on the interpretation of Malachi 2:10-16, which censures the lax marital practice of its co...
View full detailsThe Nan Chronicle
David K. Wyatt
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• Author(s): David K. Wyatt • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaA new translation of the 1894 chronicle by a high-ranking official from the Nan ki...
View full detailsThe Politics of Colonial Exploitation
Cornelis Fasseur, R. E. Elson, Ary Kraal
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• Author(s): Cornelis Fasseur | R. E. Elson | Ary Kraal • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe development of the Cultivation System from the yea...
View full detailsWorking Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class and Ethnicity
Joanna Bourke
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• Author(s): Joanna Bourke • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Minority StudiesThis textbook looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the n...
View full detailsAnimal Minds and Human Morals
Richard Sorabji
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• Author(s): Richard Sorabji • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Animal Rights"They don't have syntax, so we can eat them." According to Richard Sorabji, this conclusion attributed to the S...
View full detailsKandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonné, 1922-1944
Vivian Endicott Barnett
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• Author(s): Vivian Endicott Barnett • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European
Dangerous Classes: The Underclass and Social Citizenship
Lydia Morris
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• Author(s): Lydia Morris • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Minority StudiesThis book provides an authoritative and much needed critical review of British and American debates about the underclass, set in the context ...
View full detailsSjahrir
Rudolf Mrázek
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• Author(s): Rudolf Mrázek • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaA comprehensive biography of the Indonesian nationalist leader and Prime Minister o...
View full detailsThai Radical Discourse
Craig J. Reynolds
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• Author(s): Craig J. Reynolds • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaUsing Jit Poumisak's The Real Face of Thai Feudalism Today (1957), Reynolds bot...
View full detailsWittgenstein
Norman Malcolm, Peter Winch
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• Author(s): Norman Malcolm | Peter Winch • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Philosophy
From Petipa to Balanchine: Classical Revival and the Modernisation of Ballet
Tim Scholl
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• Author(s): Tim Scholl • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Dance - Classical & BalletAn engaging and provocative re-evaluation of ballet's development from the 1880s to the middle of the twentieth century.
Autobiographics: Lessons from Six Scanlon Plans
Leigh Gilmore
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• Author(s): Leigh Gilmore • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Feminist
Principles of Insect Morphology
R. E. Snodgrass, George C. Eickwort
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• Author(s): R. E. Snodgrass | George C. Eickwort • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - EntomologyThis classic text, first published in 1935, is once again available. Still th...
View full detailsSignifying Woman
Linda M. G. Zerilli
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• Author(s): Linda M. G. Zerilli • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryWoman has been defined in classic political theory as elusive yet dangerous, by her nature...
View full detailsRich Nation, Strong Army
Richard J. Samuels
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• Author(s): Richard J. Samuels • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military ScienceSince World War II, Japan has become not only a model producer of high-tech consumer goods, but also-desp...
View full detailsRethinking International Trade
Paul Krugman
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• Author(s): Paul Krugman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International - GeneralOver the past decade, a small group of economists has challenged traditional wisdom about international trade. Rethinking Internationa...
View full detailsContraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America: A Critical Edition of the "Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum" (Symphony of the Harmon
Janet Farrell Brodie
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• Author(s): Janet Farrell Brodie • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Abortion & Birth ControlIn pocket-sized, coded diaries, an upper middle-class American woman named Mary Poor record...
View full detailsTelevision And Everyday Life
Roger Silverstone
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• Author(s): Roger Silverstone • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesTelevision is a central dimension in our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstance...
View full detailsGeorges Bataille
Michael Richardson
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• Author(s): Michael Richardson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: European - FrenchGeorges Bataille (1867-1962) is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first bo...
View full detailsCities, Classes, and the Social Order
Anthony Lee, Roger Sanjek
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• Author(s): Anthony Lee | Roger Sanjek • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanCities, Classes, and the Social Order brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by ...
View full detailsLibrary Volunteers--Worth the Effort!: A Program Manager's Guide
Sally Gardner Reed
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• Author(s): Sally Gardner Reed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Faced with ever growing patron demands, tight budgets, and limited personnel, l...
View full detailsInternational Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy
Victor Argy
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• Author(s): Victor Argy • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsThis presents an invaluable, up-to-date review of recent developments in theoretical modelling in open economy macroeconomics as wel...
View full detailsThe Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems
Philip D. McMichael
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• Author(s): Philip D. McMichael • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralAcross the world, food systems and agricultural systems are changing at a phenomenal rate. Widesprea...
View full detailsCritique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate
Michael Kelly
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• Author(s): Michael Kelly • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe book juxtaposes key texts from Foucault and Habermas; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who ha...
View full detailsLogic Programming: The 11th International Conference
Pascal Van Hentenryck
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• Author(s): Pascal Van Hentenryck • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Programming Languages - GeneralConference proceedings presenting the state-of-the-art in Logic Programming.
Adam Smith's Discourse: Canonicity, Commerce and Conscience
Vivienne Brown
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• Author(s): Vivienne Brown • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis book develops the existing analyses of the founder of free market economics, and gives it a radical new extension by tak...
View full detailsGifts, Favors, and Banquets: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present
Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
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• Author(s): Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAn elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships ...
View full detailsCrime and Punishment in American History
Lawrence Friedman
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• Author(s): Lawrence Friedman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost le...
View full detailsMaking Social Work News
Meryl Aldridge
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• Author(s): Meryl Aldridge • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkMeryl Aldridge widens the debate on social work and its representation by the news media. She provides a basic understanding of the commercial l...
View full detailsBandits and Bureaucrats: The Market of Kinshasa
Karen Barkey
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• Author(s): Karen Barkey • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralWhy did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions, but in endemic banditry? Karen ...
View full detailsThe Power of Commerce
Nancy F. Koehn
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• Author(s): Nancy F. Koehn • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryWhat price do states pay for becoming and remaining world powers? Why did the first greatly expanded British ...
View full detailsLiving with the Dead in the Middle Ages
Patrick J. Geary
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• Author(s): Patrick J. Geary • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalWhereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women acco...
View full detailsBaseball with a Latin Beat: A History of the Latin American Game
Peter C. Bjarkman
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• Author(s): Peter C. Bjarkman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Since Cuba's Esteban Bellan made his debut for the Troy Haymakers of the National Association in 1871, La...
View full detailsKnowledge and the Body-Mind Problem: In Defence of Interaction
Karl Popper, M. a. Notturno
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• Author(s): Karl Popper | M. a. Notturno • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Movements - HumanismBased upon the Kenan Lectures that Popper delivered in 1969, this volume raises problems connected with human freedom, cr...
View full detailsDisorderly Women: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823-2000
Susan Juster
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• Author(s): Susan Juster • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - BaptistThroughout most of the eighteenth century and particularly during the religious revivals of the Great Awa...
View full detailsUnaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface
Beth Levin, Malka Rappaport Hovav
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• Author(s): Beth Levin | Malka Rappaport Hovav • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationBesides providing extensive support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically rep...
View full detailsIrony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony
Linda Hutcheon
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• Author(s): Linda Hutcheon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralA fascinating and compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and effects of the ironic. Linda Hutcheon sets out for the first time a clear and ...
View full detailsSprache Im Konflikt: Zur Rolle Der Sprache in Sozialen, Politischen Und Militärischen Auseinandersetzungen
Ruth Reiher
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• Author(s): Ruth Reiher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Sprache im Konflikt" verfügbar.
The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume
Adam Potkay
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• Author(s): Adam Potkay • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis engaging and insightful book explores the fate of eloquence in a period during which it both...
View full detailsAllegories of America
Frederick M. Dolan
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• Author(s): Frederick M. Dolan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralAllegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be...
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