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Earthly Goods: Environmental Change and Social Justice
Fen Osler Hampson, Judith Reppy
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• Author(s): Fen Osler Hampson | Judith Reppy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceGlobal environmental change raises profound moral issues with which society has only b...
View full detailsGassendi's Ethics
Lisa T. Sarasohn
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• Author(s): Lisa T. Sarasohn • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThis is the first book to explore the ethical thought of Pierre Gassendi, the seventeenth-cent...
View full detailsWhy Syria Goes to War
Fred H. Lawson
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• Author(s): Fred H. Lawson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsRejecting conventional explanations for Syrian foreign policy, which emphasize the personalities and attit...
View full detailsThe New Hacker's Dictionary, Third Edition
Eric S. Raymond
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• Author(s): Eric S. Raymond • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Machine TheoryThis new edition of the hacker's own phenomenally successful lexicon includes more than 100 new entries and updates or revises 200 more.This...
View full detailsThe Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts
Axel Honneth, Joel Anderson
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• Author(s): Axel Honneth | Joel Anderson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this pathbreaking study, Axel Honneth argues that "the struggle for recognition" is, and should be, at the center of social conflic...
View full detailsChaucer and the Universe of Learning
Ann W. Astell
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• Author(s): Ann W. Astell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe order of the fragments making up the Canterbury Tales and the structure of that ...
View full detailsLocal Economy
Chris Collins
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• Author(s): Chris Collins • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationAny theory of grammar must contain a lexicon, an interface with the mechanisms of production and perception (PF), and an interface ...
View full detailsSprachwissenschaft: Ein Reader
Ludger Hoffmann
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• Author(s): Ludger Hoffmann • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Sprachwissenschaft" verfügbar.
Talking about Machines: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869
Julian E. Orr
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• Author(s): Julian E. Orr • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is ins...
View full detailsRoad That Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile
Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian
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• Author(s): Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & IndustrialForeword by Joseph Rykwert Several thousand miles south of the equator along the Pacific coast of ...
View full detailsThe Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds
Alan E. Bernstein
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• Author(s): Alan E. Bernstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralWhat becomes of the wicked? Hell--exile from God, subjection to fire, worms, and darkness--for...
View full detailsMission on the Way
Charles E. Van Engen
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• Author(s): Charles E. Van Engen • Publisher: Baker Academic • Publisher Imprint: Baker Academic • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralForeword by Paul G. Hiebert. An evangelical authority on church mission encounters the issues and content of to...
View full detailsInterest Group Politics in America
Ronald J. Hrebenar, Ruth K. Scott
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• Author(s): Ronald J. Hrebenar | Ruth K. Scott • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsInterest-group lobbying is a controversial activity in American politics and this book pro...
View full detailsCutting Across the Lands
Eveline Ferretti
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• Author(s): Eveline Ferretti • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesAn annotated bibliography focused on Borneo and the Southern Philippines....
View full detailsDifferences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture
Ignasi De Sola-Morales, Graham Thompson
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• Author(s): Ignasi De Sola-Morales | Graham Thompson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismDifferences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist ...
View full detailsThe Greek Paradox: Promise Vs. Performance
Graham Allison, Kalypso Nicolaidis
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• Author(s): Graham Allison | Kalypso Nicolaidis • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Europe - Greece (see also Ancient - Greece)As a bridge between the East and West, a pole of stability in the Balkans, and a Mediterran...
View full detailsNature and the Idea of a Man-Made World: An Investigation Into the Evolutionary Roots of Form and Order in the Built Environment
Norman Crowe
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• Author(s): Norman Crowe • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - GeneralOver the course of this century, nature has increasingly been relegated to the province of environmentalists while cities and towns have bee...
View full detailsThe Cross and the Sickle: Sergei Bulgakov and the Fate of Russian Religious Philosophy,1890-1920
Catherine Evtuhov
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• Author(s): Catherine Evtuhov • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralCatherine Evtuhov resurrects the brilliant and contradictory currents of turn-of-the-century K...
View full detailsChesapeake Boyhood: Memoirs of a Farm Boy
William H. Turner
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• Author(s): William H. Turner • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: MemoirsChesapeake Boyhood is an account of growing up on the lower Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake during the ...
View full detailsThe Making of Beaubourg: A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Nathan Silver
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• Author(s): Nathan Silver • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & IndustrialThis is the story of how France's famed cultural icon, one of the most controversial and supremely public bui...
View full detailsThe Sonnets
William Shakespeare, Rex Gibson
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare | Rex Gibson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLike the plays in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, Th...
View full detailsAbandoned: What Is God's Will for the Jewish People and the Church?
Stan Telchin, Arthur Glasser
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• Author(s): Stan Telchin | Arthur Glasser • Publisher: Chosen Books • Publisher Imprint: Chosen Books • BISAC: Christian Ministry - Evangelism
Revolution and War: A Handbooks to the Breeds of the World
Stephen M. Walt
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• Author(s): Stephen M. Walt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralRevolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between s...
View full detailsIndirect Perception
Irvin Rock, Stephen E. Palmer
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• Author(s): Irvin Rock | Stephen E. Palmer • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: GeneralThis posthumous volume, the culmination of a long and distinguished career, brings together an original essay by the author ...
View full detailsPoetry in Speech: The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks
Egbert J. Bakker
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• Author(s): Egbert J. Bakker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalApplying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative ...
View full detailsThe Ogre
Michel Tournier, Barbara Bray
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• Author(s): Michel Tournier | Barbara Bray • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralAn international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most pr...
View full detailsSarah Childress Polk: A Biography of the Remarkable First Lady
John R. Bumgarner
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• Author(s): John R. Bumgarner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Historians generally consider James K. Polk one of the most effective presidents in United States history. Many of the...
View full detailsSauna Detoxification Therapy: A Guide for the Chemically Sensitive
Marilyn G. McVicker
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• Author(s): Marilyn G. McVicker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diseases & Conditions - General For sufferers of multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), the lack of information on tox...
View full detailsPressed Against Divinity: W. B. Yeats's Feminine Masks
Janis Tedesco Haswell
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• Author(s): Janis Tedesco Haswell • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: PoetryWhat does it mean when a man writes in the voice of a woman? Haswell finds Yeats's answer in...
View full detailsNuclear Nativity
Laurence Marshall Carucci
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• Author(s): Laurence Marshall Carucci • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe leading authority on the lifeways of the Enewetak people explores the r...
View full detailsThe Dual Nature of Islamic Fundamentalism: U.S.-Soviet Relations During the Cold War
Johannes Jansen
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• Author(s): Johannes Jansen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: IslamicFundamentalism fuses religion and politics, and in this compelling book Johannes J. G. Jansen describes and analyzes ...
View full detailsTranscendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden
Richard Francis
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• Author(s): Richard Francis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyNew England Transcendentalism was a vibrant and many-sided movement whose members are probably b...
View full detailsHistory of My Life
Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova, Willard R. Trask
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• Author(s): Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova | Willard R. Trask • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: LiteraryVolumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visi...
View full detailsThe Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
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• Author(s): Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - GeneralA pioneering, richly interdisciplinary volume, this is the first work in any language o...
View full detailsAnatomy of Mistrust: U.S.-Soviet Relations during the Cold War
Deborah Welch Larson
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• Author(s): Deborah Welch Larson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe United States and the Soviet Union missed numerous diplomatic opportunities to res...
View full detailsAfro-Creole: Priorities for Action
Richard D. E. Burton
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• Author(s): Richard D. E. Burton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black StudiesThis wide-ranging book explores the origins, developmen...
View full detailsHousing Partnerships: A New Approach to a Market at a Crossroads
Andrew Caplin, Sewin Chan, Charles Freeman
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• Author(s): Andrew Caplin | Sewin Chan | Charles Freeman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralAlthough the United States has developed highly sophisticated markets for funding corporate investment pr...
View full detailsRethinking Home Economics
Sarah J. Stage, Virginia B. Vincenti
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• Author(s): Sarah J. Stage | Virginia B. Vincenti • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesUntil recently, historians tended to dismiss home economics as little more than a consp...
View full detailsThe Price of Wealth: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome
Kiren Aziz Chaudhry
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• Author(s): Kiren Aziz Chaudhry • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe emerging consensus that institutions shape political and economic outcomes has pro...
View full detailsThe Stars of Hollywood Remembered: Career Biographies of 81 Actors and Actesses of the Golden Era, 1920s-1950s
J. G. Ellrod
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• Author(s): J. G. Ellrod • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Don Ameche, Eve Arden, George Burns, Bette Davis, Greer Garson, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, George Raft, Ginger ...
View full detailsThe Marrow of Theology
William Ames, John Dykstra Eusden, Douglas Horton
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• Author(s): William Ames | John Dykstra Eusden | Douglas Horton • Publisher: Baker Academic • Publisher Imprint: Baker Academic • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralOne of history's most influential Christian writings presents the Puritan un...
View full detailsCora Wilson Stewart: Crusader Against Illiteracy
Willie Nelms
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• Author(s): Willie Nelms • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Regional Studies In 1911 Cora Wilson Stewart founded the Moonlight Schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, an innovative night program...
View full detailsVarieties of Cultural History
Peter Burke
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• Author(s): Peter Burke • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralIn this collection of essays, of which four are published here for the first time, Peter Burke explores the theor...
View full detailsReworking Class
John R. Hall, Patrick Joyce
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• Author(s): John R. Hall | Patrick Joyce • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralThe twelve essays in this volume propose new directions in the analysis of class. John R. Hall a...
View full detailsBeyond Consolation
Melissa F. Zeiger
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• Author(s): Melissa F. Zeiger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesUsing as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transforma...
View full detailsLouisiana and Arkansas Railway: The Story of a Regional Line
James R. Fair
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• Author(s): James R. Fair • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryThe Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, known as "The Better Way," ran its first trains a...
View full detailsThe Foundation of Rome
Alexandre Grandazzi, Jane Marie Todd
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• Author(s): Alexandre Grandazzi | Jane Marie Todd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - RomeAt once a historical essay and a self-conscious meditation on the writing of history, Th...
View full detailsLogic Programming: The 1997 International Symposium
Jan Maluszynski
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• Author(s): Jan Maluszynski • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Programming Languages - GeneralThe themes of the 1997 conference are new theoretical and practical accomplishments in logic programming, new research dire...
View full detailsKnowledge, Concepts, and Categories
Koen Lamberts, David R. Shanks
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• Author(s): Koen Lamberts | David R. Shanks • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThe study of mental representation is a central concern incontemporary cognitive psychology. Knowledge...
View full detailsWhen Geologists Were Historians, 1665Ð1750
Rhoda Rappaport
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• Author(s): Rhoda Rappaport • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Geology"An essential perspective for those seeking a serious introduction to early geological science and a...
View full detailsMaking the Moments Count: Leisure Activities for Caregiving Relationships
Joanne Ardolf Decker
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• Author(s): Joanne Ardolf Decker • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: CaregivingMaking the Moments Count is a valuable resource for professional caregivers and volunteers, and f...
View full detailsA Living Wage: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal
Lawrence B. Glickman
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• Author(s): Lawrence B. Glickman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawren...
View full detailsRuss Meyer--The Life and Films: A Biography and a Comprehensive, Illustrated and Annotated Filmography and Bibliography
David K. Frasier
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• Author(s): David K. Frasier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Credited with having "opened the floodgates of screen permissiveness" in 1959 w...
View full detailsFinding Time: Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Medieval France
Leslie Perlow
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• Author(s): Leslie Perlow • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: GeneralWhy do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Leslie A. Perlow documents ...
View full detailsEdgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography
Arthur Hobson Quinn, Shawn J. Rosenheim
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• Author(s): Arthur Hobson Quinn | Shawn J. Rosenheim • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Literary FiguresBased on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts ...
View full detailsPolitical Economy and Statesmanship
Peter McNamara
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• Author(s): Peter McNamara • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralHow and why do economies and societies develop? How can America maintain co...
View full detailsGemini
Michel Tournier, Ann Carter
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• Author(s): Michel Tournier | Ann Carter • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralGemini is a novel of extraordinary proportions, intricate images, and profound ...
View full detailsMental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire
Katherine G. Morrissey
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• Author(s): Katherine G. Morrissey • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: North AmericanRarely recognized outside its boundaries today, the Pacific Northwest region known at the turn of the c...
View full detailsDwelling in Possibility
Yopie Prins, Maeera Shreiber
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• Author(s): Yopie Prins | Maeera Shreiber • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's Studies"Dwelling in Possibility is a splendid collaboration between poets and critics. Prins and Shrei...
View full detailsSoutheast Asian Studies
Craig J. Reynolds, Ruth T. McVey
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• Author(s): Craig J. Reynolds | Ruth T. McVey • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaIn these two monographs, first presented as part of the Frank H...
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