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From my life, poetry and truth (part four) and campaign in france 1792 / siege of mainz
An authoritative English translation of Goethe’s classic autobiographical account of war and conquest in the age of revolutionIn August 1792, Goethe accompanied Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, during the unsuccessful Prusso-Austrian invasion of revolutionary France to restore Lou...
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Dealing in human flesh
In the wake of World War I, the League of Nations and numerous investigative journalists went undercover to infiltrate sex-trafficking rings, conduct clandestine interviews with men and women participating in the vice trade, and identify the weak links in their operations in order to destroy this...
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 3 is concerned with the form of the doctoral thesis in practice-oriented research. It takes the love for playing with forms, genres, and...
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The emerging science of machine learning benchmarks
The first comprehensive introduction to benchmarking, the engine behind progress in AIIn machine learning, researchers split their data into training and test sets, let model builders compete on the test set, and call it a benchmark. Statistical tradition prescribed locking test sets in a vault, ...
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Power relations in black lives
According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key con...
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A state of change
A magnificently illustrated classic of California natural history, now updated in a long-awaited reissue."This wonderful book is a vivid reminder of how things began, and also as a vision of the rich and beautiful world we can work toward in our shared future." —Kim Stanley Robinson"This brings a...
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Imperial mecca
Michael Christopher Low analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul’s project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of British India’s steamship empire in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea.
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A history of arab graphic design
PROSE Award Winner, Art History & Criticism “Easily the best introduction to the history of modern Arab visual culture on the market today.”—The Brooklyn Rail The first-ever book-length history of Arab graphic designArab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth century out of a need to i...
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The flavor of thinking
A holistic perspective on strategies, methodologies, and examples of writing and reading by philosopher-artists and artistic researchers who strive toward a genuine crossover between art and philosophy.
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Contemporary chinese short-short stories
This book presents Chinese short-short stories in English and Chinese, integrating language learning with cultural studies for intermediate to advanced learners of Mandarin Chinese and students of contemporary Chinese literature. Each chapter begins with a critical introduction, followed by two o...
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Prescriptions for virtuosity
Prescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their cl...
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Suzuki seijun and postwar japanese cinema
William Carroll offers a new account of Suzuki Seijun’s career that highlights the intersections of film theory, film production, cinephile culture, and politics in 1960s Japan. This book presents both a major reinterpretation of Suzuki’s work and a new lens on postwar Japanese film culture and i...
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Mediating geographic knowledge
Mediating geography, shaping a nation: how U.S. geographical societies produced, circulated, and legitimized knowledge in turn-of-the-century America.
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Adolescent arrivals
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Unfamiliar with both the English language and the cultural norms of their new host country, immigrant teenagers in the United Sta...
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Listening
Miriam Rasch offers a philosophical and personal exploration of the ethics of listening, understanding it not as a passive act but as a relationship between the self and the world.
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The sustainable city
Steven Cohen presents an approachable and applicable guide to urban sustainability that highlights how new, greener trends in city development touch our lives on a daily basis. Replete with recommendations and insights, The Sustainable City has invaluable lessons for anyone seeking to link public...
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Locked in time
From dinosaurs fighting to their deaths to elephant-sized burrowing ground sloths, this book takes readers on a global journey deep into the earth’s past. Locked in Time showcases fifty of the most astonishing fossils ever found, brought together in five chapters that offer an unprecedented glimp...
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Genetic responsibility in germany and israel
Prenatal diagnosis, especially noninvasive prenatal testing, has changed the experience of pregnancy and prenatal care. This book presents conversations between leading scholars from Israel and Germany, featuring analyses of the reshaping of life by biomedicine and philosophical reflections on so...
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Against redemption
WINNER, HELEN AND HOWARD R. MARRARO PRIZE IN ITALIAN HISTORYDiscloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced by Cold War politics.How a shared me...
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The camphor war
Examining an obscure conflict, the Camphor War of 1868, Ronald C. Po shows how the Qing and British empires evolved during a period of imperial reconfigurations and border realignments.
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Making waste
The obsession with waste in eighteenth-century English literatureWhy was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such as Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope describe, catalog, and memorialize the waste matter tha...
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Early verse drama and prose plays
Eight early plays by Goethe that revolutionized German dramaGoethe’s early plays bear witness to his urgent desire to enliven German theater, an ambition that followed him to the National Theater in Weimar, where he was named director in the early 1790s. Early Verse Drama and Prose Plays brings t...
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Global easts
This book explores entangled Easts to reconsider global history from the margins. Examining the politics of history and memory, Jie-Hyun Lim reveals the affinities linking Eastern Europe and East Asia.
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Belonging through heritage?
A sociolgical lens on local festivals shows how minorities in German towns draw symbolic boundaries shaped by and resisting global heritage discourses.
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Robert pinsky: the first two books of poems
The remarkable first two books of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky’s first two collections—Sadness And Happiness and An Explanation of America—announced the arrival ...
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Hunting girls
Kelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence—especially sexual violence—is an inevitable part of a woman's maturity. She discusses campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency ...
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Anxious cinephilia
The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred debate over what it means to be a “cinephile.” Sarah Keller places these competing visions in historical and theoretical perspective, tracing how the love of movies intertwines with anxieties over the...
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Coptic christians and muslims in egypt
For the most part of their shared history, Copts and Muslims in Egypt have experienced bouts of sectarian tension alternating with peaceful coexistence. Copts and Muslims in Egypt tells the story of Muslim–Christian relations in Egypt from the coming of Islam to the aftermath of the January 2011 ...
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The beauty of the trinity
In this book Justin Shaun Coyle remembers the theology of beauty of the forgotten Summa Halensis, an early-thirteenth-century text written by Franciscan friars at the University of Paris. Many scholars vaunt the Summa Halensis—conceived but not drafted entirely by Alexander of Hales (d. 1245)—for...
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Theologies of remembering
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Theologies of Remembering reveals how Indonesia's two largest Muslim groups, Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah—self-identifying as...
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Constitutional patriotism
A powerful rethinking of citizenship and democratic belonging for a global ageConstitutional Patriotism offers a bold theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today’s culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Wern...
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The essential writings of vannevar bush
The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by Bush’s biographer, G. Pascal Zachary, this collection presents more than fifty of Bush’s most important works across four decades.
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Dr. no
Dr. No introduced the James Bond formula that has been a box-office fixture ever since. An explosive cocktail of action, spectacle, and sex, the film transformed popular cinema. James Chapman provides a lively and comprehensive study of Dr. No, marshaling a wealth of archival research to place th...
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The last plantation
A revealing look at the covert and institutionalized racism lurking in the congressional workplaceRacism continues to infuse Congress’s daily practice of lawmaking and shape who obtains congressional employment. In this timely and provocative book, James Jones reveals how and why many who work in...
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Security beyond the state
Which is the role of the European Union in dealing with crises that go beyond the nation states borders – terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, regional conflicts, state failure, organised crime, natural and man-made disasters? The authors assess the main challenge for the EU: ...
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The world atlas of fermented foods and drinks
A global tour of the fascinating world of fermentation.The World Atlas of Fermented Foods and Drinks explores the many ways that people across the world use fermentation to transform their cuisines. Elegantly illustrated with beautiful photos and maps, this book provides a complete guide to 140 f...
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From my life, poetry and truth (parts one to three)
This authoritative English translation of Goethe’s memoirs paints a vibrant picture of his youth and formative yearsCovering the period from his birth in 1749 to his departure for Weimar in 1775, Goethe recalls his childhood and youth as the son of well-to-do, middle-class parents, his education ...
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Beyond common ground
What if society could move past traditional "gray infrastructure" approaches—like seawalls and prisons—to address problems such as climate change, terrorism, and crime? In Beyond Common Ground, Daniel P. Aldrich argues that social infrastructure—physical and virtual spaces including parks, librar...
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Practices of comparing
Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. This volume outlines the program of a new research agenda that places comparative practices at the center of an interdisciplinary exploration.
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Tesla
“The gold standard for Tesla biography.”—Science“Superb.”—NatureThe definitive account of Tesla's life and workNikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed t...
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The first resort
Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. Matthew Smith offers a history of the rise and fall of social psychiatry that also explores the lessons this largely forgotten movement has to offer to...
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Many urbanisms
Martin J. Murray offers a groundbreaking guide to the multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. He identifies and traces four distinct pathways that characterize cities today.
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The last invasion of england
An electrifying narrative history that reframes Britain’s constitutional revolution as a full-scale Dutch invasionIn popular accounts of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the autocratic Catholic King James II was ousted by his subjects and replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary Stuart, wife of J...
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Embodied violence and agency in refugee regimes
This book contrasts multiple groups of refugees and refugee regimes, revealing the inherent coercive violence of refugee regimes, from displacement and expulsion, to stereotypification and exclusion in host countries, and academic knowledge essentialization. This violence is international, nation...
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Rescuing retirement
In Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and guarantee lifelong income for everyone. It offers a practical guide to the future of secure retirement.
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The sexual politics of black churches
In essays and conversations, leading writers reflect on how Black churches have participated in recent discussions about issues such as marriage equality, reproductive justice, and transgender visibility. They consider the varied ways that Black people and groups negotiate the intersections of re...
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Nostalgia
Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with p...
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The soft city
In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book explores different aspects of the “perverse space” of the city: porn theaters, sex shops, peep shows, restroom cruising, sadomasochism clubs, swingers’ events, and many more.
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Doctors' orders
Doctors’ Orders offers a groundbreaking examination of the construction and consequences of status distinctions between physicians. Tania M. Jenkins spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals to reveal the unspoken mechanisms...
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Cleopatra
The life of one of history’s most powerful women, retold through seven crucial episodes that shook the ancient worldCleopatra: A Woman of Power is a major new biography of one of history’s most misunderstood figures. Far from the common portrayal of her as seductress and betrayer, Cleopatra emerg...
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