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Inscrutable belongings
Inscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North American literature. Stephen Hong Sohn provides extended readings of fictions involving queer Asian North American storytellers, looking to texts inc...
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Philosophical grammar
In 1933 Ludwig Wittgenstein revised a manuscript he had compiled from his 1930-1932 notebooks, but the work as a whole was not published until 1969, as Philosophische Grammatik. This first English translation clearly reveals the central place Philosophical Grammar occupies in Wittgenstein's thoug...
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After difference
The first major English-language ethnography of LGBT life in Italy An account of how understandings of ‘difference’ have become vital both to contemporary forms of political activism and to social scientific knowledge practice A uniquely critical perspective on ethnography as a metho...
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Tough cases
“Tough Cases stands out as a genuine revelation. . . . Our most distinguished judges should follow the lead of this groundbreaking volume.”—Justin Driver, The Washington PostA rare and illuminating view of how judges decide dramatic legal cases—Law and Order from behind the bench—including the El...
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Spain, third edition
This is the late John A. Crow's classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people, which he last updated in 1985 but which seems as fresh and pertinent as when he first wrote it. Crow devoted a lifetime to Hispanic studies and here provides a historical interpretation of Spanish civil...
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Museum of stones
The unnamed narrator in Museum of Stones carries the name of every mother who has stared into the face of her newborn, having no idea of what is about to unfold.
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State of resistance
“Concise, clear and convincing. . . a vision for the country as a whole.”—James Fallows, The New York Times Book ReviewA leading sociologist's brilliant and revelatory argument that the future of politics, work, immigration, and more may be found in California Once upon a time, any mention of Cal...
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American broadcasting and the first amendment
Why have radio and television never been granted the same First Amendment freedoms that we have always accorded the printed word? In this fascinating work, Lucas A. Powe, Jr., examines the strange paradox governing our treatment of the two types of media. This title is part of UC Press's Voices R...
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Art and visual perception, second edition
Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and...
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Nazism, the holocaust, and the middle east
Focus on the diversity of responses from different elements in the Arab states and Turkey Chapters written by noted scholars in the field of Middle East Studies Offers responses to Nazism and the Holocaust that readers can compare to European responses Substantial bibliography on...
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The shaping of us
An international exploration of how our physical environments shape and define us
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Beyond the neon lights
How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals—revolution, war, and again revolution—that shook their lives? Even after decades ...
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Money at the margins
Technology for the Poor / in the developing world Social studies of monetary behavior Human Design centered with a focus on context Rethinking technological development / financial inclusion solutions
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Watch me play
A look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcastingEvery day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to audiences over the internet using popular sites such as Twitch, which reaches more than one hundred million viewers a month. In these new platforms for interactive ...
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African american art and artists
Samella Lewis has brought African American Art and Artists fully up to date in this revised and expanded edition. The book now looks at the works and lives of artists from the eighteenth century to the present, including new work in traditional media as well as in installation art, mixed media, a...
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Jaws
There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can co...
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Virgil wander
The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart
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Muslim extremism in egypt
Gilles Kepel takes us into the world of the students, professionals, workers, and unemployed who are caught up in the Islamic movements of Egypt. Events that have riveted world attention—the first World Trade Center bombing, assassinations in Beirut, the attempt on the life of the Pope, the assas...
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The imperial nation
How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entitiesHistorians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal mome...
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Sallust
With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust—whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian—in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme'...
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Forgetting lot's wife
Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot’s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history a...
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Night became years
Poems about alchemy, love, Protestant witch judges, Indigenous identity, the cultural abutments of the inner city, football taunts, border ballads, and halfbreed wailing.
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Selected poems of mallarme, bilingual edition
The leading poet of French symbolism, Stéphane Mallarmé has exercised an enormous influence both on French and on English and American avant-garde writers. In this volume C. F. MacIntyre has translated forty-three of his poems, including the "Ouverture" and "Scène" from Hérodiade, which was to ha...
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Human resource excellence
As a field, human resources has been slow to evolve, despite a great need and opportunity for change. Human Resource Excellence delivers the newest findings about what makes HR successful and how it can add value to today's organizations. Tracing changes in a global sample of firms across the US,...
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Lances all alike
Two of the twentieth century’s greatest art provocateurs, avant-gardists, and bohemians finally connect in the poetry of Suzanne Zelazo.
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First mountain
The poet’s journey to bury her grandparents’ ashes in China becomes a dramatic narrative about ancestral landscapes, family, and ritual, with a tragic climax.
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The diary of samuel pepys, vol. 6
Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions—until Robert La...
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First steps in counselling 5th edition
First Steps in Counselling is essentially a book about helping. This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect changes in the role and practice of counselling in the 21st century. It is for anyone thinking of becoming a counsellor, working or volunteering in a role that req...
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Cruel futures
A Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority.
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The diary of samuel pepys, vol. 5
Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions—until Robert La...
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The savage frontier
A sweeping historical travelogue of the contentious border of France and Spain, in the great tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Jan Morris With the Catalonia crisis making international headlines, the unique cultural and geographic region bordering Spain and France has once again moved to the cent...
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Ordinary ethics
What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is...
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The diary of samuel pepys, vol. 4
Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions—until Robert La...
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Circumstantial deliveries
This simulating book gathers five lectures that ask questions of the broadest general intellectual interest: What is religion? Do other peoples have the same emotional states as we do? Why do humans make use of body imagery? In Circumstantial Deliveries, Rodney Needham shows that the comparative ...
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Managing northern europe's forests
First and only comprehensive collection of forest histories from the North of Europe Thorough and critical examination of a region where a number of distinguished and influential ideas of global resource management originated from (scientific forestry, sustainability, close-to-nature-for...
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In the shadow of catastrophe
These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time.Analyzing the work of Benjam...
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Marx's theory of the genesis of money
In this volume, Kuruma analyses Marx's approach to the commodity and money in the first two chapters of Capital, vol I., including a discussion of the theory of the value-form and other important theoretical questions posed by Marx.
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Karman
What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find ...
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Fascist spectacle
This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mus...
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The canadian kingdom
An integral part of Canada’s political culture, constitutional monarchy has evolved since Confederation to become a uniquely Canadian institution. How has it shaped twenty-first-century Canada? How have views on the monarchy changed? Eleven experts on the history of Canada’s Crown take up these q...
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To survive on this shore
Nuanced view into the complexities of aging as a transgender person
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Interpreting the self
Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self d...
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Walking new york
Walking New York is an idiosyncratic guide to New York—a study of twelve American writers who walked in New York and wrote about their impressions of the city in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
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The reproduction of mothering
When this best-seller was published, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The Reproduction of Mothering was chosen by Contemporary Sociology as one of the ten most influential books of the past twenty-five years. With a new preface by the author, this updated ...
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Judge and punish
Combining stories of actual trials with theoretical analysis, this book is a radical and powerful investigation of the criminal justice system and violence, of the operations at work when we judge and punish.
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Crosstown
In a place where all the roads that run through infinite possibility come together, a place where nearly anyone or anything can be found, a sorcerer’s search for his master’s killer could undermine the very foundation of reality.
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Divine currency
This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West. Examining the religious and theological sources of money's power, it shows how early Christian thinkers borrowed ancient notions of money and econ...
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The popular front novel in britain, 1934-1940
This book explores the cultural formation of the anti-fascist Popular Front strategy in Britain and proposes a new framework for reading British fiction of this period.
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A magic still dwells
The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of...
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Trance mediums and new media
This volume explores the interferences of trance mediums and new technical media to add a new perspective to current debates on the “renaissance of the religious“. Situated in the field of media anthropology it follows the question of how spirit possession is transformed by processes of globaliza...
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