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Lectures on the whole of anatomy
Lectures on the Whole of Anatomy: An Annotated Translation of Prelectiones Anatomiae Universalis offers an invaluable glimpse into the formative stages of modern anatomy as pioneered by William Harvey. This richly annotated translation sheds light on Harvey's original lecture notes, prepared duri...
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The generation
This book examines the lives of a remarkable generation of Polish-Jewish Communists, whose experiences embody the profound socio-political upheavals of the 20th century. Born around 1910, these individuals joined the Communist movement during the 1930s, survived World War II in the USSR, and rebu...
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The novel and the police
Through a series of readings in the work of the decisive triumvirate of Victorian fiction, Dickens, Trollope and Wilkie Collins, Miller investigates the novel as an oblique form of social control.
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Konspira
Konspira: Solidarity Underground offers a riveting and deeply personal account of the clandestine operations of Poland’s Solidarity movement during its underground phase. Built from extensive interviews with key activists, including Bogdan Borusewicz, Zbigniew Bujak, and Władysław Frasyniuk, the ...
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Everyday cosmopolitanisms
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the merchants who traversed it as early agents of cultural exchange. Missing are the lives of the o...
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Waste worlds
Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what belong in the new Kampala. Garbage materialize...
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Classical music and postmodern knowledge
A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music—the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded esoter...
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The poetry of homer
Sather Classical Lectures: The Poetry of Homer, Volume Fifteen provides a profound exploration of Homeric poetry through the lens of its poetic essence rather than its historical or critical origins. Prepared by Samuel Eliot Bassett before his untimely passing in 1936, the lectures argue for a re...
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Messianism and sociopolitical revolution in medieval islam
This study of messianism and revolution examines an extremely rich though unexplored historical record on the rise of Islam and its sociopolitical revolutions from Muhammad’s constitutive revolution in Arabia to the Abbasid revolution in the East and the Fatimid and Almohad revolutions in North A...
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The social basis of health and healing in africa
Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. Here in eighteen essays is the first comprehensive account of disease, health,and healing practices in the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the ...
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The victims of democracy
The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein is both an interpretation of Malcolm X’s life and thought and a meditation on how psychoanalysis and Marxism can illuminate revolutionary politics. Drawing on The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Malcolm’s col...
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We are here
We Are Here: Politics of Aboriginal Land Tenure edited by Edwin N. Wilmsen brings together leading anthropologists to examine how indigenous systems of landholding have been understood, misrecognized, and increasingly asserted within the legal and political frameworks of modern nation-states. Lon...
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The autobiography of an unknown indian
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri is a profound and introspective account of a man's journey through early 20th-century India. The narrative weaves the personal with the historical, using the author’s life as a lens to explore the broader struggles of Indian civilizatio...
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Black robes in lower california
The Jesuit missions of Lower California (1697–1768) represent a pivotal chapter in the cultural and spiritual history of the Americas. Black Robes in Lower California brings together a detailed, scholarly exploration of this seventy-year mission period, addressing both its successes and controver...
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Inquisition
This impressive volume is actually three histories in one: of the legal procedures, personnel, and institutions that shaped the inquisitorial tribunals from Rome to early modern Europe; of the myth of The Inquisition, from its origins with the anti-Hispanists and religious reformers of the sixtee...
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The california sea otter trade 1784-1848
The California Sea Otter Trade: 1784-1848 is a meticulous study of the early maritime commerce along the California coast, particularly the pursuit of sea otter furs that played a crucial role in shaping the region's economic and political landscape. Adele Ogden’s research provides a detailed acc...
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