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Dreaming with his eyes open
This engrossing biography of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and revolutionary, captures the explosively passionate nature that made Rivera one of the twentieth-century's most gifted and controversial painters.
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Table wines
Table Wines: The Technology of Their Production, Second Edition by M. A. Amerine and M. A. Joslyn is a comprehensive guide to the economic and technical challenges shaping the modern wine industry. The authors address the central problems of rising production costs and the imperative to maintain ...
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Logic of discovery and diagnosis in medicine
Logic of Discovery and Diagnosis in Medicine provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the interplay between philosophy of science, artificial intelligence (AI), and clinical diagnostic processes. Stemming from a conference held at the University of Pittsburgh, this volume unites contributions...
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Hitler and the final solution
Fleming is the only scholar given access to the interrogations of the German civilian crematoria engineers lying inaccessible, until a few months ago, in Moscow. This historically important information finally places the last stone in the mosaic of Auschwitz-Berkenau.
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Principia, vol. ii: the system of the world
Sir Isaac Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World is one of the most influential scientific works in history, laying the mathematical and physical foundations for classical mechanics and the universal laws of motion. This second volume, The System of the...
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The mystique of dreams
A fascinating strand of the human potential movement of the 1960s involved the dream mystique of a previously unknown Malaysian tribe, the Senoi, first brought to the attention of the Western world by adventurer-anthropologist-psychologist Kilton Stewart. Exploring the origin, attraction, and eff...
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Project girl
Selected by The Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year, Project Girl is the powerful account of a young woman's struggle to realize her dreams while remaining true to who she was before attending Ivy League schools and receiving impressive diplomas. It tells of the spe...
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Robert bruce
G.W.S. Barrow’s Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland has long been recognized as a landmark study of both a pivotal monarch and the constitutional idea that underpinned Scotland’s survival as a polity in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Rather than presenting...
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Remaking a world
Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of ho...
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Form and purpose in boswell's biographical works
Form and Purpose in Boswell's Biographical Works provides a detailed comparative analysis of James Boswell’s three major biographical works: The Life of Johnson, The Tour to the Hebrides, and the Account of Corsica. Through this examination, the book challenges the traditional view that Boswell’s...
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Raised on radio
In the late 1920s radio exploded almost overnight into being America's dominant entertainment, just as television would do twenty-five years later. Gerald Nachman, himself a product of the radio years, takes us back to the heyday of radio, bringing to life the great performers and shows, as well ...
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Essays on the political economy of rural africa
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The politics of german protestantism
The Politics of German Protestantism: The Rise of the Protestant Church Elite in Prussia, 1815-1848 examines the profound interconnection between religion and state during a critical period of German history. The book explores how Protestant clergy in Prussia transitioned from being spiritual lea...
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Medicines of the soul
In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbreaking portrayal of gender, religion, and ...
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Chinese democracy
What do the Chinese mean when they say that their political systems is "democratic"? With recent improvements in relations between China and the West, this question is basic to an understanding of the Chinese people in their state. In Chinese Democracy, Andrew Nathan investigates in depth the nat...
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