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Making the mexican diabetic
This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from “Mexican-American” donors to labo...
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Feudal assessments and the political community under henry ii and his sons
Feudal Assessments and the Political Community under Henry II and His Sons by Thomas K. Keefe offers a groundbreaking study of the financial and military foundations of the Angevin monarchy. Drawing on the major feudal surveys of the twelfth century—the Infeudationes militum and the Cartae baronu...
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Careers in shanghai
Careers in Shanghai: The Social Guidance of Personal Energies in a Developing Chinese City, 1949-1966 offers a penetrating exploration of how modernization influenced individual lives in post-revolutionary Shanghai, China’s largest metropolis. This in-depth study focuses on the intricate career g...
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Homer the preclassic
Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival “Homers” and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, rec...
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Land, labor and the origins of the israeli-palestinian conflict, 1882-1914
Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, bu...
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Medieval chinese society and the local community
Medieval Chinese Society and the Local Community: Stagnation, Feudalism, and Periodization explores the rich complexities of Chinese history from the Six Dynasties through the Sui and Tang eras. This seminal volume by Tanigawa Michio reexamines the nature of Chinese society and its periodization ...
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K-pop
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of...
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Trade of the tricks
From risqué cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, Trade of the Tricks offers an unprecedented look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing Paris magic scene as an apprentice, Graham M. Jones gives a firsthand account of how magicians learn...
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Trollope's later novels
Trollope’s Later Novels by Robert Tracy challenges long-standing assumptions about Anthony Trollope’s place in Victorian literature, presenting him not as a genial but second-rate craftsman, but as a novelist of considerable technical sophistication and moral seriousness. Tracy argues that Trollo...
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The city of the sun
Among Renaissance utopias, The City of the Sun is perhaps second in importance only to More's more famous work. There are striking similarities between Campanella's utopia and More's, but also striking differences which reflect both changed historical circumstances and the highly original nature ...
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Business cycles and their causes
Business Cycles and Their Causes offers a reprint of the third part of a seminal 1913 work on economic fluctuations, addressing the dynamics and interrelations within business cycles. Authored by a pioneer in economic theory, this book captures a foundational understanding of the patterns and cau...
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The california nitrogen assessment
Nitrogen is indispensable to all life on Earth. However, humans now dominate the nitrogen cycle, and nitrogen emissions from human activity have real costs: water and air pollution, climate change, and detrimental effects on human health, biodiversity, and natural habitats. Too little nitrogen li...
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Stravinsky
In the second edition of the definitive account of Igor Stravinsky's life and work, arranged in two separate sections, Eric Walter White revised the whole book, completing the biographical section by taking it up to Stravinsky's death in 1971. To the list of works, the author added some early pie...
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End of the affair
Eleanor M. Gates’s End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1939-40 offers a meticulous diplomatic and military history that probes one of World War II’s most consequential ruptures: the breakdown of cooperation between Britain and France in the face of German aggression. Spa...
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Government of paper
In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous consequences. In the planned city of Islamabad, order and disorder are produced through the ceaseless inscription and circulation of millions of paper artif...
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Educational delusions?
The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era, when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second large and continuing movement for choi...
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