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Darwin in russian thought
Darwin in Russian Thought delves into the profound impact of Darwin's theory of evolution on Russian intellectual culture from the 1860s to the October Revolution. This meticulously researched work explores the diversity of Russian responses to Darwinism, highlighting its role in shaping scientif...
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To the right
In this timely book, Jerome Himmelstein offers a new interpretation of the growth of conservatism in American politics. Tracing the New Right of the 1970s and 1980s back to the Old Right of the 1950s, Himmelstein provides an interpretive map of the political landscape over the past decades, showi...
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Poetry in australia, volume i
Poetry in Australia, Volume 1: From the Ballads to Brennan offers a comprehensive exploration of Australian poetry from its colonial beginnings to the early 20th century. This anthology showcases the evolution of a distinct Australian literary voice, blending the rich traditions of English romant...
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Taking children
"You have to take the children away."—Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Lau...
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Miyazawa kenji
The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. Miyazawa Kenji: Selections collects a wide range of his poetry and provides an excellent introduction to his life and ...
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The art of connection
The Art of Connection narrates the individual stories of artisans and traders of Kenyan arts and crafts as they overcome the loss of physical access to roadside market space by turning to new digital technologies to make their businesses more mobile and integrated into the global economy. Bringi...
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Julio herrera y reissig and the symbolists
Julio Herrera y Reissig, often regarded as the first truly modern poet of Uruguay, occupies a unique place in the literary landscape of Spanish America. His poetry, simultaneously rooted in the cultural soil of Montevideo and reaching toward the heights of European Symbolism, is a testament to th...
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Coordination without hierarchy
The organizational history of American government during the past 100 years has been written principally in terms of the creation of larger and larger public organizations. Beginning with the Progressive movement, no matter the goal, the reflexive response has been to consolidate and centralize i...
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Indians, missionaries, and merchants
California’s earliest European colonists—Russian merchants and Spanish missionaries—depended heavily on Native Americans for labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of the past—including little-...
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Berenike and the ancient maritime spice route
The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire’s heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 ...
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Protectors of privilege
This landmark exposé of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century. In an incisive examination of undercover work in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philad...
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Managing the frozen south
Managing the Frozen South: The Creation and Evolution of the Antarctic provides a comprehensive analysis of the Antarctic Treaty System, a groundbreaking international agreement that transformed Antarctica into a nonmilitarized, nuclear-weapons-free zone dedicated to peaceful scientific research....
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Perspectives on the yi of southwest china
Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest Ch...
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Beyond anne frank
The image of the Jewish child hiding from the Nazis was shaped by Anne Frank, whose house—the most visited site in the Netherlands— has become a shrine to the Holocaust. Yet while Anne Frank's story continues to be discussed and analyzed, her experience as a hidden child in wartime Holland is ano...
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An ownership theory of the trade union
An Ownership Theory of the Trade Union explores the economic theories behind trade union behavior, analyzing the historical struggle to define what unions maximize. Despite various theories suggesting unions aim to maximize wage rates, membership benefits, or organizational survival, a consistent...
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The school of rome
This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from th...
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