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Business and politics in india
Business and Politics in India delves into the intricate interplay between the business community and the Indian political system, offering a comprehensive analysis of interest group behavior and its impact on public policy. By exploring the evolution of business organizations, this book examines...
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Imperial genus
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan’s cultural policy i...
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Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics
Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of co...
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Legacies
One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This landmark study, the most comprehensive to date, probes all aspects of the new immigrant second generation's lives, exploring their immense potential to transform American society for better or ...
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The talented women of the zhang family
The history of China in the nineteenth century usually features men as the dominant figures in a chronicle of warfare, rebellion, and dynastic decline. This book challenges that model and provides a different account of the era, history as seen through the eyes of women. Basing her remarkable stu...
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Scenes from greek drama
Bruno Snell’s Scenes from Greek Drama distills the 1963 Sather Classical Lectures into a searching exploration of lost and fragmentary works by Aeschylus and Euripides. Snell examines papyrus fragments, quotations, and testimonia to reconstruct dramas such as Aeschylus’ Achilleis and Euripides’ f...
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In search of soul
In Search of Soul explores the meaning of “soul” in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history. Surveying the work of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers and theologians, Alejandro Nava shows how ...
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Personal religion among the greeks
Personal Religion among the Greeks offers a groundbreaking exploration of the private, intimate dimensions of Greek piety that are often overshadowed by studies of civic ritual and myth. In these Sather Classical Lectures, André-Jean Festugière moves beyond temples, festivals, and state cults to ...
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Opera and modern culture
In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music's most dramatic genre. Extending his ongoing project of clarifying music's various roles in Western society, Kramer brings to opera his distinctive and p...
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Africa
This masterful synthesis explains how Africa has come to be a land torn by incessant conflict among its impoverished peoples and countries, a continent living through the gravest social revolution of its history, experiencing the world's fastest demographic growth. Weaving together four major the...
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River plains and sea coasts
River Plains and Sea Coasts presents Richard Russell’s Hitchcock Lectures of 1965, a landmark synthesis of his decades of research into geomorphology—the study of landforms and the processes that shape them. In these lectures Russell reflects on his intellectual departure from the Davisian model ...
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Islands in the city
This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it.
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The ancient egyptian book of two ways
This title is one of the earliest known "guides to the beyond," offering a spiritual map intended to help the deceased navigate the afterlife. Inscribed on the bottoms of noble coffins, the text’s intricate zigzagging routes symbolize the paths one must take to overcome various trials and reach a...
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Treatise on musical objects
The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the re...
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Nineteenth-century origins of neuroscientific concepts
This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery.
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The san francisco irish, 1848-1880
In this vivid social history, R. A. Burchell follows the Irish who crossed not only the Atlantic but an entire continent to make a new kind of urban life in Gold Rush California. The San Francisco Irish, 1848–1880 overturns East Coast narratives of entrenched nativism to show how a city without a...
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