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Celluloid symphonies
Celluloid Symphonies is a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible. It includes essays by those who created the music—Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein and Howard Shore—and outlines...
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Interstate arbitrations in the greek world, 337–90 b.c.
A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and mediation were, in fact, central institutions in Hellenistic public life. In this comprehensive study, Sheila Ager brings together the scattered body...
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Memory and re-creation in troubadour lyric
Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric delves into the intricate and dynamic world of medieval troubadour poetry, examining its artistic evolution and cultural context. This groundbreaking work challenges traditional romanticized interpretations of troubadour songs, which often viewed them as...
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Asylum denied
Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya, led a boycott to protest his government's treatment of his fellow farmers. He was subseque...
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A critical cinema 5
A Critical Cinema 5 is the fifth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of interviews, MacDonald engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experie...
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Acting in the night
What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863—with Abraham Lincoln in attendance—to explore this question and illuminate American art, ...
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Life histories of the dobe !kung
Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung re-examines an important anthropological data set for the Dobe !Kung, the well-known “Bushmen” of the Kalahari Desert, collected by Nancy Howell and colleagues. Using life history analysis, Howell reinterprets this rich material to address the question of how the...
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Comparison of economic systems
Comparison of Economic Systems: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches offers a profound exploration of the analytical frameworks and methodologies that define the field of comparative economics. Emerging from a University of Michigan research conference, the book charts the evolution of compa...
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Other natures
Ancient Greek ethnographies—descriptions of other peoples—provide unique resources for understanding ancient environmental thought and assumptions, as well as anxieties, about how humans relate to nature as a whole. In Other Natures, Clara Bosak-Schroeder examines the works of seminal authors suc...
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The realisms of berenice abbott
The Realisms of Berenice Abbott provides the first in-depth consideration of the work of photographer Berenice Abbott. Though best known for her 1930s documentary images of New York City, this book examines a broad range of Abbott’s work—including portraits from the 1920s, little known and uncom...
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Strange harvest
Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In this rich and deeply engaging ethnographic study...
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Society and bureaucracy in contemporary ghana
Society and Bureaucracy in Contemporary Ghana by Robert M. Price examines the organizational dynamics of the Ghanaian civil service as a key to understanding the constraints facing postcolonial African states. Price begins with the premise that independence brought sovereignty but not unconstrain...
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A renaissance court
Ambitious, extravagant, progressive, and sexually notorious, Galeazzo Maria Sforza inherited the ducal throne of Milan in 1466, at the age of twenty-two. Although his reign ended tragically only ten years later, the young prince's court was a dynamic community where arts, policy making, and the p...
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Archaeologies of colonialism
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, Michael Dietler explores these colonial encoun...
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Undermining science
This vitally important exposé shows how the Bush administration has systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even distorting scientific research. It is the first boo...
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Stuart and georgian moments
Bringing the celebrated Clark Library Saturday seminars to a wider audience, Stuart and Georgian Moments gathers twelve crisp, field-defining essays that map the literary, musical, and cultural horizons of the long seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Edited by Earl Miner, the volume showcases a...
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