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Trade union democracy in western europe
Trade Union Democracy in Western Europe offers both a lucid survey of European labor organizations and a provocative mirror for American debates about union structure and democracy. Walter Galenson provides a comparative account of how unions in Belgium, Holland, Austria, France, Italy, Britain, ...
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The prison school
Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. As public schools and offices of justice have become collaborators in punishment, rates of African American suspension and expulsion have soared, dropout rates have accelerated, and priso...
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Afghanistan
Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 197...
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Scholars and gypsies
Scholars and Gypsies offers readers an absorbing glimpse into the life of Walter Starkie—scholar, musician, traveler, and lifelong wanderer between the lecture hall and the Romany road. In this richly textured autobiography, Starkie recounts his Dublin childhood, shaped by the rival worlds of cla...
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Second sight
He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sigh...
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The adventures of tom sawyer
A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, one of the world’s best-loved books, was the first version since the original ...
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Symbolic analysis cross-culturally
Symbolic Analysis Cross-Culturally: The Rorschach Test by George A. De Vos and L. Bryce Boyer explores how universal psychobiological processes intersect with the shaping power of culture to produce distinctive modes of perception, thought, and affective regulation. Grounded in the assumption tha...
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The rise of islam and the bengal frontier, 1204-1760
In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Rich...
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Romantic orpheus
Romantic Orpheus: Profiles of Clemens Brentano by John F. Fetzer offers the first comprehensive English-language study of Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), one of the most versatile and influential writers of German Romanticism. A poet, novelist, and critic, Brentano was central to the early Romantic...
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Negro slavery in latin america
Negro Slavery in Latin America explores the profound historical and cultural impact of over three centuries of African slavery in the region. This meticulously researched book examines the introduction, institutionalization, and eventual abolition of slavery, highlighting its critical role in sha...
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European jewry and the first crusade
One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informe...
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The research foundations of graduate education
The Research Foundations of Graduate Education: Germany, Britain, France, United States, Japan, edited by Burton R. Clark, provides a comparative portrait of how five leading national systems connect research with advanced study. The essays examine both the broad organization of higher education ...
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China coup
An expert’s take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts—contrary to the prevailing consensus—that China’s leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d’état mounted by rivals in the top leadership. The leaders of the coup will...
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Concise amharic dictionary
Although Amharic is the national language of Ethiopia and English its international language, until publication of this book in hardcover there was no concise Amharic-English, English-Amharic dictionary. Students of Amharic as well as visitors to Ethiopia and foreign workers will benefit from thi...
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The complete poems of tibullus
Tibullus is considered one of the finest exponents of Latin lyric in the golden age of Rome, during the Emperor Augustus’s reign, and his poetry retains its enduring beauty and appeal. Together these works provide an important document for anyone who seeks to understand Roman culture and sexualit...
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To life!
To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farm’s anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkow’s 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked...
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