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Ancient Art of Emulation. Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity, Hardback - ***

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Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?

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The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights, Hardcover - Jami Kathleen Taylor

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DescriptionWhile medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a "collective...

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Nomodeiktes. Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald, Hardback - ***

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Fifth-century Athens has inspired generations of students and scholars. Its citizens' profound discoveries have shaped the thinking of much of West...

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Blindness Through the Looking Glass. The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body, Hardback - Gili Hammer

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Challenges visuality as the dominant mode through which we understand gender, social performance, and visual culture

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Learning by Voting. Sequential Choices in Presidential Primaries and Other Elections, Hardback - Kenneth C. Williams

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Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Kenneth C. WilliamsIllustration(s): 16figs.23tabs.Number of pages: 184Publication date: 2001D...

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Reading Virgil and His Texts. Studies in Intertextuality, Hardback - Richard F. Thomas

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Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Richard F. ThomasIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2000Dime...

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Destined to Fail. Carl Seashore's World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music, Hardback - Julia Eklund Koza

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A little-known fact about the prominent US psychologist and educator Carl Seashore (1866-1949) is that he was deeply involved in the American eugen...

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Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women. The Early Twenty-First Century, Hardback - ***

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Foregrounds some of the ways in which women playwrights from across a range of contexts and working in a variety of forms and styles are illuminati...

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Development in Multiple Dimensions: Social Power and Regional Policy in India, Hardcover - Alexander Lee

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DescriptionWhy do some states provide infrastructure and social services to their citizens, and others do not? In Development in Multiple Dimension...

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The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics, Hardcover - Evan Mwangi

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Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent f...

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Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia, Hardcover - Aswin Punathambekar

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DescriptionDigital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the tw...

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Transgenerational Media Industries: Adults, Children, and the Reproduction of Culture, Hardcover - Derek Johnson

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Within corporate media industries, adults produce children's entertainment. Yet children, presumed to exist outside the professional adult world, m...

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(Post-)colonial Archipelagos. Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, Hardback - Johanna Leinius

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Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings t...

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Open Wounds. Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori, Hardback - David Z. Saltz

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This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914-2007) and his remarkable contributions to ...

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Home Field Advantage. Roots, Reelection, and Representation in the Modern Congress, Hardback - Charles R Hunt

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Although partisan polarization gets much of the attention in political science scholarship about Congress, members of Congress represent diverse co...

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Dictator. The Evolution of the Roman Dictatorship, Hardback - Mark Wilson

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The first detailed and comprehensive examination of the role and evolution of the dictatorship as an integral element of the Roman Republic, this w...

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Pride, Not Prejudice. National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia, Hardback - Eunbin Chung

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Noticing clashes of strong nationalisms around the world in areas like Northeast Asia, numerous studies have suggested that more peaceful relations...

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Aeneas, Hardback - Lee Pearcy

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Presents an Aeneas for our time: an age of liquid modernity, when identities seem fungible and precarious, amid a moment of political conflict and ...

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Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism. Switzerland, 1800-1900, Hardback - Mischa Suter

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Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century cap...

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Transforming Tradition. The Reform of Chinese Theater in the 1950s and Early 1960s, Hardback - Siyuan Liu

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Offers a systematic study of the effects of the comprehensive reform of traditional Chinese theatre conducted in the 1950s and '60s, and is based o...

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Bridging State and Civil Society. Informal Organizations in Tajik/Afghan Badakhshan, Hardback - Suzanne Levi-Sanchez

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Provides an in-depth study of parts of Central Asia and Afghanistan that remain marginalized from the larger region. Suzanne Levi-Sanchez provides ...

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Complex Systems in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Theory, Method and Application, Hardback - Euel W. Elliott

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Provides a sophisticated yet accessible account of complexity science or complex systems research. The authors range from the implications for arti...

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The Burden of the Past: Problems of Historical Perception in Japan-Korea Relations, Hardcover - Kan Kimura

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DescriptionThe Burden of the Past reexamines the dispute over historical perception between Japan and South Korea, going beyond the descriptive emp...

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Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States, Hardcover - Laura L. Mielke

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DescriptionIn the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery's defenders often used brute force to suppress ...

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Muslims in a Post-9/11 America: A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for U.S. National Security Policy, Hardcover - Rachel M. Gill

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Muslims in a Post-9/11 America examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the reality of American Muslims' attitudes...

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Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America, Hardcover - Marcela A. Fuentes

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Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as peo...

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Contingent Encounters. Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life, Hardback - Dan DiPiero

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Offers a comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and cri...

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Aid Imperium. United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia, Hardback - Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme

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Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America's post-Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia...

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Poetics of the First Punic War, Hardback - Thomas Biggs

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Investigates the literary afterlives of Rome's first conflict with Carthage. The book combines innovative theoretical approaches with advances in t...

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Domitian's Rome and the Augustan Legacy, Hardback - Marcello Mogetta

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This volume represents the first book-length treatment of the reception of Augustus and his age during the reign of Domitian. Its thirteen chapters...

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Cornelius Nepos. A Study in the Evidence and Influence, Hardback - John Lobur

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John Lobur's work rehabilitates Nepos to show that in fact he should be understood as an emblematic member of the Italian intelligentsia, one well-...

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Moving Islands. Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific, Hardback - Diana Looser

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Reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theatre, performance art, art ins...

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Passing Illusions. Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany, Hardback - Kerry Wallach

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Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by "passing" as non-Jews

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Drones and Support for the Use of Force, Hardcover - James Igoe Walsh

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DescriptionCombat drones are transforming attitudes about the use of military force. Military casualties and the costs of conflict sap public suppo...

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For the Culture. Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice, Hardback - Adolphus Belk

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Documents and analyses the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice cha...

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Markets, States and Public Policy. Privatization in Britain and France, Hardback - Nikolaos Zahariadis

650,99 RON

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Nikolaos ZahariadisIllustration(s): tables, figuresNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 1995...

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What Women Want. Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan and the United States, Hardback - Gill Steel

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Analyses decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferenc...

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From Villain to Hero. Odysseus in Ancient Thought, Hardback - Silvia Montiglio

625,99 RON

From Villain to Hero explores the reception of Odysseus in philosophy from the Socratics to the Middle Platonists.Publisher: The University of Mich...

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The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement, Hardcover - Laikwan Pang

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As the waves of Occupy movements gradually recede, we soon forget the political hope and passions these events have offered. Instead, we are increa...

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Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece, Hardcover - Jessica Romney

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Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. The author e...

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Animated by Uncertainty. Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa, Hardback - Joshua D. Rubin

610,99 RON

Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, an...

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Entrepreneurial Seoulite: Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul, Hardcover - Mihye Cho

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DescriptionA cultural turn took place in Korea during the 1990s, amid the economic prosperity driven by state-led industrialization and the collaps...

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Gendered Power: Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court, Hardcover - Mamiko Suzuki

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DescriptionGendered Power sheds light on the sources of power for three prominent women of the Meiji period: Meiji Empress Haruko; public speaker, ...

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Democracy's Meanings. How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It Matters, Hardback - Keith Gaddie

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Challenges conventional wisdom about how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and over 75 years of public ...

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Developing States, Shaping Citizenship. Service Delivery and Political Participation in Zambia, Hardback - Erin Accampo Hern

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Argues that the quality of citizens' interactions with the government through service provision sends them important signals about what they can ho...

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Bound Together. The Secularization of Turkey's Literary Fields and the Western Promise of Freedom, Hardback - Baris Buyukokutan

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Takes a new look at twentieth-century Turkey, asking whether its current condition was inevitable; what it will take for Turkish women and men to r...

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Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right, Hardback - ***

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Challenges assumptions regarding "radical" and "experimental" performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The essays bring...

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Secular Power Europe and Islam. Identity and Foreign Policy, Hardback - Sarah Wolff

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Argues that secularism is not the central principle of international relations but should be considered as one belief system that influences intern...

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Amphibians and Reptiles of Michigan. A Quaternary and Recent Faunal Adventure, Hardback - J. Holman

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A comprehensive look at Michigan amphibians and reptiles, spanning both recent and ancient times.

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Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency. The Routes of Terror in an African Context, Hardback - Daniel E Agbiboa

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Takes African insurgencies back to their routes by providing a transdisciplinary perspective on the centrality of mobility to the strategies of ins...

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Diaphanous Bodies. Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature, Hardback - Jeremy Colangelo

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Analyzing the invisible abled body through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and BowenPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Jere...

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Lawyers Beyond Borders. Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts, Hardback - Maria Armoudian

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A book about agency. About how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles - political, psychological, economic, geog...

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Human Capital versus Basic Income. Ideology and Models of Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America, Hardback - Fabian A Borges

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Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus B...

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Salt and State. An Annotated Translation of the Songshi Salt Monopoly Treatise, Hardback - ***

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A valuable storehouse of information and the first translation of the work into English

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History after Liberty. Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans, Hardback - Thomas Strunk

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Roman historian Tacitus wrote a damning critique of the first century CE Roman empire. The image Tacitus creates is of a society that has lost the ...

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Echoes of the Great Catastrophe. Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora, Hardback - Panayotis F. League

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A multi-sited exploration of the musical legacy of the Anatolian Greek diaspora.Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Panayotis F. ...

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That Could Be Us. News Media, Politics, and the Necessary Conditions for Disaster Risk Reduction, Hardback - Douglas A Van Belle

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Provides reasons for optimism about the prospect of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in at-risk communities around the world - observing communities a...

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Michigan Motivations. A Year of Inspiration with the University of Michigan Wolverines, Hardback - Del Duduit

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Silent Guns of Two Octobers. Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game, Hardback - Theodore Voorhees

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Uses new as well as previously under-appreciated documentary evidence to link the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff to a...

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Going to the Tigers. Essays and Exhortations, Hardback - Robert Cohen

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In this funny and perceptive collection, novelist and essayist Robert Cohen shares his thoughts on the writing process and then puts these prescrip...

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Bombing Pompeii: World Heritage and Military Necessity, Hardcover - Nigel Pollard

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Bombing Pompeii examines the circumstances under which over 160 Allied bombs hit the archaeological site of Pompeii in August and September 1943, a...

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World of Turmoil. The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War, Paperback - Stephen J. Hartnett

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The United States, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife's edge of war for more than seventy years. By mapping the hi...

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Electoral Campaigns, Media, and the New World of Digital Politics, Paperback - Richard Davis

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Today, political leaders and candidates for office must campaign in a multi-media world not only through the traditional media forums, but also thr...

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The Black Widows of the Eternal City: The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners, Hardcover - Craig A. Monson

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The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause c l bre in seventeenth-century Rome, how ...

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Selected Plays of Stan Lai. Volume 3: A Dream Like a Dream and Agovolume 3, Paperback - Stan Lai

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Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Stan LaiNumber of pages: 486Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 37Cover type: Paper...

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POLITICS & PROPAGANDA, Hardback - ***

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In a world of near-boundless suspicion of politics and the media, why do politicians still exploit the familiar techniques of propaganda? And why a...

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Causal Case Study Methods: Foundations and Guidelines for Comparing, Matching, and Tracing, Paperback - Derek Beach

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In this comprehensive reconstruction of causal case study methods, Derek Beach, Rasmus Brun Pedersen, and their coauthors delineate the ontological...

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(Post-)colonial Archipelagos. Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, Paperback - Johanna Leinius

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Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings t...

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Coronavirus Politics. The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19, Paperback - Elize Massard

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Identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for schol...

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Dialectical Imaginaries. Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism, Paperback - ***

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Brings together essays that analyse the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of US Latino/a literature. The edit...

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