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- Trickster and Hero
Trickster and Hero
The trickster and the hero, found in so many of the world's oral traditions, are seemingly opposed but often united in one character. Trickster and Hero provides a comparative...
- Chemical Demonstrations, Volume Two
Chemical Demonstrations, Volume Two
This text lists 69 lecture demonstrations, 110 procedures for displaying chemical phenomena in college and secondary shcool chemistry classes. Each chapter includes an...
- Lithium Jesus
Lithium Jesus
In a memoir that blends engaging charm with unflinching frankness, Charles Monroe-Kane gives his testimony of mental illness, drug abuse, faith, and love. By the end of Lithium...
- Film Essays and Criticism
Film Essays and Criticism
This is an English translation of Arnheim's "Kritiken und Aufsatze zum Film", which collects both film reviews and theoretical essays written between 1925 and 1940. The 30...
- Goddesses and Monsters
Goddesses and Monsters
The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons, and archetypes....
- Age of Sex Crime
Age of Sex Crime
The sexualized serial murder of women by men is the subject of this provocative book. Jane Caputi argues that the sensationalized murders by men such as Jack the Ripper, Son of...
- Illumination and Night Glare
Illumination and Night Glare
Dictated in an idiomatic, associative style, this book exposes the doubleness of Carson McCullers's life. A mine of information for anyone interested in McCullers and American...
- Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders Ladin JoyPaperback
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders Ladin JoyPaperback
- Joy Ladin
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National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Memoir Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned...
- Spain's First Democracy
Spain's First Democracy
- Stanley G. Payne
- 544
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Payne's study places Spain's Second Republic within the historical framework of Spanish liberalism, and the rapid modernisation of inter-war Europe. He aims to present a...
- Rise of the Brao
Rise of the Brao
- 2022
- Baird, Ian G
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In the early 1970s, the Khmer Rouge had become suspicious of communist Vietnam and began to persecute Cambodian ethnic groups who had ties to the country, including the Brao...
- Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction Malmgren Carl D.Paperback
Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction Malmgren Carl D.Paperback
- 2001
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This text identifies three basic fictional forms dealing with murder and detection - mystery, detective and crime fiction. It attempts to express their interrelations, to define...
- Craft of Old-Master Drawings Watrous JamesPaperback
Craft of Old-Master Drawings Watrous JamesPaperback
- James Watrous
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Since the late 1960s, American film and video makers of all stripes have been fascinated with themes of self and identity. Though the documentary form is most often used to...
- Peoplehood in the Nordic World Korsgaard OvePaperback
Peoplehood in the Nordic World Korsgaard OvePaperback
- 2022
- Korsgaard, Ove
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"The people" can mean many things: it can be a political unit (demos), a cultural entity (ethnos), and a social multitude (plthos). Modern historian Ove Korsgaard focuses on the...
- Making Hollywood Happen: Seventy Years of Film Finances Drazin CharlesPevná vazba
Making Hollywood Happen: Seventy Years of Film Finances Drazin CharlesPevná vazba
- 2022
- Drazin, Charles
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Filmmaking is a business--someone has to pay the bills. For much of the industry's history, that role was shouldered by the studios. The rise of independent filmmakers then led...
- Understanding and Teaching Native American History Ray KristoferPevná vazba
Understanding and Teaching Native American History Ray KristoferPevná vazba
- 2022
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Understanding and Teaching Native American History is a timely and urgently needed remedy to a long-standing gap in history instruction. While the past three decades have seen...
- Rhetorical Criticism: A Study In Method Black EdwinPaperback
Rhetorical Criticism: A Study In Method Black EdwinPaperback
- 1978
- Black, Edwin
- 198
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Winner, Speech Communication Association Award for Distinguished Scholarship This is a book that, almost singlehandedly, freed scholars from the narrow constraints of a single...
- Six Turkish Filmmakers Raw LaurencePevná vazba
Six Turkish Filmmakers Raw LaurencePevná vazba
Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socioeconomic change on ordinary people in contemporary Turkey....
- Fagen: An African American Renegade in the Philippine-American War Morey MichaelPevná vazba
Fagen: An African American Renegade in the Philippine-American War Morey MichaelPevná vazba
- 2019
- Morey, Michael
- 248
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In 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino struggle for independence, including three...
- African Science: Witchcraft, Vodun, and Healing in Southern Benin Falen Douglas J.Paperback
African Science: Witchcraft, Vodun, and Healing in Southern Benin Falen Douglas J.Paperback
- 2020
- Falen, Douglas J
- 240
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In this sensitive and personal investigation into Benin's occult world, Douglas J. Falen wrestles with the challenges of encountering a reality in which magic, science, and the...
- Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice N Chonghaile DeirdrePevná vazba
Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice N Chonghaile DeirdrePevná vazba
For more than 150 years, individuals have traveled the countryside with pen, paper, tape recorders, and even video cameras to document versions of songs, music, and stories...
- All Abroad: A Memoir of Travel and Obsession Weill GeoffreyPevná vazba
All Abroad: A Memoir of Travel and Obsession Weill GeoffreyPevná vazba
Yearning for an escape from a claustrophobic childhood, Geoffrey Weill became infatuated with travel. At twenty-three, the budding British connoisseur made his way across the...
- History of Fascism, 1914-1945 Payne Stanley G.Paperback
History of Fascism, 1914-1945 Payne Stanley G.Paperback
- Stanley G. Payne
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What was life like under the Third Reich? What went on between parents and children? What were the prevailing attitudes about sex, morality, religion? How did workers perceive...
- Composing While Dancing: An Improviseras Companion Buckwalter MelindaPaperback
Composing While Dancing: An Improviseras Companion Buckwalter MelindaPaperback
"Composing while Dancing: An Improviser's Companion" examines the world of improvisational dance and the varied approaches to this art form. By introducing the improvisational...
- Silenced Resistance - Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea Allan JoannaPevná vazba
Silenced Resistance - Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea Allan JoannaPevná vazba
Spain's former African colonies-Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara-share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed, postcolonial regimes, and are known by...