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Contemporary Jewish Writing In Brazil - An Anthology

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 Showcases a diverse range of modern Jewish writers from one of South America's most vibrant, multicultural communities. This anthology features the work of such internationally recognised figures as Moacyr Scliar and Clarice Lispector, including two early stories by Lispector that have never before appeared in English translation.
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Birds Of Nebraska - Their Distribution And Temporal Occurrence

by Joel G. Jorgensen, Roger S. Sharpe e W.Ross Silcock

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 Captures the variety of Nebraska's ornithological possibilities in a style useful to hobbyists and professionals alike. The authors have provided a summary of state bird records compiled into concise but readable accounts of all species of birds reported in the state.
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Contemporary Jewish Writing In Sweden - An Anthology

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Impertinences - Selected Writings Of Elia Peattie, A Journalist In The Gilded Age

by Elia W. Peattie

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 Elia (Wilkinson) Peattie (1862-1935) was born during the Civil War and came of age at the advent of the era of the New Woman. This title collects articles, editorials, and narratives by Elia Peattie written during her tenure at the Omaha World-Herald from 1888 to 1896, illustrated with photographs from the period.
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Windows

by Jean-Bertrand Pontalis

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 Offers an autobiographical perspective on the private "vocabularies" that develop between analyst and patient
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Macadam Dreams

by Gisele Pineau

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 Unveils the two cataclysms that have devastated Eliette's life: first, the cyclone of 1928, when she was only eight years old, and now Hurricane Hugo, whose destruction shatters the elaborate defenses the old woman has built around the sorrows and madness of her life in the small, accursed town of Savane Mulet.
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Roadframes - The American Highway Narrative

by Kris Lackey

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 Surveys America's fascination with highway travel. This title reveals the crucial roles the highway and automobile travel have played through generations of American writing.
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Contemporary Jewish Writing In Germany - An Anthology

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 Featuring a diverse array of writings from prominent Jewish authors in Germany, this anthology encourages a deeper understanding of the experiences of Jews. The writings deal with the many challenges to modern Jewish identity in Germany, including the vicissitudes of gender roles, and the experience of intergenerational conflict and sexuality.
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The Imaginary Caribbean And Caribbean Imaginary

by Michele Praeger

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 Analysing historical and psychoanalytic work on the Caribbean, this title reveals both the biases of these disciplines, and the possibilities they hold when brought into dialogue with one another and with literature.
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Primitive Renaissance - Rethinking German Expressionism

by David Pan

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 An assessment of the significance of primitivism and its contribution to the intellectual, artistic, and cultural climate of Europe in the early 20th century. This book argues that the radicality of early twentieth-century movements such as expressionism was not their modernism but rather their primitivism.
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Contemporary Jewish Writing In Switzerland - An Anthology

by Rafael Newman

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 Questions about Jewish identity and the legacy of the Holocaust remain contemporary and controversial in Switzerland. Talking about Jewish life in Switzerland, this anthology features an eclectic mix of eighteen modern works from Switzerland's heterogeneous Jewish writers.
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Power, Patronage, And Political Violence - State Building On A Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889

by Judy Bieber

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 A study of 19th century Brazil, arguing that centralised political control increased political violence in the frontier regions.
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Popularizing The Nation - Audience, Representation, And The Production Of Identity In "Die Gartenlaube," 1853â€“1900

by Kirsten Belgum

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 Examines the intersection of national identity and the popular press in nineteenth-century Germany. Central to this study is the Gartenlaube, a magazine that became, by the 1870s, the most widely read magazine in Germany. It contained a host of writings that touched on the themes of the German nation and national identity.
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Seven Faces

by Max Brand

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 Police detective Angus Campbell, a dour and methodical Scottish American policeman, cordially disliked his partner, the ebullient and overweight Irish cop Patrick O'Rourke. And the feeling was cordially reciprocated by O'Rourke. Both were annoyed - but not really concerned - about orders to guard the frantic millionaire John Cobb.
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Some Things Are Not Forgotten - A Pawnee Family Remembers

by Martha Royce Blaine

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 The Blaine family were among the Pawnees forcibly removed to Indian Territory in 1874-75. By the early twentieth century, disease and starvation had wiped out nearly three-quarters of the reservation's population. This title reveals the strengths of character and culture that enabled them to persevere during the reservation years.
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Contemporary Jewish Writing In South Africa - An Anthology

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 A collection of contemporary writing which represents the historical specificities and contradictions of South African Jewish life under apartheid. The contributors include Nadine Gordimer, Rose Zwi, Dan Jacobson, Albie Sachs, Pieter-Dirk Uys and Matthew Krouse.
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Contemporary Jewish Writing In Austria - An Anthology

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 Collecting the finest Jewish writing from around the world, this title maps a complex tradition of Jewish discourse marked by a profound awareness of the literary past, by the failure of a long-anticipated Austrian-Jewish symbiosis, and by the unparalleled tragedy of the Shoah.
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James River Chiefdoms - The Rise Of Social Inequality In The Chesapeake

by Martin D. Gallivan

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 Presenting a study of pre-historic archaeology in the Chesapeake, this book explores the puzzling discrepancies between the ethnohistoric and archaeological records of the Powhatan and Monacan societies met by Jamestown colonists in 1607. It also offers an interpretive approach to Native American culture history.
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The Life Of Abraham Lincoln - From His Birth To His Inauguration As President

by Ward Hill Lamon

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 Presents an account of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood, his young manhood, and his years in the Illinois legislature.
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Feathering Custer

by William S. Penn

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 Covers the state of modern Native life and literature and considers how modern scholarship has affected the ways Natives and others see themselves and their world. This book presents a critique of contemporary theory and its ability to come to terms with the real lives and literatures of Natives in North America.
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You'Ve Got To Have Balls To Make It In This League - My Life As An Umpire

by Gene Wojciechowski e Pam Postema

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 Reveals with frank language and uncompromising candor, what it was like being an umpire in professional baseball. The author discusses the mindset behind making a proper call, the weeks of intensive training, ejecting problem players and managers, and the chaos mixed with the monotony of being on the road most of the year.
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Seeking Victory On The Western Front - The British Army And Chemical Warfare In World War I

by Albert Palazzo

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 Examines how, in the face of the devastating firepower advantages that modern weapons offered the Germans, the British army developed the means to reclaim the offence and break the stalemate of the western front to defeat their enemy.
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Macadam Dreams

by Gisele Pineau

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 Talks about the two cataclysms that devastated Eliette's life: the cyclone of 1928, when she was eight years old, and the Hurricane Hugo, whose destruction shatters the elaborate defenses the old woman has built around the sorrows of her life in the town of Savane Mulet. This is a novel about the wayward violence of love and nature in Guadeloupe.
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Quiet Street

by Zelda Popkin

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 Edith and Jacob Hirsch and their two children, Dinah and Teddy live in a suburb of Jerusalem. Edith's protected life comes to an end when she must face the bitter fact that her beautiful daughter at eighteen is more a soldier than a farmer and that the kibbutz where Dinah now lives is a military fortress, despite its newly planted orchards.
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