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Chasing Shadows - Apaches And Yaquis Along The United States-Mexico Border, 1876-1911

de Shelley Bowen Hatfield

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 Hatfield examines for the first time the military campaigns on both sides of the border against Apaches and other native peoples in the late nineteenth century.
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American Fiction And The Metaphysics Of The Grotesque

de Dieter Meindl

75,96€

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 By synthesising Kayser's and Bakhtin's views of the grotesque and Heidegger's philosophy of ""Being"", this work demonstrates that American fiction has tried to convey the existentialist dimension: the pre-individual totality which defines itself against the mind and its linguistic capacity.
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Order And History, Vols I-V.

372,09€

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Hemingway'S Wars - Public And Private Battles

de Linda Wagner-Martin

63,03€

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 This is a study of the ways various kinds of injury and trauma affected Ernest Hemingway's life and writing, from the First World War through his suicide in 1961.
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American Mestizos, The Philippines, And The Malleability Of Race - 1898-1961

de Nicholas Trajano Molnar

82,40€

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 Drawing upon Philippine and American archives, Nicholas Trajano Molnar documents the imposed and self-ascribed racializations of the American mestizos, demonstrating that the boundaries of their racial identity shifted across time and space with no single identity coalescing.
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Bread - A Memoir Of Hunger

de Lisa Knopp

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 This compelling memoir, at once a food and illness narrative, explores the forces that cause eating disorders and disordered eating, including the link between those conditions in women, middle-aged and older, and the fear of aging and ageism.
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John Henry Wigmore And The Rules Of Evidence - The Hidden Origins Of Modern Law

de Andrew Porwancher

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 John Henry Wigmore, dean of the Northwestern University School of Law, single-handedly modernized the jury trial with his 1904-05 Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law. Yet Wigmoreâ€™s role as a prophet of modernity has slipped into obscurity. This book provides a radical reappraisal of his place in the birth of modern legal thought.
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The Spanish Foreign Legion In The Spanish Civil War, 1936

de Jose? E. A?Lvarez

74,68€

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 In 1936, the Spanish Foreign Legion was the most well equipped, thoroughly trained, and battle tested unit in the Spanish Army. Drawing on Spanish military archival sources, the Legion's own diary of operations and relevant secondary sources, Alvarez recounts the pivotal role played by the Spanish Foreign Legion in the initial months of the Spanish Civil War.
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Southern Stories - Slaveholders In Peace And War

de Faust

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 An investigation into the experiences of wealthy planters, soldiers, intellectuals, and Confederate women. In this book, attention is given to southern thought and belief, to southern society and culture during the Civil War, and to the role of gender relations within the Confederate South.
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Indian Rock Art Of The Southwest

de Polly Schaafsma

55,30€

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Called To Courage - Four Women In Missouri History

de Heather Roberson e Margot Ford Mcmillen

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 While there are many biographies of important Missouri men, there are few such biographies of Missouri women, which might suggest that they did not count in history. This book helps to correct that misconception by tracing the lives of four women who played important roles in their eras.
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Governors' Mansions Of The South Volume 1

de Ann Liberman

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 Focuses on the eleven states of the old Confederacy, and Kentucky and West Virginia, and offers a brick-and-mortar reflection of the region's rich history. This book includes the country's oldest governor's mansion in continuous use, in Virginia, and two built as recently as the 1960s, in Louisiana and Georgia.
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Jane Froman - Missouri'S First Lady Of Song

de Ilene Stone

24,40€

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 Jane Froman's singing career spanned three decades and made her one of America's most popular artists. This account traces her life from her debut as a vocalist for a Cincinnati radio station to her performances to the troops in World War II and her television show in the 1950s.
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Charles Johnson'S Spiritual Imagination

de Jonathan Little

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 This study of the work of Charles Johnson, the African-American writer who began as a political cartoonist, examines how Johnson incorporates the influences of phenomenology, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and Romanticism into an original perspective on individual and social identity.
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The Way To Cobbs Creek

de Dabney Stuart

28,26€

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 A collection of stories based on a series of fishing trips on which the fictional narrator, Mark Random, enters adulthood, and tries to understand his father, his brother Luke, other family members, and himself. On this journey, he tells stories about himself and the book's secondary characters.
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The Trial Of The Germans - Account Of The Twenty-Two Defendants Before The International Military Tribunal At Nuremberg

de Eugene Davidson

42,43€

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 The issues raised by the Nuremberg trials are dealt with in this book. These include: was it a necessary response to the crimes of the Third Reich?; and how were Germany and the Germans capable of such extraordinary evil? The author's approach is made through examination of each of the defendants.
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Gathering The Family - A Memoir

de William Holtz

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 In this text, William Holtz re-creates scenes and episodes from his early life with his family. These interlocking essays examine the lives of each member of his family and the intertwining effects of heredity, circumstance, and choice in individual lives.
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Thomas Hardy And Paradoxes Of Love

de H.M. Daleski

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 This text re-examines Hardy's novels, emphasizing the love triangles that populate his work. It argues that Hardy was actually sympathetic to his female characters, and refutes the generally accepted reason for Hardy's abandonment of fiction at the height of his success.
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Eight Lessons In Love - Domestic Violence Reader

de Mark Spilka

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 This critical reader takes eight fictional stories on the subject of domestic violence, by well-known authors from Hemingway to D.H. Lawrence, and assesses them in light of the author's experience as a volunteer group co-counsellor of male batterers.
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Zion In The Valley - The Jewish Community Of St.Louis

de Walter Ehrlich

75,96€

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 A history of the accomplishments of the Jews in St Louis. This book shows how the community grew into two sections - one which centred on relations of Jews with fellow Jews - and the other where they interacted with the non-Jewish population, assuming significant roles in the town's development.
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Quake

de Nance Van Winckel

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 This collection of five individual yet interconnected stories, chronicles the ripple effects that one life or action can have on the lives of many seemingly unrelated people. An earthquake acts as a melodic theme through each story, singing of life's unpredictability and precariousness.
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The Anthropological Imagination In Latin American Literature

de Amy Fass Emery

55,30€

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 In this examination of the cross between anthropology and literature in contemporary Latin America, the author studies how Latin American writers have represented the cultural aspects of their lives. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Jose Maria Arguedas and Miguel Barnet are featured.
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Geriatric Mental Health Ethics - A Casebook

de Shane S. Bush

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 It is estimated that by the year 2030, there will be over 70 million people 65 or older, representing 20 per cent of the population. This book provides a decision-making model that practitioners can use when confronted with different types of ethical challenges. It illustrates ethical decision making with realistic cases.
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Working With Toxic Older Adults - A Guide To Coping With Difficult Elders

de Gloria Davenport

70,17€

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 Views that toxicity in older adults manifests itself in negative behaviors and attitudes that can adversely impact interactions with health professionals, caregivers, and family members. This book presents theories and case examples to help us understand this phenomenon and provides techniques for caring for toxic elders.
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