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Metropolitan san diego
The San Diego of popular imagination is a lotus land of sun and surfers, a ruggedly beautiful region where Mexican barrios coexist with mountain villages and deserts sprawl as far as the eye can see. Functionally, if not officially, its reaches extend all the way to Tijuana, Mexico, giving it an ...
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Counts of falkenstein
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: (I) Karl Schmid & His Critics: The Formation of Patrilineal Lineages; Georges Duby; Karl Leyser; Friedrich Prinz; Karl Bosl; Wilhelm Stormer; Patrilineal Lineages & the Investiture Conflict; The “Codex Falkensteinensis”; (II) The Ancestors ...
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Right of spoil of the popes of avignon, 1316-1415
The popes of Avignon, beginning with the election of John XXII in 1316 & ending with the deposition of Benedict XIII in 1415, laid claim to the movable property of some 1,200 ecclesiastical persons, exercising a power that has subsequently been named “jus spolii,” the “right of spoil.” This t...
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Soda glazing
Soda glazing was, for many years, the neglected cousin of salt glazing. As pollution laws have become stricter, however, more potters have turned to soda and, to their delight, found not only the traditional orange peel surface but also a subtle palette of colors that have made them sit up and ta...
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El inga
This is a print on demand publication. In Jan. 1960, author Mayer-Oakes & Robert Bell began a program of field archeology in Ecuador, with their relocation & test pit excavation at the El Inga site near Quito. Initial studies of the surface collection convinced the two investigators that ...
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Medical licensing and learning in fourteenth-century valencia
In the 14th century, the kings of Aragon in NE Spain governed threee countries that were politically & linguistically distinct, & were linked only by the rule of their common monarch: the principality of Catalonia, the kingdom of Aragon, & the kingdom of Valencia. These realms--which ...
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Encyclopedic dictionary of roman law
This Dictionary: explains technical Roman legal terms, translates & elucidate those Latin words which have a specific connotation when used in a juristic context or in connection with a legal institution or question, & provides a brief picture of Roman legal institutions & sources as ...
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On calculating the factor of chance in language comparison
While all human languages are likely to be genetically related, the remoter relationships cannot be demonstrated by reliable linguistic methods because the languages in question have diverged too much. Any demonstration of a relationship between languages depends on finding words & grammatica...
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Humanitarian intervention
Over the centuries, societies have gradually developed constraints on the use of armed force in the conduct of foreign relations. The crowning achievement of these efforts occurred in the midtwentieth century with the general acceptance among the states of the world that the use of military force...
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In uncle sam's service
During World War I, the first U.S. war in which women were mobilized by the armed services on a mass scale, more than sixteen thousand female personnel served overseas with the American Expeditionary Force. Elite society women—the so-called heiress corps—have dominated the popular perception of w...
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Old babylonian inscriptions chiefly from nippur. part ii
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Art in a season of revolution
Focusing on the rich heritage of art-making in the eighteenth century, this lushly illustrated book positions both well-known painters and unknown artisans within the framework of their economic lives, their families, and the geographies through which they moved as they created notable careers an...
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Politics of law and order
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction: Bavaria in the Era of Revolution, 1918-1919; Part One: The “Einwohnerwehr” Movement in Bavaria: (I) The Organizational Development of the “Einwohnerwehr”: State or Private Control?; (II) The Political Evolution of the Bavarian “Einwon...
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For the millions
Looking behind the scenes at the personalities and policies of such venerable institutions as the Federal Arts Project and the Museum of Modern Art, A. Joan Saab discerns a broad-based democratic modernism inspired by and engaged with the social life of the period.In the summer of 1935 President ...
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An archaeological history of japan, 30,000 b.c. to a.d. 700
A notion widely shared among the Japanese is that a unique culture has existed uninterrupted on the archipelago since the first human settlements more than 30,000 years ago. The idea of a continuous shared Japanese culture, often described as "Japanese-ness," is epitomized by material items rangi...
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Inter-state accountability for violations of human rights
Menno T. Kamminga challenges one of the cornerstones of classic international law: the presumption that states are entitled to exercise diplomatic protection only on behalf of their own nationals. Kamminga systematically reexamines this position, arguing that if a state violates its international...
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Monguors of the kansu-tibetan border. part ii
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The variation in the silicate content of the water in monterey bay, california, during 1932, 1933, and 1934
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Old babylonian inscriptions chiefly from nippur
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Against amnesia
In Against Amnesia, Nancy J. Peterson addresses the ongoing postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's claim that women's literature and multicultural literature vigorously resist the amnesia and nostalgia that charact...
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Exile and return
Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews is a bold attempt to understand constructively and build upon the terrible irony of two peoples, each with a searing memory of displacement and exile, struggling for a return to a land each remembers, each claims, and from which each has sou...
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No place of rest
When King Philip VI expelled the Jews in 1306, some 100,000 men, women, and children were driven from royal France into the neighboring lands of Spain, Provence, Italy, and North Africa. The great expulsion of 1306 was arguably one of the most traumatic moments of medieval Jewish history and woul...
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Candidates defeated in roman elections
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Contents: Abbreviations; I. Introduction; II. Candidates for the Consulship: 1. Candidates Defeated in the Elections; 2. Candidates Who Withdrew or Were Prevented From Competing; III. Candidates for the Censorship; IV. Candidates fo...
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Raised on radio
In the late 1920s radio exploded almost overnight into being America's dominant entertainment, just as television would do twenty-five years later. Gerald Nachman, himself a product of the radio years, takes us back to the heyday of radio, bringing to life the great performers and shows, as well ...
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Renewing the past, reconfiguring jewish culture
In a penetrating exploration of the various ways memories and representations of the Jewish past have been reconfigured in new historical circumstances, Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture focuses on two key eras of encounter between Jews and non-Jews: the golden age of Sephardic cult...
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Brides, inc.
Named "Best of the Best from the University Presses" for 2007 by the American Library AssociationWeddings today are a $70-billion business, yet no one has explained how the industry has become such a significant component of the American economy. In Brides, Inc., Vicki Howard goes behind the scen...
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Dictionary of the egyptian language
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Mappae clavicula
This is a print on demand publication. An annotated translation based on a collation of the Selestat and Phillipps-Corning (PC) manuscripts, with a reproduction of the two manuscripts. Contents: (1) The manuscripts and their background: The Selestat manuscript; The PC manuscript; Sir Thomas Phill...
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Civic engagement
John Recchiuti recounts the history of a vibrant network of young American scholars and social activists who helped transform a city and a nation. New York, in the late Gilded Age and Progressive Era, was the nation's financial capital, its principal hub for immigration, and its premier center fo...
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Electric ladyland
With the explosion of rock music in the mid-1960s, women arrived—as performers, critics, and fans. While operating in radically different ways within rock culture, female musicians, journalists, and groupies rewrote women's roles on and off the stage in the 1960s and 1970s.Electric Ladyland is a ...
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Franks, burgundians, and aquitanians and the royal coronation ceremony in france
Deals with two unusual French “ordines” in which relevance took precedence over tradition. In both the pregnant phrase “Franks, Burgundians, & Aquitanians” appeared in the prayer following the king’s unction in the place traditionally occupied by the alien triad “Saxons, Mercians, & North...
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Myriapoda of north america
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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The mother of mohammed
Known in CIA circles as "the Elizabeth Taylor of the jihad" and among her cohorts as the "mother of Mohammed," Australia native Robyn (or Rabiah) Hutchinson lived for twenty years at the frontlines of the jihadist movement, after marrying first an Indonesian leader of Jemaah Islamiyah (the group ...
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The history of anti-semitism, volume 3
Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly ubiquitous in the history of Europe.From Vo...
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The arrow of gold
Reflecting Conrad's genius for narrative that focuses on the quest for inner truths, The Arrow of Gold is an exploration of the dangerous appetites of men and of human vulnerability, as well as a profound meditation on the emotional boundary between people. Boasting a cast of extraordinary and ec...
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Synopsis of the extinct batrachia and reptilia of north america
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Spiritual discourse
Spiritual Discourse is a study of the process by which Baba Rexheb, a ninety-year-old Albanian leader of the Bektashi order, and Frances Trix, an American student who has studied with him for over twenty years, come to share a common universe of experience and attunement. Overall what is being pa...
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Linguistic variability and intellectual development
Linguistic Variability and Intellectual Development, Wilhelm von Humbolt's most famous work, was published by his brother Alexander posthumously, in 1836. It promptly established itself as a classic in the philosophy of language and has held that position ever since. With many examples from a vas...
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Antikythera shipwreck reconsidered
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Communication, knowledge, and memory in early modern spain
In a provocative attempt to outline a history of communication during the Spanish Golden Age, Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain examines how speech, visual images, and written texts all interact as manifestations of the human desire to know and remember. Seeking to addres...
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Biographical memoirs of members of the american philosophical society
The distinguished chemists in this volume were all members of the APS. Their bio. memoirs, selected from the archives of the Society, present a panorama of 20th-cent. discoveries and develop. in the study of Chemistry and the personalities behind them. They include: Josiah Gibbs, Jacobus Van’t H...
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In the blood
Although it strikes individuals from a variety of backgrounds, sickle cell anemia has always been known as a "black" disease in America. In the Blood argues that ever since the discovery in 1910 and subsequent scientific analysis of the disease, sickle cell anemia has been manipulated to serve so...
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Tropic of venice
Named one of the "Big Ten Outstanding Books from University Presses for 2006" by ForeWord magazineFor Margaret Doody, Venice, poised between East and West, earth and sea, sacred and profane, occupies a place only its own. Appearances confound. Renaissance ladies achieved their blond beauty by cri...
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Birth marks
Through a study of the evolution of inheritance issues in seventeen tragedies written over the course of half a century the Corneille brothers, Pierre and Thomas, and by Jean Racine, Richard E. Goodkin questions the pervasive assumption that classical tragedy, a form written for the aristocracy, ...
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The mammalian fauna of the white river oligocene: part ii. rodentia
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Eucharistic presence and conversion in late thirteenth-century franciscan thought
Concentrates on a single problem in medieval theology: the relationship between Christ’s bodily presence in the Eucharist & the conversion of the Eucharistic elements, bread & wine, into Christ’s body & blood. Traces discussion of this problem in the Franciscan order during the late 1...
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The archaeology of garden and field
Cultivation and land use practices the world over reflect many aspects of people's relationship to each other and to the natural world. The Archaeology of Garden and Field explores the cultivation of land from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century through excavation, experimentation, and th...
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Employment and human rights
In Employment and Human Rights: The International Dimension, Richard Lewis Siegel discusses the historical evolution of the right to employment as well as regional and global efforts to achieve full employment. In the first section of the book, he examines a wealth of material, from English radic...
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Imperial library in southern sung china. 1127-1279
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Atlantic virginia
Through networks of trails and rivers inland and established ocean routes across the seas, seventeenth-century Virginians were connected to a vibrant Atlantic world. They routinely traded with adjacent Native Americans and received ships from England, the Netherlands, and other English and Dutch ...
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Copepodologist's cabinet
Copepod crustaceans are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. They occur in every free-living and parasitic aquatic niche. Copepods have been known since the time of Aristotle, yet there has never been a history of the study of copepods. This volume, the first in a planned three-volum...
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The object of memory
There was a village in Palestine called Ein Houd, whose people traced their ancestry back to one of Saladin's generals who was granted the territory as a reward for his prowess in battle. By the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, all the inhabitants of Ein Houd had been dispersed or exiled or had ...
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Of elephants & roses
This illustrated book explores the fascinating history of the natural sciences in the turbulent years of post-revolutionary and Restoration France, from Empress Josephine’s black swans and rare Franklinia tree to a giraffe that walked 480 miles across France to greet the king. It is the catalogue...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 17, part 3, 1893
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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War letters of fallen englishmen
More than eight million young men perished during the First World War—a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the conflict into one of faceless armies and battles commemorated in stone and metal monuments. War Letters of ...
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Vaux and versailles
Versailles has long been the consummate symbol of Louis XIV's distinct political and aesthetic influence, the epicenter of French national identity and classical style. From furniture and fashions to gardens and typefaces, the objects that define style underwent dramatic innovation during the ver...
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The censor, the editor, and the text
In The Censor, the Editor, and the Text, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin examines the impact of Catholic censorship on the publication and dissemination of Hebrew literature in the early modern period. Hebrew literature made the transition to print in Italian print houses, most of which were owned by Christ...
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A plague of insurrection
Beginning as a series of scattered rural riots in late 1323, peasant insurrection escalated into a full-scale rebellion that dominated public affairs in Flanders for nearly five years. Following their own leaders, peasants defied the authority of the count of Flanders by driving his officials and...
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The future of kurdistan in iraq
On March 19, 2003, the United States, the United Kingdom and a "coalition of the willing" invaded the Republic of Iraq. But one part of that state, Kurdistan, was already free from Saddam's B'athists. It was autonomous but not formally independent. The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq collects expert ...
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Connecting the covenants
The first few decades of the eighteenth century witnessed an important moment in Jewish-Christian relations, as influential Christian scholars increasingly looked to Jewish texts to reveal the truths of their own faith. To what extent could postbiblical writings help them better understand the Ne...
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The arts of democracy
Influenced by two decades of debate inside and outside the academy about the relationship among the arts, politics, and public policy, the essays collected in The Arts of Democracy represent the coming of age of one of the liveliest fields in contemporary academic life. Written by some of the mos...
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Patriarchy and families of privilege in fifteenth-century england
There are, contends Joel Rosenthal, two suppositions that have achieved almost full and unquestionable acceptance in contemporary social history and family studies. The first is that at any given time in any given culture one particular form or model of the family dominates; the second is that hi...
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Dal pozzo-albani drawings of classical antiquities in the british museum
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Gentile tales
Beginning in Paris in the year 1290, Jews were accused of abusing Christ by desecrating the eucharist—the manifestation of Christ's body in the communion service. Over the next two centuries this tale of desecration spread throughout Europe and led to violent anti-Jewish activity in areas from Ca...
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Bodies politic
In this sweeping analysis of colonialism and its legacies, John Wood Sweet explores how the ongoing interaction of conquered Indians, English settlers, and enslaved Africans in New England produced a closely interwoven, though radically divided, society. The coming together of these diverse peopl...
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The tribute roll of montezuma
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Privy council and the spirit of elizabethan economic management, 1558-1603
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Benjamin franklin and a case of christmas murder (the benjamin franklin mysteries)
In the second case recorded by Benjamin Franklin's young charge and assistant Nick Handy, the great Doctor Franklin is confronted with a shocking event. While attending a mummers' play at the home of a popular merchant Roddy Fairbrass on Christmas Eve 1757, their host suddenly collapses and dies....
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Changing africa
This is a print on demand Publication. Scholars have been curious about the development of arts & letters in Africa since the last European colonies on that continent attained independence in 1975. On Cape Verde, the Portuguese entered into close relations with Black Africa, represented by en...
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Guatemalans in the aftermath of violence
In the early 1980s the Guatemalan army unleashed a scorched-earth campaign against civilians suspected of supporting antigovernment guerrilla forces. Faced with violent repression, indigenous people found various ways to survive. Some joined the guerrilla ranks, some fell in with so-called self-d...
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The potter's dictionary of materials and techniques
Now available in its sixth edition, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques presents a comprehensive survey of all aspects of making ceramics for craft potters and ceramic artists. With its sound, practical explanations of ceramic processes, this indispensable reference book has gaine...
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The place of thought
From Jean de Meun in the late thirteenth century to Christine de Pizan in the early fifteenth, medieval French poets often aimed to impart theological, philosophical, or moral ideas. To unify their thought, and to make its outline visible to readers, the poets created vivid images of place, such ...
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Rebecca harding davis and american realism
From the late 1860s until her death in 1910, Rebecca Harding Davis was one of the best-known writers in America. She broke into print as a young woman in the 1860s with "Life in the Iron Mills," which established her as one of the pioneers of American realism. She developed a literary theory of t...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 15, part 2, 1875
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Bodytalk
Contemporary feminist readers have argued that old French literary representations of women—from the excessively beautiful lady of courtly romance to the lascivious shrew of fabliau and farce—are the products of misogynous male imagination and fantasy.In Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that fema...
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The witch as muse
Occult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches—their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals—was a popular one for painters and printmakers in early modern Europe. Focusing on several artists in depth, Linda C. Hults probes the historical and theoretical contexts of their wo...
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A century of social work and social welfare at penn
The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice is an acknowledged leader in cultivating theoretical and practical social work knowledge. Celebrating the School's centennial, this volume heralds the progressive thinking of its leaders and students while setting the stage for t...
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The country seats of the united states
William Russell Birch (1755-1834) has long been recognized as the first artist to achieve true commercial success in depicting American scenes for the domestic market. In his early career in London, Birch was influenced by the landscape painters whose work arose in the rich artistic ferment he en...
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Style, classification and ethnicity
This is a print on demand publication. Cognitive psychologists are now suggesting that there are two kinds of features which people use in the recognition & classifiation process.The first are very basic properties which have been studied by experimental psychologists. The second are object-s...
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The origins of justice
The Origins of Justice: The Evolution of Morality, Human Rights, and Law presents a view of human origins and nature that is radically different from that of the prevailing Western paradigm. John O'Manique's view shifts the emphasis from a negative characterization, in which humans are primarily ...
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Armageddon, 1918
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the British government realized that it had to keep the Suez Canal open at all costs because it was the primary sea route connecting Britain to its far-flung eastern colonies. The Suez bordered Egypt, a nominal Turkish province, and, when Turkey bec...
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Covenant house
Covenant House occupies a prominent place among American charitable institutions. For more than thirty years, it has provided shelter and care for homeless youth as a faith-based social service organization. Founded in 1968 by the Rev. Bruce Ritter, Covenant House began its life as a modest minis...
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The road to jerusalem
The history of early modern travel is captured in its volatile and evolving literature. From the middle of the 1400s, what had been for centuries a travel literature of pilgrimage to the Holy Land underwent two "modernizations" in rapid succession. The first, in the wake of Gutenberg, was the cas...
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Disco divas
Wedged between the idealism and activism of the 1960s and the avarice of the 1980s, the 1970s tend to be allocated a slender role in American cultural and social history. Only now have scholars begun to examine the suspect decade—perhaps in part because it has seemed too close, at least for many ...
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Native writings in massachusett (2 volume set)
An edition of all known manuscript writings in the Massachusetts language by native speakers. Basic linguistic, historical, and ethnographic analyses are included. Massachusetts is an extinct Eastern Algonquian language spoken aboriginally and in the Colonial period in what is now southeastern Ma...
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Latin technical phlebotomy and its middle english translation
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: (I) Introduction: Phlebotomy in the Middle Ages; The Latin Treatise; Late Medieval English Medicine & Middle English Medical Texts; & The Middle English Text: Related Tracts, Date & Dialect, Manuscript; (II) “Tractatus magistri enrici d...
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Formative acts
Political actors are a diverse lot, animated and engaged by the prospect of change. Operating inside and outside the government, they are out to instigate change or inhibit it, to promote or deflect it, to channel or absorb it. Their interactions keep the American polity in a perpetual state of d...
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Hebraica veritas?
In the early modern period, the religious fervor of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, social unrest, and millenarianism all seemed to foster greater anti-Judaism in Christian Europe, yet the increased intolerance was also accompanied by more intimate and complex forms of interaction betwee...
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The cat in ancient egypt
Cat fanciers who consider their pets majestic have history on their side: felines were domesticated in ancient Egypt around 2000 B.C. while their European cousins still ran wild. Over the centuries they gained an exalted position in royal society—revered as an incarnation of a goddess, modeled in...
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Stir it up
For Americans who came of age in the mid-twentieth century, home economics conjures memories of burnt toast and sewing disasters. But as historian Megan Elias shows in Stir It Up, home economics began as an idealistic reform movement in higher education in the early 1900s. Leaders of this movemen...
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Rural economy and country life in the medieval west
In 1961 Georges Duby wrote what is still the best overview of European medieval rural history to date. Originally published in French and first translated into English in 1968, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West brings together local research on the countryside and its economic l...
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Proceedings of the conference on industry-wide collective bargaining
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Animals for show and pleasure in ancient rome
Deadly combat between gladiators is perhaps the best-known example of public entertainment offered in the Roman world. Wild and domesticated animals were also a part of these extravagant shows, and the elaborate presentation—or sometimes butchery—of creatures to gild an official's magnificence wa...
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Rise to world power
This selection of letters derives from the microfilm ed. of the Whitelaw Reid Papers on deposit at the Library of Congress. The editors used four broad criteria for selecting letters: (1) those that illuminate the conduct & formation of international relations; (2) those that reveal Reid’s ow...
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Virtuous pagan in middle english literature
For pious Christians of every age, the question of ultimate concern has been salvation: What is necessary to ensure the soul’s eternal bliss? During the Middle Ages, within the Church itself, the guidelines were clear: baptism, reception of the sacraments, an attempt to put into practice the teac...
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Biographical memoirs of members of the american philosophical society (aps)
The distinguished classicists and archaeologists featured in this volume were all members of the APS, the oldest learned soc. in N. Amer. Their biographical memoirs, selected from the archives of the Society, present a panorama of 20th-cent. discoveries and developments in the study of Antiquity ...
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Exotic women
Julia V. Douthwaite describes the interrelated representations of cultural and sexual difference in key French works of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own, and forced into the margins of a new ...
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Tradition and innovation in french garden art
In the absence of any modern history of French garden art, this volume offers twelve chapters that review some of the most interesting and innovative moments of French garden history. This series of studies traces a progression from what is taken as the golden age of French garden art, in the lat...
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Supreme justice
To understand fully the complexities of Thurgood Marshall's work as a practicing lawyer, civil rights advocate for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, federal judge, and the first African American appointed Solicitor General of the United States and Justice of the United States Supreme Court, these tex...
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