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Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Mason (Author)Heart Like a Fakir is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessed by General Sir James Abbott (1807-1896), the man for whom the Pakistani town of Abbottabad is named. Based on extensive research into primary source documents, the book uses the life of General Sir James Abbott as a narrative thread to explore the troubled period between William Dalrymple's White Moghuls and the Indian Rebellion ...

The Demon of Geopolitics: How Karl Haushofer

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Report copyright infringementby Holger H. Herwig (Author)In this definitive biography, noted historian Holger H. Herwig explores the life and times of Karl Haushofer, widely recognized as the "father of geopolitics" and the architect of Lebensraum, the rationale for Germany's control of Europe and the world.Author BiographyHolger H. Herwig is professor emeritus at the University of Calgary. His books include the prize-winning The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918 and The ...

Joseph Stalin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

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Report copyright infringementby David R. Marples (Author), Alla Hurska (Author)The figure of Stalin continues to intrigue, fascinate, and repel historians into the 21st century, while in the Russian Federation, he has returned to the status of a figure to be respected, principally as the leader who led his country through industrialization and militarization, enabling it to defeat Nazi Germany in the Second World War, thereby saving Europe and much of the world from the "brown plague" of Fasc...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ellen Snodgrass (Author)This is a resource about the creative contributions made by women of the British Empire. Among the arts covered in this volume are quilting, beadwork, dancing, diaries and memoirs, folk music, landscaping, sculpture, theatrics, etc. Entries are cross-referenced and include further readings drawn from an exhaustive bibliography of sources.Author BiographyMary Ellen Snodgrass is the author of several award-winning reference volumes, i...

Paul and Image: Reading First Corinthians in Visual Terms

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Erwin (Author)In Paul and Image, Philip Erwin challenges conventional interpretations of First Corinthians by focusing on the role that ancient Roman visual culture played in the lives of Paul and those of the people of Corinth.Author BiographyPhilip Erwin (Ph.D, Graduate Theological Union) is a scholar of the New Testament whose research focuses on the relationship between the letters of Paul and the material and discursive elements of ancient Greco-Rom...

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Report copyright infringementby Allison Lee Palmer (Author)This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on major artists of the romantic era as well as entries on related art movements, styles, aesthetic philosophies, and philosophers.Author BiographyAllison Lee Palmer is an Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art Histo...

Caribbean Women and Their Art - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ellen Snodgrass (Author)This is a chronology of creative contributions made by Caribbean women. Among the arts covered in this volume are quilting, beadwork, dancing, diaries and memoirs, folk music, landscaping, sculpture, theatrics, etc. Entries are cross-referenced and include further readings drawn from an exhaustive bibliography of sources.Author BiographyMary Ellen Snodgrass is the author of several award-winning reference volumes, including Encyclop...

Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics: Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson

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Report copyright infringementby Ashley Marshall (Editor), John Barrell (Contribution by), Ann Bermingham (Contribution by)This book is a wide-ranging study of British literature and art from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, one that stresses the connections between visual and verbal representation.Author BiographyAshley Marshall is assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada-Reno. Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.8 x 9.4 x...

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Report copyright infringementby David W. J. Gill (Author)Artwashing the Past: Context Matters contributes to the wider discussion about the appropriate due diligence process that should be conducted prior to the acquisition of cultural objects.Author BiographyDavid W. J. Gill is honorary professor in the Centre for Heritage at the University of Kent, and academic associate in the School of History at the University of East Anglia. He is a former Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome and ...

Afro-Cuban Religions and the Arts: A Dog Has Four Legs but Takes Only One Path

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Report copyright infringementby Alan West-Durán (Author)This book examines the philosophical and spiritual facets of religions like Regla de Ocha, Palo, Abakuáaacute;, and Vodou, and how deeply embedded they are in Cuban popular culture and art, be it music, the visual arts, film, or literature.Author BiographyAlan West-Durán is professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies (CSGS) at Northeastern University. Number of Pages: 294 Dimensions: 0...

Race, Gender, and Film Censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Ooten (Author)This book chronicles the history of movie censorship in Virginia from the 1920s to 1960s. Ooten uses the contestations surrounding film censorship as a framework for more fully understanding the dominant political, economic, and cultural hierarchies that structured Virginia in the mid-twentieth century.Author BiographyMelissa Ooten is associate director of the WILL program and lecturer at the University of Richmond. Number of ...

The Women Who Made Early Disneyland: Artists, Entertainers, and Guest Relations

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Report copyright infringementby Cindy Mediavilla (Author), Kelsey Knox (Author)The Women Who Made Early Disneyland tells the story of the many women who designed, built, and operated early Disneyland from their various positions and departments and highlights how their work contributed to Disneyland's early success.Author BiographyCindy Mediavilla is retired lecturer from the department of information studies, University of California, Los Angeles.Kelsey Knox is university archivist at the Un...

Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus: A People's History Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Anna M. V. Bowden (Author)In an effort to demonstrate the (im)practicalities of John's command for withdrawal (18:4), this book reconstructs the marble economy of Roman Ephesus and reads Revelation through the daily lives of its workers. It concludes that John's call for zero cultural participation is utterly devastating for its workers. Author BiographyAnna M. V. Bowden is visiting assistant professor of biblical studies at Albion College and an instructor in ...

The Philadelphia House: Organic Architecture and Placemaking in Chestnut Hill

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Report copyright infringementby Khosrow Bozorgi (Author), Keith Gaddie (Author)Using six architectural examples from Philadelphia, this book present a distinct type of house inspired by organic architecture using words and over 200 photographs and drawings. Author BiographyKhosrow Borzogi is a Professor of Architecture, the founder of the Ph.D. Program in Planning, Design, and Construction at the University of Oklahoma, and also the creator of the Center for Middle Eastern Architecture and Cu...

Belle Baranceanu: Life, Art, and the New Deal Renaissance

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Peoples Hernandez (Author)In this first biography of artist Belle Baranceanu, Jennifer Peoples Hernandez tells the riveting story of a woman who overcame insurmountable odds to become the most important female muralist in San Diego during the Great Depression and one of California's foremost Modern artists.Author BiographyJennifer Peoples Hernandez teaches at San Diego Mesa College. Number of Pages: 376 Dimensions: 1 x 9 x 6 I...

A Translation Theory of Knowledge Transfer: Learning Across Organizational Borders

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Report copyright infringementby Kjell Arne R?vik (Author)In A Translation Theory of Knowledge Transfer, Kjell Arne R vik develops a new theory on the challenges of transferring and sharing knowledge across organizational borders. Based on extensive research, he proposes a new, reframing idea of knowledge transfer as acts of translation, resembling the translation of texts. This new concept both extends and challenges established theories of knowledge transfer. Containing a comprehensive revie...

Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870

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Report copyright infringementby James Taylor (Author)The growth of joint-stock business in Victorian Britain re-evaluated, showing in particular the resistance to it. Winner of the Economic History Society's Best First Monograph award 2009 The emergence of the joint-stock company in nineteenth-century Britain was a culture shock for many Victorians. Though the home of the industrialrevolution, the nation's economy was dominated by the private partnership, seen as the most efficient as well a...

Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida

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Report copyright infringementby Lu Vickers (Author)Where America's wildest dreams came true"At Cypress Gardens--the original Florida theme park--movie stars, water-ski champs, and southern sweethearts created magic. More than anyone, even Walt Disney, Dick Pope Sr. invented Florida as America's dream vacationland. This journey back to the attraction in its heyday brims with wonderful images, true tales, and the author's great love for and understanding of the real Florida."--Joy Wallace Dicki...

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Roberts (Author)To understand business and its political, cultural, and economic context, it helps to view it historically, yet most business histories look no further back than the nineteenth century. The full sweep of business history actually begins much earlier, with the initial cities of Mesopotamia. In the first book to describe and explain these origins, Roberts depicts the society of ancient traders and consumers, tracing the roots of modern busin...

Authenticity: Understanding Misinformation Through the Study of Heritage Tourism

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Report copyright infringementby William Aspray (Author), James W. Cortada (Author)This book identifies ways in which the conceptual approaches to heritage tourism studies can be applied by information scholars to gain new insights into the study of misinformation. Author BiographyWilliam Aspray is Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He formerly taught at Colorado (Boulder), Harvard, Indiana (Bloomington), Penn, Rutgers (New Bruns...

Japan's Engineering Ethics and Western Culture: Social Status, Democracy, and Economic Globalization

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Report copyright infringementby Natsume Kenichi (Author)This book examines the broad historical process of introducing engineering ethics in Japan from the late nineteenth century to the twentieth century. The author discusses this process from a comprehensive perspective, including not only engineering education but also various issues in science, technology, and society studies.Author BiographyNatsume Kenichi is associate professor at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology. Numbe...

Globalization, the IMF, and International Banks in Argentina: The Model Economic Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Christian Hernandez (Author)This book examines how the ideas, interests, and biases of international financial institutions, private banks, and the press affect economic and political change during periods of crisis. It suggests that the monetary and financial trials of Argentina then and now serve as a microcosm for the Western world's current backlash against globalization.Author BiographyChristian Hernandez holds a PhD in political economy from the Universit...

The Russian Five: A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery and Courage - Paperback

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by Keith Gave (Author)When the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best place to find world-class players who could help turn things around more quickly were conscripted servants behind the Iron Curtain. All they had to do then was make history by drafting them, then figure out how to get them out. That's when the Wings turned to Keith Gave, the newsman whose clandestine mission to Helsinki, Finland, was the first p...

Coming of Age: How Technology and Entrepreneurship are Changing the Face of MENA

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Report copyright infringementby Noor Sweid (Author)The coming-of-age stories of emerging entrepreneurial ecosystems outside of the US and Europe, like China, India and Brazil, are well documented. However, whilst having the largest young digital population on the planet, the rise of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has taken place largely unnoticed.With a Foreword by Reid Hoffman, Coming of Age is the story of the region's entrepreneurial growth in the last 25 years that spans industri...

KJV, Pew Bible, Large Print, Hardcover, Blue, Red Letter Edition - Hardcover

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)The Thomas Nelson KJV Pew Bible Large Print Edition has long been a trusted and durable Bible for use in churches and various worship settings. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at any size.The classic King James Version, one of the most influential and beautiful works of art in the English language, continues to be the standard translation for numerous churches and milli...

Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 - Paperback

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by Nathaniel Philbrick (Author)"A treasure of a book."--David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his b...

Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era - Paperback

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by Laurence Leamer (Author)DON'T MISS FX's FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS--THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK--NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU! New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers--the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans." "There are certain women," Truman ...

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by Frances Densmore (Author), Nina M. Archabal (Introduction by)Chippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) Indians of the United States and Canada.Praise for Chippewa Customs"Densmore . . . has done a valuable piece of work for posterity by collecting this material."--Minnesota History Number of Pages: 218 Dimensions: 0.67 x 8.97 x 5.78 IN...

Where Were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? - Paperback

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by Yona Z. McDonough (Author), Who Hq (Author), Dede Putra (Illustrator)Explore the most amazing wonders of the ancient world More than 2,000 years ago, travelers wrote about the incredible sights they saw while on their journeys. They told tales of hanging gardens that were built for a Babylonian queen, and a colossal statue that guided ships through the harbor of Rhodes in Greece. These writers compiled a list of the very best of these sights that are now known as the Seven Wonders of the ...

Organic Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Graham Patrick (Author)Organic chemistry is the chemistry of compounds of carbon. The ability of carbon to link together to form long chain molecules and ring compounds as well as bonding with many other elements has led to a vast array of organic compounds. These compounds are central to life, forming the basis for organic molecules such as nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids. In this Very Short Introduction Graham Patrick covers the whole range of organic compounds and the...

The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years

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Report copyright infringementby Ulbe Bosma (Author)"An extraordinary achievement." --David Edgerton, Literary Review "A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry have shaped the world in which we live." --Gary Taubes, author of The Case Against Sugar For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How did sugar find its way into almost all the food we eat, foster...

Chicago House Music: Culture and Community - Paperback

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by Marguerite L. Harrold (Author)An inside look at the music born, bred, and perfected in Chicago.Chicago house music originated in the city's Black, gay underground in the late seventies and became one of the most popular musical genres in the world by the end of the century. In Chicago House Music: Culture and Community, Marguerite Harrold tells the story of the genre's rise and the prolific creators who have sustained it for decades. You'll learn about house music's early innovators, like ...