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The first book of its kind to explore and unpack the Pulitzer winning poet's oeuvre.

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This author draws upon his personal experience in the Middle East and many recent trips as correspondent for ""The New Yorker"" to take the reader into the aspirations, fears, prejudices, hopes and convictions of the inhabitants of seven key countries and those without a country - the Palestinians.

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The Women's Peace Union grew out of the women's suffrage movement of the early-20th century. This text investigates the personalities and the philosophical disagreements of the union's leading members, their political tactics, commitment to pacifism and feminism, and eventual burnout.

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Grace Hartigan emerged during the 1950s as a leading representative of the 'second generation' of the New York School of abstract expressionist painters, a movement that achieved international standing for American art. This title offers readers a chronicle of the vibrant artistic and literary milieu of the times.

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This work collects, analyzes, and systematically presents in over 160 examples a magnificent tradition to future generations of cantors, scholars of Jewish music, and music enthusiasts worldwide. It reacquaints acculturated Jews with a largely unknown part of their heritage.

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There is an increasing number of middle- and upper-class urban Pakistani women turning toward Islam via Al-Huda, an Islamic school for women aiming to transform the women who absorb its message into 'pious' subjects. This title explores how Al-Huda is fostering a new generation of educated, urban, middle-class women to become veiled conservatives.

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An interpretive history of the anti-war movement in the USA throughout the entire Vietnam era. The authors portray the movement as a social force that energized people culturally yet failed to develop enduring political strength.

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Offering a fresh perspective, this volume traces the rich history of the Irish American diaspora press, uncovering the ways in which a lively print culture forged significant cultural, political, and even economic bonds between the Irish living in America and the Irish living in Ireland.

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The final volume in Miller's trilogy on the history of American intentional communities. Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of their character, scope, and evolution.

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Combining historical research and cultural analysis, Maoz Azaryahu explores the different myths that have been part of the vernacular and perception of Tel Aviv. He relates the city’s mythology to its physicality through buildings, streets, personal experiences, and municipal policies.

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In Egypt, something that fails to live up to its advertised expectations is often called a watermelon. The political transition in Egypt after protests overthrew Husni Mubarak is one such watermelon. Stacher examines the uprising and its aftermath to show how the country's new ruling incumbents deferred the democratic dreams of the people of Egypt.

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This study of the relationship between Muslim culture and Western modernity, portrays a society bound to its own glorified history - yet facing an external reality from the West. The meeting of these two worlds leads to a profound distortion, especially in how the Muslim world sees itself.

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In this book Dr Anis Obeid, a Druze layman, provides a penetrating analysis of Druze scriptures and beliefs (Tawhid). Presenting a chronological narrative of the foundation and development of the faith, he explains the historical conditions and religious rationale behind this closed religion.

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This volume introduces new sources for the study of the past and present life of Muslim women that challenge paradigms about the ways in which they""have been studied in the past veiled, exoticised and outside of general women's history. Amira El-Azhary Sonbol and the contributors deconstruct the past and offer fresh new perspectives.

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Reveals how the comic book hero has evolved to maintain relevance to America's fluctuating ideas of masculinity, patriotism, and violence. The book outlines the history of Captain America's adventures and places the unfolding storyline in dialogue with the comic book industry as well as America's varying political culture.

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The Journal of Turkish Literature encompasses the literary output of the Turks in Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, and elsewhere.

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This collection of essays builds on the contributions of Albert Schweitzer's philosophy of "Reverence for Life" as it pertains to our world today.

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Traces the formation of political subjectivity in times of crisis, by attending to the 2011 occupation of Syntagma Square in Athens: the heart of the Greek anti-austerity movement. Dimitris Soudias conceives of the Syntagma Square occupation as a lens through which we can critically engage with broader theoretical and political issues.

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On the surface, James Joyce's work is largely a political. Through most of the twentieth century he was the proud embodiment of the rootless intellectual. This title includes essays that bring Joyce within the ambit of postcolonial studies.

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This work shows that while the series ""The West Wing"" may be criticized as ""idealistic"", its clever techniques of camera work, lighting, editing, and mise en scene reflect America's best image of itself, and entertains a loyal audience that wants to believe in the nobility of the American Dream.

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Presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley examines Goldschmidt’s relationship to the Hebrew Bible and later rabbinical traditions, such as the Talmud and the Midrash.

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Analyses the emergence of modern Hebrew literature after 1780, a time when Jews were moving beyond their conventional Torah- and Zion-centred worldview. Taking a fresh look at the origins of modern Jewish literature, Frieden launches a new approach to literary studies, one that lies at the intersection of translation studies and travel writing.

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In this highly original book, Tricia Cusak explores the significance of painted riverscapes to the creation of national identities in nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe and America. Focusing on five rivers, the author outlines the history of the development of national landscapes, elaborating on the distinctive nature of riverscapes.

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This study analyses Iran's post-revolutionary politics.

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In this luminous bilingual collection of poems, Ghareeb Iskander offers a personal response to the The Epic of Gilgamesh. Iskander’s modern-day Gilgamesh is a nameless Iraqi citizen who witnessed the fall of the dictatorship, who exists in a constant state of threat, and who dreams, not about eternity, but simply about life.

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Brings together in one volume Haddad’s seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. The selected poems reveal Haddad’s playful yet profound meditations. A powerful lyric poet, Haddad juxtaposes classical and modern symbols, and mixes the old with the new, the sensual with the sacred, and the common with the extraordinary.

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As a small sect that emerged from Islam over years ago, the Druze religion and society has been cloaked in a tradition of secrecy. This book provides an analysis of Druze scriptures and beliefs (Tawhid). It presents a chronological narrative on the foundation and development of the faith, explaining historical conditions and religious rationale.

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Bringing together leading and emerging scholars from the fields of Irish studies and Jewish studies, this volume captures the most recent scholarship on their comparative history with nuance and remarkable insight.

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Examines how graffiti writers in Boston remake various spaces within and across the city. The spaces readers will encounter in this book are not just meaningful venues of writing, but also outcomes of writing itself: social spaces not just where writing happens but created because writing happens.

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This is a grouping of some 40 short stories that attempts to capture the essence of everyday life in the small Middle East country of Kuwait. The stories explore life in Kuwait from an American expatriate's perspective.

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Examining a broad range of network and cable TV shows across the history of the medium, this book explores the ways in which social imaginaries related to ‘bad behaviour’ have been humorously exploited over the years.

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This study takes a fresh look at the influential French philosopher, arguing that Jaques Derrida cannot be fully understood without considering the Jewish dimension of his thought, and offering a re-appraisal of his work.

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Drawing on primary sources, this is a comprehensive survey of of lycanthropy, with a focus on the medieval and Renaissance periods. Charlotte Otten shows that the study of lycanthropy uncovers basic issues in human life - the significance of violence and criminality, the role of the demonic in aberrant behaviour, and the nature of good and evil

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Builds on recent research to show that even when conceptualized as a set of practices rather than as a simple territorial label, authoritarianism has a spatiality: both drawing from and producing political space and scale in many often surprising ways.

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Showcases written and visual contributions by Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the way Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce art and activism as ways of coping with despair and resisting chaos and destruction.

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This is a pictoral history of the travellers of Ireland. Photographer Oppersdorff records the transition from nomadism and exclusion from ""society"", to the concessions to education and settling down in housing projects and caravan parks.

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A history of the ideologies and personalities of the feminist peace movement in the US. This study explores: connections between militarism and violence against women; women as the ""mothers"" of society; women as naturally responsible citizens; and the desire to be independent of male control.

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Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi’s unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans - water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from electric lights. Other stories tell of bear-trainers in India and of the American invasion of Iraq as experienced by a foal, deer, and puppies.

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New York City's main Arab communities exemplify the continuity and change that has taken place throughout the city's rich history. This is a collection of writings and photographs that document and tell the stories of these communities.

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Explains the nature of the Kurdish north transformation, once an isolated outpost for the Iraqi army and local militia, now an internationally recognized autonomous region, and how it has influenced the relationship between the Kurdistan region and Iraq's

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Examining Kurdish nationalism as a function of diverse political spaces, this book analyzes the formation of Kurdish national identity. In tracing the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, the author shows that, contrary to popular theories, there is nothing natural or fixed about Kurdish identity or the configuration that Kurdish nationalism assumes.

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