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For anyone who has completed studies in elementary Greek, this edition provides the assistance necessary to read, understand, and appreciate the first book of the Iliad in its original language. Structured to maximize reading ease, P.A. Draper's volume stands out among introductions to the Greek Iliad.

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The effect of Islam on Western Europe has been profound. Spektorowski and Elfersy argue that it has transformed European democratic values by inspiring an ultra-liberalism that now faces an ultra-conservative backlash.

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Presents a collection by leading theater performers, practitioners, critics, and passionate spectators. This book offers a backstage pass to the personal and creative lives of some of the most important and influential theater artists of the past years.

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In exploring the microfoundations of economic growth, the contributors to this volume focus on three subjects that were of profound interest to the great Austrian and Harvard economist, Joseph A. Schumpeter: innovation, technological change, and economic growth.

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Presents the case that legislative bodies - long characterized as institutionalized and therefore static - are in fact changing at a surprising rate. Focusing on the parliaments of Britain, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, Turkey, and Central and Eastern Europe, contributors try to understand how, when, and why parliaments modify themselves.

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Investigates the mergers of six of America's most respected teaching hospitals. The author explains the reasons why these institutions decided to change their governance and the factors that have allowed two of them to continue to operate while forcing the third to dissolve after only 23 months of operation.

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A history of Miletos is long overdue. Despite the significance of this city in antiquity and the results of ongoing excavations, the last full-scale discussion of Miletos was written in 1915. Vanessa Gorman provides the first modern history of the city, collecting and scrutinizing sources from the first signs of habitation until 400 BCE.

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Argues that the social history of early-20th-century Germany has elided an important cultural and social phenomenon by not including the story of German Jewish women and suicide. Nothing Happened is a historiographic intervention that operates in conversation and in tension with contemporary theory about trauma and the reconstruction of emotion in history.

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While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.

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Compares the growth achieved in Japan and Europe with the frustrated growth in the major societies of mainland Eurasia. More broadly, this book is about the conflict in world history between economic growth and political greed.

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Examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany's exposure to this African American art form from 1919 to 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz in Germany as well as the roles that music, race (especially Blackness), and America played in German culture and follows the debate over jazz through the fourteen years of Germany's first democracy.

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Focuses on how playwrights have written stage directions that engage readers, production team members, and scholars in a process of embodied creation in order to determine meaning. Bess Rowen calls the products of this method ‘affective stage directions’ because they reach out from the page and affect the bodies of those who encounter them.

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Uses examples from the United States, Western Europe, and Russia to demonstrate historical patterns of Othering people, as well as how marginalized people fight back against dominant powers that seek to silence or erase them.

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Brings together a list of experts in the field of campaign effects to study the influence of campaigns on our political culture. This work explores various campaign factors - debates, news coverage, advertising, and polls - and their effects - priming, learning, and persuasion. It examines different kinds of campaigns in the US and abroad.

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Examines the turbulent period of South Korea's Fourth Republic (1972-79), beginning with its declaration by Park Chung Hee and ending with his assassination. This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to explore the rich and varied cultural production of the Yusin period, especially in its relationship to state power.

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For fifty-five years US-Cuban relations were couched in terms of the Cold War, often pitting Cubans in the diaspora against Cubans who remained in their homeland. This collection of Cuban and Cuban-American writing and art celebrates the informal networks that Cubans in both countries have maintained through artistic, academic, family, and other ties.

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Minimalism stands as the key representative of 1960s radicalism in art music histories - but always as a failed project. In The Names of Minimalism, Patrick Nickleson holds in buzzing tension collaborative composers in the period of their collaboration, as well as the musicological policing of authorship in the wake of their eventual disputes.

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Explores women’s self-conceptions and representations of women’s and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works. The book centres its analysis on gender, together with difference, ethnicity, intersectionality, and identity, to approach artworks and texts in more nuanced ways.

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South Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory, a testament to how economic development leads to democracy. Seeds of Mobilization takes a closer look at the history of South Korea to show that Korea’s advance to democracy was not linear.

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Provides an accessible introduction to discourse intonation for ESL/EFL instructors, whether practicing or in pre-service graduate programs. This textbook relies heavily on the Brazil model; chapters are organised around different parts of that model and how they can be most effectively taught.

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Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for reparations in the United States.

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Examining acts of making with objects, tools, words, and relationships, Beyond the Makerspace reads making as a kind of rhetoric, or meaning-making work, and argues that acts of making things are rhetorical in the sense that they are culturally situated and that they mark boundaries of what counts as making and who counts as maker.

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Showcases the extent to which the archetypical storytelling exemplified by fanfiction has continuities with older forms: the communal tale-telling cultures of the past and the remix cultures of the present have much in common. Short stories that draw on franchises such as Star Trek are accompanied by short contextual and analytical essays.

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Brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. The book shows that individual voices of trans and queer writers had a significant impact on the production of knowledge about gender and sexuality and introduces lesser known texts to a new readership.

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Analyzes the gay rights cases, and explores the complex relationship between litigation and social change. This work describes what happens when these cases enter the courtroom, and explains why they have met with mixed success. It explores both the promise and the limits of using legal mobilization to effect social change.

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This text is designed to help student writers develop their knowledge and use of academic language to meet the demands of college- and university-level writing assignments. It draws on the research identifying lexical and grammatical patterns across academic contexts and provides authentic reading contexts for structured vocabulary learning.

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Shrubs and vines are some of the most diverse and widespread plants in the Great Lakes Region. Michigan Shrubs and Vines is the must-have book for anyone who wishes to identify and learn about these fascinating plants. The book gives detailed descriptions of 132 species, providing concise information on key characters, habitat, distribution, and growth pattern.

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Examines Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. This book finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided.

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Presents an analysis of the history of Israel's defense and foreign policies and a fundamental reassessment of its security doctrine.

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