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Combines the author's love of America's waterways with practical and historic information gathered from his three decades as a professional riverlorian for the Delta Queen Steamboat Company in New Orleans. A book for all who love Mark Twain, these river adventures will entertain the landlubber and engage the boating enthusiast.

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Presents a collection of essays about the Vietnam combat veteran and his representation of his experience. This book is about how to read and how to hear the historical, psychological, and narrative truths of soldiers' talk. It explores the phenomenon of soldier talk; Vietnam War poetry; the historiography of the Vietnam War; and more.

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Examines the lies of history, fictions which enter society and affect the course of our lives. This book investigates fictions that include those involved in the now-common wisdom about: the patriarchal system, Re-Construction and African-American rights, Mormon polygamy, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Presents a model that questions conventional views of economic development by showing that the Indian state is a divided leviathan: its developmental failure is the combined product of central-local interactions and political choices by regional elites. This study explores the role of provinces in shaping investment flows.

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How women balance lives as philosophers, feminists, and members of a religious tradition.

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Traces the arc of interactions between East and West from the late colonial period, through Indian Independence, the Cold War, radicalism of the 60s, and the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies, to the current conjuncture. This work explores the past and future significance of area studies as a paradigm for education and scholarship.

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Who has time for community in the modern metropolis? The answer may surprise you: apparently lots of us. Focusing on Indianapolis, Indiana, a city in America's geographical and cultural heartland, this book describes the range of changes to America's cities and American religion during the last decades of the 20th century.

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Moving from the local to the global, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics, these essays seek the decomposition of cultural myths. It pursues understandings of performance in the postmodern world, embodying perspectives that help understand the historical and cultural issues that underpin it.

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Explores films produced in the Soviet Occupation Zone and East Germany from the end of World War II through the early 1960s, offering insights into how Germans dealt with the aftermath of the war. This title argues that the cinematic productions of East Germany offer a corrective to misperceptions about German responses to the legacy of the war.

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Resolves a fundamental problem in film theory by negotiating a middle path between "gaze theory" approaches to film and spectator studies or cultural theory approaches that emphasize the position of the viewer and thereby take account of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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Portugal's transition from fascism to democracy, and from imperial metropole to EU member state. This book examines the evolution and significance of Ranchos folcloricos, groups of amateur musicians and dancers who perform turn-of-the-century popular tradition and have acted as cultural barometers of change throughout 20th-century Portugal.

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If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. This book gathers some of the stories from the humorists of the big belly of America, such as Mark Twain, George Ade, Finley Peter Dunne, Don Marquis, and Ring Lardner; James Thurber, Ruth McKenney, Erma Bombeck, Calvin Trillin, and Garrison Keillor; and, others.

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Offers a comparative history of European girlhood from 1750 to 1960, with a focus on Britain, France, and Germany. This work covers issues in the lives of girls, from sexuality and leisure to social roles in the family and economy. It brings girls to the centre of European history, focussing on their importance in European economics and culture.

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Features essays on Kierkegaard that read his philosophy in the light of deconstruction. Placing Kierkegaard squarely within the currents of contemporary continental philosophy, this work gives insights into the philosopher's work and thinking. It seeks a deeper understanding of Kierkegaard's work in philosophy, religion, and aesthetics.

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This volume brings together Laleen Jayamanne's discussions of Australian films, Sri Lankan films, European art films, silent film comedy, contemporary American films, and her own films. She addresses a number of issues that have been crucial areas of contention in film studies over the years.

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Presents an introduction to the field of cultural semiotics. This book features many practical examples of how semiotics can be used. It is suitable for those who want to understand the whys and wherefores of semiotics.

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Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India

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Accepts, without pessimism, the postmodern idea of the end of time. This work exposes the stratified, and non-linear textures of temporal complexity that characterize our world. It engages Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida to demonstrate how repetition can preserve sameness and how creativity can interrupt time.

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Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements around the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. How have new practices of religious mediation transformed the public sphere? This work offes new perspectives on a variety of media, genres, and religions.

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Talks about a group of Roman Catholic seminarians. In the 1950s, a group of adolescents entered the seminary, and they found that their sense of themselves as special, chosen by God, afforded them no special protection from the turmoil they encountered from without and within. This book tells the story of those men.

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Ge, formerly translated as "mask" or "masquerade," appears among the Dan people of Cote d'Ivoire as a dancing and musical embodiment of their social ideals and religious beliefs. This work sets out to discover what resides at the core of Ge. It reveals mask performance as an expression of individual and community identity.

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Presents a study of religious congregations that poses a challenge to key assumptions about welfare reform. This book also deals with the three basic assumptions about congregations that drive contemporary faith-based reforms: "How well do congregations know their neighbours?", "Is smaller better?" and "Can congregations impart values?"

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An impressive collection of writings on women's issues in Indian history

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An ethnographic study that describes how two groups of Romanian industrial workers have fared since the end of socialism.

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In the name of benevolence, philanthropy, and humanitarian aid, individuals, groups, and nations have sought to assist others and to redress forms of suffering and deprivation. This volume examines the evolution of the ideas and practices of benevolence, chiefly in the context of British imperialism, from the late 18th century onwards.

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Conspiracy theories have been a part of the American experience since colonial times. This anthology provides students with documents relating to some of the more important and interesting conspiracy theories in American history and politics, some based on reality, many chiefly on paranoia.

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Explores the landscape of Turkish-language broadcasting in Berlin. This work shows how, from 24-hour radio broadcasting in Turkish to programming on Germany's national public broadcasting and local public access channels, Germany's largest immigrant minority has made its presence felt in German media.

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Examining connections between Jewish philosophy, the literary form in which it is expressed, and the culture it is produced in, this book shows how Jews understood and struggled with their social, religious, and intellectual environments. It addresses various themes associated with the literary form of dialogue and its philosophical reception.

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Examines the internal dynamics of the Palestinian political elite and their impact on the struggle to establish a Palestinian state. Drawing on Palestinian sources, this book argues that the Fatah leadership has attempted to mobilize new social forces while undermining their ability to develop independent power structures.

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Features essays, which revolve generally around issues of conflict between place and identity; and the theme of diversity - be it religious, sexual, racial, artistic, cultural, occupational, or geographical. This work includes writers such as Stuart Dybek, Scott Russell Sanders, Mary Swander, James McManus, Maxine Chernoff, and others.

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This discussion confronts the difficult questions regarding how best to practice physician-assisted suicide in the USA. It provides a framework for thinking about what assisted suicide (particularly physician-assisted suicide) is, and how its legalized practice might be guided.

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A discussion of speaking in tongues and the role of women in a Yucatan Pentecostal congregation. Felicitas Goodman spent part of every year between 1969 and 1986 with the women of the congregation. This is a record of her fieldwork, covering events both ordinary and extraordinary.

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From an 'interview' with 'Dr Frieda Tingle, the world's leading expert on sex' to essays on 'Humor in the Eight-Pagers' and 'Gershon Legman, Lord of the Lewd,' this collection of words and images showcases the various aspects of humor and sexuality.

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