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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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With insights into Kurdish society and politics, this title demonstrates the rich historical roots of the Kurdish national movement, offering an interpretation to the Kurdish political circumstance, viewed as isolated events triggered by economic upheaval or political dissatisfaction. It also presents a perspective to view the conditions in Iraq.

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Israel's 1977 political election resulted in a dramatic defeat for the ruling Labor movement. The government passed into the hands of the rightwing nationalist movement. Elmaliach chronicles the fascinating story of Israel's political transformation between the 1950s and the 1970s, exploring the roots of the Labor movement's historic collapse.

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A story of the impossible choices of vulnerable individuals living under the Third Reich and the blurred boundaries between victim, bystander, and accomplice.

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This volume explores the relationship between society and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects interpretation.

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Shahrokh Meskoob is one of the first scholars to take an innovative approach to Hafez's poetry. Meskoob goes beyond a linguistic and rhetorical analysis of Hafez's poetry in the Divan to access the interior thoughts of the poet and summon his spirit in the process of understanding Hafez's mysticism.

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Gaining remarkable access to a community that has largely been ignored by researchers, Anaraki chronicles the lives of current and former substance users in Iran in prisons, treatment centres, and NGOs. In each setting, individuals are criminalized, medicalized, and marginalized as the system attempts to ‘normalize’ them.

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Gathers work from sixteen Iraqi writers, all translated from Arabic into English. Shedding a bright light on the rich diversity Iraqi experience, Shakir Mustafa has included selections by Iraqi women, Iraqi Jews now living in Israel, and Christians and Muslims living both in Iraq and abroad. While each voice is distinct, they are united in writing about a homeland that has suffered.

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Stephen Crane was a prodigious American author whose bohemian ways seemed to contradict his conscientious upbringing. Drawing on documents by Crane's father, mother and sister, this text shows how their vitality and versatility galvanized Crane's imagination and spurred his literary career.

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Thomas Szasz argues that the modern penchant for transforming human problems into ""diseases"" and judicial sanctions into ""treatments"", replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to a type of government he calls ""pharmacracy"", eroding personal freedom and dignity.

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Explores the central issues of vision and visibility in Iranian culture. This book focuses on historical and literary texts to understand the use of visual culture in the production of the contemporary nation. It examines various discourses that have constituted the image of the ""Babi.

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Brings together a selection of articles collectively surveying the current state of Rastafari as a worldwide phenomenon. The essays are divided into sections on globalization, ideology and practice, theology, gender, politics and music.

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A collection of essays by Szasz, showing the philosophical foundations he believes are necessary for a society which truly supports freedom and autonomy of the individual.

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Although decades of scholarship have critiqued traditional binaries of developed and undeveloped in Arab studies, the narrative of 1798 symbolizing the coming of the modern west to the rescue of the static east endures. This book takes stock of this dominant paradigm, interrogating its origins and the ways in which scholarship perpetuates it.

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An exposition of the nature, possibilities and limitations of psychoanalytic treatment, defending the essence of psychoanalysis against moralistic and conformist misuse.

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Food historian and award-winning author Peter Rose gives us an enlightening sampling of historical Dutch recipes adapted for the modern kitchen. From cookies and custards to savory dishes and salads, Rose shows that historical cooking - whether done over an open fire or on a stovetop - need not be a thing of the past.

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In rich ethnographic detail, Border Humanitarians explores the narratives of Burmese activists in exile who rely on transnational political and social networks to respond to gender violence among the hundreds of thousands of migrants living and working precariously on the Thai border with Myanmar.

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Based on a three-day symposium, ""The Claims of Memory,"" this book conveys the omnipresence of memory in Elie Wiesel's writing and attempts to preserve the flavor of the exchange that took place. It also represents several intersecting approaches to memory.

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Delineates the intricate manner in which the modern state in Egypt monitored, controlled, and “policed” the bodies of subaltern women. Some of these women were runaway slaves, others were deflowered outside of marriage, and still others were prostitutes. Kozma traces the effects of nineteenth-century developments on these women who lived at the margins of society.

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No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb abandoned literature in the 1950s in favour of Islamism. This book offers a fresh perspective on Qutb's life that examines his Islamist commitment as a continuation of his literary project.

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This pioneering ethnographic work centres on the dynamics of female authority within the religious life of a conservative Muslim community in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan. Peshkova draws upon several years of field research to chronicle the daily lives of women religious leaders, known as otinchalar, and the ways in which they exert a powerful influence in the religious life of the community.

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The essays in this work illustrate the various ways in which women in the Middle East fall short of being vested with the rights and privileges that would define them as fully enfranchised citizens. They offer an examination of national legislation on personal status, penal law and labour.

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Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarised and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently been represented as ideal in nature. Drawing on extensive research the author explores to what effect such idealised depictions have been projected onto the international arena.

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Offers a comprehensive history based on the oral traditions of the Rotinonshonni Longhouse People, also known as the Iroquois. Drawing on J.N.B. Hewitt’s translation and the oral presentations of Cayuga Elder Jacob Thomas, Rice records the Iroquois creation story, the origin of Iroquois clans, the Great Law of Peace, the European invasion, and the life of Handsome Lake.

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The legal treatment of sexual behavior is a subject that receives little scholarly attention in the field of Middle East women’s studies. Elyse Semerdjian’s “Off the Straight Path” takes a bold step toward filling that gap, offering a fascinating look at the historical progression of Islamic law’s treatment of illicit sex.

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Drawing upon the teachings and writings of the Sudanese reformer, Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, this study aims to provide the intellectual foundations for a total reinterpretation of the nature and meaning of Islamic public law.

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Focuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides.

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Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. This volume provides an understanding of contemporary Turkey and how its different representations of the past have become metaphors through which individuals and groups define their cultural identity and political position.

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The records from 1654 to 1679 are translated from the original Dutch. This is part of Syracuse University Press’ New Netherland Documents Series.

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This work is an analysis of the ideology, causal patterns, and means employed in the Nazi genocide against the Jews. It argues that the events of the genocide compel reconsideration of such moral concepts as individual and group responsibility, and the role of knowledge in ethical decisions.

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A survey of the topographic and metaphoric landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains through the artistic and tourist life of the region as it appears in paintings and illustrations. Extending from the late-18th to the late-20th century, it includes a large collection of pictorial works.

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This work provides an account of the Church Universal Triumphant (CUT), from its modest origin as a tiny fragment of the esoteric community to its growth into a wealthy and formidable organization in the 1960s and early 1970s. It also covers its leader, Elizabeth Clare Prophet.

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Serves as a comprehensive field guide to the mushrooms of the southeastern United States. Featuring more than 450 species, this volume includes descriptions and color photographs. It contains the useful detail required by advanced students and professional mycologists, and emphasizes identification based on macroscopic field characters.

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This volume takes the reader through the journey of a myth - where Orpheus becomes an Orpheus-Christus, a courtly knight and the writer of love lyrics.

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Based on primary sources and personal contacts and interviews, this book examines the origin, evolution, and the role of the Communist party in Egypt. It paints a detailed picture of Egyptian domestic politics. The authors examine the developments of communism in Egypt as a dynamic response to a corrupt political system and to deplorable economic and social conditions that beset most Egyptians.

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No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb abandoned literature in the 1950s in favour of Islamism. This book offers a fresh perspective on Qutb's life that examines his Islamist commitment as a continuation of his literary project.

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This work chronicles intentional communities in the 20th century. The chronological account first studies the older groups that were operating until 1900, it then explores the impact of the early 19th-century art colonies, before discussing decade-by-decade the new groups formed up to 1960.

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