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Offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photography - both as a textual element and through the inclusion of actual images - Amihay shows how the presence of visual elements in a textual work of fiction has a powerful subversive function.

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A valuable guide to the Waxy Cap Mushrooms of Eastern North America for amateur and professional mycologists, naturalists, forestry personnel, teachers, biologists and wild food enthusiasts.

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Shows how the issues confronted America in the late twentieth century have roots in the fifties, some apparent at the time, others only in retrospect: civil rights, environmentalism, the counterculture, and ""movements"" on behalf of women, Chicanos, and Native Americans. This book is useful for instructors of American history survey courses.

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Here for the first time is a stirring collection of rare songs of the Holocaust; songs of resistance, despair, rage, hope and even humour, written in the face of utter evil. The very existence of these songs raises haunting questions. The historical notes and insightful survivor testimony in this groundbreaking volume provide moving answers.

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After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, constitutionalist leaders represented a diverse composite of beliefs, yet they all shared a similar vision of a new Iran, one that included far-reaching modernizing reforms. Mangol Bayat provides a much-needed detailed analysis of this historic episode.

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This work offers an introduction to the best-known antiwar movement in United States history, written by veterans of the Vietnam War and participants in the movement. It examines how the activities of the movement affected the lives of most Americans.

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In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to occupy Harar, a prominent Muslim hub in the Horn of Africa. In Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Ben-Dror tells the story of Turco-Egyptian colonial ambitions and the processes that integrated Harar into the global system of commerce.

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In this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women’s comics to explore the representation of Jewish women’s bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives.

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Despite their significant contributions, women are largely absent from studies on the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on primary sources such as memoirs, wills, interviews, print media coverage, and oral histories, Farzaneh chronicles in copious detail women's participation on the battlefield, in the household, and everywhere in between.

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Explores the politics of religious engagement in the public sphere by comparing two modernist conservative movements: the Mormon Church in the US and the Gülen movement in Turkey. The book traces the public activities and activism of these two influential and controversial actors at the state, political society, and civil society domains.

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Looking at texts by writers who do not necessarily define themselves as Orientalists, this title broadens the possible ways of thinking about Istanbul - a complex, idiosyncratic city of the world.

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Drawing on archaeology, historical evidence, oral traditions, and linguistics, this book provides a view of Iroquois life from the prehistoric period and Owasco sites through the establishment of the Five Nations.

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How does one translate experience into fiction? This work includes specific and practical guidance on the art, craft, and business of writing short stories. It offers advice on exploring sources, galvanizing the imagination, studying stories, and then writing them.

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To understand how Albert Einstein's pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insights, Holmes gives readers access to Einstein in his own words. Through his private writings, she shows how Einstein's thoughts in response to the war evolved from horrified disbelief, to ironic alienation, to a kind of bleak endurance.

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Centuries before W.B. Yeats wove Indian, Japanese and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinships in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the unacknowledged discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage.

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This volume is an interdisciplinary guide to the Treaties of the Six Nations and their league. It provides a description of the earliest recorded treaties and an alphabetical list of persons involved in Iroquois treaty making.

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How lethal is love, how dangerous is woman? And how sensual is the yearning for immortality? This book presents the drama of Jummo's life, the tragic arc of her affair with her childhood sweetheart and her lifelong love for the mysterious Sidi Wadhana, a more-than-human emissary from the Netherworld.

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Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels. Bell numbered among her friends T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby, and Arabian sheiks. In this volume of three of her notebooks, Rosemary O'Brien preserves Bell's elegant prose, and presents her as a brilliant tactician fearlessly confronting her own vulnerability.

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Examines the relationship between the Rev. Ian Paisley and the leaders of the militant wing of evangelical fundamentalism in the United States in the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Northern Ireland ""Troubles"" in the late 1960s.

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Challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, Fägersten champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences by explaining the role of language in creating humour, conveying drama, and developing identifiable characters.

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Presents a series of five lectures given in 1981 at Syracuse University. Each couples with a concluding “dialogue” where the author poses questions and objections to his own essays and then answers them. Coleman sees the book as the extension of his 1973 volume, Power and the Structure of Society.

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During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past.

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Delves into the historical, political, and geopolitical background of Turkey's decline. Providing a comprehensive portrait of the Turkish state's turmoil, Aras creates a blueprint for the ways in which much-needed reforms can break vicious cycles of political polarization, rising authoritarianism, and weak state institutions.

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If the surface of Turkish politics has changed dramatically over the decades, the vocabulary for sorting these changes remains constant: Europe, Islam, minorities, the military, the founding father. This book explores the diverse mobilization and production of history and power in the primary figures that circulate in discourse about Turkey.

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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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“Vanguard of a New Modernity” draws feminist scholarly and political attention towards the women activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a major movement of Islamic renewal and reform in South Asia.

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This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.

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Emil Fackenheim was the last in a long line of Jewish philosophers to emerge from Germany, the modern center of Western philosophy, following Moses Mendelssohn, Leo Baeck, and Martin Buber. This book explores Fackenheim's rigorous pursuit of a philosophical response to the tragedy of the Holocaust.

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One of the most prominent Sunni clerics in the Muslim world, Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi influences the discourse around matters central to the Islamic faith and to Islam's relationship with the West. He is the voice of the moderate current in contemporary Islam. In this volume, Polka explores al-Qaradawi's life and development as a Muslim scholar.

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Focusing on themes of feminism, gender identity, and mental health, contributors explore the ways in which the CW dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend challenged viewer expectations, as well as the role television critics play in identifying a show's ""authenticity"" or quality.

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Hezbollah’s influence in military issues is well known, but its role in shaping cultural and political activities has not received enough attention. Kanaaneh sheds new light on the organisation's successful evolution as a counterhegemonic force in the region's resistance movement, known as ""Maqawama"".

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Chronicles the United Nations Relief and Works Agency's (UNRWA) significant role at the core of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Originally established in 1950 as a temporary, ""non-political"" response to the Palestinian refugee crisis, it has become a fixture in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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This volume of New Netherland documents makes critical material available from a period of time when the Dutch played a major role in building the New World. Included are a historical introduction and annotations.

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After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, constitutionalist leaders represented a diverse composite of beliefs, yet they all shared a similar vision of a new Iran, one that included far-reaching modernizing reforms. Mangol Bayat provides a much-needed detailed analysis of this historic episode.

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Illuminating the Jewish art exhibition at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1901, this study looks at its contributions to art and Jewish history and culture. Cultural Zionism was for the first time included into the official agenda, an important step for the politics of Zionism.

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One of the most important Irish novelists of the twentieth century, Kate O'Brien (1897–1974) was also a pioneer of women's writing. In this highly original approach to O'Brien's work, Davison traces the influence of three leading Spanish writers - Jacinto Benavente, Miguel de Cervantes, and Teresa of Avila - on O'Brien's work.

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This book about an 1880s radical feminist utopia includes an extensive introduction that provides critical apparatus to appropriately place Mizora and author Mary Bradley Lane in the cultural and historical context of the 19th century.

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Rooted in the world historical methodology of John O. Voll, this collection brings together a diverse group of scholars to investigate the ongoing impact of revival and reform movements beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing through to the present.

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Drawing on the comprehensive knowledge and experience of experts in the region, The International Politics of the Persian Gulf shines a bright light on this area, offering insights and thoughtful analyses on the critical importance of this troubled region to global politics.

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Examines Egyptian family history in a comparative and transnational context, addressing issues of colonial modernity and colonial knowledge, Islamic law and legal reform, social history, and the history of women and gender.

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Referendums have become an undeniably important, and perhaps inescapable, peacemaking tool. As such, understanding the ways in which referendum outcomes are shaped by peace negotiations is vital. Drawing on two case studies, Amaral presents a rich comparative analysis of the Annan Plan in Cyprus and the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.

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Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. Through an examination of selected works by key artists Rahman articulates an aesthetic founded on loss, dispersion, dispossession, and transformation.

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This text provides an illustrated world history of the Yiddish theatre covering five continents and more than 300 years.

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