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Presents examples of contemporary Cuban art drawn from the distinguished collection of Howard and Patty Farber (New York and Miami Beach). Created primarily during the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, these works represent the combination of utopian impulses and dystopian realities, the ruptures and new beginnings that have characterized Cuban art.

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Beautifully illustrated with richly detailed photographs, this volume traces the living heritage of locally made pottery in the English-speaking Caribbean. Patricia Fay combines her own expertise in making ceramics with two decades of interviews, visits, and participant-observation in the region.

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Offering a practical demonstration of the theory of genetic criticism, the study of the manuscript and textual development of a literary text, this work shows how the creative process of modernist writer James Joyce can be reconstructed from his manuscripts.

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Utopian and intentional communities have dotted the American landscape since the colonial era, yet only in recent decades have archaeologists begun analysing the material culture left behind by these groups. This volume includes discussions of the Shakers, the Harmony Society, the Moravians, the Oneida community, Brook Farm, and Mormon towns.

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James Joyce's interest in medicine has been well established - he attempted to embark on medical studies no fewer than three times - but a comprehensive assessment of the influence his interest in medicine had on his work has been lacking until now. This fills that gap as the first sustained study of Joyce's artistic uses of turn-of-the-century medical discourses.

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Presents an important shift in the interpretation of skeletal remains in the Americas. This title aims to demonstrate how bioarchaeologists can uniquely contribute to our understanding of the formation, representation, and repercussions of identity. It highlights the importance of skeletal evidence in helping us better understand our past.

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The Aztecs ruled much of Mexico from the thirteenth century until the Spanish conquest in 1521. Outside of the imperial capital of Tenochtitlan, various urban centers ruled the numerous city-states that covered the central Mexican landscape. This work demonstrates the ways in which these city-state capitals were different from Tenochtitlan.

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Provides a historical and theoretical overview of the subject from the 1940s through today. With particular emphasis on production, reception, and the intersection between art and politcs in Iraq and Palestine, Nada Shabout reveals the fallacy in Western fascination with Arab art as a timeless and exotic “other”.

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Eric Walrond is one of the great underexamined figures of the Harlem Renaissance and the Caribbean diaspora. In Search of Asylum compiles Walrond's European journalism and later fiction. Louis Parascandola and Carl Wade have assembled a collection that at last fills in the biographical gaps in Walrond's life.

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Shallow ocean, or ""flats,"" fishing is one of the popular coastal activities in Florida. This book draws on the expertise of numerous ""flatsmasters"" who share their wisdom on how to land a trophy catch. It offers knowledge of the many vessels available, the different kinds of flats and the best ways to wade them, and weather safety information.

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Case studies that show the importance of the Indian Ocean region to the emergence of modernity and globalization. This volume brings together a diverse range of specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, providing broad geographical coverage and comparisons across sites.

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Investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. Smithers argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South.

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Explains the methods used by the Broadway Theatre Project to train those pursuing a career in musical theatre. This book emphasizes auditioning techniques, stress management, collaboration, how to create as well as perform, managing finances on the road, and the many other skills necessary to become an informed, well-rounded performer.

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Grasses are the fourth largest family of flowering plants worldwide. In Florida, grasses occur in every habitat and are the dominant ground cover across many regions. Grasses of Florida is the first complete systematic account of the grasses that occur in the wild throughout the state.

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This volume examines the manuscript of the ""Gawain-Pearl"" poet in the light of a compositional method well recognised from the literature of ancient Greece and Rome through the Renaissance, but largely overlooked by modern criticism.

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Samuel Roth is known to most literary scholars as a bold literary “pirate” for issuing unauthorised editions of modernist sensations, including Ulysses and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. His story portrays a struggle with literary censorship in the mid-twentieth century while providing insights into how modernism was marketed in America.

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The Florida Reef is known for its brilliant corals as much as it is for sunken pirate treasure. From Carysfort Reef to Indian Key to Dry Tortugas National Park, the Florida Keys provide many excellent and diverse snorkelling opportunities. Snorkeling the Florida Keys dives into more than forty sites, including reefs, wrecks, and beaches.

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Illustrated with photographs, drawings, and cartoons gathered from popular culture, this provocative book demonstrates that the veil, the garment known in Islamic cultures as the hijab, holds within its folds a semantic versatility that goes far beyond current clichés and homogenous representations.

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Michèle Hayeur Smith uses Viking textiles as evidence for the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the 9th century AD.

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Paradise Park was the “coloured only” counterpart to Silver Springs, a central Florida tourist attraction famous for its crystal-clear water and glass bottom boats. Full of vivid photographs, vintage advertisements, and interviews with employees and patrons, Remembering Paradise Park portrays a place of delight and leisure during the painful era of Jim Crow.

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In this memoir of a roller coaster career on the New York stage, former actor and dancer Bettijane Sills offers a highly personal look at the art and practice of George Balanchine, one of ballet's greatest choreographers, and the inner workings of his world-renowned company during its golden years.

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In this first full biography of former United States attorney general Janet Reno (1938-2016), Judith Hicks Stiehm describes the independent and unconventional life of a woman who grew up in a rural South Florida homestead and rose to occupy one of the top positions in the United States government.

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Tracing the development of the US presidency since Harry S. Truman took office in 1945, this volume describes the many ways the president's actions have affected the development of capitalism in the post-World War II era. Contributors show how the American ""Consumer-in-Chief"" has exerted a decisive hand as well as behind-the-scenes influence on the national economy and everyday American life.

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This is the first Finnegans Wake guide to focus exclusively on the multiple meanings and voices in Joyce's notoriously intricate diction. Rather than levelling the text it illuminates many layers of puns, wordplay, and portmanteaus, celebrating the Wake’s central experimental technique.

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Although it is one of Latin America's most significant postwar art movements, Nueva Figuracion has long been overlooked in studies of modern art. In this first comprehensive examination of the movement, Patrick Frank explores the work of four artists at its heart to demonstrate the importance of their work in the transnational development of modern art.

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If you long for less-trafficked authentic adventures amid Florida's developed natural areas, this is a guide to finding them, and enjoying them responsibly. Divided into four specific geographic regions covering the entire state from the Panhandle to the Lower Keys, it provides an overview of each.

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Spanning the transition from wood to iron shipbuilding in America, this history tells how nontheoretical methods of shipbuilding began to be discarded by the 1880s in favor of technical and scientific methods. It describes the trans-Atlantic exchange of technical information that took place during this era and the role of the US Navy in that.

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A comprehensive, photographically illustrated teaching guide on classical ballet technique, providing a reference source for both students and teachers. Warren combines the best instructional aspects of several international schools, including Soviet, Danish and English.

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In 1971, Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Despite foreign policy efforts and attempts to combat supply lines, the United States has been for decades, and remains today, the largest single consumer market for illicit drugs on the planet. This volume argues that the war on drugs has been ineffective at best and, at worst, has been highly detrimental to many countries.

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