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Rediscovered in Syria in the late 19th century, this account relates the experiences of Reverend Elias al-Musili, a priest of the Chaldean Church and the first known visitor to the Americas from the Middle East. Supported by Spain and the pope, he offers a unique perspective on the New World.

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1943: Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details "life" in the infamous death camp, and his battle to survive, physically and morally, in the face of utter evil.

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In this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural “feminisms” with “Chinese characteristics”, they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms.

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A biography of one of the most significant figures in the history of American aviation. It also provides a documented history of the development of the field of aviation and those involved in it through the first three decades of the 20th century.

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Aims to recover the buried reputation of one of America's most popular writers from 1873 to 1914.

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A collection of essays that seeks to present Ireland's relationship to visual culture as a whole. It examines the politics of visual representation from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

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Examines the Muslim Brotherhood’s internal debates on preaching, activism, and social reform from the 1980s to the 2000s. In doing so, Sumita Pahwa finds that the framing of political work as ethical conduct has been critical to the organisation’s functioning.

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The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a period of equality, reform, and progress, often framing it as the backdrop to modern Turkey. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s exhortation to study the oppressed to understand the rule and the ruler, Talin Suciyan reexamines this era from the perspective of the Armenians.

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Examines the intersections between gender, medicine, and conventional economic, political, and social histories in Ireland between 1700 and 1950. Gathering many of the top voices in Irish studies and the history of medicine, the editors cover a range of topics including midwifery, mental health, alcoholism, and infant mortality.

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Thousands of teachers have entered prisons, many teaching writing or relying on writing practices when teaching other subjects. Yet these teachers have few pedagogical resources. This groundbreaking collection of essays provides such a resource and establishes a framework upon which to develop prison writing programs.

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Deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through the perspective of ordinary citizens.

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John Burroughs combined scientific observation with poetic spirit in his nature writing. This collection of essays explores Burrough's life and character, as well as his role as a writer and his relationships with contemporaries including Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson and Muir.

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Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and satirist who wrote on the abuse of language by psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and journalists. This is an introduction to Kraus's life and work and his place in cultural history, followed by translations of his selected works on psychiatry.

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The author of this book argues that human sexuality - however it may be expressed - reveals who we are and who we want to be. He claims that there are no sexual disorders that need to be cured by sex therapies - there is only the never-ending task of having to develop and shape our lives.

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The hijab is the controversial item of women's clothing. It has become the primary global symbol of female Muslim identity for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. This title provides an account of the controversial 2003 French law to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools.

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Based on nine months of fieldwork, Killing Contention deepens our understanding of modern political movements and the complicated factors that lead to their demise.

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Although the concept of credibility has been identified by the United Nations as a significant factor in successful peacekeeping operations, its role has largely been ignored in the literature on peacekeeping at the local level. In this book, Newby provides the first detailed examination of credibility's essential place in peacekeeping.

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The essays collected in this volume apply queer theory in a consideration of the human body as a vehicle for understanding relationships between people and place. The book examines the body as an entity constructed by gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality and disability.

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Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, this title offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls (WB/CW, 2000-2007).

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How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945 tells the fascinating story of the game off the ice, offering a play-by-play of cooperation and competition among owners, players, arenas, and spectators that produced a major league business enterprise.

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Investigates why writers during the long eighteenth-century so often turned to the rogue narrative to discuss Ireland. With consideration for themes of conflict, migration, religion, and gender, Lines offers up a compelling connection between the rogue themselves and the ever-popular rogue narrative in this early period of Irish writing.

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Using the contested theory of “democratic peace” as a foundational framework, the contributors explore the effects of a variety of internal influences on Israeli government practices related to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking: electoral systems; political parties; identity; leadership; and social movements.

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Olaf Stapledon, philosopher, novelist, educator and social activist, had an imagination unlike that of any other figure in modernist literature. This broad anthology includes a generous sample of his fictional gems, as well as other writings including essays, poems and letters.

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Offers a country-by-country critical assessment of the available scholarship on Arab families. Sixteen chapters focus on specific countries or groups of countries; seven chapters offer examinations of the literature on key topical issues. Joseph's volume provides an indispensable resource to researchers and students, and advances Arab family studies as a critical independent field of scholarship.

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Although the concept of credibility has been identified by the United Nations as a significant factor in successful peacekeeping operations, its role has largely been ignored in the literature on peacekeeping at the local level. In this book, Newby provides the first detailed examination of credibility's essential place in peacekeeping.

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Takes on the question of whether the complex and often perilous, secret negotiations between mediating parties prove to be an instrumental path to reconciliation or rather one that disrupts the process. Using the Palestinian-Israeli peace process as a frame­work, the author focuses on the uses and misuses of “back channel” negotiations.

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Activists in a wide range of movements have engaged in nonviolent strategies of repression management that can raise the likelihood that repression will cost those who use it. The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements brings scholars and activists together to address multiple dimensions and significant cases of this phenomenon.

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Presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate the changing needs of society. In examining over a thousand cases from three seventeenth- and eighteenth century Egyptian courts, Ibrahim traces the internal logic of pragmatic eclecticism under the Ottomans.

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Analyses the career of ‘political parson’ Thomas Drew (1800-70), creator of one of the largest Church of Ireland congregations on the island and leading figure in the Loyal Orange Order. Farrell demonstrates how Drew’s success stemmed from an adaptive combination of his fierce anti-Catholicism and populist Protestant politics.

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Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women's repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force.

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In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family’s past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history. Part memoir, part detective story, Because of Eva is an intimate tale of one woman’s history within the epic sweep of world events in the twentieth century.

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Based on extensive research and unparalleled access to primary and source material, the authors offer a behind-the-scenes account of the politics surrounding the IOC and the bidding process. The book offers valuable lessons for those interested in the IOC, the Olympic Movement, and the broader concepts of leadership and crisis management.

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Considered one of Morocco’s most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by those living in the margins of society. In The Elusive Fox, a young teacher visits the coastal city of Essaouira in the 1960s. There he meets a group of European bohemians and local Moroccans and is exposed to the grittier side of society.

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Presents a timely and fresh reexamination of one of the most important bilateral relationships of the last century. Collier delves deeply into the American desire to promote democracy in Iran from the 1940s to the early 1960s and examines the myriad factors that contributed to their success in exerting a powerful influence on Iranian politics.

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Examines the origins, evolution, and resilience of the Western Sahara conflict, deploying a diverse array of sources and firsthand knowledge of the region gained from multiple research visits. By shifting geographical frames—local, regional, and international—this provides a robust analysis of the stakes involved.

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Tells the story of a major intellectual revolution in nineteenth and early twentieth-century India and Iran, one that radically transformed the role of religion in society.

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This work examines reformations of Islam and culture in Turkey and the successful Islamic modernist Fethullah Gulen movement.

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In the field of conflict analysis, the topic of preconditions for negotiations has been a relatively neglected one. This volume seeks to fill the gap by moving beyond a discussion of techniques for negotiations, to addressing the problem of getting adversaries to enter into negotiations.

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Governors Island, situated in New York Harbor, blends a sense of nostalgia with twenty-first-century amenities. This book creates a portrait of the island through photographs, blueprints, architectural plans, and interviews with former residents. It is suitable for enthusiasts of military and New York history alike.

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Explores the history of Irish theater in America, from Harrigan and Hart to the productions of senior Irish playwrights such as Brian Friel and younger writers such as Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson. This volume includes examinations of company dynamics, tours of companies and actors, and the production history of individual works.

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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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