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First presented in the spring of 458 BCE at the festival of Dionysus in Athens, Aeschylus' trilogy Oresteia won the first prize. It is the only surviving example of the ancient trilogy form for Greek tragedies. David Mulroy's fluid, accessible English translation with its rhyming choral songs does full justice to the meaning and theatricality of the ancient Greek.

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This study of the writer Stevie Smith, portrays her as a well-connected literary insider who used many genres to resist domestic ideology in Britain. It explores the connections between her work and mass media production, and focuses on such contempories as Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley.

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Explores research on proverbs of many cultures. More than 20 essays written by scholars of such diverse disciplines as folklore, literature, psychology, linguistics and anthropology illustrate the significance of traditional proverbs and trace variations of proverbs over time.

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By turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the ""Historia Augusta"" is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. David Rohrbacher offers a literary analysis of the work, focusing on its many playful allusions.

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Embedded with lively portrayals of historical actors and vivid descriptions of political details, A Spiritual Revolution is the first large-scale effort to fully identify exactly how Western progressive thought influenced the Russian Church.

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Daniel Khalastchi's third collection provides an uncompromising exploration into the political and societal disturbances facing America today. Electioneering, lack of affordable health care, the increase in mass shootings, and the continued fight for equal rights are juxtaposed against an unlikely sense of hope and optimism.

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A collection of essays on topics as diverse as film scores, audience response and the national film industries of Russia, Scandinavia, the US and Japan. The book examines issues such as: what goes on when viewers perceive a film?; how do movies create illusions?; and how does a film arouse emotion?

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Scholars from a variety of fields have contributed to this volume to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in the future.

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Recounts the history of the Oneida Nation and its struggles for self-determination. Since the nation’s removal from New York in the 1820s to what would become the state of Wisconsin, it has been engaged in legal conflicts with US actors to retain its sovereignty and its lands.

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This text shows how healthcare professionals, with the best intentions of providing excellent holistic healthcare, can nonetheless perpetuate violence against vulnerable patients. It investigates the need to rethink healthcare practices to bring the art and science of medicine back into balance.

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The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist. In this volume, Erica Moretti reframes Montessori's pacifism as the foundation for her educational activism, emphasizing her vision of the classroom as a gateway to reshaping society.

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This text contends that Helen of Troy, and in particular the use of her image, is a crucial emblem for much of Western thought and literature and suggests that it has been stolen, appropriated, imitated, extorted and coveted throughout the course of history.

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Offers a pointed examination of the loss of speech, exile from community, and memory throughout the literary corpus of the Roman poet Ovid. Bartolo Natoli provides a unique cross-reading of Metamorphoses, Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, poems written after Ovid's exile from Rome in 8CE.

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An analysis of literary criticism that explores the origins of modern criticism in Romanticism and discusses work by Wordsworth, Derrida, Foucault and de Man. The book argues that there is a complex interplay between concepts of subjectivity and linguistic choices.

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To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda's recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians.

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Printmaker Warrington Colescott has trained his brilliant artistic eye on the fashions and foibles of human behavior. This illustrated catalogue documents Colescott's extensive and varied graphic career.

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Looking beyond the story related in Sophocles' drama, this book examines variations of the Oedipus tale from around the world. Taking sociological, psychological, anthropological and structuralist perspectives, the 19 essays reveal the complexities and multiple meanings of this centuries-old tale.

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Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin’s beautiful Door County peninsula. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective, assumes the worst but refuses to get involved. Grief-stricken and guilt-ridden over the loss of his wife and daughter, he’s had enough of death.

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This text argues that ""old"" age is not something that has intrinsic meaning and old people rarely see themselves as ""old"". It claims that they have a sense of self that is ageless and they stress continuity of identity, despite the physical and social changes associated with old age.

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Presents an examination of the images and concepts of speed that permeated Russian modernist poetry, visual arts, and cinema. This title illustrates how a wide variety of experimental artistic tendencies of the day relied on notions of speed or dynamism to create at least part of their effects.

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After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The government responded by creating a new version of a traditional grassroots justice system called gacaca. Bert Ingelaere offers a comprehensive assessment of what these courts set out to do, how they worked, what they achieved.

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When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS.

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Fiedorczuk was inspired by her readings of the original Hebrew Psalms, as well as by the process of learning to sing. In her poems she captures the heartache and joy of the Biblical Psalms, but in the context of modern life.

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In sparse, powerful lines, Shara Lessley recalls an expat's displacement, examines her experience as a mother, and offers intimate witness to the unfolding of the Arab Spring. Veering from the strip malls and situation rooms of Washington to the markets and mines of Amman, Lessley confronts the pressures and pleasures of other cultures, exploring our common humanity.

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Venezuelan poet Juan Calzadilla (b. 1931) is considered one of the most influential poets of the Spanish language. But while his books have appeared in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, and Spain, his work has not been widely available in English until now.

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The first comprehensive volume to present visual representations of everything from pets and children's games to drunken revelry and funerary rituals. John Oakley's clear, accessible writing provides sound information with just the right amount of detail. Specialists of Greek art will welcome this book for its text and illustrations.

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The late Russian Empire experienced rapid economic change, social dislocation, and multiple humanitarian crises, enduring two wars, two famines, and three revolutions. Daniel Scarborough considers the roles played by pastors in the closing decades of the failing tsarist empire and the explosive 1917 revolutions.

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On the Brink of the Precipice, the first volume of the trilogy ""The Tree of Life"", describes the lives of the novel's ten protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto before the outbreak of World War II..

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Cocktails have always had a stronghold in America's Dairyland. This highly illustrated volume uncovers the true stories behind the state's obsession with brandy, ice cream drinks, and a smorgasbord of garnishes.

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Thanks to its active role in national politics, the market economy, and popular culture, the Thai crown remains both the country's dominant institution and one of the world's wealthiest monarchies. Puangchon Unchanam examines the reign of Bhumibol Adulyadej or Rama IX and how the crown thrived by transforming itself into a ""bourgeois"" monarchy.

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The best and most comprehensive manual and illustrated guide to native and naturalized vascular plants - ferns, conifers, and flowering plants - growing in aquatic and wetland habitats in northeastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and south to Virginia and Missouri.

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Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. ""Farm Boys"" undermines that cliche by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who grew up in farm families in the midwestern United States.

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Is there an essential Russian identity? What happens when ""Russian"" literature is written in English? What is the geographic ""home"" of Russian culture created and shared via the internet? Global Russian Cultures innovatively considers these and many related questions about the literary and cultural life of Russians.

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