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The first novel in the hugely compelling Edie Kiglatuk series set in the high Arctic..Nothing on the tundra rotted . . . The whole history of human settlement lay exposed there, under that big northern sky. There was nowhere here for bones to hide.On Craig Island, a ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:19 | In A Deed To the Light Jeanne Murray Walker asks probing questions about the depth of grief, about letting go, and about the possibility of faith. Her poems have been described by John Taylor, writing in Poetry, as "e;splendid, subtly erudite, uplifting, and funny."e; _x000B_ |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:19 | Global diversity is a key issue facing all companies and organizations. This innovative new book embraces diversity and shows how this is a strength that can provide the tools needed to attain the values and characteristics increasingly demanded by business corporati... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:19 | One Summer by bestselling author, David Baldacci, is a tender and absorbing portrait of a family rebuilding itself after being torn apart by grief.When thirty-four-year-old ex-war veteran Jack Armstrong is told he has only weeks to live, his first concern is for his ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:19 | In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting - yet often confusing and difficult - experience that is sex. Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we're supposed to be feeli... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:19 | 'My mother thought I was working for the Ministry of Ag. and Fish.' So begins Noreen Riols' compelling memoir of her time as a member of Churchill's 'secret army', the Special Operations Executive. It was 1943, just before her eighteenth birthday, Noreen received her... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:19 | Can digital journalism be profitable? What's making money, what isn't, and why? Columbia University faculty members Bill Grueskin, academic dean of the Journalism School, and Ava Seave, principal at Quantum Media and adjunct professor at the Business School, addresse... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:19 | Staging Black Feminisms sets out to challenge perceptions of black women's theatre work as inherently feminist. Drawing on black feminist theories of identity and theories of black and feminist performance form, it analyzes key themes such as migration, motherhood, s... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most famous and influential Jewish thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, and their late work is well-known. The importance of the intense intellectual partnership they forged in the years between... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | How does law come to be stated as substantive rules, and then how does it change? In this collection of discussions from the James S. Carpentier Lectures in legal history and criticism, one of Britain's most acclaimed legal historians S. F. C. Milsom focuses on the d... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Art history as it is largely practiced in Asia as well as in the West is a western invention. In India, works of art-sculptures, monuments, paintings-were first viewed under colonial rule as archaeological antiquities, later as architectural relics, and by the mid-20... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde a... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Thomas Philipp's study of Acre combines the most extensive use to date of local Arabic sources with commercial records in Europe to shed light on a region and power center many identify as the beginning of modern Palestinian history. The third largest city in eightee... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Plains Indians have long occupied a special place in the American imagination. Both the historical reality of such evocative figures and events as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Sacajewea, and the Battle of Little Bighorn and the lived reality of Native Americans today a... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | What was left, in both senses of the word, of liberalism after the death of Franklin Roosevelt? This question has aroused considerable historical debate because it raises the question of why the United States, during the Truman years, developed a much less state-cent... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | The first comprehensive book on rape since Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will and Susan Estrich's Real Rape, this volume probes every aspect of rape law and the discrepancies between ideal law (on the books) and real law (in action). Susan Caringella canvasses the ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "e;a man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead."e; Shanker was condemned by many when he shut down the New York City sc... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | In the 1830s an Irishman named James F. O'Connell acquired a full-body tattoo while living as a castaway in the Pacific. The tattoo featured traditional patterns that, to native Pohnpeians, defined O'Connell's life; they made him wholly human. Yet upon traveling to N... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, Mara Pa Lara explores what has changed in our understan... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking surveyone of the largest ever conducted in the U.S.on gender development and ident... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of more than thirty thousand Dominicans from the United States, with little protest or even notice from the public. Since these deportees return to the country of their origin... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | A survey of more than 125 works illuminate the resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. Caren Irr follows Junot Daz, Helon Habila, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengestu, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Norman Rush, Gary Shteyngart, and othe... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese "e;Shakespeare,"e; ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Theorists of Orientalism and postcolonialism argue that novelists betray political and cultural anxieties when characterizing "e;the Other."e; Shameem Black takes a different stance. Turning a fresh eye toward several key contemporary novelists, she reveals h... Полное описание |
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