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The New Book of Opera Anecdotes
Häftad, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
312 kr
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Building on the long-established success of Ethan Mordden's Opera Anecdotes, The New Book Of Opera Anecdotes continues where the original left off, bringing into view the new corps of major singers that arose after the first book's publication in 1985 -- artists such as Renee Fleming, Roberto …
Perpetrators
The World of the Holocaust Killers
Av Guenter Lewy
Inbunden, 2017
547 kr
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The Nazis' attempt to annihilate the Jewish people, the Holocaust, continues to raise a disturbing question. About six million defenseless men, women, and children were murdered for no reason but their ancestry. Close to two million Jews were killed in mass shootings, while the remainder were …
Paris Savant
Capital of Science in the Age of Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2019
650 kr
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Novelist Honoré de Balzac was the first to use the phrase "Paris savant" to refer to the dynamic Parisian scientific and intellectual community of the late 18th century. The Academy of Sciences was highly active during this time, and was a meeting place for intellectual and scientific elite, who …
Earned Citizenship
Inbunden, 2019
1019 kr
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The migration and settlement of 11 million unauthorized immigrants is among the leading political challenges facing the United States today. The majority of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. have been here for more than five years, and are settling into American communities, working, forming …
The Ring of Truth
And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry
Inbunden, 2017
650 kr
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According to north Indian legend, there was once a Shah whose daughter was to marry a minister of the state of Sialkot. When the King heard of the girl's great beauty he tried to seduce her, but failed; he then planted his signet ring in her bed to trick her fiancé into thinking that he'd spoiled …
Illusions of Victory
The Anbar Awakening and the Rise of the Islamic State
Inbunden, 2017
589 kr
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In the years immediately following the 2006 "Surge" of American troops in Iraq, observers of America's counterinsurgency war there regarded the defeat of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in Anbar Province as one of the strategy's signature victories. With the assistance of American troops, the fractious …
The Last Pagan Emperor
Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity
Av H.C. Teitler
Inbunden, 2017
650 kr
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Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during his short reign tried to revive paganism, which, after the conversion to Christianity of his uncle …
A Palace of Pearls
The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
Inbunden, 2018
435 kr
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Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) is widely considered to be one of the foremost visionary storytellers of the Hasidic movement. The great-grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov, founder of the movement, Rabbi Nachman came to be regarded as a great figure and leader in his own right, guiding his …
Story Movements
How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change
Häftad, 2020
420 kr
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Only a few years after the 2013 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Blackfish - an independent documentary film that critiqued the treatment of orcas in captivity - visits to SeaWorld declined, major corporate sponsors pulled their support, and performing acts canceled appearances. The steady …
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Compact Edition
Av Diogenes Laertius, James Miller
Häftad, 2020
292 kr
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Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to …
The Formation of Genesis 1-11
Biblical and Other Precursors
Inbunden, 2020
1540 kr
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There is general agreement in the field of Biblical studies that study of the formation of the Pentateuch is in disarray. David M. Carr turns to the Genesis Primeval History, Genesis 1-11, to offer models for the formation of Pentateuchal texts that may have traction within this fractious context. …
Movers and Stayers
The Partisan Transformation of 21st Century Southern Politics
Häftad, 2021
391 kr
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As migration alters the southern political landscape, partisan battle lines will be drawn between the Democrat-leaning areas of growth and the increasingly Republican areas of decline and stagnation.The Democratic Party is gaining support in the South, but the prevailing explanations of partisan …
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial
Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
Av Lynne Viola
Häftad, 2019
544 kr
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Between the summer of 1937 and November 1938, the Stalinist regime arrested over 1.5 million people for "counterrevolutionary" and "anti-Soviet" activity and either summarily executed or exiled them to the Gulag. While we now know a great deal about the experience of victims of the Great Terror, we …
Choreographing in Color
Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism
Häftad, 2020
536 kr
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In Choreographing in Color, J. Lorenzo Perillo investigates the development of Filipino popular dance and performance since the late 20th century. Drawing from nearly two decades of ethnography, choreographic analysis, and community engagement with artists, choreographers, and organizers, Perillo …
The Legacy of Racism for Children
Psychology, Law, and Public Policy
Av Margaret C. Stevenson, Bette L. Bottoms m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1075 kr
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When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater. The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy examines issues that arise when minority …
Moral Acrobatics
How We Avoid Ethical Ambiguity by Thinking in Black and White
Inbunden, 2021
638 kr
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Although it is difficult for us to fathom, pure monsters do not exist. Terrorists and other serial killers massacre innocent people, yet are perfectly capable of loving their own parents, neighbors, and children. Hitler, sending millions to their death, was contemptuous of meat eaters and a strong …
No More to Spend
Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care
Av Luke Messac
Inbunden, 2020
1752 kr
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Dismal spending on government health services is often considered a necessary consequence of a low per-capita GDP, but are poor patients in poor countries really fated to be denied the fruits of modern medicine? In many countries, officials speak of proper health care as a luxury, and convincing …
A Field Manual for Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises
Av Elisha Waldman, Marcia Glass
Häftad, 2020
770 kr
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As humanitarian aid organizations have evolved, there is a growing recognition that incorporating palliative care into aid efforts is an essential part of providing the best care possible. A Field Manual for Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises represents the first-ever effort at educating and …
On Civilization's Edge
A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World
Inbunden, 2021
1639 kr
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As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish border guards, state officials, military settlers, teachers, academics, urban planners, and health workers descended upon Volhynia, an eastern borderland province that was home to Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews. Its …
The Origin and Character of God
Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity
Inbunden, 2020
1577 kr
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Few topics are as broad or as daunting as the God of Israel, that deity of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, who has been worshiped over millennia. In the Hebrew Bible, God is characterized variously as militant, beneficent, inscrutable, loving, and …
Enemies of the Cross
Suffering, Truth, and Mysticism in the Early Reformation
Inbunden, 2021
1611 kr
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Enemies of the Cross examines how suffering and truth were aligned in the divisive debates of the early Reformation. Vincent Evener explores how Martin Luther, along with his first intra-Reformation critics, offered "true" suffering as a crucible that would allow believers to distinguish the truth …
Campaigning in a Racially Diversifying America
When and How Cross-Racial Electoral Mobilization Works
Inbunden, 2020
1012 kr
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As the voting public continues to diversify across the United States, political candidates, and particularly white candidates, increasingly recognize the importance of making appeals to voters who do not look like themselves. As history has shown, this has been accomplished with varying degrees of …
In the Beginning Was the Image
Art and the Reformation Bible
Inbunden, 2021
1611 kr
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This pioneering study focuses on the decisive contributions of the three leading artists of the Northern Renaissance--Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Hans Holbein the Younger-- to the printed Bible and to the transformation of ecclesiastical art in the Protestant Reformation. A time of …
At What Cost
Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health
Inbunden, 2021
368 kr
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An incisive and powerful investigation of corporate impact on human and planetary well-beingFreedom of choice lies at the heart of American society. Every day, individuals decide what to eat, which doctors to see, who to connect with online, and where to educate their children. Yet, many Americans …
Mormonism and White Supremacy
American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence
Inbunden, 2020
475 kr
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To this day, churchgoing Mormons report that they hear from their fellow congregants in Sunday meetings that African-Americans are the accursed descendants of Cain whose spirits--due to their lack of spiritual mettle in a premortal existence--were destined to come to earth with a "curse" of black …
Talking Politics
Political Discussion Networks and the New American Electorate
Av Taylor N. Carlson, Marisa Abrajano m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
426 kr
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Over five decades of research has made clear that social networks can have an important impact on our political behavior. Specifically, when we engage in political conversation within these networks we develop connections that increase the likelihood that we will become politically active. Yet, …
Hybrid Hate
Jews, Blacks, and the Question of Race
Inbunden, 2021
475 kr
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Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In this book, Tudor Parfitt investigates the development of anti-Semitism, …
Welfare for Autocrats
How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers
Av Jennifer Pan
Häftad, 2020
399 kr
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What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of political order, or "stability?" In Welfare for Autocrats, Jennifer Pan shows that China has reshaped its major social assistance program, Dibao, around this preoccupation, turning an effort to alleviate poverty …
Contesting Conformity
Democracy and the Paradox of Political Belonging
Inbunden, 2020
1060 kr
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Americans valorize resistance to conformity. "Be yourself!" "Don't just follow the crowd!" Such injunctions pervade contemporary American culture. We praise individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Steve Jobs who chart their own course in life and do something new. Yet surprisingly, recent …
