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  • How to Raise a Rocket Scientist for Fun and Profit How to Raise a Rocket Scientist for Fun and Profit
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    How to Raise a Rocket Scientist for Fun and Profit

    On a cold winter day, in a little town in the mountains, a baby girl is born dead. Revived, brought back to life, her mother rescued from almost the same fate, the little baby not only survives but begins to thrive, in her own way, and at her own pace...
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    The Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy!

    THE BACHELORS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY - THIS IS THE RETRO AND MODERN DAY GUIDE TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM RENAISSANCE MAN AND BACHELOR OF TODAYAuthored by LARRY 'VON LARS' WEHUNT 'The Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy' is not your typical self-deprecating cheesy and...
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  • Above the Fog Above the Fog
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    Above the Fog

    Above the Fog is a powerful story of one woman's struggles with DES (diethylstilbestrol). The drug was developed in 1937 as the first synthetic estrogen and given to millions of pregnant women who had previously had miscarriages. Years later the tragic...
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  • Armenian-Americans Armenian-Americans
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    Armenian-Americans

    Assimilation has been a contentious issues for most immigrant groups in the United States. The host society is assumed to lire immigrants and their descendants away from their ancestral heritage. Yet, in their quest for a "better" life, few immigrants...
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  • Medals on My Kitchen Wall Medals on My Kitchen Wall
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    Medals on My Kitchen Wall

    I left Canada in 1953 to work for the Red Cross in the Far East for the Canadian Forces in Korea and Japan. After my tour of duty I went to Australia, where I worked and hitchhiked to the Outback. On my way to South Africa I visited the Dutch West...
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  • Inside Immigration Law Inside Immigration Law
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    Inside Immigration Law

    Inside Immigration Law analyses the practice of implementing immigration law, examining the different political and organisational forces that influence the process. Based on unparalleled academic access to the German migration management system, this...
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  • Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection
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    Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection

    Against the background of the so-called 'obesity epidemic', Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection critically examines the discourses of physical perfection that pervade Western societies, shedding new light on the rhetorical forces behind body...
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  • Leadership of the New America Leadership of the New America
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    Leadership of the New America

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Our Homeless Poor; and What We Can Do to Help Them Our Homeless Poor; and What We Can Do to Help Them
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    Our Homeless Poor; and What We Can Do to Help Them

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Prison Characters, Drawn From Life Prison Characters, Drawn From Life
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    Prison Characters, Drawn From Life

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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    A Summer Amongst the Bocages and the Vines, Volume 1

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Life of Campestris Ulm Life of Campestris Ulm
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    Life of Campestris Ulm

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Along Mediterranean Shores Along Mediterranean Shores
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    Along Mediterranean Shores

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • The Bush Doctrine and Latin America The Bush Doctrine and Latin America
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    The Bush Doctrine and Latin America

    This volume focuses on the contemporary political, economic and security affairs of the Western Hemisphere. Following a decade of focus on economic matters around the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the authors argue that the Bush Doctrine formed...
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  • Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America
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    Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America

    A dense web of private associations drawn from multiple social classes, interest groups and value communities makes for a firm foundation for strong democracy. In Latin America today, will civil society improve the quality of democracy or will it foster...
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  • Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction
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    Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction

    By examining the feminist interventions of contemporary women writers working in this subgenre, Johnsen advances the existing critical discussion of women's crime fiction. The writers studied here bring research expertise to bear on their chosen...
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  • Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction
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    Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction

    Race and Identity in Hemingway s Fiction explores how Hemingway negotiates race as a defining element of American identity. His interest in race and racial identity emerged in his writing and his personal life, through attention to skin color,...
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  • America on the Edge America on the Edge
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    America on the Edge

    Henry Giroux's latest work is a compelling collection of new and classic essays. Key topics such as education and democracy, terrorism and security, and media and youth culture are critiqued in Giroux's signature style. This is a fascinating collection...
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  • Africa's Elusive Quest for Development Africa's Elusive Quest for Development
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    Africa's Elusive Quest for Development

    Matt Houngnikpo examines how domestic conflict, economic stagnation, political instability, poverty and underdevelopment have plagued Africa for decades. He argues that a reversal of the political, economic and social plight of Africa lies in better...
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  • Contemporary Government Reform in Japan Contemporary Government Reform in Japan
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    Contemporary Government Reform in Japan

    This book examines several major reforms in Japan - in the postal business, transportation, telecommunications and technology - and evaluates the impact of these changes since the early 1980s. Conceptually, the book presents the dual state as being a...
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  • Leading to the 2003 Iraq War Leading to the 2003 Iraq War
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    Leading to the 2003 Iraq War

    A telling analysis of the pre-war media debate around the globe which set the stage for the 2003 Iraq war. By concentrating on the pre-war coverage, this group of scholars engages in a more open discussion of the issues than would take place during...
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  • Claustrophilia Claustrophilia
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    Claustrophilia

    Through extended readings of English, French, and Italian writers of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth centuries, Claustrophilia shows that medieval enclosures actually make room for desires and communities that a poetics of pure openness would exclude.
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  • Migration, Citizenship, Ethnos Migration, Citizenship, Ethnos
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    Migration, Citizenship, Ethnos

    This collection of essays addresses three interrelated themes: the basic issues in contemporary German and European Migration since 1945 with particular focus on new developments in the 80s; the ways in which the citizenship debate has proceeded and how...
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  • Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing
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    Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing

    This study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and autobiographies and focusing on works by William Faulkner,...
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  • Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World
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    Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World

    This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviours, conceptualizations...
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  • The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa
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    The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa

    A discussion of political and religious crisis in Africa, this book covers such topics as democratic transition, good governance, civil society and the African renaissance. Elias K. Bongmba proposes humanistic interventions centred on the recovery of...
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  • Seventeenth-Century Mother's Advice Books Seventeenth-Century Mother's Advice Books
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    Seventeenth-Century Mother's Advice Books

    Advice books published by women were a popular genre in Seventeenth and early Eighteenth-century England and they were moral manuals with strong religious overtones. Here, Urban highlights a notable exception: Age Rectified, which counsels women to...
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  • HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia
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    HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia

    Russia and a few other Eurasian countries have been home to the fastest growing epidemics of HIV in the world over the last several years. This volume offers country-specific accounts, authored by the leading players in the analysis of the situation and...
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  • Action Figures Action Figures
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    Action Figures

    What accounts for the massive global popularity of action films and adventure literature? How do men and women respond to iconic screen stars such as Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve McQueen, and Charlton Heston? Action genres have been...
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  • Erotic Coleridge Erotic Coleridge
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    Erotic Coleridge

    Erotic Coleridge charts Coleridge's prolific creation of love poems from early flirtatious verse to poems about marital incompatibility, the blank faces of young women fearing for their reputations, the obliterating seductions of young women, the...
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  • The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women
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    The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women

    This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space...
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  • Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies
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    Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies

    This collection of essays examines how modern public spheres reflect and mask - often both simultaneously - discourses of order, contests for hegemony, and techniques of power in the Muslim world. It builds on scholarship that re-imagines theories and...
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  • Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages
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    Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages

    This is a set of essays from many of the leading scholars in the world of medieval studies, which addresses a wide diversity of texts and genres and their diverse perspectives on love. Attention is given to interaction between English writings and...
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  • Women, Universities, and Change Women, Universities, and Change
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    Women, Universities, and Change

    This volume analyzes how higher education responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United States.
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  • Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St. Louis Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St. Louis
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    Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St. Louis

    Malcolm McLaughlin's work presents a detailed analysis of the East St. Louis race riot in 1917, offering new insights into the construction of white identity and racism. He illuminates the "world of East St Louis", life in its factories and...
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  • Innocence and Rapture Innocence and Rapture
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    Innocence and Rapture

    Taking as its focus the erotic child in decadent aesthetics, this book explores the sexual and political stakes of an aestheticistexperience of rapture. Ohi examines the power of the work of art to transport, to disorient, to move, to extort the...
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