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Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva HesseHow do we medicate ourselves, and why can't we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the '60s offer remedies to the author's own illness and malaise. In Body High, the introduction to lurid sculptural practices from...
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Blanche Hosched?-Monet in the LightThe first major monographic publication in English on the work of Blanche Hosched?-Monet (1865-1947), the step-daughter, and later, daughter-in-law, of Claude Monet.Accompanying an eponymous exhibition, Blanche Hosched?-Monet in the Light is the first volume to introduce this important woman artist, whose life and work...
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Black Lives in Britain: A Survey, 1830-1940People of African descent in the British Isles have been widely overlooked in both British social history and the history of Black people. Located in country towns as well as large cities, their contributions spanned diverse roles and professions. Some people of African descent...
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Bishops and Jews in the Medieval Latin West: Bischofe Und Juden Im Lateinischen MittelalterBishops played a central role in the relations between Jews and their Christian environment ever since the beginnings of Jewish existence in medieval Latin Europe. To different degrees and with varying emphases over time, they embodied the church's principles of both tolerating and limiting...
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Biblia Americana: America's First Bible Commentary. a Synoptic Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Volume 10: Hebrews - RevelationThis volume of the Biblia Americana (1693-1728) contains Cotton Mather's annotations on Hebrews, James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude, and Revelation, as well as two series of essays on various matters of biblical interpretation. A mixture of pious explications and historical-textual criticism, the annotations...
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Beyond Cort?s and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico RevisitedBeyond Cort?s and Montezuma examines both European and Nahuatl texts and images that shed light on the complex narrative of contact and the ensuing conflict, negotiation, and cooperation that continued well after the colonial period. A diverse group of scholars from Europe, Mexico, and...
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Being Again of One Mind: Oneida Women and the Struggle for DecolonizationBeing Again of One Mind combines a critical reading of feminist literature on nationalism with the narratives of Oneida women of various generations to reveal that some Indigenous women view nationalism in the form of decolonization as a way to restore traditional gender balance...
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Behind Closed DoorsWith a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thévoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments...
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Bede and the Beginnings of English RacismThis book examines how the Venerable Bede constructs a racial order in his most famous historical writing, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, a remarkable eighth-century work known for how it combines myth and history into a compelling, charming narrative of the English conversion...
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Bayou of PigsIn 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from Canada and the United States set off on a preposterous mission: invade an impoverished Caribbean country, overthrow its government in a coup d'etat, install a puppet prime minister and transform the island into...
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Baseball: A History of America's GameAnalytics, technology, and the most ambitious rewrite of the rulebook in fifty years have reshaped baseball. Benjamin G. Rader's account of the American pastime moves from diamonds scratched out of commons and corn fields to the multimedia theme parks doubling as today's baseball stadiums....
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Bandlet of Righteousness: An Ethiopian Book of the DeadThe Bandlet of Righteousness: An Ethiopian Book of the Dead is a book written by E. A. Wallis Budge. It is a translation of the Ethiopian text known as the ""Bandlet of Righteousness"" or ""The Book of the Dead"" which is a collection of...
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Baltinglass and the Prehistoric Hillforts of IrelandBaltinglass, Co Wicklow, has been the site of several years of research into an extraordinary complex of prehistoric hillforts. In this work, Professor William O'Brien of University College Cork brings that research into the public arena.Author: William O'BrienPublisher: Wordwell BooksPublished: 01/16/2025Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Bad Bitches of Antiquity: Badass Stories from Mythology's Fiercest Goddesses, Heroines, Warriors, and TitansA feminist retelling of the most formidable women in world mythology. Move over, Zeus. The most powerful goddesses, mortals, and sorceresses of the ancient world have something to say. Bad Bitches of Antiquity is the modern compendium of badass mythological women who used their...
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Aviation in Tulsa and Northeast OklahomaEarly balloonists, called aeronauts, traveled across Oklahoma from fair to festival to exhibit their feats of derring-do. Some parachuted from their balloons while others would slide down to the ground on cables attached to their balloons from heights upward to 1,000 feet. Soon after...
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Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South AfricaAvailable Light tells the story of an activist, an artist, a uniquely South African individual, and his community and family across the second half of the twentieth century. Omar Badsha was born in Durban, on the country's southeastern coast in 1945. His was the...
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Australasian Egyptology Conference 4: Papers from the Fourth Australasian Egyptology Conference Dedicated to Gillian E. BowenThis volume presents papers from the Fourth Australasian Egyptology Conference held at Monash University, Melbourne 16-18 September 2016. Both the conference and the papers in this volume are dedicated to Gillian E. Bowen who retired from Monash that year, and a brief tribute to...
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Augustin Frison-Roche: Peintures, 2019-2022Fauves et fleurs, dragons et papillons, Augustin Frison-Roche les peint tous, comme les guerriers et les saintes, les forets et les villes, dans une lumiere comme venue du plus profond de l'etre, une lumiere qu'il a le rare talent de projeter sous un ciel...
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Atlantis: Spurensuche Auf Ungewohnlichen WegenDer Autor identifiziert das sagenhafte Atlantis einerseits mit der Megalithkultur und dem Kulturkreis der Nordischen Bronzezeit, andererseits mit der "Seevolker-Bewegung" um 1200 v. Chr. Das zentrale Ereignis der Atlantis-Uberlieferung ist weniger der viel besprochene Untergang der Insel, als vielmehr der -- in vielen Theorien...
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Asyut - The Capital That Never WasThis volume introduces latest research on the necropolis of ancient Asyut and a broad spectrum of different topics. It opens with a deep insight in the long history of the ancient town of Asyut and its different functions throughout history, followed by a contribution...
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