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Netherlandish and Italian Female Portraiture in the Fifteenth Century: Gender, Identity, and the Tradition of PowerThis book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased substantially during this century. They formed part of a material and a visual culture borne out of the rapid rise of an oligarchy from entrepreneurial activities...
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Classical Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First CenturyModern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives - sometimes controversial - about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time,...
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Midnimo, Maandeeq, iyo Muraayaddii Jabtay"Halgankiyo midnimadiyoRaggii calanka soo mudeyAn baroorannee maye?Mataaneynti QarankiyoHaddii magicii naga lumayMaxay noloshu noo tahayKolley mowdku waa gareNafta maysku aasnaa?!Haddaan weynay maan iyoAqli noo maqooradaMa inaan gob nahay baanMartidiyo shisheeyaha'Masawira' niraahnaa?!Nin waliba muraad leheInuu qoys maciin bidoMajarihii XorriyaddunaKa habaabo marrinkiiMaangaabnimaa leheMarna mays tiraahdeen'Hanta labada kii...
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Evagrius and His LegacyEssays explore aspects of Evagrius's life and address his controversial but long-lasting influence on Latin, Byzantine, and Syriac cultures in antiquity and the Middle Ages.Author: Joel KalvesmakiPublisher: University of Notre Dame PressPublished: 08/15/2022Pages: 414Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9780268024185
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Whitfield Lovell: PassagesThe most comprehensive survey to date of the contemporary artist Whitfield Lovell, whose poetic and intricately crafted tableaux and installations document and pay tribute to the history and cultural memory of the African American experience. Whitfield Lovell: Passages accompanies a major traveling exhibition of...
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America's Rolling - The Story of Our TimesAmerica's Rolling is the story of the United States as told around the fabric of the American railroad. Within you will learn about such luminaries as A.J. Russell and Kate Shelley. Touching on the histories of the Baltimore and Ohio and Union Pacific Railroads....
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Ladder on the FenceIn a good and just world, we would all sail through childhood on a solid foundation of unequivocal love, happiness and protection. But it is not always such a world, and for Margaret Lygnos, growing up amid a fractured set of adults and a...
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Living Theravada: Demystifying the People, Places, and Practices of a Buddhist TraditionAn illuminating introduction to the contemporary world of Theravada Buddhism and its rich culture and practices in modern mainland Southeast Asia. Theravada translates as "the way of the Elders," indicating that this Buddhist tradition considers itself to be the most authoritative and pure. Tracing...
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Spirit of Arnhem Land: Aboriginal AustraliansSituated in the far reaches of the Northern Territory, Arnhem Land is one of the few regions of Australia where traditional Aboriginal culture remains intact. Author/Photographer Penny Tweedie's twenty year relationship with the people of Arnhem Land has given her unparalleled access into their...
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Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways - Compiled from the Diaries, Manifestos, Notes, Prospectuses, Records and Everyday UtopiasAttributed to Phil Smith ("the Crab Man") on the publisher's webite.Author: Phil SmithPublisher: Triarchy Press LtdPublished: 04/20/2010Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsISBN: 9780956263131
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The Spingarn Brothers: White Privilege, Jewish Heritage, and the Struggle for Racial EqualityAn absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equality in the United States.In the late nineteenth century, Joel and Arthur Spingarn grew up in New York City as brothers with very different personalities, interests, and professional goals....
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George Clinton: An American Founding Father and American IndependenceIn this enlightening snapshot of the early political life of George Clinton who unfortunately is overlooked by many colonial historians as one of America's Founding Fathers, Leo Kanawada provides an enthralling case study based on trustworthy historical evidence and credible research of this prominent...
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The Quest for WansdykeWansdyke is one of the great linear, bank-and-ditch earthworks of England. From end to end it stretches 35 miles across Somerset and Wiltshire. Only the Devil's Dyke, near Newmarket, is higher. Archaeologists Sir Cyril and Lady Aileen Fox described it as 'a formidable barrier'....
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Buffalo in 50 MapsThe third entry in Belt's urban cartography series, Buffalo in 50 Maps offers a truly unique view of the City of Good Neighbors, from the East Side to Millionaires' Row to Cazenovia Park.The best maps give you a feeling for what a place is...
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La Construcción de la Santidad En La Región Andina: La Vida de la Beata Juana de Jesús (1662-1703)La construcción de la santidad en la región andina. Resumen breve de la vida de la beata Juana de Jesús (1662-1703) es una edición comentada de la hagiografía de Juana de Jesús escrita por su confesor, Antonio Fernández Sierra durante la primera década del...
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The Jew, The Gypsy and El IslamThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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The Greville Memoirs (Part 3) Volume 1; A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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The Growth of Thought as Affecting the Progress of SocietyThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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Group Psychology and The Analysis of The EgoThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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The Frisian Popular Militias Between 1480 and 1560In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty years of age were called upon all over Europe to participate in raids, sieges and battles, for the defense of home and hearth. Because these men are regarded as...
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