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Empfindsame Reise nach SchildaThis 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, you...
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Episodios ... Liberales: Fernando VII Y La Constitución De Cádiz; Juramento Libre Y Espontáneo Que Hace S.M. Á La Cosa Aquélla El 9 De Marzo DeThis 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, you...
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La Biblia Vulgata Latina Traducia En Espanõl: Y Anotada Conforme Al Sentido De Los Santos Padres, Y Expositores Cathòlicos; Volume 1This 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, you...
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Long Road from Quito: Transforming Health Care in Rural Latin AmericaLong Road from Quito presents a fascinating portrait of David Gaus, an unlikely trailblazer with deep ties to the University of Notre Dame and an even more compelling postgraduate life. Gaus is co-founder, with his mentor Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., of Andean Health...
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Faith and Science at Notre Dame: John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic ChurchThe Reverend John Augustine Zahm, CSC, (1851--1921) was a Holy Cross priest, an author, a South American explorer, and a science professor and vice president at the University of Notre Dame, the latter at the age of twenty-five. Through his scientific writings, Zahm argued...
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Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and CultureRichard Tillinghast, a celebrated American poet and critic, lived for a year in Ireland in the early 1990s and then returned each year until he became a resident in 2005. From an insider/outsider perspective, he writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people...
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What Is a Book?: The Study of Early Printed BooksJoseph A. Dane's What Is a Book? is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Using his own bibliographic interests as a guide, Dane selects illustrative examples primarily from fifteenth-century...
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Working in America: A Humanities ReaderCaught in the whirlwind of the postindustrial revolution, many members of today's labor force look upon the changing job landscape and feel displaced and devalued. Robert Sessions and Jack Wortman have compiled this selection of humanities readings to explore the many ways that work...
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Race Class in the Southwest: Chicano StudiesFocusing on the economic foundations of inequality as they have affected Chicanos in the Southwest from the Mexican-American War to the present, Mario Barrera develops his theory as a synthesis of class and colonial analyses.Author: Mario BarreraPublisher: University of Notre Dame PressPublished: 08/15/1979Pages: 280Binding...
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Mapping BostonAn informative--and beautiful--exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps.To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of...
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The RuralAn investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production.What, and where, is "the Rural"? From the rocks that break a farmer's plough on a field in Japan to digital infrastructures that organize geographically...
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How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet InternetHow, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists.Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation--to construct a nationwide computer network. None...
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Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth CenturyJonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory...
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Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DocumentsAn exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille's revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Mir , Dal , and others against the canvas of their renegade times.In the Paris art world of the 1920s,...
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The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway: A History of the Lake Superior District's Pioneer Iron Ore HaulerThe rise and fall of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway from 1887 to its merger with the Soo Line in 1961 is the subject of this thoroughly researched book. The DSS&A was organized in the hope that it would become a transcontinental...
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Finding Persephone: Women's Rituals in the Ancient MediterraneanDrawing upon the latest research in gender studies, history of religion, feminism, ritual theory, performance, anthropology, archaeology, and art history, Finding Persephone investigates the ways in which the religious lives and ritual practices of women in Greek and Roman antiquity helped shape their social...
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The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor: A Siberian Memoir, 1869-1954The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor by Anna Bek (1869-1954) yields rich insights into the lives of a generation of Russian women who lived at a time of revolutionary change, extraordinary challenges, and unprecedented opportunities. Written in a lively and compelling style, Anna...
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An American Hometown: Terre Haute, Indiana, 1927They lived "green" out of necessity--walking to work, repairing everything from worn shoes to wristwatches, recycling milk bottles and packing containers. Music was largely heard live and most residential streets had shade trees. The nearby Wabash River--a repeated subject of story and song--transported Sunday...
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Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848Bernard MoittExamines the reaction of black women to slavery.In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848, Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details...
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The Iron Brigade: A Military History"I am immensely impressed . . . this particular Brigade needed a book of its own and now it has one which is definitely first-rate. . . . A fine book." --Bruce Catton"One of the '100 best books ever written on the Civil War.'"...
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