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Modigliani: Modern GazesA groundbreaking new perspective on the painter's scandalous nudes. Among the most celebrated works of Modigliani's brief but brilliant career are his large-format nudes. Drenched in color and glowing with the artist's deep appreciation of women and the female form, these works ushered in...
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Modern Art and the Death of a CultureThis disturbing but illuminating classic is a brilliant perspective on the cultural turmoil of the radical sixties and its impact on today's world, especially as reflected in the art of the time. Rookmaaker's enduring analysis looks at modern art in a broad historical, social,...
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Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire d'HaïtiCes M moires sont ceux de Boisrond-Tonnerre. Tir s un tr s-petit nombre d'exemplaires, ils sont devenus excessivement rares, et pour moi, ce n'a t qu'apr s beaucoup de recherches et de peine que je suis arriv m'en procurer deux vermoulus et mutil s,...
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Missouri's Wicked Route 66:: Gangsters and Outlaws on the Mother RoadTracing Route 66 through Missouri represents one of America's favorite exercises in nostalgia, but a discerning glance among the roadside weeds reveals the kind of sordid history that doesn't appear on postcards. Along with vintage cars and picnic baskets, Route 66 was a conduit...
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Mexican Cartonería: Paper, Paste, and Fiesta / Papel, Engrudo Y FiestaMexico's love of celebration is well known, and cartoner a, a kind of papier-m ch art, produces the objects that are essential to Mexican holidays and festivals, including Day of the Dead, Holy Week, and Christmas. Just about everyone knows what a pi ata...
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Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone BordersMedieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of the elites for whom this music and poetry was composed and...
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Medieval Indian Armies (2): Indo-Islamic Forces, 7th-Early 16th CenturiesThis illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century. From 1206, much of what is now India as well as parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal were ruled by...
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Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American FilmA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Maverick Movies tells the improbable story of New Line Cinema, a company that cut a remarkable path through the American...
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Malicious Intent: Murder and the Perpetuation of Jim Crow Health Care"Do we want to perpetuate a Jim Crow health system?" A brilliant, idealistic physician named Jean Cowsert asked that question in Alabama in 1966. Her answer was no--and soon after, she died under suspicious circumstances. Unearthing the truth of Cowsert's life and death is...
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Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women Floods Bodies History Volume 22Author: Klaus TheweleitPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPublished: 04/01/1987Pages: 544Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.03w x 1.17dISBN: 9780816614493
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Makers of Modern IndiaModern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers have often served...
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Mac: The Wind Beneath My Wings"This book is a triumph." -MJV LiteraryWhen Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, forcing the U.S. to enter WWII, MAC was 23 years old.He had graduated with honors from high school, served two years in the Merchant Marine, and had a year...
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Machiavelli on WarMachiavelli on War offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher-historian's treatment of war throughout his writings, from poems and memoranda drafted while he was Florence's top official for military matters to his posthumous works, The Prince and Discourses on Livy. Christopher Lynch argues that...
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Luis Gerónimo de Oré: The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of PowerBorn in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Gerónimo de Oré (1554-1630) lived during a critical period in the formation of the modern world, as the global empire of Spain engaged in a nearly continuous struggle over...
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Lost Restaurants of KnoxvilleOver the past 225 years, Knoxville dining has come full circle--from early taverns and saloons to upscale continental cuisine and back to the roots of local eating experiences. Greek immigrants Frank and George Regas founded the legendary Regas Restaurant, which operated for 90 years,...
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Lord Jesus ChristA study of the doctrine of Christ that is biblical and historical, evangelical and ecumenical, conceptually clear and contextually relevant.Lord Jesus Christ expounds the doctrine of Christ by focusing upon theological interpretation of Scripture regarding Jesus's identity. The book's structure traces a Christological arc...
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Living Shadow Death TuberculosisTuberculosis--once the cause of as many as one in five deaths in the U.S.--crossed all boundaries of class and gender, but the methods of treatment for men and women differed radically. While men were encouraged to go out to sea or to the open...
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Les mythes fondateurs de la politique israélienne & Le procès du Sionisme israélien: Édition intégraleLa lecture de ce livre, Les Mythes fondateurs de la politique israélienne ne doit créer aucune confusion, ni religieuse, ni politique.La critique de l'interprétation sioniste de la Thora, et des ''livres historiques'', (notamment ceux de Josué, de Samuel et des Rois) n'implique nullement une...
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Leafs 365: Daily Stories from the IceNow you can cheer for the Toronto Maple Leafs every day of the year, even when they're out of the NHL playoffs.Get your daily Toronto Maple Leafs fix with Leafs 365. From the franchise's early beginning as the Arenas and the St. Patricks to...
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KristallnachtNearly 8,000 Jewish-owned businesses, schools, hospitals, and homes were destroyed during one night of brutality in November 1938. German Nazis and their supporters took to the streets of Germany and Austria bent on destruction. They burned hundreds of synagogues to the ground, killed more...
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