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Publication Date: 2009
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This text explores how science became increasingly important in 19th century British culture and how the systematic study of insects permitted entomologists to engage with the most pressing questions of Victorian times: the nature of God, mind, and governance, and the origins of life.
Publication Date: 2024
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Iro a quitté son village pour poursuivre ses études à Abidjan. Ses amis, Thierry, Malick, Yeo et lui forment une bande joyeuse, ambitieuse, multipliant les petits boulots dans les rues d'Abjamé et les couloirs de la cité universitaire. De tous, Iro est le plus déterminé. Mais son père meurt au village et tout est bouleversé. Il doit faire face aux souvenirs de cet homme dont il ignore presque tout. Quelle vie a eu son père, quels rêves étaient les siens, à quoi a-t-il renoncé ?
Publication Date: 2024
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The Eleventh Edition of Zumdahl/Zumdahl/DeCoste's CHEMISTRY continues its highly regarded tradition of emphasizing conceptual learning, critical-thinking and creative problem-solving techniques. An emphasis on modeling and interactive examples helps students learn to approach and solve chemical problems effectively -- to think like chemists -- so they can apply step-by-step problem-solving strategies not only to the text's diverse problems and exercises, but also to other aspects of their lives.
Publication Date: 2024
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A captivating journey spanning five thousand years of Chinese culinary heritage, exploring the essence of each era through seven extraordinary meals. China in Seven Banquets takes readers on a gastronomic adventure into the history of China's constantly evolving and astonishingly diverse cuisine. From the opulent Eight Treasures feast of ancient times to the Tang dynasty's legendary 'Tail-Burning' banquet, and the extravagant 'complete Manchu-Han feast' of the Qing court, these iconic repasts offer glimpses into China's rich food history.
Publication Date: 2023
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Cultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience in a time of warfare, land shortages, famine and uprisings. Innovation can be seen in material culture (including print, painting, calligraphy, textiles, fashion, jewellery, ceramics, lacquer, glass, arms and armour, rugs, silver, money and photography) during a century in which China's art, literature, crafts and technology faced unprecedented exposure to global influences.
Publication Date: 2023
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Classic Learning Test exists to reconnect knowledge and virtue by providing meaningful assessments and connections to seekers of truth, goodness, and beauty.-from back cover.
Publication Date: 2024
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Our Elgar Concise Introductions are inspiring and considered. They explain the key principles in business and are expertly written by some of the world's leading scholars. The aims of the series are two-fold: to pinpoint essential concepts of business and management, and to offer insights that stimulate critical thinking. In this Concise Introduction, Michael Lounsbury and Joel Gehman set out an overview of organization theory that clarifies how to cultivate a robust scholarly identity in a field rich with diverse research traditions.
Publication Date: 2024
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How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge from war zones? Based on years of fieldwork in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, as well as Afghanistan and Ukraine, Conflicted challenges normative conceptions of war by revealing how representational authority comes to be.
Publication Date: 2024
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A comprehensive guide to the history and current shape of conspiracy theories in American life, including the findings of research seeking to understand their origins, type, function, and widespread appeal--
Publication Date: 2024
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Whether willingly or unwillingly, public celebrities are often the focus of discussion of moral matters and political causes, but how does this sort of celebrity culture function in a country such as China with a powerful central state? Celebrity Activism and Governance in Contemporary China explores how in today's China, celebrity figures embody, conflict with and engage with social, civil, moral and economic issues. Shenshen Cai examines the state's governance of celebrity activism and the interplay between the propaganda machine and the stars--
Publication Date: 2021
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A memoir of defying the odds, as recounted by the captain of the first all-Black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo Championship. Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be stuck in The Bottom, a community and neighborhood devastated by poverty and violence. Riding their bicycles through Philly's Fairmount Park, Kareem's brothers discover a barn full of horses.
Publication Date: 2024
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This book reflects the political, welfare, and general social attitudes in the Czech Republic, which has 30 years of existence, in European comparison. The contributors address the understanding and evaluations of democracy and attitudes towards migration in pre- and post-COVID-19 times--
Publication Date: 2024
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This volume continues to chronicle the history of water rights and activities on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Centered on the San Carlos Irrigation Project and Coolidge Dam, this book details the history and development of the project, including the Gila Decree. Embedded in the narrative is the underlying tension between tribal growers on the Gila River Indian Reservation and upstream users.
Publication Date: 2024
Publication Date: 2009
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Alan Goldman provides a behind-closed-doors account of troubled leaders and the effect they have on their organizations. Featuring clinical case studies, the text explores the damaging effects of destructive leadership on organizations and provides the tools necessary for early recognition, assessment, and treatment.
Publication Date: 2024
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In Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga, Elkin relates his bumpy journey from lesbian to transgender lawyer in the aftermath of the 2017 Australian marriage equality postal survey, which resulted in an amendment to the Marriage Act to enable same-sex marriage. As the inaugural lawyer of Victoria's queer law service, Elkin is quickly immersed in thorny debates around trans inclusion in sport, children's access to puberty blockers, birth certificate law reform, and the Christian right's demand for enhanced religious freedoms.
Publication Date: 2024
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Much has been written about the impact of the internet, smartphones, and social media on our attention spans--and most of it has been negative. But these debates do not adequately engage with the new conditions of spectatorship in contemporary culture. How has digital technology reorganized our attention? And how are artists processing, reacting to, and rejecting these developments?
Publication Date: 2024
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Tommy Tomlinson was watching a dog show on television a few years ago when he had a sudden thought: Are those dogs happy? How about pet dogs--are they happy? Those questions sparked a quest to venture inside the dog-show world, in search of a deeper understanding of the relationship between dogs and humans that has endured for thousands of years. Dogland shares his surprising, entertaining, and moving adventures.--
Publication Date: 1997
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What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? Ranajit Guha points out that the colonial state in South Asia was fundamentally different from the metropolitan bourgeois state which sired it. The metropolitan state was hegemonic in character, and its claim to dominance was based on a power relation in which persuasion outweighed coercion. Conversely, the colonial state was non-hegemonic, and in its structure of dominance coercion was paramount.
Publication Date: 2019
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Dragonfly Kites refers to kites made by tying a string around the middles of dragonflies. Two Cree brothers in northern Manitoba fly these kites during the day, but at night fly themselves in their dreams. This is the second book in the Magical Songs of the North Wind trilogy.
Publication Date: 2024
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In Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits, journalist Aaron Goldfarb goes on an adventure in vintage spirits. This is an intoxicating story of obsessives on the hunt for old bottles of whiskey, tequila, rum, chartreuse--you name it--from estate sales, grandpa's liquor cabinet, and out-of-the-way and inner-city liquor stores that may just have a case or a few bottles lying around in the basement. What Goldfarb and these dusty hunters discover are more than just bottles from bygone brands or old formulations no longer available--they find portals into history.
Publication Date: 2024
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A groundbreaking study situating the Mississippi River valley at the heart of the early American republic's political economy. Shortly after the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789, twenty-two-year-old Andrew Jackson pledged his allegiance to the king of Spain. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, imperial control of the North American continent remained an open question.
Publication Date: 2024
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Empresses-in-Waiting comprises case studies of late antique empresses, female members of imperial dynasties, and female members of the highest nobility of the late Roman empire, ranging from the fourth to the seventh centuries AD.
Publication Date: 1980