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My Life with Irving Layton

By: Anna Pottier

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My Life with Irving Layton

By: Anna Pottier

After dropping out of school, 23-year-old Anna Pottier became Layton's fifth and final wife. She was 48 years his junior. As Irving's partner, she shared his world until Parkinson's and early-stage Alzheimer's changed both of their lives, and Pottier had nothing left to give.

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Dundurn

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1459728556

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9781459728554

Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India

Text and Archaeology

By: Anna Slaczka

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Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India

Text and Archaeology

By: Anna Slaczka

As in various other cultures, in the Hindu tradition of the Indian Subcontinent construction rituals accompany the construction of a temple, from the moment of choosing the suitable building site, right to the completion of the entire project. Numerous descriptions in Sanskrit texts on ritual and architecture describe in detail these building consecration ceremonies and reflect the importance attached to these rituals. Surprisingly, this topic has so far not received the attention it deserves given its essential role. Basing herself on both the Sanskrit texts, as well as the archaeological finds, Anna A. Ślączka in this thorough study provides readers with a comprehensive view of the three main temple construction rituals in the Hindu tradition of South and Southeast Asia.

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428

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BRILL

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9047420896

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9789047420897

Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything

By: András Rónai,Anna Szemere

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Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything

By: András Rónai,Anna Szemere

For decades, the state-run music industry in Hungary has artificially isolated musical worlds. The 2010 album I'll Be Your Plaything is a concept album comprising at times drastically re-imagined cover versions of Hungary's most popular hits from the socialist era. As such it is a testament to music as a medium's aptness to reflect on public and personal pasts. The album moreover exemplifies how rich and appealing synthesis of sounds and traditions can be concocted when folk, classically trained, rock, and jazz musical artists collaborate. Along with this freedom to blend and synthesize, the album opens up some long overdue space for women; playing with personas, voices, and singing styles, Palya reflects on issues of femininity, maternity, sexuality, and coupledom across generations.

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169

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501354442

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9781501354441

The End of the Pagan City

Religion, Economy, and Urbanism in Late Antique North Africa

By: Anna Leone

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The End of the Pagan City

Religion, Economy, and Urbanism in Late Antique North Africa

By: Anna Leone

This book focuses primarily on the end of the pagan religious tradition and the dismantling of its material form in North Africa (modern Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD. Leone considers how urban communities changed, why some traditions were lost and some others continued, and whether these carried the same value and meaning upon doing so. Addressing two main issues, mainly from an archaeological perspective, the volume explores the change in religious habits and practices, and the consequent recycling and reuse of pagan monuments and materials, and investigates to what extent these physical processes were driven by religious motivations and contrasts, or were merely stimulated by economic issues.

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342

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OUP Oxford

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0191626007

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9780191626005

Cultural Semiotics

For a Cultural Perspective in Semiotics

By: Anna Maria Lorusso

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Cultural Semiotics

For a Cultural Perspective in Semiotics

By: Anna Maria Lorusso

Through a reevaluation of the work of some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, this book details how semiotics, social sense, and social communication can function together to analyze how culture works in the contemporary era.

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Springer

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1137546999

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Introducción a la lingüística hispánica

By: José Ignacio Hualde,Antxon Olarrea,Anna María Escobar,Catherine E. Travis

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Introducción a la lingüística hispánica

By: José Ignacio Hualde,Antxon Olarrea,Anna María Escobar,Catherine E. Travis

Written entirely in Spanish, this is the ideal introduction to Spanish linguistics for students. Using clear explanations, it covers all the basic concepts required to study the structural aspects of the Spanish language - phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax - as well as the history of Spanish, its dialects and linguistic variation. This second edition incorporates new features designed to enhance its usefulness for classroom teaching: chapters have been added on the sociolinguistics of Spanish in the USA, and on semantics and pragmatics. The chapter on syntax has been considerably expanded. Numerous exercises have been added throughout the book, as well as a new glossary to help with technical terms.

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569

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Cambridge University Press

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1139482211

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9781139482219

Linguistics

A Guide to the Reference Literature

By: Anna L. DeMiller

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Linguistics

A Guide to the Reference Literature

By: Anna L. DeMiller

Thoroughly revised and updated with some 500 new entries-including the addition of pertinent Internet sites-this is the only bibliographic guide to information sources for linguistics. Coverage spans from 1957, the publication date of Chomsky's seminal work, to the present, with emphasis on English-language resources. DeMiller's detailed citations describe and evaluate each work, often offering comparisons to similar titles. Its broad coverage and in-depth reviews make this work essential to the research and study of general or theoretical linguistics. The book is also indispensable in the related areas of anthropological linguistics, applied linguistics, mathematical and computation linguistics, psycholinguistics, semiotics, and sociolinguistics, which are all treated in separate chapters, as well as the study of language and languages from a linguistic perspective. A must for any library supporting the study of linguistics or its related fields, this is a valuable reference and research tool. It i

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313078106

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9780313078101

Hutu Rebels

Exile Warriors in the Eastern Congo

By: Anna Hedlund

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Hutu Rebels

Exile Warriors in the Eastern Congo

By: Anna Hedlund

In 1994, almost one million ethnic Tutsis were killed in the genocide in Rwanda. In the aftermath of the genocide, some of the top-echelon Hutu officers who had organized it fled Rwanda to the eastern Congo (DRC) and set up a new base for military operation, with the goal of retaking power in Kigali, Rwanda. More than twenty years later, these rebel forces comprise a diverse group of refugees, rebel fighters, and civilian dependents who operate from mountain areas in the Congo forests and have a long and complex history of war and violence. While media and human rights reports typically portray this rebel group as one of the most brutal rebel factions operating in the eastern Congo region, Hutu Rebels paints a more complex picture. Having conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a rebel camp located deep in the Congo forest, Anna Hedlund explores the micropolitics and practices of everyday life among a community of Hutu rebel fighters and their families, living under the harshest of conditions. She describes the Hutu fighters not only as a military unit with a vision of return to Rwanda but also as a community engaged in the present Congo conflicts. Hedlund focuses on how fighters and their families perceive their own life conditions, how they remember and articulate the events of the genocide, and why they continue to fight in what appears to be an endless conflict. Hutu Rebels argues that we need to move beyond compiling catalogs of atrocities and start examining the "ordinary life" of combatants if we want to understand the ways in which violence is expressed in the context of a most brutal conflict.

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248

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081225144X

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9780812251449

Muslim Environmentalisms

Religious and Social Foundations

By: Anna M. Gade

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Muslim Environmentalisms

Religious and Social Foundations

By: Anna M. Gade

How might understandings of environmentalism and the environmental humanities shift by incorporating Islamic perspectives? In this book, Anna M. Gade explores the religious and cultural foundations of Islamic environmentalisms. She blends textual and ethnographic study to offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the legal, ethical, social, and empirical principles underlying Muslim commitments to the earth. Muslim Environmentalisms shows how diverse Muslim communities and schools of thought have addressed ecological questions for the sake of this world and the world to come. Gade draws on a rich spectrum of materials―scripture, jurisprudence, science, art, and social and political engagement―as well as fieldwork in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. The book brings together case studies in disaster management, educational programs, international development, conservation projects, religious ritual and performance, and Islamic law to rethink key theories. Gade shows that the Islamic tradition leads us to see the environment as an ethical idea, moving beyond the established frameworks of both nature and crisis. Muslim Environmentalisms models novel approaches to the study of religion and environment from a humanistic perspective, reinterpreting issues at the intersection of numerous academic disciplines to propose a postcolonial and global understanding of environment in terms of consequential relations.

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Columbia University Press

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0231549210

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9780231549219

Coins in Rhodes

From the monetary reform of Anastasius I until the Ottoman conquest (498 - 1522)

By: Anna-Maria Kasdagli

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Coins in Rhodes

From the monetary reform of Anastasius I until the Ottoman conquest (498 - 1522)

By: Anna-Maria Kasdagli

Presents the Byzantine and medieval coins collected by Greek archaeologists in Rhodes over a period of more than 60 years. It includes lists of excavated land plots, stray finds, an illustrated catalogue of all the Byzantine and local coins up to 1309, and a representative sample of the Hospitaller petty coins as well as all Western coins found.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1784918423

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Good as Gone

My Life with Irving Layton

By: Anna Pottier

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My Life with Irving Layton

By: Anna Pottier

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1459728564

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Good as Gone

Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India

Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India

Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything

Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything

The End of the Pagan City

The End of the Pagan City

Cultural Semiotics

Cultural Semiotics

Introducción a la lingüística hispánica

Introducción a la lingüística hispánica

Linguistics

Linguistics

Hutu Rebels

Hutu Rebels

Muslim Environmentalisms

Muslim Environmentalisms

Coins in Rhodes

Coins in Rhodes

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