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Bathsheba's Breast

Women, Cancer, and History

By: James S. Olson

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Bathsheba's Breast

Women, Cancer, and History

By: James S. Olson

Historian James S. Olson--who lost his left hand and forearm to cancer while writing this book--provides an absorbing and often frightening narrative history of breast cancer, from ancient Egypt to Dr. Jerri Nielson, who was dramatically evacuated from the South Pole in 1999 after performing a biopsy on her own breast.

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334

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JHU Press

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0801869366

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9780801869365

Picturing Empire

Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

By: James R. Ryan

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Picturing Empire

Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

By: James R. Ryan

Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the "darkest" recesses of the globe with the "light" of scientific mapping techniques. But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, Victorian photographs reveal as much about the imaginative landscapes of imperial culture as they do about the "real" subjects captured within their frames. Ryan considers the role of photography in the exploration and domestication of foreign landscapes, in imperial warfare, in the survey and classification of "racial types," in "hunting with the camera," and in teaching imperial geography to British schoolchildren. Ryan's careful exposure of the reciprocal relation between photographic image and imperial imagination will interest all those concerned with the cultural history of the British Empire.

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274

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Reaktion Books

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1780231636

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9781780231631

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich

Sectarian Politics Under Persecution

By: M. James Penton

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Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich

Sectarian Politics Under Persecution

By: M. James Penton

Using materials from Witness archives, the U.S. State Department, Nazi files, and other sources, M. James Penton demonstrates that while many ordinary German Witnesses were brave in their opposition to Nazism, their leaders were quite prepared to support the Hitler government. --from publisher description

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452

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University of Toronto Press

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0802086780

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9780802086785

Fools Crow

By: James Welch

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Fools Crow

By: James Welch

In the Two Medicine territory of Montana, the Pikuni Indians are forced to choose between fighting a futile war or accepting a humiliating surrender, as the encroaching numbers of whites threaten their very existence

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404

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Penguin

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0140089373

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9780140089370

The Tudor Murder Files

By: James Moore

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The Tudor Murder Files

By: James Moore

“Collates the most shocking killings and puzzling murder mysteries from the sixteenth century in fascinating detail” —Gazette & Herald In the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, this unique true crime guide, The Tudor Murder Files, reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was. From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent times of Shakespeare, James Moore’s new book is the first to chart the period’s most gripping murder cases in all their grizzly detail. Featuring tales of domestic slaughter, sexual intrigue, and cunning assassinations, as well as murder mysteries worthy of Agatha Christie, the book vividly brings to life the violent crime wave that gripped the sixteenth century both at home and abroad. Enter a world in which stabbings were rife, guns were used to kill victims for the first time, and in which culprits frequently escaped justice. The book also reveals just how severe some of the penalties could be, with grisly punishments for those who dared to commit the gravest of crimes. Discover how one murderer was gruesomely pressed to death, another boiled alive for poisoning his victims, and meet some of history’s most notorious serial killers, including one considered so barbaric she was labelled a vampire. “Contains more than seventy real life murders, profiling over thirty cases in detail. And not only does James chart how killers were caught and dealt with by the justice system, he also discusses how murders were reported to the new, news hungry nation.” —Luton Today

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211

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Pen and Sword

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147385704X

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9781473857049

Sourcebook on Rhetoric

By: James Jasinski

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Sourcebook on Rhetoric

By: James Jasinski

Please update SAGE UK and SAGE INDIA addresses on imprint page.

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SAGE

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0761905049

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9780761905042

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Bathsheba's Breast

Bathsheba's Breast

Picturing Empire

Picturing Empire

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich

Fools Crow

Fools Crow

The Tudor Murder Files

The Tudor Murder Files

Sourcebook on Rhetoric

Sourcebook on Rhetoric

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