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God's Perfect Plan

A Family Physician's Search for the Absolute Truth

By: Mark Paul Bishop

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God's Perfect Plan

A Family Physician's Search for the Absolute Truth

By: Mark Paul Bishop

While working in the ER one evening, the nurse called to tell me that Pastor Steve would like to talk with me. As I shared my thoughts with Pastor Steve, the simplicity of his responses almost left me speechless. It was from this life-changing conversation that Dr. Mark Paul Bishop began a life devoted to Christ, exhausting his human potential in service to his fellow man. God's Perfect Plan is Dr. Mark's spiritual autobiography and details his faith journey as he wrestles with issues directly pointing to the deficiency of our lives—a deficiency that, he learned, can only be filled through a relationship with Christ. Readers will be inspired as they seek their own answers to questions regarding God's perfect plan in their own lives. Woven into the fabric of God's perfect plan for you, you will discover the role of our social institutions of the family, church, school, community, and government. You will be further amazed by the manner in which God incubates His plan for your life through His divine guidance and protection. See how this family physician, despite skepticism and wavering faith, demonstrates how God's purpose and plan is clear in our lives if we only look for it. The practical application of Christianity is not a myth; it really does work! See for yourself as you discover God's perfect plan.

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Tate Publishing

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161739842X

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Arnold Schoenberg

By: Mark Berry

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Arnold Schoenberg

By: Mark Berry

The most radical and divisive composer of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg remains a hero to many, and a villain to many others. In this refreshingly balanced biography, Mark Berry tells the story of Schoenberg’s remarkable life and work, situating his tale within the wider symphony of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. Born in the Jewish quarter of his beloved Vienna, Schoenberg left Austria for his early career in Berlin as a leading light of Weimar culture, before being forced to flee in the dead of night from Hitler’s Third Reich. He found himself in the United States, settling in Los Angeles, where he would inspire composers from George Gershwin to John Cage. Introducing all of Schoenberg’s major musical works, from his very first compositions, such as the String Quartet in D Major, to his invention of the twelve-tone method, Berry explores how Schoenberg’s revolutionary approach to musical composition incorporated Wagnerian late Romanticism and the brave new worlds of atonality and serialism. Essential reading for anyone interested in the music and history of the twentieth century, this book makes clear Schoenberg changed the history of music forever.

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Reaktion Books

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1789140900

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Is the Reformation Over?

An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism

By: Mark A. Noll,Carolyn Nystrom

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Is the Reformation Over?

An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism

By: Mark A. Noll,Carolyn Nystrom

For the last few decades, Catholics and Protestants have been working to heal the wounds caused by centuries of mistrust. This book, a Christianity Today 2006 Book Award winner, provides an evaluation of contemporary Roman Catholicism and the changing relationship between Catholics and evangelicals. The authors examine past tensions, post-Vatican II ecumenical dialogues, and social/political issues that have brought Catholics and evangelicals together. While not ignoring significant differences that remain, the authors call evangelicals to gain a new appreciation for the current character of the Catholic Church. Written by Mark Noll, one of the premier church historians of our day, and Carolyn Nystrom, this book will appeal to those interested in the relationship between evangelicals and the Catholic Church.

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Baker Academic

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1441201815

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Tadcaster Through Time Revised Edition

By: Paul Chrystal,Mark Sunderland

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Tadcaster Through Time Revised Edition

By: Paul Chrystal,Mark Sunderland

The fascinating history of Tadcaster illustrated through old and modern pictures in fully updated edition.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445650703

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A Survey of the History of Global Christianity, Second Edition

By: Mark Nickens

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A Survey of the History of Global Christianity, Second Edition

By: Mark Nickens

Since Jesus’s resurrection, Christianity has expanded across the globe and shaped a vast array of groups and movements. A Survey of the History of Global Christianity, Second Edition, provides an overview of the Christian faith from the apostolic age to the global present. In a friendly and informative tone, author Mark Nickens outlines the historical context of important developments in doctrine and practice, including: o the persecution and resilience of the early church o the results of increasing papal power in Europe during the Middle Ages o the Reformation and later movements that influenced European Christianity o the various sects of American Christianity that arose in cycles of revival o an examination of Orthodoxy and the history of Christianity in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the West Indies. In addition to historical information, this book features quotes and spiritual lessons from noteworthy Christians throughout the centuries. By understanding how Christian doctrine has developed over the ages and across the globe, readers will better understand where their own faith tradition comes from.

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B&H Publishing Group

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1535985003

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Plato and Nietzsche

Their Philosophical Art

By: Mark Anderson

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Plato and Nietzsche

Their Philosophical Art

By: Mark Anderson

It is commonly known that Nietzsche is one of Plato's primary philosophical antagonists, yet there is no full-length treatment in English of their ideas in dialogue and debate. Plato and Nietzsche is an advanced introduction to these two thinkers, with original insights and arguments interspersed throughout the text. Through a rigorous exploration of their ideas on art, metaphysics, ethics, and the nature of philosophy, and by explaining and analyzing each man's distinctive approach, Mark Anderson demonstrates the many and varied ways they play off against one another. This book provides the background necessary to understanding the principle matters at issue between these two philosophers and to developing an awareness that Nietzsche's engagement with Plato is deeper and more nuanced than it is often presented as being.

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A&C Black

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1472528743

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9781472528742

Mindful Marijuana Smoking

Health Tips for Cannabis Smokers

By: Mark Mathew Braunstein

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Mindful Marijuana Smoking

Health Tips for Cannabis Smokers

By: Mark Mathew Braunstein

Learn how to smoke cannabis in a way that reduces the health risks of smoking. As an herbal remedy, cannabis can lift your mood and can treat a long list of ailments. But the way that most of us take a hit of pot needlessly takes a hit on our health. It is high time for health-conscious cannabis consumers to learn a new way of smoking that reduces its risks. In Mindful Marijuana Smoking, Mark Mathew Braunstein offers sound advice on every phase of the cannabis smoking experience, presenting health tips based on solid science. Whether with rolling papers, hand pipes, waterpipes, or herbal vaporizers, each method of cannabinoid delivery has both risks and rewards. Chapters are devoted to each method so that you can learn how to maximize their benefits and reduce their hazards, as well as how to protect your health even before you take a puff. And once you’ve inhaled the smoke, this book assures you that you don’t need to hold your breath to reap all the benefits of cannabis. Additionally, this book teaches readers how to assure an herb’s purity, as both black market and corporate cannabis keep dirty secrets about how they were grown, and readers will learn about the potential impurities in rolling papers and vaping oils. The stronger the dose, the less you need to toke, so you’ll find instructions on how to properly store cannabis to retain its potency. Finally, after you’ve smoked, you’ll find guidance on why and how to relieve your parched mouth and to replenish nutrients that are depleted by smoking. Potheads and patients, tenderfoot tokers and seasoned stoners, dabbling dilettantes and cannabis connoisseurs, all need to read this book. By following its many health tips, when you light up, you can lighten up.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538156687

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Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues

An Oral History

By: Jan Mark Wolkin

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Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues

An Oral History

By: Jan Mark Wolkin

Guitarist Michael Bloomfield shot to stardom in the '60s with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bob Dylan, The Electric Flag and on Al Kooper's “Super Session.” His story is told in the words of his brother, musicians such as B.B. King, producer Paul Rothchild and dozens of others – including Bloomfield himself. Features a foreword by Carlos Santana, and audio of unreleased early studio tracks. “(This book) is a look inside the psyche of a musical innovator who deserves a posthumous Nobel Prize and a statue on Rush Street in Chicago. If you love his blues, you'll love this book.” – Al Kooper

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1617744824

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The Ecology of the New Testament

Creation, Re-Creation, and the Environment

By: Mark Bredin

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The Ecology of the New Testament

Creation, Re-Creation, and the Environment

By: Mark Bredin

Mark Bredin opens contemporary ecological concerns to the teachings of Jesus. He shows how the New Testament gives us the moral bearings we need to respond to disturbing global trends such as the loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and the shortage of food and clean water.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830858849

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Cruel and Unusual

Bush/Cheney's New World Order

By: Mark Crispin Miller

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Cruel and Unusual

Bush/Cheney's New World Order

By: Mark Crispin Miller

In "Cruel and Unusual," Mark Crispin Miller exposes what he calls the Bush Republicans' contempt for democratic practice, their bullying religiosity, their reckless militarism, and their apocalyptic views of the economy and the planet.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393059170

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9780393059175

Foundations of Theological Study

A Sourcebook

By: Richard Viladesau,Mark Stephen Massa

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Foundations of Theological Study

A Sourcebook

By: Richard Viladesau,Mark Stephen Massa

This is a collection of readings in theology, classical and contemporary, intended for college level students. It covers the major themes of an introductory course in theology, the experience of the sacred, the notion of God, Revelation, Jesus Christ, and the Christian life. +

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Paulist Press

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0809132818

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Desegregating Dixie

The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992

By: Mark Newman

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Desegregating Dixie

The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992

By: Mark Newman

Winner of the 2020 American Studies Network Book Prize from the European Association for American Studies Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the southern Catholic Church contributed to segregation by confining African Americans to the back of white churches and to black-only schools and churches. However, in the twentieth century, papal adoption and dissemination of the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ, pressure from some black and white Catholics, and secular change brought by the civil rights movement increasingly led the Church to address racial discrimination both inside and outside its walls. Far from monolithic, white Catholics in the South split between a moderate segregationist majority and minorities of hard-line segregationists and progressive racial egalitarians. While some bishops felt no discomfort with segregation, prelates appointed from the late 1940s onward tended to be more supportive of religious and secular change. Some bishops in the peripheral South began desegregation before or in anticipation of secular change while elsewhere, especially in the Deep South, they often tied changes in the Catholic churches to secular desegregation. African American Catholics were diverse and more active in the civil rights movement than has often been assumed. While some black Catholics challenged racism in the Church, many were conflicted about the manner of Catholic desegregation generally imposed by closing valued black institutions. Tracing its impact through the early 1990s, Newman reveals how desegregation shook congregations but seldom brought about genuine integration.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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149681889X

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9781496818898

By Way of the Heart

The Seasons of Faith

By: Mark Oakley

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By Way of the Heart

The Seasons of Faith

By: Mark Oakley

Mark Oakley is one of the church’s most outstanding communicators. In this series of fifty beautifully crafted reflections, with characteristic wit, he traverses the landscape of the Christian year. His writing is shaped by a sense that language is sacramental, with a poet’s gift of opening up new worlds and new possibilities simply through words.

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Canterbury Press

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178622206X

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The Sea in the Middle

The Mediterranean World, 650–1650

By: Thomas E Burman,Brian A. Catlos,Mark D. Meyerson

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The Sea in the Middle

The Mediterranean World, 650–1650

By: Thomas E Burman,Brian A. Catlos,Mark D. Meyerson

The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both conflict and collaboration. Key features: Fifteen-chapter structure to aid classroom use Sections in each chapter that feature key artifacts relevant to chapter themes Dynamic visuals, including 190 photos and 20 maps The Sea in the Middle and its sourcebook companion, Texts from the Middle, pair together to provide a framework and materials that guide students through this complex but essential history—one that will appeal to the diverse student bodies of today.

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Univ of California Press

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0520969006

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9780520969001

The Beethoven Syndrome

Hearing Music as Autobiography

By: Mark Evan Bonds

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The Beethoven Syndrome

Hearing Music as Autobiography

By: Mark Evan Bonds

The "Beethoven Syndrome" is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. This was a radically new way of listening that emerged only after Beethoven's death. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change, but only in retrospect, for it was not until after his death that listeners began to hear composers in general--and not just Beethoven--in their works, particularly in their instrumental music. The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography traces the rise, fall, and persistence of this mode of listening from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. Prior to 1830, composers and audiences alike operated within a framework of rhetoric in which the burden of intelligibility lay squarely on the composer, whose task it was to move listeners in a calculated way. But through a confluence of musical, philosophical, social, and economic changes, the paradigm of expressive objectivity gave way to one of subjectivity in the years around 1830. The framework of rhetoric thus yielded to a framework of hermeneutics: concert-goers no longer perceived composers as orators but as oracles to be deciphered. In the wake of World War I, however, the aesthetics of "New Objectivity" marked a return not only to certain stylistic features of eighteenth-century music but to the earlier concept of expression itself. Objectivity would go on to become the cornerstone of the high modernist aesthetic that dominated the century's middle decades. Masterfully citing a broad array of source material from composers, critics, theorists, and philosophers, Mark Evan Bonds's engaging study reveals how perceptions of subjective expression have endured, leading to the present era of mixed and often conflicting paradigms of listening.

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Oxford University Press

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0190068485

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9780190068486

Learning Zulu

A Secret History of Language in South Africa

By: Mark Sanders

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Learning Zulu

A Secret History of Language in South Africa

By: Mark Sanders

Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans, Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of Zulu-language learning—from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity. In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English- and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South Africa. Through one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language, Learning Zulu explores how a language's history and politics influence all individuals in a multilingual society.

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Princeton University Press

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0691191468

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9780691191461

Catholics at the Gathering Place

By: Mark McGowan

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Catholics at the Gathering Place

By: Mark McGowan

These 17 original, innovative studies reinterpret the social and institutional development of one of Canadas largest dioceses.

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Dundurn

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1459727614

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9781459727618

The Playing Grounds of College Football

A Comprehensive Directory, 1869 to Today

By: Mark Pollak

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The Playing Grounds of College Football

A Comprehensive Directory, 1869 to Today

By: Mark Pollak

College football teams today play for tens of thousands of fans in palatial stadiums that rival those of pro teams. But most started out in humbler venues, from baseball parks to fairgrounds to cow pastures. This comprehensive guide traces the long and diverse history of playing grounds for more than 1000 varsity football schools, including bowl-eligible teams, as well as those in other divisions (FCS, D2, D3, NAIA).

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McFarland

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1476673624

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9781476673622

Weekday Saints

Reflections on Their Scriptures

By: Mark G. Boyer

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Weekday Saints

Reflections on Their Scriptures

By: Mark G. Boyer

The Roman Catholic Church issued its first, modern, one-volume Lectionary--a book of biblical texts assigned for every day of the year--in 1970 in response to the Second Vatican Council's call for a greater fare of Scripture during Mass. By the time the Lectionary was revised and published between 1998 and 2002, it had grown to four volumes. Because of the revision, many weekday celebrations of saints were assigned texts that had not been so in the 1970 Lectionary. Because of the Lectionary's success, many other Christian denominations adopted and adapted the Lectionary to fit their own needs. Thus, Anglicans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, and many others began to use the Lectionary. In those churches that have weekday services, the same Scripture texts may be heard along with the same celebration of a saint. This volume provides reflections on the proper biblical passages for weekday saints. Any member of a Christian congregation marking the celebration of a saint on a weekday will find these reflections on the Scripture texts assigned to a particular saint very helpful.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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149820404X

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9781498204040

Michael Power

The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier

By: Mark George McGowan

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Michael Power

The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier

By: Mark George McGowan

This biography of Toronto's first Roman Catholic bishop also serves as a compelling history of Canadian Catholicism.Winner of the 2006 Heritage Toronto Book Award for excellence.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773529144

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