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Washington Wines and Wineries

The Essential Guide

By: Paul Gregutt

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During the thirty-five years wine critic and writer Paul Gregutt has lived in the state of Washington, its wine industry has ballooned from a mere half dozen wineries to nearly five hundred. Washington Wines and Wineries offers a comprehensive, critical, and accessible account of the nation's second largest wine-producing region.

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Univ of California Press

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Monet in the '90s

The Series Paintings

By: Paul Hayes Tucker,Claude Monet,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Monet in the '90s

The Series Paintings

By: Paul Hayes Tucker,Claude Monet,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Monografie over de impressionistische schilder Claude Monet (1840-1926).

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Yale University Press

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0300049137

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Historical Dictionary of Brussels

By: Paul F. State

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Historical Dictionary of Brussels

By: Paul F. State

Brussels has become the “capital” of Europe, serving as the headquarters for key regional and international agencies, including the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, UN organizations, multinational businesses, lobbying firms, governmental groups, and nongovernmental organizations. Its status as a diplomatic, political, and economic center assumes ever greater importance as the EU grows in depth and breadth. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Brussels covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Brussels.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810879212

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The Adventure of the Real

Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema

By: Paul Henley

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The Adventure of the Real

Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema

By: Paul Henley

Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917–2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fiction, and exerted an influence far beyond academia. Exhaustively researched yet elegantly written, The Adventure of the Real is the first comprehensive analysis of his practical filmmaking methods. Rouch developed these methods while conducting anthropological research in West Africa in the 1940s–1950s. His innovative use of unscripted improvisation by his subjects had a profound impact on the French New Wave, Paul Henley reveals, while his documentary work launched the genre of cinema-vérité. In addition to tracking Rouch’s pioneering career, Henley examines the technical strategies, aesthetic considerations, and ethical positions that contribute to Rouch’s cinematographic legacy. Featuring over one hundred and fifty images, The Adventure of the Real is an essential introduction to Rouch’s work.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226327167

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Algeria in France

Transpolitics, Race, and Nation

By: Paul A. Silverstein

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Algeria in France

Transpolitics, Race, and Nation

By: Paul A. Silverstein

Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but in recent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting public debate encompassing issues of unemployment, multiculturalism, Islam, and terrorism. In this finely crafted historical and anthropological study, Paul A. Silverstein examines a wide range of social and cultural forms -- from immigration policy, colonial governance, and urban planning to corporate advertising, sports, literary narratives, and songs -- for what they reveal about postcolonial Algerian subjectivities. Investigating the connection between anti-immigrant racism and the rise of Islamist and Berberist ideologies among the "second generation" ("Beurs"), he argues that the appropriation of these cultural-political projects by Algerians in France represents a critique of notions of European or Mediterranean unity and elucidates the mechanisms by which the Algerian civil war has been transferred onto French soil.

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Indiana University Press

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0253003040

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“Truth Behind Bars”

Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution

By: Paul Kellogg

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“Truth Behind Bars”

Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution

By: Paul Kellogg

Just north of the Arctic Circle is the settlement of Vorkuta, a notorious camp in the Gulag internment system that witnessed three pivotal moments in Russian history. In the 1930s, a desperate hunger strike by socialist prisoners, victims of Joseph Stalin’s repressive regime, resulted in mass executions. In 1953, a strike by forced labourers sounded the death knell for the Stalinist forced labour system. And finally, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a series of strikes by new, independent miners’ unions were central to overturning the Stalinist system. Paul Kellogg uses the story of Vorkuta as a frame with which to re-assess the Russian Revolution. In particular, he turns to the contributions of Iulii Martov, a contemporary of Lenin, and his analysis of the central role played in the revolution by a temporary class of peasants-in-uniform. Kellogg explores the persistence and creativity of workers’ resistance in even the darkest hours of authoritarian repression and offers new perspectives on the failure of democratic governance after the Russian Revolution.

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Athabasca University Press

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177199245X

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03 Minute Traffic Ticket Trial

How Not To Be Stressed Over a Traffic Ticket

By: Paul Chandhoke

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03 Minute Traffic Ticket Trial

How Not To Be Stressed Over a Traffic Ticket

By: Paul Chandhoke

This very practical book, entitled 03 Minute Traffic Ticket Trial, provides useful information to readers about how they can fight traffic tickets of various kinds within the common law legal system. A wide variety of car-related offenses are included, such as speeding, careless driving, failure to stop at a stop sign, etc. Covered in this guide are plea bargaining, traffic ticket trials, traffic case evidence, common defences, sentences and or fines including appeals. With this handy guide, consumers can have more information about how to deal with the complexities of handling the common law court system when they are faced with tickets.

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FriesenPress

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1460276116

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AIDS and Accusation

Haiti and the Geography of Blame

By: Paul Farmer

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AIDS and Accusation

Haiti and the Geography of Blame

By: Paul Farmer

Does the scientific 'theory' that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Paul Farmer answers with this ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society.

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Univ of California Press

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0520248392

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Stavisky

A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue

By: Paul Jankowski

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Stavisky

A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue

By: Paul Jankowski

Jankowski recounts Stavisky's notorious schemes and untimely demise, the deadly riot that rocked Paris in its wake, the fall of successive governments including that of Edouard Daladier, and the spectacular trial of many of the swindler's accomplices. "Much against his will, Sacha Stavisky," the author observes, "ignited an explosion that briefly engulfed the entire system of government.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Cornell University Press

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0801439590

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Physics for Scientists and Engineers

By: Paul A. Tipler,Gene Mosca

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Physics for Scientists and Engineers

By: Paul A. Tipler,Gene Mosca

This is an extensively revised edition of Paul Tipler's standard text for calculus-based introductory physics courses. It includes entirely new artwork, updated examples and new pedagogical features. There is also an online instructor's resource manual to support the text.

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Macmillan

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0716783398

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The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities

A Yearbook of Forgotten Words

By: Paul Anthony Jones

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The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities

A Yearbook of Forgotten Words

By: Paul Anthony Jones

Open The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities and you’ll find both a word and a day to remember, every day of the year. Each day has its own dedicated entry, on which a curious or notable event—and an equally curious or notable word—are explored. On the day on which flirting was banned in New York City, for instance, you’ll discover why to “sheep’s-eye” someone once meant to look at them amorously. On the day on which a disillusioned San Franciscan declared himself Emperor of the United States, you’ll find the word “mamamouchi,” a term for people who consider themselves more important than they truly are. And on the day on which George Frideric Handel completed his 259-page Messiah after twenty-four days of frenzied work, you’ll see why a French loanword, literally meaning “a small wooden barrow,” is used to refer to an intense period of work undertaken to meet a deadline. The English language is vast enough to supply us with a word for every occasion—and this linguistic “wunderkammer” is here to prove precisely that. So whatever date this book has found its way into your hands, there’s an entire year’s worth of linguistic curiosities waiting to be found.

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022664670X

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Misfire

The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I

By: Paul Miller-Melamed

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Misfire

The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I

By: Paul Miller-Melamed

A new interpretation of the Sarajevo assassination and the origins of World War I that places focus on the Balkans and the prewar period. The story has so often been told: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, was shot dead on June 28, 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Thirty days later, the Archduke's uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph, declared war on the Kingdom of Serbia, producing the chain reaction of European powers entering the First World War. In Misfire, Paul Miller-Melamed narrates the history of the Sarajevo assassination and the origins of World War I from the perspective of the Balkans. Rather than focusing on the bang of assassin Gavrilo Princip's gun or reinforcing the mythology that has arisen around this act, Miller-Melamed embeds the incident in the longer-term conditions of the Balkans that gave rise to the political murder. He thus illuminates the centrality of the Bosnian Crisis and the Balkan Wars of the early twentieth century to European power politics, while explaining how Serbs, Bosnians, and Habsburg leaders negotiated their positions in an increasingly dangerous geopolitical environment. Despite the absence of evidence tying official Serbia to the assassination conspiracy, Miller-Melamed shows how it spiraled into a diplomatic crisis that European statesmen proved unable to resolve peacefully. Contrasting the vast disproportionality between a single deadly act and an act of war that would leave ten million dead, Misfire contends that the real causes for the world war lie in "civilized" Europe rather than the endlessly discussed political murder.

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Oxford University Press

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0197620019

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Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution

Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law

By: Paul Raffield

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Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution

Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law

By: Paul Raffield

Through an examination of six plays by Shakespeare, the author presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the last decade of Elizabethan rule and their representation in poetic drama of the period. The playhouses of London in the 1590s provided a distinctive forum for discourse and dissemination of nascent political ideas. Shakespeare exploited the unique capacity of theatre to humanise contemporary debate concerning the powers of the crown and the extent to which these were limited by law. The autonomous subject of law is represented in the plays considered here as a sentient political being whose natural rights and liberties found an analogue in the narratives of common law, as recorded in juristic texts and law reports of the early modern era. Each chapter reflects a particular aspect of constitutional development in the late-Elizabethan state. These include abuse of the royal prerogative by the crown and its agents; the emergence of a politicised middle class citizenry, empowered by the ascendancy of contract law; the limitations imposed by the courts on the lawful extent of divinely ordained kingship; the natural and rational authority of unwritten lex terrae; the poetic imagination of the judiciary and its role in shaping the constitution; and the fusion of temporal and spiritual jurisdiction in the person of the monarch. The book advances original insights into the complex and agonistic relationship between theatre, politics, and law. The plays discussed offer persuasive images both of the crown's absolutist tendencies and of alternative polities predicated upon classical and humanist principles of justice, equity, and community. 'It is now canon in progressive U.S. legal scholarship that to focus solely on the text of our Constitution is myopic. We look as well for "constitutional moments", moments when the zeitgeist is so transformed that our fundamental legal charter changes with it. In this breathtakingly erudite book, Paul Raffield argues that the late-Elizabethan period was such a "constitutional moment" in England, a moment literally "played out" for the polity by the greatest dramatist of all time. A lawyer and a thespian, Raffield handles both legal and literary sources with exquisite care. As with the works of the Old Masters, one dwells pleasurably on each detail until their cumulative force presses one backward to see the canvas in its sudden, glorious entirety. A major achievement.' Kenji Yoshino Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1847316069

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal

Volume 16, 1988

By: The J. Paul Getty Museum

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal

Volume 16, 1988

By: The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 16 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 16 includes articles written by Richard A. Gergel, Lee Johnson, Myra D. Orth, Barbra Anderson, Louise Lippincott, Leonard Amico, Peggy Fogelman, Peter Fusco, Gerd Spitzer, and Clare Le Corbeiller.

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Getty Publications

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0892361433

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The Criminal Law Handbook

Know Your Rights, Survive the System

By: Paul Bergman,Sara J. Berman

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The Criminal Law Handbook

Know Your Rights, Survive the System

By: Paul Bergman,Sara J. Berman

The criminal justice system is complicated. Understand it and your rights. This book demystifies the complex rules and procedures of criminal law. It explains how the system works, why police, lawyers, and judges do what they do, and what suspects, defendants, and prisoners can expect. It also provides critical information on working with a lawyer. In plain English, The Criminal Law Handbook covers: search and seizure arrest, booking, and bail Miranda rights arraignment plea bargains trials sentencing common defenses working with defense attorneys constitutional rights juvenile court legal terms and definitions appeals public defenders victims’ rights The 17th edition is completely updated, covering the latest in criminal law, including U.S. Supreme Court cases.

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Nolo

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1413329403

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Practical French Grammar and Exercises

Part I. For the use of Beginners

By: Paul Baume

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Practical French Grammar and Exercises

Part I. For the use of Beginners

By: Paul Baume

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752522755

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Paris

The Shaping of the French Capital A Political Perspective

By: Paul N. Balchin

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Paris

The Shaping of the French Capital A Political Perspective

By: Paul N. Balchin

This book offers a new perspective on French architecture, describing the impact of political history on the architectural development of Paris. Through various stages in history from the Roman to the Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern and Modern, Paris: The Shaping of the French Capital shows how the immense political power of monarchs, the aristocracy and church determined the pace and volume of building in Paris and the extent of town planning. Whereas many other great cities owe their historic importance to trade, and to local government (the City of London being a supreme example), these attributes were largely absent in Paris (throughout most of its history it didn’t even have a mayor). Arguably, because of this, gradually over the centuries the French capital emerged as one of the world’s most beautiful cities, and now is a metropolis with a population in excess of 2 million.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000834867

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Walking the Somme

By: Paul Reed

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Walking the Somme

By: Paul Reed

This new edition of Paul Reed's classic book Walking the Somme is an essential traveling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetime's research into the battle and the landscape over which it was fought. From Gommecourt, Serre, Beaumont-Hamel and Thiepval to Montauban, High Wood, Delville Wood and Flers, he guides the walker across the major sites associated with the fighting. These are now features of the peaceful Somme countryside. In total there are 16 walks, including a new one tracing the operations around Mametz Wood, and all the original walks have been fully revised and brought up to date. Walking the Somme brings the visitor not only to the places where the armies clashed but to the landscape of monuments, cemeteries and villages that make the Somme battlefield so moving to explore.

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Casemate Publishers

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1848844735

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Ecological Genetics

Design, Analysis, and Application

By: Andrew Lowe,Stephen Harris,Paul Ashton

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Ecological Genetics

Design, Analysis, and Application

By: Andrew Lowe,Stephen Harris,Paul Ashton

Ecological Genetics addresses the fundamental problems of which of the many molecular markers should be used and how the resulting data should be analysed in clear, accessible language, suitable for upper-level undergraduates through to research-level professionals. A very accessible straightforward text to deal with this difficult topic - applying modern molecular techniques to ecological processes. Written by active researchers and teachers within the field. There will be an accompanying web site managed by the authors, comprising of worked examples, test data sets and hyperlinks to relevant web pages.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444311212

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9781444311211

Translation as Reparation

By: Paul Bandia

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Translation as Reparation

By: Paul Bandia

Translation as Reparation showcases postcolonial Africa by offering African European-language literature as a case study for postcolonial translation theory, and proposes a new perspective for postcolonial literary criticism informed by theories of translation. The book focuses on translingualism and interculturality in African Europhone literature, highlighting the role of oral culture and artistry in the writing of fiction. The fictionalizing of African orature in postcolonial literature is viewed in terms of translation and an intercultural writing practice which challenge the canons of colonial linguistic propriety through the subversion of social and linguistic conventions. The study opens up pathways for developing new insights into the ethics of translation, as it raises issues related to the politics of language, ideology, identity, accented writing and translation. It confirms the place of translation theory in literary criticism and affirms the importance of translation in the circulation of texts, particularly those from minority cultures, in the global marketplace. Grounded in a multidisciplinary approach, the book will be of interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, including translation studies, African literature and culture, sociolinguistics and multilingualism, postcolonial and intercultural studies.

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Routledge

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1317640187

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Here and Now

Letters 2008-2011

By: Paul Auster,J. M. Coetzee

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Here and Now

Letters 2008-2011

By: Paul Auster,J. M. Coetzee

“[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men. . . . It’s a pleasure to be in their company.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “An extended meditation on the processes of friendship, [Here and Now] has something substantive to offer.”—The New York Times Book Review After a meeting at an Australian literary festival brought them together in 2008, novelists Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee began exchanging letters on a regular basis with the hope they might “strike sparks off each other." Here and Now is the result: a three-year epistolary dialogue that touches on nearly every subject from sports to fatherhood, literature to film, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, death, marriage, friendship, and love. Their high-spirited and luminous correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and reveal their delight in each other’s friendship on every page.

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Penguin

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1101606274

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CLEP® Introductory Business Law Book + Online, 2nd Ed.

By: Lisa M. Fairfax,Paul Schiff Berman

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CLEP® Introductory Business Law Book + Online, 2nd Ed.

By: Lisa M. Fairfax,Paul Schiff Berman

Earn College Credit with REA’s Test Prep for CLEP Introductory Business Law Everything you need to pass the exam and get the college credit you deserve. REA leads the way in helping students pass their College Board CLEP exams and earn college credit while reducing their tuition costs. With 25+ years of experience in test prep for the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP), REA is your trusted source for the most up-to-date test-aligned content. Whether you’re an adult returning to finish your degree, a traditional-age college student, a military service member, or a high school or home-schooled student looking to get a head start on college and shorten your path to graduation, CLEP is perfect for you. REA’s expert authors know the CLEP tests inside out. And thanks to our partners at Proctortrack (proctortrack.com/clep), you can now take your exam at your convenience, from the comfort of home. Prep for success on the CLEP Introductory Business Law exam with REA’s personalized three-step plan: (1) focus your study, (2) review with the book, and (3) measure your test-readiness. Our Book + Online prep gives you all the tools you need to make the most of your study time: Diagnostic exam: Pinpoint what you already know and what you need to study. Targeted subject review: Learn what you’ll be tested on. Two full-length practice exams: Zero in on the topics that give you trouble now so you’ll be confident and prepared on test day. Glossary of key terms: Round out your prep with must-know vocabulary. REA is America’s recognized leader in CLEP preparation. Our test prep helps you earn valuable college credit, save on tuition, and accelerate your path to a college degree.

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Research & Education Assoc.

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0738688592

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Shades of Indignation

Political Scandals in France, Past and Present

By: Paul Jankowski

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Shades of Indignation

Political Scandals in France, Past and Present

By: Paul Jankowski

At the end of the twentieth century France found itself in the midst of another scandalous fin de siècle, awash with rumors and revelations of wrongdoing in high places. As the millennium expired, the Republic’s servants, some sitting, others retired, received much condemnation, whether welcomed or resented. When taken together, surely les affaires now approximate in political significance (if not in noise or invective) those of the Dreyfus or Panama scandals a century ago? Yet the author argues this is not so. Today, treason has vanished and is slowly giving way to a transgression different in kind, but equivalent in gravamen: the crime against humanity. Corruption is far from disappearing, yet now it inspires resignation rather than indignation - and as such, it has lost its power to scandalize. Jankowski claims that such transformations tell a tale. The state that once aspired to pre-eminence as the sole magnet of loyalty, touchstone of probity, and guarantor of right, has yielded significant ground to the individual who is now more likely to elevate his own dignity and cry scandal on his own behalf. [In these times,] Individualism is de-politicizing the group and [ultimately] diluting the mystique of France, the nation-state par excellence.

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Berghahn Books

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0857455389

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Grenada

Carriacou - Petite Martinique

By: Paul Crask

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Grenada

Carriacou - Petite Martinique

By: Paul Crask

Known as the Spice Island, Grenada offers visitors mountains, rainforest, waterfalls, white beaches, Big Drum dancing, rum distilleries and some of the most famous sailing regattas in the world. Updated throughout, this is still the only dedicated guide to Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique. Grenada's national parks are teaming with wildlife; Carriacou is home to some of the best coral reefs and wrecks in the Caribbean; and the tiny island of Petite Martinique is perfect for travellers looking for an idyllic getaway. Paul Crask showcases the islands' music festivals and cultural heritage, pinpoints ways to support local producers and craftsmen, and goes off the beaten track to reveal some of the country's little-known sights. An essential trip-planning tool, this guide will appeal to sun-seekers and sailors, as well as hikers, scuba divers and culture vultures.

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Bradt Travel Guides

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1841624012

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Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume 1B: Oscillations and Waves; Thermodynamics

By: Paul A. Tipler,Gene Mosca

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Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume 1B: Oscillations and Waves; Thermodynamics

By: Paul A. Tipler,Gene Mosca

New Volume 1B edition of the classic text, now more than ever tailored to meet the needs of the struggling student.

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0716709031

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Sic Itur Ad Astra

Studien Zur Geschichte Der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften : Festschrift Für Den Arabisten Paul Kunitzsch Zum 70. Geburtstag

By: Paul Kunitzsch

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Sic Itur Ad Astra

Studien Zur Geschichte Der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften : Festschrift Für Den Arabisten Paul Kunitzsch Zum 70. Geburtstag

By: Paul Kunitzsch

Die Festschrift vereinigt 29 Beitrage, die folgende Sachgebiete betreffen: arabische und mittelalterlich-europaische Mathematik, Uberlieferungsgeschichte der indisch-arabischen Ziffern, die arabisch-islamische Astronomie, die volkstumliche arabische Himmelskunde, das Astrolab und seine Nomenklatur, antike und spatgriechische astronome Traditionen, weitere Fragen bzw. Texte zur Uberlieferung der Wissenschaften im griechisch-syrisch-arabisch-lateinischen Traditionsraum. Alle Arbeiten sind originell und beruhen auf einschlagigen Originalquellen. Mehrere griechische, syrische, arabische und lateinische Texte bzw. Auszuge daraus sind auch ediert. Die Sammlung enthalt somit wichtige, neue Bausteine fur unser Gesamtbild von den arabischen Wissenschaften, ihrem Nachleben in Europa und weiteren Ausstrahlungen auf die europaische Geistesgeschichte.

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Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

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3447042907

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Reading Public Romanticism

By: Paul Magnuson

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Reading Public Romanticism

By: Paul Magnuson

Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism. Here Paul Magnuson locates Romantic poetry within a public discourse that combines politics and esthetics, nationalism and domesticity, sexuality and morality, law and legitimacy. Building on his well-regarded previous work, Magnuson practices a methodology of close historical reading by identifying precise versions of poems, reading their rhetoric of allusion and quotation in the contexts of their original publication, and describing their public genres, such as the letter. He studies the author's public signature or motto, the forms and significance of address used in poems, and the resonances of poetic language and tropes in the public debates. According to Magnuson, "reading locations" means reading the writing that surrounds a poem, the "paratext" or "frame" of the esthetic boundary. In their particular locations in the public discourse, romantic poems are illocutionary speech acts that take a stand on public issues and legitimate their authors both as public characters and as writers. He traces the public significance of canonical poems commonly considered as lyrics with little explicit social or political commentary, including Wordsworth's "Immortality Ode"; Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," "Frost at Midnight," and "The Ancient Mariner"; and Keats's "On a Grecian Urn." He also positions Byron's Dedication to Don Juan in the debates over Southey's laureateship and claims for poetic authority and legitimacy. Reading Public Romanticism is a thoughtful and revealing work. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400864798

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French Manual of Grammar, Conversation, and Literature

By: Paul Baume

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French Manual of Grammar, Conversation, and Literature

By: Paul Baume

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382142848

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Black Crown

Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom

By: Paul Clammer

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Black Crown

Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom

By: Paul Clammer

How did a man born enslaved on a plantation triumph over Napoleon’s invading troops and become king of the first free black nation in the Americas? This is the forgotten, remarkable story of Henry Christophe. Christophe fought as a child soldier in the American War of Independence, before serving in the Haitian Revolution as one of Toussaint Louverture’s top generals. Following Haitian independence, Christophe crowned himself King Henry I. His attempts to build a modern black state won the support of leading British abolitionists—but his ambition helped to plunge his country into civil war. Christophe saw himself as an Enlightenment ruler, and his kingdom produced great literary works, epic fortresses and opulent palaces. He was a proud anti-imperialist and fought off French plots against him. Yet the Haitian people chafed under his authoritarian rule. Today, all that remains is Christophe’s mountaintop Citadelle, Haiti’s sole World Heritage site—a monument to a revolutionary black monarchy, in a world of empire and slavery.

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1787389979

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Change Is Possible

Reflections on the History of Global Health

By: William H. Foege,Paul Elish,Alison T. Hoover,Madison Gabriella Lee,Deborah Chen Tseng,Kiera Chan

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Change Is Possible

Reflections on the History of Global Health

By: William H. Foege,Paul Elish,Alison T. Hoover,Madison Gabriella Lee,Deborah Chen Tseng,Kiera Chan

A groundbreaking new history of global health from one of the greatest leaders in the field. In Change Is Possible, public health legend William H. Foege and five coauthors chronicle the failures and successes of global health through the modern age, including the massive impacts of colonialism, religious groups, philanthropies, politics, NGOs, and more. Foege, who has served in local, national, and international public health contexts—including as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—is uniquely qualified to reflect on the history of global health. He and his Rollins School of Public Health coauthors explain why colonialism has been the greatest disaster for global health, whereas military medicine may have been its greatest asset. From the rapid development of NGOs to the impact of pharmaceutical companies over the last 35 years to the hybrid programs that are now responsible for innovative contributions, the authors discuss multiple impacts on global health. In chapters with coauthors Paul Elish, Alison T. Hoover, Madison Gabriella Lee, Deborah Chen Tseng, and Kiera Chan, Foege explores additional essential topics such as the legacy of colonialism in global health, early philanthropy versus new philanthropy, and how to promote positive change. Foege also shares critical lessons from the smallpox campaign—a disease he helped eradicate—and how these historical lessons can be applied in global health work today. The book's research and reflections make this an essential book for students and readers interested in global health. In a narrative that is both deeply personal and universal, Foege shares lessons learned and personal experiences that craft a strikingly new history of global health.

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1421450437

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Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands

By: Lonely Planet,Mara Vorhees,Paul Clammer,Alex Egerton,Anna Kaminski,Catherine Le Nevez,Tom Masters,Carolyn McCarthy,Kevin Raub,Brendan Sainsbury

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Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands

By: Lonely Planet,Mara Vorhees,Paul Clammer,Alex Egerton,Anna Kaminski,Catherine Le Nevez,Tom Masters,Carolyn McCarthy,Kevin Raub,Brendan Sainsbury

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Travel back to the 18th century as you wander along cobbled lanes and past meticulously restored buildings at English Harbour, Antigua; hoist a jib and set sail from sailing fantasyland, Tortola, and enjoy the journey to one of the 50 or so isles making up the British Virgin Islands; or hit the atmospheric streets of Cuba's Habana Vieja and join in the living musical soundtrack of rumba, salsa, son and reggaeton; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Caribbean Islands and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Caribbean Islands Travel Guide: Color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - weddings, honeymoons, sustainable travel, cuisine, music, wildlife, culture, history Covers Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Jamaica, St Kitts, St Lucia, Trinidad, Turks & Caicos, US Virgin Islands, and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands, our most comprehensive guide to the Caribbean Islands, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You’ll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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1787011658

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British films of the 1970s

By: Paul Newland

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British films of the 1970s

By: Paul Newland

British films of the 1970s offers highly detailed and insightful critical analysis of a range of individual films of the period. This analysis draws upon an innovative range of critical methodologies which place the film texts within a rich variety of historical contexts. The book sets out to examine British films of the 1970s in order to get a clearer understanding of two things – the fragmentary state of the filmmaking culture of the period, and the fragmentary nature of the nation that these films represent. It argues that there is no singular narrative to be drawn about British filmmaking in the 1970s, other than the fact that these films offer evidence of a Britain (and ideas of Britishness) characterised by vicissitudes. While this was a period of struggle and instability, it was also a period of openings, of experiment, and of new ideas. Newland looks at many films, including Carry On Girls, O Lucky Man!, That'll be the Day, The Shout, and The Long Good Friday.

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Manchester University Press

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1526102307

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9781526102300

The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830

By: Paul Bänichou

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The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830

By: Paul Bänichou

The Consecration of the Writer is the definitive study of the first stages of a phenomenon that has profoundly affected world literature: the process by which modern writers ceased to speak as representatives of some religious or political power and instead seized the mantle of spiritual authority in their own right, speaking directly to and in the name of humanity. ø Paul Bänichou identifies three great moments in this process: the advent of the Enlightenment faith in philosophy and the rise of its literary concomitant, the man of letters; the literary creations of the counterrevolution and their surprising involvement in the elevation of the status of poetry; and, finally, the fusion of these tendencies in the early phases of romanticism in France. ø Bänichou deepens our understanding of romanticism by showing that it was a revision of the Enlightenment faith rather than a reaction against it. The extraordinary depth of Bänichou?s research, the originality of his conclusions, and the importance of his methodological reflections make this study an essential reference in the contemporary return to literary history.

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0803261527

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9780803261525

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