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Outsourcing Welfare

How the Money Immigrants Send Home Contributes to Stability in Developing Countries

By: Roy Germano

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Outsourcing Welfare

How the Money Immigrants Send Home Contributes to Stability in Developing Countries

By: Roy Germano

Rising food prices, climate change, and the ravages of global capitalism have made the poor increasingly vulnerable to economic crises. At the same time, the governments of many developing countries have adopted austerity measures that leave their citizens without a safety net in times of need. This combination poses a potent threat to social and political stability throughout the developing world. How do the poor cope with economic crises when their governments fail to guarantee social welfare? How do societies keep from fracturing under the weight of economic grievances and civil unrest? Outsourcing Welfare argues that the answers to these questions lie with remittances, the hundreds of billions of dollars that international migrants send to their home countries. Remittances are a leading source of income in dozens of developing economies and a critical lifeline that millions of families use to pay for food, healthcare, clothing, and other basics. In the absence of adequate government social protections, remittances insulate poor families from the full pain of economic crises, and in doing so, reduce the severity of grievances that fuel populist anger, civil unrest, and political instability. Through stories from his fieldwork in Mexico and Central America and analyses of data from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, Roy Germano shows how remittances buffer economic shocks, contribute to economic optimism, and dampen the threat of popular discontent during economic crises. Germano argues that remittances perform a social, economic, and political function that is strikingly similar to social spending, and that counting on people to migrate and send money home has become a de facto social welfare policy in many developing countries.

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0190862858

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Outsourcing Welfare

How the Money Immigrants Send Home Contributes to Stability in Developing Countries

By: Roy Germano

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How the Money Immigrants Send Home Contributes to Stability in Developing Countries

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Oxford University Press

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0190862866

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The Building in the Text

Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton

By: Roy Eriksen

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The Building in the Text

Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton

By: Roy Eriksen

In The Building in the Text, Roy Eriksen shows that Renaissance writers conceived of their texts in accordance with architectural principles. His approach opens the way to wide-ranging discussions of the structure and meaning of a variety of literary texts and also provides new insights into the famed architectural ekphrases of Alberti and Vasari. Analyzing such words as &"plot,&" &"topos,&" &"fabrica,&" and &"stanza,&" Eriksen discloses the fundamental spatial symmetries and complexities in the writings of Ariosto, Shakespeare, and Milton, among other major figures. Ultimately, his book uncovers and clarifies a tradition of literary architecture that is rooted in antiquity and based on correspondences regarded as ordering principles of the cosmos. Eriksen&’s book will be of interest to art historians, historians of literature, and those concerned with the classical heritage, rhetoric, music, and architecture.

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Penn State Press

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0271038799

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9780271038797

Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990

By: Roy Kinnard,Tony Crnkovich

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Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990

By: Roy Kinnard,Tony Crnkovich

Produced in Italy from the turn of the 20th century, "sword and sandal" or peplum films were well received in the silent era and attained great popularity in the 1960s following the release of Hercules (1959), starring Mr. Universe Steve Reeves. A global craze for Bronze Age fantasy-adventures ensued and the heroic exploits of Hercules, Maciste, Samson and Goliath were soon a mainstay of American drive-ins and second-run theaters (though mainly disparaged by critics). By 1965, the genre was eclipsed by the spaghetti western, yet the 1960s peplum canon continues to inspire Hollywood epics. This filmography provides credits, cast and comments for dozens of films from 1908 through 1990.

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McFarland

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1476627045

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Borderline Personality Disorder

An Evidence-based Guide for Generalist Mental Health Professionals

By: Anthony W. Bateman,Roy Krawitz

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Borderline Personality Disorder

An Evidence-based Guide for Generalist Mental Health Professionals

By: Anthony W. Bateman,Roy Krawitz

Though much progress has been made in developing specialist psychosocial treatments for borderline personality disorder (BPD), the majority of people with BPD receive treatment within generalist mental health services. This is a practical evidence-based guide on how to help people with BPD with advice based on research evidence.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199644209

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Valor

The American Odyssey of Roy Dominguez

By: Roy Dominguez

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Valor

The American Odyssey of Roy Dominguez

By: Roy Dominguez

An inspiring true story, Valor is a significant and original contribution to the social, ethnic, and political history of Indiana.

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Indiana University Press

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025300232X

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9780253002327

The Great War, 1914-1918

The Cartoonists' Vision

By: Roy Douglas

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The Great War, 1914-1918

The Cartoonists' Vision

By: Roy Douglas

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.

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Psychology Press

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0415117135

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9780415117135

Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV

By: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

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Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV

By: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

The Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was a self-obsessed courtier and chronicler of court life under Louis XIV. Drawing heavily on his memoirs, historian Ladurie offers a wonderful portrait of life with Louis, focusing on issues of hierarchy and rank in this tightly controlled universe. Illustrations.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226473201

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9780226473208

The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914

By: Roy Bridge,Roger Bullen

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The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914

By: Roy Bridge,Roger Bullen

This book illuminates, in the form of a clear, well-paced and student-friendly analytical narrative, the functioning of the European states system in its heyday, the crucial century between the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 and the outbreak of the First World War just one hundred years later. In this substantially revised and expanded version of the text, the author has included the results of the latest research, a body of additional information and a number of carefully designed maps that will make the subject even more accessible to readers.

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Routledge

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1317867920

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European Diary, 1977-1981

By: Roy Jenkins

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European Diary, 1977-1981

By: Roy Jenkins

First published in 1989, this diary provides the background to two vital issues: our relations with the European Community and the state of politics in Britain. Few people are better qualified to know how we arrived where we are than Roy Jenkins. During the period of this diary he was President of the European Commission. The diary provides a picture of the day-to-day life of the head of an international organization, of the conflicting pressures and grinding routine, of the importance of personal relationships with world leaders such as Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Willy Brandt, Jean Monnet and Jimmy Carter. In addition to the political chronicle we have frank and sometimes unguarded revelations about the author, his tastes and preoccupations, from which emerges a man more imbued with public passion, more eccentric and with a more varied private life than many readers may expect. His subtle perception of people is revealed in brilliant portraits of, for example, Schmidt, pessimistic, streaked with melancholy, indiscreet and yet notably constructive, and Giscard d'Estaing, highly intelligent but with pretentions that sometimes make him faintly ludicrous. For those concerned with the way the world is developing and the impact of a civilized and essentially private personality on public events, European Diary is compulsory reading.

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A&C Black

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1448201977

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American Dark Age

Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism

By: Keidrick Roy

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American Dark Age

Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism

By: Keidrick Roy

American Dark Age contends that life in early and antebellum America for Black people resembles what Keidrick Roy calls "racial feudalism," a race-based system of social stratification in the U.S. that operates as an extension of medieval ideas and customs. Accordingly, this project does not read Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence against the backdrop of the European and American Enlightenment traditions, as virtually all modern scholars have done. Instead, it seeks to understand Jefferson as a product of the same feudal frameworks he claimed to supersede. Jefferson's attachment to feudalism is most evident in his approbation of two new aristocracies during the Age of Enlightenment: (1) the aristocracy of the mind, which he calls a "natural aristocracy," and (2) the aristocracy of the skin, what abolitionist Frederick Douglass later dubs, with emphasis, "skin-aristocracy." After tracing the lineaments of racial feudalism, Roy shows how four African Americans-James McCune Smith, William Wells Brown, Francis Harper, and Harriet Jacobs-present distinctive but interconnected visions for overcoming its effects in the mid-nineteenth century by upending the antecedent feudal architecture of American liberalism, a broad tradition whose unifying strands otherwise emphasize individual liberties, egalitarianism, moral universalism, and meliorism (the belief in the possibility for social and political progress). Ultimately, Roy argues, McCune Smith, Wells Brown, Harper, and Jacobs maintained a spirit of cautious optimism against the retrogressive forces of plantation slavery in the South and what McCune Smith calls "caste-slavery in the North." Their quest to destroy racial feudalism and reformulate American liberalism established the conditions for initiating new ways of being "American.""--

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Princeton University Press

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069125236X

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Civility and Empire

Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921

By: Anindyo Roy

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Civility and Empire

Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921

By: Anindyo Roy

This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself.

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Routledge

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113440834X

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Television in Bangladesh

News and Audiences

By: Ratan Kumar Roy

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Television in Bangladesh

News and Audiences

By: Ratan Kumar Roy

This book examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Bangladesh. By using a multi-sited ethnography of television news media, it showcases the socio-political undercurrents of media practices and the everydayness of TV news in Bangladesh. It discusses a wide gamut of issues such as news making; localised public sphere; audience reaction and viewing culture; impact of rumours and fake news; socio-political conditions; protest mobilization; newsroom politics and perspectives from the ground. An important intervention in the subject, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of media studies, journalism and mass communication, anthropology, cultural studies, political sociology, political science, sociology, South Asian studies, as well as television professionals, journalists, civil society activists, and those interested in the study of Bangladesh.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000332748

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9781000332742

The Regions of Italy

A Reference Guide to History and Culture

By: Roy P. Domenico

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The Regions of Italy

A Reference Guide to History and Culture

By: Roy P. Domenico

Through most of their history, Italians have identified more with their own locales than with what is now known as Italy. This comprehensive reference allows readers to view the land as its denizens have for centuries--regionally. Domenico superbly surveys the regional and provincial characteristics and culture of the 20 regions, including economy, cuisine, history, recent politics, and arts. This is the only single general reference volume in English on Italy's regions and will be highly in demand by teachers, students of Italian language and culture, and travelers. Italy's enormous contributions to western civilization continue to make it a cultural and economic powerhouse and a top tourist destination. The Regions of Italy succinctly conveys the formidable richness of the whole through its parts, with a user-friendly format that makes it easy to glean the important information on the area of interest. A chronology, glossary, and wide selection of photos accompany the text.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031301650X

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9780313016509

Good Hygiene Practices and Their Prevention of Biofilms in the Food Industry

By: Roy Fink

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Good Hygiene Practices and Their Prevention of Biofilms in the Food Industry

By: Roy Fink

This book highlights the importance of hygiene in the food industry with regard to biofilms, which can be found on the contact materials of various food production facilities, including bakery, brewing, seafood processing, and dairy and meat processing. Good hygiene practices in such facilities can prevent microbial niches and harbourage sites, facilitate cleaning and disinfection, maintain or increase product shelf-life, and improve food safety. This book provides essential information on the updated information on biofilm growth conditions, detection methods, and prevention and control strategies.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527536777

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The Better Brother

Tom & George Custer and the Battle for the American West

By: Roy Bird

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The Better Brother

Tom & George Custer and the Battle for the American West

By: Roy Bird

Years of painstaking research have uncovered more detail on Thomas Ward Custer, the younger brother of the legendary General George Custer. Historians are now coming to understand the full influence of Tom Custer on his brother and American life, from his heroic exploits during the Civil War to his legendary bravery during the Indian Wars, where he served under his brother as his aide-de-camp. Had Tom not been overshadowed by his more famous brother, he might well have become one of the more notable characters and military officers of the American West. Despite winning two Congressional Medals of Honor, his legendary feud with Rain-in-the-Face, the shooting scrape with “Wild Bill” Hickok, and many other fearsome exploits, Tom has taken a backseat to George in the American imagination. Only recently has his influence on the history of the United States become fully understood and appreciated by scholars. Author Roy Bird takes us inside the circle of Tom and Autie, whose close-knit relationship and intense rivalry in hunting, military skills, business, and even romance would span from their boyhood farm in Ohio to their heroic end at the Battle of Little Bighorn, where they were, as always, together. Bird’s The Better Brother is not only the story of two brothers whose incredible talents and healthy rivalry drove each other to greatness, but also a story at the center of American history.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1596529962

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9781596529960

The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti

An Edition and English Translation of His Dialogue on Mechanics (1576)

By: Giuseppe Moleti,Walter Roy Laird

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The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti

An Edition and English Translation of His Dialogue on Mechanics (1576)

By: Giuseppe Moleti,Walter Roy Laird

Laird sets Moletti's Dialogue within the historical background of medieval and Renaissance mechanics, sketches the life and works of Moletti, and analyses the arguments and the geometrical theorems of the Dialogue.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802046991

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9780802046994

Teaching While White

Addressing the Intersections of Race and Immigration in the Classroom

By: Laura A. Roy

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Teaching While White

Addressing the Intersections of Race and Immigration in the Classroom

By: Laura A. Roy

This book endeavors to cultivate activism literacies in White teachers in order to disrupt the system of white supremacy and racial oppression in education. This book focuses primarily on White teachers’ responsibility in becoming advocates for, and accomplices to communities of color. Through the lens of Critical Race Teacher Activism (CRTA), this book seeks to support teachers in critiquing and transforming pedagogy and curriculum in predominantly white spaces in order to interrupt the single story and amplify voices that are marginalized, silenced, or omitted from curriculum.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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147584039X

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9781475840391

Mechanisms of Invasion and Metastasis

By: Marc M. Mareel,Patrick De Baetselier,Frans M. Van Roy

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Mechanisms of Invasion and Metastasis

By: Marc M. Mareel,Patrick De Baetselier,Frans M. Van Roy

This book covers important biological, immunological, and molecular information essential for understanding the rationale and results of experiments and clinical observations on cell-cell and cell substrate adhesion; hydrolytic activities, cell motility; immunological and other host elements of the host-tumor ecosystem (at different sites of the metastic process); genetic and epigenetic elements of the acquisition and the expression of invasive phenotypes. 38 tables and 60 computer-drawn figures provide comprehensive overviews, and a methodological chapter emphasizing the differences and similarities between assays and their relevance for natural situations has also been included. Clinical and experimental cancer researchers, as well as as post-graduate students interested in cancer research, will find this book to be an indispensable reference resource.

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CRC Press

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0849362547

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9780849362545

The Luther Myth

The Image of Martin Luther from Religious Reformer to Völkisch Icon

By: Patrick Hayden-Roy

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The Luther Myth

The Image of Martin Luther from Religious Reformer to Völkisch Icon

By: Patrick Hayden-Roy

In the period from the close of the Napoleonic Wars up through the immediate post-World-War II era the image of Martin Luther was transposed in Germany from a religious reformer and advocate of freedom to a symbol of völkisch nationalist identity, such that with the seizure of power by the Nazis, Luther was used to portray a symbiosis between the new regime and the tradition of Protestant religiosity. The Luther Myth traces the evolution of this image within the environment of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German nationalist sentiment, looking particularly at how Protestant Germans styled Luther to affirm the essentialist racial identity politics of the Nazis, the cult of authoritarian leadership around Adolf Hitler, the drive to impose state control over all competing sources of authority, and the victimizing of German Jews. In doing so, it sheds new light on why Nazism was able to co-opt German Protestantism as a source for legitimizing its seizure of power despite the fact that the animating core of Nazi ideology was radically subversive in relation to traditional Christian piety. Using evidence drawn from not only theological works and literary and philosophical sources, but also speeches, theatrical works, public celebrations, and monuments, it pulls together the narrative of development and connects it over the longer term, offering an original contribution to scholarship on the topic and allowing readers a format for considering how similar dynamics are still at work in contemporary society and culture.

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Oxford University Press

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0198930283

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9780198930280

An Uncommon Vision

By: Des Moines Art Center,Neal David Benezra,Franz Schulze,Louise Rosenfield Noun,Amy N. Worthen,Christopher D. Roy

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An Uncommon Vision

By: Des Moines Art Center,Neal David Benezra,Franz Schulze,Louise Rosenfield Noun,Amy N. Worthen,Christopher D. Roy

This magnificent volume marks the fiftieth anniversary of this museum and art school housed in buildings designed by world-renowned architects Eliel Saarinen, I.M. Pei, and Richard Meier. Illustrated essays cover the history of the Center and its distinguished architecture. Colorplates and commentary present more than 100 masterpieces of 20th-century art and tribal arts.

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Hudson Hills

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1879003201

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9781879003200

Towards a European Habitat Classification

Background Review 1989-1995

By: Dorian Moss,David Roy

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Towards a European Habitat Classification

Background Review 1989-1995

By: Dorian Moss,David Roy

Recoge: 1.Introduction: context of the current review - 2.Development and present state of the classification - 3.Related classifications and tools - 4.The rol of the classification in the habitats directive - 5.Parametrisation of the classification - 6.The ite palaeartic habitat information system(PALHIS) - 7.International workshop relating to the habitat classification.

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9291671150

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9789291671151

Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece

By: Lesley Adkins,Roy A. Adkins

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Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece

By: Lesley Adkins,Roy A. Adkins

From the beginning of the Minoan civilization to the fall of the Greek states to the Romans by 30 B.C., this handy reference provides comprehensive access to over three millennia of ancient Greek history and archaeology. 179 halftones and linecuts. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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019512491X

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