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"¡Mi Raza Primero!" (My People First!): Nationali...
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¡Mi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chávez focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: The B..
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A California State of Mind: The Conflicted Voter i...
$8.72
Product DescriptionMark Baldassare, one of California's leading public opinion experts, gives an authoritative and highly informative view of the state during its recent years of prosperity and more recent economic insecurity. Based on findings of the most comprehensive public opinion survey in the ..
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A common sky;: Philosophy and the literary imagina...
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A common sky;: Philosophy and the literary imagination, Author: Nuttall, A. D Publisher: University of California Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0520025814 ISBN-13: 9780520025813..
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A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound: Vol. II (...
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A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound: Vol. II (Cantos 74 - 117)) Author: Terrell, Carroll F. Publisher: University of California Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0520047311 ISBN-13: 9780520047310..
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A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breas...
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Looking at painting and sculpture from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, this provocative work focuses on the symbolism of the female breast to open a dazzling interpretive view of Western European history over four centuries. Margaret R. Miles finds that while in 1350 the Virgin's ba..
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A Concise History of the Third Reich (Weimar and N...
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This well-illustrated, highly accessible book at last gives general readers and students a compact, yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the twelve years of the Third Reich from political takeover of January 30, 1933 to the German capitulation of May 1945. Originally published to rave revi..
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A Concise History of the Third Reich (Weimar and N...
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This well-illustrated, highly accessible book at last gives general readers and students a compact, yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the twelve years of the Third Reich-from political takeover of January 30, 1933 to the German capitulation of May 1945. Originally published to rave revi..
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark ...
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Product DescriptionA Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain’s most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as "one vast sardonic l..
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A Cultural History of Spanish America, from Conque...
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Contents *THE INDIAN LEGACY *THE FIRST IMPACT *THE SPANISH CONQUEST *FROM EUROPEAN TO A MIXED CULTURE *THE COMING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY *THE BAROQUE OF THE INDIES *BAROQUE LEARNING ISSUES AND BOOKS *EIGHTEENTH CENTURY JESUITIC HUMANISM *EVE OF THE REVOLUTION *SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY *INDEX Author..
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A Democratic South Africa?: Constitutional Enginee...
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Can a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic In a most timely work, Donald L. Horowitz, author of the acclaimed Ethnic Groups in Conflict, points to the conditions that make democracy an improbable outcome in South Africa. At the same time, he identifies ways to overcome these ..
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A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos ...
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Humanity has had an enduring desire for close contact with exotic animals from the Egyptian kings who kept thousands of animals, including monkeys, wild cats, hyenas, giraffes, and oryx, to the enormously popular zoological parks of today. This book, the most extensive history of zoos yet published,..
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A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Bri...
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This incisive study adds a new dimension to discussions of Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism as well as to discussions of colonialism and nationalism in general. Eve M. Troutt Powell challenges many accepted tenets of the binary relationship between European empires and n..
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A Fascination for Fish: Adventures of an Underwate...
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This engaging memoir presents one man's lifelong love of the ocean and gives a highly personal, behind-the-scenes look at California's magnificent and innovative aquariums. David Powell, for many years curator of the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium, tells the story of his life as a pioneering a..
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A Flora of the White Mountains, California and Nev...
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A Flora of the White Mountains, California and Nevada Hardcover - February 26, 1973 Author: Mitchell, Richard S. Publisher: University of California Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0520021193 ISBN-13: 9780520021198..
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A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India
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This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time ..
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A Grammar of Motives
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About this book Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it An answer to that question is the subject of this book. The book is concerned with the basic forms of thought which, in accordance with the na..
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A Guide to Ezra Pound's Personæ 1926
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Comprehensive,meticulos,and extremely helpful for scholar,student,aand general reader. Author: Ruthven, K. K. Publisher: University of California Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0520049608 ISBN-13: 9780520049604..
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A History of Modern Germany since 1815
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Germany has fascinated its own people as well as onlookers in the twentieth century because, unlike the history of other European states, its very being has been posed as a question. Why was there no unified German state until late in the nineteenth century How did Germany become an industrial powe..
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A History of Russian Music
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Francis Maes's comprehensive and imaginative book introduces the general public to the scholarly debate that has revolutionized Russian music history over the past two decades. Based on the most recent critical literature, A History of Russian Music summarizes the new view of Russian music and provi..
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A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to B...
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Francis Maes's comprehensive and imaginative book introduces the general public to the scholarly debate that has revolutionized Russian music history over the past two decades. Based on the most recent critical literature, A History of Russian Music summarizes the new view of Russian music and provi..
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A History of the Greek City States, 700-338 B. C.
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This book introduces the reader to the serious study of Greek history, concentrating more on problems than on narrative. The topics selected have been prominent in modern research and references to important discussions of these have been provided. Outlined are controversial issues of which differin..
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A History of Wine in America, Volume 2: From Prohi...
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A History of Wine in America is the definitive account of winemaking in the United States, first as it was carried out under Prohibition, and then as it developed and spread to all fifty states after the repeal of Prohibition. Engagingly written, exhaustively researched, and rich in detail, this boo..
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A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon R...
$91.67
Today Lebanon is one of the world's most divided countries. But paradoxically the faction-ridden Lebanese, both Christians and Muslims, have never shown a keener consciousness of common identity. How can this be In the light of modern scholarship, a famous Lebanese writer and scholar examines the h..
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A Man Without Words
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For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-ye..
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A Mediterranean Society, An Abridgment in One Volu...
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S. D. Goitein's magisterial five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world offers an unparalleled view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. Living under Muslim rule, the Jews became increasingly urbanized and played a ..