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A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era (Book)

Paul A Lombardo

ISBN:9780253355744

In 1907, Indiana passed the world's first involuntary sterilization lawbased on the theory of eugenics. In time, more than 30 states and a dozen foreigncountries followed suit. Although the Indiana statute was later declaredunconstitutional...more details
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Always a River, Second Edition: The Ohio River and the American Experience (Book)

Robert L Reid

ISBN:9780253222572

The ever-changing Ohio River flows through time as well as space, connecting us with the past as it links Pittsburgh with Cincinnati, Cairo...more details
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Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau (Book)

Eric Gable

ISBN:9780253355768

Anthropology and Egalitarianism is an artful and accessible introductionto key themes in cultural anthropology. Writing in a deeply personal style and usingmaterial from his fieldwork in three dramatically different locales -- Indonesia...more details
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Beyond Dolby: Cinema in the Digital Sound Age (Book)

Mark Kerins

ISBN:9780253355461

Since digital surround sound technology first appeared in cinemas 20years ago, it has spread from theaters to homes and from movies to television...more details
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Cities and Sovereignty: Identity Politics in Urban Spaces (Book)

Diane E Davis

ISBN:9780253355775

Cities have long been associated with diversity and tolerance, but fromJerusalem to Belfast to the Basque Country, many of the most intractable conflictsof the past century have played out in urban spaces. The contributors to thisinterdisciplinary volume examine the interrelationships of ethnic...more details
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Clay Times Three: The Tale of Three Nashville, Indiana, Potteries (Book)

Kathy M McKimmie

ISBN:9780253355898

Among the many Indiana artists who have settled in Brown County, thepotters of Nashville make up a distinctive group. Clay Times Three showcasesindustrious potters...more details
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Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine (Book)

Sarah D Phillips

ISBN:9780253355393

Sarah D. Phillips examines the struggles of disabled persons in Ukraineand the other former Soviet states to secure their rights during the tumultuouspolitical...more details
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Ethical Life in South Asia (Book)

Anand Pandian

ISBN:9780253355287

Breaking from prevailing conceptions of ethics and morality as matters ofmoral rule or principle, this volume calls attention to ethical life in South Asia-- the moral dispositions at work in lived experience...more details
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Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel (Book)

Barbara M Cooper

ISBN:9780253222336

Barbara M. Cooper looks closely at the Sudan Interior Mission, anevangelical Christian mission that has taken a tenuous hold in a predominantly HausaMuslim area on the southern fringe of Niger. Based on sustained fieldwork...more details
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From Telegrapher to Titan: The Life of William C. Van Horne (Book)

Valerie Knowles

ISBN:9780253222503

William C. Van Horne, a true titan of North American business, startedhis railroad career at the age of 12 working various jobs for the Michigan Central...more details
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Gender and Jewish History (Book)

Marion A Kaplan

ISBN:9780253355614

By revealing the importance of gender in interpreting the Jewish past, this collection of original essays highlights the profound influence that feministscholarship has had on the study of Jewish history since the 1970s. Gender andJewish History considers the impact of gender on Jewish religious practices andpolitical behavior...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:428

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Indiana Barns (Book)

Marsha Williamson Mohr

ISBN:9780253355683

Indiana is barn country. Beautiful, aged barns can be found tucked amongbucolic fields from Valparaiso to Vincennes. Once a dominant feature of the Hoosierlandscape...more details
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Introduction to Documentary, Second Edition (Book)

Bill Nichols

ISBN:9780253355560

This new edition of Bill Nichols's bestselling text provides anup-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history andcriticism. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence andpersuasive strategies...more details
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Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (Book)

Bret W Davis

ISBN:9780253355447

Recognizing the importance of the Kyoto School and its influence onphilosophy, politics, religion, and Asian studies, Japanese and ContinentalPhilosophy initiates a conversation between Japanese and Western philosophers. Theessays in this cross-cultural volume put Kyoto School thinkers in conversation withGerman Idealism...more details
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Kierkegaard and the Catholic Tradition: Conflict and Dialogue (Book)

Jack Mulder

ISBN:9780253355362

Although S?ren Kierkegaard, considered one of the most passionateChristian writers of the modern age, was a Lutheran, he was deeply dissatisfied withthe Lutheran establishment of his day. Some scholars have said that he pushed hisfaith toward Catholicism. Placing Kierkegaard in sustained dialogue with theCatholic tradition...more details
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Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria (Book)

Gerald W Creed

ISBN:9780253355577

Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgariafor what they reveal about life after socialism -- and the current state ofpostsocialist studies. Mumming rituals have flourished in the post-Soviet era.Elaborately costumed dancers go from house to house demanding sustenance andbestowing blessings. Through the analysis of these rites...more details
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Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon (Book)

Lucia Volk

ISBN:9780253355232

Lebanese history is often associated with sectarianism and hostilitybetween religious communities, but by examining public memorials and historicalaccounts Lucia Volk finds evidence for a sustained politics of Muslim and Christianco-existence...more details
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Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town (Book)

Lorelle D Semley

ISBN:9780253355454

Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings ofmotherhood in West Africa and beyond, showing that the roles of women were far morecomplicated than previously thought. While in K?tu...more details
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Performing American Masculinities: The 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture (Book)

Elwood Watson

ISBN:9780253355737

This collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity in Americanpopular culture at the turn of the new millennium and beyond by examiningpossibilities for male identity formation. Each chapter mines American popularculture -- theatre...more details
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Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Writings (Book)

Charles S Peirce

ISBN:9780253355638

The philosophy of mathematics plays a vital role in the mature philosophyof Charles S. Peirce. Peirce received rigorous mathematical training from his fatherand his philosophy carries on in decidedly mathematical and symbolic veins. ForPeirce...more details
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Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture (Book)

James Penner

ISBN:9780253355478

Pinks, Pansies, and Punks charts the construction of masculinity withinAmerican literary culture from the 1930s to the 1970s. Penner documents theemergence of "macho criticism...more details
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Race in American Science Fiction (Book)

Isiah Lavender

ISBN:9780253355539

Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in theproliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterityis fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fictionoffers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silencedin science fiction...more details
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Rachmaninoff's Complete Songs: A Companion with Texts and Translations (Book)

Richard D Sylvester

ISBN:9780253353399

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Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album: How to Disappear Completely (Book)

Marianne Tatom Letts

ISBN:9780253355706

How the British rock band Radiohead subverts the idea of the conceptalbum in order to articulate themes of alienation and anti-capitalism is the focusof Marianne Tatom Letts's analysis of Kid A and Amnesiac...more details
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Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India (Book)

Ramnarayan S Rawat

ISBN:9780253355584

Often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, Chamars of North India have long been stigmatized as untouchables. In thispathbreaking study...more details
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Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures (Book)

Riley James Whitcomb

ISBN:9780253355690

First produced in 1890, this charming book includes 39 of James Whitcomb Rileys signature poems, such as Old Aunt Marys, Little Orphant Annie...more details
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Shakers, Mormons, and Religious Worlds: Conflicting Visions, Contested Boundaries (Book)

Stephen C Taysom

ISBN:9780253355409

Among Americas more interesting new religious movements, the Shakers and the Mormons came to be thought of as separate and distinct from mainstream Protestantism. Using archives and historical materials from the 19th century...more details
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Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900 (Book)

Mann Kristin

ISBN:9780253222350

As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the 19th century, the town of Lagos on West Africas Bight of Benin became one of the most important port cities north of the equator. Slavery and the Birth of an African City links the histories of international slave markets to those of the regional suppliers and slave traders...more details
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Stolen Childhood, Second Edition: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (Book)

Wilma King

ISBN:9780253355621

One of the most important books published on slave society, StolenChildhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-centuryAmerica. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarshipon slavery that has emerged in the 15 years since the first edition. While thestructure of the book remains the same...more details
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The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Book)

Nwando Achebe

ISBN:9780253355386

Nwando Achebe presents the fascinating history of an Igbo woman, AhebiUgbabe, who became king in colonial Nigeria. Ugbabe was exiled from Igboland...more details
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The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture (Book)

Bozena Shallcross

ISBN:9780253355645

In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bozena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects -- pots...more details
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The Invention of Jewish Identity: Bible, Philosophy, and the Art of Translation (Book)

Aaron W Hughes

ISBN:9780253355379

Jews from all ages have translated the Bible for their particular timesand needs, but what does the act of translation mean? Aaron W. Hughes believestranslation has profound implications for Jewish identity...more details
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The Railroad That Never Was: Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad (Book)

JR Harwood Herbert H

ISBN:9780253355485

Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., tells the story of one of the most infamous railroad construction projects of the late 19th century. This 200-mile line through Pennsylvanias most challenging mountain terrain was intended to form the heart of a new trunk line from the East Coast to Pittsburgh and the Midwest. Conceived in 1881 by William H. Vanderbilt...more details
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The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott (Book)

Stephen Prothero

ISBN:9780253222763

Denounced by the New York Times as an 'unmitigated rascal' while simultaneously being lauded as a reincarnation of Gautama Buddha himself, Henry Steel Olcott (18321907) was friend to Madame Blavatsky...more details
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Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar (Book)

William Cunningham Bissell

ISBN:9780253355430

Across Africa and elsewhere, colonialism promised to deliver progress and development. In urban spaces like Zanzibar, the British vowed to import scientific techniques and practices...more details
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Wreck of the Carl D.: A True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at Sea (Book)

Schumacher Michael

ISBN:9780253222589

On November 18, 1958, a 623-foot limestone carriercaught in one of the most violent storms in Lake Michigan historybroke in two and sank in less than five minutes. Four of the 35-person crew escaped to a small raft...more details
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