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  • JOSEPHINE BAKER'S CINEMATIC PRISM
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    JOSEPHINE BAKER'S CINEMATIC PRISM
    TERRI SIMONE FRANCIS
    Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping.  Nicknamed the "Black Venus," "Black Pearl," and "Creole Goddess," Baker blended the sensual and the comedic when taking 1920s Europe by storm. Back home in the United States, Baker's film c...

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  • BEYONCÉ
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    BEYONCÉ
    MARTIN IDDON AND MELANIE L. MARSHALL
    Who runs the world? The Beyhive knows. From the Destiny's Child 2001 hit single "Survivor" to her 2019 jam "7/11," Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has confronted dominant issues around the world. Because her image is linked with debates on race, sexuality, and female empowerment, she has become a central figure in pop music and pop culture. Beyoncé: At Work, On Screen, and Online explor...

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  • TANK WARFARE
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    TANK WARFARE
    JEREMY BLACK
    The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks. In Tank Warfare, prominent military historian Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive global account of the history of tanks and armored warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries. First introduced onto the battlefield during the W...

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    "CAN YOU RUN AWAY FROM SORROW?"
    IVANA BAJIC-HAJDUKOVIC
    How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better, more stable life elsewhere. For the older generations, however, this wasn't an option. In this powerful and moving work, Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic reveals the impact that waves of emigration from Serbia had on family relationships and, in particular, on elderly moth...

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  • AN INDIANA CHRISTMAS
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    AN INDIANA CHRISTMAS
    “A grand and thrilling selection of Hoosier writing presented through the fraught lens of Christmas . . . a fascinating and utterly enjoyable read.” —Michael Dahlie, award-winning author of The Best of Youth In An Indiana Christmas, editor Bryan Furuness brings together timeless short stories, poems, plays, and letters to help you get into the holiday spirit. Lose yourself in c...

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  • NO PLACE LIKE MURDER
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    NO PLACE LIKE MURDER
    JANIS THORNTON
    A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after.True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious m...

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  • THE SADNESS OF SPIRITS
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    THE SADNESS OF SPIRITS
    AIMEE POGSON
    What power does misery play in daily life? In this sorrowful yet intriguing collection of stories, Aimee Pogson explores journeys of suffering through magical realism. A preschool teacher contends with the stream of salmon that keep appearing on her windowsill, in her closet, tucked in her shoes. An invisible boy swallows nails, buttons, and tree bark in a misguided attempt to ...

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  • THE CHARACTER OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
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    THE CHARACTER OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
    JILL LONG THOMPSON
    This illuminating examination of democratic ethics is “a resource for Americans who are seeking ways to secure our democracy and our future as a nation” (Congressman John Lewis). Ethical leadership, steeped in integrity and fairness, matters. The future of our nation and our world depends upon the quality of America’s character. In this absorbing look at our contemporary societ...

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  • INTRODUCING SEMIOTIC
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    INTRODUCING SEMIOTIC
    JOHN DEELY
    This comprehensive survey of semiotics examines its development from pre-Socratic philosophy to Peirce’s Sign Theory and beyond. In Introducing Semiotics, renowned philosopher and semiotician John Deely provides a conceptual overview of the field, covering its development across centuries of Western philosophical thought. It delineates the foundations of contemporary semiotics ...

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  • RADICAL SPIRITS
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    RADICAL SPIRITS
    ANN BRAUDE
    “Braude has discovered a crucial link between the early feminists and the spiritualists who so captured the American imagination.” —Los Angeles Times In Radical Spirits, Ann Braude contends that the early women’s rights movement and Spiritualism went hand in hand. Her book makes a convincing argument for the importance of religion in the study of American women’s history. In th...

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  • EASTBOUND THROUGH SIBERIA
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    EASTBOUND THROUGH SIBERIA
    GEORG WILHELM STELLER
    In the winter of 1739, Georg Steller received word from Empress Anna of Russia that he was to embark on a secret expedition to the far reaches of Siberia as a member of the Great Northern Expedition. While searching for economic possibilities and strategic advantages, Steller was to send back descriptions of everything he saw. The Empress's instructions were detailed, from requ...

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  • JEWISH FORCED LABOR IN ROMANIA, 1940–1944
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    JEWISH FORCED LABOR IN ROMANIA, 1940–1944
    DALLAS MICHELBACHER
    Between Romania's entry into World War II in 1941 and the ouster of dictator Ion Antonescu three years later, over 105,000 Jews were forced to work in internment and labor camps, labor battalions, government institutions, and private industry. Particularly for those in the labor battalions, this period was characterized by extraordinary physical and psychological suffering, hun...

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  • RUAIRÍ Ó BRÁDAIGH
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    RUAIRÍ Ó BRÁDAIGH
    ROBERT W. WHITE
    "In a very real sense, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh can . . . be said to be the last, or one of the last Irish Republicans. Studies of the Provisional movement to date have invariably focused more on the Northerners and the role of people like Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. But an understanding of them is not possible without appreciating where they came from and from what tradition t...

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  • LIFE THROUGH THE AGES II
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    LIFE THROUGH THE AGES II
    MARK P. WITTON
    A paleontologist shows what life was like on our planet long before the early humans emerged through words and illustrations. Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. Witton draws on the latest twenty-first century discoveries to re-create the appearances and lifestyles of extinct, fascinating species, the environments they inhabited, and the challenges they faced living on an ever-changing ...

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  • THE GRAND SCRIBE'S RECORDS, VOLUME X
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    THE GRAND SCRIBE'S RECORDS, VOLUME X
    SSU-MA CH'IEN
    A remarkable document of ancient Chinese history: “[An] indispensable addition to modern sinology.” —China Review International   This volume of The Grand Scribe’s Records includes the second segment of Han-dynasty memoirs and deals primarily with men who lived and served under Emperor Wu (r. 141–87 B.C.). The lead chapter presents a parallel biography of two ancient physicians...

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  • GOD HAD A BODY
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    GOD HAD A BODY
    JENNIE MALBOEUF
    A debut collection of poetry exploring themes of religion, human behavior, identity, marriage, family, and loss. The mind and the body. The heavens and earth. God and animal. The speaker in God had a body considers how the image of a higher power is presented to her, beginning with a Catholic upbringing in Kentucky. Speckled with stars and peopled with creatures, these poems em...

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  • HOW THE WORLD LOOKS TO A BEE
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    HOW THE WORLD LOOKS TO A BEE
    Get a buzz out of science with a collection of fun facts and explanations of the world around us from the author of How Can You Tell if a Spider Is Dead? What can you learn about your world in just a moment? Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Or whether dogs can read our facial expressions? Don Glass and experts in their fields answer these questions and many more. Wri...

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  • THE PIANIST'S DICTIONARY, SECOND EDITION
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    THE PIANIST'S DICTIONARY, SECOND EDITION
    MAURICE HINSON / WESLEY ROBERTS
    The Pianist's Dictionary is a handy and practical reference dictionary aimed specifically at pianists, teachers, students, and concertgoers. Prepared by Maurice Hinson and Wesley Roberts, this revised and expanded edition is a compendium of information gleaned from a combined century of piano teaching. Users will find helpful and clear definitions of musical and pianistic terms...

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  • THE BURDEN OF THE PAST
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    THE BURDEN OF THE PAST
    In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms were disrupted by political systems seeking to repress and control the past in order to form new national identities supportive of their own agendas. With the collapse of t...

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  • MOTOR CITY MOVIE CULTURE, 1916-1925
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    MOTOR CITY MOVIE CULTURE, 1916-1925
    RICHARD ABEL
    Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing, exhibiting, and publicizing films in an effort to make moviegoing part of everyday life. Tapping a wealth of primary source material—...

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  • IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REMAIN SILENT
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    IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REMAIN SILENT
    JORGE SEMPRÚN / ELIE WIESEL
    A conversation between Elie Wiesel and Jorge Semprún about what they experienced and observed during their time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. On March 1, 1995, at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, ARTE—a French-German state-funded television network—proposed an encounter between two highly regarded figures of our tim...

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  • BEING AND LOGOS
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    BEING AND LOGOS
    JOHN SALLIS
    An exercise in the careful reading of the dialogues in their originary character. “Being and Logos is . . . a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration . . . Its power to illuminate the text . . . its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity—all together make it one of the few philosophical interpretations that th...

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  • THE MAKING OF A REFORM JEWISH CANTOR
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    THE MAKING OF A REFORM JEWISH CANTOR
    JUDAH M. COHEN
    “Of interest not only to cantors and their teachers but also to rabbis, congregations and everyone concerned about the future of the Jewish community.” —Florida Jewish Journal The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor provides an unprecedented look into the meaning of attaining musical authority among American Reform Jews at the turn of the twenty-first century. How do aspiring cant...

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  • THE GRAND SCRIBE'S RECORDS, VOLUME XI
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    THE GRAND SCRIBE'S RECORDS, VOLUME XI
    SSU-MA CH'IEN
    Part of the extraordinary multi-volume portrait of ancient China written by a court official of the Han Dynasty. The Grand Scribe’s Records, Volume XI presents the final nine memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s history, continuing the series of collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites, those who discer...

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  • CROSS AND COSMOS
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    CROSS AND COSMOS
    JOHN D. CAPUTO
    John D. Caputo stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Mapping out his summative theological position, he identifies with Martin Luther to take on notions of the hidden god, the theology of the cross, confessional theology, and natural theology. Caputo also confronts the dark side of the cross with its correlation to lynching and...

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  • FROM PUGWASH TO PUTIN
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    FROM PUGWASH TO PUTIN
    GERSON S SHER
    For 60 years, scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union participated in state-organized programs of collaboration. But what really happened in these programs? What were the hopes of the participants and governments? How did these programs weather the bumpiest years of political turbulence? And were the programs worth the millions of dollars invested in them? From P...

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  • NINE TALMUDIC READINGS
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    NINE TALMUDIC READINGS
    EMMANUEL LEVINAS
    These nine masterful readings of the Talmud by the renowned French Jewish philosopher translate Jewish thought into the language of modern times. One of the major continental philosophers of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas was also an important Talmudic commentator. Between 1963 and 1975, he delivered an enlightening and influential series of commentaries at the annual ...

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    "RIGHT MAKES MIGHT"
    WOLFGANG MIEDER
    In 1860 Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb, Right makes might, (opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right) in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the 14th century phrase had taken on new ethical and democratic connotations in the 19th century. In this collection, famed schola...

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  • MY STRUGGLE FOR PEACE, VOLUME 1 (1953–1954)
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    MY STRUGGLE FOR PEACE, VOLUME 1 (1953–1954)
    MOSHE SHARETT
    The first volume of the former Israeli prime minister’s journals from the nation’s early years. My Struggle for Peace is a remarkable political document offering insights into the complex workings of the young Israeli political system, set against the backdrop of the disintegration of the country’s fragile armistice with the Arab states. Replete with Moshe Sharett’s candid comm...

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  • NIETZSCHE AND OTHER BUDDHAS
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    NIETZSCHE AND OTHER BUDDHAS
    JASON M. WIRTH
    “A tour de force that both challenges and expands our understanding of the very practice of philosophy . . . and comparative philosophy in particular” (Joseph Markowski, Reading Religion). In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursu...

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