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Ezra-Nehemiah: A Commentary - Google Books

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This volume, a part of the Old Testament Library series, explores the books of Ezra and Nehemiah The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The…

Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-century America - Chris Dixon - Google Books

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Thirty years before the Civil War, radical abolitionists struggled to reform American society. They extended the crusade against slavery into the family; seeking to make their own marriages into models of affection and equality. Focusing on eight couples,…

Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation, 1868-2000 - Richard L. Sims - Google Books

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Modern Japanese political history has been eventful, as Japan transformed from a decentralized feudal regime into a nation state which seemed to be following a Western pattern of modernisation until the 1930s. This volume explores the changes in the…

Encyclopedia of Hinduism - Constance Jones, James D. Ryan - Google Books

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"Encyclopedia of World Religions" explores the major religions of the world, emphasizing the living faiths and their background. Each illustrated volume provides access to the theological concepts, personalities, historical events, institutions, and…

The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957 - Zedong Mao - Google Books

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This collection of the correspondence of Mao Zedong during the period 1956 to 1957 explores the question of legitimatizing the leadership of the CCP, the pace of the socialist transformation of China's economy, and the issue of the divergence of…

Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life - Michael Schumacher - Google Books

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Beginning with his birth in 1939 to Italian-American parents, through his early years as a maverick director and screenwriter, right up to his legal victory over Warner Bros in 1998, this book explores Coppola's professional development into one of the…

Neither with Them, Nor Without Them: The Russian Writer and the Jew in the ... - Elena M. Katz - Google Books

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This volume explores the complex and ambiguous construction of Jewishness as 'Otherness' in the works of Gogol, Dostoevsky and Turgenev. Elena M. katz tackles traditional representations of Jews in light of the sociohistoric and cultural contexts of the…

Music After Hitler, 1945-1955 - Toby Thacker - Google Books

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The author explores the connections between music and politics in Germany between 1945 and 1955. It focuses on efforts to promote or censor music considered to have political meaning or influence, and to favour or disfavour individual musicians on grounds…

Encyclopedia of Catholicism - Frank K. Flinn - Google Books

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