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Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960 - Peter Edgerly Firchow - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=WoEQ70IzMtgC&pg=PA49
Building upon his earlier book The Death of the German Cousin (1986), renowned author Peter Edgerly Firchow focuses Strange Meetings on major modern British writers from Eliot to Auden and explores the development of British conceptions and misconceptions…
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Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters: The Contribution of Icelandic-Canadian ... - Daisy Neijmann - Google Books
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This fascinating study explores a remarkable ethnic-Canadian literature in close textual and contextual terms for the first time. It lays a groundwork for future comparative research in the field of ethnic Canadian studies, and challenges assumptions about…
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Mohammed: The Man and His Faith - Tor Andrae - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=AXZmmZAFktIC&pg=PA57&printsec=frontcover&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false
Excellent survey of origins, tenets, and substance of Islam explores Mohammed's influence on religion, history, politics, and society. Comprehensive, even-handed; one of the finest volumes available in English about Islam. "should be studied by…
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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…
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Rhythm and Blues, Rap, and Hip-hop - Frank W. Hoffmann - Google Books
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Rhythm & Blues, Rap, and Hip-Hop explores the characteristics and importance of each of these types of music and its history and evolution. This in-depth volume combines 52 photographs, a glossary, discography, and chronology to create an ideal go-to…
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The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism : Conversion, Contestation, and Memory ... - Matthew T. Kapstein Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago Divinity School - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=QL1MlD2aSicC&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273&dq=dunmenpai&source=bl&ots=qnXviMF9im&sig=IHUjpQJP6esUp1VYVKa-5U
This book explores the Buddhist role in the formation of Tibetan religious thought and identity. In three major sections, the author examines Tibet's eighth-century conversion, sources of dispute within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the continuing…
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Trapped Fools: Thirty Years of Israeli Policy in the Territories - Shlomo Gazit - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=RN1qLqgOftMC&pg=RA1-PA211&lpg=RA1-PA211&dq=moshe+nissim&source=bl&ots=m1i_R3mkdQ&sig=ZxE2IRH8gf7
Based upon the author's own experiences this study explores the Israeli government's attitude to the West Bank and Gaza over a period of 30 years. The "fools" in the book's title refers not only to the Arabs who rejected Israeli peace offers but to the…
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African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives: The Legacy ... - Tendai Chari, Nhamo A. Mhiripiri - Google Books
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This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intimately…
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Guide to Greece: Southern Greece - Pausanias - Google Books
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Written by a Greek traveller in the second century for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive guidebook concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues. It describes the myths, religious beliefs and historical background…
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The Rhetoric of Confession: <i>Shishosetsu</i> in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese ... - Edward Fowler - Google Books
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The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature…