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Gubernatorial Transitions: The 1983 and 1984 Elections - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=o4OZ-Z790DEC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=ken+rothman+governor&source=web&ots=X-dRcqCkWt&sig=cV512TYaMnWc
Gubernatorial Transitions examines the processes by which power was transferred following the 1983 and 1984 gubernatorial elections in Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington, and West Virginia. It also discusses…
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Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Architectural Feminism - Polly Wynn Allen - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=sQjsFDIhpCsC&pg=PA23&dq=kitchen+Co-operative+Housekeeping+zina&hl=de&ei=KWaLTY6TBYzKswbdqeWECg&s
Building Domestic Liberty offers a critical and admiring analysis of feminist philosopher Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). Polly Allen examines Gilman's approach to architecture, landscape, and neighborhood design and discusses Gilman's case against…
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Drug Benefits and Risks: International Textbook of Clinical Pharmacology - Google Books
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Explores the scientific basis and practice of drug therapy. This book examines the practice of clinical pharmacology and pharmacotherapy in the developing as well as the developed world. It covers general clinical pharmacology, pharmacology of various drug…
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An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other ... - Katharine Mary Briggs - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=da3WAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA254#v=onepage
A complete guide to fairy lore from the Middle Ages to the present that recounts and examines fairy tales, describes the food, sports, sizes, and powers of fairies, and calls attention to the traditional ways in which people protected themselves against…
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Few Survived: A History of Submarine Disasters - Edwyn Gray - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=d9CkAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&dq=som+1916+%C3%85ngermanland&source=bl&ots=VTNN288N_V&sig=MV7o
A revised edition of an account of peacetime submarine disasters from 1774 to the present day, previously published in 1991. Examines the development of the submarine from experimental stages in the late 18th century to the present day, and provides…
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Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive ... - Robyn Bluhm, Heidi Lene Maibom, Anne Jaap Jacobson - Google Books
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Going beyond the hype of recent fMRI 'findings', thisinterdisciplinary collection examines such questions as: Do women and men have significantly different brains? Do women empathize, while men systematize? Is there a 'feminine' ethics? What does brain…
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Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=oF-Hqih3pBAC&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&dq=%22Fine+Arts+Department%22+ganesha&source=bl&ots=nF99exKwMO&s
This book examines the complete Ganesh for the first time. Here is the God in his multiple forms from the different geographical areas in Asia. Particularly important are chapters that deal with his Buddhist and Tantric forms. The controversial question of…
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Sports Around the World: British Isles and Europe - Google Books
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"This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting cultures from around the world: it also details how and why sports are played wherever they exist, and examines key charismatic athletes from around the world who have…
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Queer Voices in Post-War Scotland: Male Homosexuality, Religion and Society - J. Meek - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=M-2_CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT44&dq=%22Auguste-Ambroise+Tardieu%22&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3_rXu2oHPAhUBBBoK
This book examines the experiences of gay and bisexual men who lived in Scotland during an era when all homosexual acts were illegal, tracing the historical relationship between Scottish society, the state and its male homosexual population using a…
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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…