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    A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia - Morten Strange - Google Books
    http://books.google.de/books?id=i6pl-5ReqSIC&pg=PA93&dq=%22Gallinula+tenebrosa&lr=

    The first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of Indonesia ever available, this superb volume covers 686 species in one of the world's most diverse avifauna regions. The highlight of this book is its almost 700 stunning color photographs--many…

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    Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures - Google Books
    https://books.google.de/books?id=JgSL_SknwIYC&pg=PA155

    Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences. Many medieval Jews, whether living in Islamic or Christian civilizations, joined…

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    The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 - Google Books
    https://books.google.de/books?id=NzR0cmnP3J8C&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=OMDS+%3D+Orenburgskoe&source=bl&ots=A9Hqqa1_pM&sig=wm8Hb6Shg

    The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic, and military history. All the major Russian social groups have separate chapters and the volume…

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    The Baltic Sea Region: A Comprehensive Guide: History, Politics, Culture and ... - Google Books
    https://books.google.de/books?id=4g1CDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA341&lpg=PA341&dq=%22who+owns+the+state?%22+party+latvia&source=bl&ots=AeAP6xc

    The Baltic Sea Region, at the crossroads between East and West, North and South, has long been marked by cultural, ethnical and ideological borders. Overcoming a history of conflict and separation, since the end of the Cold War the countries surrounding…

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    Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of ... - Google Books
    http://books.google.de/books?id=9ZU40_m9lGAC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=Jaan+Kaplinski+Talsinki&source=bl&ots=iZc495e5Ee&sig=yHq7Nn2qhq

    The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although…

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    The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece - David Le Roy - Google Books
    https://books.google.de/books?id=1r9l_0lXcFUC&pg=PA18&dq=1766+Canivet#v=onepage

    Julien-David Le Roy's Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece, initially issued in 1758, first revealed to European eyes the wonders of Greek classical architecture. Overnight, Greece became the rage, much to the chagrin of Giovanni Battista…

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    North American Prints, 1913-1947: An Examination at Century's End - Google Books
    https://books.google.de/books?id=quGCej0eF-gC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=charles+dahlgreen+1864+1955&source=bl&ots=U9EvBsASAu&sig=MnmKJ

    In this collection of essays, eight contemporary scholars examine the rich diversity in the subject, style, and geography of printmaking from 1913-1947, a singular period of artistic creation. Also three distinguished printmakers, who were active during…

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    A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America - Google Books
    https://books.google.de/books?id=KCpZMNQq2HwC&pg=PR22

    A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four…

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    World War II: the Encyclopedia of the War Years, 1941-1945 - Norman Polmar, Thomas B. Allen - Google Books
    https://books.google.de/books?id=30gRAGjXrIIC&pg=PA146

    "A unique and valuable look at the war."--General James Doolittle, USAF An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the World War II era, this reference features over 2,400 entries. Subjects range from battles, soldiers, and military activities…

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    The Oxford Handbook of Opera - Google Books
    https://books.google.de/books?id=LOFvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA733&dq=Atalia#v=onepage

    What IS opera? Contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Opera respond to this deceptively simple question with a rich and compelling exploration of opera's adaption to changing artistic and political currents. Fifty of the world's most respected scholars…

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