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Mysterious wife killer once again a topic - LakePlacidNews.com | News and information on the Lake Placid and Essex County region of New York - Lake Placid News
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LAKE PLACID — Two years ago, Cheri Farnsworth visited the Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown to photograph tw...
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Learning to Smell: Olfactory Perception from Neurobiology to Behavior - Donald A. Wilson, Richard J. Stevenson, Professor Richard J Stevenson - Google Books
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Written by a neurobiologist and a psychologist, this volume presents a new theory of olfactory perception. Drawing on research in neuroscience, physiology, and ethology, Donald A. Wilson and Richard J. Stevenson address the fundamental question of how we…
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The Other Self: Selfhood and Society in Modern Greek Fiction - Dēmētrēs Tziovas, Professor of Modern Greek Studies Dimitris Tziovas, Dimitris Tziovas - Google Books
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The Other Self is the first English-language, book-length literary analysis of some of the most celebrated Greek novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A must read for anyone interested in Greek literature and culture, it offers both a solid…
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Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945 - Gary Donaldson - Google Books
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This primary source reader assembles key documents and firsthand accounts that are emblematic of American life from the end of World War II to the present. Designed to complement a core text for a typical post-1945 U.S. history course, the book offers…
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The Wire - Sherryl Vint - Google Books
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Frequently described by creator David Simon as a novel for television, The Wire redefined the police serial format by unfolding its narrative across many episodes, constructing themes for each of its seasons, and refusing to portray individual crimes…
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Interactive Storytelling for Video Games: A Player-centered Approach to ... - Josiah Lebowitz, Chris Klug - Google Books
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What really makes a video game story interactive? What's the best way to create an interactive story? How much control should players be given? Do they really want that control in the first place? Do they even know what they want-or are their stated…
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The Space Opera Renaissance - Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell - Google Books
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"Space opera", once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the "new space…
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Making Sense of the Americas: How Protest Related to America in the 1980s ... - Google Books
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From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is impossible to examine global social protest movements of the 1970s and '80s without addressing how these movements imagined the Americas. By examining historical…
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Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of ... - Michael R. Auslin - Google Books
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Japan's modern international history began in 1858 with the signing of the "unequal" commercial treaty with the United States. Over the next fifteen years, Japanese diplomacy was reshaped to respond to the Western imperialist challenge. "Negotiating with…
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Buried Treasures: Famous and Unusual Gravesites in New Mexico History - Richard Melzer - Google Books
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New Mexico history is filled with noteworthy men, women, and children, usually deserving of high praise and admiration. Sadly, few of these famous New Mexicans are honored with monuments to remind us of their achievements in every field, from art and…