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One-hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide - Jared Cohen - Google Books
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One Hundred Days of Silence is an important investigation into the 1994 Rwandan genocide and American foreign policy. During one hundred days of spring, eight-hundred thousand Rwandan Tutsis and sympathetic Hutus were slaughtered in one of the most…
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Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: - Iain Fenlon - Google Books
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Viewed traditionally, the history of sixteenth-century Mantuan music is almost a catalogue of some of the most distinguished composers of the age, from Tromboncino and Cara, via Jacquet of Mantua, to Wert, Palestrina, Marenzio, Pallavicino, Gastoldi, Rossi…
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The Tri-State Tornado: The Story of America's Greatest Tornado Disaster - Peter S Felknor - Google Books
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The Tri-State Tornado is a gripping account of the worst tornado disaster in American history. Claiming 689 lives during a three-hour rampage across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925, the storm had one of the longest uninterrupted paths…
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Geometric Tomography - Richard J. Gardner - Google Books
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Geometric tomography deals with the retrieval of information about a geometric object from data concerning its projections (shadows) on planes or cross-sections by planes. It is a geometric relative of computerized tomography, which reconstructs an image…
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Approaches to Greek Myth - Google Books
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There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. In Approaches to Greek Myth, Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of the most important contemporary approaches to the subject.…
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Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory - Christian Keller - Google Books
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Often called Lee's greatest triumph, the battle of Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps, composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers. Poorly deployed, the unit was routed by "Stonewall" Jackson and became the scapegoat for the…
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Recht oder Gesetz: juristische Identität und Autorität in den ... - Lena Foljanty - Google Books
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English summary: After 1945, everyone was talking about natural law for a few years. Jurists saw it as a chance to make a clean break with National Socialist legal doctrine. Lena Foljanty reconstructs the debates on natural law in their historical context…
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The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany - R. Po-chia Hsia - Google Books
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From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, German Jews were persecuted and tried for the alleged ritual murders of Christian children, whose blood purportedly played a crucial part in Jewish magical rites. In this engrossing book R. Po-Chia…
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The Making of Shinkokinshū - Robert N. Huey, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature Robert N Huey - Google Books
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This study of the Japanese imperial court in the early thirteenth century focuses on the compilation of one of Japan's most important poetry collections, Shinkokinshū. Using personal diaries, court records, poetry texts, and literary treatises, Robert N.…
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