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The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop - Dan Charnas - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=idYFcmXcRm4C&pg=PT250
“There has never been a better book about hip-hop…a record-biz portrait that jumps off the page.”—A.V. ClubTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE VH1 SERIES THE BREAKSThe Big Payback takes readers from the first $15 made by a “rapping DJ” in 1970s New York to the…
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Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story - Oliver La Farge - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=5ZFiBxZj6xUC&pg=PT8#v=onepage&q&f=false
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world.” —The Denver Post Laughing Boy is a model member of his tribe. Raised in old traditions, skilled in silver work, and known for his prowess in…
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At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America - Laura R. Prieto - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=0bcXHa08knsC&pg=PA145#v=onepage&q&f=false
This engaging cultural history examines the emergence of a professional identity for American women artists. By focusing on individual sculptors, painters, and illustrators, Laura Prieto gives us a compelling picture of the prospects and constraints faced…
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The Oxford History of the Biblical World - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=4DVHJRFW3mYC&pg=PT102#v=onepage&q&f=false
In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts--the Bible. For more than a century, archaeologists have been…
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Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600-2005 - Patricia Jane Graham - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=EBABpv4uXYgC&pg=PA222#v=onepage
Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art explores the transformation of Buddhism from the premodern to the contemporary era in Japan and the central role its visual culture has played in this transformation. Although Buddhism is generally regarded as…
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Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp - Jules Schelvis - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=OB1nAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA247#v=onepage
Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibör is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors perpetrated there.Established in German-occupied Poland, the camp at Sobibör began its dreadful killing…
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The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop - Dan Charnas - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=idYFcmXcRm4C&pg=PT250&dq=%22kday%22
“There has never been a better book about hip-hop…a record-biz portrait that jumps off the page.”—A.V. ClubTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE VH1 SERIES THE BREAKSThe Big Payback takes readers from the first $15 made by a “rapping DJ” in 1970s New York to the…
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Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the ... - Kari Astala, Tadeusz Iwaniec, Gaven Martin, Professor of Mathematics Gaven Martin - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=5aOgM9XRiXUC&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false
This book explores the most recent developments in the theory of planar quasiconformal mappings with a particular focus on the interactions with partial differential equations and nonlinear analysis. It gives a thorough and modern approach to the classical…
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Life and Words: Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary - Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities Veena Das, Veena Das - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=U6lqGeEfYNQC&pg=PA26&dq=N.+Gopalaswami+Ayyangar&hl=de&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=N.%20Gopalas
In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology’s most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence…
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One Day I Will Write About This Place - Binyavanga Wainaina - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=_bCsZ9u8a2cC&pg=PAPT28&dq=%22Kenneth+Binyavanga+Wainaina%22#v=onepage
Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells,…