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Flowers, Dragons & Pine Trees: Asian Textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art - Mary M. Dusenbury, Carol Bier - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=566AlluiHT0C&pg=PA248
Comprised of some three hundred objects, the collection of Asian textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has remained a hidden treasure since its inception nearly a century ago. This small but important collection, which includes…
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Tony Marsh - discography and reviews
http://www.visionlogic.demon.co.uk/biog1_TM.htm
Biography and discography of jazz drummer, Tony Marsh.
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Mixed Martial Arts' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Crazy Combat, Great ... - Adam T. Heath, David L. Hudson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=bLFgkHHOkb4C&pg=PA162&dq=%22Free+Fight+Association+(FFA)%22#v=onepage
Mixed martial arts hasn t been dubbed the world 's fastest growing sport for nothing. It 's noticeably rocked the sporting world since the creation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship nearly two decades ago and has even shaken up the pop culture scene.…
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The Changing Land: Between the Jordan and the Sea: Aerial Photographs from ... - Benjamin Z. Kedar - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=srrJbp7ubw8C&pg=PA22&dq=Gerhard+Felmy&hl=de&sa=X&ei=N8-3VPDEE4i9ygOp_oD4Bg&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=on
Originally published in Hebrew in 1991, The Changing Land presents a unique aerial view of the changes in Israel's topography from the second decade of the twentieth century to the present. Aerial photographs taken during World War I of Israel by German,…
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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=PA160#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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Personal Liberty and Public Good: The Introduction of John Stuart Mill to ... - Douglas Howland - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=MSTLCtpUHxsC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%22Nakamura+Keiu%22+OR+%22Nakamura+Masanao%22+1832&source=bl&ot
Blame for the putative failure of liberalism in late-nineteenth-century Japan and China has often been placed on an insufficient grasp of modernity among East Asian leaders or on their cultural commitments to traditional values. In Personal Liberty and…
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Bronson's Loose!: The Making of the Death Wish Films - Paul Talbot - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=AIHK-4RmTukC&pg=PA123&dq=David+Campling+editor&hl=de&sa=X&ei=Un2iUabiM8GHOOuqgJgF&ved=0CDkQ6AEwA
In the summer of 1974 the movie Death Wish stunned audiences with its powerful story of an enraged businessman who hits the streets with a handgun to avenge the brutal violation of his wife and daughter. The film packed theaters with cheering moviegoers,…
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The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865 - Charles W. McCurdy - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=pY_4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT504&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false
A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U.S. history. From its beginning in the rural villages of eastern New York in 1839 until its collapse in 1865, the Anti-Rent movement impelled the…
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Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880 - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=isrSK0TBdvEC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=%22historians+of+political+science%22+-Skinner+-Linz+-wikipedia
Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of individual political phenomena. What caused this change?…
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The Translingual Imagination - Steven G. Kellman - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=2jp0xviQY9IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Translingual+Imagination&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJx5iu4Y
It is difficult to write well even in one language. Yet a rich body of translingual literature -- by authors who write in more than one language or in a language other than their primary one -- exists. The Translingual Imagination is a pioneering study of…