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Global Convulsions: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism at the End of the ... - Google Books
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Global Convulsions affords the reader an array of observations, data, and insights pertaining to both local and global events around the issues of race, ethnicity and nationalism at the end of the twentieth century. It scrutinizes closely the phenomenon of…
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J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment - Michael D. C. Drout - Google Books
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A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopediaincludes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field. Coverage not only presents the most recent scholarship on J.…
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J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment - Michael D. C. Drout - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=B0loOBA3ejIC&pg=PA504#v=onepage&q&f=false
A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopediaincludes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field. Coverage not only presents the most recent scholarship on J.…
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The Psychology of Music - Google Books
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The Psychology of Music serves as an introduction to an interdisciplinary field in psychology, which focuses on the interpretation of music through mental function. This interpretation leads to the characterization of music through perceiving, remembering,…
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J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment - Michael D. C. Drout - Google Books
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A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopediaincludes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field. Coverage not only presents the most recent scholarship on J.…
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Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media - Michael Long - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=WynRGdOyrDsC&pg=PA133&dq=a+whiter+shade+of+pale+bach&hl=de&sa=X&ei=JPvkUYfGB8rDswa5mICYDA&ved=0C
Beautiful Monsters explores the ways in which "classical" music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture--in pop songs, movie scores, and print media. Beginning in the 1960s, Michael Long's entertaining and illuminating book…
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Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America: Trauma, Politics, and Resistance - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=HOZ0CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA35&dq=Chile+Museum+memory+human+rights&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHpfSRlbvRAhXIOB
Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America is a collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of…
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Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia - Jules de Raedt, Janet Hoskins - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=QFpCRxHDiBAC&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=History+of+Sumba&source=bl&ots=u-PcWlu7Yf&sig=aNk2vlL8hZQ0nJ
This is the first book to bring together comparative material on headhunting in a number of Southeast Asian societies, to examine the cultural contexts in which such practices occurred, and to relate them to colonial history, violence, and ritual. This…
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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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Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies - Google Books
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The field of American studies has a long tradition of scholarship and research into the social and cultural worlds of sound. The essays in this volume highlight the key role of sound in the formation of central themes and areas of inquiry within…