The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics ...
 Winner of the 2000 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize: CITATION FOR BARBARA JELAVICH BOOK PRIZE for an outstanding monograph on Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600 or 19th- and 20th-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history funded by Charles [... more]
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Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox
Author: Paul Goldstein Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 346.730482 EAN: 9780804747356 Edition: Revised ISBN: 0804747350 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2003-07 [... more]
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Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment ...
Author: Jeremy Dauber Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 892.409 EAN: 9780804749015 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0804749019 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: 2004-06-02 Release Date: 2004-06-02 [... more]
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Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits
A unique picture book: This is an unusual picture book that deals with Chinese ancestral portraits. Originally frowned upon by Chinese art critics, this book attempts to reevaluate their artistic significance but more importantly, this book has managed [... more]
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Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant ...
Author: Werner Hamacher Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 401 EAN: 9780804736206 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0804736200 Number Of Pages: 408 Publication Date: 1999-10-01 Release Date: 1999-10-25 [... more]
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A History of Modern Indonesia Since c. 1200: Third Edition
A well summarized history of Indonesia: I myself am a student from Indonesia, currently studying in Carnegie Mellon University. In light of recent international events, I became attracted to learn the history of my own country from the prespective of [... more]
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The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and ...
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 342.0418 EAN: 9780804753920 Edition: 1 ISBN: 080475392X Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2006-10-11 Release Date: 2006-10-11 [... more]
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Genji & Heike: Selections from The Tale of Genji and The ...
not for amatures: I am not a historian or a scholar of ancient lituriture, I simply have a passion for Japan and it's history. So as a reader for fun i found it very difficult to understand, I read the version published by Stanford University Press which [... more]
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The Zohar: Volume 2
Curb your Enthusiasm: Stanford University Press and Professor Matt are certainly to be congratulated for attempting the Herculean task of translating into English, from 'scratch' (original Aramaic manuscripts), the entire Zohar, as well as adding running [... more]
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Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional ...
Insfrastructure is THE Leader: The one thing that our San Diego city fathers haven't a clue about has to do with infrastructure. Now, before I lose you because infrastructure is not a known attention getter, here's the punchline. Read Steve Erie's new [... more]
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Read Haver as well as Agamben & Negri . . .: I just wish to add the name of another brilliant writer who is covering similar territory re: biopower; war; links between liberal-humanism, democracy & fascism; mass death, and other such cheerful [... more]
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A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese ...
life of one Chinese woman: Ida Pruitt's biography of Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai (literally "old lady Ning"), a peasant woman of northeast China born in 1867, is a fascinating anecdotal retelling of Ning's personal history as she related it to the [... more]
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