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Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A haunting ode to a lost friend, this memoir by the acclaimed author of Rat Girl offers the most personal, empathetic look at the creative genius and often-tormented life of singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt that is ever likely to be written.
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Homeric Questions (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a historical model for understanding how, when, where, and why the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" were ultimately preserved as written texts. This book draws on the comparative... Læs mere
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Believing Women in Islam: A Brief Introduction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This inviting book presents a simplified version of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an that will help general readers and students understand its argument for women’s equality.
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Cetamura Del Chianti (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A rare glimpse into an ancient Etruscan community that provides evidence for how smaller communities could flourish despite centuries of nearby wars with the Romans.
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Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From the Beatles to Prince to Perfume Genius, Glitter Up the Dark takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary.
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Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Capturing more than a century of struggles, this stirring cultural history traces the evolution of women’s participation in sports in Latin America, from physical education to amateur clubs to the creation of national teams.
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I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America’s most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to which Maya women used the courts to air their grievances and defend their human rights.
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Modern Hebrew for Beginners: A Multimedia Program for Students at the Beginning and Intermediate Levels (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With over 18,500 copies sold and now revised and updated, Modern Hebrew for Beginners is the core of a widely used multimedia program for teaching Hebrew in the college-level classroom.
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Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures: Film and the First Amendment (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This engaging and comprehensive history of censorship and cinema reveals the ways in which film has had a lasting impact on the legal concept of free speech and personal freedoms.
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Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This first comprehensive English-language study of the church-wall paintings created in Peru’s Cuzco region from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries unveils the complex intersections of religious artists, indigenous congregants, and colon
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Let the People in: The Life and Times of Ann Richards (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
When Ann Richards delivered the keynote of the 1988 Democratic National Convention and mocked President George H W Bush - "Poor George, he can't help... Læs mere
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Maria Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Taking a comparative approach that facilitates new interpretations of their work, this study explores how the first Mexican women artists to achieve international recognition successfully challenged prevailing discourses about national identity and gender
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