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On the Perpetual Strangeness of the Bible (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive, possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader’s sense of its... Læs mere
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Constitutional Powers and Politics: How Citizens Think About Authority and Institutional Change (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this timely book, Eileen Braman explores how American citizens think about government across all three branches, applying a rigorous political scientific methodology to explore why citizens may support potentially risky changes to the American governing system.
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To Organize the Sovereign People: Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the struggle to define self-government in the critical years following the Declaration of Independence,... Læs mere
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Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Traces productions of Shakespeare’s Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York.... Læs mere
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Best New Poets 2023: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Entering its nineteenth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The... Læs mere
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Restoration Drama and the Idea of Literature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Argues that Restoration playwrights recognized and exploited the tension between print and performance inherent to all drama. By repeatedly and... Læs mere
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Blueprint for Going Green: How a Small Foundation Changed the Model for Environmental Conservation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In 1977, one forward-thinking judge took an ecological disaster--the poisoning of the James River by... Læs mere
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Popa Singer (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The most recent book by renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet Rene Depestre, Popa Singer is a semi-autobiographical chronicle of Haiti in the late 1950s, the very moment when the country first came under decades of despotic rule.
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Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Illuminates the philosophical innovations that Black intellectuals made to build on Thomas Jefferson’s thought, shaping both Jefferson’s historical image and the exalted legacy of his ideas in American culture.
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Does Privilege Prevail?: Litigation in High Courts Across the Globe (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Justice is supposed to be blind. Cynics will say they know better. But what do the facts say? This groundbreaking study provides... Læs mere
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All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary Influence (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race. With All the Devils... Læs mere
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Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are... Læs mere
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