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An essential, comprehensive guide for all who are interested in learning the Portuguese language and mastering its complexities, Portuguese: A Reference Manual supplements the phonetic and grammatical explanations offered in basic textbooks. While...

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The earliest known author of written literature was a woman named Enheduanna, who lived in ancient Mesopotamia around 2300 BCE. High Priestess to the moon god Nanna, Enheduanna came to venerate the goddess Inanna above all gods in the Sumerian pan...

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Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinemahailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most important director of our time"died an exile in Paris in December 1986. In Sculpting in Time, he has left his artistic testament, a remarkable rev...

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ONE OF THE SHARPEST, FUNNIEST, AND BEST BOOKS EVER ABOUT ANY ROCK ARTISTRolling Stone WEIRD AND WONDROUSNew York Times I ADORED ITMichael Chabon A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan. Steely Dans songs are exercises in ficti...

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Living in 2300 BCE, Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna became the first author of historical record by signing her name to a collection of hymns written for forty-two temples throughout the southern half of ancient Mesopotamia, the civilization no...

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Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and gender of the body to global power relations among ...

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The third book in a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure trilogy centered on a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to save the world. In the third and final book of the Thunderbird trilogy, Noo...

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Is womens inequality supported by the Quran? Do men have the exclusive right to interpret Islams holy scripture? In her best-selling book Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Quran, Asma Barlas argues that, far fr...

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Before Writing gives a new perspective on the evolution of communication. It points out that when writing began in Mesopotamia it was not, as previously thought, a sudden and spontaneous invention. Instead, it was the outgrowth of many thousands o...

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Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain discovered in her work that an astounding 99 percent of first-time screenwriters dont know how to tell a story. These writers may know how to format a script, write snappy dialogue, and set a scene. They ...

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A stirring defense of Sinad OConnors music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her. In 1990, Sinad OConnors video for Nothing Compares 2 U turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appearance on Saturday Night Live...

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Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Womens Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtleand not so subtlestrategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women w...

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Ahmad Mahmoud sets The Neighbors against the backdrop of the oil nationalization crisis that gripped Iran in the early 1950s. His protagonist, Khaled, a young man from a rundown neighborhood in Ahvaz, a city in southern Iran, becomes involved in t...

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From reviews of the third edition: Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthologys consideration of the advantages and chal...

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Billy Joe Shaver was the real deal. Many agree with him that his songs are pure poetry. Shaver sang about a life that was full of hard times, wild living, and a forty-year-long passion for his late wife Brenda. His songs are raw, honest, and so tr...

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"In the remoteness of their mountain retreat, the herders of Chillihuani, Peru, recognize that respect for others is the central and most significant element of all thought and action," observes Inge Bolin. "Without respect, no soci...

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El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the mediums most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by Hct...

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Herding cattle from horseback has been a tradition in northern Mexico and the American West since the Spanish colonial era. The first mounted herders were the Mexican vaqueros, expert horsemen who developed the skills to work cattle in the brush c...

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At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts an astonishing array of plants and animalsover half a million species! Ecotourists, birders, and biologists come from around the world, drawn by the likelihood of seeing more than thre...

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Modern Hebrew for Beginnerswhich is now revised and updatedand Modern Hebrew for Intermediate Students are the core of a multimedia program for the college-level Hebrew classroom developed at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 2000s. W...

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2023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2024 Woody Guthrie Book Award, International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch (IASPM-US) 2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research...

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Lake|Flato Architects of San Antonio, Texas, is nationally and internationally acclaimed for buildings that respond organically to the natural environment. The firm uses local materials and workmanship, as well as a deep knowledge of vernacular tr...

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Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, ...

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By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing the other great powers of the region--Carthage, Macedonia, Egypt, and the Seleucid empire...

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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of thes...

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Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parab...

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Both a symbol of the Mubarak governments power and a component in its construction of national identity, football served as fertile ground for Egyptians to confront the regimes overthrow during the 2011 revolution. With the help of the state, appr...

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In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair to the national stage. The musical ecosystem from which these bands emerged, though, was expansive and diverse. Grunge players comingl...

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In the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexicos Southern Highland region, three facets of sociocultural life have been interconnected and interactive from colonial times to the present: first, community land as a space to live and work; second, a civil-religio...

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Winner of the 2012 Los Angeles Book Festival Photography/Art Book Award, Dan Winters America: Icons and Ingenuity is the first retrospective of the career of this talented artist. Winters has spent more than two decades creating memorable photogra...

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