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Stephen Kern
A Cultural History of Causality : Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought

2004 y.
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Description: Book Description This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial , and Lolita , Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels, each chapter considers the sciences (genetics, endocrinology, physiology, neuroscience) and systems of thought (psychoanalysis, linguistics, sociology, forensic psychiatry, and existential philosophy) most germane to each causal factor or motive. Kern identifies five shifts in thinking about causality, shifts toward increasing specificity,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691115230
Book size: —; Page extent: 584.

 

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Wanne Joe
A Cultural History of Modern Korea: A History of Korean Civilization

— y.
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ISBN: 1565911083
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Helen Farley
A Cultural History of Tarot: From Entertainment to Esotericism

2009 y.
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Description: The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil. The 21 numbered playing cards of tarot have always exerted strong fascination, way beyond their original purpose, and the multiple resonances of the deck are ubiquitous. From T. S. Eliot and his `wicked pack of cards` in `The Waste Land` to the psychic divination of Solitaire in Ian Fleming`s `Live and Let Die`, and from the satanic novels of Dennis Wheatley to the deck`s adoption by New Age practitioners, the cards have in modern times become inseparably connected to the occult. They are now viewed as arguably the foremost medium of prophesying and foretelling. Yet, as the author shows, originally the tarot were used as recreational playing cards by the Italian nobility in the Renaissance. It was only much later, in the 18th and 19th centuries, that the deck… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1848850530
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Hazel Ogilvie Jackson
A Cultural Perspective of Dress

2009 y.
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Description: A Cultural Perspective of Dress provides a framework for studying the meanings associated with apparel, textile production, and human appearance across and within various world cultures. This framework introduces a number of themes explained and referenced by sound research and explored and illustrated by way of photographs, video selections, online resources, and other activities. The case study approach lends itself well to adding other articles, news photographs, and student experiences to class discussion. My experience with this material, used in a seminar-style university course, has been quite positive. By the time the major themes have been explored, students develop more inclusive attitudes about and appreciation for cultures other than their own. Whether engaged in commerce, policy, entertainment, or merely attempting to understand international news, individuals in the twenty-first century will find an open attitude about other cultures vital in today`s world… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1935551094
Book size: —; Page extent: 484.

 

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Marie Eileen Francois
A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750-1920 (Engendering Latin America)

2006 y.
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Description: Pawning was the most common credit mechanism in Mexico City in the nineteenth century. A diverse, largely female pawning clientele from lower- and middle-class households regularly secured small consumption loans by hocking household goods. A two-tiered sector of public and private pawnbrokers provided collateral credit. Rather than just providing emergency subsistence for the poor, pawnbroking facilitated consumption by Creole and mestizo middle sectors of Mexican society and enhanced identity formation for those in middling households by allowing them to cash in on material investments to maintain status during lean times. A Culture of Everyday Credit shows how Mexican women have depended on credit to run their households since the Bourbon era and how the collateral credit business of pawnbroking developed into a profitable enterprise built on the demand for housekeeping loans as restrictions on usury waned during the nineteenth century. Pairing the study of household… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0803269234
Book size: —; Page extent: 416.

 

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Crayton Fargason Jr.
A Curbside Consult on Hospital Committees and Teams

— y.
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Description: This book is a handy manual on the power and pitfalls of serving on organizational committees and teams. The author discusses how to choose such service wisely and execute it successfully. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0924674881
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Justin Peacock
A Cure for Night (Thrillers)

2009 y.
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ISBN: 1410412350
Book size: —; Page extent: 492.

 

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Sarah Klassen
A Curious Beatitude

2006 y.
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Description: This new collection, by one of Canada`s most accomplished poets, includes the long poem Rewinding Time, which won a National Magazine Award (Gold) for poetry. Sarah Klassen sings of paintings and symphonies, of gardens and mermaids, of miracles on mountaintops and the private language of birds, evoking landscapes that range from Gaughin`s Tahiti and Pizarro`s Cusco to the poet`s own childhood home in the Manitoba Interlake, weaving a colourful tapestry of poems that question, mourn, hope, and remember what it means to live on earth. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1897289049
Book size: —; Page extent: 96.

 

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Shani Shamah
A Currency Options Primer (The Wiley Finance Series)

2004 y.
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Description: Book Description A quick and concise guide to currency options An understanding of currency options is essential for those working in investment and foreign exchange. A Currency Options Primer sets out to give readers a clear guide to how the currency option market functions, offering practical advice on mastering the necessary components and concepts for fully understanding the workings of this market.Download Description`In recent years, currencies of major industrial nations have fluctuated widely in response to trade imbalances, interest rates, commodity prices, and political uncertainty. The pressure to maintain currency parity has led to the breakdown of many exchange rate mechanisms, and has forced the need for active foreign exchangehedging decisions to prevent the erosion of profit margins. To counteract this worldwide market volatility, currency options were developed as an alternative risk management tool to the spot and forward foreign exchange market, and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0470870362
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Tawana Mattox
A Customized Version of College &, Career Success

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0757546684
Book size: —; Page extent: 334.

 

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Cornell McBride
A Cut Above: How the Man Who Gave the World the Afro Made $$ Millions!

2006 y.
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ISBN: 0976859505
Book size: —; Page extent: 252.

 

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Mario Digiorgio
A Cynic`s Guide to a Rich and Full Life (Cynics Guide to)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0867196858
Book size: —; Page extent: 196.

 

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IBM Redbooks
A DB2 Enterprise Query Environment: Build It With Qmf for Windows

— y.
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ISBN: 0738415197
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Moore
A DISEASE OF LANGAUGE

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0861661532
Book size: —; Page extent: 160.

 

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P. G. Wodehouse
A Damsel in Distress

1961 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: `A Damsel in Distress` is a madcap adventure whose comic twists and turns could only have come from the zany imagination of P.G.Wodehouse. Respectable George Bevan is minding his own business, zooming down the street in a taxi, when out of nowhere, lovely Maud Marsh jumps into the car with him, begging for his help. As George recovers from his shock, Maud`s sad plight comes to light. She is desperate to escape her aunt`s meddlesome ways and reunite with the man she loves. George is moved by Maud`s tragic tale and chivalrously offers to aid the hapless damsel. As soon find, however, no good deed goes unpunished. Mistaken identities, hilarious run-ins with high-tempered relatives, and all manner of shenanigans come George`s way before we can reach the exciting conclusion of this wacky romantic comedy. Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever. Формат: 11 см x 18 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-14-001599-7
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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Anne Noggle
A Dance With Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II

2002 y.
Publisher: Texas A&,M University Press
Description: Noggle, a U.S. Women`s Airforce Service Pilot during WWII, traveled to Russia several times between 1990 and 1992 to record the reminiscences of 69 Soviet women airforce veterans. Trained as combat pilots, mechanics, navigators and ground crews after Stalin ordered the formation of three all-female air regiments in 1941, their mission was primarily defensive. A number of them became aces-i.e., they shot down five or more enemy planes. This was the first instance of widespread employment of women in combat by a major power. The women talk about their reasons for joining, the extremely rigorous training and harsh living conditions, the way the Soviet military system dealt with them collectively and individually and the role they played in tactical operations. There is plenty of adventure, emotion and drama in these pages, and readers will note that the experiences of these women were hardly different from those of their male counterparts. Noggle writes movingly of the continuing… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1585441775
Book size: —; Page extent: 336.

 

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Jenny Belingy
A Dancer`s Guide To Getting Work

2005 y.
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ISBN: 0713669462
Book size: —; Page extent: 136.

 

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Peb Jackson, James Lund
A Dangerous Faith: True Stories of Answering the Call to Adventure

2008 y.
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ISBN: 1400073456
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Ken Follett
A Dangerous Fortune

1993 y.
Publisher: Pan Books
Description: By the 1860s, the Pilasters are one of the world`s greatest banking families, with connections that reach from the City of London to far-afield colonies. However, as the family grow ever richer in the shadow of oppression and tragedy, their very future is threatened - by the self-same ambition and greed that first earned them their fortune. Формат: 11 см х 17,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-330-33265-1
Book size: —; Page extent: 608.

 

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Janine Dube
A Dark Horizon

2009 y.
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Description: After inheriting a struggling company Rachel is tempted into marrying an older man who also happens to be one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen in the country. She knows she faces an uphill struggle but she relishes the challenge of resurrecting the ailing company. Soon she is facing more challenges in the form of his children, especially his son who is adamant that she is wrong for his father. As she struggles to prove herself at work and at home she is unaware of the meticulously planned plotting meant to bring her already shaky world crushing down. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1438954042
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Alys Clare
A Dark Night Hidden

2006 y.
Publisher: New English Library
Description: A well and gently written medieval [series]. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0340793325
Book size: —; Page extent: 260.

 

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Edward G. Miller
A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945

2008 y.
Publisher: Texas A&,M University Press
Description: `A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945` examines the ominous prelude to the Battle of the Bulge and reveals for the first time one of the U.S. Army`s bloodiest nightmares of World War II. In late 1944, the American army had pushed through Belgium almost unopposed. As small units advanced into the hilly woods southeast of Aachen, Germany, they encountered a forest bristling with German troops. The face-off took place in some of Germany`s most rugged territory and in rain, sleet, and freezing temperatures. For weeks U.S. commanders ordered units of as many as seven divisions into the woods to be chewed up by German infantry and artillery. Many companies suffered huge numbers of casualties. The book`s gripping description of the battle is based on government records, a rich selection of first-person accounts from veterans of both sides, and author Edward G.Miller`s visits to the battlefield. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-58544-258-4
Book size: 155x230; Page extent: 272.

 

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Barbara Vine
A Dark-Adapted Eye

2009 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: Like most families, they had their secrets… And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister Eden were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors - even murder. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-141-04018-9
Book size: 130x195; Page extent: 304.

 

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Peter Prescott
A Darkening Green: Notes on Harvard, the 1950`s and the End of Innocence

2009 y.
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Description: This is a book about the end of childhood. Much of it is drawn directly from a diary the author kept while he was a bright but insecure freshman at Harvard in the 1950s. From these pages emerges a precise description of the raw, half-understood experience of late adolescence-the anguish and arguments, the rivalry and anxiety about sex, the facile cynicism and desperate fumblings for purpose, the bull sessions held late at night-just as Peter Prescott recorded them only hours after the event. These diary excerpts are contained in a narrative that examines that freshman experience from a vantage point of twenty years. Thus, we are able to look at the past with a double perspective: The exact record, unclouded by memory or nostalgia, of what was said and done is set in a structure that reveals the form of the experience. The result is an ironic, witty, and often moving book. Writing with some compassion and even more asperity, Peter S. Prescott not only captures the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1412810094
Book size: —; Page extent: 222.

 

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Jack Higgins
A Darker Place

2009 y.
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Description: The New York Times? bestselling author and ?dean of intrigue novelists? returns with a remarkable novel of espionage and revenge. A famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky is fed up with the Putin government and decides he wants to ?disappear? into the West. He is under no illusions, however, about how the news will be greeted at home, having seen too many of his countrymen die mysteriously at the hands of the thuggish Russian security services, so he makes elaborate plans with Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon, and the rest of the group known informally as the ?Prime Minister?s private army? for his escape and concealment. It?s a real coup for the West except for one thing: Kurbsky is still working for the Russians. The plan is to infiltrate British and American intelligence at the highest levels, and he has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible. He does not care what he has to do or where he has to go . . . or who he has to kill. Filled… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0399155503
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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Philip Reeve
A Darkling Plain (The Hungry City Chronicles)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0006089055
Book size: —; Page extent: 576.

 

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Philip Reeve
A Darkling Plain (The Hungry City Chronicles)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0060890568
Book size: —; Page extent: 576.

 

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Harley Jane Kozak
A Date You Can`t Refuse

2009 y.
Publisher: Broadway
Description: Serial dater and greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley goes undercover in a media-training company suspected of video piracy, but when a dead body appears on the company`s property, she`s caught up in a conspiracy that goes way beyond some stolen DVDs. Wollie Shelley isn`t happy about taking the job as a `social coach` at MediaRex, but the FBI makes her an offer she can`t refuse. If she agrees to infiltrate the company, they`ll guarantee that her schizophrenic brother will have a home at the federally subsidized halfway house he`s come to love. So Wollie launches into teaching three foreign celebrities how to cope with the customs of Beverly Hills, improve their English, and become Oprah-ready. And when a coyote-chewed corpse appears in the MediaRex compound, Wollie realizes that her colleagues are concealing some serious secrets of their own. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0767924223
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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Christopher D. Ringwald
A Day Apart: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0195165365
Book size: —; Page extent: 336.

 

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Beth Costanzo
A Day At the Beach

2009 y.
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Description: A Day At The Beach is a book for preschool aged children that combines a short story about the beach with several pages of fun and educational activities that include alphabet, number and shape practice. A Day At The Beach is part of The Adventures of Scuba Jack learning system. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1438981805
Book size: —; Page extent: 28.

 

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Hilda van Stockhum
A Day On Skates

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1932350187
Book size: —; Page extent: 44.

 

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