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SHOPPING FOR JESUS: Faith in Marketing in the USA
Dominic Janes, Ed.
This volume explores the connections between faith, the presentation of belief and the processes by which it is sold and consumed. |
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THE SOVIETIZATION OF EASTERN EUROPE:
New Perspectives on the Postwar Period
Balázs Apor, Péter Apor, and E. A. Rees, eds.
This collection of essays offers a captivating reading on how East-Central Europe was transformed into the ‘Other’ Europe. |
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THE MAFIA IN SICILIAN LITERATURE
By Corinna del Greco Lobner
This book shows the Mafia not merely as a criminal association, but also as an element of Italian literature and culture. |
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PERSPECTIVES ON CONNOISSEURSHIP OF CHINESE PAINTING
Jason C. Kuo, ed.
The aims of this volume are to reflect on the fundamental issues in the theory and practice of connoisseurship of Chinese painting in particular and those of connoisseurship of art in general. |
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RIVERS OF FIRE: Mythic Themes in Homer’s Iliad
By C.J. Mackie
This book explores the different generations of heroes in early Greek myth and Homer’s vision of war through four important symbolic themes— Monsters, Horses, Archers, and Fire. |
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SUPER/HEROES
From Hercules to Superman
Wendy Haslem, Angela Ndalianis and Chris Mackie, eds.
This collection of essays explores contemporary superhero narratives, including comic books and films, in a wider mythic context. |
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ARIAS, CABALETTAS, AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS: A Public Diplomat’s Quasi-Musical Memoir
By
Hans N. Tuch
A lifelong lover of opera and classical music, the author served 35 years in the US Foreign Service. These memoirs recall his devoted engagement with music, especially opera, in the context of that career. |
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BUSHELS AND BALES: A Food Soldier in the Cold War
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Howard L. Steele
Poverty and prosperity, fear and fun, mistakes, corruption, incompetence, language and cultural glitches, and developmental successes—the author recounts his government service on six continents in a 34-year career. |
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CAFÉ BOMBSHELL: The International Brain Surgery Conspiracy
By
Sabrina P. Ramet
Most of the action occurs in the mid-1980s, when the threat of industrial pollution was already well known. The story’s narrator realized that industrial pollution was interconnected with a vast international conspiracy of brain surgeons… |
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THROUGH DARK DAYS AND WHITE NIGHTS
By
Naomi F. Collins
The author provides a personal, eye-witness account from the mid 1960's through the turn of the 21st century, starting as a graduate student at Moscow State University and ending as the wife of the American Ambassador to Russia. |
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ALWAYS THE TRAINS
By
Judy Neri
This volume of poetry is a meditation in four parts--on the joy of being alive, nature, artistic creation, and the psyche. It includes 52 poems, sonnets as well as other compositions. |
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Love and Samsara
By
Eusebio L. Rodrigues
A novel set in 16th-century India, blending history, adventure, love, and spirituality on the background of the arrival of the Portuguese, which caused a clash of civilizations. |
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Sons
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Jonathan Kleinbard
Sons explores the role of memory in experiencing evil and despair through the eyes of the narrator. Lust, greed, and religious faith make an inflammatory mixture as the novel reaches its climax. |
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