403 títulos para "Longleaf Services On Behalf Of Cornell University"
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Divided Highways
Lewis, Tom
978-0-8014-7822-2In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1...
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Beautiful City
Roochnik, David
978-0-8014-4087-8To the vast literature on Plato's Republic comes a new interpretation. In Beautiful City, David Roochnik argues convincingly that Plato's masterpiece is misunderstood by modern readers. The work must, he explains, be read dialectically, its parts understood as forming a unified whole. Approa...
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The Business of Empire
Colby, Jason M
978-0-8014-4915-4The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of...
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The Jew and the Other
Benbassa, Esther / Attias, Jean-Christophe
978-0-8014-4247-6In the current situation of polarization in the Middle East, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that a long tradition of dialogue and openness toward the "Other" exists in many strands of Jewish thought. Himself or herself the quintessential Other in a world in which she or he has existe...
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Albert Camus
Zaretsky, Robert
978-0-8014-7907-6"Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More recently, I have carried him into university c...
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Paranoia and Modernity
Farrell, John C
978-0-8014-4410-4"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's Captain (in The Fath...
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Kidnapped Souls
Zahra, Tara
978-0-8014-4628-3Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and working-class parents in the Czech-German borderlands to ensure that their children were bilingual by sending them to live with families who spoke the "other" language. As nationalism...
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The Evils of Polygyny
McDermott, Rose / Monroe, Kristen Renwick
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Critical Terrains
Lowe, Lisa
978-1-5017-2805-1Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexual...
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Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt
Assmann, Jan
978-0-8014-7973-1"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in...
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Whistleblowers
Alford, Fred C
978-0-8014-8780-4In a dark departure from our standard picture of whistleblowers, C. Fred Alford offers a chilling account of the world of people who have come forward to protest organizational malfeasance in government agencies and in the private sector. The conventional story--high-minded individual fights soulles...
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