403 títulos para "Longleaf Services On Behalf Of Cornell University"
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Battling the Buddha of Love
Falcone, Jessica Marie
978-1-5017-2346-9Battling the Buddha of Love is a work of advocacy anthropology that explores the controversial plans and practices of the Maitreya Project, a transnational Buddhist organization, as it sought to build the "world's tallest statue" as a multi-million-dollar "gift" to India. Hop...
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Politics Under the Influence
Bailey, Anna L
978-1-5017-2440-4"You know just how serious a problem alcoholism has become for our country. Frankly speaking, it has taken on the proportions of a national disaster." So spoke Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2009 as the government launched its latest anti-alcohol campaign. Challenging the standard na...
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Discourse of Modernism
Reiss, Timothy J
978-1-5017-2809-9Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class o...
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Expense of Spirit
Rose, Mary Beth
978-1-5017-2810-5A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial per...
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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces
Anderson, Amanda
978-1-5017-2773-3Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction--the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian deba...
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Exotic Nations
Wasserman, Renata
978-1-5017-2813-6In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil assimilated and subverted European images of an "exotic" New World to create new literatures th...
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Managing Risk in High-Stakes Faculty Employment Decisions
Flood, Julee T / Leap, Terry L.
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Meaning and Interpretation
Hagberg, Garry / Hagberg, Garry L
978-1-5017-2696-5'What is the meaning of a word?' In this thought-provoking book, Hagberg demonstrates how this question--which initiated Wittgenstein's later work in the philosophy of language--is significant for our understanding not only of linguistic meaning but of the meaning of works of art and lit...
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