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Images of the Divine and Cultural Orientations : Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Voices
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ISBN: 9783374041091 3374041094 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leipzig Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

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A Copy of the report of an essay of bread made in the year 1669 : by order of the then Court of Aldermen : with some remarks, which were made on passing the Act of 31st of George II. entitled, An Act for the Due Making of Bread, and to Regulate the Price and Assize thereof, &c. : which shew, that the said essay was not made according to the then bread-table : with a comparison of that table with the tables of the 8th of Anne and 31 George II : to which is added, an appendix, by way of attempt to explain the table in the said statute of 51st of Henry III.
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Year: 1758 Publisher: London [s.n.]

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War and democracy
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ISBN: 1501756419 9781501756429 1501756427 9781501756412 9781501756405 1501756400 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ithaca, New York

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In critiquing the mainstream view that total war advances democracy, War and Democracy reveals how politics during the war transforms societal actors who become crucial to postwar political settlements and the prospects for democratic reform.


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The Wes Anderson collection : Isle of dogs
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ISBN: 9781419730092 1419730096 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York Abrams

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"Through the course of several in-depth interviews with film critic Lauren Wilford, writer and director Wes Anderson shares the story behind Isle of Dogs's conception and production, and Anderson and his collaborators reveal entertaining anecdotes about the making of the film, their sources of inspiration, the ins and outs of stop-motion animation, and many other insights into their moviemaking process. Previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photographs, concept artwork, and hand-written notes and storyboards accompany the text. The book also features an introduction by critics and collaborators Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou, and a foreword by critic Matt Zoller Seitz."-- "Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture"--


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Substantial Relations : Making Global Reproductive Medicine in Postcolonial India
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ISBN: 1501758209 1501758217 1501758195 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cornell University Press

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"This book explores the historical and contemporary making of global reproductive medicine in postcolonial India, with a focus on in vitro fertilization"--


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Workers on arrival
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ISBN: 0520971175 9780520971172 9780520299450 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oakland, California

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From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as "consumers" rather than "producers," as "takers" rather than "givers," and as "liabilities" instead of "assets."In his engrossing new history, Workers on Arrival, Joe William Trotter, Jr. refutes these perceptions by charting the black working class's vast contributions to the making of America. Covering the last four hundred years since Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619, Trotter traces black workers' complicated journey from the transatlantic slave trade through the American Century to the demise of the industrial order in the 21st century. At the center of this compelling, fast-paced narrative are the actual experiences of these African American men and women. A dynamic and vital history of remarkable contributions despite repeated setbacks, Workers on Arrival expands our understanding of America's economic and industrial growth, its cities, ideas, and institutions, and the real challenges confronting black urban communities today.


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Frame by Frame : A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
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ISBN: 9780520972773 0520972775 0520303628 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oakland University of California Press

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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this beautifully written and deeply researched study, Hannah Frank provides an original way to understand American animated cartoons from the Golden Age of animation (1920-1960). In the pre-digital age of the twentieth century, the making of cartoons was mechanized and standardized: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called "cels") and then photographed in succession, a labor-intensive process that was divided across scores of artists and technicians. In order to see the art, labor, and technology of cel animation, Frank slows cartoons down to look frame by frame, finding hitherto unseen aspects of the animated image. What emerges is both a methodology and a highly original account of an art formed on the assembly line.


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Forging global Fordism : Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the contest over the industrial order
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ISBN: 0691207984 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from across the world flocked to Detroit. Chief among them were Nazi and Soviet specialists who sought to study, copy, and sometimes steal the techniques of American automotive mass production, or Fordism. This book traces how Germany and the Soviet Union embraced Fordism amid widespread economic crisis and ideological turmoil.


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Achebe and friends at Umuahia : the making of a literary elite
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ISBN: 178204518X 1782044655 1847011098 1847011268 Year: 2015 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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This is the first in-depth scholarly study of the literary awakening of the young intellectuals who became known as Nigeria's 'first-generation' writers in the post-colonial period. Terri Ochiagha's research focuses on Chinua Achebe, Elechi Amadi, Chike Momah, Christopher Okigbo and Chukwuemeka Ike, and also discusses the experiences of Gabriel Okara, Ken Saro-Wiwa and I.C. Aniebo, in the context of their education in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s at Government College, Umuahia. The author provides fresh perspectives on Postcolonial and World literary processes, colonial education in British Africa, literary representations of colonialism and Chinua Achebe's seminal position in African literature. She demonstrates how each of the writers used this very particular education to shape their own visions of the world in which they operated and examines the implications that this had for African literature as a whole. Supplementary material will be available on-line of some of the original sources. Terri Ochiagha holds one of the prestigious British Academy Newton International Fellowships (2014-16) hosted by the Schoolof English, University of Sussex. She was previously a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

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