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Gans, Evelien, and Remco Ensel, eds. The Holocaust, Israel and 'the Jew'. Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789089648488.

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This book is the first comprehensive study of postwar antisemitism in the Netherlands. It focuses on the way stereotypes are passed on from one decade to the next, as reflected in public debates, the mass media, protests and commemorations, and everyday interactions. The Holocaust, Israel and 'the Jew' explores the ways in which old stories and phrases relating to 'the stereotypical Jew' are recycled and modified for new uses, linking the antisemitism of the early postwar years to its enduring manifestations in today's world. The Dutch case is interesting because of the apparent contrast betwe

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Gans, Evelien, and Remco Ensel, eds. The Holocaust, Israel and 'the Jew'. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462986084.

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This book is the first comprehensive study of postwar antisemitism in the Netherlands. It focuses on the way stereotypes are passed on from one decade to the next, as reflected in public debates, the mass media, protests and commemorations, and everyday interactions. The Holocaust, Israel and 'the Jew' explores the ways in which old stories and phrases relating to 'the stereotypical Jew' are recycled and modified for new uses, linking the antisemitism of the early postwar years to its enduring manifestations in today's world. The Dutch case is interesting because of the apparent contrast betwe

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Weiss, Martin. Showcasing Science. Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982246.

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Teylers Museum was founded in 1784 and soon thereafter became one of the most important centres of Dutch science. The Museum’s first director, Martinus van Marum, famously had the world’s largest electrostatic generator built and set up in Haarlem. This subsequently became the most prominent item in the Museum’s world-class, publicly accessible, and constantly growing collections. These comprised scientific instruments, mineralogical and palaeontological specimens, prints, drawings, paintings, and coins. Van Marum’s successors continued to uphold the institution’s prestige and use the collecti

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Wetering, Ernst. Rembrandt. The Painter Thinking. Edited by Wardy Poelstra. Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462981522.

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Even during the artist's lifetime, contemporary art lovers considered Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) to be an exceptional artist. In this revelatory sequel to the acclaimed Rembrandt: The Painter at Work, renowned Rembrandt authority Ernst van de Wetering investigates the painter's considerations that determined the striking changes in his development from an early age onwards. This gorgeously illustrated book explores how Rembrandt achieved mastery by systematic exploration of the 'foundations of the art of painting'. According to written sources from the seventeenth century, which were large

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World Famous in New Zealand: How New Zealand's Leading Firms Became World Class Competitors. Auckland University Press, 2001.

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Shelton, Lindsay. Dancing with Hollywood: The Inside Story of How New Zealand Movies Became World-Famous. Awa Press, 2015.

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Shelton, Lindsay. Dancing with Hollywood: The Inside Story of How New Zealand Movies Became World-Famous. Awa Press, 2015.

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From Soldier to Storyteller: Essays on World War Veterans Who Became Famous Children's Authors. McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2024.

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Before They Changed the World: Pivotal Moments that Shaped the Lives of Great Leaders Before They Became Famous. Crestline Books, 2018.

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Editors, Charles River. Alan Turing: The Life and Legacy of the English Computer Scientist Who Became World War II’s Most Famous Codebreaker. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.

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Lord, Michelle, and Shehzil Malik. Girl Called Genghis Khan: How Maria Toorpakai Wazir Pretended to Be a Boy, Defied the Taliban, and Became a World Famous Squash Player. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2020.

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Matsuura, Oscar, and Huib Zuidervaart. Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World. Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463722285.

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This volume, Volume 2, is a supplementary text and consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Volume 1 presents Marggrafe’s stunning biography. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the

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Zuidervaart, Huib, and Oscar Matsuura. Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World. Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463722186.

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This volume, Volume 1, presents Marggrafe’s stunning biography. Volume 2 consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the support Johan Maurits van Na

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Johnson, Hayley, and Sarah Simms. Beneath Heavy Pines in World War II Louisiana. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666985818.

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December 7, 1941 changed the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans who became "enemy" in the eyes of the United States government within hours. With Pearl Harbor still smoldering, these men would be arrested and put into the enemy alien internment system. As the study of internment has steadily grown, the information about the confinement sites and ability to piece together the experiences of the men within has remained a challenging task. Camp Livingston, famous as a site for the Louisiana Maneuvers, holds a darker and less well-known history. From 1942-1943, over 1,000 men of Japanese anc

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Marchal, Kai, and Carl K. Y. Shaw, eds. Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World. Lexington Books, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666988208.

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Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political examines the reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of both Schmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, the German-Jewish classicist and political philosopher who became famous after his emigration to the United States, are highly controversial. Since the 1990s, however, these thinkers have had a powerful resonance for Chinese scholars. Today, when Chinese intellectuals debate the Chinese state, the future role of China in the wor

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Maes, Ivo, and Ilaria Pasotti. Robert Triffin. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190081096.001.0001.

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This book provides an intellectual biography of Robert Triffin. Triffin (1911–1993) played a key role in the international monetary debates in the postwar period. He became famous with trenchant analyses of the vulnerabilities of the international monetary system that was dependent on a national currency for its international liquidity (the Triffin dilemma), predicting the end of the Bretton Woods system. Triffin was a child of the interwar period, marked by the Great Depression and the rise of fascism. He became not only an eminent academic but also an influential policy adviser. In the mid-1

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Thompson, William R., and Leila Zakhirova. Britain: The First Modern Industrial Economy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190699680.003.0007.

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The British Industrial Revolution is one of the most famous economic growth stories. Once a peripheral economy, Britain later became the center of the world economy, occupying a position of global technological centrality. When the British moved into a mineral-based economy via their embrace of coal, they were able to move beyond the traditional constraints of organic economies. This was truly revolutionary and produced the sustainability that had eluded the Dutch. What propelled Britain beyond the Smithian trajectory was the combination of ample, inexpensive coal and steam engines. Growth bec

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Snyder, Jean E. Introducing Antonín Dvořák to African American Music. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039942.003.0005.

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This chapter focuses on how Harry T. Burleigh, during his study at the National Conservatory of Music, became Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's most direct link to the African American music traditions in which he was keenly interested. Burleigh's second year at the conservatory would be a momentous one not only for him but also for the conservatory and for American music when Dvořák was appointed director. By the end of the academic year, Dvořák would complete the composition of his most famous American work, Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, “From the New World.” Burleigh would be intimately involved

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Christoforidis, Michael. Premiere and Revival. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195384567.003.0002.

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Carmen’s 1875 premiere at the Opéra-Comique was an unauspicious launch for a work that became Bizet’s most famous opera. Its controversial subject, Célestine Galli-Marié’s realist performance of the eponymous heroine, and surrounding politics all contributed to the work’s initial failure. Despite this, Carmen quickly became established in theaters around the world, leading to a triumphant revival when Galli-Marié finally returned to the role in Paris in 1883. This chapter examines connections between the opera’s changing fortunes in Paris and a range of issues related to Spain. It explores how

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Widdicombe, Ben. Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World. Simon & Schuster, 2021.

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Widdicombe, Ben. Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World. Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing, 2020.

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Widdicombe, Ben. Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World. Simon & Schuster, 2020.

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Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World. Simon & Schuster, 2020.

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Zimmer, Kenyon. I Senza Patria. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039386.003.0003.

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This chapter focuses on how Paterson became the center of what is probably the most important Anarchist group in the world. Italian anarchists were at the forefront of persistent local labor unrest, including the violent 1902 silk strike and famous 1913 general strike conducted by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). More infamously, a Paterson anarchist assassinated Italy's King Umberto I in 1900. However, by 1906, an exasperated Board of Aldermen threatened to bring charges of libel against publications that continued to equate the Silk City with anarchism. The chapter shows how behind

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Lovejoy, Henry B. Prieto. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645391.001.0001.

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This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yorùbá people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto’s story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by which thousands of Yorùbá speakers were forced into life-and-death struggles in a strange land. In Havana, Prieto and most of the people of the Yorùbá diaspora were identified by the colonial authorities as Lucumí. Prieto’s evolving identity becomes the fascinating fulcrum

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Edmondson, Jacqueline. John Lennon. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400674600.

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This biography tells the complete story of John Lennon's life, including the controversial influence of his music, art, and philosophy upon the world. John Lennon was a singer, songwriter, activist, artist, and writer whose life and work left an indelible mark on rock music and the world. Lennon first became famous as the founding member of The Beatles, and his songwriting partnership with bandmate Paul McCartney remains legendary in the history of pop music. Lennon's creative work, which extended well beyond his years as a Beatle and lasted until his final days, still provides enjoyment and i

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Como, James. C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198828242.001.0001.

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Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C. S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was a man of many literary parts. Already well known as a scholar in the 1930s, he became a famous broadcaster during World War II and wrote in many genres: satire (The Screwtape Letters), science fiction (Perelandra), novels, poetry, and books on Christian belief. C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction delves into the vast corpus of his work, discussing its core themes and lasting appeal. Moving chronologically thro

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Lang, Birgit, Joy Damousi, and Alison Lewis. Conclusion. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719099434.003.0008.

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This volume delineates the changing forms of the case study across disciplines and decades, mapping circuits of knowledge through which the sexed and gendered human subject became a persistently urgent topic of enquiry in the Western world. A History of the Case Study presents an analysis of case writing about the human subject from a critical juncture in its formation in the second half of the nineteenth century, when, as claimed by Michel Foucault, sexuality came to be regarded as a conceptual part of human nature. According to Foucault’s famous dictum, notions of sexuality ‘organized sex as

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Famous Artist Biographies: Artists Who Become Famous Either for Their Unique Style or the Character They Exude to the World of Art. Independently Published, 2021.

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Andrade, Nathanael. Zenobia. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638818.001.0001.

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Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (and Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman Empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of ancient Palmyra. By doing so, it aims to shed greater light on the experiences of Zenobia and Palmyrene women like her at various stages of their lives. Not limiting itself to the political aspects of her governance, it contemplates what inscriptions and material

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Pfyefinch, Mary. OneHourWiz: Becoming a Techie - The Legendary, World Famous Method for Anyone to Become a Techie (Onehourwiz). Aspatore Books, 2002.

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Manko, Katina. Ding Dong! Avon Calling! Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190499822.001.0001.

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The Avon Lady was a woman who sold cosmetics door-to-door and earned commissions on her sales. In the 1950s, she became famous in a long-running advertising campaign that featured a two-chime doorbell, “Ding Dong!,” followed by the greeting “Avon Calling!” At that time, more than 250,000 women worked as Avon Ladies, and together they represented the largest female direct sales force in the world. Avon began as the California Perfume Company in 1886. Its founder, David McConnell, had sought to provide women with an independent business opportunity largely hoping to soften the seedy reputation o

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Wheeler, William. Fish as Property on the Small Aral Sea, Kazakhstan. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813415.003.0009.

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This chapter looks at a postsocialist fishery in Kazakhstan to explore the relationship between property rules designed to manage natural resources, and practices of resource exploitation. The Aral Sea is famous for its desiccation over the second half of the twentieth century, which stemmed from Soviet irrigation projects; in 2006 a World Bank/Republic of Kazakhstan project restored a small part of the sea, and fish catches have recently recovered somewhat. In this chapter, based on ethnographic and archival research, I explore the disjuncture between formal rules and practice to address deba

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Barrett, Chris. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816874.003.0005.

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While Chapters 1–3 examine early modern texts that take the work of spatial representation as an opportunity to consider the labor, dangers, and possibilities of representation, the Conclusion (which takes its title from remarks by Richard Hakluyt in describing how as a child he became fascinated by maps) considers three contemporary objects: a mug, a Mapparium, and recent revisions to the famous boot-shaped silhouette of Louisiana. Each of these objects represents a global or regional area in some novel way: foregrounding their artifice in order to exploit the same cartographic anxieties of r

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Grigg, John A., ed. British Colonial America. ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400621574.

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This insightful set of essays reveals the day-to-day lives of the British colonists who laid the foundation for what became the United States. British Colonial America: People and Perspectives shifts the spotlight away from the famous political and religious leaders of the time to focus on colonial residents across the full spectrum of American society from the early-17th to the late-18th century. In narrative chapters filled with biographical sketches, British Colonial America explores the day-to-day world of the religious groups, entrepreneurs, women and children, laborers, farmers, and othe

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Rajadhyaksha, Ashish. 3. Partition and the ‘all-India’ film. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198723097.003.0003.

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India officially became ‘independent’ in 1947 and a Republic in 1950. Neither were easy transitions. The cinema would inherit all of India’s political contradictions. It would soon become apparent that India, once incapable of creating an ‘Empire’ film, was now equally unable to provide the newly free country with a properly nationalist cinema. ‘Partition and the “all-India” film’ describes India’s film industry in Bombay after the war; the arrival of the most famous stars; the success of film music; and the impact of independent auteurs Satyajit Ray, Guru Dutt, and Ritwik Ghatak, who defined

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Metcalf, Allan. The Life of Guy. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190669201.001.0001.

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This book is about the name “Guy” and its slow, mostly unnoticed development over four centuries since it began on November 5, 1605, with the suddenly famous Guy Fawkes, who was arrested just in time just before he could light the fuse on 36 barrels of gunpowder to blow up the House of Lords. During those four centuries, “Guy” became “guy,” the name for an effigy of Guy Fawkes burned at bonfires every November 5 since. The effigy was called a “guy,” so that more than one effigy would be “guys,” Then, slowly, “guy” extended its signification into a name for a ragged, lower-class male, then any

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Salisbury, Joyce. Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World. ABC-CLIO, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216037378.

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An extensive and fascinating collection of stories featuring both famous and everyday women, giving a well-rounded view of the lives of women in the ancient world. When did women first become rulers, athletes, soldiers, heroines, and villains? They always were, observes historian Judith Salisbury. From Mesopotamian priestesses and poets to Egyptian queens and consorts, "there was never a time when women did not participate in all aspects of society." Salisbury tells the stories of 150 women from the ancient world, ranging from the very famous, such as Cleopatra VII, immortalized by Hollywood,

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Ericson, Steven J. Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501746918.001.0001.

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With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, this book overturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi. The book shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial-stabilization program—a sort of precursor of the “neoliberal” reforms promoted by the IMF in the 1980s and 1990s—Matsukata's policies differed in significant ways from both classical economic liberalism and neoliberal orthodoxy. The Matsukata financial reform has become famous largely for the wrong reasons, and the book sets the record straight. It shows that Matsukata in

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ter Haar, Barend J. Guan Yu. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803645.001.0001.

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Guan Yu was a minor general in his own day, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne in the early third century CE. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, of the same importance as the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. This is a study of his cult, but also of the tremendous power of oral culture in a world where writing became increasingly important. The book follows the rise of the deity through his earliest stage as a hungry ghost, his subsequen

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Swindali, Tommy. Music Production & DJing for EDM: Everything You Need to Know to Become a World Famous EDM DJ & Music Producer. Independently Published, 2019.

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Swindali, Tommy. Music Production & DJing for EDM: Everything You Need to Know to Become a World Famous EDM DJ & Music Producer. Swain, Thomas William, 2019.

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Music Production & DJing for EDM: Everything You Need to Know to Become a World Famous EDM DJ & Music Producer. Swain, Thomas William, 2019.

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Deen, Hanifa. The Crescent and the Pen. Praeger, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216963240.

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This is a book about a writer, Islamic fundamentalism, mythmaking, and international literary politics. It is the story of Taslima Nasreen, a former medical doctor and protest writer who shot to international fame in 1993 at the age of thirty-four after she was accused of blasphemy by religious fanatics in Bangladesh and her bookShamewas banned. In order to escape a warrant for her arrest, the controversial writer went underground and, as the official story has it, fled to the West where she became a human rights celebrity, a female version of Salman Rushdie. Taslima Nasreen's name almost beca

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Stein, Stephen K., ed. Sea in World History. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216985815.

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This two-volume set documents the essential role of the sea and maritime activity across history, from travel and food production to commerce and conquest. In all eras, water transport has served as the cheapest and most efficient means of moving cargo and people over any significant distance. Only relatively recently have railroads and aircraft provided an alternative. Most of the world's bulk goods continue to travel primarily by ship over water. Even today, 95 percent of the cargo that enters and leaves the United States does so by ship. Similarly, people around the world rely on the sea fo

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Stein, Stephen K., ed. Sea in World History. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216985808.

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This two-volume set documents the essential role of the sea and maritime activity across history, from travel and food production to commerce and conquest. In all eras, water transport has served as the cheapest and most efficient means of moving cargo and people over any significant distance. Only relatively recently have railroads and aircraft provided an alternative. Most of the world's bulk goods continue to travel primarily by ship over water. Even today, 95 percent of the cargo that enters and leaves the United States does so by ship. Similarly, people around the world rely on the sea fo

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Descoteaux, Ashley. Journey to Altnagar Story : Journey to Become a Master Builder and a World Famous Jewellery Designer: Travelling Journey to Scotland. Independently Published, 2021.

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Aloi, Giovanni. I'm Not an Artist. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350417960.

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Romanticized notions of how one becomes an “artist” have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind eye to the politics of exclusionism that characterize the art world and conforming our creative potential to well-trodden stereotypes? I'm Not an Artistis a critical appraisal of the role of the artist through time and an account of how successful artists have conquered their spot in the history of art, from the rise of the Renaissance artist star to the multiplicity of artistic identities we see in the creative landscape today. Entertaining, info

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Stray, Christopher, Christopher Pelling, and Stephen Harrison, eds. Rediscovering E. R. Dodds. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777366.001.0001.

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This book offers an assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at Reading and Birmingham, was active in the Association of University Teachers, or AUT (of which he became president), and brought an outsider's perspective to the comfortable and introspective world of Oxford. His famous book Th

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Batt, Jennifer. Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001.

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This book explores the complex and contested relationships that existed between class, patronage, and poetry in Hanoverian England by examining the life and work of Stephen Duck, the ‘famous Threshing Poet’. In 1730, Duck became the most famous agricultural labourer in the nation when his writing won him the patronage of Queen Caroline. The man, and the writing he produced, intrigued contemporaries. How was it possible, they asked, for an agricultural labourer to become a poet? What would a thresher write? Did he really deserve royal patronage, and what would he do with such an honour? How sho

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