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Large Asian Lakes in a Changing World: Natural State and Human Impact, Paperback/Steffen Mischke
Describing the natural state of eight important lakes in Asia and the human impact on these lake ecosystems, this book offers a valuable reference guide. Over the past several decades…Catre Magazin -
American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler, Hardcover/Wai-Chee Dimock
Description American Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections…Catre Magazin -
Disliking Others: Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Premodern Ottoman Lands, Hardcover/Hakan T. Karateke
Description Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called "Pax Ottomanica." This edited volume probes the rosy…Catre Magazin -
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume V: 1908-1910, Hardcover/John Kelly
Description Shortly after the death of Algernon Swinburne in April 1909 Yeats announced to his sister that he was now 'King of the Cats'. Yet, as the letters in this…Catre Magazin -
World Regional Geography: Places, Peoples, and Cultures, Paperback/Kazimierz Zaniewski
Description World Regional Geography: Places, Peoples, and Cultures provides students with a fresh approach to the study of world geography through a topical exploration of ten major world regions. The…Catre Magazin -
Environmental Performance and Social Inclusion in Informal Settlements: A Favela Project Based on the IMM Integrated Modification Methodology/Gabriele Masera
This book discusses the potential of a systemic and multidisciplinary design approach to improve urban quality, health, livability, and inclusiveness for people living in informal settlements. In most instances, attempts…Catre Magazin -
Babylonian Creation Myths, Hardcover/Wilfred G. Lambert
For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian…Catre Magazin -
Samurai: An Encyclopedia of Japan’s Cultured Warriors, Hardcover/Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Description The samurai were an aristocratic class of warriors who imposed and maintained peace in Japan for more than two centuries during the Tokugawa or Edo period, 1603-1868. While they…Catre Magazin -
Mulata Nation: Visualizing Race and Gender in Cuba, Hardcover/Alison Fraunhar
Description Repeatedly and powerfully throughout Cuban history, the mulata, a woman of mixed racial identity, features prominently in Cuban visual and performative culture. Tracing the figure, Alison Fraunhar looks at…Catre Magazin -
Digital Proxemics. How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move, Hardback/John A. McArthur
Combining dynamic stories, cutting-edge research, and deep reflection on the role of space in our lives, Digital Proxemics examines the ways that our uses of physical and digital spaces and…Catre Magazin -
Early Modern Ireland and the world of medicine: Practitioners, collectors and contexts, Hardcover/John Cunningham
Description This collection seeks to offer new and important insights into medicine in early modern Ireland. It situates Irish medicine in relation to long-term social and cultural change on the…Catre Magazin -
Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture: Representations from France, C.1100-1500, Hardcover/Marian Bleeke
What can medieval sculptural representations of women tell us about medieval women's experiences of motherhood? Presumably the work of male sculptors, working for clerical patrons, these sculptures are unlikely to…Catre Magazin -
Citizenship and Disadvantaged Groups in Chile/Pablo Marshall
Description Citizenship and Disadvantaged Groups in Chile seeks to overcome an existing void in the literature of Latin American studies addressing the impact of Chile's post dictatorial legal framework on…Catre Magazin -
The British End of the British Empire, Hardcover/Sarah Stockwell
How did decolonization impact on Britain itself? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? Sarah Stockwell explores this question principally via the history of…Catre Magazin -
The New Melville Studies, Hardcover/Cody Marrs
Description What does Melville studies look like after a phase of intense critical activity? This book addresses that question by analyzing Melville as a writer who was keenly interested in…Catre Magazin -
A Concise History of Poland/Jerzy Lukowski
Description Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced…Catre Magazin -
Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871-1933, Hardcover/Parker Daly Everett
Description Urban Transformations is a theoretical and empirical account of the changing nature of urbanization in Germany. Where city planners and municipal administrations had emphasized free markets, the rule of…Catre Magazin -
Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire’s Periphery/Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas.…Catre Magazin -
British Literature: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond/B. J. Robinson
Description This open anthology of British Literature encompasses the following eras: Romantic, Victorian, and Twentieth Century and Beyond. The selections represent the literature developed and developing within and through their…Catre Magazin -
The Saxon Mirror: A Sachsenspiegel of the Fourteenth Century, Hardcover/Maria Dobozy
Description The Sachsenspiegel , or Saxon Mirror , compiled in 1235 by Eike von Repgow, may be said to mark the beginning of vernacular German jurisprudence. For the first time,…Catre Magazin -
Australia and Africa: A New Friend from the South?, Hardcover/Nikola Pijovic
Description This book offers analysis of Australia's engagement with Africa, as well as the country's rather unique status as a 'new' actor and emerging country in Africa. With its empirical…Catre Magazin -
Urban Planning Imagination. A Critical International Introduction, Hardback/Nicholas A. Phelps
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The History of France, 2nd Edition, Hardcover/W. Scott Haine
Description From Gothic cathedrals to rap and hip-hop, France is at the intersection of the worlds of Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, and it continues to renew the democratic model…Catre Magazin -
Urban Communication Regulation. Communication Freedoms and Limits, Hardback/***
Thirteen scholars-whose backgrounds range from community organizing, to law, telecommunication, architecture, city planning, art, policy studies, and urban communication-examine public communication venues and opportunities, all of which are impacted by…Catre Magazin -
The Complete Plays of George Bernard Shaw (1893-1921), 34 Complete and Unabridged Plays Including: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man, Hardcover/George Bernard Shaw
Description George Bernard Shaw was a satirical genius, ruthlessly exposing hypocrisy, and creating moral dilemmas for the reader to mull on. These are biting, witty, sometimes rude, highly intelligent plays.…Catre Magazin -
The Middle Ages: Facts and Fictions, Hardcover/Winston Black
Description This book is the first to present fictions about the medieval world to serious students of history. Instead of merely listing myths and stating they are wrong, this volume…Catre Magazin -
Social Issues in Contemporary Native America: Reflections from Turtle Island. by Hilary N. Weaver, Paperback/Hilary N. Weaver
Description Hilary Weaver has drawn together leading Native American social workers, researchers, and academics to provide current information on a variety of social issues related to Native American children, families,…Catre Magazin -
Introduction to Geospatial Technologies, Paperback (4th Ed.)/Bradley A. Shellito
Contributor(s): Author: Bradley A. Shellito Written for majors and non-majors alike, Introduction to Geospatial Technologies demonstrates the wide range of geographic technologies available to and used by geographers today. Each…Catre Magazin -
Richard Wright: The Library of America Unexpurgated Edition: Native Son / Uncle Tom’s Children / Black Boy / And More, Hardcover/Richard Wright
Description For the first time in a deluxe boxed set, the definitive edition of Richard Wright's landmark works in the form in which he intended them to be read. Includes…Catre Magazin -
Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850, Paperback/Karl Friday
A comprehensive survey of premodern Japanese history, with original essays by leading authorities on major themes and issues from prehistory to the nineteenth century About the Author: Karl Friday is…Catre Magazin -
Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France, Hardcover/Bronwen McShea
Description Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic…Catre Magazin -
Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations, Paperback/Cohen
Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological, economic, socio-cultural and demographic changes unleashed since the…Catre Magazin -
Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases–San Francisco, New Orleans, New York, Paperback/Rebecca Solnit
Description "The maps themselves are things of beauty." -- The New York Times Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with this brilliant reinvention of…Catre Magazin -
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals, Hardcover/Norman H. Reid
Description Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexpected death plunged Scotland…Catre Magazin -
Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost, Second Edition with a New Preface, Paperback/Stanley Fish
In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps: one proclaiming (in the tradition of Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil's party with…Catre Magazin -
The Complete Poetry of Aim C saire: Bilingual Edition, Hardcover/Aime Cesaire
The Complete Poetry of Aim C saire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly established first editions of C saire's…Catre Magazin -
Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, Third Edition, Paperback/Barbara H. Rosenwein
The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions--thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the…Catre Magazin -
A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek, Paperback/Robert Walter Funk
Originally published in three volumes in 1973, Robert Funk s classic 'Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek' utilizes the insights of modern linguistics in its presentation of the basic features of…Catre Magazin -
The Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, Hardcover/Frederick William Danker
Description Frederick William Danker, a world-renowned scholar of New Testament Greek, is widely acclaimed for his 2000 revision of Walter Bauer's A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other…Catre Magazin -
Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty, Volume 1, Paperback/Qian Sima
Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient…Catre Magazin -
The Munsee Indians: A History, Hardcover/Robert S. Grumet
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay…Catre Magazin -
ISE Human Geography, Paperback/Judith Getis
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Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia, Hardcover/Rachel Applebaum
Description The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends , Rachel Applebaum shows how the…Catre Magazin -
Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals, Hardcover/Marlene Dumas
Description Marlene Dumas' (born 1953) new works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality…Catre Magazin -
Viking: Drakter Kl r, Paperback/MS Nille Glsel
Hvis du ikke allerede kjenner til Nille Gl sel, kjenner du kanskje kl rne hennes. Gjennom r med skape rekonstruksjoner for museer og re-enactere, har hun laget kostymer for mange…Catre Magazin -
The Virginal Mother in German Culture: From Sophie Von La Roche and Goethe to Metropolis, Paperback/Lauren Nossett
The Virginal Mother in German Culture presents an innovative and thorough analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth…Catre Magazin -
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes, Hardcover/Susan Whitfield
Description The Silk Roads continue to capture the imagination of the public, and, in 2014, a section of the land routes was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Yet…Catre Magazin -
Hecho En Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature, Paperback/Dagoberto Gilb
Description Once an independent nation, Texas has always been proud of its unique culture. The literature of the Lone Star State has long attracted local, regional, and national audiences and…Catre Magazin -
The Oak Island Encyclopedia, Paperback/Hammerson Peters
Description Your unauthorized guide to the History Channel's TV series "The Curse of Oak Island". Oak Island is a small island located in Mahone Bay off the coast of Nova…Catre Magazin -
Redes Literarias: Antolog a del Texto Hisp nico En Su Contexto Hist rico-Cultural, Paperback/Mindy E. Badia
Description Esta nueva antolog a literaria--dirigida a estudiantes del tercer o cuarto a o de un programa de espa ol universitario--abarca poes a, prosa narrativa, drama y ensayo de…Catre Magazin -
Thirdspace, Paperback/Edward W. Soja
Description Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political developments in the late…Catre Magazin -
Capetian France 987-1328, Paperback/Elizabeth Hallam
Description Spanning France's development across four centuries, Capetian France is a definitive book. This third edition has been expanded to include more on culture and society and is now accompanied…Catre Magazin -
The Making of the Modern Chinese Navy: Special Historical Characteristics, Paperback/Bruce a. Elleman
Description 'The Making of the Modern Chinese Navy' includes 14 historical case studies that help to illuminate a number of special characteristics of the modern-day Chinese navy. The Chinese Navy…Catre Magazin -
Key Thinkers on Space and Place, Paperback/Phil Hubbard
Already a standard student reference, all the entries in this second edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place have been substantially revised and updated. Recognizing how active and vigorous…Catre Magazin -
Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun, Hardcover/Gregory S. Parks
During the twentieth century, black Greek-Letter organizations (BGLOs) united college students dedicated to excellence, fostered kinship, and uplifted African Americans. Members of these organizations include remarkable and influential individuals such…Catre Magazin -
Redemption Manual 5.0 – America’s Foundation: America’s Foundation Supplemental, Paperback/Sovereign Filing Solutions
This book is to give you a glimpse into the creation of America. From the time the Magna Carta was created; establishing a basis for independence to and through the…Catre Magazin -
Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall, Hardcover/Courtney Pace
Description Freedom Faith is the first full-length critical study of Rev. Dr. Prathia Laura Ann Hall (1940-2002), an undersung leader in both the civil rights movement and African American theology.…Catre Magazin -
Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism, Hardcover/Lisa Tyler
Description Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book to examine the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway.…Catre Magazin -
Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist, Hardcover/Salah M. Hassan
Ibrahim El-Salahi is one of the most influential figures in Sudanese modern art. Through his extraordinary artwork and remarkable writing and art criticism, he has made foundational contributions to the…Catre Magazin -
Ett Rike Utan Like: Sveriges Historia/Lennart Svensson
Description Ett rike utan like: Sveriges historia r n got s originellt som en radikalkonservativ, traditionell, vergripande historik ver Sverige fr n Ynglinga tten till v ra dagar. Utan politiskt…Catre Magazin -
Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991, Hardcover/Claire L. Shaw
In Deaf in the USSR , Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human…Catre Magazin -
Medieval Herbals, Paperback/Minta Collins
Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions is a new, wide-ranging and generously illustrated study of manuscript herbals produced between 600 - 1450. The book examines the two principal herbal traditions of…Catre Magazin -
Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader, Paperback/Jonathan Birnbaum
Winner of the 2001 Gustavus Myers Program Book Award. Contrary to simple textbook tales, the civil rights movement did not arise spontaneously in 1954 with the landmark Brown v. Board…Catre Magazin -
Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafes of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague/Rick Rodgers
Description Take a tour of the legendary caf s of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague where a rich tradition of masterful desserts and coffee lives on. For centuries, artists and philosophers…Catre Magazin -
Remembering Julius Nyerere in Tanzania. History, Memory, Legacy, Paperback/Marie-Aude Fouere
Description This edited volume is about the rekindled investment in the figure of the first president Julius K. Nyerere in contemporary Tanzania. It explores how Nyerere is remembered by Tanzanians…Catre Magazin -
Rocking P Ranch and the Second Cattle Frontier in Western Canada, Paperback/Clay Chattaway
Description The Rocking P Ranch was one of the most ambitious family ranches in Southern Alberta. Founded in 1900 by Roderick Riddle Macleary, the Rocking P flourished during the Second…Catre Magazin -
Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings, Paperback/Emilie Du Chatelet
Description Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Ch telet (1706-49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her…Catre Magazin -
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Hardcover/Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Description The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of…Catre Magazin -
Concise Reader in Sociological Theory. Theorists, Concepts, and Current Applications, Paperback/***
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Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty, Paperback/Qian Sima
Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient…Catre Magazin -
Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, Paperback/James Allen
Middle Egyptian introduces the reader to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It contains twenty-six lessons, exercises (with answers), a list of hieroglyphic signs,…Catre Magazin -
The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct, 2nd Edition, Paperback/Thomas L. Whigham
Reissued with a new preface by the author, The Paraguayan War is an engrossing and comprehensive account of the origins and early campaigns of the deadliest and most extensive interstate…Catre Magazin -
Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels, Paperback/Earl E. Fitz
Description This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature's greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped…Catre Magazin -
African American Art and Artists: Revised and Expanded Edition/Samella Lewis
Samella Lewis has brought African American Art and Artists fully up to date in this revised and expanded edition. The book now looks at the works and lives of artists…Catre Magazin -
Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevitch: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk (1918-1922), Hardcover/Angela Lampe
Description This groundbreaking book explores the Russian avant-garde during the early post-revolutionary years of 1918-1922 and brings together the works of three of its most influential artists. When Marc Chagall…Catre Magazin -
A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps, Hardcover/Tim Bryars
Contributor(s): Author: Tim Bryars Author: Tom Harper The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking, an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily…Catre Magazin -
Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South, Paperback/Leslie Brown
Description In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and…Catre Magazin -
Senegal (Enchantment of the World)/Ruth Bjorklund
Description Senegal is the westernmost city on the African mainland. Jutting westward into the Atlantic Ocean, Senegal is continental Africa's westernmost country. Readers will cross the dry desert sands of…Catre Magazin -
Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the RAF, Hardcover/Stefan Aust
The Baader-Meinhof Group--later known as the Red Army Faction (RAF)--was a violent urban guerilla group which terrorized Germany in the 1970s and '80s, killing 47 people, wounding 93, taking 162…Catre Magazin -
Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations, Paperback/Sharla M. Fett
Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South.…Catre Magazin