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Granta Book Of The American Short Story
An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever an
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Rise of Economic Societies in the Eighteenth Century
This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global
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New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
The music of clarinetists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras is iconic of American klezmer music. Their legacy has had an enduring impact on the develo
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Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century
Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class American home through the kalei
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Harry White and the American Creed
The life of a major figure in twentieth-century economic history whose impact has long been clouded by dubious allegations
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American Civil Rights Movement
Covering the whole twentieth century, this work collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the
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American Presidents and Jerusalem
This study examines the policies of twentieth-century US presidents regarding the status of Jerusalem. It investigates the influence of presidential a
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Voicing American Poetry
The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emphas
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American Art and Architecture
Provides an introduction to the history of American art and architecture from its 17th-century colonial beginnings to the installation and video work.
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American Furniture Designers
The book will serve as the essential reference for collectors of Mid Century modern furniture, curators of museum collections and house museums with 2
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Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy (0451474023)
Kniha - autor Ken Follett, 1136 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, f...
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Bird Kai, Sherwin Martin J.
Anotace: ***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN`S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION`Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying` Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed t...
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Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture
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Don't Throw This Away!
An engineer's personal take on what it's like to be a civil engineer in the 21st century - the life, the practice, the profession. This work covers as
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Mid-Century Ads. 40th Ed.
Sit back with this anthology of ads and zoom back in time to the height of American postwar consumerism, when real life Don Drapers labored day and ni
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American Pastoral (9780099771814)
Kniha - anglicky In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove fac...
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American Pastoral - Philip Roth
Anotace: In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - co...
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American & British Studies 5
Our aim is to create a platform for scholarly exchange not only within the Czech Republic but internationally. We seek original articles that explore a wide range of issues concerning American and British literature, visual arts, music and other cultural phenomena as well as cultural history. The editors encourage submissions from scholars working in various disciplines w...
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American Pastoral - Philip Roth
<p>In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - com...
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American Western in Canadian Literature
Examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regiona
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Cambridge History of American Poetry
A comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing to
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African American Art and Artists
Looks at the works and lives of artists from the eighteenth century to the present, including work in traditional media as well as in installation art
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Female Physicians in American Literature
This volume traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance in sensational fict
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Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet
Illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylis
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American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? This book traces some of ways that nineteenth-century Americans u
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American Station Wagons - The Golden Era 1950-1975
Examines an important quarter century of the American Station Wagon - a time when it evolved into a practical, yet sometimes luxurious family transpor
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Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World Order
At a time of growing US-China tensions, and of Latin AmericaÂ’s deepest crisis in a century, Active Non-Alignment option embodies a novel way out of t
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Research-Informed Teaching Revolution - North America: A Handbook for the 21st Century Teacher
This practical handbook offers 16 illuminating chapters that provide a wealth of advice and perspectives on the subject written by North American educ
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Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 1
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture
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Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 4
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture
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Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 2
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture
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A Long Arc: Photography and the American South
<p>Collects over 175 years of key moments in the visual history of the Southern United States, with over two hundred and fifty photographs taken from 1845 to present.</p> <p>The South is perhaps the most mythologized region in the United States and also one of the most depicted. Since the dawn of photography in the nineteenth century, photographers have ...
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Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century
This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. Spanning MerwinÂ’s early career, his mid-career success
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Making Gay History : The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights - Marcus Eric
Anotace: From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992. Using the heartfelt stories of more than sixty people, he c...
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Making Gay History : The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights - Eric Marcus
<p>From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992. Using the heartfelt stories of more than sixty people, he ca...
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American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism
The figure of the American theatrical scenic designer first emerged in the early twentieth century. This book tells the history of the field through t
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North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction
This book begins with the emergence of peoples in North America and traces their stories to the beginning of the early twenty-first century. The narra
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Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre
This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day, featur
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Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
This book explores how twentieth-century writers shaped the ways we listen in our multimedia present. A mix of American literary history, sound studie
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American Comics : A History - Dauber Jeremy
Anotace: Comics have conquered America. From our cinemas, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize-winning titles and MacArthur Fellowship recipients, comics shape American culture, in ways ...
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American & British Studies 5 - kol.
Anotace: Our aim is to create a platform for scholarly exchange not only within the Czech Republic but internationally. We seek original articles that explore a wide range of issues concerning American and British literature, visual arts, music and other cultural phenomena as well as cultural history. The editors encourage submissions from scholars working in various dis...
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American & Brtish Studies 5 - autorů kolektiv
<p>Our aim is to create a platform for scholarly exchange not only within the Czech Republic but internationally. We seek original articles that explore a wide range of issues concerning American and British literature, visual arts, music and other cultural phenomena as well as cultural history. The editors encourage submissions from scholars working in various disc...
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American Royals 2 : Majesty - Katharine McGee
<p>Beatrice Washington now rules America as its first ever queen, but her family are more concerned about rushing through her arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. No one can know that her heart really belongs to her bodyguard - but even their love is under threat. Meanwhile, Princess Samantha is under more scrutiny than ever before - and she still longs to ...
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American Missionaries, Korean Protestants, and the Changing Shape of World Christianity, 1884-1965
This book examines the transnational encounter between American and Korean Protestants from the late 19th century to the aftermath of the Korean War,
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Native American Loanwords in Contemporary American English : History and Development - Reese Katharina
Anotace: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (John-F. Kennedy-Institut fur Nordamerikastudien), course: Language Change II: Language Contact Phenomena and Change in English, language: English, abstract: The number of indigenous people that inhabited the American continent before the Europea...
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Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley
Tells the story of a controversial charlatan who transformed 20th century medicine, American politics, and radio broadcasting.
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Madwomen – The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition
Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature. This book presents a c
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Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups
The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century. With engaging new contr
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Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film
Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film
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We Shall Build Anew
Explores how Rabbi Stephen S. Wise entirely changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into t
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Kai Bird
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, published to exceptional reviews in both the US and the UK, American Prometheus is as compelling a work of biography as it is a significant work of history. <p>'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - d...
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Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother - Anne Sebba
<p>Ethel Rosenberg was a supportive wife, loving mother to two small children and courageous idealist who grew up during the Depression with aspirations to become an opera singer.On 19 June 1953 she became the first woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder. She was thirty-seven years old.Ethel's conviction for conspiracy to commit espionage on be...
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The Gift of the Magi - Henry O.
Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. O. Henry is one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century and a true master of the short story. This selection of tales ranges from Christmas in New York t...
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The Lottery - Jackson Shirley
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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The Right
A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism
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The Right
A "superb" (New York Times) intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism
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The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic - de Visé Daniel
Anotace: The Blues Brothers hit theatres on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage; but Aykroyd, who conceived and wrote much of the film, had a greater mission: to honour the then-seemingly forgotten tradition of rhythm and blues, some of whose greatest artists - Aretha Franklin, James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Cab Calloway, Ray Charle...
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Babylon Revisited - Fitzgerald Francis Scott
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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The Sword and the Shield
A dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King that transforms our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders
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Americans and the Making of the Riviera
From the inception of American tourism in the late 18th century, this volume explores over 200 years of American fascination with the French Riviera.
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