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  • Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution
    Seymour Menton
    Recipient of the Hubert Herring Memorial Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for the best unpublished manuscript of 1973, Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution is an in-depth study of works by Cubans, Cuban exiles, and other Latin American writers. Combining historical and critical approaches, Seymour Menton classifies and analyzes over two hundred no...
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    46,90 €

  • Psychology of the Mexican
    R. Díaz-Guerrero / RDíaz-Guerrero
    In his quest to understand and describe the behavior of the Mexican, the distinguished Mexican psychologist R. Díaz-Guerrero combines a strong theoretical interest in the relationship of culture to personality with a pragmatic concern for methodology. This collection of essays is rooted both in studies of Mexican psychology as an independent phenomenon and in cross-cultural com...
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    26,86 €

  • Folklore Genres
    Dan Ben-Amos
    The essays in Folklore Genres represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions. The study as a whole is concerned with the concept of genre and with the history of genre theory. A selective bibliography provides a guide to analytical and theoretical works on the topic.The literary-oriented articles conceive of folkl...
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    44,18 €

  • Markets in Oaxaca
    Scott Cook
    Markets in Oaxaca is a study of the regional peasant marketing system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. It relates the marketing system to other aspects of the regional economy, to neighboring regions, and to the Mexican national economy. Combining ethnographic, theoretical, and regional analyses, it suggests new directions in the fields of peasant and development studies.Contri...
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    46,98 €

  • Forms of Modern British Fiction
    Alan Warren Friedman
    In Forms of Modern British Fiction six individualistic and strongminded critics delineate the 'age of modernism' in British fiction. Dating the age and the movement from later Hardy works through the deaths of Joyce and Woolf, they present British fiction as a cohesive, self-contained unit of literary history.Hardy appears as the first of the modern British novelists, Lawrence ...
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    33,58 €

  • Studies in Upplandic Runography
    Claiborne W. Thompson / Claiborne WThompson
    Studies in Upplandic Runography is a detailed treatment of the runic inscriptions from the province of Uppland, Sweden, where runic art reached a high point in A.D. 1200 and where runic inscriptions are most numerous. Most of the runic monuments discussed are from the eleventh century, an important period when Sweden was making the transition from paganism to Christianity.The n...
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    33,59 €

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine
    Eleanor of Aquitaine was the wife of two kings, Louis VII of France and Henry II Plantagenet of England, and the mother of two others, Richard the Lionhearted and John Lackland. In her eventful, often stormy life, she not only influenced the course of events in the twelfth century but also encouraged remarkable advances in the literary and fine arts. In this book, experts in fi...
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    26,84 €

  • Literacy in Colonial New England an Enquiry Into the Social Context of Literacy in the Early Modern West
    Kenneth A Lockridge
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    18,65 €

  • The Pulse of Freedom
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    19,76 €

  • Russian Peasants and Soviet Power
    Menachem Lewin / Moshe Lewin / Irene Nove
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    24,52 €

  • Electronic Music Synthesis
    Hubert S. Jr. Howe / Hubert SJrHowe
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    24,63 €

  • Reflections on the Crucifixion
    Kathryn W. Orso
    Reflections on the Crucifixion is a Service of Tenebrae, written for either one hour or three hours, reflecting the thoughts and feelings of Jesus’ disciples on that original Good Friday.Reflections on the Crucifixion is taken from Dr. Orso’s successful book, As We Love and Forgive. The tenebrae provides a lot of congregational participation and is a moving worship experience f...
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    8,72 €

  • Speaking with Signs
    Wesley T. Runk
    Speaking With Signs is a unique series of six object lessons for children during the Lenten season... making worship more meaningful for them (and for adults). Each lesson brings them a story from scripture by focusing upon a symbol related to the Easter story. Lessons are based on texts from Matthew and John.Objects include:• a lantern• a rope• a crown of thorns• dice and a ro...
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    8,75 €

  • The Good Life Almanac
    Ruth Smalley
    An almanac of stories on the microcosm of the Appalachian region during a period of transition, this book was published in 1975. Written to showcase the stories and folklore passed on in the mountains, the tales chosen are typical of the nineteenth century. Stories talk about the dependence on water transportation, the excitement of the coming railroad, the self-contained natur...
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    17,37 €

  • The Fourth Gospel and the Jews
    John Bowman
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    40,47 €

  • The Fourth Gospel and the Jews
    John Bowman
    Endorsements:John Peter Lange (1802-1884) was a renowned theologian and Biblical scholar who was an uncompromising opponent of 19th century German rationalism. In 1841 Lange became professor of theology at Zurich, a position originally offered to Strauss. His first major work at Zurich was Leben Jesu nach den Evangelien (five volumes, 1844-1847), translated into English in 1864...
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    64,94 €

  • The Dramatic Works of Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón
    Shirley B. Whitaker / Shirley BWhitaker
    This excellent introductory study offers entry to the life, reputation and works of Alvaro Cubillo de Aragon (1596-1661). By dividing her study by genre, Dr. Shirley B. Whitaker codifies the universals uniting the work of this prolific playwright, from his mythological plays, to his histories, to his religious works, to the Comedias de costumbres for which he is best known. ...
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    38,53 €

  • Charles d’Orléans and the Allegorical Mode
    Ann Tukey Harrison
    This is a study of Medieval French poet Charles de Orleans and his use of the allegorical mode in his work. ...
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    38,74 €

  • The Theater of Arthur Adamov
    John J. McCann / John JMcCann
    First recognized with the likes of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco as a defining figure at the forefront of the 'theater of the absurd,' French playwright Adam Adamov had a fairly prolific career, writing twenty plays between 1947 and his death in 1970. Now, although he has fallen somewhat into obscurity, John J. McMann provides a study of Adamov’s work which traces the playw...
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    38,56 €

  • Luis Vélez de Guevara
    Mary G. Hauer / Mary GHauer
    This volume seeks to offer the basis for further study of the Spanish seventeenth century playwright, poet, and prose writer Luis Velez de Guevara, whose literary and historical weight have yet to be fully determined. While Guevara was an idol of the popular theatre scene in his day, and garnered praise from the most lofty of his contemporaries, the centuries have seen him dimi...
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    38,49 €

  • A Chronicle of North Carolina during American Revolution, 1763-1789
    Jeffrey J. Crow / Jeffrey JCrow
    A Chronicle of North Carolina during American Revolution, 1763-1789 provides a brief overview of significant events in North Carolina from Great Britain’s 'new colonial policy' in 1763 to ratification of the federal Constitution in 1789. The text is conveniently arranged, with events listed in chronological order and briefly explained in paragraphs headed by the dates on which ...
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    9,40 €

  • Voltaire and the French Academy
    Karlis Racevskis
    Volume 163 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series. ...
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    38,66 €

  • Anselm
    Karl Barth
    This is one of Barth’s most important works - far more important than may appear at first sight.... Here we have not merely one great theologian taking the measure of another. That in itself would be interesting enough. But in addition to that we are here shown one great theologian clarifying and crystallizing, in conversation with another, his own ideas as to the nature of the...
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    24,63 €

  • Summa Contra Gentiles
    Thomas Aquinas
    The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master and assimilate the intelligence and wisdom of the Greeks and the Arabs. In the S...
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    30,85 €

  • Summa Contra Gentiles
    Thomas Aquinas
    The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master and assimilate the intelligence and wisdom of the Greeks and the Arabs. In the S...
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    41,06 €

  • Summa Contra Gentiles
    Thomas Aquinas
    The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master and assimilate the intelligence and wisdom of the Greeks and the Arabs. In the S...
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    40,67 €

  • The Tale of the Tell
    Paul W. Lapp / Paul WLapp
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    23,70 €

  • Brief History of New Mexico
    Albert H Schroeder / Myra Ellen Jenkins
    No New Mexican should be without this useful volume, the first history of New Mexico in many years to be published with the official sanction of the state. The general reader, the newcomer to New Mexico, and the student will find remarkably detailed information here on every aspect of New Mexico's past.The authors begin their survey with New Mexico's earliest inhabitant...
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    21,26 €

  • America’s Frontier Heritage
    Ray Allen Billington
    The hypothesis advanced in Frederick Jackson Turner’s famous 1893 essay, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, has been debated by three generations of scholars. The pioneering experience, Turner suggested, accounted for some of the distinctive characteristics of the American people: during three centuries of expansion their attitudes toward democracy, nationali...
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    42,54 €

  • Overcoming Worry and Fear
    Paul A. Hauck / Paul AHauck / Paula Hauck
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    17,10 €