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Paul Robeson
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him to abandon both the NFL and Hollywood and become one of the most important political activists of his generation - battl…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781783717552
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- 970 HOM p
Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s)
The authors explore the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience that contributed to the emergence of ‘public sphere(s)’ across early modern Europe — and in Asia.
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004329751
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- 327
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- Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe, 6
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- 900 DRA d
The Political System of the Atoni of Timor
Indonesia
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004286900
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- 526
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 60
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- 950 SCH p
The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India (Edition 1)
The Practice of Texts examines the uses of the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions of India’s classical life science, Ayurveda: the college and the gurukula. In this interdisciplinary study, Anthony Cerulli probes late- and postcolonial reforms in ayurvedic education, the development of the ayurvedic college, and the impacts of the college curriculum on ways that ayurved…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780520383555, 9780520383555
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- 294.5 CER p
The Khilafat Movement in India 1919-1924
Indonesia
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004286924
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- 272
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 62
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- 950 NIE k
From Isolation towards Integration
From Isolation towards Integration was originally published in Dutch as Volume 41 (1963) in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004287112
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- 126
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- -
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- 950 DEG f
Negotiating nursing
Negotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men physically, emotionally and spiritually …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781526147257
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- 248
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- -
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- 610 BRO n
Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies
Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as “smart cities,” “eco-cities,” and “resilience,” and proposing a “science of cities” based largely on information from the Global North. Grounding Urba…
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- 9780262353168
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- 900 GRO
Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its…
Al-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians. Readership: All interested in Mamluk historiography or pre-Islamic history of Iran.
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- -
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- 9789004355996
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- -
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Contemporary Encounters With Ancient Metaphysics
Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to analyses of language, consciousness, texts or the social.This pensée brute, traditionally known as metaphysics, dares to question the one and the many, the potential and the a…
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- -
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- 9781474412094
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- 352 halaman
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- -
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- 100 GRE c
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