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| A Day at ElBulli |
Having held three Michelin stars since 1997, elBulli has been at the very forefront of the restaurant scene since Ferran Adria became sole head chef in 1987. This book documents the activities and processes that make up just one day of service with c
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| Behind the Killing Fields |
Based on exclusive interviews with the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Nuon Chea, this book tells the story of a man who began as an idealistic freedom fighter and wound up involved in one of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century, Cambodia'
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| No Dig, No Fly, No Go |
Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain
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| Freedom is Not Enough |
Led by the Office of Economic Opportunity, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty reflected the president's belief that progressive government and grassroots activism could eradicate poverty in the United States. This title examines how the War on Poverty m
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| The Closing of the Muslim Mind |
People today are shocked and frightened by the behavior coming out the Islamic world - not only because it is violent, but also because it is seemingly inexplicable. This book locates the roots of contemporary troubles in a pivotal struggle that occu
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| Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia |
In Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia, archaeologist David R. Harris addresses questions of when, how, and why agriculture and settled village life began east of the Caspian Sea in western Central Asia.
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| Critical Terms for Media Studies |
Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. This title defines what this hybrid area aims
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| The Laws of Slavery in Texas |
A collection of original decrees, court cases, and other documents charting the legal history of African Americans in Texas, from Mexican rule through Confederate law. It focuses on an aspect of slave law that was particularly evident in the evolving
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| The Southern Critics |
In the early 1920s a collection of young Southerners at Vanderbilt University formed the literary group known as the Fugitives. Over the next few decades they and their followers would exert an enormous influence on the study of literature. This book
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| Freedom from Poverty |
Freedom from Poverty examines how today's non-governmental organizations are modifying human rights practices and reshaping the political landscape by taking up the cause of subsistence rights. Rights are being used as legal, moral, and political too
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| Critical Terms for Media Studies |
Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. This title defines what this hybrid area aims
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| A Beauty That Hurts |
Locates the roots of the conflict that has wracked Guatemala in geographies of inequality that arose during colonial times and were exacerbated by the drive to develop Guatemala's resources in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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| When Politicians Attack |
A study of the consequences of partisan communication on the stability of unified government of the United States.
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| Botanical Aspects of Environment and Economy at Gordion, Turkey |
This work is a contribution to both the archaeobotany of west Asia and the archaeology of the site of Gordion in central Anatolia (present-day Turkey). The book's major concern is understanding long-term changes in the environment and in land use.
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| The American Supreme Court |
Dealing with the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution, this title addresses the Court's decisions. It argues that the strength of the Court has always been its sensitivity to the changing political scene, as well as its reluctance
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| Environmental City |
Austin grew from a college and government town of the 1950s into the sprawling city of 2010. This title presents a history of the environmental movement in Austin - how it began; what it did; and, how it promoted ideas about the relationships between
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| When Politicians Attack |
A study of the consequences of partisan communication on the stability of unified government of the United States.
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| Russian Minority Politics in Post-soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan |
Why do Russians choose to stay in Latvia, a state that adopts antagonistic policies that favor Latvians at the expense of Russians, yet migrate from Kyrgyzstan, a state that adopts accommodating policies to placate Kyrgyz and Russians? Michele E. Com
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| The American Supreme Court |
Dealing with the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution, this title addresses the Court's decisions. It argues that the strength of the Court has always been its sensitivity to the changing political scene, as well as its reluctance
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| Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World |
Colonia Hermosa, a suburb of Oaxaca, began as a squatter settlement in the 1950s. This title charts the lives of a group of residents in Colonia Hermosa, as Mexico became more closely tied into the structures of global capital, and the residents of C
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