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Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one…

Offers a vision of how Islam first evolved. This title argues that the origins of Islam lie in what we may call the…

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The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age-the…

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The thirteenth-century Persian poet and scholar Rumi is revered to this day. Jamal J. Elias sheds light on the Sufi…

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The unity of the organism-an assembly of organs, tissues, cells, and genes working toward a common goal-has long been taken…

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Festivals and the French Revolution-the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason,…

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Contemporary Afro-American theatre is an exciting spectacle of an emerging black identity during a period when blacks have…

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In Renaissance Italy, the Galenic "wonder drug" theriac became a vehicle for political, pharmaceutical, and commercial…

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It is common to regard rights and wrongs as mirror images: to be wronged is to have one's rights violated. Nicolas Cornell…

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Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200-ca. 600)…

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Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on Black women musicians from Bessie Smith to BeyoncĂ©.…

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The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well…

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In the 1930s and 1940s, Caribbean and West African newspapers nurtured anticolonial movements through experimental…

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Art, William Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not simply supplement the real world, and cannot be…

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Plenty Coups, last great Chief of the Crow Nation, said, "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the…

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Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond is a collaborative volume focusing on imagined geography…

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Stephen Neff tells the story of how international law has been formulated, debated, contested, and put into practice from…

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