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Museums of the Mind:
German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting
Museums of the Mind is the first book to explore the evolving relationship of collecting and the German literary imagination since the invention of the public museum. This study shows that in addition to redefining categories of art, history, and identity in modernity, the museum transforms the relationship between material objects and ......
ISBN-13: 9780271058702 (Paperback)
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Peter M. McIsaac
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Local release date: 08/03/2013
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Categories: Literature: history & criticism [DS]

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Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men
Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature
At a moment in which America seems simultaneously more closed and more open to change than ever before, Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men: Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature re-examines a defining national discourse. Exploring the dilemmas of U.S. subjects positioned as inheritors-and thus as children-of the archetypal ......
ISBN-13: 9781611485097 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mary Paniccia Carden
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Local release date: 07/03/2013
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Categories: Literary studies: general [DSB]Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ]USA [1KBB]English [2AB]

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A Treasury of Virtues
Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of 'Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs a
A collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40H/661AD), cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, first Shi'a Imam and fourth Sunni Caliph. Through proverbs and aphorisms, sermons and speeches, prayers and supplications, and more, it provides instruction on how to be a decent human being.
ISBN-13: 9780814729144 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
al-Qadi al-Quda'i, Tahera Qutbuddin
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Local release date: 06/03/2013
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Categories: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]Arabic [2CSR]

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The Epistle on Legal Theory
Includes a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation, principles of textual interpretation to be applied to the Qur'an and prophetic traditions, techniques for harmonizing apparently contradictory precedents, legal epistemology, rules of inference, and discussions of when legal interpretation is required.
ISBN-13: 9780814769980 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Muhammad Ibn Idris al-Shafi'i, Kecia Ali, Joseph E. Lowry
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Categories: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]Arabic [2CSR]

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Winter Away from Home
William Barents and the Northeast Passage
ISBN-13: 9780850364422 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Rayner Unwin
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Local release date: 06/03/2013
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Outer Banks Cookbook
Recipes & Traditions from North Carolina's Barrier Islands
ISBN-13: 9780762781416 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: GLOBE PEQUOT
Elizabeth Wiegand
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Local release date: 06/03/2013
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Priests of Our Democracy
The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge
Shows how the crushing of dissent in the 1950s impoverished political discourse in ways that are still being felt
ISBN-13: 9780814790519 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Marjorie Heins
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Categories: Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC]Education & the law [LNTD]USA [1KBB]c 1945 to c 1960 [3JJPG]

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Universities Under Dictatorship
Dictatorships destroy intellectual freedom, yet universities need it. How, then, can universities function under dictatorships? Are they more a support or a danger for the system? In this volume, leading experts from five countries explore the many dimensions of accommodation and conflict, control and independence, as well as subservience and ......
ISBN-13: 9780271058627 (Paperback)
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
John Connelly, Michael Gruttner
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Local release date: 05/03/2013
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Categories: linguistics [CF]

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Debating God's Economy:
Social Justice in America on the Eve of Vatican II
What would a divinely ordained social order look like? Pre–Vatican II Catholics, from archbishops and theologians to Catholic union workers and laborers on U.S. farms, argued repeatedly about this in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Debating God’s Economy is a history of American Catholic economic debates ......
ISBN-13: 9780271058764 (Paperback)
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Craig Prentiss
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Local release date: 04/03/2013
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Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]