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This volume explores the span of human history-and plenty of prehistory-searching out prominent and fascinating examples of cities or broader civilizations that shifted from a position of influence to a lack thereof.

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The encyclopedia that comes after the list of entries contains brief, alphabetically arranged articles for performers, military personnel, theologians, composers, critics, educators, explorers, historians, industrialists, inventors, authors, artists, physicians, scientists, sculptors, and numerous events and creative works.

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Traces how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. This work examines the causal factors or motives for murder - ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology.

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This book examines one of the seminal chapters in the history of the modern Korea. Through an analysis of texts of various genres and types, the author analyzes Japanese colonialism and modernity and its impact on Korean culture and society during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Attempts to understand the dilemmas average Nigerians face every day as they try to get ahead - or just survive - in a society riddled with corruption. This book paints a portrait of Nigerian corruption - of nationwide fuel shortages in Africa's oil-producing giant, Internet cafes where the young launch their e-mail scams, and more.

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An inside look at how congressional deference to the presidency and State Department has led to such foreign policy failures as Somalia, Bosnia and Iraq.

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This book explores the iconic existence of second chances in everyday life. Newman argues that while second chances are culturally ubiquitous, they are complicated by assessments of deservedness, ultimately pitting optimistic notions of redemption against entrenched beliefs about the intransigence of human nature.

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Five letter classifications indicate the volume where particulars can be located, (e.g.: B: Baseball volume, F: Football volume, I: Basketball and other Indoor Sports, O: Outdoor Sports volume, S: Supplement volume).

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Dashiell Hammett's writing career began with the publication of The Parthian Shot, a tiny short story in The Smart Set in 1922, and virtually ended when he published 3 outstanding stories in Collier's in 1934.

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The 50th Anniversary of "The Catch"

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In addition to public, academic, school, and special libraries, consortia, associations, LIS programs, vendors, publishing, consulting, and other non-library fields are also covered.

Many people, not just those new to the field of Library and Information Science, are curious about their career options.

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Designed to set out the broader currents of the scholarship on daily life, and the many directions for inquiry that have opened, this book aids students and teachers who are interested in the hows and whys of the little and big things people did, thought, and felt as a matter of course throughout their lives.

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A Day In The Write:
A collection of one man's social media posts in chronological order from 2009 through 2020 that feature a mostly humorous/satirical but always genuine (and Conservative) take on politics, current events, sports, the media, the world of entertainment and life in general

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I made a deal with God. Save my horse's life and give me three more years with her and I will write this story for your glory.
God kept His part of the deal. But He placed me, and my horse, on a path strewn with brambles and rocks on the way to claiming that miracle. The miracle was given. I struggled with keeping my part of the deal.

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The stories of three men-an army captain, Ernie Pyle and John Huston- and one death in a bloody battle over a small Italian village

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Two uniquely well-informed informed Chinese journalists tell the sordid story behind the downfall of Politburo member Bo Xilai to illuminate its greater significance as a potentially destabilizing turning point in a cataclysmic internal power struggle between factions of the Communist Party

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Simms develops the theme of sectionalism underlying the unrest of a controversial decade in American history.

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