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By: Richard C. Trexler
ISBN: 9780691606293
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Matthew's Gospel reveals little about the three wealthy visitors said to have presented gifts to the infant Jesus. Yet hundreds of generations of Christians have embellished that image of the Three Kings or Magi for a myriad of social and political as well as spiritual purposes. Here Richard Trexler closely examines how this story has been interpre
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By: David Dean Shulman
ISBN: 9780691604633
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: David Dean Shulman
ISBN: 9780691633688
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Elisabeth Bronfen
ISBN: 9780691636849
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Elisabeth Bronfen
ISBN: 9780691608372
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Surrealist writer Andre Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the "wastebasket of medicine," a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of
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By: John Dana Durand
ISBN: 9780691644639
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John Dana Durand
ISBN: 9780691617503
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This book explores growth and structural change in the labor force that accompany economic development. It reports on labor force characteristics in one hundred countries around the world, a project of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Based on a world-wide compilation of labor force and population statistics of censu
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By: Mary Sabina Zurbuchen
ISBN: 9780691636610
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Mary Sabina Zurbuchen
ISBN: 9780691608129
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Bali's shadow puppet theater, like others in Southeast Asia, is a complex tradition with many conventions that puzzle Western observers. Mary Zurbuchen demonstrates how the linguistic codes of this rich art form mediate between social groups, cultural influences, historical periods, and conceptual schemes. Originally published in 1987. The Prince
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By: James R. Lawler
ISBN: 9780691621708
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The traits that characterize the "language" of French Symbolism are the center of these essays. In interpreting major or previously neglected compositions by Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Claudel, Valery, and Apollinaire, the author shows how each of these poets worked with the elements that distinguish this influential group of writers as a whole.
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By: James R. Lawler
ISBN: 9780691648538
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Nancy S. Struever
ISBN: 9780691620954
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure of knowledge and thus to the definition of historical reality, while linguistic competence gives insights into the relation of ideas and action. Within the framework of these ideas, and drawing on rece
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By: Nancy S. Struever
ISBN: 9780691647654
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Larry L. Bumpass
ISBN: 9780691647494
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Robert W. MacDonald
ISBN: 9780691622965
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The founding, structure, and operations of the League of Arab States since its organization in 1945 are analyzed. In the first half of the book the author discusses the League's decision-making processes, considers regional dynamics, the polarization of power between Egypt and Iraq, and the impact of such major issues as Palestine on the League. He
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By: Robert W. MacDonald
ISBN: 9780691649672
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Cynthia Joanne Brokaw
ISBN: 9780691637181
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Cynthia Joanne Brokaw
ISBN: 9780691608792
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and bad deeds, each assigned a certain number of merit or demerit points, the ledgers offered the hope of divine reward to users "good" enough to accumulate
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By: James Q. Whitman
ISBN: 9780691604916
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Well after the process of codification had begun elsewhere in nineteenth-century Europe, ancient Roman law remained in use in Germany, expounded by brilliant scholars and applied in both urban and rural courts. The survival of this flourishing Roman legal culture into the industrial era is a familiar fact, but until now little effort has been made
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By: James Q. Whitman
ISBN: 9780691633923
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Louis Joughin
ISBN: 9780691614076
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"A definitive history of the case...notable alike for its clarity and its fairness...Professors Joughin and Morgan conclude that Sacco and Vanzetti were the victims of a sick society, in which prejudice, chauvinism, hysteria, and malice were endemic. Few who will read this moving work will doubt that they have proved their point."--The New York Tim
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By: Louis Joughin
ISBN: 9780691641744
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John S. Strong
ISBN: 9780691603919
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John S. Strong
ISBN: 9780691654133
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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