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A Right to Offend explores the most important cases of conflict over the last two decades, including the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the incident of the Danish cartoons. It provides unique insight into the increasingly threatened atmosphere in which freedom of speech operates and how it continues to inform journalism and the media.

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Ross Macdonald is best known as the creator of private detective Lew Archer and as the author of such works as The Drowning Pool (1950) and The Underground Man (1971).

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This roster of the principal known civilizations and cultures of the world contains a description of their geographical boundaries, a study of their cultural divisions, and an outline of the native character.

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Amongst the ruins of post-war Berlin, a young soldier is sent for a weekend to guard a deserted British army office. In the corrosive atmosphere of Cold War power struggles, he innocently finds himself caught up in a situation where his conscience is on trial.

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A collection of three plays from South African playwright Reza de Wet, all of which are inspired by the work and life of Anton Chekhov.

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Deana L. Weibel explains the shifting identities of Rocamadour, a medieval Black Madonna shrine turned tourist attraction, which enchants both the devout and secular. Weibel analyzes how locals and visitors compete to define Rocamadour, arguing that the unusual properties of the cliff-hanging site make it a prize worth fighting for.

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A Salon-in-Exile explores the translation of the salon from France to England in the late-17th century via the first book-length study of the Mazarin salon, the most influential French exile community in London.

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Identifies individual works, fictional characters, family members, and personal and professional friends of Sarah Orne Jewett, a nineteenth-century American woman writer. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was dismissed as a timid New England local colourist, known principally for her novels and short stories based in her native state of Maine.

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In this book, Susan Bubbers focusses on the biblical message of the benefits of participation in the Eucharist. Why keep this Feast Why is Eucharist important Bubbers ultimately argues that the Feast is a divinely designed paradigm for worship, which is accompanied by a promise of transformational encounters.

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This is a complete index to the nearly 8000 references to the Protestant scriptures in the margins and footnotes of James Charlesworth's 2-volume work, "The Old Testament Pseudepigraphia".

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Thirty-three leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their views on their own work and contemporary drama, and offer projections about theater for the 21st century.

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This study offers an analysis of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (the Columbian Exposition), generally regarded as the preeminent civic pageant in Victorian America. The author uses the Exposition as a representative cultural symbol to challenge established interpretations of the event.

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For the purposes of this bibliography, Attila Pok defines modern historiography as the history of historical science as it was established at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Following a section of general titles, sections are devoted to Europe, America, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, and Australia.

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This text is written to help organizations and their members manage stress. The theme is, if there is a stress problem, identify it, fix it, but never ignore it. Treatment interventions from stress experts are discussed with case studies of how a negative situation can turn into a positive one.

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Celebrating nearby nature and the marvels of our own backyards, this book helps you introduce children to the world around them. Highlighting the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch), they build connections between students and the land and create in young learners a sense of place-a true necessity for living in the world today.

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A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world.

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