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This lively and intriguing study looks at the way sports both reflected and shaped Victorian society.

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Most troubling of all, however, are the societal problems created by the sports industry, which include racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.

Peter and Laura Finley's comprehensive work confronts the many problems facing athletics today.

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This unique book gives a measure of the direct financial costs and benefits to a city of constructing a sports stadium without injecting biases and values into the situation. Following this are 15 chapters dealing with individual stadium projects.

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Initially shunned by many in the Christian community when it made its television debut, after four hundred (and counting) episodes, and a feature-length film, few can deny that "The Simpsons" exhibits an astute understanding of Christianity in American culture. This book explores the theological voice of "The Simpsons".

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The majority of Shakespeare's plays have at least one clown figure making an appearance. Videbaek examines even the smallest clown roles, showing how the clown's freedom of speech allows him to become a mediator between the audience and the action of the play, helping audience interpretation.

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Good organization is the key to successful staging and this handbook is concerned with the detail of staging a production. It concentrates on bringing together the different elements - scenery, costume, props, sound, lighting - to achieve effective and successful staging.

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This study examines the Stalin cult in East Germany as both a representative and a unique case study of Sovietization in Eastern Europe. The author investigates the emergence and functioning of the postwar Soviet empire from the end of World War II to the building of the Berlin Wall.

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Three gripping political plays. A trilogy of political plays from actor and writer David Pinner focusing on the Stalin era in Russia.

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This new edition presents the library media specialist and teacher working as full teaching partners to create a collaborative atmosphere for student success. Incorporates information literacy and content standards, suffuses them with technology, helps to create multidisciplinary lessons that are inquiry-based and interactive!

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The Jews' return to the land of Israel has great religious significance in that halakhah, the Jewish legal tradition, has been superceded by mitzvah, the Jews' covenantal response to divine call, as the cohesive force in contemporary Jewish life.

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This collection of essays looks at the spinoffs of Star Trek and examines themes found in and among those various manifestations.

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Aims to establish and explore New Testament belief in the end of the world through an investigation of texts which contain 'end of the world' language. This book engages with discussion on how Jewish and early Christian 'end of the world' was meant to be understood, and interacts especially with NT Wright's proposals.

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This study examines the development of capitalism in Israel. To explain capitalism in Israel, a perspective is needed that treats the problems of implanting capitalism in post-colonial states.

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This work goes beyond recent analyses of African development to present a post-dependency framework for the study of Africa's political economy.

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This study offers an unprecedented examination of the state, politics, and bureaucracy from a historical and comparative perspective.

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This work provides an overview of the role of state government with respect to academic libraries, analyses the impact of state government on significant functions within the academic library, and provides examples of how academic libraries can interact with the state.