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Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets - and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting This title answers these questions.

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Mutualistic interactions among plants and animals have played a paramount role in shaping biodiversity. Making a case for why we should care about mutualisms and their complex networks, this book offers a perspective on the study and synthesis of this growing area for ecologists and evolutionary biologists.

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In some religious countries, churches have drafted constitutions, restricted abortion, and controlled education. In others, church influence on public policy is far weaker. Why Nations under God argues that where religious and national identities have historically fused, churches gain enormous moral authority--and covert institutional access. Thes

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Modern warfare is almost always multilateral to one degree or another, requiring countries to cooperate as allies or coalition partners. This title explores how government structures and party politics in NATO countries shape how battles are waged in the field.

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"The first book to look at naturalized parrots with a global perspective, with a wide range of chapters by 36 leading researchers"--

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Bengal tigers in the jungles of India. Birds of Paradise in the wilds of New Guinea. Penguins on frozen beaches in Antarctica. These and other charismatic and endangered species find homes within the world's great wildlife reserves. This book captures the splendor of some of the world's most impressive wildlife reserves.

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Introduces readers to the science of near-Earth objects - its history, applications, and ongoing quest to find near-Earth objects before they find us. This title offers an understanding of the threats posed by near-Earth objects, and also explains how early collisions with them delivered the ingredients that made life on Earth possible.

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"An exploration of the factors behind neoliberalism's resilience in developing economies and what this could mean for democracy's future"--

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This bilingual edition of New Impressions of Africa presents the original French text and the English poet Mark Ford's lucid, idiomatic translation on facing pages. It also includes an introduction outlining the poem's peculiar structure and evolution.

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This is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the author of The Prince--Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). Corrado Vivanti, who was one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars, provides an unparalleled intellectual biography that demonstrates the c

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For more than a century, Nietzsche's views about Jews and Judaism have been subject to countless polemics. The Nazis infamously fashioned the philosopher as their anti-Semitic precursor, while in the past thirty years the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. The increasingly popular view today is that Nietzsche was not only completely free

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A guide to the nightjars, potoos, frogmouths, Oilbird, and owlet-nightjars of the world. It covers the 135 known species of these elusive and cryptically plumaged birds. It features species accounts which describe key identification features, confusion species, vocalizations, distribution, habitat and altitudinal range, breeding season, and sites.

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Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws atten