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Celebrating the flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century, this is an illustrated volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings. It includes the finest portraits of women by Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Verrocchio, and Leonardo da Vinci.

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The concept of opposing forces of good and evil expressed in a range of moral qualities - virtues and vices - is one of the dominant themes in the history of Christian art. This catalogue documents the occurrence of the Virtues and Vices in well over 1,000 works of art produced between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries.

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Presents the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are specialized for particular visual tasks. This book provides the synthesis of the field to appear in more than three decades.

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"Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women celebrates past efforts while looking toward what actions we might take in the future to further support women's equality"--Introduction.

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Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. This book offers insights into the political economy of PTA formation.

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They live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to hunt for illegal immigrants. Who are the Minutemen Patriots Racists Vigilantes Harel Shapira lived

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"A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker Evans"--

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Addressing a neglected but essential subject, this book focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves.

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Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others What roles do the media, political parties, and the electoral system play in a democracy's decision to join or avoid a war War and Democratic Constraint shows that the key to how a government determines foreign policy rests on the transmission and availa

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Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others What roles do the media, political parties, and the electoral system play in a democracy's decision to join or avoid a war War and Democratic Constraint shows that the key to how a government determines foreign policy rests on the transmission and availa

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What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone This title considers how those left on the home front register wars and wartime in their everyday lives, particularly when military conflict remains removed from immediate perception, available only through media forms.

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While focusing on social thought, this book draws on many disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, and political science. It demonstrates the profound difficulties social thinkers - including liberals, socialists, and those intellectuals who could be regarded as the sociologists - had in coming to terms with the phenomenon of war.

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Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But its

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How does the American public formulate its opinions about US foreign policy and military engagement abroad This title takes an in-depth look at media coverage, elite rhetoric, and public opinion during the Iraq war and other US conflicts abroad. It also reveals precisely what this means for the future of American foreign policy.

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Examines an array of forgotten images and movie episodes - from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in Santa Barbara hills to scenes from films as "Twelve O'Clock High" and "Hold Back the Dawn". This book reveals background of these bits of film and discovers unexpected connections between war and Hollywood.