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Stanislaw Wypianski (1869-1907) has long been recognized as an outstanding dramatist, whose influence on Polish Theatre is second to none.

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This enlightening narrative takes a look at the wedding nightits origins, history, customs, cultural expressions, and fictional representations through the ages.

Though just outside of public view, the wedding night is loaded with expectation and consequence.

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In his first stage play, Palin takes a look at family values, which is not only funny but also has its darker side. Palin was a founder member of the Monty Python team.

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How did hot-button issues develop How did these issues grow into passionately debated controversies within American society This series contains volumes which trace the historical roots and aspects of questions that Americans have found of compelling importance in shaping our way of life.

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This study examines the trend toward competitive contracting of government functions. By focusing on four jurisdictions that hired private firms to handle welfare-to-work services, it reveals the ways in which increased contracting is changing the role and capacity of government.

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This book offers a new approach to the historical study of The Welfare State, with a close focuse on class and gender.

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This collection of short plays tells the story of a love affair from three different angles.

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The Well Read Play is structured to teach the reader how to identify context, structure, significance and character. Its principle aim is to help the reader develop abilities to understand and enjoy reading plays, whether it be for study, staging, or simply leisure, by teaching him or her to ask certain key questions of the text.

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Adapted from 'The True Anti-Pamela', and eighteenth-century comic classic, this is a bawdy tale of sexual scandal in a provincial Welsh town.

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An expert on East European politics and economics analyzes and evaluates Western policies toward the new East European democracies as they struggle to build stable political orders and functioning market economies.

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An expert on East European politics and economics analyzes and evaluates Western policies toward the new East European democracies as they struggle to build stable political orders and functioning market economies.

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This volume will be used in courses on international relations, American foreign policy, world politics, Third World politics, global issues, and West European politics.

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This volume will be used in courses on international relations, American foreign policy, world politics, Third World politics, global issues, and West European politics.

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The West Indian Americans introduces students and other interested readers to the diversity and cultural individuality of a growing segment of the American immigrant community.

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Joint winner of the 2011 Alfred Fagon award, The Westbridge depicts tension, violence, friendship and love across racial and cultural distinctions. Picking apart an intricate tangle of cultures, religions and generations, The Westbridge showcases an array of voices with humour, style and bite.

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This book is structured in three chronological blocks, starting with the development of unity within the Western Church up to the eleventh century, followed by the period of centralisation between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries, and concluding with the break up of this centralisation in the later Middle Ages.

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A study of the influence of Zoroastrianism upon Western thought and the Western response.