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Eduardo Houth is the author's alter-ego. Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, the author achieves a fluency and an uncommon measure of objectivity. The result is an exercise in self-description, partisan but without the shrill self-justification so common in authentic autobiography.

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Based on the true story of the last man to stand trial for blasphemy in England, A Subject Of Scandal And Concern was originally written for television in 1960 starring Richard Burton and Rachel Roberts. This production marks the first theatrical staging of the play in over 40 years and its long overdue London premiere.

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Nigeria is a country where petroleum prices and polio are both booming. Through a host of characters, from the prostitutes of Nigeria's Port Harcourt to the Area Boys of Lagos, from the militants in their swamp forest hideouts to the oil company executives in London, this title tells the story of this extraordinary country.

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There is no greater foreign policy challenge for the United States today than the reconstruction of Iraq. The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings recently assembled a small group of experts to consider U.

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Hoping to revitalize the Catholic Church, Pope Francis launched a global initiative in synodality to promote a more inclusive approach to decision making. This book illuminates this revolutionary movement, both in theory and in practice, demonstrating that the path forward is a step-by-step process of dialogue, conversion, and co-responsibility.

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Presents an analysis of Chinese grammar from a systemic functional perspective. This book focuses on the clausal grammar of Chinese, and provides an analysis of Chinese clauses according to their constituent parts. It also extends this examination into an analysis of Chinese discourse and text analysis.

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Presenting an analysis of French grammar using the Hallidayan approach, this title looks at what constitutes language, and how it is used in life. This grammar has been developed as a resource for discourse analysis, and for understanding how French grammar makes meaning in different textual and contextual environments.

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Presenting an analysis of French grammar using the Hallidayan approach, this title looks at what constitutes language, and how it is used in life.

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The analysis of the mythopoetics of a literary work involves the search for mythological archetypes, parallels, paradigms, and motives in a literary text. Zubarev presents a compelling approach to literary analysis, and explores the enigmatic roots of Chekhov's universal significance.

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While many quality improvement processes in business have enjoyed initial success, most have eventually failed--not producing the desired long-term results.

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Through the observations of these immensely well-connected and brilliant writers, Brian Unwin provides a fresh and fascinating insight into some of the principal events and persons of one of the most seminal and turbulent periods of modern European history.

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A bold new adaptation tying into contemporary issues of global war, refugees, extremism

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Relying primarily on one-on-one interviews with senior practitioners and analysts on both sides of the border, the text examines the evolution of the U.S.-Mexican bilateral defense relationship to better understand how and why this unique relationship has improved, in fits and starts, over the past 25 years.

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Here a literary scholar and a folklorist combine skills to catalog and index this material from over a thousand almanacs according to the standard methodology established by the Aarne-Thompson Type and Motif Indexes.

The volume illuminates much of the richness in content and form of this materials.

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Food carries symbolic importance used to define individuals, situations, and places, making it an ideal communication tool. In musical theater, food can be used as a shortcut to reveal more about a setting, character, or situation. This book looks at the role of food in popular theater musicals illustrating how food relates to the broader world.