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The description for this book, Visiting Rites, will be forthcoming.

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The description for this book, Visiting Rites, will be forthcoming.

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'Vital Signs' offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. It also traces the linkages between medicine's eventual decline in scientific and social status and realism's displacement by naturalism, detective fiction, and modernism.

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The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.

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An intensely private man, Vladimir Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. This work features a biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, and describes the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art.

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Grover-Friedlander argues that filmed operas such as Zeffirelli's Otello and Friedrich's Falstaff show the impossibility of a direct transformation of the operatic into the cinematic.

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The intuition that women are best represented by women, and African-Americans by other African-Americans, has deep historical roots. This book argues that the voice of these groups should be audible within the legislative process. It holds that the self-representation of these groups is necessary to sustain their trust in democratic institutions.

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Tells the story of nine volcanic events, explaining the related geology for the general reader and exploring the ways in which the earth's volcanism has affected human history. This book describes how volcanic activity has had long-lasting effects on societies, cultures, and the environment.

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Whenever a volcano threatens to erupt, scientists and adventurers from around the world flock to the site in response to the irresistible allure of one of nature's most dangerous and unpredictable phenomena. This book covers the variety of volcanoes, the subtle to conspicuous signs preceding their eruptions, and their atmospheric consequences.

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Taking an approach different from (hat of earlier biographers, A. Owen Aldridge examines Voltaire's literary and intellectual career chronologically, using the methods both of comparative literature and of the history of ideas. The resulting biography portrays a fascinating personality as well as a great writer and thinker. Voltaire is revealed not

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How do voters make decisions in low-information elections How distinctive are these voting decisions Traditional approaches to the study of voting and elections often fail to address these questions by ignoring other elections taking place simultaneously. In this groundbreaking book, Stephen Nicholson shows how issue agendas shaped by state ballo

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When Bombay changed its name to Mumbai in 1995, it was the culmination of a long process that transformed India's primary symbol of modernity and cultural diversity into a site of ethnic conflict and violent nationalism. This is an account of how the city's atmosphere, dominant public languages, and power structures have changed since 1960s.

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Including the impact of the 2003 war in Iraq and its aftermath, this work provides an insight into the critical debate on the future of peace in the Middle East. This work examines the history of Arab-Israeli relations beginning in 1948. It then gives an account of the peace processes of 1992-1996 and the more dispiriting record since then.

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That Wagner conceived of himself creatively as both man and woman is central to an understanding of his life and art. So argues Jean-Jacques Nattiez in this richly insightful work, where he draws from semiology, music criticism, and psychoanalysis to explore such topics as Wagner's theories of music drama, his anti-Semitism, and his psyche. Wagner

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Describing this collection of his poems, John Allman writes, "It is a book about the inner and outer worlds, a collection of multiple voices and relationships. In one sense it is about suffering, family, and survival. However, it is also about a world beyond such things, where identity burns by itself, where the self-changes but never dies. The boo

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In the twentieth century no form of experience has been more frequently taken up by poets eager to capture both the openness and fluidity of life and the aesthetic closure of an artwork than that of a walk. Examining the walk poem, Roger Gilbert contends that at its heart is the "desire to keep what we have lived." What is the appeal of the walk po

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