Biographical essays engagingly tell the story behind the icon, with background including family and education, career trajectory and highlights, and contributions and circumstances that have led to icon status.

Presents the stories of 24 of the most influential and representative Western icons - those that have captured the nation's imagination since the early days of westward exploration. This two-set volume elevates the reader's understanding of oft-romanticized subjects and the conflicts and cultural changes that made them icons.

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Drawing from over 100 interviews, Identical Twins explores the unique status of twinship and how it can affect personal and familial relationships with siblings, romantic partners, and friends.

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Identities on Trial in the United States radically shifts the asylum seeker narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and Southeast Asia. ChorSwang Ngin, with contributions from immigration attorney, Joann Yeh, explores asylum seeker cases through an anthropological and legal lens.

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This volume on imagery includes more than 3,500 citations and references pertaining to the topic, as well as more than 400 recent annotated entries in a bibliographic section, culled from some 133,000 studies on this topic that have appeared in literature.

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Hilda Llornss Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, is a ground-breaking study of imagesphotographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and filmsabout Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans made by American and Puerto Rican image-makers between 1890 and 1990.

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This study examines the conflict between two visions for Pakistan: a modern constitutional framework and an Islamist state. The author argues that Western liberal ideas were at the root of Pakistans creation, analyzes the societys drift away from its founding philosophy, and assesses optimistic indications of its revival.

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"With a new essay on Turnbull in power"--Title page.

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Between 1906 and 2008 seven Presidents are judged to have been mentally ill while in office: Theodore Roosevelt (bipolar disorder), Taft (breathing-related sleep disorder), Wilson (major depressive disorder), Coolidge (major depressive disorder), Hoover (major depressive disorder), Johnson (bipolar disorder), and Nixon (alcohol abuse).

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Engages with the notion of Australia's lack of a sense of cultural history and the ways in which critical engagement with it do not complement or reinforce each other. It reflects upon Australia's still-neglected film heritage, the achievements of Australian TV in recent decades and engages with the debate on mutli-ethnic society.

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Will regional powers in the Asia-Pacific have to choose between China and the United States In Independent Ally, Shannon Tow challenges this prevailing view. She explores how one key regional power, Australia, has repeatedly developed a strong relationship with a rising power while simultaneously preserving its alliance with a dominant global power.

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Software drives design in the 21st century. This book by world-renowned software studies expert, Professor Lev Manovich, explains the cultural impact of this new phenomenon.

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Manovich investigates how the movement from industry to information in the global economy has created an ostensibly new aesthetic of sensibility and representation. In proposing software as modernity's new societal force, this book seeks to reclassify software as today's revitalized combustion engine, underpinning the logic of contemporary culture.

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Sixteen engaging lessons to help students master PowerPoint presentations and show what they have learned about important literary elements in the fiction and nonfiction books they read. Includes sample presentations!

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This book analyzes the demographic disconnect between the American public and congressional representation. The fact that Congress does not equally represent all citizens is critical to understanding the disillusionment most Americans hold toward the contemporary Congress.

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No one outside the intelligence services knows more about their culture than Thomas Powers. In this book he tells stories of shadowy successes, ghastly failures, and, more often, gripping uncertainties.

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