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Looking West?
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Moya Flynn,Elena Omel'Chenko,Ul'Iana Bliudina,Elena Starkova,Hilary Pilkington |
"Looking West? engages theories of cultural globalization to chart how post-Soviet Russia's opening up to the West has been reflected in the cultural practices of its young people.".
"The younger ge… |
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The State of world population 2000
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Nafis Sadik,United Nations Population Fund,United Nations Population Fund. |
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El Zorro
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Isabel Allende |
*El Zorro: comienza la leyenda* es una biografía ficticia de 2005 y la primera historia de los orígenes del héroe El Zorro, escrita por la autora chilena Isabel Allende. Es una precuela a los eventos… |
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We Were Eight Years in Power
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
In these "urgently relevant essays," the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"*--including the electio… |
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Francophone voices of the "New Morocco" in film and print
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Valérie Orlando |
Assesses to what extent Moroccan francophone literature, press, and film reflect the socio-cultural and political transitions that have taken place in Morocco since 1999 and King Mohamed VI's corona… |
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Before and After 9/11
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Tom Rockmore |
This clearly written and accessible work presents a philosopher's response to the series of events known as "9/11" and the global culture in the United States -and global societyGÇöthat followed. It … |
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City of lies
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Ramita Navai |
"Rich, absorbing, and exotic, City of Lies travels up and down Vali Asr Street, Tehran's pulsing thoroughfare, from the lavish shopping malls of Tajrish through the smog that lingers over the alleywa… |
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Safe house
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Iggy McGovern |
Iggy McGovern's second collection of poems sees him walking the metrical line between a childhood in the religiously divided northern town of Coleraine and his present home in Dublin. He takes in the… |
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Last days of the bus club
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Chris Stewart |
It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chloe is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this late… |
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Longitudes and Attitudes
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Thomas L. Friedman |
*Longitudes and Attitudes* contains the columns Friedman has published about the most momentous news story of our time, as well as a diary of his experiences and reactions during this period of crisi… |
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A New Brand World
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Scott Bedbury,Stephen Fenichell |
What does it really take to succeed in business today? In A New Brand World, Scott Bedbury, who helped make Nike and Starbucks two of the most successful brands of recent years, explains this often m… |
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Kabul Beauty School
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Kristin Ohlson,Deborah Rodriguez |
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills--as d… |
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