Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Global India circa 100 CE Global India circa 100 CE Richard H. Davis xi, 75 p. : 23 cm OL15470527W
International law in the U.S. Supreme Court International law in the U.S. Supreme Court David Sloss,Michael D. Ramsey,William S. Dodge This book presents a comprehensive account of the Supreme Court's use of international law from the 1790s to the present. The book does not address every passing reference to international law, but i… OL16988610W
Simbiosis de culturas Simbiosis de culturas Guillermo Bonfil Batalla "Examines influential cultural contributions of immigrant groups in Mexico. Emphasizes medieval traditions, Islamic and African influences, contemporary Japanese values imported through trade, intell… OL18285988W
Aphrodite's island Aphrodite's island Anne Salmond Aphrodite's Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status in Western imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of … OL18637511W
The gods rich in praise The gods rich in praise Christopher Metcalf This title contributes to the current academic debate on the relationship between early Greek poetry and the ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia. It is the first extensive study to be based on … OL20974547W
Playing the globe Playing the globe Gillies, John,Virginia Mason Vaughan The essays collected here explore the representation of contemporary cartographic knowledge within a variety of English Renaissance dramatic texts. Including a preface and introduction that contextua… OL21178666W
Café con leche Café con leche Museo de Bellas Artes (Venezuela) "Catalogue of the 2005 cultural and artistic activities of the Goethe Institute of Caracas organized around the contemporary social phenomenon of immigration and identity, especially in Venezuela and… OL24087522W
Ibsen in China, 1908-1997 Ibsen in China, 1908-1997 Kwok-kan Tam x, 263 p. : 24 cm OL2753267W
Empreintes de France en Amérique Empreintes de France en Amérique Alain Sillard Voyage sur les traces des implantations françaises en Amérique du Nord. [SDM]. OL27734752W
The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea Liz Thompson,Simon Coate The Trobriand of Papua New Guinea shows that change has reached even the outlying islands of Papua New Guinea. As in other indigenous communities, missionaries have encouraged the people to abandon t… OL28943616W
Out of the "Western box" Out of the "Western box" Joon-Hwan Kim "This book focuses on two twentieth-century American epic poets - Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and Charles Olson (1910-1970) - in the context of multiculturalism. Pound deployed the cultural resources of t… OL3242620W
CULTURES IN CONTACT CULTURES IN CONTACT William W. Fitzhugh Collection of papers under the headings: The arctic sector - Inuit responses to explorers, whalers, traders and missionaries; New England - the move inland: land, politics, and disease; The Chesapeak… OL5899444W