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Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994 xii, 401 pp. Footnotes, references, list of contributors, indexes. 14 scholarly essays presented at a conference held in Sapporo, 17-19 June 1992. CONDITION: An ex-library copy in very good overall condition. Text clean and neat; moderately light overall handling/shelving wear (no fraying to cloth). Library marks to title-page; call number and barcode labels; stamped "withdrawn." No dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 24 x 16 cm. ... more information

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New York: Soho Press, 1999 258 p. ; 25 cm. Signed and inscribed by author on title page (1999) NF in like dustjacket.. Signed by Author. First American Printing. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Paris: Editions Klincksieck, 1970 x, 398 pp. Bibliographical footnotes, index. Text in French. Each essay is followed by the text of comments made by colloquium attendees. CONDITION: Sewn binding (no creasing along spine). Minor pencilled, marginal brackets on three pages in opening remarks, else text is neat and clean. Moderate overall handling wear to covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 24 x 16 cm. ... more information

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987 xiv, 219 p. ; 22 cm. Index. Bibliography: p. 169-211. Focuses on the developing poetry and poetics of William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens who concerned themselves with defining the place of poetry in the machine age, examining not only their defenses of poetry, but also how science and technology influenced their thinking and style. NF/NF. First Edition. Cloth. Like New/Like New. ... more information

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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991 vi, 310 pp. Footnotes, bibliography. Translated from French into English. In this extraordinary book, the author probes society's conception of madness through a study of a small French community. Using a wide range of research techniques, including her own ethnographic observations, she focuses on a number of fundamental themes: the nature of identity, the relation of representation to action, and the notion of social memory. "One of the few truly... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001 First American edition. First printing Fine condition in NF dustjacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: PAJ Publications, 1988 141 p. ; 23 cm.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. ... more information

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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004 First American edition. 258 pp. 24 cm. (winner of the 2003 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for "The Heart of Redness" Boards slightly bowed, otherwise VG in NF dustjacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/NF. ... more information

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New York: Counterpoint, 2004 xv, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-313) and index. NF condition in like dustjacket.. 1st American Ed. Hard Cover. ... more information

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London; New York; Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901 x, 316, 32 pp. ; 23 cm. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt design and lettering. With Publisher's catalog, 32 pp. at end. Bibliographical footnotes. No dustjacket. CONTENTS: Science and superstition.--The theory of loan-gods, or borrowed religion.--Magic and religion.--The origin of the Christian faith.--The approaches to Mr. Frazer's theory.--Attemps to prove the Sacaean criminal divine.--Zakmuk, Sacaea, and Purim.--Mordecai, Esther, Vashti, a... more information

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966 ix, 753 p. ; 22 cm. Contents: The bird's nest.--Life among the savages--Raising demons--11 short stories. Bound in light blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine; in original dust-wrapper. With a trace of offsetting to endpapers, two small unobtrusive spots to bottom edge, dustjacket with toning to spine area, slight edge wear and one small chip to bottom of front panel which also has one small abraded area.. First Printing 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 280 p. ; 22 cm. Summary: Willie Chandran feels as though the life he lives is not his own. But his listlessness washes away in a flood of encouragement from his radically political sister. Inspired, he joins an underground liberation movement in India. But after years of revolution and incarceration, he grows disillusioned and returns to England, still hoping to find his true self. NF condition in like dustjacket. First American Edition. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Bloomington, IN: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, 1994 333 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical references. In dustjacket (over softcovers). 19 scholarly. essays devoted to Cervantes' epic novel "Don Quixote"; published as a special issue of IJHL (Fall 1994). CONDITION: Sewn binding. Imperceptible signs of age-toning to dustjacket, else as new.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 24 x 18 cm. ... more information

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London: South Bank Centre, 1992 320 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Menil Collection, Houston, and the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992-93. Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-320). OVERSIZED.. Soft Cover. Like New. ... more information

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Budapest, Hungary: Akademiai Kiado, 1979 xvi, 1179 pp. A perennial favorite of students, this is a very useful dictionary. CONDITION: Moderate overall handling wear (no fraying to cloth); text clean and neat. OVERSIZED.. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 21 x 14 cm. ... more information

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Fremont, CA: Asian Humanities Press (Jain Publishing Company), 1999. ix, 439 pp. Charts, notes, bibliography, index. The Mahavamsa is the epic tale of Sri Lanka's founding and early history. It is the least known of all the world's great chronicles, and much less familiar than its Subcontinent forebears, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The Mahavamsa or "Great Chronicle" was composed in Pali in the fifth century AD, and it describes the founding era of Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Its sweepin... more information

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Bloomington, IN: East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 1983. v, 183 pp. Illustrations. A collection of bi-weekly research presentations from the 1982-1983 academic year by members of the East Asian Studies Center. Most of the articles are edited from the oral record. CONTENTS: Chinese court architecture (Richard Chi). Management education: New initiatives in the PRC (Joseph Battat). Culture control systems and commitment: A study of work organizations in the United States and Japan (James Lincoln).... more information

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Bloomington, IN: East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 1983. v, 183 pp. Illustrations. A collection of bi-weekly research presentations from the 1982-1983 academic year by members of the East Asian Studies Center. Most of the articles are edited from the oral record. CONTENTS: Chinese court architecture (Richard Chi). Management education: New initiatives in the PRC (Joseph Battat). Culture control systems and commitment: A study of work organizations in the United States and Japan (James Lincoln).... more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 xvii, 359 pp. Footnotes, bibliography, table of cases, index. This book examines the influence of precedent on the behavior of U.S. Supreme Court justices throughout the Court's history. Under the assumption that for precedent to be an influence on the behavior of justices it must lead to a result they would not otherwise have reached, the results show that when justices disagree with the establishment of a precedent, they rarely shift from their previously st... more information

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000 Second printing. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. ... more information

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