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Read More about British Political Finance 1830-1980 (AEI Studies #330)

Russian expert Mark Galeotti provides an in-depth look at the siege that pitted Ivan the Terrible and Russia's first standing army against the Khanate of Kazan, leading to Muscovy's rise.

The Khanate of Kazan, one of the greatest Turkic successor states to the Mongol Golden Horde, had for generations...

Read More about Siege of Kazan 1552: Ivan the Terrible Breaks the Kazan Khanate (Campaign #426)

Best-selling author Clara Pinto-Correia (THE OVARY OF EVE) shows how the human intellect and the human imagination prey on sketchy facts and images, how missing pieces and incomplete lines are merged and fused to make a story, to make a coherent whole--even where there is no coherence.

Read More about Return of the Crazy Bird: The Sad, Strange Tale of the Dodo

Return to a time of great upheaval in the galaxy, the final years of the Republic, in this anthology based on the beloved animated series!

While Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and other Jedi Knights fight against incredible odds, two Republic squadrons must hold their position against an...

Read More about Star Wars Adventures: The Clone Wars - Battle Tales

Daniel is a regular guy who survives a fatal crash with the help of an angel. As part of that experience, he is given the ability to see what happens to the souls of the other individuals who did not live through the tragedy. His interactions with the families and loved ones of the deceased...

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The energies animating Saints of Little Faith, Megan Pinto’s electrifying debut in poetry, are a forceful quiet, a loud stillness, the caesura between a lightning strike and the sound of thunder. Everywhere, the speaker sees the numinous power of language, the incipience of things to come, even a...

Read More about Saints of Little Faith (Stahlecker Selections)

How does one make decisions today about in vitro fertilization, abortion, egg freezing, surrogacy, and other matters of reproduction? This book provides the intellectual and emotional intelligence to help individuals make informed choices amid misinformation and competing claims. Scott Gilbert and...

Read More about Fear, Wonder, and Science in the New Age of Reproductive Biotechnology

In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah...

Read More about Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India (Contemporary Ethnography)

The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that...

Read More about Postcolonial Disorders (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity #8)

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