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Excerpt from Troubadours and Trouve`res: New and OldThe reader of Calendau must begin by dis abusing himself of the idea that the sensations which he received from Mireio are to be pre cisely repeated. Nothing, indeed, is in the nature of things more unlikely than that we shall be twice surprised by the same person, in thexsame way. The curious naivete' of the former tale is abandoned, perhaps deliberately, along with the rather transparent pr...

Excerpt from Documents Illustrative of American History: With Introductions and References In his inaugural lecture at Oxford, October, 1884, Prof. Freeman declared that the historical professor "must ever bear in mind himself and ever strive to impress on the minds of others that the most ingenious and most eloquent of modern historical discourses can after all be nothing more than a comment on a text." A conviction of this truth was the inc...

An exploration of the recent financial crisis which argues that the hitherto dominant intellectual and policy paradigm of neo-liberalism has been fatally weakened and will in due course be replaced. The implications of the crisis for politico-cultural identities and our sense of ourselves as members of an ordered society are explored.

Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum's Gulag and Robert Conquest's The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history. As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full picture can now be drawn of the atrocities of Franco's Spain-from torture and judicial murders to the abuse of women and children. Paul Preston provides an unforgettable account of the systemati...

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This book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region and its component countries. The discussion considers the region and its countries in terms of their historical legacies (colonialism, war and the preoccupation with development) and argues that each country has constructed their own way of ordering political life, each created its own political log...

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Excerpt from The Life and Times of Lord Strathcona Theronofpoorbutindustriouspsrcntslivingst forresinthenorthofscotland, hestsrtedodinr030, andtahingwithhimasmalloutfitthatcouldbeeesily loohedaftcr.engagedintheserviceofthecompsny atlaoayear. Althoughquitealsd, hewssfairly tallforhisycarnsndstraightasansrrow. Hisfeatures wereratherhesvyandunattrsctive, esceptforthe forceofcharscterglowinginhisclearblueeyes, and hisheadwascrownedwithathichgrowt...

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This interdisciplinary book overviews political and cultural identity in the context of changes across the political landscape. These changes - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the recent Islamic revival - have profoundly altered the received ideas that define political cultures throughout the world. In this context the author draws together the diverse strands of literature to throw light on the impact on identity of a changing global envi...

The Holston River valleys, also known as the Kingsport Territory, lie mainly in northeastern Tennessee, and this book traces their history from the time when they were inhabited by the aboriginal predecessors of the Cherokee Indians. This book contains ch

This study of the power of lineage in India examines some of the traditional social structures which transcended the political upheavals of British rule.

Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of Unix Backup & Recovery by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material. Backup & Recovery starts with a complete overview of backup philosophy and design, including the basic backup utilities of tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup, ditto, ...