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Made Wijaya
Architecture of Bali: A Sourcebook of Traditional and Modern Forms
Acclaimed landscape and architectural designer Made Wijaya draws on his photographic archives, compiled over the past 30 years, to present a visual study of Balinese architecture: its origins, elements, variations and vagaries. The book opens with an overview of Balinese architecture in its human co...
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Susan Golombok
Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms
Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single mothers by choice and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF), egg don...
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Nathan K. Hensley
Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty
Forms of Empire shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form. The Victorian era is often imagined as an 'age of equipoise,' but the period between 1837 and 1901 included more than 200 separate wars. What is the difference, ...
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Jackie Nix
Modern Farms
Modern farms are pretty neat! They give us all enough to eat! This award-winning, nonfiction picture book introduces young children to farm life and is bound to spark conversations about where our food comes from. Rhyming verse and bright, attention-getting illustrations teach about the many differ...
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James Wilberding
Forms, Souls, and Embryos: Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction (Issues in Ancient Philosophy)
Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo’s...
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David Cateforis
Modern Art: A Global Survey from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
Modern Art: A Global Survey from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present is a broad chronological history of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and new media from c. 1850 to today. Each chapter covers particular artistic movements or parts of the world, surveying a wide range of artw...
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Dagmar Wujastyk
Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms
Modern and Global Ayurveda provides an overview of the relatively recent history of Ayurveda in its modern and globalized forms. One of the traditional medical systems originating on the Indian subcontinent, Ayurveda is fast becoming a transnational phenomenon. Contributors to this volume include bo...
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Graham Livesey
Modern Architecture: The Basics
Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late 18th century. Broad definitions of modernity and postmodernity introduce the book, which comprises 24 short thematic chapters loo...
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Donald Michael Kraig
Modern Tantra: Living One of the World's Oldest, Continuously Practiced Forms of Pagan Spirituality in the New Millennium
Modern Tantra shows how to practice the ancient Pagan spiritual system of Tantra for greater freedom, health, and happiness. Correcting the many misconceptions that surround Tantra, author Donald Michael Kraig shows that its wisdom can be experienced today, helping you access your natural energy fo...
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Michelle Zerba
Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection (Classical Memories/Modern Identities)
Michelle Zerba’s Modern Odysseys explores three major writers in global modernism from the Mediterranean, Anglo-European Britain, and the Caribbean whose groundbreaking literary works have never been studied together before. Using language as an instrument of revolution and social change, C. P. ...
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Elinor C. Sloan
Modern Military Strategy
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to post-Cold War military theory for students of strategic studies. This second edition has been fully revised and updated, including a new chapter on peacekeeping, and examines contemporary strategic thought on the conduct of war in the sea, land,...
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Siddharth Kara
Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective
Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the dark realities of modern slavery in order to reveal the degrading and dehumanizing systems that strip people of their dignity for the sake of profit―and to link the suffering of the enslave...
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M. M. Badawi
Modern Arabic Literature (The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature)
This volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature provides the first authoritative, comprehensive, critical survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The rise of secular education, printing and journalism created a new reading public, and Wester...
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Paul Yachnin
Forms of Association: Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture)
In today's connected and interactive world, it is hard to imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests did not lead people to associate with others who shared similar views and preoccupations. In this volume of essays, fifteen scholars explore how these kinds of relationships began to tra...
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Mel Bay
Modern Guitar Method Grade 7
Grade 7 concludes Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method begins with a summary of the natural and artificial harmonics that can be achieved on each string. Addresses theory and notation of major and minor sixth chords plus ninth, eleventh (with alterations), nine-six (9/6), and thirteenth chords- all explor...
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Florian Siebeck
Modern Tree Houses
Above the forest floor, a world of wonder awaits. Tree houses have always captured our imaginations—symbols of escapism, endless youthful summers, and a deep-rooted connection to nature. But today, they’ve evolved beyond childhood hideaways into architectural marvels that blend sustainability an...
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Charles Taylor
Modern Social Imaginaries (Public Planet Books)
One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylo...
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Caroline Levine
Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
A radically new way of thinking about form and context in literature, politics, and beyond Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today―how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Le...
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Jonathan Fineberg
Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain
Human beings have made images continuously for more than thirty thousand years. The oldest known cave paintings are between six and ten times older than the first forms of written language. Images help us organize our thoughts and represent them in our memory. We make images, Jonathan Fineberg argue...
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Lucy Alford
Forms of Poetic Attention
A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an instrument for tuning and refining the attention. Identifying a crucial link between poetic form and the f...
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