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Gordon Martel
Origins of the First World War: Revised 3rd Edition
Origins of the First World War summarizes and analyses the policies, issues and crises that brought Europe to war in 1914. Martel explains the position of each of the great powers, and their place in the system of alliances that dominated international politics. He examines the strategic and politi...
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Amin Maalouf
Origins: A Memoir
Origins , by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning intergenerational saga. Set during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth, in the mountains of Lebanon and in Havana, Cuba, Origins recounts the family history of ...
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Geoffrey Zubay
Origins of Life: On Earth and in the Cosmos
Origins of Life on the Earth and in the Cosmos, Second Edition , suggests answers to the age-old questions of how life arose in the universe and how it might arise elsewhere. This thorough revision of a very successful text describes key events in the evolution of living systems, starting with the c...
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Michael McCullough
Origins of Disobedience: Creation, Rebellion, and God's Plan for Restoration
Origins of Disobedience: Creation, Rebellion, and God's Plan for Restoration What if the story of creation was not just about the beginning, but also a key to understanding God’s ultimate plan for humanity’s future? Origins of Disobedience invites you to dive deep into the grand narrative of t...
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Gordon Martel
Origins of the First World War (Seminar Studies)
Origins of the First World War summarizes the policies, issues and crises that brought Europe to war in 1914. Examining the strategic and political problems that confronted each of the great powers and the way in which social and economic factors influenced the decision-making process, Martel discu...
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Marika Sherwood
Origins of Pan-Africanism (Routledge Studies in Modern British History)
Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the A...
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Nguyen Dan Thy
Origins: Tales of Having Two Homes
Origins is a collection of short stories and poems on culture and identity. The prose is written in the third-person, and the poetry is a mix of both third and first-person. The stories are based on my journey of growth and acceptance as a Vietnamese-American but are not limited to my own experience...
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Jeremy Montagu
Origins and Development of Musical Instruments
Origins and Development of Musical Instruments describes the creation, use, and development of musical instruments from the Old Stone Age to the present day. Musical instruments, from the simplest whistles to the most complex organs, conch trumpets to sousaphones, archers' and musical bows to violi...
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Alan Lightman
Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists
Origins reveals the human being within the scientist in a study of the philosophical, personal, and social factors that enter into the scientific process. Twenty-seven active cosmologists--including Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Steven Weinberg, Vera Rubin, Allan Sandage, Margaret Geller, and Ala...
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James R. Hurford
Origins of Language: A Slim Guide (Oxford Linguistics)
Origins of Language: A Slim Guide offers a concise and accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language. Non-human animals communicate in simple ways: they may be able to form simple concepts, to feel some limited empathy for others, to cooperate to some e...
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Michael Holmes II
Origins of X: Secrets of Sage Mountain
Origins of X: Secrets of Sage Mountain Xavier lives in a world where the power to wield magic—and countless other inhuman abilities—is simply a fact of life. Many of these individuals must hide from stigma, vigilante justice, and people who want to rid the world of anyone who is not “normal.â€...
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Eugenie A. Leonard
Origins of Personnel Services in American Higher Education
Origins of Personnel Services in American Higher Education was first published in 1956.It may come as a surprise to most persons to learn that personnel services in colleges and universities have a long history, that their origins go back to the beginnings of our country. In this historical account,...
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John R. Schneider
Origins of Liberty: How Reason Gave Birth to Freedom
Origins of Freedom is a sweeping, eloquent exploration of how human civilization has gradually, and often painfully, moved toward the ideal of liberty—not through conquest, but through thought. From ancient Athens to modern democracies, from Indigenous philosophies to Enlightenment revolutions, J...
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William W Hallo
Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions (Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East)
Origins is the first fully comprehensive study of the debt owed by modern western culture to Ancient Near Eastern civilization - a debt touched upon by standard histories of the Ancient Near East but never as systematically investigated as here by William W. Hallo. The author, who has devoted a lif...
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Benjamin Lapidus
Origins of Cuban Music and Dance: Changüí
Origins of Cuban Music and Dance: Changüí is the first in-depth study of changüí , a style of music and dance in Guantánamo, Cuba. Changüí is analogous to blues in the United States and is a crucible of Cuban Creole culture. Benjamin Lapidus describes changüí and its relationship to t...
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Christopher Williams
Origins of Form: The Shape of Natural and Man-made Things―Why They Came to Be the Way They Are and How They Change
Origins of Form is about the shape of things. What limits the height of a tree? Why is a large ship or office building more efficient than a small one? What is the similarity between a human rib cage and an airplane or a bison and a cantilevered bridge? How might we plan for things to improve as the...
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Louis Rosenfeld
Origins of Clinical Chemistry: The Evolution of Protein Analysis
Origins of Clinical The Evolution of Protein Analysis covers the history of the application of analytical methods to the plasma protein analysis. This book is divided into 20 chapters that consider the relationship between the limitation of technical accuracy and clinical interpretation. The introdu...
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Anne M. Nicotera
Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication: A Comprehensive Introduction to the Field
Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication provides a sophisticated overview of the fundamentals of organizational communication as a field of study, examining the field’s foundations and providing an assessment of the field to date, explaining and demonstrating a communicational appr...
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Warda Shahrazad
Origins and History of Bellydance
'Origins and History of Bellydance' gives an overview of the metamorphosis of Bellydance in the words of cultural ambassadors from the country of the origin of this incredible dance form. Dr. Hassan Khalil, who specializes as a PhD in his native Egyptian History and Culture adds his expertise along ...
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Anthony Lo Lo Bello
Origins of Mathematical Words: A Comprehensive Dictionary of Latin, Greek, and Arabic Roots
The most comprehensive math root dictionary ever published. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Do you ever wonder about the origins of mathematical terms such as ergodic, biholomorphic, and strophoid? Here Anthony Lo Bello explains the roots of these and better-known words like asymmetric, gradient...
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