Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing
Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid
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This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from...
Leading the 21st-Century Academic Library: Successful Strategies for Envisioning and Realizing Preferred Futures
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Libraries of all types have undergone significant developments in the last few decades. The rate of...
Avicennas Medicine: A New Translation of the 11th-Century Canon with Practical Applications for Integrative Health Care
Mones Abu-Asab, Hakima Amri and Marc S. Micozzi
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A millennium after his life, Avicenna remains one of the most highly regarded physicians of all...
The Grimaldis of Monaco: Centuries of Scandal, Years of Grace
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The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the world's oldest reigning dynasty....
The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
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Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made...
An Istanbul Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
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For centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in AD 330, Istanbul served as the...
Art and Technology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Pierre Francastel, Yve-Alain Bois and Randall Cherry
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Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label "sociology of art," it...
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Kenneth S. Rogoff and Carmen M. Reinhart
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Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and...