Rooftops: Islands in the Sky
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As urban living intensifies in density and numbers, the city landscape expands both outwards and...
Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy
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The George W. Bush administration's ambitious--even breathtaking--claims of unilateral executive...
Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
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Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the...
The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti
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Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti's problems, from political upheavals to natural...
Shameless - Season 1
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Meet Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy): proud, working-class patriarch to a motley brood of six...
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25 Women: Essays on Their Art
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Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging." Time Out New York calls him "smart,...
Albrecht D Rer and the Epistolary Mode of Address
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Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships...
Bernini: His Life and His Rome
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Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the...
Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East
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In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East....
Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History
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John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative...