Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres
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Polyphony -- the interweaving of simultaneous sounds -- is a crucial aspect of music that has deep...

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...

The Solace of Water
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After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher’s wife named Delilah Evans...
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Schinkel
Peter Gossel and Martin Steffens
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A duty to beauty: Building landmarks for Berlin and beyondWith an eye for detail as much as expanse,...
Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age: God's Word Questioned
Henk J. M. Nellen, Dirk van Miert, Piet Steenbakkers and Jetze Touber
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Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age explores the hypothesis that in...

The Karamazov Brothers
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Ignat Avsey
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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime...

Reservoir 13
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From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Even the Dogs. Reservoir...

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Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays
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In the Bible Belt, it's common to see bumper stickers that claim One Man + One Woman = Marriage,...

Pride Parades: How a Parade Changed the World
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On June 28, 1970, two thousand gay and lesbian activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago...