
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduces Stories That Held Them in Awe
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Thirty-four of America's most distinguished fiction writers--including Oscar Hijuelos, John Irving,...
Baghdad During the Abbasid Caliphate: From Contemporary Arabic and Persian Sources
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The history of Baghdad as a metropolis coincides with the history of the rise and fall of the...

Disrupting Maize: Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico
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Disrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of maize, the staple food and symbol of the...
Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema
Miklos Kiss and Steven Willemsen
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Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a...

In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde: An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum
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In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of...
Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art, New Edition
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-The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country- was the nationalist...