Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils
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Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils offers a major theoretical statement of where poetic...
The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders
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A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with...
Half a Lifelong Romance
Eileen Chang and Karen Kingsbury
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From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an...
Sake: The History, Personal Stories and Craft of Japan's Artisanal Breweries
Hayato Hishinuma, James Lang, Jason Lang and Elliot Faber
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Sake: The History, Personal Stories and Craft of Japan's Artisanal Breweries is a compendium of the...
For the Love of Rivers: A Scientist's Journey
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Rivers and streams supply our water and capture our imaginations. We seek the more pristine ones to...
My Father in His Suitcase
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John (Kay) Corner left home in 1960, aged 19. He would never see his father, E. J. H. Corner, again....
Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the USPS
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Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service The United States Postal...
Night Prayers
Howard Curtis and Santiago Gamboa
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A thrilling literary novel about crime and corruption in Latin America told in alternating voices...
Crime thriller
Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship
Christopher Dunn and Idelber Avelar
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Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays...
Making a Market for Acts of God: The Practice of Risk Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry
Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek and Paul Spee
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Reinsurance is a financial market that trades in the risk of unpredictable and devastating disasters...