Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians
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Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies,...
Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story
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Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English...
Outside the Lettered City: Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India
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Outside the Lettered City traces how middle-class Indians responded to the rise of the cinema as a...
The Biology of Deserts
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This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a strong...
The Chemistry of Soils
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The second edition of The Chemistry of Soils, published in 2008, has been used as a main text in...
Singing God's Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism
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Singing God's Words is the first in-depth study of the experience and meaning of chanting or...
The Music and Sound of Experimental Film
Jeremy Barham and Holly Rogers
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This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the...
Surnames, DNA, and Family History
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This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis...
The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship
Ernst Fraenkel, Jens Meierhenrich and E.A. Shills
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The Dual State, first published in 1941, remains one of the most erudite books on the logic of...
The Participation Gap: Social Status and Political Inequality
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The dilemma of democracy arises from two contrasting trends. More people in the established...