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  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History - Bonnie G. Smith - Google Books

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  The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively…

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  Edward Elgar and His World - Google Books

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  Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and…

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  Edward Elgar and His World - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=1HwkaWiwOc4C&pg=PT221&lpg=PT221&dq=john+acton+composer+1863+manchester&source=bl&ots=8MQc_w8oPW

  Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and…

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  Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris - Miranda Gill - Google Books

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  What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class readers, writers, and spectators? From high society to Bohemia and the demi-monde to the…

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  Water in the Universe - Arnold Hanslmeier - Google Books

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  Due to its specific chemical and physical properties, water is essential for life on Earth. And it is assumed that this would be the case for extraterrestrial life as well. Therefore it is important to investigate where water can be found in the Universe.…

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  Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China - Robert Ford Campany - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=URk_YbbwELkC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=%22shizhou+sandao%22+continents&source=web&ots=mR2o34I07K&sig=C

  Between the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which ended in 618 C.E., Chinese authors wrote many thousands of short textual items, each of which narrated or described some phenomenon deemed "strange." Most items told of encounters…

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  Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chavez and the Political Economy of Revolution ... - Javier Corrales, Michael Penfold - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=pxgkx1rRkJQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=dragon+penfold&source=bl&ots=zOMY4hEfey&sig=bz8mvGobcZnzAEbX

  Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regime—an outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support.…

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  Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor - Douglas Kammen - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=ezA1CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT176&lpg=PT176&dq=%22Domingos+Ribeiro%22+Timor&source=bl&ots=M5BtiggHq9&sig=Jp

  One of the most troubling but least studied features of mass political violence is why violence often recurs in the same place over long periods of time.  Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that…

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  An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: 1801-1953 - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=DRrlV1Lc6qMC&pg=PA192

  This definitive anthology gathers stories, essays, memoirs, excerpts from novels, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers of the past two centuries who worked in the Russian language. It features writers of the tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods,…

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  The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley - Leslie Berlin - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=MZS1SduTFQsC&pg=PA135#v=onepage

  Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now, in The Man Behind the…

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