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Numerous important concepts in Maori culture are defined and discussed in short essay-style definitions in this volume, which is written in both the English and Maori languages.
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Familiar figures - missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, prospectors, gunfighters, cowboys, and Indians - appear in these pages. So do renowned individuals such as Daniel Boone, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. But their stories contribute to a history of ...the American West that is longer, larger, and more complicated than we were once told.
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Provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. This very short introduction examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole - on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, and youth.
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Adapted especially for Fiji students, this dictionary contains special study pages in the middle, covering thematic vocabulary, grammar and usage, using the dictionary, letter writing, and maps of Fiji and the islands of the South West Pacific. It contains clear, simple definitio...ns using a core defining vocabulary.
- over 30,000 references
- illustrations throughout the text depict over 650 items
- example sentences for most meanings
- word forms are spelt out in full
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This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion.
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A Dictionary of Zoology comprises over 6,000 entries, covering all aspects of zoology, including terms from the areas of ecology, animal behaviour, evolution, earth history, zoogeography, genetics, and physiology. The dictionary is supplemented by useful web links, accessible via... the companion website, as well as diagrams and detailed appendices.
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By Hess, Carol
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The work of composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) ranges from late-romantic salon pieces to evocations of flamenco to stark neoclassicism. In this book, Carol Hess offers a fresh understanding of his life and work. She examines his work in terms of musical style and explores the c...ultural milieu in which he worked.
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Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. This Very Short Introduction explores the theoretical and practical problems raised by objectivity, and also deals with the way in which particular understandings of objectivity impinge on social research, scienc...e, and art.
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An international children's classic, The Wind in the Willows grew from the author's letters to his young son, yet it is concerned almost exclusively with adult themes. This new edition explores a profoundly English book with a world following; a book for adults adopted by childre...n; a timeless masterpiece and a vital portrait of an age.
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The Lives of the Poets is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most diverting. This is the only one-volume paperback edition to make available Johnson's most substantial Lives in unabridged form. Texts are drawn from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative c...omplete edition, and introduced by John Mullan.
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