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A Companion to American Indian History (Blackwell Companions to American History)
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A Companion to American Indian History (Blackwell Companions to American History)

A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history. Twenty-five original essays written by leading scholars, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring a comprehensive perspective to a history that in the past has been related exclusively by Euro-Americans.

The essays cover a wide range of Indian experiences and practices, including contacts with non-Indians, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender, and culture. They reflect new approaches to Native America drawn from environmental, comparative, and gender history in their exploration of compelling questions regarding performance, identity, cultural brokerage, race and blood, captivity, adoption, and slavery. Each chapter also encourages further reading by including a carefully selected bibliography.

Intended for students, scholars, and general readers of American Indian history, this timely book is the ideal guide to current and future research.

 
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Opera (Eyewitness Companions)
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Opera (Eyewitness Companions)
Spanning 400 years of musical drama, from the late Renaissance and including such classical masters as Verdi, Puccini, and Bizet, this is the complete visual guidebook to the great operas, their composers and performance history.

Richly illustrated and beautifully written, this book captures the art, lyricism, passion and excitement of opera through the ages. It is an ideal companion for opera newcomers and devotees alike.

From basic explanations of the history of opera to details of classic scores - all told in a witty, conversational tone and accompanied by hundreds of full-color photos.
 
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Tags: opera, history, newcomers, devotees, companion
BBC SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION 34. The Famous History of the life of King Henry VIII
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BBC SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION 28. Cymbeline The BBC TV Shakespeare Collection
34. The Famous History of the life of King Henry VIII
wiith embedded subtitles

The BBC Television Shakespeare wats a set of television adaptations of the plays of Shakespeare, produced by the the BBC between 1978 and 1985.
 
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Tags: Shakespeare, Henry, History, Famous, plays, produced
Stress: A Brief History (Blackwell Brief Histories of Psychology)
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Stress: A Brief History (Blackwell Brief Histories of Psychology)
Product Description
Stress: A Brief History is a lively, accessible, and detailed examination of the origins of the field of stress research.
  • First concise, accessible, academically grounded book on the origins of the concept of stress.
  • Explores different theories and models of stress such as the psychosomatic approach, homeostasis, and general adaptation syndrome.
  • Discusses the work and intriguing contributions of key researchers in the field such as Walter Cannon, Hans Selye, Harold Wolff, and Richard Lazarus.
  • Explains the origins of key concepts in stress such as stressful life events, the coronary-prone personality, and appraisals and coping.
  • Culminates in a discussion of what makes a good theory and what obligations stress researchers have to those whose working lives they study.

 
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Product Description
Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. Through critical engagement with this history, he constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements.
 
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Tags: history, engagement, heconstructs, framework, political