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Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire
Daniel O'Neill (Author)
Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatisms founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. More
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"> Disciples of Flora: Gardens in History and Culture
Victoria Emma Pagn, Judith W. Page, Brigitte Weltman-Aron
Disciples of Flora: Gardens in History and Culture explores, through a variety of approaches, disciplines, and historical periods, the place and vitality of gardens as cultural objects, repositories of meaning, and sites for the construction of identity and subjectivity. More
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Early Medieval Chinese Texts
Cynthia L Chennault, editor
A guide to primary sources that date from China's early medieval period (late third through sixth centuries) and to later anthologies or reference works concerning them.More
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Chica Lit
Tace Hedrick
This study illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and especially commodification shape the genre of chica lit, that is, chick lit written by Latina authors with Latina characters.More
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Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders
Edited by John Wilson and Diana Boxer
Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders focuses on the discourse practices of women in global political leadership.More
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Sean Macdonald
Animation in China: History, Aesthetics, Media
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). More
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Robert S. Wagman
The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus. Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine
Department of Classics
Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus is the first book-length study of one of Greeces most cited nymph sanctuaries. More
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Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einsteins prediction
Steve Orlando
LIGO opens new window on the universe with observation of gravitational waves from colliding black holes
For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einsteins 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos.
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NEH Awards Professor Trysh Travis
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced its annual research fellowships on Dec. 14, 2015, and Professor Trysh Travis of the Center for Womens Studies and Gender Research was on the list. She has received an NEH research fellowship for calendar year 2017 for a new book project Reading Matters: Books, Bookmen, and the Creation of Mid-Century American Liberalism, 1930-1980.
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Hundreds turn out to leave their mark on new chemistry building
September 15, 2015
Almost a year after the groundbreaking ceremony for the University of Florida's new chemistry/chemical biology at the corner of University Avenue and Buckman Drive, hundreds gathered to leave their signature on a one-ton beam that will be placed on the tallest portion of the building. Read More.
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