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A vampire-flipped Dracula in which mortality means life…and life means death.Vampires Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Murray live in underground London, trying to keep the undead city safe from the rumored mortals above who seek to give them life, only to kill them. But when the authorities refuse to believe mortals, let alone the mysterious Count Dracula, are anything more than myth, they are on their own to keep their city eternally...

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County government is one of the most consequential, least understood levels of government in America. Specific county roles and responsibilities vary widely from state to state- and even within some states- but county governments everywhere play an important role in serving residents and communities. What is often overlooked is that county governments are institutions comprised of people- county officials who live and work in the communities...

County government is one of the most consequential, least understood levels of government in America. Specific county roles and responsibilities vary widely from state to state- and even within some states- but county governments everywhere play an important role in serving residents and communities. What is often overlooked is that county governments are institutions comprised of people- county officials who live and work in the communities...

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This volume is intended as an introduction to the classics for both beginners and more experienced students. Issues addressed include the extent to which cultural and social forms change through time, and the extent of change in cultural systems since antiquity.

New York Times bestselling horror writers Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon create a music festival to die for in this illustrated novel with artwork by Peter Bergting!The Valhalla music festival commemorates a long-ago Viking slaughter, but when strange things start to happen it seems the massacre may be far from over. When festival-goers begin to disappear, and musicians find themselves playing mysterious and ancient songs as if possessed, t...

From the beloved author of Comeback Love and Wherever There Is Light, comes "a sweeping tale full of humor and heartbreak" (Karin Tanabe, author of The Diplomat's Daughter) about the life-changing journey of a young man who travels from New Jersey to Khrushchev's Russia and the beaches of Southern France to discover long-hidden secrets about his heritage.In 1950s New Jersey, teacher Michael Daniels—or Misha Danielov to his doting Russian-Jewis...

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Excerpt from The Voice of IrelandUnless we wish the Irish cause to die, unless we wish the last injunction of Emmet to be merely a memory instead of a beacon light and an inspiration, then must we each become a veritable crusader and propound the doctrine of Irish Nationhood in the face of all opposition and of all defeat. We must become inoculated with the germ of unrest and disquietude and dissatisfaction until the question is finally and fo...

This book explores the hundreds of years of history that led American Jewry into the middle of the Cold War. The book s primary focus is on the impact of the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the founding of Israel on American and Soviet Jewry. The changes in American and Soviet culture, and the Cold War are explored in depth. Along with original documents, published histories, newspapers, journals, and magazines, Peter Golden also relied o...

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For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focused on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ancient medicine. And then...

For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focused on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ancient medicine. And then...

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Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own. Both idea and practice also varied within antiquity, shaped by locale, history, social class, age, legal status, and gender. Focusing on the cultures of the Mediterranean from 800 BCE to 350 CE, A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World co...

A sweeping, panoramic tale, chronicling the decades-long love affair between a Jewish immigrant and the granddaughter of a slave.