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Kirt Wilson examines Reconstruction's desegregation debate to explain how it represented an important movement in the evolution of U.S. race relations.

The Legacy of Korean Picture Brides is a collection of twenty-eight (28) oral history interviews conducted by Sonia Shinn Sunoo during the 1970s. A companion volume to her first volume of oral histories, Korea Kaleidoscope, this collection focuses on the trials and experiences of the first generation of Korean immigrant women in America. A particular focus was to capture the first-hand story of "picture brides." These women were so ready to es...

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The Legacy of Korean Picture Brides is a collection of twenty-eight (28) oral history interviews conducted by Sonia Shinn Sunoo during the 1970s. A companion volume to her first volume of oral histories, Korea Kaleidoscope, this collection focuses on the trials and experiences of the first generation of Korean immigrant women in America. A particular focus was to capture the first-hand story of "picture brides." These women were so ready to es...

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In the companion volume to the acclaimed Witness of my Life, Jean-Paul Sartre reveals his life as a soldier, a German prisoner, and a man of Resistance through letters between himself and his "beloved Beaver, " Simone de Beauvoir. Quiet Moments in a War tells the story of Jean-Paul Sartre at the peak of his powers and renown through the exchanging of ideas and intimacies with Simone de Beauvoir from 1940 to 1963. In the pages of this book, rea...

A new novel from the bestselling author of MY FAIR MAN and STEPFORD HUSBANDS is a tense and compelling suspense of obsession and desire.

A railway crossing, a headlight, an oncoming train, and a man standing paralyzed in its path. Joseph is in mortal danger, and his "mind" is computing escape solutions... Joseph Graybar, an FBI special agent lands in India to apprehend a criminal from the United States, and finds himself in the middle of a violent world, where the local police are hot on the heels of a gang of outlaws. His quarry, an Indian citizen, becomes the newest member of...

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There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations of more than one million. As globalization intensifies, these city-regions come to pose many new questions and problems. This book presents a highly-original and multifaceted review of these issues by some of the leading researchers in the field.

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This unique edited volume by some of the leading scholars in the field, examines the importance, or non-importance, of the personalities of political leaders in determining the outcomes of democratic elections. The book argues, contrary to conventional wisdom, that relatively few voters are swayed by candidates' personal characteristics. Their findings imply that modern democratic pointers is not nearly as candidate-cent red and personality-or...

This major study examines a Victorian obsession with 'influence', the often unpredictable after-effects of words and actions, in fields as diverse as mesmerism and theology, literary theory and sanitation reform. For writers such as Tennyson, FitzGerald and Dickens, the idea is both a theoretical and a practical problem.Survival is not only what their writing critically examines, but also what it sets out to achieve.

Up to date and informative, the Yearbook of Copyright and Media Law is now well established as a key source of information and analysis for all copyright, media and entertainment law professionals. It responds to practical developments and problem areas such as the Internet and Multimedia while also making a serious contribution to copyright and media law as a legal discipline. The central feature of the Yearbook is the range of annual surveys...

This book describes the fate of the soldiers of the anti-Bolshevik White Army, who fled Russia at the end of the Russian civil war. Remarkably, the Army continued to exist in exile, refining its ideology, and participating in the underground struggle against the Soviets. Paul Robinson sheds new light on the dynamic individuals involved in the White Movement, as well as on interwar Russian emigration in general.

Why was the great philosopher Spinoza expelled from his Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam? Nadler's investigation of this simple question gives fascinating new perspectives on Spinoza's thought and the Jewish religious and philosophical tradition from which it arose.

The latest volume in the Fuji Business History series explores the role of the entrepreneur and small business in the economies of the East and West. The volume presents contributions from well-known international scholars, including Michael Cusumano on Bill Gates and High-Tech Entrepreneurship, Martin Kenney on Venture Capital in Silicon Valley, and Mary Rose on issues of succession in entrepreneurial firms.