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Fury
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Rushdie, Salman.

Fury : a novel / Salman Rushdie.

1st ed.

New York : Random House, c2001.

Abstract: Fury is the story of a dollmaker whose dolls run wild, of living women turned into dolls and then broken, and of a revolt on the planet's far side led by an army of living dolls. Fury is a novel of an old, deep love gone wrong, of a second, twisted passion rooted in wrongness, and of a third, passionate love that just might turn out right. Fury is a novel of furious energy, a study of the workings of fury at the heart of human lives: the personal fury that poisons human relations, the psychotic fury that fuels murderers, the social fury born of our raised and disappointed hopes, the creative fury that sets free our greatest gifts, the political fury that starts revolutions and burns whole cities down. Fury is a novel of today, an utterly contemporary portrait of life at the beginning of the third millennium, life in New York during an apparently endless time of prosperity that is paradoxically also a time of barrenness in many people's lives, and also in the world-empire that America rules, although it barely knows where it is.

Childhood's end
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Clarke, Arthur C. (1917-2008.)

Childhood's end / Arthur C. Clarke.

New York : Del Rey Impact, 2001.

Abstract: Earth has become a Utopia, guided by a strange unseen people from outer space whose staggering powers have eradicated war, cruelty, poverty and racial inequality. When the 'Overlords' finally reveal themselves, their horrific form makes little impression. Then comes the sign that the Overlords have been waiting for. A child begins to dream strangely - and develops remarkable powers. Soon this happens to every child - and the truth of the Overlords' mission is finally revealed to the human race...

The resistible rise of Arturo Ui
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Brecht, Bertolt, (1898-1956.)

The resistible rise of Arturo Ui / Bertolt Brecht ; translated by Ralph Manheim ; edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim.

1st Arcade pbk. ed.

New York : Arcade Pub., 2001.

Making silence speak
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Making silence speak : women's voices in Greek literature and society / edited by Andrâe Lardinois and Laura McClure

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001

Abstract: This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, Andre Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.

The metamorphoses
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Ovid, (43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.)

The metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated and with an introduction by Horace Gregory ; with decorations by Zhenya Gay.

New York : Mentor Book, 1960.

Abstract: Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.

R.U.R. (Rossum's universal robots)
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Capek Karel

R.U.R. (Rossum's universal robots) / Karel Capek ; translated by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair

Dover thrift editio

Postmodern geography
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Postmodern geography : theory and praxis / edited by Claudio Minca.

Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.

Abstract: "Postmodern Geography: Theory and Praxis" focuses upon one of the key themes which have served to shape disciplinary debates in geography over the past decade: the role of postmodernity and postmodern interpretations in reconfiguring our ways of framing social enquiry and our readings of space. This edited collection presents numerous perspectives on the implications of the postmodern turn for the praxis of geography. The contributors engage in debate about the epistemological bases of possible new geographical praxes - "other" possible ways of "doing geography" - while also querying the implications of postmodern approaches for geography and geographers' political role. The contributors to the volume include: Denis Cosgrove, Michael Dear, Giuseppe Dematteis, Franco Farinelli, Steven Flusty, Vincenzo Guarrasi, Cindi Katz, Luciana L. Martins, Claudio Minca, Don Mitchell, Gunnar Olsson, Neil Smith and Edward Soja.

I will bear witness
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Klemperer, Victor, (1881-1960.)

I will bear witness : a diary of the Nazi years, 1942-1945 / Victor Klemperer ; translated by Martin Chalmers.

Modern Library paperback ed.

New York : Modern Library, 2001.

Mein Kampf
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Hitler, Adolf

Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler ; translated by Ralph Manheim.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2001.

British cultural studies
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British cultural studies : geography, nationality, and identity / edited by David Morley and Kevin Robins.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Abstract: "British Cultural Studies maps the dynamics of contemporary British culture, seeking to identify its new configurations and to trace the dimensions of its emerging faultlines, including those deriving from the nation's colonial heritage and from the new forms of cultural politics - ethnic, regionalist, environmentalist, and consumerist - which now characterize this increasingly fragmented and diverse nation." "The book includes over thirty essays covering almost every aspect of culture and identity in Britain today and addressing the current transformations of this culture and identity in the context of globalization. The opening section of the book deals with different conceptions of Britishness and identity, including English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Asian and Black British identities. Section two then analyses the interplay between tradition and heritage in contemporary culture, whilst the final section looks at the world of lifestyle groups, subcultures, and cultural politics and the way in which they have come in many ways to substitute for notions of Britishness.

Milan   since  the  miracle
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Foot, John

Milan since the miracle : city culture and identity / John Foot

Oxford New York : Berg, 2001

Fascist modernities
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Ben-Ghiat, Ruth.

Fascist modernities : Italy, 1922-1945 / Ruth Ben-Ghiat.

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Studies on the history of society and culture ; 42

Italy
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Hearder, Harry.

Italy : a short history / Harry Hearder.

2nd ed. rev. and updated / by Jonathan Morris.

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Italy
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Doumanis, Nicholas

Italy / Nicholas Doumanis

London : Arnold, 2001

Inventing the nation

The Jews in Fascist Italy
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De Felice, Renzo, (1929-)

The Jews in Fascist Italy : a history / Renzo De Felice ; preface by Michael A. Ledeen ; translated from Italian by Robert L. Miller ; notes and documents translated from the Italian by Kim Englehart.

1st English ed.

New York : Enigma Books, c2001.

Biblioteca di cultura storica ; 68

Venice transfigured
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Eglin, John, (1962-)

Venice transfigured : the myth of Venice in British culture, 1660-1797 / John Eglin.

New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Abstract: This text examines changing representations of Venice and the Venetian Republic in Britain from the 17th century until the collapse of the Serene Republic in 1797, a period in which Venice was an ideological reference point and a potent cultural symbol. In the British political imagination, Venice became an important cultural site where politics and culture converged. This approach incorporates visual culture, festivity and ritual, history and historical myth that illuminates the relationship between political ideology and cultural production.

Bold words
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Bold words : a century of Asian American writing / edited by Rajini Srikanth and Esther Y. Iwanaga.

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001.

Abstract: A century of Asian American writing has generated a forceful cascade of hold words. This anthology covers Asian American writing of all genres, sixty authors from the early years of the twentieth century to the present. Chinese, Fllipinoa, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Southeast Asian American writers are all well represented, with an equal split between male and female writers. The collection is divided into four genre sections, memoir, fiction, poetry, and drama. Each section opens with an introductory essay from an expert in that genre: Meena Alexander on memoir. Gary Pak on fiction, Eilcen Tablos on poetry, and Roberta Uno on drama. The selections depict the complex realities and wide range of experiences of Asians in the United States. They illuminate the writers' creative responses to such diverse issues as resistance, aesthetic craft, blculturalism, sexuality, gender relations, racism, war, diaspora, and family.

American mosaic
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American mosaic : multicultural readings in context / Barbara Roche Rico, Sandra Mano.

3rd ed.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2001.

Abstract: American Mosaic helps students expand their historical awareness and critical-thinking skills while they study the development of literary, political, and cultural voices within the United States. A chronological framework allows students to examine key events in the history of ethnic groups in the U.S., with each chapter centering on a significant historical period for the group. An introductory chapter provides a foundation for multi-ethnic studies and the multicultural debate. Chapter introductions set the historical context and provide starting points for discussion.

Gulliver's travels
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Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift ; edited with an introduction and notes by Robert DeMaria, Jr.

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2001.

Penguin classics

Abstract: Here comes Swift's classic tale in a gorgeous new clothbound edition. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.

Caught in the web of words
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Murray, Elisabeth K. M.

Caught in the web of words : James A.H. Murray and the Oxford English dictionary / K.M. Elisabeth Murray ; with a preface by R.W. Burchfield

New Haven London : Yale University Press, 2001

Abstract: This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.