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A History of Africa: Combined Edition

Toyin Falola (University of Texas at Austin),Timothy Stapleton (University of Calgary)

A higher education text on the history of Africa –

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Religion Around Bono: Evangelical Enchantment and Neoliberal Capitalism

Chad E. Seales (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

Examines how the popular musician and public figure Bono represents the power of evangelicalism and promotes a religion of neoliberal capitalism.

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Primavera: Poems

Arthur Shearly Cripps,Professor of Philosophy Stephen Phillips (Both at the University of Texas at Austin),Laurence Binyon

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition: Doing and Knowing

Barbara L. Davis,Lisa M. Bedore (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

This volume takes a comprehensive look at the theoretical and empirical research on early phonetic and phonological acquisition in the context of typical and atypical development. It explores processes that…

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An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition: Doing and Knowing

Barbara L. Davis,Lisa M. Bedore (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

This volume takes a comprehensive look at the theoretical and empirical research on early phonetic and phonological acquisition in the context of typical and atypical development. It explores processes that…

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Reformed Resurgence: The New Calvinist Movement and the Battle Over American Evangelicalism

Brad Vermurlen (Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin)

One of the biggest movements in American Christianity, especially among younger evangelicals, is a groundswell of interest in the Reformed tradition. In Reformed Resurgence, Brad Vermurlen provides a comprehensive sociological…

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Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World

R. Alan Covey (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin)

This is a major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts, made possible by new archaeological and archival…

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Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction

Donna Kornhaber (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin)

In this brief and readable account, the cinema’s formative decades come vividly to life. Covering the full span of the silent era and touching on films and filmmakers from every…

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Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime and Punishment in Visual Media

Mary Angela Bock (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin)

In Seeing Justice, Mary Angela Bock studies the way the American criminal justice system is visually represented in news. Going behind the scenes, she examines the way visual journalists negotiate…

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Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime and Punishment in Visual Media

Mary Angela Bock (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin)

In Seeing Justice, Mary Angela Bock studies the way the American criminal justice system is visually represented in news. Going behind the scenes, she examines the way visual journalists negotiate…

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Chants, Hypertext, and Prosulas: Re-texting the Proper of the Mass in Beneventan Manuscripts

Luisa Nardini (Associate Professor of Musicology, Associate Professor of Musicology, The University of Texas at Austin)

Chants, Hypertext, and Prosulas presents the first comprehensive study to integrate textual and musical analyses of liturgical prosulas as they were recorded in medieval Beneventan manuscripts.

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The Pace of Fiction: Narrative Movement and the Novel

Brian Gingrich (Visiting Assistant Professor, Visiting Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin)

This study traces transformations in the pacing of prose fiction from the rise of the novel through realism and modernism–from Fielding, Goethe, and Austen to Flaubert, Henry James, and Joyce.

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New England Women Writers, Secularity, and the Federalist Politics of Church and State

Gretchen Murphy (Thamen Professor of English, Thamen Professor of English, The University of Texas at Austin)

Scholars have long known that early American women wrote pious, sentimental stories. This book uses biographical and archival sources to understand how their religious concerns fed into debates about democracy…

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The Festival of Pirs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India

Afsar Mohammad (Lecturer in Asian Studies, Lecturer in Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

The Festival of Pirs is an ethnographic study of the religious life of the village of Gugudu in Andhra Pradesh.

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The Festival of Pirs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India

Afsar Mohammad (Lecturer in Asian Studies, Lecturer in Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

The Festival of Pirs is an ethnographic study of the religious life of the village of Gugudu in Andhra Pradesh.

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Emotions, Values, and the Law

John Deigh (Professor of Philosophy and Law, Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Texas at Austin)

These essays ask questions about the nature of emotions and the place of voluntary action in our understanding of common phenomena of our moral and political lives.

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Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

Sarah Brayne (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin)

Predict and Surveil offers an unprecedented, inside look at how police use big data and new surveillance technologies. Sarah Brayne conducted years of fieldwork with the LAPD–one of the largest…

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American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures

Joanna Brooks (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin)

American Lazarus offers a bold new vision of a foundational moment in American literature. It reveals the depth of early Black and Indian intellectual history and reassesses the political, literary…

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Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760

Caroline Castiglione (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin)

Four generations of the aristocratic Barberini family and its vassals clashed over how the early modern Roman countryside should be governed. Villagers sometimes cultivated noble interference, but they frequently resisted…

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Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760

Caroline Castiglione (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin)

Four generations of the aristocratic Barberini family and its vassals clashed over how the early modern Roman countryside should be governed. Villagers sometimes cultivated noble interference, but they frequently resisted…

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The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies

David Neumeyer (Professor of Music Theory, Professor of Music Theory, The University of Texas at Austin)

The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies gathers two dozen original essays that chart the history and current state of interdisciplinary scholarship on music in audiovisual media, focusing on four…

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American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures

Joanna Brooks (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin)

American Lazarus offers a bold new vision of a foundational moment in American literature. It reveals the depth of early Black and Indian intellectual history and reassesses the political, literary…

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Music in the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Robin Moore (Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, The University of Texas at Austin)

Music in the Hispanic Caribbean explores the musical and cultural traditions of the Spanish-speaking countries of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico), a relatively small group…

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The Scattering Time: Turkana Responses to Colonial Rule

John Lamphear (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin)

A study of the armed resistance of the Turkana people of north-western Kenya to British colonial administration in the early 20th century. The author takes full account of the military…

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Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Classrooms

Dr Diane Pedrotty Bryant (The University of Texas at Austin),Deborah Deutsch Smith (Claremont Graduate University),Brian R Bryant (The University of Texas at Austin,)

Prepare and inspire teachers to ADAPT to the needs of all their students! Using the research-validated A-D-A-P-T model as an instructional guide, problem-solving approach and mnemonic, this new book clearly…

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Introduction to Matrix Computations

G. W. Stewart (The University of Texas, Austin)

Numerical linear algebra is far too broad a subject to treat in a single introductory volume. Stewart has chosen to treat algorithms for solving linear systems, linear least squares problems…

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Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue: Capitalism and Civil Society in the British Enlightenment

Mark Garrett Longaker (University of Texas, Austin)

Focuses on the writings of John Locke, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, and Herbert Spencer to explore how the discipline of rhetoric connected the economics and ethics of capitalism from the…

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The People of the State of California, Plaintiff vs. the Gold Run Ditch and Mining Company, Defendant

Samuel M Wilson (University of Texas, Austin)

Full Title: The People of the State of California, Plaintiff Vs. The Gold Run Ditch and Mining Company, Defendant Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides…

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The Inca Kingdom

E L Koschmieder (University of Texas, Austin)

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The Splintering Frame: The Later Fiction of H. G. Wells

William J Scheick (University of Texas, Austin)

The notion that Wells’s best work includes some of his later discursive novels of ideas might seem perverse. This focuses on Wells’s fiction of the 1920s and 1930s and its…

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Systematic Conservation Planning

Chris Margules,Sahotra Sarkar (University of Texas, Austin)

Cutting edge guide to deciding which areas we should invest conservation funds in for the best conservation return. Providing a clear procedure for identifying conservation priority areas underpinned by cutting…

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Address of Hon. Samuel M. Wilson: Delivered at the First Commencement of the Hastings College of the Law, University of California, May 30, 1881.

Samuel M Wilson (University of Texas, Austin)

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…

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Sovereignty: A Commencement Address Before the Faculty, Graduates, and Students of the Jefferson School of Law at Louisville, Ky., May 31, 1922.

Samuel M Wilson (University of Texas, Austin)

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…

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Memorial Address on the Death of Warren G. Harding, Late President of the United States.

Samuel M Wilson (University of Texas, Austin)

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…

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Systematic Conservation Planning

Chris Margules,Sahotra Sarkar (University of Texas, Austin)

Cutting edge guide to deciding which areas we should invest conservation funds in for the best conservation return. Providing a clear procedure for identifying conservation priority areas underpinned by cutting…

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Group Identity in the Renaissance World

Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski (University of Texas, Austin)

This book argues that radically new concepts of group identity emerged during the Renaissance. Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski reconsiders that transformational era in a global context and persuasively argues that we…

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Cosmic Catastrophes: Exploding Stars, Black Holes, and Mapping the Universe

J. Craig Wheeler (University of Texas, Austin)

From supernovae and gamma-ray bursts to the accelerating Universe, this will be essential reading for undergraduate students in astronomy and astrophysics, and an excellent introduction for a wider audience. This…

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The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico: Mixing Epistemologies

Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria (University of Texas, Austin)

This is a study of life in two radically different sites in colonial Mexico: Mexico City, the focus of Spanish colonization, and Xaltocan, an indigenous town. Topics include the adoption…

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Trump and Us: What He Says and Why People Listen

Roderick P. Hart (University of Texas, Austin)

Trump and Us offers a fresh perspective on how Donald Trump became president and maintains his popularity, taking seriously the breadth and depth of his support. Through a rhetorical analysis…

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China and the International Human Rights Regime

Rana Siu Inboden (University of Texas, Austin)

Rana Siu Inboden analyses China’s role in the international human rights regime from the early 1980s until 2017. She provides insights into the motivations and influences driving China’s subtle yet…

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Essentials of Geophysical Data Processing

Clark R. Wilson (University of Texas, Austin)

A concise survey of essential topics in geophysical data processing for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in geophysics, environmental science, and engineering. With real-life scenarios and datasets, it shows how…

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Conservative but Not Republican: The Paradox of Party Identification and Ideology among African Americans

Tasha S. Philpot (University of Texas, Austin)

This book explores why the increase in Black conservatives has not met with a corresponding rise in the number of Black Republicans.

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Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and their Distribution in the United States

Daniel T. Slesnick (University of Texas, Austin)

Family income-based statistics on social welfare suggest that inequality has increased and poverty remained persistently high over the past twenty-five years. Yet consumption-based statistics yield rigorous and quite different estimates…

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Reinventing Rationality: The Role of Regulatory Analysis in the Federal Bureaucracy

Thomas O. McGarity (University of Texas, Austin)

In this book, Professor McGarity reveals the complex and problematic relationship between the ‘regulatory reform’ movements initiated in the early l970s and the United States’ federal bureaucracy. The author examines…

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Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpretation

John P. Rumrich (University of Texas, Austin)

In this provocative study, John P. Rumrich exposes the historical inaccuracies and logical inconsistencies that sustain the current critical orthodoxy of John Milton as censorious preacher and aggressive misogynist. He…

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Modes of Discourse: The Local Structure of Texts

Carlota S. Smith (University of Texas, Austin)

In studying discourse, the problem for the linguist is to find a fruitful level of analysis. Carlota Smith offers a new approach with this study of discourse passages. She introduces…

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Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico’s Democratization in Comparative Perspective

Kenneth F. Greene (University of Texas, Austin)

Why Dominant Parties Lose explains why dominant parties win for long periods and then ultimately lose. Greene argues that dominant parties benefit from dramatic advantages over the opposition, primarily because…

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