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“…With the authority of an elder statesman, Blumenthal presents a compelling view of a new Germany--one that has been forced to confront its own dark past and become a world leader once again…”

“…From Jacobs' first trip to Spain, to the complex politics of Golden Age Madrid, to his meeting with the man who saved Las Meninas during the Spanish Civil war, via Jacobs' experiences of the sunless world of the art history academy, Jacobs' dissolves the barriers between the past and the present, the real and the illusory. Cut short by Jacobs' death in 2014, and completed with an introduction and coda of great sensitivity and insight by his friend and fellow lover of art, the journalist Ed Vulliamy, this visionary, meditative and often very funny book is a passionate, personal manifesto for the liberation of how we look at painting…”

“…Created by two of the fields leading experts, this unique introduction to international religious demography outlines the challenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, and presents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief. …”

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“…Cet essai permet, d'une part, d'aboutir à une anthropologie religieuse fondamentale et, d'autre part, d'ouvrir des perspectives nouvelles pour l'étude des anthropologies spécifiques ou sectorielles telles que l'anthropologie indo-européenne, l'anthropologie brahamique, l'anthropologie bouddhique, l'anthropologie grecque, l'anthropologie islamique. L'Épilogue du présent volume en expose les structures…”

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“…Tymoczko uses these theoretical ideas to retell the history of Western music from the eleventh century to the present day. Arguing that traditional histories focus too narrowly on the "common practice" period from 1680-1850, he proposes instead that Western music comprises an extended common practice stretching from the late middle ages to the present. …”

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“…Papers presented at a workshop "Focus and background in Romance languages" that convened during the 30th Romanistentag, the Biannual Meeting of the association of romanicists inthe German speaking countries, in Vienna, Austria, 23-27 September 2007.…”

“…An expanded and updated English edition of an acclaimed work originally published in French, the book offers a groundbreaking new theoretical framework for studying the economy of ancient Greece; presents a masterful survey and analysis of the most important economic institutions, resources, and other factors; and addresses some major historiographical debates. …”

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“…Told in dazzling chapters that alternate between events in the past and those closer to the present, The Eaves of Heaven brilliantly re-creates the trials of everyday life in Vietnam as endured by one man, from the fall of Hanoi and the collapse of French colonialism to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon. …”