Life in Oil

Michael L. Cepek

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Oil is one of the world’s most important commodities, but few people know how its extraction affects the residents of petroleum-producing regions. In the 1960s, the Texaco corporation discovered cr

The Nutshell Technique

Jill Chamberlain

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Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain discovered in her work that an astounding 99 percent of first-time screenwriters don't know how to tell a story. What the 99 percent do instead is present

Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World

VanDerwarker, Amber M.

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The first comprehensive study of Olmec foodways and subsistence patterns and their relation to the development of institutionalized leadership.

Film Genre Reader III

Grant, Barry

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The standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film.

Dinarchus, Hyperides, and Lycurgus

Cooper, Craig R.; Harris, Edward Monroe; Worthington, Ian

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This is the fifth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classic

Antiphon and Andocides

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"In its primary aim of making Antiphon and Andocides accessible to a broader audience, the volume is eminently successful. Both translators show steady hands, accurately conveying the substance (an

Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

Ali Gheissari

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Since the middle of the nineteenth century, Iranian intellectuals have been preoccupied by issues of political and social reform, Iran's relation with the modern West, and autocracy, or arbitrary r

The Dialogic Imagination

M. M. Bakhtin

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These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician

Revenge Of The She-Punks

Vivien Goldman

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As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman’s perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes—identity, m