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Help! : the Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the magic of collaboration
A professor of music reveals how the cooperative method inspired the history-changing achievements of The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra.
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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Locke on Government
John Locke is one of the most important figures in the history of political thought. His Second Treatise on Government was one of the most significant political statements of its time and provides the foundations of liberal political thought. His views on the social contract, political obligation, rebellion, revolution and property remain strikingly relevant today.Locke on Government introduces and assesses:* Locke's life and the background to the Second Treatise on Government*The text and ideas of the Second Treatise*The continuing importance of Locke's work to philosophyFor student's coming to Locke for the first time, Locke on Government will be an invaluable guide to his political thought.
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China in Seven Banquets
A captivating journey spanning five thousand years of Chinese culinary heritage, exploring the essence of each era through seven extraordinary meals. China in Seven Banquets takes readers on a gastronomic adventure into the history of China s constantly evolving and astonishingly diverse cuisine. From the opulent Eight Treasures feast of ancient times to the Tang dynasty s legendary Tail-Burning banquet, and the extravagant complete Manchu-Han feast of the Qing court, these iconic repasts offer glimpses into China s rich food history. Delving further, the book invites us to partake of lavish banquets immortalized in literature and film, a New Year s buffet from 1920s Shanghai, a modern delivery menu reflecting the hyperglobal present, and it even offers a peek at the tables of the not-so-distant future. Drawing upon his extensive gastronomic adventures across China, acclaimed historian Thomas David DuBois unravels its ever-changing landscape of culinary trends, revealing why flavors and customs evolved over time. DuBois also recreates dozens of traditional recipes using modern kitchen techniques. Whether indulging in fermented elk or savoring absinthe cocktails, readers embark on an unparalleled odyssey that redefines their perception of Chinese cuisine.
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China in seven banquets : a flavourful history
\"A captivating journey spanning five thousand years of Chinese culinary heritage, exploring the essence of each era through seven extraordinary meals. China in Seven Banquets takes readers on a gastronomic adventure into the history of China's constantly evolving and astonishingly diverse cuisine. From the opulent Eight Treasures feast of ancient times to the Tang dynasty's legendary 'Tail-Burning' banquet, and the extravagant 'complete Manchu-Han feast' of the Qing court, these iconic repasts offer glimpses into China's rich food history. Delving further, the book invites us to partake of lavish banquets immortalized in literature and film, a New Year's buffet from 1920s Shanghai, a modern delivery menu reflecting the hyperglobal present, and it even offers a peek at the tables of the not-so-distant future. Drawing upon his extensive gastronomic adventures across China, acclaimed historian Thomas David DuBois unravels its ever-changing landscape of culinary trends, revealing why flavors and customs evolved over time. DuBois also recreates dozens of traditional recipes using modern kitchen techniques. Whether indulging in fermented elk or savoring absinthe cocktails, readers embark on an unparalleled odyssey that redefines their perception of Chinese cuisine\"-- Provided by publisher
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The Land between Two Rivers
A survey of recent scholarship shows that historians who are
skeptical about any \"real\" history of early Israel have disparaged
the idea that Israel had an early presence in Transjordan. This
skeptical stance, however, is by no means shared by everyone.
Cross, for instance, asserted that the tribe of Reuben was a
catalyst for Yahwism in the period preceding the rise of kings in
Israel and Transjordan (in the 10th/9th centuries B.C.). Weaving
together biblical, extrabiblical, and archaeological data available
to him at the time (1988), Cross demonstrated the reality of an
early Israelite presence in Transjordan. Ongoing excavations-at
Tall al-'Umayri, the type-site for the Late Bronze-Iron I
transition in the region bounded by the Wadi Zarqa in the north and
the Wadi Mujib in the south, and at Tall Madaba, which had an early
Iron I settlement-now confirm a tribal presence in these
Transjordanian areas during the early Iron I.
By bringing together applicable anthropological research and
relevant biblical, extrabiblical, and archaeological data, Petter
outlines a context-driven interpretive framework within which to
plot tribal ethnic expressions in the past. From the perspective of
the longue durée , we can see that frontier regions tend to
exhibit episodic changes of hand: competing sides claimed
legitimate ownership, sometimes by way of making the gods owners of
the land.
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Africa and France
Africa and France reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production, especially in theatre, literature, film, and even museum construction. A hated of foreigners, accompanied by new forms of intolerance and racism, has crept from policy into popular expressions of ideas about the postcolony and ethnic minorities. Dominic Thomas's stimulating and insightful analyses unravel the complex cultural and political realities of longstanding mobility between Africa and Europe and question the attempt at placing strict limits on what it means to be French or European. Thomas offers a sense of what must happen to bring about a renewed sense of integration and global Frenchness.
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Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia
Religious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political, social, and economic transformation of Asia from the fourteenth century to the present. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to Tibet, the book highlights long-term trends and key moments, such as the expulsion of Catholic missionaries from Japan, or the Taiping Rebellion in China, when religion dramatically transformed the political fate of a nation. Contemporary chapters reflect on the wartime deification of the Japanese emperor, Marxism as religion, the persecution of the Dalai Lama, and the fate of Asian religion in a globalized world.
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