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    German: How to Speak and Write It (Beginners' Guides) by Joseph Rosenberg Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher. Modern course, with strong phrase material and a wealth of pictorial and amusement aids. ... Read more

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  • German

    How to Speak and Write It

    Series series Dover Language Guides German
    This is probably the most delightful, useful, and comprehensive elementary book available for learning spoken and written German, with or without a teacher. Working on the principles that a person learns more quickly by example than by rule, the author has put together a book that abounds in immediately usable German sentences and phrases on a wide variety of subjects.The student will find ... Read more

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  • Essentials of Interventional Cancer Pain Management

    This text provides a comprehensive review and expertise on various interventional cancer pain procedures. The first part of the text addresses the lack of consistency seen in the literature regarding interventional treatment options for specific cancer pain syndromes. Initially, it discusses primary cancer and treatment-related cancer pain syndromes that physicians may encounter when managing ... Read more

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  • The Enduring Legacy

    Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history of the oil industry’s rise in Venezuela from the beginning of the twentieth century, paying particular ... Read more

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  • Wastepaper Modernism

    Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print

    Series series Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
    From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that reveal an increasingly uneasy relationship between literature and its own materials over the course of the twentieth-century. ... Read more

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  • Financial Missionaries to the World

    The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy"—the use of international lending and advising—to early-twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy. Combining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, the distinguished historian Emily S. Rosenberg shows how private bank loans were extended to leverage the acceptance of American financial advisers ... Read more

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  • Banana Wars

    Power, Production, and History in the Americas

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States–Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United ... Read more

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  • Emperors in the Jungle

    The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Emperors in the Jungle is an exposé of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped more than a century of intervention and environmental engineering in a small, strategically located nation. Whether ... Read more

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  • Haunted by Empire

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    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
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    A Critical Encounter

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
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  • From Silver to Cocaine

    Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace the paths of many of Latin America’s most important exports: coffee, bananas, ... Read more

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  • A Date Which Will Live

    Pearl Harbor in American Memory

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    December 7, 1941—the date of Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor—is "a date which will live" in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the meanings attributed to them are hardly settled. In movies, books, and magazines, at memorial sites and public ceremonies, and on television and the internet, Pearl Harbor lives in a thousand guises and symbolizes ... Read more

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