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Dirty War, Clean Hands
ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy, Second Edition
Spain’s transition from the Franco dictatorship to a democratic state has been widely regarded as exemplary. However, this powerfully written book reveals that as Spain’s first post-transition government attempted to destroy...
Does the New Testament Imitate Homer?
Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles
In this provocative challenge to prevailing views of New Testament sources, Dennis R. MacDonald argues that the origins of passages in the book of Acts are to be found not in early Christian legends but in the epics of...
Reading Between the Lines
Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacy
This book presents a collection of new and stimulating approaches to reading in a foreign language. The contributors to the volume all place reading at the heart of learning a foreign language and entering a foreign...
Russian Crossroads
Toward the New Millennium
A memoir by an important Russian reformist leader that sheds new light on events and personalities in that country over the past two decades A prominent Russian politician who served as prime minister,...
Collected Poetry and Prose
A major poet, writer, and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as the dominating cultural presence in the second half of the nineteenth century. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite movement, revised and reimagined Blake’s...
Échos
Cultural Discussions for Students of French
This uniquely appealing book is an interdisciplinary introduction to French cultural studies designed for French-language students. The book employs a holistic approach, integrating French with texts and images that might...
Interpreting Wagner
In this fresh and inventive book, James Treadwell lays open the rich possibilites for interpretation offered across the full range of Wagner’s art. Focusing on Wagner’s music, dramas, and prose writings, rather than on...
The Strange Death of American Liberalism
In this provocative book, H. W. Brands confronts the vital question of why an ever-increasing number of Americans do not trust the federal government to improve their lives and to heal major social ills. How is it that...
The Soul of Latin America
The Cultural and Political Tradition
To understand Latin America’s political culture, and to understand why it differs so greatly from that of the United States, one must look beyond the political history of the region, Howard J. Wiarda explains in this...
The Red Millionaire
A Political Biography of Willy Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West
A committed Communist and a tireless con-man, Lenin’s friend and the Soviet Union’s most persuasive myth-maker, Willy Münzenberg changed the course of European history Willy Münzenberg—an Old Bolshevik...