Peripheral Visions
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Peripheral Visions: The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema
By Kenneth Scott CalhoonA fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation facilitated much of the editorial work on this volume , and the National Endowment for the Humanities made it possible for certain of the contributors to meet and exchange ...
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Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way
By Mary C. BatesonPeripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and concludes with a description of a tour bus full of Tibetan monks.
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Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen
By Lisa WedeenLisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such weak states tends to arise not from attachments to institutions but through both extraordinary events and ...
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Peripheral Visions
By Phyllis TherouxAn unusual series of charming, poignant, and perceptive vignettes captures the quiet drama and extraordinary qualities of ordinary people and places
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Peripheral Visions: Deterrence Theory and American Foreign Policy in the Third World, 1965-1990
By Ted HopfThe evidence in this book (looking at crises in Vietnam, Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Iran, Nicaragua, Grenada, the Middle East, and Ghana) implies that military strength is not the only way - not even the most effective way - to deter an ...
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Peripheral Visions
By Paul KaneAs she opened her eyes—her vision blurred, hardly able to see at all—she thought she caught a glimpse of the figure that had been in the room standing beside ... “I thought I would find you here,” she said, walking 79 peripheral visions.
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Peripheral Visions: Images of Nationhood in Contemporary British Fiction
By Ian A. BellThroughout contemporary British writing, the question of national identity recurs. By means of its testimony to lived experience, the novel seems to offer the possibility of exploring local communities and...
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Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s-present
By Maria Antonella PelizzariThis book presents works by a number of major Italian photographers who have explored aspects of their native land that are rarely depicted elsewhere.
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Peripheral Visions: Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan
By Edward D. Terry... Yucatán bajo los Aus- trias ( Seville : Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos , 1978 ) , 209-30 , 312-56 ; Manuela Cristina García Bernal , La sociedad de Yucatán , 1700–1750 ( Seville : Escuela de Estudios His- panoamericanos , 1972 ) ...