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"I’D APOLOGIZE FOR KISSING YOU, BUT I’M NOT ALL THAT SORRY." Dancer Melanie Brooks had escaped small-town Oklahoma, giving up the country for Broadway’s bright lights. Yet after her mother’s funeral called her back, her own health issues forced her to stay. Now her tenant,...

The Oklahoma Cowboy Band was the first western string band in the nation to broadcast over the radio and appear on vaudeville, drawing large audiences throughout the Midwest and Northeast. The band began in Ripley as Billy McGinty's Cowboy Band and first played over radio station KFRU in Bristow in May...

**　　※2015《華盛頓郵報》、《丹佛郵報》最佳圖書※ 　　※2015普立茲獎入圍※ 　　※2015國家圖書獎入圍※** 　　回歸《古蘭經》，我們能看到什麼？ 　　世界上再沒有第二本書，能同時引發寬恕與戰爭、慰藉與仇恨。 　　誰誤解了它？誰能詮釋出真實的伊斯蘭？ 　　在對立紛擾的爭辯中，一位美國女記者跟隨一位印度傳統伊斯蘭學者， 　　回歸《古蘭經》經文的原始脈絡，走入澄澈明亮的伊斯蘭之心。 　　西方與伊斯蘭世界衝突愈演愈烈之際，各式各樣關於「伊斯蘭」的報導充斥著媒體版面。狂妄暴力的極端分子成為關注焦點，深化主流輿論對伊斯蘭的抨擊與偏見，同時，為伊斯蘭平反之聲也日益顯著…… 　　美國記者卡拉‧鮑爾兒時曾隨父親旅行伊朗和阿富汗，在她心中留下對伊斯蘭的親近之情。面臨現今西方與伊斯蘭世界撕裂衝突的局面，她決定展開行動：當瞭解伊斯蘭成為必要，為什麼沒有人願意討論《古蘭經》呢？ 　　為此，鮑爾開始和以挖掘歷史上四千名重要的女性穆斯林而聞名全球的印度裔伊斯蘭學者阿卡蘭（Mohammad...

The institutions and people who shaped the contemporary understanding of the "Land Question" (the creation under English rule of a class of poor Irish tenants with English and Scottish landlords) in Irish history, discussed by a wide range of Irish academicsThe history of Ireland is inextricably...

The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines...

Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge explores the museums, libraries, and special collections of the University of Michigan on its bicentennial. Since its inception, U-M has collected and preserved objects: biological and geological specimens; ethnographic and archaeological artifacts; photographs...

A classic novel of romance, mystery and suspense now in eBook! Whitney McCallie hasn't heard from her mentor, Victoria Paderevsky, in years, but now the eccentric symphony conductor calls out of the blue. A well-known diva, Paddy swears someone is trying to kill her. Whitney is skeptical but...

Yesterday's secrets are more dangerous than ever… For five years, anonymity has been Ashley Wakefield's refuge, ever since she and her twin brother, David, discovered they were the beneficiaries of a mysterious trust fund worth a fortune. Their lives forever changed, Ashley and David turned...

After a quiet Christmas in snowy Maine, Cady Dye decides to hire Cole Forrest to pose as her fiancé. Why not? The rugged man who just shoveled off her cabin roof is sure to deter whoever’s harassing her. But she’s surprised when Cole accepts her proposition. Cole is surprised, too, but he’s...

This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific...

Giles County was founded on November 14, 1809, and is known as the land of milk and honey. The county is home to over 30 National Register properties, Civil War skirmish sites, a varied cultural heritage, and intersecting Trail of Tears routes (Benge�s and Bell�s). It is also the beginning place...

"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully...

This book is based upon a true life story. The purpose of these writings is so that you who are bound in a relationship of abuse and cannot find a way of escape, would realize that this is not Gods plan or desire for His children and that there is hope for those who want to be delivered. Many times...

This book was designed as a collaborative effort to satisfy a long-felt need to pull together many important but separate inquiries into the nature and impact of inequality in colonial and revolutionary America. It also honors the scholarship of Gary Nash, who has contributed much of the leading work...