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Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-05 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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“A gorgeously written book whose literary chops are beyond doubt. Come for the prose, and stay for the murders.” — USA Today “This is beach reading that
Russia's Orient
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Daniel R. Brower
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-06-22 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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From a 1994 conference (U. of California, Berkeley), Borderlands Research Group participants present their findings based on unprecedented access to the hinterl
Japan's Orient
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Stefan Tanaka
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-02-08 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. He
A Vision of the Orient
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: J. L. Wisenthal
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Best known as the story from the 1904 Puccini opera, the compelling modern myth of Madame Butterfly has been read, watched, and re-interpreted for many years. T
The Hebrew Orient
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Jessica L. Carr
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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In the decades before the establishment of the State of Israel, striking images of Palestine circulated widely among Jewish Americans. These images visualized "