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Voci della migrazione nel Canada francofono
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ISBN: 8878920207 Year: 2005 Volume: 13 Publisher: Torino : L'Harmattan Italia,


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Les échecs.
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ISBN: 2130543863 9782130543862 Year: 2005 Volume: 1592 Publisher: Paris PUF

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L'immunité des états face aux droits de l'homme et à la protection des biens culturels : immunité de juridiction des états et droits de l'homme, immunité d'exécution des États et de leurs biens culturels
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ISBN: 3725550662 Year: 2005 Volume: 247 Publisher: Zürich : Schulthess,


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Missionnaires français en terre d'islam : Damas 1860 - 1914.
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ISBN: 2846540802 9782846540803 Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris Indes Savantes

The chosen : the hidden history of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton / Jerome Karabel.
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ISBN: 0618574581 9780618574582 Year: 2005 Publisher: Boston (Mass.) : Houghton Mifflin,

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A landmark, revelatory history of admissions from 1900 to today--and how it shaped a nation The competition for a spot in the Ivy League--widely considered the ticket to success--is fierce and getting fiercer. But the admissions policies of elite universities have long been both tightly controlled and shrouded in secrecy. In The Chosen, the Berkeley sociologist Jerome Karabel lifts the veil on a century of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. How did the policies of our elite schools evolve? Whom have they let in and why? And what do those policies say about America? A grand narrative brimming with insights, The Chosen provides a lens through which to examine some of the main events and movements of America in the twentieth century--from immigration restriction and the Great Depression to the dropping of the atomic bomb and the launching of Sputnik, from the Cold War to the triumph of the market ethos. Many of Karabel"s findings are astonishing: the admission of blacks into the Ivy League wasn"t an idealistic response to the civil rights movement but a fearful reaction to inner-city riots; Yale and Princeton decided to accept women only after realizing that they were losing men to colleges (such as Harvard and Stanford) that had begun accepting "the second sex"; Harvard had a systematic quota on "intellectuals" until quite recently; and discrimination against Asian Americans in the 1980s mirrored the treatment of Jews earlier in the century. Drawing on decades of meticulous research, Karabel shines a light on the ever-changing definition of "merit" in college admissions, showing how it shaped--and was shaped by--the country at large. Full of colorful characters, from FDR and Woodrow Wilson to Kingman Brewster and Archibald Cox, The Chosen charts the century-long battle over opportunity--and offers a new and deeply original perspective on American history. Jerome Karabel is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley,

The last titan : a life of Theodore Dreiser
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ISBN: 052092911X 1597349410 9780520929111 1417585005 9781417585007 0520234812 9780520234819 9781597349413 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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When Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality-for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of "the godless side of American life." It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser's literary achievement into the context of his life. Jerome Loving gives us a Dreiser for a new generation in a brilliant evocation of a writer who boldly swept away Victorian timidity to open the twentieth century in American literature. Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time, not only because of his literary efforts, which included publication of the brutal and heartbreaking An American Tragedy in 1925, but also because of his personal life, which featured numerous sexual liaisons, included membership in the communist party, merited a 180-page FBI file, and ended in Hollywood. The Last Titan paints a full portrait of the mature Dreiser between the two world wars-through the roaring twenties, the stock market crash, and the Depression-and describes his contact with important figures from Emma Goldman and H.L. Mencken to two presidents Roosevelt. Tracing Dreiser's literary roots in Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and especially Whitman, Loving has written what will surely become the standard biography of one of America's best novelists.

Epilepsy : global issues for the practicing neurologist
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ISBN: 1281974757 9786611974756 1934559121 1417596805 9781417596805 9781934559123 1888799889 9781888799880 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Demos Medical Pub.,

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This volume is the second in a series developed under the auspices of the World Federation of Neurology to meet the needs of neurologists who must practice medicine without many of the advantages that are often taken for granted in the industrialized world. It is targeted to neurologists practicing in low-resource environments and those who wish to practice cost-effective neurology, and addresses issues important for neurologists in developing countries that are not covered in standard textbooks. The series will update the reader in currently accepted diagnostic and management practice. Materi


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La rébellion zapatiste : insurrection indienne et résistance planétaire
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ISBN: 9782080801401 2080801406 Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris : Flammarion,

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Avez-vous lu Polanyi ?
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ISBN: 9782843030833 2843030838 Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris : La Dispute,

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