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This is a comprehensive study of style and structure evaluating Joni Mitchell's        songs from a musicological perspective. Whitesell analyses the singer-songwriter's        musical technique, poetic nuance, and cultural reference. Whitesell develops        conceptual tools in order to demonstrate the extent of Mitchell's innovation and...

In 2004, Darfur, Sudan was described as the "e;world's greatest humanitarian        crisis."e; Twenty years previously, Darfur was also the site of a disastrous famine.          Famine that Kills is a seminal account of that famine, and a social history of the        region. In a new preface prepared for this revised edition, Alex de Waal...

What is it to be able to think about the material world, about oneself, and about        other people? Christopher Peacocke argues that our concepts are to be explained in        terms of the conditions in which they refer to aspects of the world. Reference and        truth are fundamental in understanding....

This abridged edition of On War by Beatrice Heuser, using the acclaimed translation by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, selects the central books in which Clausewitz&'s views on the nature and theory of war are developed. - ;&'War is merely the continuation of policy by other means&'On War is one of the most important books ever written on the...

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The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the TwentiesIn Emerging Adulthood, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett presents an engaging and compelling        portrait of the lives of people he calls "e;emerging adults."e; He argues that in recent        decades, a new stage of life has developed, usually lasting from about age 18        through the...