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From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadette Meyler traces the roots of contemporary understandings of pardoning to tragicomic "theaters of pardoning" in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century England....
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The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects of the revolving door between public service and private enrichment on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western democracies, has developed in concert with the...
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During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French Civil Code to appropriate the property of Algerians. In Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930, Judith Surkis traces how colonial authorities constructed Muslim legal difference and used it to deny Algerian...
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“The Bureaucracy of Empathy” revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of nonhuman animals? Shira Shmuely investigates these ethical issues through a close and careful history of the origins, implementation, and enforcement of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act of Parliament, which for the first time imposed legal restrictions on animal experimentation and mandated official supervision...
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The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s-covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide...
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Disaffected examines the effects of antisedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that used the term "disaffection" to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing that...
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Corpus) volume 563
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Izdatel¿£stvo AST
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2020.
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"An Italian novel about a woman who was abandoned by her husband, leaving her with two children. Olga, the main character, also the storyteller, goes through an ordeal, almost slips into madness from grief and humiliation, but keeps on the edge of the abyss and continues to live." --
11) Neznakomaia doch
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Corpus) volume 583
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Corpus
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2020.
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"Leda, a 47-year-old divorced mother, is alone for the first time in years after her now adult daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection. She spends her summer vacation on a beach on the southern Italian coast watching a young mother and her little girl play. When the girl loses her doll, Leda commits a small crime that she can't explain even to herself." --
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Corpus) volume 599
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Izdatel'stvo AST
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2020
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"Lying Adulthood is a gripping, psychologically subtle and accurate novel about the tough times of growing up. The main character is a teenage girl who has to learn many family secrets, which would be difficult for any adult to cope with. Betrayal of loved ones, hatred and malicious gossip, a jewel passing from person ot person, simultaneously resolving and causing conflict ... And a first love ... How difficult it is to be a teenager! How difficult...
15) Bez kupi͡ur
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Corpus volume 422
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AST
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2017.
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"V vospominanii͡akh amerikanskogo slavista, glavy izdatelʹstva "Ardis" Karla Proffera opisany ego vstrechi s Nadezhdoĭ Mandelʹshtam, besedy s Elenoĭ Bulgakovoĭ, vizity k Lile Brik. Proffer ne uspel zakonchitʹ mnogo iz zadumannogo, i kniga o literaturnykh vdovakh Rossii byla podgotovlena i izdana ego zhenoĭ Ėllendeeĭ Proffer v 1987 godu, uzhe posle ego smerti, no na russkiĭ perevedena tolʹko seĭchas. A zametki ob Iosife Brodskom, s kotorym...
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Edition Corpus volume 348
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Izdatelstvo AST
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2015.
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"The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother's Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents' yard. Twelve years later Robin's murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. Robin's sister Harriet - smart, insufferably determined, and influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson, sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet...