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Describes how Dominican baseball fosters national pride and competition with the United States while at the same time promoting acceptance of the North American presence in the country
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The landscape of the world economy is changing rapidly, including new and much more powerful roles for the IMF and World Bank, as well as the rapid growth of wider free trade areas in North America an
In this book an internationally renowned scientist presents a radically new theory of the origin of life on Earth 4 billion years ago.Harold J. Morowitz postulates that the first step toward the origi
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The time may be ripe for a broad rethinking of international economic arrangements. This book reviews the options to consider since the 1994 conference in Bretton Woods.
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This book is based on the papers that were presented at the First International Urban Anthropology Conference, which was opened in Beijing on December 28, 1989. It contains twenty-two papers and six i
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Plays included in this volume are: Dasvedanya Mama, Ethyl Eichelberger; The Theory of Total Blame, Karen Finley; The Mysteries and What’s So Funny?, David Gordon; The American Plan, Richard Greenberg;
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