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  • Campus Crisis
    Ann Martin / James D. Hardy
    Universities have stood for 900 years in Western culture with most of their institutional structures essentially unchanged. They still serve three basic functions: educating the faculty, teaching students and gathering knowledge. Funding is, and always has been, the main difficulty within universities and most of the problems critics point to can be traced to a lack of it--u...
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    42,90 €

  • 'Light of My Life'
    Ann Martin / James D. Hardy
    Vladimir Nabokov, one of the 20th century’s greatest novelists, is particularly remembered for his masterpiece Lolita. The present work examines the enduring themes of Lolita and places the novel in its biographical, social, cultural and historical contexts. Of particular interest are questions of love in all of its manifestations, the central problem of time in the book, an...
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    57,53 €

  • The New York Giants Base Ball Club
    James D. Hardy
    In the earliest days of professional baseball, onlookers regarded the game with some ambivalence. To capture the hearts of the public, baseball needed teams worth watching-and no team was a better ambassador for baseball in the 19th century than the New York Giants. Sporadically very good and at times even fashionable, the Giants of the 1800s were not yet the perennial pow...
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    73,60 €

  • Baseball and the Mythic Moment
    James D. Hardy
    While moments come and go, and popular trends are created only to be consumed and replaced, a small handful of events are able to transcend place and time to become widely shared cultural touchstones. Baseball, with its longevity, reverence for character and perseverance, and symbolism of American values, has produced a number of these modern myths--people, games and events ...
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    42,89 €

  • The New York Giants Base Ball Club
    James D. Hardy
    Though baseball would eventually come to embody the American spirit, in the nineteenth century onlookers regarded the game with some ambivalence. To capture the hearts of the public, baseball needed teams worth watching--and no team was a better ambassador for baseball in the 19th century than the New York Giants. The pre-John McGraw Giants were occasionally very good and ...
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    42,75 €