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When the Netherlands and Spain take to the field for Sunday’s World Cup final, a win for either will put a new name on the trophy; neither has succeeded in claiming soccer’s world crown before. With only two defeats since November 2006, Spain is the bookmakers’ favorite, though the Dutch have gone unbeaten throughout qualifying and at the finals. Spain was beaten by Switzerland in its opening …
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Fiction Across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Late-Twentieth-Century Novels $45.00 Theorists of Orientalism and postcolonialism argue that novelists betray political and cultural anxieties when characterizing “the Other.” Shameem Black takes a different stance. Turning a fresh eye toward several key contemporary novelists, she reveals how “border-crossing” fiction represents socially diverse groups without resorting to stereotype, idealization, or other forms of imaginative cons…

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea $1.35 It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high — a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it ‘the perfect storm.’ When it struck in October 1991, there was virtually no warning. ‘She’s comin’ on, boys, and she’s comin’ on strong, ‘ radioed Captain Billy Tyne of the “Andrea Gail” off the coast of Nova Scotia, and soon afterward th…

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