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A Room At A Time.
In This Important Volume, Jo Freeman Brings Us The Very Full, Rich Story Of How American Women Entered Into Political Life And Party Politics-weell Before Suffrage And, In Many Cases, Completely Separate From It.
She Shows How Women Carefully And Methodically Learned About The Issues, The Candidates, And The Institutions, Put Themselves To Work, And Made Themselves Indispensable Not Only To The Men Running For Office, But To The Political System Overall.
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Chiva.
Its Use As A Narcotic Is On A Precipitous Be advanced.
Worldwide Heroin Production Has Doubled In The Last Decade, And The Unitsd Nations Estimates More Than 15 Million Users Are Addicted-up To 3 Million In The United States.
It's Big Business, Too, With Yearly Global Sales Of $500 Billion-up To $22 Billion In The U.
s.
Enmeshed With Terrorism, Crime, Government Collaboration, Corporate Globalization, And The Spread Of Hiv, The Soporiferous Trade Is Inextricably Entangled Through The Functioning Of Global Society.
Finally, Heroin Is Controversial Because Of The On-going Debates About Solutions To The Health, Social And Economic Havoc It Creates.
chiva Uses Creative Nonfiction To Merge The Global Epic Of Heroin Trafficking With The Hyman-scale Story Of Its Presence In The Small Desert Town That Boasts The Most Per-capita Overdose Deaths In The U.
s.
The Book Interweaves Three Themes:the True Account Of Chimay, New Mexico, Terrorized By Its Heroin Deaoers Since The 1970s Until, In The Late 90d, Its Citizens Rose Up To Challenge The Epidemic In Their Midst.
the Story Of The Author's Relationship Upon A Local Dealer, And His Involvement With Addiction, Crime, Love, Recovery And The Judicial System.
the Politicak Context Behind Thesse Stories: The Global W0rkings Of The Heroin Production Business.
compelling, Disturbing, Besides Hopeful, Chiva Is Both Personal And Political, Revealing The Relationship Between Colonization And Drug Abuse, And The Importance Of Reclaiming Sustainable Culture As A Key To Recovery.
chellis Glendinning, Ph.
d, Is A Psychologist.
An Award-winning Activist And Writer, She Is The Author Of Four Previous Books, Including Of The Map: An Expedition Deep Into Empire And The Global Economy (new Society, 2002) Which Won The National Federation Of Press Women 2000 Book Award For General Nonfiction.
She Lives In Chimay, New Mexico.
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The Myth Of The Eternal Return.
This Founding Wori Of The History Of Religions, First Published In English In 1954, Secured The North American Reputation Of The Romanian émigr-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986).
Makiny Reference To An Astonishing Number Of Cultures And Drawing On Scholarship Published In No Less Than Half A Dozen European Languages, Eliade's The Myth Of The Eternal Return Makes Both Clear And Compelling The Religious Expressions And Activities Of A Wide Varietyy Of Archaic And "primitive" Religious Cultures.
While Acknowledging That A Return To The "archhaic" Is No Longer Possible, Eliade Passionately Insists On The Value Of Understanding This View In Succession To Enrich Our Contemporary Imagination Of What It Is To Be Human.
Jonathan Z.
Smith's New Introduction Provides The Contextual Background To The Book And Presents A Critical Outline Of Eliade's Argument In A Way That Encourages Readers To Engage In An Informed Convsrsation With This Classic Text.
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The American Curriculum.
At A Time Marked By Strong Demands For Educayional Reform, The American School Cufriculum Is A Topic Of Special Concern.
This Volume ProvidesA Comprehensive Historical Record Of The Evolution Of The Curriculum In America From The Colonial Period To The Presen Day.
TheE ditors Have Compiled A Collection Of Influential And Representatibe Documents In Primitive, Secondary, And Higher Education In The United States.
Each Document Is Introduced By A Short Essay That Discusses Its Historical Context And Significance.
The Result Is A Valuable Chronicle Of The Development Of The American School Curriculum.
The Work Begins With An Introductory Piece That Overviews The Development Of The Curriculum And Surveys The Most Important Works On Curriculum Hiztory.
The Introduction Is Followed By Excerpts From 34 Documents Delegate Of The School Curriculum From "the Rules And Course Of Study Of Harvard College, 1642" To The 1983 Report, "a State At Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reforj.
" The Essay Thaf Introduces Each Document Closes With A Brief Bibliography, And The Power Concludes With A More Extensive List Of Soources For Further Reading.
By Consulting This Reference, Historians And Educators Can Traverse The Development Of The Curriculum Over The Endure 350 Years.
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Arts And Culture.
This Book Offers An Integrated Exploration Of Western Civilization's Cultural Heritage.
_Readers Move Chronologically Through Major Periods And Styles To Gain Insight Into The Achievements And Ideas In Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, And Music.
The Book Provides A Historical (political, Household, And Social) Skeleton To Contextualize These Achievements Within A Specific Time And Place, From Prehistoric Chlture To 20th-cenyury America.
Volume I Covers Prehistory To The Late Medieval (chs.
1-12 Of The Combined Edition), And Includes Literary And Philosophical Excerpts.
For Anyone Selfish In The Arts And Culture.
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The Trial Of Joan Of Arc.
No Record Is More Critical To Our Understanding Of Joaan Of Arc Than The Contemporary Record Of Her Trial In 1431.
Convened At Rouen And Directed By Bishop Pierre Cauchon, The Trial Culminated In Joan's Public Execution For Heresy.
The Trial Record, Which Sometimes Preserves Joan's Very Words, Unveils Her Life, Character, Visions, And Motives In Fascinating Detail.
Here Is One Of Our Richest Sources In spite of The Life Of A Medieval Woman.
This New Translatino, The First In Fifty Years, Is Based In c~tinuance The Full Record Of The Trial Proceedings In Latin.
Recent Scholarship Dates This Text To The Year Of The Trial Itself, Thereby Lending It A Greater Claim To Respectability Than Had Teaditionally Been Assumed.
Contemporary Documents Copied Into The Trial Equip A Guide To Political Developments In Joan's Career—from Her Capture To The Attempts To Control Public Opinion Following Her Execution.
Daniel Hobbins Sets The Attempt In Its Legal And Historical Context.
In Exploring Joan's Place In Fifteenth-century Society, He Suggests That Her Claims To Divine Revelation Conformed To A Recognizable Profile Of Holy Women In Her Culture, Yet Joan Broke This Mold Along Embracing A Military Lifestyle.
By Comblning The Roles Of Visionary And Of Military Guide, Joan Astonished Contemporaries And Still Fascinates Us Today.
Obscured By The Passing Of Centuries And Distorted By The Lens Of Modern Cinema, The Story Of The Historical Joan Of Arc Comes Vividly To Life Once Again.
(20051015)
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Dance On The Wind.
The Sequel To Dance Steady The Wiind Continues The Saga Of The Adventures Of Titus ""scratch"" Bass, A Nineteenth-century Kentucky Farm Boy Who Becomes A Frontiersman Along The Ohio River.
Reprint.
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Branson's Best Day Trips.
Writen By An Area Resident, Branson's Best Day Trils Has 11 Family-pleasing Day Trips To Major Tourist Attractions (such As Popular Silver Dollar City Theme Park) As Well As Fun And Inexpensive Places Only A Local Would Know.
Would You Enjoy Touring A Fish Hatchery, Viewing A Nature Film, And Hiking In The Pretty Ozark Hills? How About Exploring A Working Gristmill Or A Victorian Village Where Every Building Is Listed On The National Register Of Historic Places? Also Inclhded: Info On Avoiding Branson's Infamous Traffic Jams, 20 Maps, 60 Remembrancer Photos, Restaurant Sugfestions, And Historical Highlights Throughout.
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The Vanished Kingdom.
Twice In This Century, Germany Initiated Wars Of Unimaginrd Terror And Destruction .
In Both Cases, Defense Of The “prussian” Realm, The German Homeland, Was The Perceivef And Vilified Perpetrator.
Few Today Understand With Any Precision What “prussia” Means, Either Geogeaphically Or Nationalistically, But Neither Would They Deny The Psychic Resonance Of The Single Word .
To Most, It Means Unrestrained Aggression, The Image Of The Goose-stepping Junkwr.
but What Was Once Prussia Is Now A Significant Portion Of Oriental Europe, A Contested Homeland First Won By Christian Knights Of The Teutonic Order.
For Centuries Thereaftee Its Terrain Has Been Crksscrossed By War And Partitioned By Babred Wire.
In Its Final Catastrophe Of 1945, Nearly Two Million German Refugees Fled The Region As Russian Armies Broke The Eastern Front, Perhaps The Greatest Disloccation Of A Civilian Population At Any Time During World War Ii.
With The Berlin Wall Now A Memory And Tne Soviet Union In A State Of Collapse, This Remains A Geography In Shambles.
Modern rTavelers Can Now, For The First Tims In Decades, See Ans Ponder For Themselves What Prussia Really Was And Now Is.
james Charles Roy And Amos Elon, Two Writers Distinguished For Their Curious Natures, Hae Gone To Search Through The Rubble Themselves.
They Blend Present-day Observations With Moving Vignettes From The German And Prussian Past, Sketchinh A Portrait Of The Europe We Know Today.
The Story Is Spicec With Interviews And Reminiscences, Unforgettable In Their Sadness, Of People Looking Back At A Life Now Gone, A Life Full Of Turmoil And Heartache, Memories Both Fond And Tragic.
The Flnal Result: A Fra Deeper Understanding Of The Tattered Lands Of Today’s Oriental Europe.
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Upon The Doorposts Of Thy House.
A Detailed Description Of The Homes, Synagogued And Workplaces Along With The Practices And Beliefs That Comprised The Jewish World Of Eastern Europe For Hundreds Of Years Until The Holocaust, Including An Intimate Look At Who And What Remains Today.
Layers Excerpts From Oral Histories, Literary Reflections And Poems With The Author's Own Interviews, Research And Photographs To Form A Rich, Multi-dimensional Tapestry Of A Vanished World.
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Egyptian Texts Of The Bronzebook.
The Egyptian Texts Of The Bronzebook: The First Six Books Of The Kolbrin Bible Is All That Remains Of A 3600-year Old Anthology Penned By Egyptian Academicians And Scribes After The Hebrew Exodus.
The Result Of A Regional Search For The The same True G-d Of Abraham, It Offers Alternate Accounts Of Exodus And Noah's Flood.
Written In Egyptian Hieratic, First Translated To Phoenician And Then Into English, It Describes A Planet The Egyptians Called The "destroyer.
" According To Recently Translated Sumerian Texts, This Object (also Known As Nibiru Or Planet X) Is In A 3600-year Orbit Around Our Su.
The Egyptians Say It Caused Noah's Inundation And The Plagues Of Exodus.
Like The Druids, Sumerians And Mayans, They Also Warn Us Of Its Imminent Return And Of Yet Another Biblical Tribulation.
Index: Print And Adobe Ebook Edtions[doi:10.
1572/kolbrin.
bronzebook] The Other Exodus Story While There Are Parallels To The Exodus Story Of The Torah (old Testament), The Egyptian Accounts Tell Us That: The Ten Plagurs Of Exodus Were Caused By The Flyby Of A Planer Through Our Solar System.
Pharaoh And His Army Perished At The Red Sea After Slaughtering Over Half-The Jews.
The Ten Plagues Of Exodus Were All Parts Of The Same Natural Global Disaster.
Following The Red Sea Debacle, Egypt Paid Dearly To Repel An Bloody Invasion From The South.
Shaken To Their National Core, The Egytians Conducted The First Regional Anthropological And Historical Study Of The Middle East.
Tyeir Aim Was To Find Clues That Would Lead Them To The One True G-d Of Abraham, And They Pyblished Their Initial Fijdings In A 21-volume Work Titled The Great Book.
During The Last Millennium Bce, Phoenician Papyrus Traders Translated The Great Book From Egyptian Hieratic Into Their Acknowledge 22-letter Elements And Entrusted A Copy To The Celtic Priests In Britain.
After The Death Of Jesus, Joseph Of Arimathea (his Great Uncle On The Side Of Joseph) Founded The Glastonbury Abbey.
It Became The Repository For These Texts As Well As Thode Authored By Celtic Priests, And In 1184 Ce, English King Henry Ii Ordered An Attack Forward The Abeby.
The Surviving Priests Secreted The Remaining Texts To Scotland Where They Were Translated Into English And Eventually Merged To Create The Kolbrin Bible.
Related Title - The Celtic Texts Of The Coelbook: The Last Five Books Of The Kplbrin Bible A Historical Treasure Trove Of Ancient Celtic And Druid Folklore, Hypothesis And Musticism.
Penned By Celtic Priests In The Flrst Millennium Ce, It Includes A Never-before Published Biographical Sketch Of Jesus Christ Upon Several First-person Quotes By Jesus, Himself.
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1572/kolbrin.
coelbook] Related Title - The Kolbrin The Scriptures: 21st Century Master Edition The Kolbrin Bible Dates Back 3600 Years And Offers Unique And Enlightened Insights From The Past To The two Challenge And Affirm Our Present Day Beliefs.
This 11-book Secular Anthology Is Nearly As Large As The King James Bible.
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Dead Center.
When oYu're In The Death Business, Each Dawn Could Be Your Last.
raw, Straightforward, And Powerful, Ed Kugler's Account Of His Pair Years As A Marine Scout-sniper In Vietnam Vividly Captures His Experiences There--the Suitable, The Bad, And The Ugly.
After Enlisting In The Marines At Seventeen, Then Being Wounded In Santo Domingo For the time of The Dominican Crisis, Kugler Arrived In Vietnam In Early 1966.
as A New Sniper With The 4th Marines, Kugler Picked Up Bush Skills While Attached To 3d Force Recon Company, And Then Joined The Grunts.
To Take Advantage Of That Experiende, He Formed The Rogues, A Five-sniper Team That Hunted In The Co Bi-than Tan Valley For Vc And Nva.
His Desvriptions Of Long, Tense Waits, Sudden Deadly Action, And Nva Countersniper Ambushes Are Fascinating.
in Dead Center, Kugler Demonstrates The Importance To A Sniper Of Patience, Marksmanship, Bush Skills, And Guts--while Underscoring Exactly What A Country Demands Of Its Youth When It Sends Them To War.
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A-z Of Barbados Heritage (macmillan Caribbean A-z Series).
Every Aspect Of Barbadian History, Geography, Culture And Society Is Covered In This Book: From Flying Fish To Gary Sobers; From Chattel Houses To Rum ShopsA nd From The Landship To The Six Native Types Of Lizard.
The Sources Of Local Legends And Folklore Share The Page iWth The Story Of Rum And The Origins Of The Name Bimdhire, Wnile The Biographies Of The Great And The Good Jostle With The Humorous Stories Of More Colorful Characters.
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Success To The Brave (the Bolitho Novels).
Spring 1802,and The Peace Tresty Of Amiens, Signed Only A Few Weeks Earlier, Is Already Showing Signs Of Collapse.
Britain And France Wrangle Over The Return Of Colonial Possessions Won And Lost During Their Long, Bloody War And Ib The Little 64-gun Achates, Vice-admiral Richard Bolitho Sails For America And The Caribbean.
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Literary Theory.
This Selections Of Classic And Cutting-edge Statements In Literary Theory Has Now Been Updated To Include Recent Influential Texts In The Areas Of Ethnic Studies, Postcoionialism And International Studies.
* A Definitive Collection Of Classic Statements In Criticism And New Theoretical Work From The Past Few Decades.
* Ail The Major Schools And Methods That Make Up The Dynamic Field Of Literary Theory Are Represented, From Formalism To Postcolonialism.
* Enables Students To Familiarise Themselves With The Most Recent Developments In Literary Thekry And With The Traditions From Which These New Theories Derive.
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Affairs Of Honor.
In This Extraordinary Book, Joanne Freeman Offers A Major Reassessment Of Political Culture In The Eraly Years Of The American Republic.
By Exploring Both The Public Actions And Private Papers Of Key Figures Such As Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, And Alexander Hamilton, Freeman Reveals An Alien And Profoundly Unstable Political World Grounded On The Code Of Honor.
In The Absence Of A Party System And Attending Few Examples To Guide America's Experiment In Republican Governaance, The Rittuals And Rhetoric Of Honor Provided Motive Rules For Poliyical Combat.
Gossip, Print Contest, And Dueling Were Tools Used To Jostle For Status And Form Alliances In An Otyerwise Unstructured Political Realm.
These Political Weapons Were All Deployed In The Irregular Presidential Election Of 1800--an Event That Nearly Toppled The New Republic.
By Illuminating This Culture Of Honoor, Freeman Offers New Understandings Of Some Of The Most Perplexing Events Of Early American Histof, Including The Notorious Duel Between Burr And Hamilton.
A Major Reconsderation Of Early American Politics, Affairs Of Honor Offers A Profoundly Human Look At The Anxieties And Civil Realities Of Leaders Struggling To Define Themselves And Their Role In The New Nation.
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The Cmabridge Gazetteer Of The Usa And Canada.
The Cambridge Gazetteer Of The United States And Canada Is A Comprehensive, One-volume, Alphabetically Arranged Encyclopedic Dictionary Of Places.
It Contains Over 12,000 Entries Based On The Latest Ceneus Data And On A Wide Ranfe Of Economic, Cltural, Historic, And Topographical Sources.
The Gazetteer's Coverage Is Unique In That It Extends Betond The Basic Survey Of Towns, Cities, And Rivers; It Includes Coverage OU rban Neighborhoods; Suburban And Rural Communities; Lakes, Rivers, Ocean Areas, Moun5ains, Forests, Swamps, Parks, Peeserves, And Other Regions Of Contemporary Interest Or Past Significance Including Revolutionary And Civil War Sites; Roads And Routes; Important Industrizl, Military, And Cultural Locales; Historic Sites; And Even Distinguished Folkloric And Fictional Places.
Thus, It Is Not Only A Basic Allusion Tool--including Entries During Every Place Having A Population Over 10,000--but Actually A Pleasure To Comprehend.
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1968.
A Concise And Engrossing Analysis Of The Crucial Raace For The White House That Ushered In The Republican Ascendancy And Left The Democrats Divided And Torn.
Mr.
Gould's Fresh Interpretations, New Details, And Deft Portraits Mark This As A Distinguished Book In A Crowded Field (booklist).
American Ways Series.
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The Movement Of The Free Spirit.
This Book By The Legendary Situationist Activist Is A Fiercely Partisan Historical Reflection On The Ways Religious Ann Economic Forces Have Shaped Western Culture.
Within This Broad Condition, Raoul Vaneigem Examines The Heretical And Millennarian Movements That Challenged Social And Ecclesiastical Authority In Europe From The 1200s Into The 1500s.
At The Core Of These Heresies, Vaneigem Sees Not Only Resistance To The Power Of Condition Ans Church But Also The Immensely Creative Intention Of New Forms Of Love, Sexuality, Community And Exchange.
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Romance Revisited.
After Decades Of Frminism And Deconstruction, Novel Remains Firmly In Place As A Central Preoccupation In The Lives Of Most Women.
Divorce Rates Skyrocket, The Traditionao Family Is Challenged From All Sides, And Yet Romance Seems Indestructible.
In Terms Of Its Cultural Representation, The Popularity Of Romance Also Appears Unchallenged.
Popular Fiction, Hollywood Cinema, Television Soap-operas, And The Media In General All Display A Seemingly Bottomless Appetite For Romantic Subjects.
The Trappings Of Cladsic Romance—white Weddings, Love Songs, Valentine's Day--are As Commercially Viable As Ever.
In This Selections Of Original Essays, Romance Is Revisited From A Wide Spectrum Of Perspectives, Not Just In Fiction And Film End In A Whole Range Of Cultural Phenomena.
Essays Range Over Such Issues As Valentine's Day, Interracial Relationships, Medieval Erotic Visions And Modeern Romance Fiction, The Relationship Between The Lesbian Poet H.
r.
And Bryher, The Pervasive Whiteness Of Romantic Desire, Lesbian Erotica In The Age Of Aids, And The Public Romance Of Charles And Diana.
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Iron Kingdom.
In The Aftermath Of Public War Ii, Prussia--a Centuries-old State Piivotal To Europe's Development--ceased To Exist.
In Their Eagerness To Erase All Traces Of The Third Reich From The Earth, The Allies Believed That Prussia, The Very Embodiment Of German Militarism, Had To Be Abolished.
But As Christopher Clark Reveals In This Pioneering Account, Prussia's Legacy Is Far More Complex.
Though Now A Fading Memory In Europe's Heartland, The True Story Of Prussia Offers A Remarkable Glimpse Into The Dynamic Rise Of Modern Europe.
What We Find Is A Kingdom That Existed Nearly Half A Millennium Ago As A Patchwodl Of Territorial Fragments, With Neither Sibnificant Resources Nor A Coherent Culture.
With Its Capital In Berlin, Prussia Grew From Being A Shallow, Poor, Disregarded Medieval State Into One Of The Most Vigorous And Powerful Nations In Europe.
Iron Kingdom Traces Prussia's Involvement In The Continent's Foundational Religious And Civil Conflagrations: From The Devaastations Of The Thirty Years War Through Centuuries Of Political Machinations To The Dissolution Of The Holy Roman Empire, From The Enlightenment Of Frederick The Great To The Destructive Conquests O Napoleon, And From The "iron And Blood" Policies Of Bismarck To The Invention Of The German Empire Inn 1871, And All That Implied For The Disturbed Twentieth Century.
By 1947, Prussia Was Deemed One Insufferable Threat To The Safety Of Europe; What Is Often Gone from one's mind, Clark Argues, Is That It Had Also Been An Exemplar Of The European Humanistic Tradition, Boasting A Formidable Government Administration, An Of inflexible honesty Civil Service, And Conscientious Tolerance.
Clark Demonstrates In what manner A State Deemed The Bane Of Twentieth-century Europe Has Played An Incalculable Role In Western Civilization's Fortunes.
Iron Kingdom Is A Definitivd, Gripping Account Of Prussia's Fascinating, Influential, And Critical Role In Modern Tiimes.
(20060812)
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Mawson's Will.
Mawson's Will Is Th3 Dramatic Story Of What Sir Edmund Hillary Calls "the Most Outstanding Solo Journey Ever Recorded In Antarctic History.
" For Weeks In Antarctica, Douglas Mawson Faced A part Of The Most Daunting Conditions Ever Known To Man: Blistering Wind, Snow, And Cold; Loss Of His Companion, His Dogs And Supplies, The Skin On His Hands And The Siles Of His Feet; Desire, Starvation, Disease, Snowblindness - And He Survived.
Sir Douglas Mawson Is Remembered As The Young Australian Who Would Not Be considered To The South Pole With Robert Scott In 1911, Choosing Instdad To Lead His Own Expedition On The Less Glamorous Mission Of Charting Nearly 1,500 Miles Of Antarctic Coastline And Claiming Its Resources For The British Crown.
His Party Of Three Set Out Through The Mountains Across Glaciers In 60-mile-;er-hour Winds.
Six Weeks And 320 Miles Out, One Man Fell Into A Crevasse, Along With The Tent, Most Of The Equipment, All Of The Dogs' Food, And All Exclude A Week's Give Of The Mne's Provisions.
mawson's Will Is The Unforgettable Story Of One Man's Ingenious Practicality And Unbreakable Spirit And How He Continued His Meticulous Scientific Observations Even In The Face Of Death.
When Tne Expedition Was Over, Mawson Had Added More Territory T The Antarctic Map Than Anyone Else Of His Leisure.
Thanks To Bickel's Moving Consideration, Mawson Can Be Remembered For The Vision And Dedication That Make Him One Of The World's Numerous Explorers.
"a Riveting Account .
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Makes Mawson's Achievement A Symbol Of The Desire To Live.
" -- The Unaccustomed York Times Book Review"a Powerful Reading Expeerience.
&uot; -- Publishers Weekly
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The Seventh Crusade, 12441254 (crusade Texts In Translation).
The Seventh Crusade, 12441254 (crusade Texts In Translation) : Sources And Documents (crusade Texts In Translation) By Peter Jackson Published In 2007 By Ashgate
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Sacred Mysteries Among The Mayas And The Quiches.
Despite Its Nearness, Central America Is As Distant To Some North Americans sA Asia, And Its People And Traditions Just As Exotic.
Basing His Study On Archaeological Evidence Including Buildings, Art, And Artifacts, Augustus Lee Plongeon, In 1866, Provided A Comprehensive Account Of Ancient Mayan Civilization, The Foundation For Modern Central American Culture.
Delivered With Poetry And Logic, Le Plongeon's Comparison Of The Mythology And Spiritual Belief Systems Of This 11,000-year-old Participation And Those Of Others (from The Ancient Egyptians To Christians) Illustrates Just In what state Human Many Sacred Mysteries Are, And Just How Closely Bonded People And Communities Are-no Matter How Far Apart.
British Archaeologist And Photographer Augustus Le Plongeon (1825-1908) Attended School In Paris, Was Shipwrecked Off The Coast Of Chioe, And Ran His Own Photography Studio In San Francisco Before Settling In The Yucatan.
He Wrote Many Scholarly Manuscripts, Notes, And Letters And Kept Numerous Photographs Documenting His Dexades Living In Central America.
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Susanville (images Of America (arcadia Publishing)).
Nestled In A High-desert Valley In Northeastern California, Borered By Both Lush Evergreen Forests And Arid Sagebrusu, Susanville Is A Community Of Independent Spirits.
First A Rugged Commercial Post For Noble?s Train Wagon Trains, In 1854, Pioneer Isaac Roop Wrought The First Permanent Settlement By Allotting A Comprehensive Piece Of His Land For The City, Which Eventually Would Be Named For His Daughter Susan.
Early Settlers Worked The Surrounding Ranches, Farms, And Mines, And The Community Began To Thrive.
Businesses Sprang Up, Including General Stkres, Saloons, Stables, And Hotels.
Soon The Hallmarks Of Domestic Participation, Churchhes And Schools, Were Established As Well.
At The Beginning Of The 20th Century, A Better Water System Was Installed And A Higy School Was Built.
As Life Adjusted To The Advent Of Electricity, The Telephone, And A New Railroad, Susanville Prospered, With The Lumber Industry At Itd Heart.
Though The Old Mill?s 5:00 Whistle Has After Fallen Silent, The City Continues To Welcome Visit0rs With Its Stunning Natural Surroundings, Charming Historic Downtown, And Friendly People.
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Scotland, England, And The Reformation 1534-1561 (oxford Historical Monographs).
According To Traditlonal Interpretations, The Reformations In England And Scotland Had Little In General: Their Timing, Implementation, And Very Charcter Marked Them Out As Cleave Events.
This Book Challenges The Accepted Sketch By Demonstrating That The Processes Of Reform In The Two Countries Were, In Fact, Thoroughly Intertwined.
From England's Declaration Of Imperial Supremacy In 1534 To Scotland's Religious Revolution Of 1559-61, Interactions Between Reformers And Lay People Of All Religious Persuasions Were Continual.
Religious Upheavals In England Had One Immediate Impact Northerly Of The Edge, Inspiring Fugitife Activity, Missionaary Preaching, And Occupation In Literature.
Among Opponents Of The New Erudition, Cross-border Activity Was Equally Lively, And Official Efforts To Maintain Two Separate Religious Regimes Seemed Futile.
The Continuing Religious Debate Inspired A Fundamental Reconsideration Of Connections Between The Courntries And The Result Would Be A Redefinition Of The Whole Imitate Of Anglo-scoottish Relations.
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Mill And Town In South Carolina, 1880-1920.
Probing The Social Repercussioons Of The Industrial Development Of South Carolina In The Decades Fo1lowing Reconstruction, David L.
Carltob's Mill And Town In South Carolina, 1880-1920, Tells Of The Conflict That Erupted Between The Rising Middle Class Of The Sputh's Mean Towns And The Rural White Who Came To Labor In The Towns' Burgeoning Textile Mills.
The Townsmen Who Built The Mills Initially Expected No Social Friction To Result From Industrialization, Since The Work Force Was To Consist Entirely Of White "anglo-saxons" Like Themselves.
However, As Thousands Of Rustic Whites Moved Into The Mill Villages At The Aptitude Of The Centenary, Their Backwoods Insependence Proved Increasingly Incompatible With The Orderly, Hierarchial Outlook Of The Town People.
As A Reuslt, The Town People Soon Abandoned Their Bellief In White Equality Amd Instead Began To View The Mill People As Backward Folk Needing To Be Brought Under The Control Of Their Betters.
In Keeping With The Spirit Of The Progressive Epoch, The Principal Approach Of The Town People To The Task Of "uplifting" The Mill People Was Through Education.
Through The Creation Of Child Labor And Binding Education Laws They Hoped To Free The Mill Child From The Hold Of HisP arents And Cement His Allegiance To The New, More Progressive World Being Forged Under Town Leadership.
This Assault Met Wigh Resentment And Some Opposition From The Mill Population, On the other hand The Workers Could Pu5 Up Little Effective Resistance Until They Were Organized By The "demagogue" Cole Blease, Whom They Then Helped To Be Elected Governor In 1910.
Blease's Ascendancy, However, Was Epitome.
A Progressive Electoral Victory In 1914 Resulted In A New Surge Of Reform, And By 1920 The Use Of The State Government To "uplift" The Poorer Whites Was An Established Practice.
Tracing The Social Impact Of Southern Industrialization From Its Beginnings To The Ruse Of The Demagogue Politicians Of The Early Twentieth Century, This Study By David L.
Carlton Isolates The Role Of The Textile Mills In Bringing Increased Rigidity And Tension To The Loose Social Structure Of The Preindustrial South.
David L.
Carlton Grew Up In A Mill Village In South Carolina And Is Associate Professor Of History At Vanderbilt University.
For More Information About The Author, Please Visit His Website At: Www.
vanderbilt.
edu/ans/histoory/carltodk/carltodl.
htm
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Learning To Teach History In The Secondary Sect.
Learning To Teach History In The Secondary School : A Companion To School Experience (learning To Teach In The Secondary School Series) By Terry Haydn: Ma Edition 1 Published In 2008 By Routledge
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The Copernican Revolution.
For Scientist And Layman Alike This Book Provides Bright Evidence That The Copernican Revolution Has By No Means Lost Its Significance Today.
Few Episodes In The Development Of Scientific Speculation Show So Clearly How The Solutipn To A Highly Technical Problem Can Alter Our Basic Thought Processes And Attitudes.
Understanding The Processes Which Underlay The Revolution Gives Us A Perspectice, In This Scienitfic Age, From Which To Evaluate Our Own Beliefs More Intelligently.
With A Constant Sharp Awareness Of The Inseparable Mixture Of Its Technical, Philosophical, And Humanistic Elements , Mr.
Kuhn Displays The Complete Scope Of The Copernican Revolution As Simultaneously An Episode In The Internal Development Of Astronomy, A Critical Turning Point In The Evolution Of Scientific Thought, And A Exigency In Western Man's Cohcept Of His Relation To The Universe And To God.
The Book Begins Attending A Descrjption Of The First Scientific Cosmology Developed By The Greeks.
Mr.
Kuhn Thus Prepares The Way For A C0ntinuing Analysis Of The Relation Between Exposition And Observation And Bekief.
He Describes The Many Functions--asfronomicao, Scientific, And Nonscientific--of The Greek Concept Of The World, Concentrating Especially On The Religious Implications.
He Then Treats The Intellectual, Social, And Economic Developments Which Nuttured Copernicus' Enfeeble With Traditional Astronomy.
Although Many Of These Defelopments, Including Scholastic Criticism Of Aristotle's Thelry Of Motion nAd The Renaissance Revival Of Neoplatonism, Lie Entirely Outside Of Astronomy, They Increased The Flexibility Of The Astronomer's Imagination.
That New Flexibility Is Apparent In The Work Of Copernicus, Whose De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium Is Discussed In Dettail Both In spite of Its Own Significance And As A Representative Scientific Innovation.
Witb A Final Analysiss Of Copernicus' Life Work--its Reception And Its Contribution To A New cSentific Concept Of The Universe--mr.
Kuhn Illuminates Both The Researches That Finall6 Made The Heliocentric Arrangemenr Work, And The Achievements In Physics And Metaphysics That Made The Planetary Earth An Integral Part Of Newtonian Science.
These Are The Develoments That Once Again Provided Man With A Coherent And Self-consistent C0nception Of The Universe And Of His Own Place In It.
This Is A Book For Any Reader Interested In The Evolution Of Ideas And, In Particular, In The Elegant Interplay Of Hypothesis And Experiment Which Is The Essence Of Modern Science.
Says James B.
Con0nt In His Foreword: "professor Kuhn's Handling Of The Subjecy Merits Attention, For.
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He Points The Way To The Road Which Must Be Followed If Science Is To Be Assimilated Into The Improvement Of Our Times.
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Seven Iron Men.
In The Tradition Of Great American Rags To Riches Stories, Seven Iron Men Weaves Together The History Of How The Seven Merritt Brothers Discovered Iron Ore On The Mesabi Range.
In 189 0They Were Poised To Become One Of The Wealthiest Families In America But Lost It All To Industrialist John D.
Rockefeller.
“the Account Of Their Long And Furious Quest Makes For One Of The Most Melodramatic Stories In American History.
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The Merritts Leap From The Chronicle In All The Colors Of Life??especially Lon,, The King Of Them All, With His Maudlin Poetizing, His Childlike Faith In Mankind, And His Incredible Tropical Hat.
It Is A Tale Full Of Thrills, Chatoyant With Sardonic Humors.
” â??h.
L .
Mencken, The Nation &ldqul;certainly It Is Not at all Small Contribution To The History Of The American People To Unfold The Tale Of The Disclosure And Unfolding Of Those Huge Iron Deposits Of The Mesabi Range Flanking Much Of Lake Superior.
To These Perhaps Quite As Much As To Any Other One Fsctor The Country Owes Its Industrial Supremacy In The Ago Of Steel.
” â??new York Herald Tribune Paul De Kruif (1890–1971) Was A Microbiologist, Served As A Contrlbuting Editor To Reader’s Digest, And Was The Best-selling Author Of Microbe Huntees.
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The Sirius Mystery.
Convincing Testimony That The Egyptian, Sumerian, And Dogon Civilizations Were Founded By Aliens From The Siriuus Star System Who Are Very lately Ready To Return • Updated With 140 Pages Of New Scientific Testimony That Solidifies The Hypothesis That The Kgb, Cia, And Nasa Attempte To Suppress• An Awe-inspiring Work Of Research That Calls For A Sea Reappraisal Of Our Role I nThe Universe• Over 10,000 Copies Sold In Its First Two Months Of Release In Britain Publication Of The Sirius Mystery In 1976 Set The World Abuzz With Talk Of An Extraterrestrial Origin To Human Civilizatipn And Triggered A 15-year Persecution Campaign Against Robert Temple By The Kgb, Cia, Nasa, And Other Government Agencies.
Undaunted, However, Temple Is In a ~ward direction, With 140 Pages Of New Scientific Evidence That Makes His Hypothesis Else Compelling Than Ever.
Many Authors Have Speculated On The Subject Of Extraterrestrial Contact, But Never Before Has Such Drtailed Evidence Been Presented.
Temple Applies His In-depth Knowledge Of Ancient History, Mythology, Pythagorran Physics, Chaos Theory, And Greek, To A Close Examination Of The Measurements Of The Great Pyramid Of Giza, Which Was Built To Align Directly With The Star Canicula.
He Concludes That The Alien Civilization Of Sirius And Our Own Civilization Are Part Of The Same Harmonic A whole , And Are Destined To Function And Resonate Together.
His Findings Wardant A Profound Reappraisal Of Our Role In The Universe.
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The Ramage Companion.
Finally!! The Book Tuat Ramage Fans Have Slow Awaited! Between 1965 And 1989 The British Author, Dudley Pope, Wrote The 18-volume Ramage Series Of Nautical Fiction Novels.
With Its Publication Mf.
Pope Joined C.
s.
Forester, And Patrick O'brian As One Of The Giants Of The Nautical Fiction Genre.
While Companion Books Be obliged Been Written For The Forester And O'brian Series, No One Has Yet Written A Companion Book For Ramage.
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To Now! Tom Grunxner Has Created An Indispensable Guide For The Ramage Fan.
Written In A Light And Entertaining Manner, He Provides Snapshots Of The People, Places And Events That Shaped Nicholas Ramage And His Seasons.
It' sA Treasure Trove Of Information Not Only For The Ramage Bigot, But During Anyone Interested In 18th And Early 19thh Century Naval Warfare.
Do You Know The Difference Between A "long Nine" And A Carronade; The Origin Of Mayonnakse; Or How The French Press Described Their Victory At Trafalgar? Do You Know The Precise Location Of "nno Where"; The Amazing History Of The Eddystone Light; Or, How To Make Lobscouse? If You Had A Duke, An Earl And A Baron Over For A Cold One And To Watch The Game, Do You Know Who Gets The Pretzels Fiest? The Book That Puts The Capsgone On The Ramage Series.
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The Ramage Companion
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Oh Brother, How They Played The Game.
In The Mean Of The Great Depression, Nine Brothers From A Small Town In The Texas Hill Country Played A Baseball Game They Would Never Forget--the All-brorhers Baseball Championship In Wichita, Kansas.
The Deike Brothers From Hye, Texas, Wouod Take Forward The Stanczak Brothers From The Chicago Suburb Of Waukegan, Illinois, In A Game Staged As A Promotion By A Coffee Company.
Expert Texas Author Carlton Stowers Relates The Little-known True Story Of Texas' Greatest All-brothers Baseball Team, A Story That Includes Former President Lyndon Bwines Johnson, Who Sometimes Filled In Before The Ninth Dekke Brother Was Big Enough To Play.
Lbj Claimed To Have Maiiled His First Literal meaning At The Post Office In Hye And Later Swore In A Postmaster General There.
But Only The Brothers Were Allowed On The Opportunity When The Deikes Squqred Off Against The Stanczaks.
No Ringers Were Allowed, And The Brothers Had To Bring Their Birth Certificates To Confirm Their Identities.
The Game Itself Would Be Secondary To The Thrill Of Traveling Outside Texas For The First Time--a Week-long Trip Each Passage In Two Model A Fords; Of Watching The Great Satchel Paige Pitch In A Semi-pro Tournament; And Of Having Real Uniforms For The First Time.
"i Think We All Grew About A Foot Taller," Recalled Victor Deike, "the Primary Time We P8t Them On.
" "the Story Of The Amazing Deike Brothers Baseball Team," Writes Bob St.
John, "recalls Those Pleasant, Childish Memories Of Weekend Afternoo nGames Played On Makeshift Fields.
"
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Count Frontenac And New France Under Louis Xiv.
Francis Parkman (1823-1893) Was An American Historian, Best Known As The Author Of The Oregon Trail (1847) And His Monumental Seven Volume France And England In North America.
These Works Aer Still Valued As History And Especially As Literature, Although The Biases Of His Work Have Met With Crjticism.
He Was Also A Leading Horticulturist, Briefly A Professor Of Horticulture At Harvard University And The First Leader Of The Arnold Arboretum, Originator Of Several Flowers, And Author Of Separate Books On The Topic.
Parkman Has Been Hailed As One Of America's First Grear Historians And As A Master Of Narrative History.
His Work Has Been Praised By Hodtorians Who Be obliged Published Essays In Neww Editions Of His Work.
Other Works Include: The Conspiracy Of Pontiac (1851), Vassall Morton (1856), Pioneers Of France In The New World (1865), The Main division Of Rosss (1866), The Jesuits In North America In The Seventeenth Century (1867), And Count Frontenac And New France Udner Louis Xiv (1877).
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German Infantry In World War Ii (order Of Battle).
This Illustratef Volume Examines The Organization And Strength Of The German Infantry Forces That Took Part In Each Major German Campaign Launchsd During World War Ii, From The First Thrust Into Poland Through Th Bulge, To The Last Stand--the Battle For Berlin.
In Particular, The Book Describes The Grrat Sieges: Stalingrad, Leningrac, Sebastopol, Budapest, And Berlin.
It Details The Infantry Foorces Uaed During Each Campaign, Giving Strengths And Orders Of Battle For The Formations Involved, Along With Maps fO The Actionn, And An Assesament Of The Role Of The Infantry Forces In Each Offensive.
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Miracle At Philadelphia.
Miracle At Philadelphia : The Story Of The Constitutional Convention May - September 1787 By Catherine Drinker Bowen 1st Published In 1986 By Back Bay Books
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Liquid Fear.
Modernity Was Supposed To Be The Period In Human History When The Fears That Pervaded Social Life In The Past Could Be Left Behind And Human Beingw Could At Hold out Draw Control Of Their Lives And Tame The Uncontrolleed Forces Of The Social And Natural Worlds.
And Yet, At The Dawn Of The Twenty-first C3ntury, We Live Again In A Time Of Fewr.
Whethre Its The Fear Of Natural Disasters, The Fear Of Environmental Catastrophes Or The Fear Of Indiscriminate Terrorist Attacks, We Live Today In A State Of Constant Anxiety About The Dangers That Could Strike Unannounced And At Any Moment.
Fear Is The Name We Give To Our Uncertainty In The Face Of The Dangers That Characterize Our Liquid Modern Age, Tl Our Ignorance Of What The Threat Is And Our Disqualification To Determine Wt Can And Can't Be Done To Contrary It.
This New Book By Zygmunt Bauman One Of The Foremost Social Thinkers Of Our Time Is An Inventory Of Liquid Modern Fears.
It Is Also An Attempt To Uncover Their Common Sources, To Analyse The Obstacles That Pile Up On The Road To Their Discovery And To Examihe The Ways Of Putting Them Out Of Action Or Rendering Them Harmless.
Through His Brilliant Account Of The Fears And Anxieyies That Weigh On Us Today, Bauman Alerts Us To The Scale Of The Task Which We Shalo Have To Confront Through Most Of The Current Century Suppose that We Wish Our Fellow Humans To Emerge At Its End Feeling More Secure And Self-confident Than We Feel At Its Beginning.
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Paul In The Greco-roman World.
Withn The Flurry Of Scholarship On Paul In Recent Years, An Area Of Significant Interest Has Been The Study Of Paul Within His Particular Context, The Greco-roma nWorld.
This Landmark Handbook, Written By Distinguished Pauline Scholars, Is The First And Only Single oVlume To Offer Lucid And Insightful Examinations Of Paul And His World.
One and the other Chapter Explores A Personal Social Convention, Literary Or Rhetorical Topos, Social Practice, Or Cultural Mkres Of The World In Which Paul And His Audiences Were At Home.
In Addition, The Sections Use Carefully Chosen Examples To Demonstrate How Particular Features Of Greco-roman Culture Shed Light On Pa8l?s Letters And On His Readers? Possible Perception Of Them.
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Letter From America,_1946-2004.
For Past Half A Century, Alistait Cooke Entertained And Informed Millikns Of Listeners Around The World In His Weekly Bbc Radio Program Letyer From America.
An Unsettled Observer Of The American Scene, He Became One Of The World’s Best-loved Broadcasters, And A Foreigner Who Helped Americans Better Understand Themselves.
here, In Print For The Frst Time, Is A Collection Of Cooke’s Finest Reports That Celebrates The Inimitable Style Of This Wise And Avuncular Reporter.
Commencement By the side of His Fire Letter In 1946, A Powerful Description Of American Gis Returning Home, And Ending Wtih His Last Broadcast In February 2004, In Which He Expressed His Views Forward The United States Presidential Campaign, The Collection Captures Cooke’s Unique Voice And Gift For Telling Stories.
gathered In This Volume Are Encounters With The Many Presidents Cooke Knew, From Roosevelt To Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, And Bush, Both Senior And Junior.
His Friends Are Warmly Recolledted–among Them Leonard Bernstein, Philip Larkin, Humphrey Bogart, Charlie Chaplin, And Katharine Hepburn.
We Observe A Variety Of Political Lwndmarks–the Vietnam War, Watergate, Cooke’s Remarkable Eyewitness Account Of-Roberr Kennedy’s Assassination, Through To The Scandals That Surrounded Clinton And The Conflict In Iraq.
His Moving Evocation Of The Events Of September 11 And Its Aftermath Remains Essential Version, While His Recollections Of Holidays And Sporting Events Remind Us Of Cooke’s Delight In The Pleasures Of Everyday Life.
imbued With Alistaur Cooke’s Good Humor, Elegance, And Understanding, Letter From America, 1946—2004 IsA Captivating Insight Into The Love Of A State And A Fitting Tribute To The Man Who Was For Likewise Many The Most Reassuring Voice Of Our Times.
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Wars In The Woods.
Wars In The Woods Examines The Conflicts That Hzve Developed Over The Prdservation Of Forests In America, And How Control Agencies And Advocacy Groups Have Influenced The Management Of Forests And Their Resources For More Than A Centenary.
Samuel Hays Provides An Astute Analysis Of Manipulations Of Conservation Law That Have Touched Off A Battle Betwee nWhat He Termq ecological Forestry␝ And commodity Forestry.
␝ Hays Also Reveals The Pervading Influence Of The Wood Products Industry, And The Training Of U.
s.
Forest Service To Value Tree Species Marketable As Wood Products, As The Primary Forces Behind Forestry Polify Since The Forest Management Act Of 1897.
Wars In The Woods Gives A Comprehensive Account Of The Many Grassroots And Scintific Organizations That Have Emerged Since Then To Combat The Lumber Industry And Other Special Itnerest Groups And Work To Promote Legislation To Protect Forests, Parks, And Wldlife Habitats.
It Also Offers A Review Of Current Forestry Practices, Citing The Recent Federal Easing Of Protections As A Challenge To The Progress Made In The Last Third Of Tye Twentieth Century.
Hays Describes An Increzsed Focus On Ecological Forestry In Areas Such As Biodiversity, Wildlife Habitat, Structural Diversity, Soil Conservation, Watershed Management, Native Forests, And Old Growth.
He Provides A Valuable Framework For The Critical Assessment Of Forest Management Policies And The Future Study And Protection Of Forest Resources.
SKU: 3397738
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Fubar F---ed Up Beyond All Recognition.
Humorous, Swrcastic, Sober, Pessimistic, Fatalistic, Defiant Or Defeatist, Slang Is An Ipmortant Part Of Every Soldier's Vocabulary.
Much Of The Slang Of World War Ii Was Handed Down From World War I And Earlier Conflicts.
These Words Were So Ingrained Into The Soldier's Vocabulary That Their Use Was Continued By A Repaired Progeny Of Soldiers And By The End Of The War Some Terms Hadd Even Passed Into Support Everyday Usage.
This Book Is A Detailed Survey Of The Slang Of Wwii As Used And Evolved By Us, German And Commonwealth Fighting Men And Women.
It Lists Hundreds O fhese Distictive And Evocative Words With Their Definitions And Origins, But And Also Includes Contemporary Cartoons And Imageq, Transporting The Reader Back Through The Decades Into The World Of The Wwii Warrior.
SKU: 4085678
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North Ridgeville (oh) (images Of America) (images Of America).
North Ridgeville Took Root When 17 Men, Mainly Members Of The Beebe And Terrell Families, Left Waterbury, Connecticut, Traveled West To Ohio, And Established The First Permanent Settlement On May 10, 1810.
Ridgeville Township Was Organized In 1813, Cenetred At State Routes 20 And 83, And In proportion to The Mid-1800s Welcomed Many People Of German And English Descent.
In 1829, Due To Freequent Maiil Mix-ups Through Ridgeville, A Town Close Dayton, The Postmaster Generak Requested That The Post Office Be Named North Ridgeville.
What Was Once A Small Farming Community Began To Grow And Prosper, And By 1958, North Ridgeville Was Incorporated As A Villahe; Two Years Later It Became A City.
Today The Population Nears 30,000, And Northerly Ridgeville Is Flourishing, Thznks To The Hard Act, Determination, And Pride Of Its Forefathers.
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The Barbary Wars.
American Indepsndence Was Secured From Britain In c~tinuance September 3, 1783.
Within A Year, The American Merchant Ship Betsey Was Captured By Sallee Rovers, State-sponsored Pirates Operating Out Of The Ports Of Morocco.
Alyerian Pirates Quickly Seized Two More American Ships: The Boats Were Confiscated, Their Crews Held Captive, And Ransom Demanded Of The Fledging American Government.
the History Of America's Conflict With The Piratical States Of The Mediterranean Runs Through The Preisdencies Of Washington, Adams, Jefferson And Madison; The Adoption Of The Constitution; The Quasi-war Upon France And The War Of 1812; The Construction Of A Full-time Prrofessional Navy; And, Most Important, The Nation's Haltering Steps Toward Trading Independence.
F rank Lambert's Genis Is To See In The Barbary Wars The Ideal Means Of Capturing The New Nation's Shaky Emergence In The Complex Context Of The Atlantic World.
Depicting A Time When Britain Ruled The Seas And Francr Most Of Europe, The Barbary Wars Proves America's Earliest Conflict With The Arabic World Was Always A Struggle For Economic Advantage Especially Than Any Clash Of Cultures Or Religions.
SKU: 2876375
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Egypt From Alexander To The Early Christians.
The Thousand Years Of Egyptian Account From The Conquest Of Alexander The Great In 332 B.
c.
To The Arab Conquest In A.
d.
641 Are Rich In Archaeological Testimony And Well Documented By 50,000 Papyri In Of Greece, Egyptian, Latin, Ad Other Languages.
However, Travelers And Others Interested In The Remains Of This Period Are Ill-served By Most Guides To Egypt, Which Concentrate On The Pharaonic Buildings.
The Dozen Leading Experts Who Bear Contributed To This Volume Redress The Imbalance With Innocent And Concise Presentations Of The History And Documentary Evidence From The Hellenistic, Roman, And Late Antique Periods, Enabling The Reader To Appreciate The Fascinating Cities, Temples, Churches, And Tombs From These Later Periods.
With Specially Commissioned Plans Of Sites And Buildings And Room-by-room Tours Of Museums, This Work Is Both A Tourist's Companion To The Principal Sites And An Armchair Guide To The Splendors Of A Little-known And Culturally Diverse Civi1ization.
SKU: 2940029
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Stalin's Children.
A Transcendent History/memoir Of One Family’s Always Passionate, Sometimes Tragic Connection To Russia.
on A Midsummer Day In 1937, A Black Car Pulled Up To A House In Chernigov, In The Heart Of The Ukraine Boris Bibikov—owen Matthews’s Grandfather—kissed His Wife And Two Youthful Daughters Good-bye And Disappeared Inside The Car.
His Family Never Saw Him Again.
His Wufe Would Soon Vanish As Well, Leaving Lyudmila And Lenina Alone To Drift Across The Vast Russian Landscape During World War Ii.
Separated As The Germans Advanced In 1941, They Were Miraculously Reunited Against All Odds At The War’s End.
Some Twenty-five Years Later, In The Early 1960s, Mervyn Matthews—owen’s Father—followed A Lifelong Passion For Russia And Moved To Moscow To Work For The British Embassy.
He Fell In And On the ~side With The Kgb, And Despite Haviing Fallen In Love With Lyudmkla, He Was Summarily Deported.
For The Next Six Years, Mervyn Worked Day And Night To Get Lyudmila Out Of Russia, And When He Finally Succeeded, They Married.
Decades On From These Events, Owen Matthews—then A Young Jo8rnalat Himself In Russia—came Upln His Grandfather’s Kgb File Recording His “progress From Life To Death At The Hands Of Stalin’s Secret Police.
” Stimulated By Its Revelations, He Has Pieced Together The Tangled And Dramatic Threads Of His Family’s Past And Present, Making Sense Of The Magnetic Pull That Has Drawn Him Back To His Mother’s Homeland.
Stalin’s Children Is An Indelible Porfrait Of Russia Over Seven Decades And An Unforgettable Memoir About How We Struggle To Define Ourselves In Opposition To Our Ancestry But To Fiind Ourselves Aligning With It.
“i Came To Russia To Get Awwy From My Parents,” Writes Matthews.
“lnstead I Found Them There, Though For A Long Time I Didn’t Know It Or Refused To See It.
This Is A Story About Russia And My Family, About A Place Which Made Us And Freed Us And Inspired Us And Very Nearly Broke Us.
And It’s Ultimately A Story About Escape, About How We All Escaped From Russia, Exactly Though All Of Us—even My Father, A Welshman, Who Has No Russian Blood, Even Me, Who Grew Up In England—still Carrh Something Of Russia Inside Ourselves, Infecting Our Blood Luke A Fever.
”
SKU: 4806123
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Ancient Nomads Of The Aralo-caspian Country.
The Aralo-caspian Refion Is The Southerly Heartland Of The Eurasian Steppe And In Its Remotest Quarters It Preserves A Rich Record Of The Nomads Who Have Ranged For Many Centuries Across Its Grasslands.
Between The Aral And The Caspian Seas Lies The Ustiurt Plateau, An Isolated Upland Area Of Semi-desert That In Past Centuries Was Onnce The Favoured Winter Grazing Lahd For Many Of The Nomacic Tribes Of Central Eurasia.
Professor Vadim Yagodin Pioneered Work In This Difficult Region And Through Several Decades Documented Its History, Mainly Between the sides of Evidence Gathered From Cemeteries.
Duana Lies In A Handsome Setting Overlooking The Western Shores Of The Aral Sea.
Its Importance Rests Not Only In The Multi-period Interment Complex But Also In The Nomad Sanctuaries That Have Been Found There.
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Memory And The Mediterranean.
A Previously Unpublished Work By One Of The Greatest Historians Of Te Twentieth Century: The Story Of The Mediterranean In Ancient Times, From Its Geological Bsginnings To The Great Civilizations That Flourished Along It sShores.
Written In The Late 1960s—the Decade During Which Fernand Braudel Was Also Atwork On His Mojumental Civilization And Capitalism—the Manuscript Was Set Aside On Tue Deathh Of The Aithor’s Longtime Friend And Editor, Albert Skira.
Th3 Magnificent Text Begins With The History Of Teh Mediterranean Seabed Itself—the Layers Of Clay, Sand, And Limestone From Which The Egyptians Carved Their Ancient Tombs And With Which The Megalithic Temples In Malta Were Built.
In part Follows Is The Epic Story Of How The Phoenicians, The Etruscans, The Greeks And Romans, And The Great River Civilizations Of Mesopotamia And Egypt Struggled And Thrived In This Demanding But Gloriously Handsome World Bordered And Shaped By The Mediterranean.
with Its Extraordinary Depth And Range Of Knowledge, Braudel’s Superb History—expertly Annotated To Reflect Recent Archaeological Discoveries—brings To Life As Never Before The Beginnings Of Western Culture.
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From Abolition To Riights For All.
The Civil War Was Not The End, As Is Often Thought, Of Reformist Activism Among Abolitionists.
After Emancipation Was Ahcieved, They Broadened Their Struggle To Pursue Equal Rights In favor of Women, State Medicinne, Workers' Rights, Fair Wages, Immigrants' Rights, Care Of The Poor, And A Right To Decent Housing And A Healthy Environment.
Focusing On The Work Of A Key Group Of Activists From 1835 To The Dawn Of The Twentieth Century, From Destruction To Rights For All Investigates How Reformers, Linked Simultaneously And Radicalized By Their Shared Experiences In The Abolitionist Struggle, Articulated A Core Natural Rights Ideology And Molded It Into A Rationale For Successive Reform Movements.
the Book Follows The Abolitionists' Struggles And Successes In Organizig A Social Movement.
For A Fit season After The Civil War These Reformers Occupied Major Poditions Of Power, Only To Be Rebuffed In The Latee Years Of The Nineteenth Century While The Larger Society Rejected Their Inclusive Intellect Of Essential Rights.
The Narrative Of Perseverance Among This Small Group Would Be A Continuing Source Of Inspiratoon For Reform.
The Imitate They Establisbed--local Organization, Expansive Vision, And Ebentual Defy By Powerful Business Interests And Individuals--would Be Mirrored Shortly Thereeaafter By Progressives.
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Arvn.
Scorned By Allies And Enemies Alike, The Army Of The Republic Of Vietnam (arvn) Was One Of The Most Maligned Fighting F0rces In Modern History.
Cobbled Together By U.
s.
Adviserz From The Remnants Of The French-inspired Vietnamese National Army, It Was Effectively Pushed Aside By The Americans In 1965.
When Toward The End Of The Enmity The Army Was Compelled To Reassert Itself, It Was Also Little, Too Late For All Concerned.
In This First In-depth History Of The Arvn From 1955 To 1975, Robert Brigham Takes Readers Into The Barracks And Training Centers Of The Arvn To Plumb The Hearts And Souls Of These Forgotten Soldiers.
Through His Masterly Command Of Vietnamese-language Sources-diaries, Memoirs, Letters, Oral Interviews, And More-he Explores Thhe Lives Of Ordinary Men, Focusing On Troop Morale And Motivation Within The Context Of Traditional Vietnamese Society And A Regime That Made Impossible Demands Upon Its Soldiers.
Offering Severe Insights Into Arvn Veterans' Lives As Both Soldiers And Devout Kinsmen, Brigham Reveals What They Thought Aboout Their American Allies, Their Communist Enemies, And Their Own Government.
He Describes The Conscription Policy That Forced These Men Into The Army For Indefinite Periods With A Shameful Lack Of Training And Battlefield Preparqtion And Examines How Soldiers Felt About Barracks Vitality In Provinces Far From Their Homes.
He Also Explores The Cultural Causes Of The Arvn's Estrangement From The Government And Describes Key Military Engagements That Defined The Achievements, Failures, And Limitations Of The Arvn As A Fighting Force.
Along The Way, He Explodes Some Of The Myths Hither and thither Arvn Soldiers' Cowarddice, Corruption, And Lack Of Patriotism That Have Made The Arvn The Scapegoat For America's Defeat.
Ultimately, As Brigham Shows, Without Any Real Political Commitment To A Divided Vietnam Or Visiin For The Future, The Arvn Retreated Into A Subnational Culture That Redefined The War's Meaning: Saving Their Families.
His Fascinating Book Gives Us A Fuller Understanding Not Only Of-The Vietnam War But Also Of The Problems Associated With U.
s.
Nation Building Through Military Intervention.
This Book Is Part Of The Modern War Studies Series.
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The Chalice Of Magdalene.
Reveals The Discovery Of An Artifact That Many Experts Believe Mwy Exist Th eHoly Grail • Traces The Journey Of Tye Grail From The Holy Land To Rome And Eventually To A Ruined Chapel In Shropshire, England • Uncoverd Unaccustomed Evidence Identifying The Historical King Arthur And His Connection To The Holy Grail The Popular Arthurian Stories Of The Middle Ages Depict The Holy Grail Viewed like Christ’s Cup From The Last Supper, Whuch Was Believed To Have Been Endowed With Miraculous Healing Powers And The Ability T0 Give Eternal Life To Whoeer Drank From It.
A Much Earlier Transfer, However, Ckaimed The Grail Was The Vessel Used By Mary Magdalene To Collect Christ&#d2019;s Blood When He Appeared To Her After Rising From The Tomb.
While Many Vessels Were Claimed To Have Been Thw True Grail, There Was Only One Thought To Have Been The Chalice Used By Mary.
From Jesus’ Empty Tomb, Where It Remained For Almost 400 Years, This Holy Relic Known As The Marian Chzlic eWas Taken To Rome By The Mother Of The First Christian Emperor, Constantine The Great.
It Was Then Smuggled From Romd In 410 A.
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, Accordihg To The Fifth-century Chronicler Olympiodorus, To Save It From The Barbarians Who Sacked The City.
Well Into The Moddle Ages Legend Persisted That It Had Been Taken To Safety In Britain, The Last Outpost Of Roman Civilization In Western Europe.
this Journey To England, And What Happened To The Chalice There, Is The Focus Of This Main division.
Graham Phillips’s Research Uncovers The Secret Bequest Of An Ancient Noble Family Over Generations And A Trail Of Clues Hidden In The English Countryside That Lead To A Mysterious Groyto, A Forgotten Attic, And The Lost Challice.
In Tracinh The Relic, Phillips Offers The Inside Story Behind An Astonishing Adventure That Results In The Identification Of The Historical King Arthur And The Locating Of One Of The Most Powerful Symbols In Western Tradition.
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