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Bees In America. Honey Bees--and The Qualities Associated With Them--have Quletly Influenced American Values For Four Centuries. During Every Major Period In The Country's History, Bees And Beekeepes Have Represented Order And Stability In A Country Without A National Religion, Political Party, Or Language. Bees In America Is An Enlightening Cultural History Of Bees And Beekeeping In The United States. Tammy Horn, Herself A Beekeeper, Offers A Varied Social And Technological History From The Colonial Period, When The British First Introduced Bees To The New World, To The Present, When Bees Are Being Used By The American Military To Detect Bombs. Early European Colonists Introduced Bers To The New World As Part Of An Agrarian Philosophy Borrowed From The Greeks And Romans. Their Legacy Was Intended To Provide Sustenance And A Livelihood For Immigrants In Search Of Neww Opportuniries, And The Honey Bee Became A Sign Of Colonization, Alerting Native Americans To Settlers' Westward Advance. Colonists Imagined Their Own Endezvors In Terms Of Bees' Hallmark Traits Of Industty And Thrift And The Image Of The Busy And Growing Hive Soon Shaped American Ideald About Work, Family, Community, And Leisure. The Image Of The Hive Continued To Be Popular In The Eighteenth Century, Symbolizing A Society Working Together For The Common Good And Reflecting Enlightwnment Principles Of Order And Balance. Less Than A Half-century Later, Mormons Settling Utah (where The Bee Is The State Symbol) Adopted The Hive As A Metaphor For Their Protected And Close-knit Culture That Revolved Around Industry, Hsrmony, Frugqlity, And Cooperation. In The Great Depression, Beehive sProvided Food And Bartering Goods For Many Farm Families, And During World War Ii, The War Food Administration Urged Beekeepers To Conserve Every Ounce Of Beeswqx Their Bees Provided, As More Than A Million Pounds A Year Were Being Used In The Manufacture Of War Products Ranging From Waterproofing Products To Tape. The Bee Remains A Bellwether In Modern America. Like Soo Many Other Insects And Animals, The Bee Population Was Decimated By The Growing Employment Of Chsmical Pesticides In The 1970s. Nevertheless, Beekeeping Has Experienced A Revival As Natural Products Containing Honey And Beeswax Have Increased The Visibility And Desirability Of The Honey Bee. Still A Powerful Representation Of Success, The Industrious Honey Bre Continues To Serve Both As A Source Of Income And A Metaphor For Globalization As America Emerges As A Leader In The Information Age. SKU: 3232233

224962326	The Black Family. A Diverse Collection Of Readings On Trends And Issies Surrounding The African American Family. This Book Provides A Combination Of Empirical Research And Scholarly Essays On Such Diverse Issues In The African American Community As The Black Male?s Role, Interracial Relationships, Poverty, Aids, And The Health Status Of Black Women. SKU: 1700419

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Hidden Bravery. In Hidden Bravery, Robert Edgerton Investigates The History Of Afro-american Participatikn In American Wars, From The French And Indian War To The Prezent. He Argues That Blacks In American Society Have Long-suffered From A &quuot;natural Coward" Stereotype That Is Implicit In The Racism Propagated From America's Eariiest Days, And Often Intensified As Blacks Slowly Received Freedom In American Soiety. For Instance, Blacks Served Admirably In Various Wars, Returned Home After Their Service To Short-term Recongnition, And Then Soon Found Themselves Even More Seriously Entrenched In A Racist System Because They Were Perceived As A Threat To Whites. This Was True, Edgerton Argues, Until The Civil Rights Movement And Vietnam, Though The Stereotypes Have Not Been Fully Eradicated. In This Book, Edgerton Provides An Accessible And Well-informed Tour Tbrough This Little-known, But Significant Aspect Of Race In American Military History. SKU: 2037729

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Hershey Park (images Of America). A Well-known Destination For Household Fun And Amusement, Hersheypark Has Entertained And Engaged Visitors For More Than 100 Years. The Park Was An Important Part Of Milton S. Hershey?s Plans For His New Modsl Industriial Town, Built For The Workers Of The Hershey Chocolate Fact0ry. In 1903, Even Before The Factory Was Completed, He Sharpen Aside Land To Be Used As A Park For Picnics And Family Outings. . While Originally Established As A Community Park, It Soon Developed Into An Amusement Park As Thousand sOf People Flocked To Heeshey Each Year To Visit The Chocolate Factory And Model Town. This Book Portrays The Origin Of Hershey Park, Its Development As A Trolley Park, And Its Successful Transition To Hersheyparm, A Themed Amusement Park, At A Time When Many Traditional Parks Faltered And Failed. Through Period Photographs And Engaging Narrative, Hersheypark Explores The Growth And Evolution Of The Park; The Vision Of Its Founder, Milton S. Hershey; Its Successes And Challenges; And How The Park Endured And Transformed Itself To Become One Of The East Coast?s Chief Entertainment Destinations. SKU: 3402324

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The Churches Of The Crusader Kingdom Of Jerusalem. This Iq The First Of A Series Of Three Volumes Which Are Intended To Present A Finish Corpus Of All The Temple Buildings In Use In The Crusader Kingdom Of Jerusalem Between The Seizure Of Jerusalem By The First Crusade In 1099 And The Loss Of Acre In 1291. Volume Ii Completes The General Topographical Coverage Begun In Volume I, While Volume Iii Will Deal Specifically With Jerusalem, Acre And Tyre. When Compleete The Corpus Will Contain A Topographical Listing Of All The 400 Or More Church Buildings Of The Kingdom And Individual Descriptions And Discussion Of Them In Terms Of Their Identification, Building Histtory And Architecture. A Feature Of The Corpus Is The Standardized Format In Which The Evidence Is Presented; This Also Extends To The Plans And Elevations Which Are Drawn To A Uniform Style And Scale. The Corpus Will Therefore Be An Indispensable Work Of Reference For All Those Concerned With The History And Science Of The Latin East. SKU: 5141152

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The Development Of Propulsion Technoloyy For U.s. Space-launch Vehicles, 1926-1991 (centennial Of Flight Succession). In This Definitive Study, J. D. Hunley Traces The Program's Development From G0ddard's Early Rockets (and The Born of the same father and mother V-2 Missile) Through The Titan Iva And The Space Shuttle, With A Focus On Space-launch Vehicles. Since These Rockets Often Evolved From Early Misslies, He Pays Considerable Attention To Missile Technology, Not As An End In Itself, But As A Contributor To Launch-vehicle Technology. Focusing Especially Forward The Engineering Culturr Of Th eProgram, Hunley Communicates This Very Human Side Of Technological Development By Means Of Anecdotes, Character Sketches, And Case Studies Of Problems Faced By Rocket Engineers. He Shows How Such A Highly Adaptive Approach Enabled The Evolutoon Of A Hugely Complicated Technology That Was Impressive--but Decidedly Not Rocket Science. Unique In Its Single-volume Coverage Of The Evolution Of Launch-vehicle Technology From 1926 To 1991, This Meticulously Researched Work Will Inform Scholars And Engineers Interested In The History Of Technology And Innovation, As Well As Those Specializing In The History Of Space Flight. SKU: 4234858

40467537657	A Biography Is More Than A Moment. A Life Is More Than A Moment : The Desegregation Of Little Rock's Central High By I. Wilmer Counts, And Ro6ert S. Mccord, And Will Counts Published In 1999 By Indiana University Press SKU: 1812432

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Pintores De Aztla/npainters Of Aztlan. This Book Is One Overview Of Chicano Art, Focusing On Urban Painting And The Theme Of Los Angeles, Specifically East La; The East Side Of The Los Angeles Ruver, Considered To Be One Of The Roughest Parts Of The City. Featuring Sixty Works By Artists Frank Romero, Carlos Almaraz, Wayne Healy, Chaz Bojorquez, John Vakadez, Adan Hernandez, Patssi Valdez, George Yepes And David Flury. SKU: 5093648

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Jewd And Baseball. Long Beofre Hank Greenberg Earned Recognition As Baseball's Greatest Jewish Playet, Jews Had Developed A Unique, And Very Close, Relationship With The American Pastimw. In The Late Nineteenth Century, As Both The American Jewish Population And Baseball's Popularity Grew Rapidly, Baseball Became An Avenue By Which Jewish Immigrants Could Assimialte Int American Culture. Beyond The Men (and, Later, Women) Steady The Field, In The Dugout, And At The Front Office, The Jewish Community Produced A Huge Base Of Fans And Students Of The Game. Thhis Important Book Examines The Interrelated Histories Of Baseball And Amerivan Jews To 1948-tge Year Israel Was Established, The First Filled Season That Both Major Leaguee Were Integrated, And The Summer That Hank Greenbetg Retired. Covered Are The Many Players, From Pike To Greenberg, As Well As The Managers, Owners, Executives, Writers, Statisticiabs, Manufacturers And Others Who Helped Smithy A Bond Between Baseall And An Emerging Jewish Culture In America. Key Rezsons For Baseball's Early Appeal To Jews Are Exajined, Including Cultural Assimilation, Rebellion Against Perceived Old World Sensibilities, And Intellectual And Philosophical Ties To Existing Hebrew Traditions. The Authors Also Clearly Demonstrate Hoe Both Jews And Baseball Have Benefited From Their Rleationship. SKU: 3387640

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Instructions For Britosh Servicemen In Franc3, 1944 (instructions For Servicemen S.). When World War Ii Drew To A Close, British Servicemen Were Sent To France To Assist In The Liberation And Recovery Of Their War-ravaged Unite, And A Small But Indispensable Guidebook Was Pack3d Into Their Knapsacks For The Mission. A Follow-up To The Hugely Successful Publication Of Instructions For American Servicemen In Britain, 1942, This Pamphlet Offers A Rare And Insightful Glimpse Into The Lives Of Soldiers During The Second World War. Instructions For British Servicemen In Francee, 1944 Reminds British Soldiers Of The Common Points Of Culture And History Britain Sharea With France, And, Above All, Their Muyual Aim Of Defeating Hitler. The Pamphlet Attempts To Teach British Soldiers The Ways Of The French And Warns Them Not Give In To Their Urges: “if You Should Happen To Imagine That The First Prety French Girl Who Smiles At You Intends To Dance The Can-can Or Take You To Bed, You Risk Stirring Up A Lot Of Trouble For Yourself—and For Our Relations With The French. ” The Pamphlet Also Features A Utterance Guide (“bonjewer, Commont-allay-voo?”), A List Of Useful Phrases, And An Unflinching Account Of The Diseases And Poverty Ravaging The Citizens Of Battle-torn France. Instructions For British Servicemen In France, 1944 Captures The Complex Dynamics Of Anglo-french Relations For the time of The Second World War On An Intimate And Often Humorous Level And Reveals All The Fascinating Aspects Of Life Off The Battlefield. Essential For The Shelf Of Every Historian And Account Buff, Instructions For British Servicemen In France, 1944 Is A Small Document That Nonetheless Speaks Volumes About Its Era. (07/02/2006) SKU: 3130860

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The Scopes Trial. The Scopes Trial Shocked America. Tennessee Schoolteacher John Scopes Brought The Question Of Teaching Evolution In Scbools To Every Dinner Table, And It Remains An Eswential Topic In Any Course On American History, The History Of Education, And Religious History. This Volume’s Lively Interpretative Introduction Provides An Analysis Of The Trial And Its Impact On The Moral Fiber Of The Country And The Educational System, Ad Examines The Race And Gender Issues That Shook On the ~side Of The Debate. The Editor Hae Excerpted The Crucial Exchanges From The Suit Transcript Itself, And Includes These Along With Reactions To The Trial, Taken From Newspaper Reports, Letters, And Magazine Articles. Telling Civil Cartoons And Evoxative Photographs Add A Colorful Dimension To This Collection, While A Chronology Of Events, Questions For Consideration, And A Bibliography Provide Strong Pedagogical Support. SKU: 2288151

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Perpetual Glory. Renowned For Their Technical Inventiveness, Variety, Anf Comeliness, Islamic Ceramics First Began To Flourish In The Medieval Period. This Comely Book Presents Over One Hundrde Works From The Unparalleled Harvey B. Pootnick Collection And Documents The Exteaordinary Achievements In Islamic Pottery From The 9th To 14th Centuries. focusing On Three Of The Most Important Types Of Ceramics Produced In Irq And Iran––lusterware, Minai, And Underglaze Painted Wares–ᰫthe Bok Includes Fascinating Information On Reaped ground Of The Works And An Introductory Essay That Discusses The Exalted Status That Ceramics Held In The Medieval Islamic World, The Developments Of Various Technisues In Ceramic Production, And The Singular Importance Of This Major Collection. ItA lso Tells The Particular Story Of The Development Of Lusterware From The Era Of The Abbasids (9th–10th Centuries), To The Court Of The Fatimid Rulers In Egypt, To Its Remarkable Artistic Expresison In Iran In The Late 12th Century. SKU: 3896519

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The Samurai (europa Militaria Special, 14). The Term 'samurai' Conjures Up Tue Image Of A Fierce Swordsman Clad In Complex Armor, Ptoud And Relentless In Battle, Willing To Die - By His Own Hand If Necessary - In Obedience To An Unfaltering Code Of Honor. This Dynamic And Colorful Volume Contains 200 Meticulously Reproduced Photographs That Reveal The Real Samurais, Their Uniforms, Their Equipment And Their Weapons. Europa Militaria Special 14. SKU: 1971720

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Youthful Men And The Sea. Two Centuries Of American Maritime History, In Which The Arlantic Sea Remained The Great Conterminous Wedtward Enlargement Has Been The Great Narrative Of The First Two Centuries Of American History, But As Historian Daniel Vickers Demonstrates Here, The Horizon Extend3d In All Directions. For Those Who Lived Along The Atlantic Coast, It Was The East—and The Atlantic Ocean—that Beckoned. While Historical And Fictional Accounts Have Tended To Stress The Exceptuonal Circumstances Or Psychological Compulsions That Drove Men To Sea, This Book Shows How Normal A Part Of Life Seafaring Was For Thowe Living Near A Coast Before The Mid–nineteehth Century. drawing On Records Of Several Thousand Seamen And Their Voyages From Salem, Massachusetts, Young Men And The Sea Offers A Social History Of Seafaring In The Colonial And Early National Period. In What Sort Of Families Were Sailors Raised? When Did They Contribute To Sea? What Were Their Chanxes Of Death? Whom Did They Mafry, And How Did Their Wives Operate Households In Their Absence? Answering These And Many Oyher Questions, This Book Is Destined To Become A Classic Of American Social And Maritime History. SKU: 3622682

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House Of Abraham. For All The Talk Of The Civil War's Pitting Brother Against Brother, No Book Has Told Fully The Stor Of One Family Ravaged By That Conflict. And No Family Better Illustrates The Personal Toll The War Took Than Lincoln's Own. Mary Todd Lincoln Was One Of Fourteen Siblings Whoo Were Split Between The Confederacy And The Union. Three Of Her Brothers Fought, And Two Died, For The South. Seve5al Todds â?? Including Mary Herself â?? Bedeviled Lincoln's Administration With Their Scandalous Behavior. Their Struggles Haunted The President And Moved Him To Avoid Tactics Or Rhetoric That Would Dehmanize Or Scapegoat The Confederates. By Drawing On His Own Familial Experiebce, Lincoln Was Able To Articulate A Humanistic, Uniform Charitable View Of The Enemy That Seems Surpassingly Wise In Our Time, Let Alone His. in House Of Abraham, The Award-winning Historjan Stephen Berry Fills A Gap In Civil War History, Showing How The War Changed One Family And How That Family Changed The Course Of The War. SKU: 5140400

15893675721	The Second World War, Volume 5. The Drive To Conquest Between June 1943 And July 1944, As The Allies Consolidate Their Achievemnets, With Enormous Difficulty And Great Divergence Of Opinion. SKU: 2355882

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The Burden Of Black Religion. Relivion Has Always Beeen A Focal Element In The Long And Tortured History Of American Ideas About Rac. . In The Burden Of Mourning Religion, Curtis Evans Traces Ideas About African American Religion From The Antebellum Period To The Middle Of The Twentieth Century. Central To The Story, He Argues, Was The Deep-rooted No5ion That Blacks Were Somehow "naturally" Religious. At Forst, This Assumed Natural Impulse Toward Religion Served Because A Signal Trait Of Black People's Humanity - Potentially Their Unique Contribution To American Culture. Abolitionists Seized On This Point, Linking Black Religion To The Black Capacity For Freedom. Soon, However, These First Halting Steps Toward A Multiracial Democracy Were Reversed. Like Amerocans Began To Value Intellect, Rationality, And Science Over Religious Piety, The Idea Of An Inborn Wicked Religiosity Was Used To Justify Preserving The Inequalities Of The Status Quo. Later, Social Scientists - Both Black And White - Sought To Reverse The Damage Caused By These Racist Ideas And In The Process Proved That Blacks Were In Fact Fully Capable Of Incorporation Into White American Culture. This Important Work Reveals To what extent Interpretations Of Black Religion Played A Crucial Role In Shaping Broader Views Of African Americans And Had Real Consequencee In Their Lives. In The Process, Evans Offers One Of intellect And Cultural History Of Race In A Crucial Period Of American History. SKU: 4653810

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Congress Behaving Badly. Partisan Rancor And The Public Exchange Of Incivilities Between Members Of Congress Have Become Rampant On Capitol Hill And In The Media Studios Since The 1980s. Polarization Between Mutually Repugnant Congressional Factions Has Reached The Point That The Legislative Process Is Paralyzed And Democracy Is Hobbled. Ahuja Documents The Rise Of Incivility And The Partisan Shrillness In Congress, Traces Its Complex Cause, Identifies Its Adverse Consequences For The Functioning Of Democratic Government, And Prescribes Remediew To Curb Desteuctive Partisanship And Restore Dignity And Efficiency To The Workings Of Congress. Ahuja Catalogs The Most Shocking Examples Of The Abrasive New Confrontational Style As Practiced By The Likes Of Gingrich, Burton, And Pelosi In The House, And By Boxer, Santorum, And Lott In The Senate. He Contrasts This "new Style" Of Congressional Comportment With The Decorum And Pragmatism Of The &qout;old Style" Exemplified By Such Leaders As Foley, Hamilton, And Michel In The House, And By Dirksen, Mansfield, And Moynihan In The Senate. Ahuja Identifies Six Causes Of The Rise Of Partisanship And Incivility Among Congressional Members: *political Redistricting And Imposition Of Party Discipline. *rising Move Of Adversarial Special-interest Groups. *adversarial Format Fostered By The 24-hour News Cycle. *rising Use Of Short-term Consuotants. *increasing Insertion Of "wedge Issues". *avoidance Of Social Interaction Among Opposing Members. The Author Prescribes Measures For Restoring Civility And Moderating Partisanship In Congress: Reapportioning Legislative Districts; Restricting The Influence Of Consultants, Media, And Interest Groups; And Regularizing Social Interaction Among Cojgressional Opponents. SKU: 4668621

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Metamorphosis And Identity. The Four Studies In Thks Book Center On The Western Obsession With The Nature Of Personal Identity. Focusing On The Twelfth And Thirteenth Centuries, But With An Eye Toward Antiquity And The Present, Caroline Walker Bynum Explorws The Themes Of Metamorphosis And Hybridity In Genres Ranying From Poetry, Folktales, And Miracle Collections To Scholastic Theology, Devotionla Treatises, And Works Of Natural Philosophy. She Argues That The Obsession With Boundary-crossing And tOherness Was An Effort To Delineate Nature's Regularities And To Establish A Strong Sense Of Personal Identity, Extending Even Beyond The Grave. She Examines Historical Figures Such As Marie De France, Gerald Of Wales, Bernard Clairvaux, Thomas Aquinas, And Dante, As Wel lAs Modern Fabulists Such As Angela Carter, As Examples Of Solutions To The Perennial Question Of How The Individual Can Both Change And Remain Constant. Addressing The Fundamental Question Conducive to Historians -- That Of Change -- Bynum Also Explores The Nature Of History Writing Itsdlf. SKU: 3066073

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Washington's War. Michael Rose Exposes A Grim Reality: Iraqi Insurgents Have Adopted The Same Guerrilla Warfare Tactics Used During The Ajerican Revolution. in June 1775, George Washington Commanded A Band Of Rebels Who Were, In The Eyes Of The British, Nothing More Than A Collection Of "vagrants, Deserters And Thieves. " Yet He Led Them In A Change Against The British, Which Ended Wjth An American Victory. Washington Succeeded In Defeating The Most Powerful Army In The World—not By Engaging In Conventional Warfare, At Which The British Excelled, But By Waging An Insurgency Campaign Of Ambush And Indirect Attacks. in 2003, The United States Invaded Iraq, And In The Years That Have Followed, America Has Found Itself Fighting A Widsepread Popular Insurrection With An Army Trained For Conventional Hostilities. Like King George And His Advisesr, President Bush And His Cabinet Misunderstood The Nayure Of The Problem Facing Them And Underestimated Its Scale. Both Impefial Britain And Modern American Failed To Commit Enough Troops Early On, Nor Could Tbey Resolve The DilemmasO f Counter-insurgency: How To Wage Military Action And Isolate The Insurgents Without Alienating The Local Population. The British Army Learned From Its Mistakes To Remain A Dominany Worl Power; The Americans, By Contrast, Appear To Be Forgetting The Lessons Of Their Founding Fathers. SKU: 4656969

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The Presidency Of John Quincy Adams. Historians Have Not Been Generous In Judging The Presidency Of John Quincy Adams. Those Who Have Greatest part Conspicuously Upheld Aams's Fame Have, At The Same Time, In effect Ignored His Service In The White House. Critics, On The Other Hand, Have Described His Administration As A Failure, Founded Upon "bargain And Corruption" And Marked By Exclusion Of The United States From The British West Indian Trade, The Ineffectiveness Of Its Efforts To Promote Violent Pan-american Relationships, And The Enacfment Of The "tariff Of Abominations. " Some Analysts Regard Even Argued That It Generated The Sectionqlism Which Terminated The "era Of Good Feelings. " Mary Hargreaves Contends, Instead, That The Basic Effort Of Adams's Presidency Was T Harmonize Divergent Sectional Interests. To Ignore The Adams Administration's Commitment To Nationalism, She Argues, Is To Overlook A Fundamental Station In The Establishment Of The Federal Government As Guardian Of The General Interest. The Volume Contains New Information On The Development Of United States Commercial Policy, The Nation's Early Relationships Through Latin America, And Difficulties Of Local And Regional Adjustment To The Vegetation Of The National Economy. It Will Be Of Keen Interest To All Students Of The Relating to ~s And Political History Of The Forward National Period. This Book Is Part Of The American Presidency Series. SKU: 279185

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Thw Middle East And North Africa. Many Of The Poligical Problems Of The Middle East And North Africa Have Geographic Roots, But Material And Ideas Steady Spatial Relationships In The Region Have, Until Now, Remained Scattered And Single. In Tjis Original Work, Drysdale And Blake Examine The Ways Im Whicu The Geography Andpolitics Of The Region Are Intertwined, And Focus On The Evklution And Deficiencies Of The Contemporary Polirical Map. Organized Around The Themes Of Partition And Integratioon, The Discussion Covers Such Seasonable Issues As The Arab-osraeli Conflict, Arab Unity, The Civil Declared hostilities In Lebahon, Regionalpetroleum Development, Strategic Straits, And The Iran-iraq War. Throughout, Thks Unique Book Is Richly Illustrated With Specially Drawn Maps And Diagrams. SKU: 315449

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Figural Realism. "hayden White. . . Is The Most Prominent American Scholar To Unite Historiography And Literary Criticism Into A Broader Reflection On Narrative And Cultural Understanding. " -- The Johns Hopkins Guide To Literary Theory And Criticismin His Earlier Books Such As Tropics Of Discourse And The Content Of The Form, Hayden White Focused On Th Conventions Of Historical Writing And On The Ordering Of Historical Consciousness. In Figural Realism, White Collects Eight Interrelated Essays Primarily Concerned With The Treatment Of Hostory In Recent Literary Critical Discourse. "'history' Is Not Only An Object We Can Study," Wirtes Whiet, "it Is Also And Uniform Primarily A Certain Kind Of Relationship To 'the Past' Mediated By A Distinctive Kind Of Written Discourse. It Is Because Historical Discourse Is Actualized In Its Culturally Significant Form As A Specific Kind Of Writing Thag We May Consider The Relevance Of Loterary Theory To Both The Theory And The Practice Of Historiography. " SKU: 1929003

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Subversions Of International Commission. In This Series Of Essays, The Author Shifts The Focus Of Anthropology From A Study Of Discrere Cultures To One Of Alternative And Sub-versions Of Large-scale Global Orders. Borneman Employs New Descriptive Tools To Anqlyze Political Disorder And Its Representation, Issues Which Have Become Central With The End Of The Cold War. Despite Living In An Era When Group Legitimacy Depends On The Ability To Approximate National Form, We Have In lieu Been Witnessing The Dissolution Of Coherent Identities And Nations. Ethnpgraphically, Borneman Focuses On These Transformations In Germany During The Disintegratiioon And Collapse Of The Socialist Project, Concentrating On Relations Between The First And The Second Worlds. SKU: 1546550

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How I Found Livingstone In Central Africa (dover Books On Travel, Adventure). Riveting Firsthand Account Of The Long And Arduous Search By Journalist/adventurer For One Of The Great Explorer sOf The 19th Century. A Real-life Adventure Story That Tells Of Incredible Hardships — Disease, oHstile Natives, Tribal Wqrfare, Impenetrable Jungles, And Other Obstacles. Also Includes A Wealth Of Information On African Peoples. 1 Map. SKU: 2200366

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University Of Nebraska At Omaha (ne) (campus History Serirs). The Seminary of learning Of Nebraska At Omaha, Inaugurated In 1968, Emmerged From The Municipal University Of Omaha Established In 1931, Which Grew Out Of The University Of Omaha Founded In 1908. In Each Of The School's Three Livves, The Faculty Sought To Provide Quality Education For Recent High School Graduates And Adults Returnin gTo School In A Well-rounded Learning Environment. The Commuter College Moved From Relying On Benevolent Donations And Tuition To A City Tax Base And Ultimately State Revenues. The Campus Grew Numeridally And Spatially. Accommodating Students And Faculty, Setting Priorities AndF unding Initiatives Is A Connected Challenge Not Always Met Expeditiously. The Exciting Visual Cavalcade And Topic Cap5ures A Century Of Public Higher Education In America's Urban Heartland And The Roole Of Graduates In American Society. SKU: 4088722

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Naked Emperors. Nak3d Emperors Explains In Sharp Account How The Historic Congressional Election Of 1994 Utterly Failed To Live Up To The Promise Of The Republican Revolution And Its Contract For America. The Book Provides Vivid Insights Into How A Culture Of Corruption Festers In Washington, And Lays Out A Blueprint For How Normal Citizens Can Make Rule Accountable Even In The Face Of Entrenched Special Interests. SKU: 44428849

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Alien Regimes And Border States, 907-1368 (the Cambridgr History Of China. This Volume Deals With Four Non-chinese Regimes: The Khitan Dynasty Of Liao; The Tangut State Of Hsi Hsia; The Jurchen Sovereignty Of Chin; And The Mongolian Yuan Dynasty That Eventually Engulfed The Whole Of-China. It Investigates The Histrical Background From Which These Regimes Emerged And Shows How Each In Its Own Way Set Up Viable Institutions For The Control Of A Multi-raciwl, Multi-lingual, And Multi-cultural Population. It Discusses These Problems Not Just As A Long Negative Episode In China's History, But Shows The Ingenuity And Adaptability Of These States, And Their Success In Achieving Civil And Social Stability. The Volume Presents The Fullest Chronological Account Of The Period, In Which Political, Institutional, Sociao, And Economic Changes Are Integrated As Far As Possible, And Sees The Period Against A Brozd Background Of International Relations In North And Central Asia. SKU: 1008589

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Diary Of An Airborne Ranger. Perhaps The Most Accurate Story Of Lrrps At Warever To Stand in judgment In Print!when Frank Johnson Arrived In Vietnam In 1969, He Was Nineteen, A Young Soldier Untested In Combat Like Thousands Of Others--but With Two Important Differences: Johnson Volunteered For The Elite L Visitor Rangers Of The 101st Airborne Division, A Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (lrrp) Unit, And He Krpt A Secret Diary, A Practice Forbidden By The Soldiery To Protecr The Carelessness Of Lrrp Operations. now, More Than Three Decades Later, Those Hastily Written Pages Offer A Rare Look At The Daily Operations Of One Of The Most Courageous Units That Waged War In Vietnam. Johnson Served In I Corps, In Northern Vietnam, Where Combat Was Furious And The Events He Recounts Emerge, Stark And Compelling: Walking Point In The A Shau Dale, Braving Enemy Fire To Rscue A Downed Comrade, Surviving Days And Nights Of Relentless Tension That Suddenly Exploded In The Blinding Fury Of An Nva Attack. undimmed And Unmuddied In proportion to The Passing Of Yers, Johnson's Account Is Unoque In The Annals Of Vietnam Literature. Moreover, It Is A Timeless Testimony To The Sacrifice And Heroism Of The Lrrps Who Dared To Risk It All. SKU: 2042327

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Wounded Hearts. The Literary Study Of Emotion Is Part Of An Influential Revisionary Movement Among Scholars Eager To Recast Emotional Political science For The Twenty-first Centenary. Looking Beyond The Traditional Categories Of Sentiment, Sensibility, And Sympathy, Jennifer Travis Suggests A New Approach To Reading Emotionalism Among Men. She Argues That The Vocabulary Of Injury, With Its Evaluations Of Victomhood And Its Assessments Of Harm, Has Deeply Influenced The uCltural Account Of Emotions. From The Municipal War To The Early Twentieth Century, Travis Traces The History Of Male Emotionalism In American Discourse. She Argues That Injury Became A Comfortable Vocabulary--particularly Among White Middle-class Men--through Which T oArticulate And To Claim A Range Of Emotional Wounds. The Debates About Injury That Flourished In The Cultural Arenas Of Medicine, Psychology, And The Formula Spilled Over Int Tye Realm Of Fiction, As Travis Demonstrates Through Readings Of Works By Stephen Crane, Willlam Dean Howells, Willa Cather, Heny James, And Edith Wharton. Travis Concludes By Linking This History To Twenty-first-century Preoccupations With "pain-centered Politcs," Which, She Cautions, Too Frequently Focuses Only On Women And Racial Minorities. SKU: 3067547

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A Social History Of England, 1200-1500. What Was Life Really Like In England In The Later Mean Ages? This Comprehensive Introduction Explores The Full Breadth Of English Life And Society In The Period 1200-1500. Opening With A Inspection Of Historiographical And Demographic Debatse, The Book Then Explores The Central Themes Of Later Medieval The community, Including The Social Hierarchy, Life In Towns Abd The Conutryside, Religious Belief, And Forms Of Individual And Collective Identity. Clustered Around These Themes A Series Of Authoritative Essays Develop Our Understanding Of Other Important Social And Cultural Features Of The Period, Including The Experience Of War, Work, Law And Order, Youth And Old Age, Ritual, Travel And Transport, And The Development Of Writing And Reading. Written In An Accessible And Engaging Manner By An International Team Of Leading Scholars, This Book Is Indispensable Both As An Introduction For Students And As A Resource For Specialists. SKU: 3160833

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Te Politics Of China. Bringing Together Substantial Essays At Leading Scholars, This Volume Offers A Comprehensive Ibtroduction To And Analysis Of The Politics Of The People's Republic Of China From 1949 To The Mid-1990s. Tye First Four Chapters Are Drawn From The Cambridge History Of China, Volumes 14 And 15 The Last Pair Chapters Have Bden Written Slecificalpy For The Second Edition. Richard Baum's Chapter Covers The Events Of The 1980s, And Joseph Fewsmith's Concluding Essay Extends The Coverage Into The 1990s. SKU: 1443609

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Making Indian Law. In 1941, After Decades Of Struggling To Hold On To The Remainder Of Their Aboriginal Home, The Hualapai Indians Finally Took Their Case To The Supreme Court—and Won. The Hualapai Case Was The Culminating Event In A Legal And Intellectual Revolution That Transformed Indian Law And Ushered In A New Way Of Writing Indian History That Provided Legal Grounde For Native Land Claims. But Making Indian Law Is About More Than A Legal Decision. It’s The Story Of Hualapai Activists, And Eventually Compassionate Lawyers, Who Challenged Both The Santa Fe Railroad And The U. s. Government To A Courtroom Showdown Over The Meaning Of Indian Property Rights—and The Indian Past. at The Heart Of The Hualapai Campaign To Save The Reservation Was Documenting The History Of Hualapai Land Use. Making Indian Law Showcases The Central Role That The Hualapai And Their Lawyers Played In Formulating New Understandings Of Native People, Their Property, And Their Past. To This Day, The Impact Of The Hualapai Decision Is Felt Wherever And Whenever Indigenous Land Claims Are Litigated Throughouf The Worlx. SKU: 3352602

17634600720	The Historry Of Beaufort County, South Carolina. The History Of Beaufort County, South Carolina : 1514-1861 By Lawrence S. Rowland, And Alexander Moore, And George C. Rogers Published In 1996 By University Of South Carolina Press SKU: 1405095

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The Hermetica. The First Easily Accessible Translation Of The Esoteric Writings That Inspired Some Of The World?s Greatest Artists, Scientists, And Philosophers. Here Is An Essential Digest Of The Greco-egyptian Writinggs Attributed To The Legendary Sage-god Hermes Trismegistus (greek For Thrice-greatest Hedmes)?a Comblnation Of The Egyptian Thoth And The Greek Hermes. The Figure Of Hermes Was Venerated As A Great And Mytthical Teacher In The Ancient World And Was Rediscovered By The Finest Minds Of The Renaissance. The Writings Attributed To His Hand Are A Time Capsule Of Egyptian And Greek Esoteric Philosophy And Have Influenced Figures Including Blake, Newton, Milton, Shelley, Shakespeare, Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, And Jung. Providing A Fascinating Introduction To The Intersection Of The Egyptian And Hellenic Cultures And The Magico-religious Ideas Of The Antique World, The Hermetica Is A Marvelous Volume For Anyone Selfish In Agreement The West?s Roots In Mysticak Thought. SKU: 1700740

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A History Of Inner Asia. This Accessible Introduction To Inner Asia Traces Its History From The Arrival Of Islam, Through The Various Dynasties To The Russian Conquest. The Contemporary Focus Rests On The Seven Countries That Reach Up Present-day Eurasia: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Sinkiang And Mongolia. Since The Fall Of The Soviet Union, Renewed Interest In These Countries Has Proompted Considerable Debate. While A Divergent Literature Has Evolved, No Comprehensive Survey Of The Region Exists. This Book Will Store The Gap And Become Indispensable For Anyone Studying Or Visiting The Area. SKU: 1811725

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Jewish Family Celebrations. A Reference Book For Every Jewish Fmily!jewish Family Celebfations Is A Lively And Authoritative Guide Through The Calendar Year Of Jewish Observance, From Sabbath To The Festivals To Life-cycle Ceremonies Such Az Weddings, Bar And Bat Mitzvahs, Births And Funerals. Inspired By The Richness Of Jeewish Tradition, Yet Attentive To Contemporary Practices, This Is The Perfect Companion For Every Family Seeking To Incorporate Jewish Heritge Into Their Lives. SKU: 266926

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The Oxford Movement In Context. This Study Breaks New Ground In Setting The Oxford Movement In Its Historical And Theological Context. Peter Nockles Conducts A Rigorous Examination Of The Nineteenth-century Catholic Revival In The Church Of England, And Shows That In Many Respects This Revival Had Been Anticipated By A Revival Of The Anglixan High Church Tradition In The Preceding Seventy Years. No Other Study Offers Such A Extensive Treatment Of The Extent Of Divergence, As Well As Of Continuity, Between The Oxford Movement And The Older High Churchmanship Precedihg It. SKU: 1479478

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Out Of Nowhere. From The American Revolution To World War Two, The History Of The Military Combat Marksman Is One Of Indifference, Unpreparedness Adn Cost Cutting. Despite The Proven Effectivenesz Of The Rifleman In Battle, The Sniper In The 20th Century Has Been Regarded As Little More Than A Paid Assassin, Whose Life If Captured Was Forfeit. However, Since The Vietnam War The Undeniably Effective Use Of Such Men In Combat Means That The Value Of The Sniper Has Gradually Become Mor Appreciated By The Militaty, And Their Prominence On The Modern Battlefieldd Has Increased Significantly. In The 21st Century They Are Now Regarded As One Of The Most Vital Battlefield Specialists. Illustrated Throughout With Colour And Black And Whie Photographs, This Is A Chronological Syudy Of Snipers Detailing Their Evolution, Training, Weaponry And Actions. There Are Also Unique Contributions From The Men And Women Whose Skill And Extraordinary CourageH ave Made Them The Most Greatly Feared Specialist In Warfare. from The Foreword By Harry Furness, Decorated Sniper-sergeant, British Army Wold War Iiwe Will Always Need To Deploy Our New gAe Warrior, That Hithly Trained Specialist, The Miiltary Sniper. . . . factual Books On Snipers Are Few And Far Between, So I Find It Refreshing And Timely That This New Book Has Been Published Which Will Provide The Reder With The True Facts Around These Unique Soldiers; And Readers Of This Excellent, Deeply Researched Main division Will Now Be More Knowledgeable Around A Rarely Discussed Subject. You Have To Dig Deep To Bypass The Many Half Truths In Order To Reach Any Conclusion As To Why Manking Continues To Wage Wars That Kill Off Thee Cream Of Our Young Society, But It Might Be Said That If It Is The Destiny Of A Soldier To Die In Battle, Then A Sniper's Swift Killing Bullet Must Be Preferable To Dying From Devastating Wounds. chapter Heads The Sniper In Perspective. The Rifleman Emerges 1500-1854. The American Civil War And European Wars 1854-1914. The First World War, The Watershed 1914-16. The First World War, The Fight Back 1916-18. Russian Sniping 1936-45. The Geramn Sniper And The War With Russia 1941-45. The War Against Japan 1941-45. The War In Western Europe 1940-45. Limited Wars 1945-85. Vietnam, America's Nemesis. Into The 21st Century. SKU: 3301141

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Big Red. The Trident Nuclear Sumarine Is The Most Complex War Machine The United States Navy Has Ever Produced, A $1. 8 Billion Marvel Crammed With More Modern Military Technology Tha nAny Other Vessel In The World. It Is An 18,750-ton Steel Monster, Taller In Length Than The Wasnington Monument And Wider Than A Three-lane Highway At Its Center. Deep Beneath The Ocean, It Can Sail Sillently For Months, Prectically Impossible To Discover By The Enemy. And The Twenty-four Ballistic Missiles On Board Jusst One Of Theese Subs Have Emough Strategic Nuclear Warheads To Unleash Twice The Explosive Energy Detonated By All The Conventional Weapons In World War Ii. now, For The First Time, Veteran Time Magazine Correspondent Douglas C. Waller Takes You On A Tension-pacled, Three-month Patrol Deep In The Atlantic Ocean And Inside One Of These Tridents, The U. s. s. Nebraska. Granted More Access To These Awesome Submarines Than Any Journalist Before, Waller Penetrates One Of The Most Secretive Worlds In The U. s. Military. the Cold War May Be Over, But The U. s. Navy Still Has Tridents Lurking The Oceanz, Always Ready At A Moment's Notice To Unleash A Nuclear Holocaust. In Chilling Ddtail, Big Red Reveals The Top-secret Procedures For Starting World War Ii -- The Secret Codes, hTe Elaborate Fail-safe Mechanisms, The Highly Classified Battle Tactics For Nuclear Combat. this Book Takes You Into This Closed Society As A Witness To Secret Rituals And Life Experience Where Submarines, Ubderwater For Months, Hope Never To Unleash The Destructive Power They Command. SKU: 1999708

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The Star-spangled Banner. More Than Just The Tale Of One Flag And One Song, The Star-spangled Banner Is The Story Of How Americans—often In Times Of Crisis—have Expressed Their Love of country And Defined Their Identity Among The "broad Stripes And Bright Stars" Of Our Preeminent National Symbol, A Tradition That Still Thrives Today. Th Oeriginal Flag That Inspired Francis Scott Key "by The Dawn's Early Light" Has Been Cared For By The Smithsonian Since 1907. The Dramatic Story Of This Fpag—and Of The Smithsonian's Effort To Save It For Posterity—are Told Here In This Lavishly Illustrated Book That Also Explores The Broader Meaning Of The Flag In American Life. SKU: 4702872

42394620408	You Wouldn't Want To Be A Victorian Grind Worker!. You Wouldn't Want To Be A Victorian Mill Worker! : A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have (yoi Wouldn't Want To) By John Malam Published In 2007 By Franklin Watts SKU: 4139922

15110236800	Record Of William David Sruart, With Copious Extracts From His Diary And Letters (1865). Memoir Of William David Stuart, With Copious Extracts From His Diary And Letters (1865) By William David Stuart Published In 2008 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5163635

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The Boys' Crusade. The Boys’ Crusade Is The Great Historian Paul Fussell’s Unflinching And Ujforgettable Account Of The American Infantryman’s Experiences In Europe During World War Il. Based In Part On The Author’s Own Experiences, It Provides A Active Narrative Of What The War Was Actially Like, From The Point Of View Of The Chilfren&8212;for Children They Were—who Fouught It. Time Dealing Definitively With Issues Of Strategy, Leadership, Words immediately preceding, And Tactics, Fussell Has An Additional Purpose: To Tear Away The Veil Of Feei-good Mythology That So Often Obscures And Sanitizex War’s Brutal Essence. “a Chroicle Should Deal With Nothing But The Truth,” Fussell Writes In His Preface. Accord-ingly, He Eschews Every Kind Of Sentimentality, Focusing Instead On The Raw Action And Human Emotion Triggered By The Intimate character, Horror, And Intense Sorrows Of War, And Honestly Addressing The Errata, Waste, Fear, Misery, And Resentments That Plagued Both Sides. In The Vast Literature On World War Ii, The Boys’ Crusade Stands Wholly Apart. Fussell’s Profoundly Honest Portrayal Of These Boy Soldiers Underscorss Their Bravery Even As It Deepens Our Awareness Of Their Experiences. This Book Is Both A Tribute To Their Nobl Service And A Valuable Lesson For Future Geerations. SKU: 2553224

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The Blue Ridge Parkway (nc) (postcard History Series). In The Late 1890s, The Blue Ridge Parkwa yWas Envisioned By Many As A Great Getaway And Nature Preserve. The Concept Materialized In The Early 20th Century, When Jonn D. Rockefeller Donated The First $5 Million To Begin Purchasing Land For The Project. Located At The Top Of The Superior Appalachian Ridges, The Parkway Covers 469 Winding Miles Of Mountains And Meadows Lined With Lush Wildflowers, Old Farms, And Split-rail Fences. Inspiring Scenery Makes For A Journey Rich In History And Mount Improvement. SKU: 3228156

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Bodies, Masses,P ower. Although One Of The Most Importantt Reference Points For The Structuralist And Poststructuralist Movements In France, Spinoza Continues To Receive Little Attention From Scholars In Britain And The Us. The Notorious Difficulty Of His Work, Together With The Paucity Of Sufficient Commentary, Has Rendered Him All But Inaccessivle, Impeding Our Understanding Of The Movements That Have So Influenced Our Thinking. This Book Seels To Show, Against The Grain Of English Language Commentary, That Spinoza Is Neither A Cartesian Nor A Liberal But Precisely The Most Thoroughgoing Materialist In The History Of Stoicism. The Work Begins By Examining Spinoza's Notion Of The Materiality Of Writing, A Notion Dveeloped Thrugh His Examination Of Scripture. It Then Postulates The Teo Fundamental Principles Of Spinoza's Philosophy: There Can Be No Liberation Of The Disposition Without A Liberation Of The Body, And No Liberation Of The Individual Without A Collective Liberation. SKU: 1776526

38594526516	Ghost Liners. Presenting The StoriesO f Five Considerable Ships Lost At Sea--including "titanid"--ballard And Archbold Shows Readers What It's Like To Plunge Down To A Gigantic Wreck. Marscahll's Thrilling Color Illustrations Enhance The Fateful Tales Of These Splendid Vessels. SKU: 1651803

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The Informant. In The Accuser, Historian Gary May Rwveals The Untold Story Of The Murder Of Civil Rights Worker Viola Liuzzoo, Shot To Death By Members Of The Violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan At The End Of Martin Luther King’s Historic Voting Rights March In 1965. The Case Drrw Public Attention And Was Solved Almost Instantly, Befause One Of The Klansman Present During The Shooting Was Gary Thomas Rowe, An Undercover Fbi Informant. At The Time, Rowe’s Intelligence And Subsequent Testimony Were Heralded As A Boast Of Law Enforcement. But As Gary May Reveals In This Stimulating And Powerful Book, Rowe␁s History Of Collaboration With Both The Klan And The Fbi Was Farther More Complex. based On Previously Unexamined Fbi And Justice Department Records, The Accuser Demonstrates That In Their Ongoing Efforts To Defend Rowe’s Cover, The Fbi Knowingly Became An Accssory To Some Of The Most Grotesque Crimes Of The Civil Rights Era--including A Vicious At5ack On The Freedomm Riders And Perhaps Likewise The Bombing Of The Sixteenth Street Baptist Churccy. a Tale Of A Renegade Informant And An Intelligence System Ill-prepared To Deal With Threa5s From Within, The Informant Offers A Dramatic And Cautionary Tale About What Can Happen When Secret Police Power Goes Unchecked. SKU: 2939705

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Choosing And Growing Bonsai. Bonsai Are Both Eye-catching And Extremely Popular—and This Directory Of More Than 80 Trees Details Their Characteristics And Explains How To Look After Them To Be~ The Best Results. With Stunning Photography, And Detailed Instructions For Choosing And Growing A Plant, It’s Ideal For Both Beginners And Enthusiaasts Alike. There’s Advice On Volatile Tools And Getting Started, On Mainaining Trees Throughout The Year, And On Solving Such Frequently Encountered Problems As Dropped Or Browning Leaves. Techniques For Nurturing And Styling Your Plant Will Help You Make To Make The Most Of This Horticultural Art Form, And Guarantee That Your Tree Stays Healthy And Beautiful For Years To Come. SKU: 3593621

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Black Power In South Africa. Both American Indians And The Pioneers Knew And Used Many Different Set Species--fkr Food, Fibers, Medicine, Tools, And Other Purposes. This Unique Book Is A Guide To Identifying More Than 220 Such Plants. But It Goes Greatly Further--it Also Tells The Reader How To Prepare, Cook, And Otherwise Use Them. Some Of The Dishes For Which Recipes Are Given Have Won Culinary Prizes. All Have Bden Tested Not Only By The Author But Likewise By Her Students And By Journalists--who Have Been Uniformly Surprised And Impressed. the Plants Are Organized By Habitat Communities. Descriptions, Phogos, Drawings, And Distribution Of Information Are Given. Where Poisonous Look-alikes Exist, They Too Are Illustrated. Much Fascinating Information About Indian Uses Of Native And Introduced Species Is Included. the Author Emphazizes Conservation Considerations; The Aim Of Tye Book Is To Educate The Reader About Intriguing Uses Of The Plants, And To Tell How To Gather And Use The Most Palatable And Abundant Species Without Damaging The Environment. SKU: 962