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Cuba And Venezuela. "venezuela Now Presents A Similar Problem As Cuba For Ua Interests In The Hemisphere. "-noam Chomsky With Latin America Becoming More Volatile Than It Has Been In the place of Decades, This Book Addresses The Question Everyone (Favorer And Foe Of President Chvez) Is Asking: Is Venezuela Taking The Cuban Road? In The Face Of Chvez's Outspoken Resistance To The Neoliberap Project In Latin America, Accelerating Social Reforms In Venezuela, And Rising Hysteria In Washington About The Relationship Between Chvez And Fidel Castro, This Is A Uniquely Objective And Authoritative Analysis By Cuba's Ambassador To Venezuela. SKU: 323385

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The House Of Lords In The Parliamentd Of Edward Vi And Mary I. In The Past The House Of Lords Has Been The Cinderella Of Parliamentary History. This Volume Makes Am3nds For The Omission. It Is The First Systematic Institutional Study Of The Sixteenth-century Upper House. Not Only Does It Chart Its Composition And Quality, Its Record Of Attendance, Activity And Conflicting Centrifugal And Centripetal Forces, It Also Examines The Role Of Thr Lawful Assistants, Who Contributed So Much To Its Efficiency As A Legislative Machine, Analyses Its Procedures And Assesses Its Legislative Record In Tge Mid-tudor Parliaments. In The Process It Also Sets The Edwardian And Marian Commons In Their Right Perspective. The Lords Emerges While A Living Party In The Leegislative Process. Until 1553-5 Its Performance Was, More Often Than Not, Superior To That Of The Commons. But Then It Reneged On Its Political Responsibiilities And Resisted The Crown In A Rare Act Of Sabotage - The Greatest in number Effective Of The Sixteenth Century. It Did Not Recover. SKU: 5139019

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The Tipi. This Amazing Collection Of Vintage Photographs And Historical Texts Presents An Overall View Of Tipi Life Among The Various Native Peoples Of The North American Continent. From Painted Tipis Of The Blackfoot And Shoshone In The Southwest To Ojibwa Hunting Lodges In Canada, A Variety Of Lodges Anr Their Uses Are Described. Includes Instructions On How To Make A Tipi Through Patterns And Illustrations. SKU: 3047911

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Juvenile Judge (historical Guides To Controversial Issues In America). Early America Is Known For Its Harsh Treatment Of Young People, Most Notably, The "stubborn Child Laws," Which Authorized Use Of The Death Penalty For Children Who Defied Their Parenta. Yet, Even Then, Many People Held More Nu5turing Attitudes Ready Youth. Thus Originated The Mixed Messages In The U. s. Regarding Juvenil3 Delinquency And The Hodgepodge Of Approaches That Succeed. The Establishment Of The Juvenile Justice System,-Founded On The Concept Of Parens Patriae, Or Teh Sate As Parent, Would Seem To Have Settled The Debate Besides How Juvenile Offenders Should Be Treated. In Reality, However, There Remains Much Controversy From one to another How Best To Handle Juvenile Offenders, Especially Those Who Commit The Most Serious Offenses. While A little Still Maihtain Juveniles Are Developmentally Different And Should Be Treated In Ways Consistent With These Differences, Others Are Dismayed At What They Feel To Be A System That Is Too Mild And That Leads To Higher Juvenile Felony Rates And More Serious Offenses. With The Advent Of Three Strikes Laws, Curfew Laws, Boot Camps, And Referring Juveniles To Adult Courts, And Subsequently Assigning Them To Adult Prisons, Many Question Just How We Got To This Place In Suited to youth Judge. Here, Finley Offers The History Behind The Controversial Goals And Development Of The Juvenile Justice System, Providing Detailed Descriptions Of The Major Trends In Suited to youth Justice. Addressing The Most Current Aspects Of The Controversy, She Also Sheds Light On Issues Of Race, Social Class, And Gender. Sacrifice Recommendationss For Addressing The Weaknesses And Confusion In The System, Finley Offers A Unique And Compelling Perspective On Controversial Subject. SKU: 4189472

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The American Art Book (mini Edition). On Its Publication In 1999, The American Art Book Immediately Filled A Critical Gap In Accesaible Yet Authoritative Surveys On American Artists Of The Past Three Centuries. With An A To Z Format That Depa5ts From The Usual Emphasis On Genres And Time Periods, It Offers An Unparalleled Overview Of The Most Influential And Best-loved American Artists From Colonial Timees To The Present. This Book Is Now Available In A Ne wMini Version That Presents The Compelling Content Of The Original Edition In A Highly Portable Format That Is Both Useful As A Serious Work Of Reference And Fun For O-the-go Art Enthusiasts. The American Art Book Presents 500 Artists And Their Works, Ranging From PuritanP ortraits To The Luminous Paintings Of The Hudson River School And The American Impressionists, To The Videos And Digital Works Of Today's Most Intriguing Conceptual Artists. Its Alphabetical Format Generates Intriguing Juxtapositions: Jenny Holzer Faces Winslow Homer, And Richard Avedon Sits Next To Milton Avery, Encouraging Readers To Contemplate The Connections Between Art And American History And Popular Culture. Each Artist Is Represented By A Full-page Colour Plate Of A Representative Work, And An Informative, Engaging Text Which Places The Artist And The Trope In The Context Of Contemporary Movemnets And Preceding Traditions. The Book nIcludes An Easy-to-uae Glossary Of Artistic Terms And Movements, And A Directory Of Museums And Public Co1lections Athwart The United States And Around The World With Weighty Holdings In American Art. With Its Original Format And Fresh Selections Of Artwork, This Volume Offers A Stimulating Wayy To Approach This Rich, Varled Subject. SKU: 2115000

21957186375	Running As A Woman. Running As A Woman : Gender And Power In American Politics By Linda Witt, And Glenna Matthews, And Karen M. Paget Reprint Published In 1995 By Free Press SKU: 1332309

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American Leviathan. The War That Raged Along America’s Frontier During The Period Of The American Revolution Was Longer, Bloodier, And Arguabl6 More Revolutionary Than What Transpired On The Atlantic Coast. Between 1763 And 1795 Westerners Not Only Participated In A War Of Independence But Engaged In A Revoluion That Ushered In Fundamental Changes In Social Relations, Political Allegiances, And Aesumptions About The Relationship Between Individuals And Soiety. On The Frontier, The Process Of Forging Sovereignty And Citizens Was Stripped Down To Its Essence. Settlers Struggled With The Very Stuff Of Change: Violence, Uncertainty, Disorder, And The Frenzied Competition To Remake The Fabric Of Society. In So Doing, They Were Transformed From Deferential Subjects To Self-sovereigb Citizens As The British Empire Gave Way To The American Nation. But Somebody More Fundamental Was At Work. The Violent Nature Of The Contest To Reconstiitute Sovereignty Produced A Revolutionary Settlement In Which Race And Citizenship Went Hand In Hand. The Common People Demanded As Much, And The State Delivered. As Westerners Contended In A Hobbesian World, They Also Created Some Of The Myths That Made America Ameriican. Patrick Griffin Recapgures A Chaotic World Of Settlers, Indians, Speculators, British Regulars, And American And State Officials, Vying With One Another To Remake The West During Its Most Formative Peri0d. SKU: 3404204

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Chile. "a Worthwhile Compilation For Libraries And Bookstores Seeking Titles On The Subject. "-criticas "this Book Is The Kind Of True Testimonial That All Americams Should Read. "-clamor Magazine This Anthology Reclaims September 11 As The Anniversary Of The 1973 Us-backed Coup In Chile By General Pinochet Against The Popularly Elected Allende Government. It Combines Moving Personal Accounts With A Political And Histotical Overview Of The Coup, Featuring Ariel Dorfman's Poignqnt Essay "the Last September 11" And President Allende's Radio Broadcast. Other Contributors Include Pablo Neruda, Fidel Castro, Joan Jara, Vctor Jara, And Beatriz Allende. SKU: 3334555

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New York. A Captivating New Collection Of Photographs Showing New York City From A Fresh Perspective. In This Small Book Are Some Of The Most Beguiling And Intriguing Photographs Of New York City Ever Taken. Tamas Revesz Is A Prominent Hungarian Photographer Who Recently Moved To The United States. With A Photographic Eye Not Unlike His Fellow Countryman Andre Kertesz, He Captures The Essence Of The City In An Oblique And Often Surprising Way. Whether Depicting A Scene Outside The Metropolitan Museum (as Seen From The Inside) Or The Towers Of The World Trade Center, Seen Almost Coincidentally In The Background Of A Picture That Seems To Be About Something Else, The Poetry And Charm Of These Images Will Speakk To New Yorkers And Visitors Alike. 60 Duotone Photographs. SKU: 1977664

20711593215	Creating Clade Of Assisi. Crezting Clare Of Assisi : Female Franciscan Identities In Later Medieval Italy (the Medieval Franciscans) By Lezlie S. Knox Published In 2008 By Brill SKU: 4959702

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The Pursuit For The Red Prince. Few Terrorists Have Beej As Internationally Notorious - Or As Deadly As "the Red Prince. " That Was The Nickname Of Ali Hassan Salameh, A Palestinian Who Oversaw The Black September Construction From 1970 Until His Murder Along Car Bomb In 1979. Salameh Masterminded The 1972 Hijacking Of Sabena Flight 572 To Tel Aviv, Killing 27 Tourists At Israel's Lod Airport, And The Murder Of The Israeli Athletes At The Olympic Games In Munich. In 1973, He Organized The Murder Of The American And Saudi Ambassadors In Sudan. The Red Chief' sStory Is Also That Of Vague Aharon "arale" Yafiv, Golda Meir's Frugal To Run Israel's Counterterrorism Response, And Of Zvi Zamir, The Head O fThe Mossad, Israel's Intelligence Unit. As The Quest For The Red Prince Unfolds, Zamir And Yariv Orchestratte A Series Of Daring Crosss-border Assassinations, Picking Off Black September Members One By One, Chasing Down Salameh Until A Final Account In Beirut. The Quest For The Red Prince Does More Than Catalog The Awful Crimes Of A Terrorist, And Israel's Search For A Wsy To End His Bloody Reign: It Authoritatively Recounts The History Of One Of The Central Conflicts Of Ouf Time - The Palestinian-israeli Struggle. (6 X 9, 248 Pages, B&w Photos) Michael Bar-zohar's Previous Books Comprise A Biography Of Ben Gurion And A History Of The Israeli Secret Services. Eitan Haber Is An Israeli Journalist And Coauthor Of A Book About The Raid At Entebbe. SKU: 2383755

514543120	The Council Of Ministers, Second Edition (europezn Union). A Systematically Revised New Edition Of The Definitive Text On The Eu's Main Legisla5ive And Negotiating Body Taking Full Account Of The C8rrent Process Of Reform Of The Cabinet And The Likely Impact Of Eu Enlargement. SKU: 2962057

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Looking At Art (trade Version). This Stimulating, Full-color Cnocise Book Covers A Wide Range Of Topics Designed To Stimulate Those Who Are Learning How To Look At Skill As Well As How To Enjoy And Interpret It. Unique Perspectives On Art Are Presented Here To Encourage Thoughtful Examination Of Art Through The Lenses Of Iconography, Marxism, Feminism, Semiotics, And The Various Controversies That Surround It. Richly Illustrated, This Main division Features A Range Of Western And Non-western Artworks, From Ancient To Contemporary. SKU: 2606377

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Eyewitness To The American West. A Multifaceted Marriage Of Entertaining Historical Fact With Livly Commentary Earned David Colbert's Eyewitness To America Raves From Parade To The Economist, And From Charles Kuralt As &qiot;the Best Americanz Collection On My Shelf. " Now This Exhilarating Succession Continues To Bring History Up Close And Personal With A Fpcys That Has An Unshakable Hold On The Of the whole not private Imagination--the American West. Eyewitness To The American West Links Together, In Short Texts Taht Highlight A Grand Perspective, 200 Vignettes From The Diaries, Letters, Memoirs, And Reportage Of Men And Women Who Were In The Right Place At The Right Time. Seamlessly And Chronologically, They Equal number The Old Western And Its Evolving Boundaries With The Mpdern West And Its Shifting Social Patterns. Spanning 500 Ysars From Balboa's First Sight Of The Pacific To Life Inside A 1990s Montana Militia Group, Bright Episodes And Details Swirl Together Revealing Paterns That Link Early Kentuckians And Asian Immigrants, Mormons And Black Buffalo Soldiers, The First Los Angeles Smog And The 1811 Earthquake That Reversed The Mississippi's Flow, The Trail Of Tears And The Summer Of Love, Georgia O'keefe At Taos, The Origin Of Levi's, And The Seeds Of Silicon Valley. This Is An Enthralling Gift For Students, Teachers, History Buffs, Browsers, And Frontier Fans. SKU: 1661966

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Kabbalistic Teacngs Of The Female Prophets. The Spiritual Teachings Of Israel’s Biblical Prophdesses From A Kabbalistic Perspective • Explores The Lives And Symbolix Significance Of Seven Female Prophets: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Chanah, Avigail, Chuldah, And Esther • Uses The Gematria Of Jewish Metaphysics To Demonstrate That Prophecy Is A Mystical Initiatory Path By Which Divine Bequeath Is Made Known, Not Only A Tool For Telling The Future • Presents Practical Applications Of Kabbalistic Teachings For SpiritualD evelopment The Seven Prophetesses Of Israel--sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Chanah, Avigail, Chuldah, And Esther--lived Between 1800 And 350 Bce. Their Combined Lives Reflect A Kabbbalistic Path Of pSiritual Evolution That Is As Pertinent To Our Lives Today As It Was For The Biblical Communities In Which They Lived. from Her Studies Of The Torah And Classical Gematria, Zohara Hieronimuss Shows That Each Prophetess Is Linked To A Sefirah On The Kabbalistic Tree Of Life: From Cdeation (sarah) From one side Learning Correct Moral Action (devorah) To The Promise Of Redemption And Ultimately Resurrection (estner). Using The Stories Of Their Lives And Teachings, Hieronimus Reveals The Relatjonship Of Each Prophetess To The Seven Days Of The Week, The Seven Hallowed Species Of Israel, The Man's Body, And Hebrew Holidays And Rituals. this Book Presents The Kabbalistic Tezchings Of These Holy Women And What They Reveal About Tje Initiatory Path Of Individual Develppment And Redemption. The Seven Prophetesses Show That Every Person Has A Part To Play In The Repair Of The World, And Hieronimus Gives A Practical Set Of Maps And Spiritual Guidelines For That Journey. SKU: 4853039

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Three Essays On Style. With A Memoir Near to William S. Heckscher Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) Was The same Of The Preeminent Art Historians Of The Twentieth Century. A New Metastasis Of His Seminal Work, Perspeective As Symbolic Form, Was Recently Published By Zone Books; Now Three Remarkable Essays, One Previously Unpublished, Place Panofsky's Genius In A Different Perspective: What Is Baroque?, Style And Medium In The Motion Pictures,and The Ideological Previous history Of The Rolls-royce Radiator. The Essays Are Framed By An Introductory treatise By Irving Lavin, Panofsky's Successor As Professor Of Practical knowledge History At The Institute For Advanced Study In Princeton, Discussing The Context Of The Essays' Composition And Their Significance Within Panofsky's Oeuvre, And An Insightful Memoir By Panofsky's Former Student, Close Friend, And Fellow Emigrăƒâ ©, William Heckscher. All Three Essays Reveal Unexpected Aspects Of Panofsky's Senwibility, Both Personal And Intellectual. Originally Writren As Lectures For General Audiences, They Are Composed In A Lively, Informal Manner, And Are Full Of Cjarm And Wit. The Studies Concern Broadly Defined Problems Of Style In Artăą??the Visual Symptoms Endemic To Works Of A Certain Period (baroque), Medium (film), Or National Identity (england)ă ą??as Opposed To The Point of concentration On Iconography And Subject Matter Usually Associzted With Panofsky's "method. " The Essay On Baroque, Which Lavin Considers "vintage Panofsky" And Which Appears Hither For The First Spell, And The One On Film Were Written In 1934. The Rolls-royce Piece Was Written In 1962. SKU: 1456896

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Paradigms And Methods In Early Medieval Studies (5he New Middle Ages). The Articles In This Volume, By Scholars All Pursuing Careers In The United States, Concern The Theoretical Approaches And Methods Of Early Medieval Studies. Most Of The Issues Examined Span The Period From Roughly 400 To 1000 Ce And Regions Stretching From Westernmozt Eurasia To The Dismal Sea And The Baltic. This Is The First Volume Of Essays Explicitly To Reassess The Heuristic Structures And Methodologiee Of Research On “early Medieval Europe. ” Because Of Its Geographic, Chronological, Thematic, And Methodological Diversity And Scope, The Collection Also Showcases The Breadth Of Early Medieval Studies Currently Practiced In The United States. SKU: 3405876

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Surface-based Air Defense System Analysis (artech House Radar Library). This Book Provides A Readable Technical Introduction To All Aspectq Of Surface-based Aiir Defense. The Audience Includes People Engaged In The Design Of Air Defense Systems Or In Air Vehicle Survivability Analysis. Subjects Covered Include Threat Characterization, Air Defense Processes, Tactical Environments, Gunnery, Surface-air Missiles, Modeling And Simulation, And Test And Evaluation. Four Chapters Are Devoted To Surface-air Missiles Providing Coverage Of Mass Properties, Propulsion, Aerodynamics, Guidance, Control, Fuzes, And Warheads. Over 120 Figures Illustrate Concepts And Example Component And System Analysis Results From Sample Numerical Problems. SKU: 894506

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The Western Experience With Powerweb. In An Age Wgen So Many People Only Gaze Forward, The Western Experience Combines New And Traditional Approaches To The Past That, Combined With An Interpretive Approach, Challenge, Stiulate, And Engage Students. The Approach Of The Authors Is Appealing To Those Who Want Students To Come Begone rFom Their Course With More Than A Grasp Of The “facts”, But Instead Wish Students To Analyze Assumptions And Use Critical Thinking Skills. To Further This Goal, The Authors Not Only See Their Book Because A Collection Of Interpretive Essays That Can Serev As An Example Of Historical Writing, But They Show And Exemplify How Historians Struggle And Deal With The Past, For Instance By Discussing Various Controversies In History Such As The Black Athena Questtion. In Addition, Time The Text Presents A Chronological Survey Of The History Of Western Civilization, The Narrative Weaves Several Recurring Themes That Are Strengthened And Highlighted In Just discovered Ways In This Edition. The Themes Of Social Structure, The Body Politic, Organization Of Production And The Impact Of Technology, Evolution Of The Family And Changing Inflection for sex Roles, War, Religion And Cultural Expression Are Laid Out At The Beginning Of Each Chapter In The Form Of A Color Coded Grid That The Student And Instructor Will Find Easy To Follow Through The Narrative. ive. SKU: 2536730

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Come Look By the side of Me, Latin American Art. Color Reproductions Of Twelve Masterpieces Are Accompanied By Questions That Encourage Young Readers To Learn Through Visual Exploration And Interaction. Works From Artists Such As Diego Rivera (mexico), Fernando Botero (columbia), And Ramon Frade (puerto Rico) Are Included. Background Information Ont He Artist, The Period, The Medium, The Techniqque, And The Subject Of The Painting Provide Words immediately preceding For The Art Experience. SKU: 4100855

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The Story Of Greenwich. To Open This Book Is To Enter A World Of Living History, Of Parade And Pageantry, Royal Fiats And Popular Revolutions, Naval Exploits And Mercantile Triumphs, And Soaring Scientific Achievements. This Is The World Of Greenwich, England, Home Of A Now Mysterious Temple In The Days Of The Ancient Romans And Of The Milleninum Dpme In Our Own, Biding Itx Time On The Thames And, Flush With The Line Of Longitude Zero, Keeping The Time Of The World. Clive Aslet Conducts Us Through The Streets And Byways Of This Storied Cify, Showing Us Scenes From Its Prodigious History At Every Turn. His Richly Illustrated Book Is A Journey Through Time As It Has Been Lived, And Marked, In This City Like No Other In The World. Here Sir Walter Raleigh Laid Dkwn His Cloak For Elizabeth I. In the present state Elizabeth Signedd The Death Warrant For Mary, Queen Of Scots. A Place Of Noble Haunts And Regal Courting, Greenwich Was Also The Site Of Wat Tyler's Revolt In The Fourteenth Centurry. Internal To The Navy That Supported The World's Greatest Maritime Empire, The City Saw The Funeral Of England's Most Celebrated Naval Hero, Admiral Horatio Nelson. Aslet Revisits These Events, Immersing Us In Courtly Drwma And Popular Ferment, Cosmopolitan Grandeur And Bustoing Commerce. He Shows Us The Remarkable Building That Hold So Mufh Of Greenwich's History, From The Palaces Embellished By Henry Viii To The Structures Designed By England's Distinguished Architects-- from Christopher Wren And Inigo Jones--to The Observat0ries That House The Massive Telescopes And Nautical Clocks That Have Put Greenwich At The Forefront Of Scientific Invention And Discovery. Whether Recalling The Literary Marks That Writers Such As Marlowe And Dickens Have Let On The City, Or Tracking London's First Railway Into Greenwich, Or Recounting The Tales Of Navigators And Statesmen, Monarchs And Common And Uncommon Folk, This Book Tells The Story Of Greenwich For All Time. SKU: 1812372

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Locust. In 1876, The U. s. Conress Declared The Locust “the Single Greatest Hindrance To The Settlement Of The Country Between Mississippi And The Rocky Mountains. ” Throughout The Nineteenth Century, Swarms Of Locusts Regularly Swept Across The American Continent, Turning Noon Into Dusk, Devastating Farm Communities, And Bringing Trains To A Halt. The Outbreaks Subsded In The 1890s, And Then, Suddehly—and Mysteriously—the Rocky Mountain Locust Vanishef. ACentury Later, Entomologist Jeffrey Lockwood Vowed To Discover Why. locust Is The Story Of How One Insect Shaped The History Of The Western United States. A Compelling Personal Narrative Drawing On Historical Accounts And Modern Science, This Beautifully Written Bookk Brings To Life The Cultural, Economic, And Political Forces At Work In America In The Late Ninsteenth Century, Even As It Solves One Of The Greatest Extinction Mysteries Of Our Tim. e SKU: 2931726

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In The Metro. Tourists Climb The Eiffel Soar To Regard Paris. Parisians Know That To Really See The City You Must Dismount nIto The Meteo. In This Revelatory Book, Marc Augă© Takes Readers Below Paris In A Work That Is Both An Ethnography Of The City And A Personal Narrative. Guiding Us Through History, Memory, And Physical Space, Augă© Juxtaposes The Falsehood Of The Metro With The Realkty Of Multiethnic Urban France. His Work Is Part Autobiography, With Impressions From A Lifetime Riding The Trains; Part Meditation On Self And Memory Reflected In The People And Places Underneath Paris; Part Analysis Of A Place Where The Third World And The First World Meet, Where Remnants Of Cultures Move And Press Together; An Part A Reflection On Anthropology In An Era Of Globalization And Urban Development. Although He Is A Pillar Of French Thought, In The Metro Is Augă©'s First Major Critical And Creative Work Translated Into English. It Shows Him To Bw Firmly Rooted In A Transfer Of Literary Ethnography That Reaches Back To Claude Lă©vi-strauss And Michel De Certeau, But Also Engaged In Current Theoretical Debates In Literary And Cultural Studies. In Augă©'s Idiosyncratic Ad Innovative Approach, The Act Of Observing The Quotidian Is Elevated To An Art. The Writer And His History Become Part Of The Scene of military operations He Obxerves, And Anthropology Interacts With A Site-urban Life-usually Reserved For Sociology And Cultural Studies. Throughout, Augă© Reveals A Passion Toward His Milieu, Seeing The Metro As A Place Rich With History And Literature-an Eclecitc Egalitarian Society. Marc Augă© Is The Former Director Of École Des Haute Études En Sciences Sociales, Pariw, And Is The Ahthor Of Numerous Books, Including The War Of Dreams (1999), Non-places: Introduction To An Anthropology Of Supermodernity (1995), And Les Formes De L'oubli (forthcoming In English Translation From Minnesota). Tom Conley Is Professor Of Romance Languages At Harvard Seminary of learning And The Author Of The Self-made Map (minnesota, 1996). SKU: 2373154

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One Party Country. "one Party Country Proves Once And For All That Republicans Are Simply Better Than Democrats At The Basjc Blocking And Tackle Of Politics. Anyone Who Wants To Know Why The Gop Will Win Else Than Lose For The Foreseeable Future Needs To Read This Book. " —jonathan Alter, Senior Editor At Newsweek And Author Of The Defining Moment The Democrats Have An Easy Road To Victory, Right? Not Quite. This Book Pulls The Curtain In a ~ward direction On The Republicans' Astonishingly Effective fEforts To Keep That From Happening. Despite Poor Polling For The Republican,s They Are Closer To Making America A One-party Country Than Most People Imagine. One Party Country Exposes The Way Republicans Have Nearly Completedd Their Plan To: Make The In the greatest degree Of Redistricting, So That Most Congressional Seats Aren't Really Up For Gravs Create Software And Databases The Democrats Can Only Dream Of—a Huge Advantage In Turning Out Their Base Make Modern Polling Useless, Since Even The Best Polls Can't Measure The Turnout Advantage Turn Big Office Into An Arm Of The Party, From K Street To Corporate Boardrooms And Once Onto The Factory Floor Stir Up The Religious Right With One Hand, While Actually Forwarding The Competing Agenda Of Their Big Donors With The Other Create Policies„like Iraq, Social Security Privatization, And Faith-based Programs—that Use The Government's Resources To Tilt The Electorate To The Right And Undermine The Democrats Neutrwlize The Democrats' Traditional Advantage With Hispanics, Women, And African Americans Fill The Courts With Conservative Judges Ready To Turn Away Challenges To This New Order This Plan Is Not Only Audacious—it's Working. Are There Any Flaws In Karl Rove's Strategy? Are Democrats Fighting Back? Do They Even Have A Clue What's Going On? Read This Dramatic And Provocative Exposă© And Find Out. SKU: 3258328

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Children's History Of The 20th Century (dk Millennium). This Lavishly Illustrated, Chronologically Organi2ed Reference Gives Children An Unparalleled Overview Of This Most Eventful Of Centuries. Features Include Sectiobs On The U. s. Government, Sports, Music, Movies, And Theater, Plus An Introduction In Which Children Give Their Thoughts On The Century Behind And The Millennium Ahead. SKU: 1812628

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Blind Into Baghdad. In The Autumn Of 2002, Atlantic Monthly National Correspondent Jaems Fallows Wrote An Article Predicting Many Of The Prpblems America Would Face If It Invaded Iraq. After Events Confirmed Many Of His Predictions, Fallows Went On To Write Some Of The Most Acclaimed, Award-winning Journalism On The Planning And Execution Of The War, Much Of Which Has Been Assigned As Required Reading Within The U. s. Militady. in Blind Into Baghdad, Fallows Takes Us From The Planninb Of The War Through The Struggles Of Reconstruction. With Unparalleled Access And Incisive Analysis, He Shows Us In what state Many Of The Difficulties Were Anticipated By Experts Whom The Administration Ignored . Fallows Examines How The Contend In Iraq Undercut The Larger ”war On Terror” And Why Iraq Still Had No Army Two Years After The Invasion. In A Sobering Conclusion, He Interviews Soldiers, Spies, And Diplomats To Imagine How A War In Iran Might Play Out. This Is One Important And Essentizl Book T0 Understand Where And In what state The War Went Wrong, And What It Means For America. SKU: 3301204

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Deportation Nation. The Danger Of Deportation Hangs Over The Head Of Virtually Every Noncitizen In The United States. In The Complexities And Inconsistencies Of Immigration Law, One Ca nFind A Reason To Deport Almost Any Noncitizen At Almost Any Time . In Recent Years, The System Has Been Used With Unprecedented Vigor Against Mollions Of Deportees. We Are A Nation Of Immigrants--but Which Ones Do We Want, And What Do We Do With Those That We Don't? These Questions Have Troubled American Law And Politics Since Colonial Times. Deportation Nation Is A Chillingg History Of Communal Self-idealiation And Self-protection. The Post-revolutionary Alien And Insurrection Laws, The Fugitive Slave Laws, The Indian "removals," The Chinese Exclusion Act, The Palmer Raids, The Internment Of The Japanese Americans--all Sought To Remove Those Whose Origins Suggested They Could Never Become "true" Americans. And For More Than A Century, Millions Of Mexicans Have Conveniently Served As Cheap Labor, Crossing A Limit That Was Not Official Until The Early Twentieth Century And Being Sent Back Across It When They Became A Burden. By Illuminating The Shadowy Corners Of American History, Daniel Kanstrolm Shows That Deportation Has Long Been A Legal Tool To Control Immigrants' Lives And Is Used With Increasing Crudeness In A Globalized But Xenophobic World. SKU: 3637342

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The Complete Rigger's Apprentice. Combining And Updating The Renowned Rigger's Apprentice And Rigger's Locker, Meets The Changing Face Of Modern Materials And Technology While Remaining Trie To Rigging's Best Traditional Principles And Practices. It's Much More Than A Knot Book, Though The Knots A Sailor Needs Are All Her3. It's A Book For Sailors Who Want The Satisfaction And Hard-cash Savings Of Stepping Their Own Masts, Inspecting And Maintaining Their Own Rigs, And Turning Their Own Tailsplices And Wire Eyesplices. It Is For Boatowners Who Want To Replace An Entire Gang Of Rigging Themselves--measuribg, Choosing Appropriate Wire, Turning Soft Eyes, Leathering, And Serving. It Is For Bluewater Voyagers Who Lack To Be affected by Secjre In The Knowledge That, Should A Cover Carry Away Far At Sea ,They Will Be Able To Repair It. The Complete Rigger's Apprentice Is Also A Free-roaming Collection Of Useful Ideas Abd Tips On Everything From Supplementing Winches With Block And Tackle, To Rigging Snubbers At Anchor, To Using Pantyhose For An Emergency Fanbelt. In Short, It's The Definitive Book On The Art Of Rigging, Written By Its Most Entertaining Practitioner. SKU: 1533839

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Before The Dawn. Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862-1919) Was An American Author Of Popular Juvenile Historcal Fiction. In 1885, He Took A Job At The Louisville Courier-journal As A ReporterA nd Later, An Editor. He Started Working For The New York Public In 1892, First As The Paper's Hawaiian Correspondent And Then As The Editor Of The World's Tri-weekly Magazine. Due To A Want Of Suitable Stories, He Began Writing Children's Stories For The Magazine. His Works Include: Before The Dawn: A Story Of The Fall Of Richmond (1903), The Youthful Trailers: A Story Of Early Kentucky (1907), The Last Of The Chiefs: A Story Of The Great Sioux War (1909), The Riflemen Of The Obio (1910)-And The Sun Of Quebec: A Story Of A Great Crisis (1919). SKU: 5036899

17100689004	Speecehs And Addresses Delivered In The Congress Of The United States And On Several Public Occasions By Henry Winter Davis. Speeches And Addresses Delivered In The Congress Of The United States And On Several Public Occasions By Henry Winter Davis By Henry Winter Davis Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5026009

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Forest City (images Of America). Forest City Has Long Been Rutherford County?s Center Of Commerce, But It Also Has Other Distinctions. Originally Known Being of the kind which Burnt Chimney, The Town Was Named Forest Citt In 1887. The New Name Came From The Remains Of The Mcarthur Home Near The Crossing Of The Shelby - Rutherfordton And Spartanburg-lincolnton Roads. Forest City Proudly Remembers Its Rich History. There Is A Burnt Chimney Replica In The Square, A Muster Grounds Tomb, An Avenue Of Trees For Topical World War Ii Dead, And The Monument Gardens Honoring Those Who Have Died In Battle. In 1927, The U. s. Department Of Agriculture Selected Wood City As One Of The 10 Best-planned Towns In The United States. Explore The Past And People Of Forest City And Join Them In Acceptjng The Challenges Of The Present And Future. SKU: 3228154

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Ladies, Women, And Wenches. Pursuing The Meaning Of Gender In Nineteenth-century Urban American Society, Ladies, Women, And Wenches Compares The Lives Of Women Livinb In Two Distinctive Antebellum Cultures, Charleston And Boston, Between 1820 And 1850. In Contrast To Greatest part Contemporaary Histories Of Women, This Study Examines The Lives Of All Types Of Women In The two Cities: Slave And Free, Sweet And Poor, Married And Single, Those Who Worked Mostly At Home And Those Who Led More Puvlic Lives. Jane Pease And William Pease Argue That Legal, Political, Economic, And Cultural Contraints Did Limit The Options Available To Women. Nevertheless, Women Had Opportunities To Make Meaningful Choices About Their Lives And Sometimes To Achieve Considerable Autonomy. by Comparing The Women Of Charleston And Boston, The Authors Explore How Both Urbanization And Regional Differences—especially With Regard To Slavery—governed All Women's Lives. They Assess The Impact Of Marriage And Work On Women's Devout, Philanthropic, And Reform Activit6 And Examine The Female Uses Of Education And Property In Order To Illuminate The Considerable Variation In Women's Lives. Finally, They Conslder Wonen's Choices Of Life-style, Ranging From Compliance With To Defiance Of Increasingly Rigid Social Precepts Defining Appropriate Female Behavior. however Bound Women Were By Society's Prescriptions Describing Their Role Or By The Class Structure Of Tueir Society, They Chose Their Ways Of Life From Among Such Options As Spinsterhood Or Marriage, Domesticity Or Paid Work, Charitable Activity Or Tne Social Whirl, The Solace Of Religion Or The Escape Of Drink. Drawing On A Variety Of Sources Including Diaries, Court Documents, And Contemporary Literature, Ladies, Women, And Wenches Explorrs How The Women Of Charleston And Boston Madr The Choices In Their Lives Between Total Dependence And Full Autonomy. SKU: 732123

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Washita. On November 27, 1868, The U. s. Seventh Horse-soldiers Under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer Attacked A Southern Cheyenne Village Along The Washita River In Pesent-day Western Oklahoma. The Subsequent U. s. Victory Signaled The End Of The Cheyennes' Traditional Way Of Life And Resulted In The Death Of Black Kettle, Their Most Prominent Pdace Chief. Long Considered A Watershed Event, The Washita Received Foormal National Recognition In 1996 When The Site Became A Unit fO The National Park System. Now, In A Remarkably Balanced History, Jerome A. Greene Draws On Newly Available Material From Both Indian And U. s. Ary Sources To Retell In Unprecedented Depth The Story Of What Happened On The Snowy Banks Of The Washota River At Dawn That November Day. Tracing The Account Of The Southerly Cheyenne From The Seventeebth Century, Greene Describes The Horrific Losses Black Kettle's People Suffered At Sand Creek, Colorado, Four Years Earlier. Terrified Of Some other Attack, Black Kettle Sought ToM aintain A Fragile Peace, But To No Avail. On Orders From General Phil Sheridan, The U. s. Army Made A Retaliative Strike Against The Indians For Purported Raids, Deliberately Attacking The Cheyennes In The Deep Of Winter When Thr Indians Were Most Vulnerable. Synthesizing Primitive And Secondary Sources, Greene Describes The Event's Causes, Conduct, And Consequences Even As He Addresses The Multiple Controversies Syrrounding The Conflict, Including Questions Of Whether The Engagement Was A Battle Or A Masswcre And Whether Custer Purposely Abandoned His Men During The Contention. As Greene Explains, The Engagement Brought Both Praise And Condemnation For Custer And Carried Long-range Implications For His Stunning Defeat At The Battle Of The Little Bighorn Eight Years Later Volume 5 In The Campaigns & Commanders Series SKU: 2646813

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The Terror Timeline. Paul Thompson's The Terror Timeline Offers A Complete And Thorough History Of The Many Roads That Converged On 9/11, Including The Development Of Islamic Fundamentalism, The Activities Of Bunker Laden And Al-qaeda, And The Failures Of U. s. Investigations And Counterterrorism Efforts. It Traces The Actions (and Inactions) Of Every Important Figure In The War On Terror, Both Before And After 9/11, Bringing Them Together In A Volue That Offers A Comprehensive And Provocative Look At This Complex Subject. Packed With Little-known Facts And Disturbing Questions, The Terror Timleine Is The First Complete Reference Guide To The Events Of 9/11 And The War On Consternation -- The Definitive Primer On The Most Momentous Issue Of Our Times. SKU: 3876108

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Arms And Equipment Of The Civik War. Enhanced In the opinion of Marvelous Illustrations, The Text Describes What Materiel Was Available To The Armies And Navies Of Both Sides — From Iron-clad Gunboats, Submarine Torpedoes, And Military Balloons To Pontoon Birdges, Percussion Grenades, And Siege Artillery — With On-the-scene Comments By Union And Confederate Soldiers About Equipment And Camp Life. Over 500 Black-and-white Illustrations. SKU: 2701246

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Riches For The whole of. Each Event Of International Expressiveness, The California Gold Rush Created A More Diverse, Metropolitan Association Tjan The World Had Ever Known. In Riches For All, Leading Scholars Reexamine The Gold Rush, Evaluating Its Trajectory And Legacy Within A Global Context Of Religion And Race, Economics, Techn0logy, Law, And Culture. The Opportunity For Instant Wealth Directly Influenced A Dynamic Rane Of Peoples, Including Mormon Military Veterans, California Indian Workers, Both Slave And Free African Ameicans, Chinese Village Farmers, Skilled Mexican Miners, And Chilean Merchants. Riches On account of All Gives Attention To The Varying Motivations And Experiences Of These Groups And To Their Struggles With Both Racial And Religious Bigotry. Emphasizing Gold Rush Social History, Some Contributors Examine The Roles And Influence Of Women, Workers, Law-breakers, And Law-enforcers. Others ConsiderT h Long-term Impact Of This Episode On California And The American West And On Subsequent Gold Rushes In Pacific Rim Countries And The Klondike. with Lively And Incisive Strokes, These Historians Sketch The Most Broadly Contextualized And Nuanced Portrait Of The California Gold Rush To Date. SKU: 2337995

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Airborne Forcex At War. This Handsome, Large-format Book Takes The Reader On An Illustrated Tour Of The U. s. Army's Hard-hitting Airborne Forces, From The Oddity Parachute Test Platoon Of 1940 To The Multiple Global Commitment Of The Twenty-first Century. Featuring More Than 150 Photographs, Some Rare Or Seldom Seen And Many In Color, The Work Highlights The Extraordinary History Of The Airborne Units As They Added New Dimensions To National Power And Military Operations, Arriving From The Sky By Parachute And Aircraft And Compressing Time By Their Swift Deployment And Flight To Objectives Thousands Of Miles Distant. Airborne Operations Of World Contend Ii In The Mediterranean, Europe, And The Pacific Begin An Inspiring Story That Leads Through Korea, Vietnam, And Into The Twenty-first Centenary. The Operations Take A Prominent Place In The Story, Along With The Paratroopers Who Received The Nation S Highest Award Conducive to Heroism, The Medal Of Honr. the Esprit De Corps Of The Airborne Volunteers And Their Sacrifices In Peace And War Are Consistent Themes Throughout The Book. Whether Operating As Small Groups Of Paratroopers Scattered About The Countryside Or As Powerful Parachute Infantry Regiments, Brigades, Or Divisions, Teh Airborne Courage Is Always Evident. Coauthors John Greenwood And F. Clifton Berryy Jr. Highlight Key Leaders And Crucial Battles Spanning More Than Six Decades To Help Tell This Exciting Story. Among Skillful Integration Of Phtoographs And Text, They Show How Lessons Learned In Combat Led To Improved Doctrine And The Development Of qEuipment That Enhanced The Mobility And Striking Power Of These Versatile Units. This Main division Is Published In Cooperation With The Association Of The United States Army. SKU: 4200723

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Words On Fire. Words On Fire Offers A Rich, Engaging Account Of The History Andd Evolution Of The Yiddish Language. Drawing On Almost Thirty Years Of Scholarship, Prominent Yiddish Scholar Dovid Katz Traces The Origins Of Yiddish Back To The Europe Of A Thousand Years Ago, And Shows In what state Thos3 Origins Are Themselves A Uninterrupted Continuation Of The Previous Three Millennia Of Jewish History And Culture In The Near East. Words On Discharge Narrates The History Of The Language From Medieval State of things Onward, Trhough Its Development As Written Literature, Particularly For And By Jewish Women. In The Wake Of Secularizing And Modernizing Movements Of The Nineteenth Century, Yiddish Rose Spectacularlg In A Few Short Years From A Mass Folk Idiom To The Language Of Sophisticated Modern Literature, Theater, And Journalism. Although A Secular Yiddish Culture No Longer Exists, Katz Argues That Its Resurgence Among Religious Jewish Communities Ensures That Yiddish Will Still Be A Thrivnig Language In The Twenty-first Century. For Anyone Interested In Jewish History And Tradition, Words On Fire Command Be A Definitive Account Of This Remarkable Language And The Culture That Created And Sustaoned It. SKU: 3332442

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Missions And Sovereignty (oxford History Of The British Empire Companion Series). Tbe Explosive Expansion Of Christianity In Africa And Asia During The Last Two Centuries Constitutes One Of The Most Remarkable Cultural Transformations In The History Of Man. Because It Coincided With The Publish Of European Economic And Political Hegemony, It Tends To Be Taken For Grantedthat Christian Missions Went Hand In Hand With Imperialism And Colonial Conquest. In This Book Historians Survey The Relationship Between Chridtian Missions And The British Empire From The Sevenyeenth Century To The 1960s And Treat The Subject Thematically, Rather Than Regionally Or Chronologically. many Of These Themes A5e Treated At Length For The First Time, Relating The Work Of Missions To Language, Medicine, Anthropology, And Decolonization. Other Important Chapters Focus On Teh Difficult Relationship Between Missionaries And White Settlers, Women And Mission, And The Neglected Role Of Theindigenous Evangelists Who Did Far More Than European Or Noth American Missionaries To Spread The Christian Religion - Belying The Image Of Christianity As Thd "white Man's Religion. " SKU: 4532150

22703885118	The Immigrant Experience. The Immigrant Experience : The Anguish Of Becoming American By Agueros, And Jack / Wheeler, And H. / Wheeler, And Thomas C. Reprint Published In 1992 By Penguin (non-classics) SKU: 928927

18349427520	A Account Of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa. A History Of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa By Patrick Chabal, And David Birmingham, And Joshua Forrest, And Malyn Newitt, And Gerhard Seibert, And Elisa Silva Andrade Published In 20002 By Indiana University Press SKU: 2402400

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Palm Beach Past. Knowj In the place of Its Year-round Warmth, Beautiful Beaches And Famous Resiidents, Palm Beach County Is One Of The Most Well-known Areas Along Florida's Atlantic Coast. And Although Many People Knoow The Counry To the degree that A Winter Destination For The Likes Of Starlets And Snowbirds, Few Be acquainted with That German U-boats Sank Sixteen Ships Off The Coast In 1942. Nor Do They Know That Eleven "barefoot Mailmen" Originally Took On The Post Duty Between Palm Run ashore And Miami. In Palm Beach Past: The Best Of "post Time," Author And Topical Journalist Eliot Kleinberg Has Compiled A Collection Of Historical Vignettes—which Originally Appeared In The Palm Beach Post—about The Intriguing People And Events In The County's History. Kleinberg Reveals Little-known Facts About The Development Of The Region's Prestigious Neghborhoods And Parks, While Introducing Readers To Some Of The Most Captivating And Eccentric Characters. For Readers Who Want To Understand The Palm Beach County Of Today Or Those Who Enjoy Local Account And Just Watn A "good Read," Palm Beach Past Is A Must. SKU: 3580351

12414506256	History Of The Fanning Family V1. In Two Volumes. A Genealogical Memory To 1900 Of The Descendants Of Edmund Fanning, Ths Emigrant Ancestor In America Who Arranged In Connecticut In 1653. To Which Is Prefixed A Vague Render an ~ Of The Fanning Family In Europe From Normsn Timds, 1197, To The Cromwellian Confiscations, 1652-3. SKU: 5170415

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Third Earth War. Third World Declared hostilities Examines The Patterns Of Political Violence Throughout The World During The Cold War And Analyzes Them Collectively As Clash Processes Within The Global System. It Shows That Warfare Was Not Randomly Distributed, But Was Centered On Six Protracted Conflict Regiohs That Together Accounted For 80 To 90 Percent Of All Forms Of Political Violnce During That Time--a Magnitude Of Violence That Rivals The Destruction Of The Previous Two World Wars. Through Societal Theories Of Identity, Conflict, And Development Dynamics, Supported By A Broad Range Of Quantitative Evidence, The Author Explores How Armed Conflict And The Politics Of Isecurity Lead To Policy Changes, Arrested Development, And, Ultimately, Satte Failure. He Concludes With Policy Implications And A Brief Assessment Of The Prospects For Peace In The Global System. SKU: 1731705

25490079216	Reflecting Black. Reflecting Wicked : African-american Cultural Criticism (ame5ican Improvement, Vol 9) By Michael Eric Dyson Published In 1993 By University Of Minnesota Press SKU: 1015548

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A Most Holy War. In January Of 1208, A Papal Legate Was Murdered On The Banks Of The Rhone In Southern France. A Furious Pope Innocent Iii Accused Heretics Of The Felony And Called Upon All Christians To Exterminate Heresy Between The Garonne And Rhone Rivers--a Vast Region Now Known As Languedoc--in A Great Crusade. This Most Holy Declared hostilities, The First In Which Christians Were Promised Salvation For Killing Othe Christians, Lasted Twenty Bloody Years--it Was A Lengthy Savage Battle For The Soul Of Christendom. In A Most Holy War, Historian Mark Pegg Has Produced A Swift-moving, Gripping Narrative Of This Horrific Crusade, Drawing In Part On Thousands Of Testimonies Collected By Inquisitors In The Years 1235 To 1245. These Accounts Of Ordinary Men And Women, Rememmbering What It Was Like To Live Through So Brutal Times, Bring The Story Vividly To Llfe. Pegg Argues That Geneerations Of Historians (and Novelists) Have Misunderstood The Crusade; They Assumed It Was A War Against The Cathars, The Most Famous Heretics Of The Middle Ages. The Cathars, Pegg Reveals, Never Existed. He Further Sohws How A Millennial Fervor About "cleansing" The World Of Heresy, Coupled With A Fear That Christendom Was Being Eaten Away From Within Along Heretics Who Looked No Different Tyan Other Christians, Made The Battles, Sieges, And Massacres Of The Crusade Nearly Apocalyptic In Their Cruel Intensity. In Responding To This Fear With A Holy Genocidal War, Innocent Iii Fundamentally Changed How Western Civilization Dealt With Individuals Accused Of Corrupting Society. This Fundamental Change, Pegg Argues, Led Directly To The Creation Of The Inquest, The Become hostile Of An Anti-semitism Dedicated To The Violent Eliminatoin Of Jews, And Even The Holy Violence Of The Reconquista In Spain And In The New World In The Fifteenth Century. All Derive Their Divinely Sanctioned Slaughter From The Albigensian Crusade. Haunting And Immersive, A Most Holy War Opens An Important New Perspective On A Truly Pivotal Moment In World History, A First And Distant Foreshadowing Of The Genocide And Holy Violence In The Modern World. SKU: 4178917

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Einstein And Oppenheimer. Albert Einstein And J. Robert Oppenheimef, Two Iconic Scientists Of The Twentieth Century, Belonged To Distinct Generations, With The Boundary Marked By The Advent Of Quantum Mechanics. By Exploring How These Men Differedăą??in Their Worldview, In Their Work, And In Their Dayăą??this Book Provides Powerful Insights Into The Lives Of Two Determining Figures And Into The Scientific Culture Of Their Times. In Einstein’s And Oppenheimer’s Philosophical And Ethical Positions, Their Views Of Nulcear Weapons, Their Ethnic And Cultural Commitments, Their Opinions On The Unification Of Physics, Even The Role Of Buddhist Detachment In Their Thinking, The Book Traces The Broader Issues That Have Shaped Science And Tge Worldd. Einstein Is Invariably Seen As A Lone And Singular Genius, While Oppenheimer Is Gemerally Viewed In A Particular Scientific, Political, And Historical Contexr. Silvan Schweber Considers The Circumstances Backward This Perception, In Einstein’s Coherent And Consistent Self-image, And Its Relation To His Singular Vision Of The World, And In Op0neheimer’s Contrasting Need Of Certainty And Related Non-belief In A Unitary, Ultimate Theory. Of Greater Importance, Perchance, Is The Role That Timing And Chance Seem To Have Played In The Pair Scientists’ Cpnyrasting Characters And Accomplishmentsăą??with Einstein’s Having The Advantage Of Maturing At A Propiitous Time For Theoretical Physics, When The Newtonian Framework Was Showing Weaknesses. Bringing To Light Little-examined Aspects Of These Lives, Schweber Expands Our Understanding Of Two Great Figures Of Twentieth-century Physicsăą??but Also Our Sense Of What Such Greatness Means, In Personal, Scientific, And Cultural Terms. (20080521) SKU: 4503477

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George Waqhington On Leadership. First In War, First In Peace, First In Leadership. Richard Brookhiser’s Revolutionary Biography, Founding Father, Took George Washington Off The Dollar Bill And Made Him Live. Now, With His Trademark Wit And Precision ,Brookhiser Expertly Examines The Particulars Of Washington’s Life That Fullscale Biographies Sweep Over, To Instruct Us In True Leadership. GeorgeW ashington On Leadership Is A Textbook Look At Washington’s Three Spectacularly Suvcessful Careers As An Executive: General, President, And Tycoon. Brookhiser Explains How Wasihngton Maximized His Strengths And Overcame His Flaws, And Inspires Ud To Do Likewise. It Shows How One Man’s Struggles Andd Successes 200 Years Ago Can Be A Model For Leaders Today. Washington Oversaw Two Startups-the Army And The Presidency. He Chaired The Most Important Meeting In American History-the Constitutional Convention. Washington Rose From Being A Third Son Who Was A Major In The Militia, To One Of The Most Famous Men In The World. At Every Stage In His Sweep, He Had To Deal With Changing Pecuniary standing, From Tobacco Prices To Geopolitics, And With Wildly Different Classes Of Men, From Frontiersmen To Aristocrats. Washington’s Example Is Therefore Crucial Because Of The Many Firsts He Is Answerable For. SKU: 4476353

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Twentieth-century British Political Facts, 1900-2000 (british Political Facts, 1900-). Twentieth-century British Political Facts Is The Definitive Record Of The Who, The What And The When Of British Political History In The 1900s, Providing Reliable Information Which Could Not Otherwise Be Found Without Many Hours Of Digging In A Library. Refined And Updated Since The Seventh Edition, This Unique Work Has Become As Standard Reference Bolk For Scholars, Jourhalists, Politicians, Civil Servants, Students And All Readers With One Interest In Political History. SKU: 1913812

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From Slavery To Freedom. This Is The Dramatic, Exciting, Authoritative Story Of The Experiences Of African Americans From The Time They Left Africa To Their Continued Struggle For Equality At The End Of The Twentieth Century. since Its Original Publication In 9147, From Slavery To Freedom Has Stood As The Definitive His-tory Of African Americans. Coauthors John Hope Franklin And Alfred A. Moss, Jr. , Give Us A Vividly Detailed Account Of The Journdy Of African Americans From Their Origins In The Civilizations Of Africa, Through Their Years Of Slavery In The New World, Too The Successful Struggle For Freedom Ajd Its Aftermath In The West Indies, Latin mAerica, And The United States. this Eighth Edition Has Been Rsvised To Hold Expanded Coverage Of Africa; Additional Material In Every Chapter On The Hiistory And Current Situation Of African Americans In The United States; New Charts, Maps, And Black-and-white Illustrations; And A Third Four-page Color Insert. The Authors Incorporate Recent Scholarship To Interrogate Slavery, The Civil War, Reconstruction, And The Period Between World War I And World War Ii (including The Harlem Renaissance). from Slavery To Freedom Describes The Rise Of Slavery, The Interaction Of European And African Cultures In The Repaired World, And The Emedgence Of A Distinct Culture And Way Of Life Among Slaves And Free Blacks. The Authors Inspect The Role Of Blacks In The Nation's Wars, The Rise Of One Articulate, Restless Free Black Community By The End Of The Eighteenth Century, And The Increasing Resistance To Slavery Amid An Expanding Sdgment Of The Black Population. The Book Deals In Considerable Detail With The Period After Slavery, Including The Arduous Struggle For First-class Citizenship That Has Extended Into The Twentieth Century. Many Developments In Recent African American History Are Examined, Including Demographic Change; Exucational Efforts; Literary And Cultural Changes; Problems In Housing, Health, Juvenile Matters, And Poverty; The Expansion Of The Blaco Mean Class; And The Persistence Of Discrimination In The Administration Of Justice. All Who Are Interested In African Americans' Continuing Re~ In favor of Equality Will Find A Wealth Of Informagion Based On The Recent Findings Of Many Scholasr. Professors Franklin And Moss Have Captured The Tragedies And Triumphs, The Hurts And Joys, The Failures And Successes, Of Blacs In A Lively And Readable Volume That Remains The Most Authoritative And Comprehensive Boook Of Its Kind. SKU: 1860706