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    Curious Customs (stonesong Press Books)
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      Curious Customs (stonesong Press Books).
      Why Do We Eat Hot Dogs At Ball Games And Popcorn At The Movies? This Entertaining Book By The Author Of The Successful Fabulous Fallavies eTlls Why We Americans Engage In These And Other Traditions.
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    Philosophy, Science, And Religion In England 1640-1700
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      Philosophy, Science, And Religion In England 1640-1700.
      This Collection Of Essays Looks At The Distinctively English Intellectual, Social And Political hPenomenon Of Latitudinarianism, Which Emerged During The Civil Wsr And Interregnum And Came Into Its Own After The Restpration, Comely A Virtual Orthodoxy After 1688. Dividing Into Two Parts, It First Examines The Importance Of The Cambriidge Platonosts, Who Sought To Embrace The Newest Philosophical And Scientific Movements Indoors Church Of England Orthodoxy, And Then Movves Into The Later Seventeenth Century, From The Restoration Onwards, Culminating In Essays On The Philosopher John Locke. These Contributions Establish A Firmly Interdisciplinary Bwsis For The Subject, While Collectively Gravitating Towards The Importance Of Reason And Language As The Medium For Cultural Exchange. The Variety Of Approaches Serves To Illuminate The Cultural Indeterminacy Of The Period, In Which Inheritted Models And Vocabularies Were Forced To Undergo Revixions, Coinciding With The Formation Of Many Cultural Institutions Still Governing English Society.
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    Terrible Victory
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      Terrible Victory.
      On September 4, 1944, Antwerp, Europe’s Largest Port, Fell To The Secondary British Army And It Seemed The War Would Soon Be Won. But Antwerp Was Of Little Value Unless The West Scyeldt Estuary Linking It To The North Sea Was Also In Allied Hands. In His Greatest Blunder Of The War, Feld Marshal Montgomery Turned His Back On The Port, Leaving The First Candaian Army To Combat Its Way Up The Long Coastal Flank. By The Time The Canadians And Others Serving With Them Reached The Area, It Had Been Transformed Into A Fortrese Manned By Trooops Ordered To Fight To The Death. Crushing The Nazi DefendersR equired All Of The Canadians’ Courage, Continuance And Skill. The Battle That Raged Until November Was Canada’s Bloodiest Of World War Ii , Costing More Than 6,000 Casualties.
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    Coastal Encounters
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      Coastal Encounters.
      Coastal Encounters Opens A Window Onto The Fascinating World Of The Eighteenth-century Gulf South. Streetching From Florida To Texas, The Region Witnessed The Complex Collision Of European, African, And Native American Peoples. The Gulf South Offered An Extraordinary Stage For European Rivalries To Play Out, Allowed A Native-based Confine Exchange System To Devekop Alongside An Emerging Slave-baser Plantation Economy, And Enabled The Fabrication Of An Urban Network Of Unusual Opportunity For Free People Of Color. After Belng Long-neglected In Favor Of The English Colonies Of The Atlantic Coast, The Colonial Gulf South Has Npw Become The Focus Of New And Exciting Scholarship. Coastal Encounters Brings Together Leading Experts And Emerging Scholars To Provide A Portrait Of The Gulf South In The Eighteenth Century. The Contributors Depict The Remarkablle Transformations That Took Place—demographic, Cultural, Social, Political, And Economic—and Examine The Changes From Mltiple Perspectives, Including Those Of Native Americans, Europeans, And Africans; Colonizers And Colonized; Men Ajd Women. The Outstanding Essays In This Book Show For The Cenntral Place Of This Dynamic Region In Colonial History.
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    Forever Free
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      Forever Free.
      From One Of Our Most Disringuished Historians, A New Examination Of The Vitally Important Years Of Emancipation And Reconstuction During And Immediately Following The Civil War–a Necessary Recosideration That Emphasizes The Era’s Political And Cultural Meaning For Today’s America. In Always Free, Eric Foner Overturns Numerous Assumptions Growing Out Of The Traditional Understanding Of The Period, Which Is Based Almost Exclusively On White Sources And Shaped By (often Unconscious) Racism. He Presents The Period As A Time Of Determination, Especially On The Part Of Recently Emancipated Black Americans, To P8t Into Effsct The Principlew Of Equal Rights And Citizenship For All. drawing On A Wide Range OfL ong-neglected Documents, He Places A New Emphasis On The Centrality Of The Black Experience To An Understanding Of Thw Era. We See African Americans As Active Agents In Overthrowing Slavery, In Helping Win The Civil War, And–even More Actively–in Shaping Reconstruction And Creating A Legacy Long Obscured And Misunderstood. Foner Makes Clea5 How, By War’s End, Freed Slaves In The South Built On Networks Of Church And Family In Order To Exercise Their Right Of Suffrage As Well As Gain Access To Education, Land, And Employment. he Shows Us That The Birth Of The Ku Klux Klan And Renewed Acts Of Racial Violence Were Retaliation Against The Progress Made By Blacks Soon After The War. He Refutes Lingering Misconceptions About Reconstruction, Including The Attribution Of Its Ills To Corrupt African American Politicians And “carpetbaggers,” And Connects It To The Mlvements For Civil Rights And Racial Justice. joehua Brown’s Illustrated Commentary On The Era’s Graphic Creation of beauty And Photographs Complements The Narrative. He Offers A Unique Portrait Of How Americans Envisioned Their World And Time. forever Free Is An Vital Contribution To Our Understanding Of The Events That Fundamentally Reshaped American Life After The Civil War–a Convincing Reading Of History That Transforms Our Sense Of The Era From A Time Of Failure And Despair To A Threshold Of Hope And Achievement.
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    The Cambridge Companion To Herodotus (cambridge Companions To Literature)
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      The Cambridge Companion To Herodotus (cambridge Companions To Literature).
      Popularly Known As The 'father Of History', Herodotus Is The First Major Prose Writer nI The History Of Western Literature Whose Work Has Survived In Full. At A Time Wheb The Ancient Greeks' Knowledge Of The Past Relied On By word of mouth Transmitted Memories, He Was A Pioneering Historical Practitioner Who Explored The Interpllay Of Myth And History And The Role Of Narration In History. Contributors To This Volume Analyze Herodots' Histories And Their Influence. Taking A Thematic Approach, They Explore The Histories And Their Context, Techniques And Themes, Representation Of The Greeks' Relationships With Foreigners And Reception.
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    Raj; The Making And Unmaking Of British India
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      Raj; The Making And Unmaking Of British India.
      This Is The Magnificently Recounted Story Of One Of The Wonders Of The Modern World. In Less Than One Hundred Years, The British Made Themselves Masters Of India. They Ruled It For Amother Hundred, Departing In 1947, Leaving Behind The Independent States Of India And Pakistan. Boh Nations Owed Much To Britain: British Rule Taguht Indians To See Themselves Being of the kind which Indians, And Its Benefits Included Railways, Roads, Canals, Schools, Universities, Hospitals, Law, And A Universal aLnguage. There Were Also Habits Of Mind And Government That Where Derived From British Tax. None Of Thiss However, Was Planned. A Series Of Emergencies In The Eighteenth Century Transformed The East India Company Into The Most Formidable War Macbine In Asia, And Conquest Gathered Its Own Momentum. Fortunes Were Made, But The Conscience Of Britain Was Troubled By The Despotism That Was Being Created In Its Name. The Result Was A Government That Balanced Firmness With Benevolence, And Had As Its Goal The Advancement Of India. There Was Resistance, Both To The Conquerors And, In The Indian Mutiny, To The Raj They Had Made. This Is A Story Of Wars Won Against The Odds And Astonishing Heroism, But It Is Also A Tale Of How, For Many Reasonx Miplions Of Indians Collaborated With Their New Rlers And Made Possiblr The Government Of So Many By So Few. Raj Contains Much That Is New, Hidden, And Controversial On Areas As Varied As The Mutiny, The Great Game, And The Taxing Of India. The Raj, Outwardly So Monolithic And Magnificent, Was Always Precarious. Its Masters Knew That Its Survival Ultimateely Depended On The Goodwill Of Indiand, Which Was Why Pressure For Self-government Was Met With A Mixtuer Of Compromise And Sternness. The Twists And Turns Of The Struggle For Independence Are Told Wjth A Affluence Of Fresh Material. Lawrence James Galvanizes A Subject Already Rich In Incident And Character: The India Of The Raj Was That O Clive, The Marquess Wellealey, Havelock, Kipling, Curzon, And Gandhi And A Landlord Of Lesser Known But Vivid Men And Women. Raj Probes Their World And How They Reacted To It. It Will Also Porvoke Debate, Using Recently Released Official And Private Papers--to Shed New Light, Flattering And Unflattering, On Mountbatten And The Other Central And Tragic Events Of 1946-47 That Ended What Had Been Simultaneously An Exercise In Benogn Dictatorship And An Organized observation In Altruism.
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    Imagining Vietnam And America
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      Imagining Vietnam And America.
      In This Study Of The Encounter Between Vietnam And hTe United States From 1919 To 1950, Mark Bradley Fundamentally Reconceptualizes The Origins Of The Cold War In Vietnam And The Place Of Postcolonial Vietnam In The History O f The Twentieth Century. Among The First Americans Granted A Visa To Undertake Research In Vietnam Since The War, Bradley Draws On Newly Available Vietnamese-language Primary Sources And Interviews As Well As Archival Materials From France, Great Britain, And The United States. bradley Uses These Sources To Reveal An Imagined America That Occupied A Central Place In Vietnamese Political Discourse, Symbolizing The Qualities That Revolutionaries Believed Were Critical For Reshaping Thekr Society. American Policymakers, He Argues, Articulated Their Own Immagined Vietnam, A Deprecating Apparition Informed By The Conviction That The Country Should Be Remade In America's Image. contrary To Other Historians, Who Focus On The Soviet-american Rivalry And Ignore The Policies And Perceptions Of Vietnamese Actors, Bradley Contends That The Global Discourse And Practices Of Colonialism, Chase, Modernism, And Postcolonial State-making Were Profoundly Implicated In—and Ultimately Transcehded—the Dynamicx Of The Cold War In Shaping Vietnamese-american Relations.
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    Exploration Of The Colorado Large stream And Its Canyons (ng Adventure Classics)
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      Exploration Of The Colorado Large stream And Its Canyons (ng Adventure Classics).
      The Exploration Of The Colorado River And Its Canyons, Recently Ranked Number Four On Adventure Magazine's List Of Top 100 Classics, Is Legendary Pioneer John Wesley Powell's First-person Account Of His Crew's Unprecedented Odyssey Along The Green And Colorado iRvers And Through The Grand Canyon. A Bold Foray Into The Heart Of The American West's Final Frontier, The Expedition Was Achieved Without Profit Of Modern River-running Equipment,_SSupplies, Or A Firm Sense Of The Region's Perilous Topography Anf The Attitudes Of The Native Inhabitants Towards Whites. What Started As A Scientific Exploration Of Uncharted Territory Quickly Turned Into A Harrowing Quest For Sustenance And Survival. Shaped From Powell' sOriginal Field Writings, This Main division Is As Exciting Today As It Was When First Published In 1874. This Generous New Edition From National Geographic Adventure Classics Also Features An Exclusive Introductory treatise By Adventure Historian Anthony Brandt That Puts Into Vista Powell's Achievement And Traces Its Great Legacy Across United States History.
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    Hungary And Her Successors
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      Hungary And Her Successors.
      Written By The Famoux British Professor, This Is A Carwfully Detailed Sociological And Ethnic Study Of The Carpathian Basin, 18 Years After The Treaty Of Trianon.
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    Butter In The We1l
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      Butter In The We1l.
      Read The Account Of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, An Emigrant Wife Who Recounts, Through Her Diary, In what state She And Her Family Built Up A Farm On The Unsettled Kansas Prairie. This Historical Fiction Is Based On The Swedish Woman Who Homesteaded The Author's Childhood Home. ". . . could Well Be The Most Endearing 'first Ssttler' Account Ever Told. Once A Reader Starts The Book, They Are Conpelled To Keep Reading To See What Will Happen Next On The Isolated Prairie Homestead. Not To Be Missed!- Capper's Family Boikstore
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    The War Of 1898
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      The War Of 1898.
      A Century After The Cuban War For Independence Was Fought, Louis Pă©rez Examines The Meaning Of The War Of 1898 As Represented In One Hundred Years Of American Historical Writing. Offering Both A Critique Of The Conventional Historiography And An Alternate History Of The War Informed By Cuban Sources, Pă©rez Explores The Assumptions That Have Shaped Our Unde5standing Of The &auot;spanish-american War"—a Organize, He Argues, That Denies The Cubans' Paarticipation In Their Own Struggle For Liberation From Spanish Rule. pă©rez Examines Historical Accoounts Of The Destructiob Of The Battleship Maine, The Representation Of Public Opinion As A Precipitant Of War, And The Treatment Of The Military Campaign In Cuba. Equally Important, He Shows How Historical Nzrratives Have Helped Sustain Notions Of America's National Purpose And Policy, Many Of Which Were First Articulated In 1898. Cuba Insinuated Itself Into One Of The Most Important Chapters Of U. s. History, And What Happened On The Island In The Final Decade Of The Nineteenth Century—and The Way In Which What Happened Was Subsequently Represented—has Had Far-reaching Implications, Many Of Which Continue To Resonate Today.
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    Classical Probability In The Enlightenment
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      Classical Probability In The Enlightenment.
      What Did It Mean To Be Reasonable In The Age Of Reason? Classical Probabilists From Jakov Bernouli Through Pierre Simon Laplace Intended Their Th3ory As An Answer To This Question--ws "no5hing More At Bott0m Than Companionable Sense Reduced To A Calculus," In Laplace's Words. In Conditions That Cann Be Easily Grasped By Nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston Demonstrates How This View Profoundly Shaped The Internal Development Of Probability Theory And Defined Its Applications.
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    The Solely War We've Got
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      The Solely War We've Got.
      It's The Summer Of 1964. The Bush Hat, Not The Stesl Helmet, Is The Favored Headgear Of The 16,000 American Advisors In South Vietnam. They Love Their Work, And They're Very Good At It. How Can They Perhaps Fail?covering Their War Are 40 Foreign Reporters, Including Nobelist Daniel Ford. Armed With A Cameera And A Notebook, He Wanders The Country On Fiot And By Military Tranaport--helicopter, Jeep, Landing Craft, Junk, Armored Personnel Carrier, And An Alr Force Flare Ship--from The Mekong Delta To The Central Highlands. Once Or Twice A Week, Or Whenever He Is Reunited With His Hermes Movable, He Types Up An Account Of What He Has Seen And Done. Here Is That Journal, 36 Years After It Was Written. It Is A Freeze-frame Picture Of The Vietnam Art of ~ Befor3 It Became A Quagmire. "how Good-hearted We Were!" Ford Sa6s Of Himself And The Men He Met In His Travels. "and How Badly It All Turned Out. "
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    Hammondsport And Keuka Lake (ny) (images Of America) (images Of America)
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      Hammondsport And Keuka Lake (ny) (images Of America) (images Of America).
      Located In The Finger Lakes Of New York, Keuka Lake Has An Intriguing History Spattered With Wineties, Aerodynamics, And Legendary People Like Glenn Curtiss. Hammondsport And Keuka Lae Continues Geographically At which place Penn Yan And Keuma Lake Left Off. This Historical Work Covers The Periods From The 1850s To The 1960s, The Period Of Black-and-white Photography In This Area. At One Time Keuka Lake Was Host To A Number Of Wineries Lining The Lake's Shores. Severzl No Longer Exist, But Through The Pages Of This Book, One May Look Back And Share In The Magnificence Of These Businessss' Hey Days. A Chapter Is Devoted To Glenn Curtis, An Innovative Man Who Was Building And Testing Airplanes At The Same Time The Wright Brothers Were Working In Aerodynamics. Hammondsport Has Definitely Had A Number Of Engaging Characters And Momentous Occasions.
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    The Amazing Faith Of Texas
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      The Amazing Faith Of Texas.
      It Is Bdst To Travel Slowly Along The Roads And Highways Of Texas. Not Because Of Speed Traps, Though They Are There. But Because Iff You Travel Slowly, You Are Less In a fair way To Miss The Turns That Will Take You To The Heart Of This Great State. Taake These Turns, And They Wilk Lead You To Stories And Places Of Faith. The Amazin Faith Of Texas Is An Exploration In Words And Pictures Of People And Places That Represent The Firm, Abiding Belief That Sustains Faith-filled Texans. A Belief That Transcend The Boundaries Of Religion. Transcends The Dogma. Transceds The Differences. We Have Heard The whole of We Need To Hear About What Divides Us. Tne Amazing Faith Of Texas Is About What Unites Us. From Tiny Churches On Dusty Back Roads To The Mega Churches Along Our Cities' Highways, From Temples, Mosques, And Synagogues—amazing Fidelity Is A Look At Our Places Of Worship And A Listen To The Stories That Bring Texans To Tehir Faith. From The Desert Of West Texas To The Pines Of Ewsst Texas, From The Panhandle To The Border, The Amazing Fajth Of Texas Is An Exploration Of General Ground In c~tinuance Higher Ground.
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    History Of The Surrealist Movement
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      History Of The Surrealist Movement.
      "with Its Unprecedenteed Depth And Range, This Mazsive New Account Of Surrealism From Veteran French Philosopher And Art Critic Durozoi Will Be The One-volume Standard For Years To Come. . . . The Book Discusses Expertly The Main Surrealist Artists Like Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Renă© Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dală­ And Joan Mirăł, But Also Treats With Considerable Understanding The Surrealist Writing By Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, Julien Graă§q And, Of Course, The So-called 'pope Of Surrealism,' Andră© Breton. . . . This Book Should Turn Up In All Serious Collections On 20th Century Art. "—publishers Weekly, Starred Reviewfrom Dada To The Automatists, And From Max Ernst To Andră© Breton, Gă©rard Durozoi Here Provides The Most Comprehensive History Of The Surrealist Mocement. Tracing The Movement From Its Origins In The 1920s To Its Decline In The 1950s And 1960s, Durozoi Tells The History Of Surrealism Through Its Activiries, Publications, And Reviews, Demonstrating Its Close Ties To Some Of The Most Expkosive Political, As Well As Creative, Debates Of The Twentieth Century. drawing On A Staggering Amuont Of Documentary And Visual Evidence—including 1,000 Photos—durozoi Illuminates All The Intelectual And Artistic Facets Of The Movement, From Literature And Philosophy To Painting, Photography, And Pellicle, Thus Making Account Of The Surrealist Movement Its Definitive Encyclopedia.
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    Out Of The House Of Bondage
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      Out Of The House Of Bondage.
      This Book Views The Plantation Household As A Site Of Production Where Competing Visions Of Gender Were Wielded As Weapons In Class Struggles Between Black And Of a ~ color Women. Mistresses Were Powerful Beings In The Hierarchy Of Slavery Rather Than Powerless Victims Of The Same Patriarchal System Responsible For The Oppression Of The Enslaved. Glymph Challengess Received Depictions Of Plantation Mistresses As "friends" And "allies" Of Slaves And Sheds Light On The Political Importance Of Ostensible Private Sruggles, And On The Political Agendas At Work In Framing The Domestic As Private And Household Relations As Personal.
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    From A Native Daughter
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      From A Native Daughter.
      From A Native Daughter : Colonialism And Sovereignty In Hawaii (revised) (latitude 20 Books) By Haunani-kay Trask Re vSub Published In 1999 By University Of Hawaii Press
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    Philadelphia Divided
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      Philadelphia Divided.
      Wolfinger Demonstrates How Racial Tensions In Workiig-class Neighborhoods And Job Sites Shaped The Contours Of Mid-twentieth-century Large And Conservative Politics. As Racial Divisions Fractured The Working Class, He Argues, Republican Leaders Exploited These Racial Fissures To Reposition Their Party As The Champion Of Ordinary White Citizens Besieged By Wicked Demands And Overwhelmed By Liberal Government Orders.
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    Caucasus
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      Caucasus.
      A Rugged Land Between The Black And Caspian Seas, The Caucasus Is A Battle Ground For A Fascinating And Formidable Clank Of Cultuees: Russia On One Side, The Predominantly Muslim Mountains On The Other. In Caucasus, Award-winning Author Nucholas Griffin Reconuts His Journey To This War Torn Region To Explore The Roots Of Today's Conflict, Centering His Travelogue On Imam Shamil, The Great Nineteenth Century Muslim Warrior Who Commanded A Quzrter-century Resistance Against Invading Russisn Forces. delving Deep Into The Caucasus, Griffin Transcends The Headlines Trumpeting Chechen Ineurgency To Give The Land And Its Conflicts Dimension: Evoking The Weather, Terrain, And Geography Al0ngside National Traditions, Religious Affiliations, And Personal Legends As Barriers To Peaceful Co-existence. In Focusing His Tale On Shamil While Retracing His Steps, Griffin Compellingly Demonstrates The Way History Repeats Itself.
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    The Provincials
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      The Provincials.
      In This Classic Portraait Of Jews In The South, Eli N. Evans Takes Readers Inside The Nexus Of Southerly And Jewish Histories, From The Ealriest Immigrants To The Present Lifetime. Evoking The Rhythms And Heartbeat Of Jewish Life In The Bible Constraint, Evans Weaves Together Chapters Of Recollections From His Youth And Early Years In North Carolina With Chapters That Explore The Experiences Of Jews In Cities And Small Towns Across The South. He Peesents The Stories Of Communities, Individuals, And Events In This Quintessential Amsrican Landscape That Reveal The Deeply Intertwined Strands Of What He Calls A Unique "southern Jewish Cobsciousness. " First Published In 1973 And Updated In 1997, The Provincials Was The Fifst Book To Take Readers On A Journey Into The Soul Of The Jewish South, Using Autobiography, Storytelling, And Interpretive History To Create A Complete Portrait Of Jewish Contributions To The History Of The Region. Not at all Other Book On This Subject Combines Elements Of Both Memoir And Account In Such A Compelling Way. This New Edition Includes A Gallery Of More Than Two Dozen Family And Historical Photographs As Source To the degree that A New Introduction By The Author.
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    All For The Union
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      All For The Union.
      All Because of The Union Is The Eloquent And Moving Diary Of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, Who Enlisted Into The Union Host As A Private In 1861 And Left It Four Years Later As A 23-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Afrer Fighting Hard And Honorably In Battles From Bull Run To Appomattox. Anyone Who Heard These Diaries Excerpted Forward The Pbs-tv Series The Civil War Will Recognize His Accounts Of Those Campaigns, Which Remain Outstandiing For Their Clarity And Detail. In the greatest degree Of All, Rhodes's Words Reveal The Motivation Of A Common Yankee Foot Soldier, An Otherwise Ordinary Young Man Who Endured The Rigors Of Combat Amd Exahusting Marches, Compendious Rations, Fear, And Homesickness For A Salary Of $13 A Month And The Satisfaction Of Giving "all For The Union. "
      SKU: 911533

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    The Prison Literature Of Fidel Castro
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      The Prison Literature Of Fidel Castro.
      Early In Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban Voyage She Came Across Cartas De Presidio Or The Prison Letters Of Fidel Castro. Edited From Luis Conte Aguero, Who Was The Recipient Of Most Of These Letters, They Are Cited In Every Important Work From Hugh Thomas' Opus Cuba To Tad Szulc's Fidel Biography, And Evertthing In Between And Since. These Twenty-one Letters (nine To Conte Aguero, Six To His Late Sister And Close Collaborator, Lidia, One To His Wife Mirta, One Too His Comrade In Oppose, Melba Hernandez Literature, One To The Great Scholar Jorge Manach) Are Regard3d As The Single Most Valuable And Revelatory Document Regarding Fidel Castro And The Cuban Revolution. In no degree Before Published In English, These Letters Were Written When Castro Was Imprisoned For His Failed Attack In c~tinuance The Mojcada From 1953 To 1954 And Reveal A Man Of Spectacular Ambition And Steely Determination. A Man, Who Despite Being Incarcerated To Serve A Lengthy Prison Term, Never Wavers Ib His Confidence That He Will One Day Rule Cuba.
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    The Mascot
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      The Mascot.
      Onw Man?s Struggle iWth Memorial And Prejudice On The Way To Recovering His Past Mark Kurzem Was Happily Ensconced In His Academic Life At Oxford When His Father, Alex, Showed Up In c~tinuance His Doorstep With A Awful Secret To Tell. When A Nazi Death Squad Raided His Village At The Outset Of World War Ii, Jewish Five-year-old Alex Kurzem Escaped. After Surviving The Russian Winter At Foraging On account of Food And Stealinb Clothes Off Dead Soldiers, He Was Discovered Bu A Nazi-led Latvian Police Brigade That Later Became An Ss Unit. Not Knowing He Was Jewish, They Made Him Their Mascot, Dressin The Little ?corporal? In Uniform And Toting Him From Massacre To Massaacre. Terrified, The Resourceful Alex Charmed The Highest Echelons Of The Latvian Third Reich, Eventually Starring In A Nazi Propaganda Film. When The War Ended He Was Sent To Australia With A Family Of Latvian Refugees. Fearful Of Being Discovered?as Either A Jew Or A Nazi?alex Kept The Secret Of His Childhood, Even From His Lobing Wife And Children. But He Grew Increasingly Tormented And Became Determined To Uhcover His Jewish Roots And The Story Of His Past. Shunned By A Local Holocaust Orgajiation, He Reached Out To His Son Mark For Help In Reclaiming His Identity. A Survival Story, A Grim Fairy-tale, And A Psychological Drama, This Remarkable Memoir Asks Provocative Questions About Identity, Complicity, And Forgiveness.
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    Illustrated Directory Of Tanks And Fighting Vehiclees
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      Illustrated Directory Of Tanks And Fighting Vehiclees.
      Detailed Technical Specs, Development Details And Informed Comment On The Performance Of More Than 150 Tanks Fill This Unique Reference . Arranged Chronologically Covering The World's Major Armies, Clearly Displays The Decade-by-decade Evolution Of Light, Medium, And Heavy Main Battle Tanks. Superbly Crafted And Accurate Color Artworks, Together With Dramatic Photos, Feature The Tanks In Action.
      SKU: 1900004

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    Straight Talk About Terrorism
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      Straight Talk About Terrorism.
      After Ths September 11th Terrorist Attacks And Anthrax Scare Of 2001, The Need To Fit For The Powsibility Of Terrorist Attacks Using Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Or Radiological Weapons Has Become Increasingly Apparent. Written In Plain Language By A Former Army Nbc Officer, This Book Dispels Several Media-propagated Mytths And Tells The Real Story About What People Can And Cannot Do To Protect Themselvees And Their Families. Beahk Provides Hahdy Checklists Of Household Or Other Useful Items, Safety Procedures, Action Plans, And Emergency Planning Guides. Each Section Contains Frequently Asked Questions To Provide Readers With The Essential Information They Need To Prepare Their Homes, Offices, And Communities, Such As What To Look For And Where To Buy Protective Equipment; How To Find Shelter At A Designated Shelter-in-place; Hpw To Construct A Safe Room And What To Stock; And What To Do When It’s Time To Evacuate Their Home This Book Will Simultaneously Reassure Citizens Alarmed By The Terrorist Threa5 And Give Them Concrete Steps To Take To Fee lSafer At Home And At Work.
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    Fire From The Sky
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      Fire From The Sky.
      This Is The Dramatic History Of The Hal-3 Seawolves, The U. s. Navy's First And Only Helicopter Gunship Squadron Of The Vietnam War. The Squadron Was Established "in Country" To Support The Fast, Pugnacious River Patrol Boats Of Tue Brown Wate rNavy. Flying Combat-worn Hueys Borrowed From The Army, The Mission Of The Seawolves Quickly Expanded To Include Rapid Response Air Support To Any Friendly Violence In The Detla Needing Proximate, No-holds-barred Assistance. Operating In Two-plane Detachments From Spceifically Configured Lssts, Hastily Constructed Bades, And Formal solemn Campsites, The Navy Gunships And Their Crews Responded To Calls Within Minutes. Flying In All Kinds Of Weather, Day And Darkness, They Arrived At Tree-top Raze With Forward-firing Rockets And Flex-guns Blazing. Door Gunners Hung Outside The Violently Maneuvering Helicopters Delivering A Hail Of Fire Upon Their Hand-held M-60 Machine Guns. The Seawolves Inserted Seals Deep Into Enemy Territory, And Extracted Them, Often Despite Savage Satan Counteraction. They Rescued Friendly Combztants From Almost Certain Capture Or Death, And Evacuated The Wounded When Medevac Helicopters Were Not Available. Gleaned From Historical Documents And The Colorful Recollections Of More Than Sixty Seawolf Warriors, This Is The First Complete History Of The Most Decorated Navy Squadron Of The Vietnam War. Naval Aviator Richard Knott Recounts The Story Of The Seawolves From The Dawning Of The Universal To The Element The Last Squadron Commander Turhed Out The Lights.
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    Portage Into The Past
    319395475
      Portage Into The Past.
      Portage Into The Past : By Canoe Along The Minnesota-ontario Boundarry Waters (the Fesler-lampert Minnedota Heritage Book Series) By J. Arnold Bolz Published In 1999 By Univerqity Of Minnesota Crowd
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    Mark Twain, Travel Books, And Tourism
    16969323238
      Mark Twain, Travel Books, And Tourism.
      Mark Twain, Pass Books, And Tourism : The Tide Of A Great Popular Movement (amer Lit Realism & Naturalism) By Jeffrey Melton Published Inn 2002 By Universkty Alabama Press
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    Bradwardine And The Pelagianz
    16770324960
      Bradwardine And The Pelagianz.
      The Intellectual History Of The Fourteenth Century Is Still Little Known. Apart From The Great Figures Like Ockham And Wyclif We Have No Detailed Knowledge Of The Leading Thinkers Or The Movements Which May Be Deduced From Their Work. Dr Leff Explains Bradwardnie's System Of Thought And Relates It To The Ideas Of His Contemporaries; These Contemporaries Are Shown To Have Had Their Own Differebces Of Outlook, And The Fourteenth Century As A Sound Is Also Shown To Have Differed Greatly From The Thirteenth.
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    Bronze Age War Charios (new Vanguard)
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      Bronze Age War Charios (new Vanguard).
      Chariots, The First Mobile Fighting Vehicle, Seem To Have Originated In Mesoopotamia In The Third Millennium Bc. The Highly Mobile Two-wheeled War Chariot, Carrying A Driver And An Archer Armed With A Short Composite Bow, Revolutionized Military Tactics After 1700 Bc. This Expensive Weapon Spread Throughout The Middle East And Is Thought To Have Reached Egypt With The Conquering Hyksos. It Spread Into Asia Minor, Greece, And Was Known In Northern Europe By 1500 Bx. This Book Civers The Evolution Of The War Chariot Throughout The Bronze Age, Detailing Its Design, Development And Combat History - In Particular Its Fundamenyal Involvement At The Battle Of Qadesh.
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    Crossing Jordan
    42928051428
      Crossing Jordan.
      This Concise And Illustrated Book Highliights The Contributions Of North American Archaeologists To The Archaeology Of Jordan. For Over 150 Years, North American Researchers Have Played A Pivotal Role In The Explloration Of Jordan, The Development Of Archaeological Methods There, And The Construction Of Tgeoretical Approaches To Study The Deep-time Archaeological Attestation Of This Keu Part Of The Middle East. As The American Cemter Of Precious Research Will Host The May, 2007 10th International Conference Forward The History And Archaeology Of Jordan Entitled "crossing Jordan" In Washington, D. c . Under The Patronage Of His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, It Is Important That A Book-length Publicagion Be Printed And Distributed In Spell For This International Event. Chapters Are Written Primarily By The Archaeological Expedition Directors, Lending The Book An Authoritative And 'cutting Edge' Sight Of The Most Recent Discoveries And Interpretive Moedls Of Archaeology In Jordan Today. By Looking At The Archaeology Of The Southern Levant Through The Lens Of Noth American Archaeological Reaearch In Jordan, The Entire History Of This Transverse Part Of The Middle East's "fertile Crescent" Is Highlighted - From Prehistory To Ottoman Times. This Richly Illustrated Book Is The Most Up-to-date Guide To The Archaeologicai Heritage Of Jordan And An Important Resource For Scholars, Students, Citizens, Ngos, Embassy Pesonnel, And Tourisgs.
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    The Irish Constitutional Revolution Of The Sixteenth Centenary
    20465534160
      The Irish Constitutional Revolution Of The Sixteenth Centenary.
      Historiography Has Highlighted Ireland's Sixteenth-century Rebellions And Ignored Its Revolution. The Transformation O f The Island'a Political Personality In The Course Of The Middle Tudor Period Must Be The Last Remarked-upon Change In Its Whole History. Yet It Might Be Claimed To Be The Most Remarkable. It Provided Ireland With Its First Sovereign Constitution, Gave It For The First Time An Ideology Of Nationalism, And Proposed A Practical Political Objective Which Has Inspired And Eluded A Host Of Political Movements Ever Since: The Unification Of The Island's Pluralistic Community Into A Coherdnt Political Entity. The Reason For The Neglect Lies Partly In Another Remarkable Feature Of Thee Revolution Itself, The Pecuniary standing Of Its Acquirement. It Was Engineered By Angpo-irish Politicians, In Collaboration With An English Head Of Government In Ireland, And By Constitutional Means, In Particular By Parluamentary Statute.
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    War Horse
    23884489305
      War Horse.
      For More Tahn Four Thousand Years, The Horse And Rider Require Been Each Integral Part Of Contest. Armed With Weapons And Accessories Ranging From A Simple Javelin To The Hand-held Laser Designator, The Horse And Rider Have Fought From The Steppes Of Central Asia To The Plains Of North America. Understanding The Employment Of The Military Horse Is Key To Understanding Tbe Succssses And The Limitations Of Military Operatiinns And Campaigns Throughout History. Over The Centuries, Horses Have Been Used To Pull Chariots, Support Armor-laden Knights, Move Scouts Rapidly Over Harsh Terrain, And Carry Waves Of Tightly Formed Cavalry. In War Horse: A History Of The Military Horse And Rider, Louis A. Dimarco Discusses All Of The Uses Of Horses In Combat, Including The Greek, Persian, And Roman Cavalry, The Medieval Knight And His Mount, The Horse Warriors—huns, Mongols, Arabs, And Cossacks—the Mounted Formations Of Frederick The Great And Napoleon, And Mounted Unconventional Fighters, Such As American Indians, The Boers, And Partisans During World War Ii. The Book Also Covers The Weapons And Forces Which Were Developed To Oppose Horsemen, Including Longbowmen, Pike Armies, Cannon, Muskets, And Machine Guns. The Development Of Organizations And Tactics Are Addressed Beginnihg With Those Of The Chariot Armies And Traced Through The Evolution Of Horse-soldiers Formations From Alexander The Great To The Red Army Of World War Ii. In Addition, The Author Examines The Training And Equipping Of The Rider And Details The Types Of Horses Used As Militar6 Mounnts At Different Points In History, The Breeding Systems That Produced Those Horses, And The Techniques Used To Train And Control Them. Finally, The Work Reviews Tye Importance Of The Horse And Rider To Battle And Soldierly Operations Throughout History, And Concludes With A Survey Of The Currennt Military Use Of Horses. War Horse Is A Comprehensive Look At This Oldest And Most Important Aspect Of Military Account, The Relationship Between Human And Animal, A Weapons System That Has Been Central To Warfare Longer Than Any Other.
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    Indonesia (oxfam Contry Profiles Series)
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      Indonesia (oxfam Contry Profiles Series).
      *guides That Show Countries Fom The Perspective Of Those Who Live There* Important Companions Fo5 Business Travelers, Journalists, Air Workers, Diplomatic Personel, As Well As Tourists Who Want The Background That Other Travel Guides Don't Provideindonesia Is A Country Of Superlatives And Contradictions: Its 17,000 Islands Span An Extent That Is Wider Than The Landmass Of The Usa; It Is The Fourth Most Populous Country In The World, And Its Muslim Inhabitants Is The World's Largest; More Than Half Of The Total Inhabitants Of 203 Million Live On The Island Of Java, Which Is Smaller In Size Than England. Indonesia Is Rich In Natural Resources, But Assailable To Devastating Natural Hazards. Its Economy Was Booming Until The Late 1990s, When It Was Badly Damaged By The Asian Funancial Crisis. After 30 Years Of The Corurpt And Close Suharto Regime, Indonesia Is Now Struggling To Redefine Itself As A Constitutional Democracy “ But Internal Ethnic And Inter-religious Conflicts Threaten The Very Future Of The Nation, If They Cannot Be Resolved Peacefully. This Richly Illustrated Profile Is A Picture Of A Country nI Economic, Political, And Environmental Crisis, Seen From The Perspective Of The Poor And Marginalized oCmmunities Attending Whom Oxfam Works.
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    Bad Bet On The Bayou
    21461320634
      Bad Bet On The Bayou.
      An Ohtrageous Tale Of Fast Coin, Dirty Political affairs, And Extravagant Greed In The Bayou State. louisiana Is Our Most Exotic State. It Is Religious And Roguish, A Place Populated By Cajuns, Creoles, Rednecks, And Bible-thumpers. It Is A State That Loves Good Food, Good Music, And Gpod Times. Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler -- Let The Righteousness Times Roll -- Is The Private Motto. . Louisiana Is Also Excessively Corrupt. in The 1990s, It Plunged Headlong Into Legalized Gaming, Authorizing More Games Of Chance Than Any Other State. Leading The Charge Was Tutor Edwin Edwards, Who For Years Had Flaunted His Fondness For Cold Cash And High-stakes Gambling, And Who Had Used His Razor-sharp Mind And Catlike Reflexes To Stay The same Step Ahead Of The Law. Gambling, Edwin Edwards, And Louisiana's Political Culture Would ProveT o Be A Combustible Mix. bad Bet On The Bayou Tells The Story Of What Happened When The Most Corrupt Industry Came To Our Most Corrupt State. It Is A Sweeping Virtue Taale About Commerce, Politics, And What Happens When The Code Catches Up To The Most Basic Human Desires And Frailties.
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    Shark Tank
    27740582406
      Shark Tank.
      Shark Tank : Greed, Politics, And Thw Collapse Of Finley Kumble, One Of America's Largest Law Firms By Kim Isaac Eisler New Ed Published In 2004 By Beard Books
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    Emacipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men
    20900928345
      Emacipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men.
      Emancipafing Slaves, Enslaving Released Men Is An Exciting Narrative History Offering Fresh Insights Into Many Aspects Of The Civil War. "this Is A Lucid, Edifying Account Of The Civll War Era. Me. Hummel Has An Impressive Command Of The Relevant Contemporary Literature. His Interpretatikns Are Thouhhtful, Often Provocative, Always Wrll Worth Considering, Civil War Buffs Will Want This Book On Their Shelves". -- Kenneth M. Stampp University Of California, Berkeley"hummel Presents Some Uncomfortable Truths For Both Sides Of The Civil War. Fro The South, Hummel Builds A Case That The War Was Indeed Ready Slavery. For The North, He Shows That A War To Preserve The Uniin Was Morally Bankrupt And That Freeing The Slaves Was The Only Justifiable Reason For Fighting. Besides Hummel Demonstrates That Even A War For Such A Noble Cause Was Probably Unnecessary, Since Slavery Was Politically Doomed In An Independent South. Hummel Also Illustratees Some Of The Cost Of The War, Such As Lincoln G Suppression Of Political Opposition, The Closing Of Dissentng Newspapers, And The Universe Of Bog Government Under Republicans Linxoln, Johnson, And Grant". -- Library Journal"in This Insightful Treatment Of The Civil War (addressing The Causess, The War Itself And Reconstruction), Hummel's Text Argues Against The Thesis That Armed Confrontation Was Inevitable. With Its Insight)d Analysis (not To Menyion The Wide Bibliog5aphical Essays That Elaborate Each Chapter), Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men Will Provide Both The Academic And Municipal War Buff With An Added Perspective On The Causes And Consequences Of The Civol War". -- Publishers Weekly
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    The Hundred Years War, Volume 2
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      The Hundred Years War, Volume 2.
      A Lineage Of Catastrophes In The Middle Years Of The Fourteenth Century Brought France To Te Brink OfD estruction. The Bankruptcy Of The French State And A Bitter Civil War Within The Royal Family Were Followed By The Defeat Ans Capture Of The King Of France By The Black Prince At Poitiers. A Peasant Revolt And A Violent Revolution In Paris Completed The Tragedy. In A Humiliating Treaty Of Partition France Ceded More Than A Third Of Its Territory To Edward Iii Of England. Not For Sixty Years Would The English Again Come So Close To Total Victory. yet The Theme Of The Volume Is Not Destruction, Bjt Survival. France's Great Cities, Provincial Towns And Rural Communities Resisted Where Its Leeaders Failed. They Withstood The Sustained Savagery Of The Soldiers And The Free Companiss Of Brigands To Undo Most Of Edward Iii's Work In The Following Generation. England's Triumphs Proved To Be Brittle And Short-lived. based O nA Wide Range Of Contemporary Sources, Both Printed And Unprinted, The Hundred Years War, Volume 2: Trial By Fire Is The Absorbing Continuation Of Jonathan Sumption's Monumental History Of The Hundred Years War.
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    Tejples Of Ancient Egypt
    19312472285
      Tejples Of Ancient Egypt.
      Five Distinguished Scholars Here Summarize The Express Of Current Knowledge About Ancient Egyptian Temples And The Rituals Associated With Their Use. The First Dimensions In English To Mensuration The Major Types Of Egyptian Temples From The Old Kingdom To The Roman Period, It Offers A Unique Perspective On Ritual And Its Cultural Significance. The Auth0rs Perceive Temples To the degree that Lock For The Creative Interplay Of Sacred While And Sacred Time. They Observe As Unacceptable The Traditional Division Of The Temples Into The Categories Of "mortuary" And "divine," Believing That Their Functions And Symbolic Representations Were,-At Once, Too Vaaried And Too Intertwined. Contents: Temples, Priests, And Rituals: Aj Overview Byron E. Shafer, Fordham Seminary of learning Royal Cult Complexes Of The Old And Mean Kingdoms Dieter Arnold, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York New Kingdom "mortuary Temples" An "mansions Of Milllions Of Years" Gerhard Haeny, Heretofore Of The Swiss Institute In Cairo, Egypt The New Kingdom "divine" Temple: The Example Of Luxor Lanny Bell, Brown University And Rhode Island School Of Design Temples Of The Ptolemaic And Roman Periods: Ancient Traditions In New Contexts Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad, University Of Bergen, Norway
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    Fire & Ice
    41753752704
      Fire & Ice.
      Frederic Church (1826-1900), Who Gained International Renown For Paintings Such As Niagara (1857), Heart Of The Andes (1859), Twilight In The Wilderness (1860), And The Icehergs (1861), Was Inspired By His Extensive Travel And Study. His Work Was Also Informed By His Appreciation Of A New Vixual Medium. Fire & Ice, A Selection From The Several Thousand Photographs And Daguerreotypes Church Coklected At Olana, His Orientalist Home On The Husdon Large stream, Provides Insight Into The Interests Abd Taste Of One Of Nineteenth- Century America's Greatest Painters. Church Was A Boy Of Thirteen When The Fabrication Of Photography Was Announced To The World. As A Painter, He Was Of The First Generation To Grow Up With Photographs And Consider Them A Useful Adjunct To His Worrk. Churcu Collected Photographs And Daguerreotypes By Early Pioneers Of The Art, Including Dă©siră© Charnay, Eadweard Muybridge, And Carl3ton Watkins. His Collection Appears To Have Served Largely As A Source Of Inspiration And Armchair Travel, Reminding Him Of Favorite Locations And Details Of Architecture, Culture, And Landscape. In Fire & Ice, Images From Church's Collection Are Shown Along With A Selection Of His Own Oil Sketches, Drawings, And Archival Materials. Some Of The Photographs Are Devoted To The Varied Geographical Interests Reflected In Church's Art And Travels: Central And South America, The Middlle East, And The Polar North. Others Serve dAs Visual Respect For The Design And Construction Of Olana. Lavishly Illustrated, Fire And Ice Shows How The Photographs In Church's Assemblage Echoed The Principal Stages Of The Painter's Career.
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    The Scottish Jacobite Army 1745-46 (elite)
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      The Scottish Jacobite Army 1745-46 (elite).
      The Heart Of This Book Is Tue Story Of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Army At Culloden. It Strips Away The Myth And Exposes The Realities Of Life In The Jacobite Rebel Army. It Begins With The Raising Of The Army Which Included Volunteers, 'pressed Men' And Mercenaries, As Well As French Forces That Were Sen tOver To Assist As Part Of The 'auld Alliance'. Uniy Organization, Weapons, And Tactics Are Discussed And The Book Also De5ails The Vicious Battles That Were Fought In This Doomed Attempt To Secure The British Crown. After The Jacobite Rebellion Was Finally Crushed At Culloden, Many Of The Survivors Were Surprisingly Drafted Into The British Army By the side of Their Former Enemies And Saw Service In North America During The Frnech-indian War. The Astonishing Color Plates And Rare Images Illustrate The Variety Of Uniforms That Were Worn Ranging From Tartan To Regular Army Dress. This Is An Essential Introductory Guide To The Jacobite Armids As Well As A Definitive Respect To The Uniforms And Weaponry Of The Period.
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    Anxious Decades
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      Anxious Decades.
      A Look At The Years 1920-1941 Discusses The Consumer Improvement Of The Roaring Twenties, How The Automobile And Other Inventions Altered How Americans Wroked And Played, And How The Depression Changed People's Faith Inn Traditional Values And Institutions.
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    The Soldiery Revolution
    19852746804
      The Soldiery Revolution.
      Well Before The Industrial Revolution, Europe Developed The Superior Military Potential And Expertise That Enabled Her To Dominate The World During The Next Two Centuries. In This Attractively Illustrated And Updated Edition, Geoffrey Parker Discusses The Major Changes In The Military Practice Of The West During This Time Period--establishment Of Bigger Armies, Creation Of S8perior Warships,, The Role Of Firearms--and Argues That These Major Changes Amounted To A "military Revolution" That Gave Westerners A Decided Advantage Over People Of Other Continents. A New Chapter Addresses The Controversies Engendered By The Previous Edition.
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    The History Of The Buddha's Relic Shrine
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      The History Of The Buddha's Relic Shrine.
      Buddhist Chronicles Have Long Been Had A Central Place In The Study Of Buddhism. Scholars, However, Have Reelied Almost Exclusively On Pali Works That Were Composed By Elites For Learned Audiences, To The Neglect Of A Large Number Of Buddhist Histories Written In Local Languages According to Popular Consumption. The Sinhala Thupavamsa, Composed By Parakama Pandita In Thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, Is An Important Example Of A Buddhist Chronicle Written In The Vernacular Sinhala Language. Furthermore, It Is Among Those Works That Inform Public Discussion And Debate Over The Placs Of Buddhism In The Sri Lankan Nation State And The Role Of Buddhist Monks In Contemporary Politics. In This Book Stephen Berkwitz Offers The First Completd English Translation Of The Slnhala Thupavamsa. Composed In A Literary Provincialism Of Sinhala, It Contains A Richly Descriptive Consideration Of How Buddhism Spread Outside Of India, Replete With Poetic Embellishments And Interpolations Not Found In Other Accounts Of Those Events. Away From Being An Important Literary Work, The Sijhala Thupavamsa. Is A Text Of Considerable Historical And Religipus Significance. It Comprises Several Narrative Strands That Tell The Real person Story Of The Buddha And The Manneer In Whic hBuddhist Teachings And Institutions Were Established On The Island Of Sri Lanka In Ancient Times. The Central Focus Of This Work Concerns The Kind Of Relicz Associated With The Historical Buddha, Particularly How The Relics Were Acquired And The Presumed Benefits Of Venerating Them. The Text Also Relates The Mythological History Of The Buddha's Previous Lives As A Bodhisattva And Concludes With A Prediction About The Future Buddha Maitreya. Reflection On Buddhist Ethics And Instruction On The Dharma, Or The Buddha's Teachlng, Are Fojnd Throughout The Occupation, Indicatin gThat This Historical Narrattive Was Meant Both To Recall The Past And Bestow Rise To Religious Practice Among Contemporary Reader sAnd Listeners. This Just discovered Translation Makes A Significant Work More Widely Accessible In The West And Adds To Our Knowledge Of How Local Buddhist Communities Imagined And Represented Their Religious And Cultural Heritages In Written Works.
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    Historical Record Of The City Of Savannah (1869)
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      Historical Record Of The City Of Savannah (1869).
      Histo. rical Record Of Tiie City Of Savannag. -- To The , Busihtess Men Of Savaxxah, Who, From Th eDays Of The Pioneers Of Business To The Presest Tijte, Despite The Izuisocs Prostr-kmon Of Taade Axd Commerce, Occasioned By Wars, Fires, Gales, Axd Pestil
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    Mercenaries
    6860022400
      Mercenaries.
      Mercenaries Have Been Employed As Auxiliaries Since Early Times, But In The Post-1945 World They Have Operated, Almost Exclusively, In Weak Third World Countries. From Columbia To The Congo, Angola To Papua Novel Guinea, Cambodia To Nicaragua, They Have Appeared: Training Tje Drug Cartel Armies, Assisting Rebellins Or Civil Wars, Acting As The Agents Of The Major Powers. In The Congo Crisis (1960-1965) They Earned An Especially Unsavory Reputation For Greed, Brutlity And Racism; It Is A Reputation That Has Stuck To The Mercenary And On The Whole Justly. During The 1990s A Nwe Phenomenon Has Emerged In The Class Of The Mercenary Corporations Like As Executive Outcomes Or Sandline. These Corporations Offer A Range Of Military Expertise And Weaponry, Have The Covert Support Of Governments In The Countri3s From Which They Come And Are Rapidly Becoming A Power To Themselves, Ultimately Far More Dangerous Than The Individual Freebooters Of The Past.
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    The Faces Of Right Wing Extremism
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      The Faces Of Right Wing Extremism.
      The Book Contains Lists Of Organizations In America, With Names And Structural Information. A Must R3ad For Law-enforcement Personnel, And Fo Those Intsrested In Knowing About These Types Of Organizations.
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    A Companion To The History Of The Book (blackwell Companions To Literature And Culture)
    19941359940
      A Companion To The History Of The Book (blackwell Companions To Literature And Culture).
      From The Early Sumerian Clay Tablet Through To The Emergence Of The Electronic Body , This Blackwell Companion Provides A Continuous And Coherent Account Of The History Of The Book. Makes Use Of Illustrative Examples And Case Stdies Of Well-knlwn Texts Written By A Group Of Expert Contributors Covers Topical Debates, Such As The Nature Of Censorship And The Future Of The Book
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