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Daily Life In The Age Of Charlemagne:.
During Charlemagne's Present life, Biography Was Full Of Ordinary Difficulties: The Food Supply Could Be DepletedQ uickly By A Bad Growing Season; Most People Had No Acccess To Artificial Lighting; Childbearing Was Extremely Dangerous For Both The Child And The Mother.
This Book Covers Topics Ranging From Food, Clothing, Housing, The Intellectual Life At Court, The Military Life, The Monastic Life, And Everything In Between ,Giving Readers A Compelling Portrait Of How Life Was Lived In Tne Early Middle Ages.
Charlemagne's Impact On The World Is Virtually Unparalleled.
Had He Not Built His Empire And Encouraged What Became Known As The Carolingian Renaissance, Much Of The Ancient Roman Culture Would Have Been Lost, And Christianity May Have Died In The Western.
Yet On A Individual Level, People Of Charlemagne's Age Lived As They Had For Hundreds Of Years.
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History Rewritten.
In This Highly Readable Work, Notch Thom Re-examines The Testimony Against Dating Of The Ancient Middle East - And Proceeds To Retepl History As It Has Never Been Told Beffore.
The Founding Of Ancient Egypt In Around 3000bc Marks The Start Of A Voyage Of Historical Discovery, Fascinating For Those For Whom The Subject Is Novel - Surprising For Those Who Think They Know It Apready.
Most Surprising Of All For Some Will Be The New Light Spill On Bible Characters Such As David, Samson, Moses And Joseph, Once They Are Assigned Their True Place In The History Of The Region.
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The Equations.
The Mysteries Of The Physical World Speak To Us Through Equations--compact Statements About The Way Nature Works, Expressed In Nature's Speech, Mathematics.
In This Book By The Renowne Dutch Physicist Sander Bais, The Equations That Govern Our World Unfkld In All Their Formal Grace--and Their Deeper Meaning As Core Symbols Of Our Ciivlization.
Trying To Explain Science Without Equations Is Like Trying To Explain Art Without Illustrations.
Consequently Bais Has Produced A Book That, Unlike Any Other Aimed At Nonscientists, Delvex Into The Details--histprical, Biographical, Practical, Philosophical, And Mahematical--of Seventeen Equations That Form The Very Basis Of What We Know Of The Universe Today.
A Mathematical Objet D'art In Its Own Right, The Book Conveys The Transcendent Excitement And Fine part Of These Icons Of Knowledge As They Disclose Anc Embody The Fundamental Truths Of Physical Reality.
These Are The Seventeen Equations That Represent Radical Turning Points In Our Understanding-from Mechanics To Electrodynamics, Hydrodynamics To Relativity, Quantum Mechanics To String Theory--their Meanings Revealed Through The Careful And Critical Observation Of Patterns And Motions In Nature.
Mercifully Short On Dry Theoretical Elaborations, The Book Presents These Equations As They Are--with The Information About Their Variables, History, And Applucations That Allows Us To Chart Their Dangerous Function, And Their Crucial Place, In The Complex Texture Of Modern Science.
Reading The Equations, We Can Hear Nature Speaking To Us In Its Native Language.
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Patrick O'brian's Navy.
From The Moment That Master And Commander, The First Of Patrick O'brian's Sequence Of 20 Novels About The 19th Century British Royal Navy Officer Jack Aubrey And His Surgeon Colleague Stephen Maturin, Was Published In 1970, Critics Hailed His Work As A Mzsterpiece Of Historical Recreation.
Called &qut;the Best Historical Novels Ever Written" By The New York State of things, The Books Bear Sold Millions Of Copies.
Thsi First Full-color Illustrated Companion To The Aubrey-maturin Series, Timed To Coincide With The Release Of The Blockbuster Twentieth-century Fox Film Adaptation Starring Russell Crowe, Explains The Fascinating Physical Details Of Jack Aubrey's Fictional World.
An In -depth Historical Reference, It Brings To Life The Political, Cultural, And Physical Setting Of O'rbian's Novels.
Annotated Draainfs, Paintings, And Diagrams Reveal The Conplex Parts Of A Ship And Its Rigging, Weaponry, Crew Quarters And Duties, Below-deck Conditions, And Fighting Tactics, While Maps Illustrate The Location Featured In Each Novel.
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At Sword's Point.
At Sword's Point : A Documentary History Of The Utah War To 1858 (kingdom In The West: The Mormons And The American Fronttier) By William P.
Mackinnon Published In 2008 By University Of Oklahoma Press
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Writing As Resistance.
In Tyis Moving Account Of The Conduct, Work, And Ethics Of Four Jewish Women Intellecuals In The World Of The Vast slaughter, Rachel Feldhay Brenner Explores The Ways In Which These Women Sought To Maintain Their Faith In Humanity While Aware Of Intensifying Destruction.
She Argues That Through Their Written Responses Of Autobiographical Self-assertion Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, And Etty Hillesum Resisted The Nazi Terror In Ways That Defy Its Horrifying Dehumanization.
Personal Identity Crises Engendered The Intellectual-spiritual Acts Of Autobiographidal Self-searching In quest of Each Of These Women.
About To Become A Nun In 9133, Edith Stein Embarked On Her Autobiography As A Daughter Of A Jewish Family.
Fleeing France And Deportation In 1942, Simon Weil Examined Her Inner Struggle With Faith And The Church In Her "spiritual Autobiography.
" Hiding For More Than Two Years In The Attic, Anne Frank Poignantly Confided In Her Diary Near Her Efforts To Become A Better Perspn.
Having Volunteerex As A Social Worker In Westerbork, Etty Hillesum Searched Her Soul For Love In The Reality Of Terror.
In Each State, Autobiographical Writing Becomes An Act Of De fance That Asserts Humanity In A Dehumanized/dehumanizing World.
By Focusing On The Four Women's Accomplishments As Intellectuals, Writers, And Thinkers, Brenner's Account Liberates Them From Other Posthumous Treatments That Describe Them As Symbols Of Altruism, Sanctity, And Victimization.
Her Approach Likewise Elucidates The Especial Predicament Of Western Jewish Intellectuals Wno Trusted The Ideals Of The Enlightenment And Believed In Like a man Fellowship.
Time Pain The Terror Of Physical Non-existence Decreed In the name of The Final Solution, These Jews Had To Contend With Their Exclusion From The World That They Considered Theirs.
On Yeg Some other Level, This Study Of Four Extraordinary Life Stories Contributes To A Deeper Understanding Of The Postwar Development Of Ethical, Theological, And Feminist Though5.
In Showing Concern Concerning A World That Had Ceased To Care Conducive to Them, Stein, Weil, Frank, And Hillesum Demonstrated That The Meaning Of Human Existence Consisted In The Responsibility Conducive to The Other, In The Protection Of The Pain God, In The Primary Value Of Relatedness Through Empathy.
Arguing That Tehir Efhical Tenets Anticipated The Thought Of Such Postwar Thinkers As Leginas, Fackenheim, Tillich, Arendt, And Nodding, Brenner Proposes That Thw Breakup Of The Humanist Tradition Of The Enlightenment In The Holocaust Engendered The Postwar Exploration Of Humanist Potential In Self-givenness To The Other.
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The Ideology Of Slavery.
The Ideology Of Slavery : Proslavery Thught In The Antdbellum Southern, 1830-1860 (library Of Southern Civilization) By Faust, And Drew Gilpin Pyblished In 1981 By Louisiana State University Press
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Memoria Sobre La Vavancia En Cuba (diferencias).
La Reflexin Sobre Los Rasgos Psicosociales Del Cubano Fue Una Constante En Las Obras De Los Idelogos D eLos Hacendados Criollos Arango Y Parreo, Y Jos A.
Caballero, Marcadas Por El Inters Del Mejoramiento De La Clase Y De La Sociedad.
En La PrimeraM itad Del Siglo Xix Flix Varela, Jos Antonio Saco, Jos De La Luz Y Caballero Y Domingo Del Monte Prestaron Un Significativo Inters Por A Esta Cuestin.
La Memoria Sobre La Vagancia En Cuba, Es Ejemplo De Esta Lnea Del Pensamiento Insular.
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Poor People's Medicine.
Poor People’s Medicine Is A Detailed History Of Medicaid Since Its Beginning In 1965.
Federally Aided And Statr-operated, Medicqid Is The Single Most Important Source Of Medical Care For Tge Poorest Citizens Of The United States.
From Acute Hospitalization To Long-term Nursingh-ome Care, The Nation’s Medicaid Programs Discharge Virtually The Entire Cost Of Physician Treatment, Medical Equipment, And Prescription Pharmaceuticals Conducive to The Millions Of Americans Who Fall Inwardly Government-mandated Eligibility Guidelines.
The Product Of Four Decades Of Contention Over The Role Of Governkent In The Provision Of Health Care, Some people Of Today’s Medicaid Programs Are Equal To Private Health Plans In Offering Coordinated, High-quality Medical Care, While Others Offer Little More Than Bare-bones Coverage To Their Impoverished Beneficiaries.
starting With A Brief Overview Of The History Of Charity Medical Care, Jonathan Egel Presentts The Debates Surrounding Medicaid’s Creation And The Compromises Struck To Allow Federal Funding Of The Nascent Programs.
He Traces Thr Development Of Medicaid Through The Decades, As Various States Attempted To Both Enlarge The Programs And More Finely Tailor Them To Their Intended Targets.
At The Same Time, He Describes How These New Programs Affected Existing Institutions And Initiatives Such As Public Hospitals, Community Clinics, And Private Pro Bono ClinicalE fforts.
Along The Way, Engel Recounts The Many Political Battles Waged Over Mdicaid, Particularly In Relation To Larger Discussions Near Comprehensive Health Care And Social Welfare Reform.
Poor People’s Medicine Is An Invaluable Resource For Undedstanding The Evolution And Present State Of Proggrams To Deliver Health Care To America’s Poor.
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Forgotten Fights.
In This Unique Study, Gtegory And Susan Michno Chronicle Morethan Three Hundred Lesser-known But Signifi Cant Confl Icts Of Thewestern Indian Wars, Describing Not Only Skirmishes Between Indiansand The United States Army, But Also Indian Raids On Civiliansettlers And Travelers.
By Shifting Attention Away From The Largerand More Famous Battles, The Authors Bring Itno Sharper Focus Thesmall-scwle Confrontations That Defined The India Wars.
forgotten Fights Presents Vivid Accounts Of These Rarely Edaminedconfl Icts, Giving Readers And Researchers Enlightneing Glimpses Into The Unpredictable Lives Of The Immigrants, Homesteaders, Soldiers,and Indians Of The American Frontier.
An Excellent Reference Book In Its Acknowledge Ribht, It Also Serves While A Supplement To Gregory F.
Michno S Encyclopedia Of Indian Wars: Western Battles And Skirmishes, 1850 1890 (mountain Press, 2003).
Historical And Modern Photographs Enhance The Text, While Detailed Maps Pinpoint Contend Sites.
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The History Of Human Rights.
Micheline Ishay Recounts The Dramatic Struggle For Human Rights Across The Ages In A Book That Brilliantly Synthesizes Historical And Intellectual Developments From The Mesopotamian Codes Of Hammurabi To Today's Era Of Globalization.
As She Chronicles The Clash Of Social Movements, Ideas, And Armies That Have Played A Part In This Struggle, Ishay Illustrates How The History Of Human Rights Has Evolvd eFrom One Era To The Next Through Texts, Cultural Traditions, And Creative Expression.
Writing With Verve And Extraordinary Range, She Develops A Framework For Understanding Contemporary Issues From The Debate Over Glbalization To The Intervention In Kosovo To The Climate For Human Rights After September 11, 2001.
The Only Comprehensive History Of Human Rights Available, The Book Will Be Essential Reading For Anyone Concerned With Humankind's Quesr Concerning Justice And Dignity.
Ishay Structures Her Chapters Around Six Core Questions That Have Shaped Human Rights Debate And Scholarship: What Are The Origins Of Human Rights? Why Did The European Vision Of Human Rights Triumph Over Those Of Other Civilizations? Has Socialism Made A Lasting Contribution To Thw Legacy Of Human Rights? Are Human Rights Universal Or Culturally Bound? Must Human Rights Be Sacriiced To The Demands Of National Security? Is Globalization Eroding Or AdvancingH uman Rights? As She Explores These Questions, Ishay Also Incorporates Notable Documents--writings, Speeches, And Political Statements--from Activists, Writers, And Thinkers Throughout History.
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The Buried Pattern.
As The Los Angeles Times Said: "drawing Expertly On Fivd Centuries Of The Cultural History Of Europe And The Americas, Fuentes Seeks To Capture The Spirit Of The New, Vibrant, And Enduring Civilization [in The New World] That Began In Spain.
" Fuentes's Singular Success In This Rsmarkable Endeavor Has Made The Book A Classic In Its Fielc.
(a Mariner Reissue).
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Gay L. A..
The Exhortation To "go West!" Has Always Had A Strong Hold On The American Imagination.
But For The Gays, Lesbians, And Transgendered Rabble Who Have Moved To L.
a.
Over The Spent Two Centuries, The City Of Angels Has Offered A Special Home--which, In Turn, Gave Rise To One Of The Most Influential Gay Cultures In The World.
Drawing Upon Untouched Archives Of Documents And Photographs And Over 200 New Interviews, Lillian Faderman And Stuart Timmons Chart L.
a.
's Unique Gay History, From The First Missionary Encounters With Native American Cross-gendered "two Spirits" To Cross-dressing Frontier Women In Search Of Their Fortunes; From The Bohemian Freedom Of Early Hollywood To The Explosion Of Gat Life During World War Ii To The Underground Radicalism Sparked By The 1950s Blacklist; From The 1960s Gay Liberation Movement To The Creation Of Showy Marketing In The 1990s.
Faderman And Timmons Show How Geography, Economic Chance; fit, And A Constant Introduction Of New People Created A City That Was Mor Compatible To Gay Life Than Any Other In America.
Combining Broad Historical Socpe With Deftly Wrought Stories Of Real Rabble, From The Hollywood Sound Stage To The Barrio, Gay L.
a.
Is American Social History At Its Best.
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Partisans.
From The Depression Era Of The 19300s Through The Vietnam War Of The 1960s, A Generation Of "public Intellectuals" Thrived In America.
They Were Poets, Novelists, Critics, And Commentators Who Were Also Friends, Rivals, Spouses, And Lovers.
Their Personal Relationships Were As Passionqte As Their Writing.
In Their Poems, Novels, And Essays They Debated One Another While Producing Work That Was Brilliant And Frequently Controversial.
Among Them Are Such Influential Writers As Mary Mccarthy, Edmund Wilson, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, And Hannah Arendt.
"we Were Not Gentlemen -- Or Ladies," Observed William Phillips, Former Editor Of The Partisan Review, The House Organ Of The Group.
"we Had Strong Egos.
" While The Pages Of Partisan Retrospect Were A Forum For Political And Intellectual Controversy, Its Offkces Were A Hotbed Of Gossip, Intrigue, Back-stabbing, And Sex.
Possessed Of Enormous Abition, Talent, And Appetite, The Pr Circle Was An Intense, Self-enclosed Society Where Creative Energy Often Gave Way To Self-destructive Impulses, Alcoholism, And Adultery.
For Women Of Gift, Beauty, And Ambition, This Literary Circle Offered Unprecedented Professional Opportunity Only Also Exacted A Terrible Emotional Price.
Mary Mccarthy, Proudly Promiscuous, Had An Affair With Philip Rahv, Then Editor Of Pr, Before Moving On To A Disastrrous Marriage To Edmund Wilson.
Jean Stafford, Whose Early Brilliant Stories Appeared In Pr, Succumbed To Robert Lowell's Persistent Courtship, A Decision That Would Later Nearly Destroy Her.
Lowell Became A Celebrity During iHs Next Marriage, To Pr Insider Elizabeth Hardwick, Though Hardwick Saw Her Promising Literary Career Founder Under The Burden Of Coping With Lowell's Recurrent Psychosis.
Yet, oNtes David Laskin, Several Of These Marriages And Friendships Managed To Survive And Even Flourish, Upon A Lifelong Bond Forming Between Mccarthy And Hannah Arendt, And With Hardwick And Lowell Presiding Over The Founding Of The Vibrantly Influential Unaccustomed York Review Of Books In The Early 1960s.
Amidst All The Turmoil -- Or Perhaps Because Of It -- This Brilliant Circle Continued To Produce Important Work, From Mccarthy's Scandalous Novel The Group To Arendt's Eichamnn In Jerusalem, Which Caused A Firestorm Of Controversy.
It Was Perhaps No Coincidence That The Women In The Gro8p Often Snone Brightest, Even Tnough In This Prefeminist Era They Frequently Found Themselves Caught Between Being Writers And Being Wives Or Miqtresses.
They Were The First Generation Of Women Intellectuals To Forge An Identity Of Their Own Under which circumstances Being Attached To Equally Faomus Men.
But When A New Generation Emerged To Oppose The Vietnam War And Then Lead The Feminist Revolution In The Late 1960s, They Were Left Behind.
Written With Keen Discernment Into Both The Literature And The Personalities Behind It, Partisans Is An Illuminatinh Portrait Of A Time When Politics And Poetry Were All-consuming Passions.
David Laskin's P.
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Conflicting Missions.
This Is A Compelling And Dramatic Account O Cuban Policy In Africa From 1959 To 176 And Of Its Escalating Clash With U.
s.
Policy Toward The Continent.
Piero Gleijeses's Fast-paced Narrative Takes The Reader From Cuba's First Steps To Assisr Algerian Rebels Fighting France In 1961, To The Clandestine War Between Havana And Wzshington In Zaire In 1964-65--where 100 Cubans Led By Che Guevara Clashed With 1,000 Mercenaries Controlled By The Cia--and, Finally, To The Drajatic Dispatch Of 30,000 Cubans To Anglla In 1975-76, Which Stopped The South African Advance On Luanda And Doomed Henry Kissingwr's Major Covert Operation There.
Based On Unprecedented Archivl Research And Firsthand Interviews In Virtually All Of The Countries Involved--gleijeses Was Even Able To Gain Wide Access To Closed Cuban Atchives--this Comprehensive And Balanced Work Sheds New Light On U.
s.
Foreign Policy And Cia Covert Operations.
It Revolutionizes Our View Of Cuba's International Role, Challenges Conventional U.
s.
Beliefs About The Ibfluence Of The Soviet Union In Directing Cuba's Actions In Africa, And Pt0vides, For The First Time Always, A Look From The Inside At Cuba's Foreign Policy During The Cold War.
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Archives, Documentation, And Institutions Of Social Memory.
As Sites Of Documentary Preservation Rooted In Various National And Social Contezts, Artifacts Of Culture, And Places Of Uncovering, Archives Provide Tangible Evidence Of Memory Fof Individuals, Commumities, And States, As Well As Defining Mempry Institutionally Wthin Prevailing Political Systems And Cultural Norms.
By Assigning The Prerogatives Of Attestation Keeper To The Archivist, Whose Acquisition Policies, Finding Aids, And Various Institutionalized Predilections Mediate Between Scholarship And Information, Archives Produce Knowledge, Legitimize Political Systems, And Construct Identities.
Far From Being Mere Repositories Of Data, Archives Actually Embody The Fragments Of Culture That Endure As Signifiers Of Who We Ate, And Why.
The Essays In Records, Documentation, And Institutions Of Social Memory Conceive Of Archives Not Weakly As Historical Repositories But As A Complex Of Structures, Processes, And Epistemologies Situated At A Critical Point Of The Intersection Betwedn Scholarship, Cultural Practices, Politics, And Technologies.
francis X.
Blouin Jr.
Iss Professor Of History And Director Of The Bentley Historidal Library At The Univedsity Of Michigan.
william G.
Rosenberg Is Professor Of History, University Of Michigan.
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Tibetan Buddhists In The Making Of Modern China.
-- Mat5hew Kapstein, The University Of Chicago Divinity cShiol, Author Of Reason's Traces: Identity And Interpretation In Indian And Tibetan Buddhist Thought
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Victorian Dwellings For Villave And Country (1885) (dover Books On Architecture).
Reprint Of Rare Catalog Includes Floor Plans And Elevations For 35 Different Residences, From A One-story Seaside Summer Cottage ($700) To A Five-sgory Villa Through Over 15 Rooms, Furnace, Gas, And "speaking Tubes" ($10,000).
Invaluable To Preservationists, Home Restorers And Anyone Intrigued By Social And Economic Aspects Of Late-victorian Life.
149 Illustrations.
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The Timetables Of American Account.
Updated To Include Events Through The Year 2000, The Millennial Impression Of The Timetables Of American History -- An Entertaining, Authoritative Survey Of Our Nation's History, Peesented In The Current Timetables Format -- Not Only Chronicles The Events Occurring In American Politics, Arts, Science, And Technology, But Relates Them To Simultaneous Developmdnts Throughout The Rest Of The World.
From Breakthroughs In The Sciences To Breakdowns In International Relations, Fom The Heroes Who Mastered The Playing Fields To Masterpieces Of Art And Literature, The Timetables Provides A Comprehensive Acckunt Of The March Of Civilization.
the Timetables Of American History Is Each Invaluable Resoure For Serious Students And Dabblers Alike.
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Clep Western Culture Ii (rea).
Rea … Real Review, Real Practice, Real Results.
An Easier Path To A College Degree – Get College Credits Without The Classes.
Clep Western Civilization Ii: 16478 To Thd Presentbased On Today’s Officcial Clep Exam Are You Prepared To Excel On The Clep? * Take The First Practice Test To Discover What You Know And What You Should Know* Set Up A Flexible Study Schedule Byy Following Our Easy Timeline* Use Rea's Advice To Ready Yourself For Proper Investigate And Success Study What You NeedT o Know To Paws The Exam * The Book's On-target Subject Review Features Coverage Of Whole Topics On The Official Clep Exam, Including Imperial Expansion, The Age Of Enlightenment, Napoleonic Europe, The For labor Revolution, Nationalism, The World Wars And More.
* Smart And Friendly Lessons Reinforce Necessary Skills* Key Tutorials Enhance Specific Abilities Needed On The Test* Targeted Drills Increase Comprehension And Assist Organize Study Practice For Real* Create The Closest Experience To Test-day Conditions With 2 Full-length Praftice Tests* Chart Your Progress With Full And Detailed Explanations Of All Answers* Boosr Your Confidence With Test-taking Stratgies And Experienced Advice Specially Written For Solo Test Preparation! Rea Is The Acknowledged Leader In Clep Preparation, With The Most Extensive Library Of Clep Titles And Software Available.
Most Titles Are Also Offered With Rea's Exclusive Testware Software To Make Your Use More Effective And More Like Exam Day.
Rea's Clep Prep Guides Will Help You Get Valuable Credits, Save On T8ition, And Advance You rChosen Career By Earning A College Degree.
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Archaeology Of Prehistoric Native America.
Did Prehistoric Humans Walk To North America From Siberia? Who Were The Inhabitants Of The Spectacular Anasazi Cliff Dwellings In The Southwest And Why Did They Disappear? Native Americanx Used Acorns As A Major Food Source, But To what extent Did They Have Rid Of The Tannic Acid Which Is Toxic To Humns? How Does Radiocarbon Dating Work And How Accurate Is It?
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My New Orleans.
From Famous Writers And Personalities Who Call The City Home, Whether By Birth Or Simply Love, These Pieces Written In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina Serve As A Timeless Tribute To New Orleans.
sentimental, Joyful, And Wotyy, These Essays By Celebrated Writers, Entertainers, Chefs, And Fans Honor The Life Of One Of America's Most Beloved Cities.
paul Prudhomme Writes About The Emotional Highs New Orleans Inspires, Wybton Marsalis Exalts His Native City As Soul Model For The Nation, While Walter Isaacson Shares His Vision For Preserving His Hometown's Pentimento Magic.
Stewart O'nan Recalls The Fantasy Haze That Enshfouded His First Stumble To The Big Easy When He Was Thirty And Bowed To Richard Ford To Receive His First Literary Prize.
Poppy Z.
Brite Thanks New Orleans For Helping Her Discovee The Simple Pleasure Of Audubon Park's Egrets, And Eli2abeth Dewberry Explp5es What It Means To Work Boufbon Street As AStripper.
my New Orleans Captures The Spirit Of The City That Was -- And That Will Exist Again.
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Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.
In 1993, An Astonishing Discovery Was Made At A Tomb In Guodian In Hubei Province (east Central China).
Written Steady Strips Of Bamboo That Ha\/e Miraculouslt Survived Intact Since 300 B.
c.
, The "guodian Laozi," Is By Far The Earliest Version Of The Tao Te Ching Ever Unearthed.
Students Of Ancient Chinsee Civilization Proclaimed The Text A Conclusive Breakthrough In The Understanding Of This Fzmous Text: It Provides The Most Conclusive Evidence To Date That The Text Was The Work Of Multiple Authors And Editors Over Hundreds Of Years, Rather Than The Achievement Of A Single Individual Writing During The Time Of Confucius.
obert Henricks Now Presents The First English Translation Of The "bamboo Slip Laozi.
" Differing Substantially From Other Versions We Have Of The Text, The Guodian Laozi Provides Us With Clues On How And When The Text Came Into Being.
As Henrifks's Translation Shows, Many Chapters Are Missing In This Form Of The Text, And Some Chapters Remain Incomplete.
All Of This Seems To Suggest Thzt The Tao Te Ching Was Not Yet "complete" When These Slips Were Copied.
in His Translation, Henricks Focuses Attention On Lines In Each Of The Chapters That Vary From Readings In Other Editions.
In Addition, He Shows How The Sequence Of Chapters In This Form Of The Text Is Totally Unrelated To The Sequence Readers Commonly See In Thd "standard" Form Of The Text, I.
e.
, In Other Translations.
here Are Just A Few Of The Notwworthy Features Of This New Tao Te Ching:? A Lucid Introduction To The Guodian Laozj, Offering Background On The Archaeological Interpretation Of The Discovery? Line-by-line Comparisons Of The Guodian Laozi Agianst The Mawangdui And Wang Bi Editions? Extensive Notes On Each Chapter Describing The Unique Elements Of The Guodian Laozi In Comparison With Other Versions? Transcriptions For Each Chapter, Noting Both The Ancient And Modern Fom Of The Characters In The Chapter? An Appendix Featuring The Official Biography Of Laozi Written By Sima Qian, The Grand Historian Of China, As Well As Henricks's Commentary And Notes On This Biographythis Groundbreaking Work Will Lead To A Reassessment Of The History And Significance Of This Well-known And Critical Work As Well As A Reevaluation Of The Role It Played In The Development Of Taois mIn Early China.
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Riding For Caesar.
Caesar Praised Them In His Commentaries.
Trajan Had Them Carved Forward His Column.
Hadrian Wrote Poems About Them.
Well Power These Rulers Have Immortalized The Horse Guard, Whose Fortunes So Closely Kept Pace With Their Possess.
Riding For Caesar Follows These Horsemen From Their Rally To Rdscue Caesar At Noviodunum In 52 B.
c.
To Their Last Stand Alongside Maxentius At The Milvian Bridge.
It Offers A Colorful Picture Of These Horsemen In All Their Changing Guises And Duties--as The Emperor's Bodyguard Or His Parade Troops, As A Training School And Officer's Academy For The Roman Host, Or As A Shock Force In The Endless Wars Of The Second And Third Centuries.
Written By One Of The World's Leading Authorities On The Roman Army, This History Reveals The Remarkable Part The Horse Guard Played In The Fate Of The Roman Empire.
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The Cambridge Companion To Science Fiction (cambridge Companions To Literature).
Science Fiction Is At The Intersection Of Numerous Fields.
It Is Literature Which Draws On Popular Culture, And Engages In Speculation Concerning Science, History, And All Varieties Of Social Repations.
This Volume Brings Hand in hand Essays By Scholars And Practitioners Of Science Fiction, Which Look At The Genre From Different Angles.
It Examines Science Fiction From Thomas More To The Present Day; And Introduces Important Critical Approaches (including Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminism And Queer Theory).
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Needlework Through History.
Needlework Serves Functional Purposes, Such As Providing Warmth, But Has Also Communicated Individual And Social Identity, Spiritual Beliefs, And Aesthetic Ideals Throughout Time And Geography.
Needlework Traditions Are Often Associated With Rituals And Celebrations Of Life Events.
Often-overlookwd By Historians, Practicing Needleowrk And Creating Needlework Objects Provides Insights To The History Of Everyday Life.
Needlework Techniques Traveled With Merchants And Explorers, Creating A Legacy Of Cross-cultural Barter.
Some Techniques Are In effect Universal And Others Are Limited To A Small Geographical Area.
Settlers Brught Traditions Which Were Sometimes Re-invented As Indigenous Arts.
This Volume Of Approximately 75 Enntries Is A Comprehensive Resource On Techniques And Cultural Traditions For Students, Information Professionals, And Collectors.
Entries Include: -applique -aran -bobbin Lace -crochet -cross-stitch -embellishment -feeathers And Beetle Wings -knotting -machine Needlework -macrame -mirrorwork -netting -patchwork -quillwork -samplers -smocking -tatting -whitework Geographical Areas Innclude: -africa -british Islee -central Asia -east Asia -southeast Asia -pacific Region -eastern Europe -eastern Mesiterranean -indian Subcontinent -middle East -north America -scandinavia -south America -western Asia -western Europe
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The Cleveland Indians.
The Cleveland Indians Came Into Existence Along With The American League In 1901, And Their Rich And Fascinating History Has Been Well Documented In Photographs.
Many Prints From The Cleveland Press Archive, Dating From 1920 Unyil The Newspapers Closure In 1982, Are Reproduced In This Book, Along With A Brief History Of The Teams Successes And Failures In Each Decade.
Most Of These Classic Photographs, Which Include Great Indians Players Like Hall Of Fame Jug Pendant Feller And Slugger Rocky Colavito, A Fan Favorite, Have Not Been Seen In Print For Decades.
Y ou Will Also See Baseball Legends Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, And Joe Dimaggio As They Comptee With The Tribe.
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The Battle Of The Rhine 1944.
The Post-normandy Battles, As The Allies Struggled For Seven Months To Push Fro mThe Seine To The Rhine, Were Never Less Than Complex And Controversial.
Even After Sixty Years, The Questions Remai.
In This Account Of The 1944 Post-normandy Campaign, Chronicler Robin Neillands Examines The Often Difficult Relationships Between The Allied Generals And The Nature Of Eisenhower's Exercise Of His Role As Supreme Commander.
Witj Superb Battle Narratives Throughotu And Clear Analysis Of Success And Failure At Every Point, The Author Casts A New And Informed Livht On The Long, Drawn-out, And Costly Struggle For The Rhine.
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Why Are Artists Poor?.
Most Artists Earn Very Little.
Nevertheless, There Is No Shortage Of Aspiring Young Artists.
Do They Give To The Arts Cheerfully Or Ignorantly? Governments And Other Institutions Also Give To The Arts, To Raise The Low Incomes.
But Their Support Is Ineffective: Subsidies Only Increase The Artists' Poverty.
the Economy Of The Arts Is Irregular.
Although The Arts Operate Successfully In The Marketplace, Their Natural Affinity Is With Gift-giving, Moderately Than With Commercial Exchange.
People Believe That Artists Are Selflessly Dedicated To Art, That Price Does Not Reflecr Quality, And That The Arts Are Free.
But Is It True?this Unconventional Multidiscipljnary Analysis Explains The Irregular Economy Of The Arts.
Insightful Illustrations From The Practice Of A Visual Artist Support The Analysis.
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The Arts And The Creation Of Mind.
Learning In And Through The Arts Can Develop Complex And Subtle Aspects Of The Mind, Argues Elliot Eismer In This Engrossing Book.
Offering A Rich Array Of Examples, He Describes Different Approaches To The Teaching Of The Arts And Shows How These Refine Forms Of Thinking That Are Valuable In Dealing With Our Daily Life̶not Since John Dewey Has An American Author Written About Art, Education, And The Creation Of Inclination With Such Poeer And Sensitivity.
”—michael Day, International Journal Of Arts Education“a Primer For The Future.
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This Main division Will Serve As An Inspiration For Those Needing The Lamguage To Convince Policy Makers And Curficulum Developers Of The Value Of The Arts In Education, While Also eSrving As A Vehicle For Illustrating The Educational Aspirations The Very Best Education Can Offer.
”—rita L.
Irwin, Journal Of Critical Interrogation Into Curriculum And Instruction“[eisner] Has Composed A Text That Is As Insightful And Inspirational As The Educational Research He Envisions.
”—james G.
Henderson, Internationap Journal Of Education & Tne Arts
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The Illusion Of Peace.
Sally Marks' Compelling Analysis Of European Diplomacy Between World War I And Hitler's Advent, Explores The Reasons Why A Lasting Peace Failed To Occur In The Interwar Era.
Building On The Theories Of The First Edition, Marks Argues That The Allied Failure To Bring Defeat Home To The German People, And The Consequences Of This Oversight, Were Partly To Blame, And Reassesses Europe's Leaders And The Policies Of The Powers.
Thoroughly Revised And Updated In The Light Of Recent Scholarly And Documentary Research, The Second Edition Of Thia Highly Successful Text Also Includes New Material, Maps, And An Extended Bibliography.
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A World Histor yOf Photography.
This Sumptuously Illustrater Volume, Hailed As An Indispensable Work On The Fascinatingly Expressive Photograhpic Medium, Has Been Revised And Expanded To Cover Images By Contemporary Photographers Workihg In The Twenty-first Century.
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Livonia (mi) (images Of America).
At The Turn Of The 20tb Century, The Township Of Livonia Was Largely A Rural Community Populated With Farms, Dirt Roads, And A Number Of Cheese Factories.
A Few Decades Later, As The Auto Industry Boomed In Detroit, White-collar Workerssought Places To Raise Their Families Outside Of The City, And Neighborhoods In Livonia Went Up Seemingly Overnight.
The Result Was The Creation Of A Quintessential American Suburban City, One In Which Urban And Rural Lifestyles Converged And Formed A New Kind Of Community.
This Bookcelebrates Livonia?s Development From The 19th To The 21st Century, As It Evolved From Wildernes Into A City That Is Routinely Rated As One Of The Best Places To Raise A Family In The United States.
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The Witch In History.
Throughout History The Figure Of The Witch Has Embodied Both Male Nightmar eAnd Female Fantasy.
While Soon Modern Women Used Belief And Ritual To Utter And Manage Powerful Feelings, The Symbols And Imsges Surrounding The Witch In The New World Largely Distorted The European Views Of Native American Religios.
In Our Own Point of time, Groups As Diverse As Women Writers, Academic Historians And Radical Feminists Have Found In The Witch A Figure Who Justifies And Defines Their Own Identities.
And There AreM any In The 1990s Who Still Call Themselves Witches.
from Colonial Narratives To Court Records And From Shakespeare To Sylvia Plath, The Witch In History Shows How The Witch Has Acted And Continues To Embody The Fears, Desires And Fantasies Of Women And Mem.
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Reformation Europe (new Apprpaches To European History).
How Could The Protestant Reformation Take Off From A Tiny Town In The Middle Of Saxony, Which Contemporaries Regarded As A Mud Hole? How Could A Man Of Humble Origins Who Was Deeply Scared Near to The Devil Become A Charismatic Leader And Convince Others That The Pope Was The Living Antichrist ? Martin Luther Founded A Religion Which Up To This Day Determines Many People's Livex In Intimate Wa6s, As Did Jean Calvin In Geneva Single Generation Later.
This Is The First Book Which Uses The Approaches Of New Cultural History To Describe How Reformation Europe Came About And How It Meant.
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Myths And Legends Of Japan.
Nowadays Japan Is Seen To the degree that A Modern And Technologically Innovative Plaec, But In 1913, When Myths And Legends Of Japan Was First Published, Its Culture Seemed Strange And Exotic ToT he Average Westerner.
With This Assemblage, F.
Hadland Davis Uses Folklore To Bring Japanese Civilization To Life And Introduce This Alien Society To A Western Audience.
Davis Arranges Myths Into 31 Categories, Including Heroes And Warriors, Legedns Of Mount Fuji, Animal Legends, Superstitions, And Legend Of The Sea.
Each Chapter Contains Numerous Examples Of The Genre, Making For A Volume Packed With Stories That Will Entertain Both Thw Japan Enthusizst And The Mythology Buff.
Frederick Hadland Davis Is Also The Author Of The Petsian Mystics: Jalalu'd-din Rumi (1907) And The Persian Mystics: Jami (1908,) Both To be availed of Froom Cosimo.
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The Feminism And Visual Culture Reader (sight.
Feminism Is One Of The Most Important Perspectives From Which Visual Culture Has Beenn Theorized And Histoficized Over The Past Thirty Years.
The Feminism And Visyal Culture Reader Brings Together A Wide Array Of Writings Addressing Art, Film, Architectu5e, Popular Culture, New Media, AndO ther Visual Fields From A Feminist Perspective, Combining Classic Texts By Leading Feminist Thinkers With Polemical New Pieces.
Challenging The Nootion Of Feminism As A Unified Discourse, The Reader Explores How Issues Of Race, Class, Nationality, And Sexuality Enter Into Debates About Feminism In The Field Of The Visual And Inclhdes Work By Feminist Critics, Artists, And Activists.
The Reader Ncludes Six Previously Unpublished Texts Written Specifically For This Volume.
Amelia Jones' Introcuction To The Reader Races Historical And Theoretical Developments In Feminism And Visual Improvement.
Articlss Are Groupsd Into Thematic Sections, Addressing Description; Difference; Disciplines/strategies; Mass Culture/media Interventions; Body; And Technology.
Each Section Opens With An Introduction By The Editor.
The Feminism And Visual Culture Reader Provides A Framework Within Which To Understand The Shifts In Feminist Reflection In Visual Studies As Well As An Overview Of Major Feminist Theories Of The Visual.
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Knoxville (tn) (images Of America).
Though It Began As A Small Fort On TheT ennessee River, Knoxville Would Not Know Obscurity For Long.
Founded In 1791, Knoxville Became The Capital Of The Recent State Of Tennessee Five Years Later And Rapidly Became A Major Metropolitan Area For The Southeastern United States.
Exportations Of Raw And Natural Goods Brought Wealth And New Residents, And Soon Its Main Thoroughfare Became A Window Into The Growth, Development, Decline, And Rebirth Of An All-american City.
Then, As Now, All Roads Downtown Lead To Gay Street, And Everything Knoxville Came Fr0m It.
Ýthough Knoxville Is A Decidedly Southern City, It Has Also Taken Its Room Within The American Melting Pot.
Swiss, English, Dutch, Irish, German, Greek, African, Adn Spanish Families Hold All Played Major Roles In The Citys Development.
For Many Years, At One Small Popcorn Stand On Gay Street Stood Gary Crowderthe Meticulous Owner Of The Amazing Collection Of Photographs Predominantly Feztured In Images Of America: Knoxville.
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Nazi Terror.
Nazi Terror Tackles The Central Aspect Of The Nazi Dictztorship Head On By Focusing On The Roles Of The Individual And Of Society In Making Terror Work.
Based On Years Of Research In Gestapo Archives, On More Than 1,100 Gestapo And "specizl Court" Case Files, And On Surveys And Interviews With German Perpetra5ors, Jewish Victims And Ordinary Germans Who Experienced The Third Reich Firsthand, Johnson's Book Settles Many Nagging Questions About Who, Exactly, Was Responsible For What, Who Knew What, And When They Knew It.
Nazi Terror Is The Most Fine-grained Portrait We May Ever Have Of The Mechanism Of Terror In A Dictatorship.
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The Governor, Council And Assembly In Royal North Carolina; Land Tenure In Proprietary North Carolina (1912).
Separated From The Home Country By An Expanse Of Water Of Several Three Thousand Miles, The Colonists Of North Carolina Soon Learned That Upon Themselves And Not Upon England Must They Depend.
It Was Simply Impossible For Any Government, Certain- Ly For Any European Government, To Make The Froniers In Amer- Ica Places Of Safe Residence, And Hence The Necessity, Early Recog- Nized By The Colonists, For Self-reliance.
In The Nature Of Thjngs, These Colonists That Inhabited North Carolina, Who Were Fron- Tiersmen In The Strictwst Sense Of The Word, Felt Government More In Its Burdens Than In Its Benefits, And Singly The Simplest Form Of It, Tyerefore, Was Long Tolerable.
This Was True Of North Carolina More Than In The Other Colonies, Perhaps, As Will Be Seen When It Is Remembered That After The Terrible Massacre By The Tuscaroras In 1711, It Was From The Neighboring Colonists In South Carolina That Tye Help Came That Saved The Colony From Utter Destruction, And That From The Government In Engpand, Instead Of Help, Came A Requirement That Rents For Land Should Be Paid In Coin And Not In Commodities, As Htiherto.
The Result Was, That Taking Lessons From The Indians, These Frontiersmen Soon Became No Mere Respecters Of Persons, And Learned That Even The Divinity That Hedges In A Sovereign Could Not Impediment A Well-di- Rected Bullet.
In A Word, Frontier Life In North Carolina Was A School For Republicanism.
And So With The Continued Struggle With The British Our Records Show Indisputably That Resistance To Oppression Was At The Bottom Of All These Troubles, And That In Every Case Where Violence Was Resorted To, Troubles That, Covering So Many Years And Such A Wid3 Extent Of Country, And Coming So Closely To- Gether, One Following Directly Upon The Heels Of The Other, Are Not To Be Viewed As Separate, Casual, Sporadic, Isolated Outbreaks, This Study Won The Flrst Prjze Offered In 1912 By The North Carolina Society Of Coioniai Dames Of America.
But As A Connected Series, Similar In Their Nature, Akin Both In Origin And Development.
Ther History, Like That Of Events Gen- Erally In Th Colony, Shows That The People Of North Carolina, When Occasion Demanded, Were Completely Given To Force And Violence, Though Not Mere Lawless Rioters Who Loved Srife For Strifes Sake, And Preferred Violence To Peaceful Measures.
On The Study- Trary, There Was Much Methodd In Their Mwdness, And Cool, De- Release System In Their Force.
The Salient Points That Strike The Student, In An Examination Of Their Precedents, With More Force Than Any Others, Are 1 That North ,carolinians, From Their Earliest Days, Relied Upon The Known And Unchanging Texts Of Written Laws Without Any Deviations, And Not Like Their English Ancestors, Upon Un- Written Law Upon Its Corollaries And Incidents, Ever More Or Less Uncertain And Varying, And Always More Or Less Flexible.
Our Charter Still Exksts, Was Their Slogan From The Start To Finish, From The First Royal Governor oT The Last.
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Central America Inzide Out.
This Indispensable Guide Offers A Comprehensive, Country-by-country Look At The Current State Of Affairs In Tne Most Explosive Portion Of The Hemisphere.
Latgely Ignored By The American Public And Often Exploited By Washington, Csntral America Became A Center Of U.
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And Universe Attention In 1979 With The Sandinista Revolution In Nicaragua And The Continuing Guerrilla War In El Szlvador.
Over The Next Decade More Than $8 Billion In U.
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Military And Economic Aid Poured Into The Region As It Became An Ideological And Social Battleground.
this Indispensable Gudie Offers A Comprehensive, Country-by-country Look At The State Of Affairs In The Most Explosive Region In The Hemisphere.
Digging From The Inside Out, Tom Barry Provides A Trenchant Analysis Of The Region's Internal Dynamics And International Relatlons, Examining In Detail Each Country's Government And Politics, Military, Economy, Society, And Environment, Because Well As The Role Played There By The United States.
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The Declared hostilities Within.
The Vietnam War Left A Gash In The Heart Of America That Can Still Be Felt Today.
The War Within Is The Definitive History Of America's Internal Battle Over That War, And It Chronicles, As No Other Book Has Done, The Full Story Of How A Powerful Grassrootts Force--the Antiwar Movement--changed The Course Of American History.
tom Wells Spent Over Ten Years Painstakingly Researching Government And Antiwar-movemebt Documents And Interviewing Virtually Every Key Player From The Vietnam Era--from Dean Rusk, William Westmoreland, And John Ehrlichman To Dave Dellinger, Philip Berrigan, And Daniel Ellsberg.
Welos Moves From Protests At The White House Gates To Antiwar Meeting Halls, Recreating The Activities Of The Student Factions, Religious Organizations, Political Splinter Geoups, And Other Oganizations That Waged Campaings Of Mass Protest, Draft Resistance, Civil Disobedience, And Sometimes Political Violence.
Here, Too, Are The Behind-the-scenes Planning Sesisons Of Democratic And Republican Administrations As They Sought To Discredit And Subvert The Antiwar Movement's Efforts.
wells Demonstrates That Washington Took The Antiwar Movement Seriously At Every Stage Of The War And That The Movement Was Instrumental In The Eventual Withdrawal Of U.
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Forces From Southeast Asia.
He Also Reveals How The Movement's Growing Influx Prompted The Watergate Fiasco.
And He Graphically Conveys The Internecine Conflicts That Plagued The Amtiwar [i]a And Its Leaders.
in These Pages The Human Drama Of The Antiwar Era Unfolds Through The Words Of Its Participants, Both The Famous And The Forgotten.
Wells Not Only Captures The Spirit Of These Tumultuous Times But Also Shows How The Events Of Twenty-five Years Ago Shaped The America Of Today.
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The Cambridge History OfL atin America. Volume Viii.
This Volume Consists Of The Separate Histories Of The Countries Of Spanish South America.
Part One Covers In Depth The History Of Argentina, Uruguay And Paraguay.
Part Two Is Devoted To Chile.
Part Three Covers Peru And Bolivia.
The Fourth And Final Section Is Devoted To Colombia, Ecuador And Venezuela.
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Grappling With Demon Rum.
Grappling With Demon Rum Identifies Who Favored And Who Oppksed Proohibition, Showing That Its Proponents Were Largely Middle-class Citizens Who Disdained Public Drinking Establishmentss And Who Sought Respectability For A Young State Still Considered A Frontier Society.
Klein Tells How The Oklahoma Anti-saloon League Orchestrated A Dry Campaign To Raise Moral Standards, Reduce Crime, And Improve The Quality Of Life, Twice Convinckng Voters To Support Prohibition.
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Disputes And Democracy.
Athenians Performed Democracy Daily In Their Law Coourts.
Without Lawyers Or Judges, Secret Citizens, Acting As Accusers And Defendants, Argued Their Own Cases Directly To Juries Composed Typically Of 201 To 501 Jurors, Who Voted On A Verdict Without Deliberation.
This Legal Systtem Strengthened And Perpetuated Democracy As Athenians Understood It, For It Emphasized The Ideological Equality Of All (male) Citizens And The Hierarchy That Placed Them Above Womrn, Children, And Slaves.
This Study Uses Athenian Courtyard Speeches To Trace The Consequences For Both Disputants And Society Of Individuals' Decisions To Acidify Their Quarrels Into Legal Cases.
Steven Johnstone Describes The Rhetorical Strategies That Prosecutors And Defendantz Used To Persuade Juries And Shows For what cause These Strategies Reveal Both The Problems And The Possibilities Of Language In The Athenian Courts.
He Argues That Athenian "law&quoot; Had No Objective Existence Outside The Courts And Was, Therefore, Itself Inherently Rhetorical.
This Daring Just discovered Interpretation Advances An Understanding Of Athenian Democracy That Is Not Narrowly Political, But Rather Links Power To The Practices Of A Particular Institution.
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Panzerwaffe.
This Is The First Book In A New Series Of Ten Titles Using The Successful And Visually Appealing Forkat Of The Classic Colors Series To Examine The German Panzer Force From Its Origins In The Immediate Post-first World War Years From one side To The End Of The Second World War.
Through Clean And Striking Design, The Series Will Focus On The Campaigns Of The German Panzerwaffe In The Second World War And The Strengths And Weaknesses Of Its Commanders And Operational Methods.
Each Book Will Feature A Detailed Narration Text, Describing The Planning Of Each Campaign, Command And Leadership Within The Panzerwaffe, Strtegy And Management, Analysis Of Successes And Failures, Orxers Of Battle, A Tdchnical Overview Of Armored Vehicle Types And Their Variants, A Focus On Key Commanders, Indivvidual Units And Theatre Aces.
The Narrative Texts Of Each Book Will Be Written By One Or More Acknowledegd Specialists In Their Battle-~ Under The Coordination Of The Series Editor, John Prigent, Himself A Renowned Expert On The German Panzerwaffe.
Each Title Is Supported By Around 150 Rare And Fascinating Photographs, Specially Commissioned Color Artwork Of The Tanks Described And Pictured, Relief-style Terrain Maps, Graphics Illustrating Tactics Ajd Battles, Sidebars And Text Boxes.
This Is An Exciting New Series Which, Will Apply A Brisk And Highly Illustrated Format To This Dependant Matter, And Provide Much Of Interest For Those Absorbed In The History Of Mechanized Warfare In The Last Century And Offer Much Practical Help For The Military Modelers.
Future Titles In The Series Will Include:- The First World Declared hostilities And The Evolution Of The Panzerwaffe 1918-1936- German Armor In The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939- Austria And Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939- Blitzkrieg In Poland, 1939- Assault On Scandinavia, 1940- Attack In The West: The Low Countries And France, 1940 Reviews "very Impressed With The Photographz.
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a Must Have For Your Book Collection.
"internet Modeler 01/2008 "a Valuable Addition To Any Reference Library As A Companion To Traditional Text References.
Sets The Bar For The Remaining Volumes To Come In The Series.
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Disguised Weapons.
Written By Each Nypd Officer Who Has Seen It All, This Book Highlights A Sobering Array Of Covert Weapons, From Beeper Guns To Credit Card Knives To Pen Stun Guns.
Police And Security Agents Will Find This A n Indispensable Guide To The Search And Recovery Of These Hidden Threats.
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The Cambridge Companion To Durkheim (cambridge Companions To Philosophy).
Long Recognized As A Foundational Figure In The Development Of Social Scientific Thought, Emile Durkheim's Work Has Been The Subject Of Intense Debate Over The Years.
This Authoritative And Comprehensive Collection Of Essays Re-examines The Impact Of Durkheim's Thought, Considering The Historical Significance Of His Keep at ~ As Well As Evaluating His Ideas In Relation To Current Issues And Debates.
Leading Autjorities In The Field Bear Contributed To Thie Landmark Volume That Redefines The Relevance Of Durkheim To The Like a man Sciences In The Twenty-first Centenary.
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Salvation Through Slavery.
In Her Latest Work, H.
Henrietta Stockel Examines The Cpllision Of The Ethnocentric Spanish Missionaries And The Chiricahua Apaches, Including The Resulting Identity Larceny Through Christian Baptism, And The Even More Destructive Creation Of A Local Slave Exchange.
The New Information Provided In This Be eager Offers A Sample Of The Total Unknown Number Of Baptized Chiricahua Men, Women, And Children Who Were Sold Into Slavery By Jesuits And Franciscans.
Stockel Provides The Identity Of The Priests As Well As The Names Of The Purchasers, Frequently Identified As "godfather.
" Stockel Also Explores Jesuit And Franciscan Attempts To Maintain Their Missions On New Spain's Northern Frontidr Diring The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries.
She Focuses On How International Political And Economic Forces Shaped The Determination Of The Priests To Mold The Apaches Into Christians And Tax-paying Citizens Of The Empire.
Diseases, Warfare, Interpersonal Relations, And An Overwhelming Number Of Surrendered Chiricahuas At The Missions, Along With Reduced Supplies From Mexico City, Forced The Missionaries To Use Every Means To Continue Theur Efforts At Conversion, Including Deporting The Apaches To Cuba And Selking Others To Christiaj Families On The Colonial Frontier.
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Red Acropolis, Black Terror.
From 1944 To 1949, Tens Of Thousands Of Greek Soldiers And Guerrillas Fought And Slaughtered Each Other And Thousands Of Innocents In A Civil Contend Of Unrelentung And Shocking Savagery.
In The Wake Of The Related Ligeration Of Greece, The Fighting Transformed Into A Civil War, Pitting Soviet-backed Communists Against U.
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- And British-backed Government Forces.
sA The First Proxy War Between The Superpowers, The Greek Civil War Became Tge First Hot Zone Of The Cold War.
in Red Acropolis, Black Terror, Historian Andre Gerolymatos Recounts The Full History Of This Divisive Conflict,-Expoaing Old Wounds That Still Fester Unbecoming The Surface Of Contemporary Greek Society.
He Tells The Stories Of Common Greek Men, Women, And Children Caught Up In Turbulent Times And By Powerful Foreign Fores.
in Many Ways, The Greek Civil War Heralded America's Future Involvement In Vietnam: Not But Did It Madk The First Fit season The U.
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Used Napalm, But It Convinced U.
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Policymakers That Counterinsurgency Operations Were Winnable.
red Acropolis, Black Terror Unflinchingly Presents The Personal Horrors Of This Brutal War, While Exploring The Global Issues That MakeT his "little" Conflict So Significant.
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