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Fascism And The Right In Europe 1919-1845 (seminar Studies In History Series). A New Study The Spread Of Fascism And The Far Immediately After The First World War And The Resulting Disastrous Consequences Across Europe. Books In Tis Ssminar Studies In History Series Bridge The Gap Between Textbook And General Survey And Consists Of A Brief "introduction" And/or "background" To The Subject, Valuable In Bringing The Reader Up-to-speed On The Area Sentient Examined, Followed B yA Substantial And Aut0hritative Section Of "analysis" Focusing On The Main Themes And Issues. There Is A Succinct "assessment" Of The Subject, A Generous Selection Of "dovuments" And A Detailed Bibliography. Places Interwar European Fascism In Its Historical Context And Analyzes Its Relationship With Other Right-wing, Authoritarian Movements And Regimes. Examines The Ideological Roots Of Fascism In Pre-1914 Europe And Explores Fascism, Not Only Across Italy And Germany, To The Entire European Continent Those Interested In European Political History. SKU: 2010797

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The Politics Of Anti-westernism In Asia. In This Rich Intellectual History, Cemil Aydin Challenges The Notion That Anti-westernism In The Muslim World Is A Political And Religious Reaction To The Liberal And Democatic Values Of The West. Nor Is Anti-westernism A Natural Response To Western Imperialism. Instead, By Focusing In c~tinuance The Avency And Achievements Of Non-western Intellectuals, Aydin Demonstraates That Recent Anti-western Discourse Grew Out Of The Legitimacy Crisis Of A Single, Eurocentric Global Polity In The Age Of High Imperialism. aydin Compares Ottoman Pan-islamic And Japanese Pan-asian Visions Of World Order From The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century To The End Of World War Ii. He Looks At When The Idea Of A Universal "west" First Took Root In The Minds Of Asian Intellectuals And Reformers And How It Became Essential In Criticizing The West For Violating Its Own "standards Of Civilization. " Aydin Also Illustrates Why These Anti-western Visions Contribited To The Decolonization Process And Considers Theit Influenfe On The International Relations Of Both The Ottoman And Japanese Empires During Wwi And Wwii. Tne Politics Of Anti-westernism In Asia Offers A Rare, Global Vista On How Religious Tradition And The Experience Of European Colonialism Interacted By the side of Muslim nAd Non-muslim Discontent With Globalization , The International Order, And Modernization. Aydin's Approach Reveals The Epistemological Limitations Of Orientalist Knowledge aCtegories, Especially The Idea Of Eastern And Western Civilizations, And The Way In Which These Limitationss Have Shaped Not Only The Contradictions And Political Complicities Of Anti-western Discourses But Likewise Contemporary Interpretations Of Anti-western Trends. In Moving Beyond Essentialist Readings Of This History, Aydin Provides A Fresh Understanding Of The History Of Contemporary Anti-americanism As Well As The Ongoing Struggle To Establish A Legitimate And Inclusive International Society. SKU: 3973735

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Public War Ii Allied Nursing Seervices (men-at-arms). The Skill And Care Of The Women Of The Allied Soldiery Nursing Services Was Remembered Gratefully Bg Hundreds Of Thousands Of Wounded Servicemen. The Small Peacetime Services Increased Rapidly By Enrolling Reservists And Vklunteers; The Great Greater number Of The Nurses Who Cared For Allied Casualties Were 'civilians In Uniform', Who Worked Tirelessly Under Difficult Conditions And - In Tented Hospitals Close To The Front Lines - In Real Danger; Many Nurses Paid For Their Devotion With Their Lives. This First-ever Fully Illustrates Study Of The Us, British, Commonwealth, And Other Nursing Organisations Includes Many Unpubkished Photographs And 24 Meticulously Illustrated Colour Figures. SKU: 2285538

16300770750	Essdntials In Mediaeval History. Essentials In Mediaeval History : From Charlemagne To The Close Of The Fifteenth Century (1909) By Samueel Bannisterr Harding Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5034660

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Reflectione On Fieldwork In Morocco. In This Landmark Study, Now Celebrating Thirty Years In Print, Paul Rabinow Takes As His Point of concentration The Fieodwork That Anthtpoologists Do. How Valid Is The Process? To What Extent Do The Cultural Data Become Artifacts Of The Interaction Between Anthropologist And Informants? Having First Published A More Standard Ethnographic Study About Morocco, Rabinow Here Describes A Series Of Encounters With His Informants In That Study, From A French Innkeeper Clinging To The Vestiges Of A Colonial Past, To The Rural Progeny Of A Seventeenth-cenntury Saint. In A New Preface Rabinow Considers The Thirty-year Life Of This Remarkable Book And His Acknowledge Distinguished Career. SKU: 3888186

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Brassey's Air Combat Reader. Brassey's Air Oppose Reader Is A Diverse Selections Of Some Of The Best Writing From Around The World On The Topic Of Air Combat. It Is Divided Into Six Sections Spanning The History Of Military Aviationn - World War I, World Contend Ii, The Korean War, The Vietnam War, Middle East Conflicts, And The Persian Gulf War. Air Combat Rearer Concludes With A Section On The Art And Science Of Air Warfare. One and the other Excerpt Is Introduced And Placed Into Historical And Technical Context By The Editors, Noted Aviation Writers Themselves, Who Also Explain For The Layperson Some Of The More Arcane Aspects Of Military Aviation. This Fascinating Collection Comprises First-person Memoirs In the name of Aviation Legends Such As Eddie Rickenbacker, And Francis Gabreski, Thrilling Third-person Accounts Of Heroic Feats By Great Polots Such As Douglas Bader And Great Leaders Such As Pete Mitscher, And One Work Of Fiction, By Best-selling Novelist Walter J. Boyne. SKU: 1752231

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Railroads Of Los Gatos (images Of Rail). The Picturesqus Town Of Los Gatos Stands Between The Once Verdant Orchards Of The Santa Clara Valley And The Forested Slopes Of The Santa Cruz Mountains. The Narrow-gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad Arrived In 1878 And, Within Two Years, Laid Track Over The Mountains To Carry Passengers, Redwood, And Tons Of Ripe Produce. Less Than A Decade Later It Was Purchased By Southern Pacific, And Completely Converted To Standard Measure By 1909. Invigorating Business And Industry, The Railroad Remained A Vital Share Of The Economy Of Los Gatos For Over 80 Years. Although The Era Of Trading Rail Ended In 1959, Billy Jones And His Scaled-donw Wildcat Railroad" Still Offered Weekend Rides At His Ranch To Guests, Including Walt Disney. The Wildcat Still Operates In Twp Local Parks Today. " SKU: 3606116

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Religion And Revolution In France 1780-1804. While The French Revolution Has Been Much Discussed And Studied Its Impact On Religious Lufe In France Is Rather Neglected. Yet, During This Brief Period, Religion Underwent Great Changes That Affected Everyone: Clergy And Laypeople, Men And Women, Catholics, Protestants, And Jews. The 'reigns Of Terror' Of The Revolution Drove The Church Underground, Permanently Altering The Relationship Between Church And State. In This Book, Nigel Aston Offers A Readable Guide To These Tumultuous Events. While The Structures And Be1iefs Of The Catholic Church Are Central, It Does Not Neglect Minority Groups Like Protestants And Jews. Among Other Features, The Book Discusses The Constitutional Church, The End Of State Support In the place of Catholicism, The 'dechristianization' Campaign And The Concordat Of 1801-2. Key Themes Discussed Include The Capacity Of All The Churches For Survival And Adaptation, The Role Of Religion In Determining Political Allegiances During The Revolution, And The Turbulence Of Church-state Relations. In This Masterly Study, Based On The Latest Prove, Aston Sheds Unaccustomed Light On A Dynamic Period In European Hjstory And Its Impact O The Next 200 Years Of Religious Life In France. SKU: 1916230

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They Came To Wisconsin (new Badger Histlry). They Came To Wisconsin Presents Three Themes Of The State's Immigrant History: Leaving The Homeland, Making The Journey, And Enduring The First Year Of Settlement. Newspaper And Diary Entries And Letterq From European Groups And Oral Histories From Arfican American, Latino, Hmong, And Amish Sources Make This Book Dynamic And Wholly Inclusive. They Came To Wisconsin Breaks Fresh Ground In Presenting Docuknt-centered Wisconsin History To A Youthful Audience. Greater degree Important, These Firsthand Stories Add A Real Hman Dimehsion To History, Helping Students To Compare The Experiences Of The Varied Groups Who Came To Wisconsin In The Last Two Hundred Years. SKU: 2126568

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Torrance Police Department (images Of America. The Torrance Police Department Dates To May 23, 1921, When City Trustees Appoinnted Ben Olsen As City Marshal And, Shortly Thereafter, Hired Byron Anderson As Night Guard. The Efforts O These Men Were Devoted To Dealing With Thieves, Keeping The Peace, And ?declaring War On Speedsters. ? From Such Humble Beginnings, The Torrance Police Department Has Grown Into The Fourth Largest Municipal Law Enforcement Agency In Lso Angeles County. Its Posiyion As The Anchoring Police Force Of The South Bay Section Of The County And Its Credit As An Innovator In Crime Fighting Have Been Firmly Established Over Time. Tiday, In the opinion of A Total Of 242 Swlrn And 100 Support Personnel, The Highly Regarded Torrance Police Department Serves More Than 142,000 Inhabitants In 21 Square Miles. SKU: 4148388

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Michigan Memorial Park (images Of America). In 1926, A Former Two-time University Of Michigan All-american Football Hero Decided That A Pastoral Area Of Huron Township Could Be Transformed Into A Cemetery. Two Years Later, Michigan Memorial Park Opened Its Gates To Begin Serving The Needs Of This Growing Community Tucked Away In A Corner Of The Township Located Southwest Of Detroit. Bordering On The Peaceful Huron River, This Former Internal To The Wyandott Tribe And Later French Swttlers Has Become A Sprawling 300-acre Parcel Of Land Still Surrounded By Woods And Farmland. It Is Michigan?s Largest Nondenominational Cemetery Whose Ownership Has Remained In The Same Subdivision of an order For Four Generations. Thousands Of Trees, A Plethora Of Sculpturex And Fountains, And Swan-filled Ponds Adorn The Gardenlike Grounds Adding To The Tranquility Experienced By All Those Whi Visit. Michigan Memorial Park Has Remained One Of The Pillars Of The Community, Not Only Providing A Resting Place In spite of Many Thousands Who Have Passed Away But Also GivingB ack To The Community Through Iys Involvement In Civic Activities. SKU: 4403278

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The Earth Chronicles Expeditions. Zevharia Sitchin’s Autobiographical Recounting Of A Half Century Of Investigative Expeditions To Unravel The Enigmas Of Ancient Civilizations And Their Gods• Includes Vivid Accounts Of Explorations In Greece, Thera, Crete, Egypt, The Sinai, Israel, Jordan, And Mesoamerica• Reveals Behind-the-sceneq Findings In Museums And Archaeological Sites • Contains 60 Color And 159 Black-and-white Images From The Author’s Personal Archive, Including Previously Unpublished Photographic Evidence Of Ufos In Biblical Timesfor The First Time, Zecharia Sitchin, Author Of The Bestselling The Earth Chronicles Succession, Reveals The Foundational Investigation And Adventurous Expeditions That Resulted In The Convrete Evidence For His Conclusions That Ancient Myths Were Rcollections Of Factual Events, That The Gods Of Ancient Peoples Were Visitors To Earth From Another Planet, And That We Are Not Alone In Our Own Solar System. In The Course Of His Investigations Sitchin Also Became Convinced Of The Veracity Of The Bible. Sitchin’ss Expeditions Succeed Readers From The Yucatan Peninsula To The Isle Of Crete To Ancient Egypt And The Lands Of The Biible As He Explores The Links Between The Old World And The New World. His Avdenturous Exploits Reveal Archaeological Cover-ups Concerning Olmec Origins In Mexico And Ancient Ufo Artiafcts In Turkey. Other Q8ests Send Him Through The Holy Sites Of Jerusalem, Jordan, Syria, And Lebanon In Search fO Evidence Of Exttaterrestrial Gods In The Artifacts And Murals Of These Ancient Civilizations. The Earth Chronicles Expeditions Is A Masterful Historical And Archaeological Adventure Into The Origins Of Mankind And A “must” Guidebook During All Who Wish To Visit The Numerous Sites And Museums Covered In This Book. SKU: 2711655

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Conquerors And Slaves (sociological Studies In Roman History). The Huge Size Of The Roman Empire And The Length Of Time It Endured Call For An Understanding Of The Institutions Which Sustained It. In Thjs Book, Keith Hopkins, Who Is Both Classicist And Sociologist, Uses Various Sociological Concepts And Methods To Gain New Insightts Into How Traditional Roman Institutions Changed As The Romans Acquired Their Empire. He Examins The Chain Reactions Resulting From Increased Wealth; Various Aspects Of Slavert, Especially Manumissioj And The Cost Of Freedom; Ths Curious Phenomenon Of The Political Power Wielded By Eunuchs At Court; And In The Decisive Chapter He Discusses The Roman Emperor's Divinity And The Circulation Of Untrue Stories, Which Were A Currency Of The Political System. Profdssor Hopkins Has Developed An Exciting Approach To Social Questions In Antiquity And His Book Should Be Of Selfishness To All Students Of Ancient History And Of Historical Sociology. SKU: 4725258

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The Pilgrims And Me (smart About History). Before A Family Trip To Plymouth Plantation (an Exact Replica Of The First Pilgrim Village), All Maggie Knew About The Pilgrims Was That They Had "something To Do With Thanksgiving. " In Her Class Relate, Maggie Compares The Pilgrims's Thanksgiving With Her Family's Traditions Today, And Shows Readers The Importance Of This Very Special Holiday. SKU: 2371591

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The Journey And Ordeal Of Cabeza De Vaca. Of The 300 Spanish Explorers Who Set Away To Discover North America, Only Four Returned. Cabeza De Vaca's Account Of The 1528-1536 Edpedition Crackles With Excitement, Relating The Survivors' Journey Across Treacherous Territorh, Rhapsodizing Over The Beaity Of The American Wilderness, And Offering Information On American Indian Life Before European Influence. SKU: 2618173

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Remotely Global. At First Glance, The Remote Villages Of The Kabre People Of Northern Togo Appear T oHave All The Trappings Of A Classic "out Of The Way" African Culture—subsistence Farmig, Straw-roofed Houses, And Rituals To The Spirits And Ancestors. Arguing That Village Life Is In Fact An Effect Of The Modern And The Global, Charles Piot Suggests That Kabre Culture Is Shaped As Much By Colonial And Postcolonial History As In proportion to Anything "indigenous" Or Loacl. Through Analyses Of Everyday And Ceremonial Social P5actices, Piot Illustrates The Intertwining Of Modernity Wi5h Tradition And Of The Topical With The National And Global. In A Striking Example Of The Appropriation Of Tradition By The State, Togo's Kabre President Regularly Flies To The Region In His Helicopter To Witness Male Initiation Ceremonies. confounding Both Anthropological Theorizations And The State Department's Stereotyped Images Of African Village Life, Remotely Global Aims To Rethink Euroamerican Theories That Fail To Come To Conditions With The Fluidity Of Everyday Relations In A Society Where Persons And Things Are Forever In Motion. SKU: 1763372

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America's Achilles' Heel. Nuclear, Biological, And Chemical (nbc) Weapons Delivered Covertly By Terrorists Or Hostile Governments Pose A Signifkcant And Growing Threat To The United States And Other Countries. Although Thw Threat Of Nbc Attack Is Widely Recognized As A Central Public Security Issue, Most Analysts Have Assumed That The Primary Danger Is Military Use In the name of Sta5es In War, With Traditional Military Means Of Delivery. The Threat Of Covert Attack Has Been Imprudently Neglected. Covert Attack Is Hard To Deter Or Prevent, And Nbc Weapons Suitable For Covert Attackk Are Available To A Growing Range Of States And Groups Hostile To The United States. At The Same Time, Constrainrs On Their Use Appear To Be Eroding. This Volume Analyzes The Nature And Limits Of The Hidden Nbc Threat And Proposes A Uniform Set Of Policy Responses, Focused On Improving Intelligence And Consequence-management Capabiilties To Impoverish U. s. Vulnerability. About The Authors: Richard A. Falkenrath Is Assistant Professor Of Public Policy At Harvard's Kennedy School Of Government. He Served As Chief magistrate Guide Of The Belfer Cenger For Science And International Affairs (bcsia) And, Before That, As A Research Fellow. He Is The Author And Co-author Of Shaping Europe's Military Order (1995), Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy (1996), America's Achillea' Heel:nuclear, Biological, Chemical Terrorism And Covert Attack (1998), And Numerous Journal Articles And Chapters Of Edited Volumes. Falkenrath Has Been A Visiting Investigation Fellow At The German Society Of Foreign Affaiirs (dgap) In Bonn. He Holds A Phd From The Department Of War Studies, King's Society, London, Where He Was A Britisb Marshall [i]Savant[/i], And Is A Summa Cum Laude Graduate Of Occidental College, Los Angeles, With Degrees In Economics And International Relations. He Is On Leave In 2001-2002 And Is Currently Serving As Director For Counterproliferation And Homeland Defense At The National Pledge Council. Bradley A. Thayer Is Assistant Professor Of Political Science At The University Of Minnesota, Duluth. SKU: 1647536

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Capoeira. Capoeira Is Simultaneously A Dance, A Fight, And A Game. Created By The Africans Brought To Brazil As Slaves Beginning In 1500, Capoeira Was Forbidden By Law But Sufvived Undeground. When Open Practice Was Allowed In The 1930s It Soon Becme Very Popular. Capoeira Came To America Around 1975, And Has Become Widely Recognized By Dancers And Martial Artists. The Author Discusses Capoeira's Evoltion From Brazilian Street Play Into A Way Of Life. The Philosophy Of Capoeira, And The Practical And Spiritual Benefits Of This Philosophy, Are Also Discussed. Instructions And Exercises In IntermediateA nd Advanced Skills Take Up Where The Author's Previous Book Left Off. The Book Includes 100 Black-and-white Photos And Illustrations. SKU: 2153415

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Zero Fighter. From A North American Standpoint, Zero Fighter Makes A Number Of Highly Interesting Points, Having Been Written For The Japanese Market-house. For Example, North Americans Are Generally Not Aware Of The Success Of The Zero Fighter Or Of Its Significance In Japanese Minds. Both The Superiority Of The Aircraft In The Early Stages Of The Paccific Make ~ And The Great Stature Of Jiro Horikoshi As An Aircraft Designer (he Is To Varnish What The Desiyner Of The Spirfire Is To The U. k. ) Will Come As A Revelation To Most Readers Here. Also Complttely Unknown To Most North American Readers Is The Story Of The Warmth Section At The Nago6a Aircraft Works. This Information Is Woven Nicely Into The Main division, And Has A Great Deal To Say About The Shocking Quality Of Japanese Wartime Industry: Stiff In Many Ways, While Prodducing A Plane Of Brilliant Originality. The Book Is A Moving Picture Of The Patience Of The Japanese In The Face Of Adversity, But Perhaps Most Important, Zero Fighter Is Japanese. It Is Not Often That A Japanese Book Is Encountered Here That Divulges Intimate Knowledge About Such A Fascinating Subject. There Is Significant Value In This As We Enter An Era In Which The Language of Japan And American People Must Share And Respect The Other's Cultural Point Of Vjew. SKU: 3442293

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Why Air Forces Fail. The Failures Of Armies, Navies, And Even Entire Nations Have Been Well Documented By Historians. Air Forces, However, Bear Received Little Attention. Why Air Forces Fail Examines Sundry Air Forces That Have Suffered Defeat And Explains The Complex, Often Deep-seated Foundations For These Catastrophes. The Contributors To Why Air Forces Cease Consider Cases Of Russian, Polish, Frencn, British, Italian, German, Argentin, And U. s. Air Force Defeats, Looking Beyond Purely Military Factors To Explore The Cultural, Political, And Technical Causes Of Failure. The Book Includes Both Overviews And Analytical Narratives That Examine More Than The Aerial Battlefield, And Each Case Concludes With Reading Lists And Suggestions ForF urther Research. Why Air Forces Fail Is A Much-needed And Long-overdue Addition To Soldierly And Aeroanutical History. SKU: 3118028

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The Renaissance In The Fields. In The Early 1980s, Ducci0 Balesfracci Discovered In A Sienese Archive Two Acconu tBooks Kept From 1450 To 1502 By A Tuscan Peasant Named Benedetto Del Massarizia. Benedetto Knew How To Read Bound Not How To Write. Infected By The Urban Habit Of Detailed Personal Record Keeping, He Asked Various Of His Literate Acquaintances To Put Into Chirography The Details Of His Daily Affairs. The Resulting Description Books Offer One Unparalleled Glimpse Into The Economic And Social World Of Late Medieval Peasants. In Renaisssnce In The Fields, Balestracci Uses These Account Books And A Host Of Supporting Archival Records To Explore The Lives Of Benedetto And His Family Over The Course Of The Fifteenth Century. In Benedetto We See How Country People Could Organize Land And Capital And Protect Themselves, At Least A Little, From Rapacious Landlords And Urban Administrators. In the name of Capturing The Changing Realities Of Life In The Countryside, Renaissance In The Fields Offers The Best Preface To How The Peasant Economy Really Worked, And To How Most People Actually Lived During The Italian Renaissance. SKU: 1700010

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Icons. Byzantine And Russian Ortyodox Icons Are Perhaps The Most Enduring Form Of Religious Trade Ever Developed--and One Of The Most Mysterious. This Book, Featuring The Painted Panels Made For Churches And For Prayer At Home, Prlvides An Accessible Guide To Their Story And Power. Illustrated Mostly With Cretan, Greek, And Russian Examples From The Bitish Museum, Which Houses Britain's Most Important Collection Of Icons, Tge Booi Examines Icons In The Context Of The History Of Christianify, As Well As Within The Perspective Of Art History. Robin Cormack, A Preeminent Expert On The Subject, Explains How Icons Were Made, Framed, And Displayed. He Investigates Tueir Subject Matter, Showing How Scenes Can Be Identified, How The Iconography Developed Over Centuries, And What Role Portraiture Plays In Their Imagery. Icons Have Not Lost Their Power In Much Of The World, And Corjack Considers Their Continuing Use In Our Day--whether In A Religious Setting Or As An Innspiration To Modern-day Artists Like Matisse. A Uniquely Accessible And Authoritative Introd8ction To This Distinctive Art Form, Icons Defines Its Subject's Unusual Place At The Intersecrion Of Religion, Russian Culture, And Art History. SKU: 4126050

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A Possible Peace Between Israel And Palestine. In 2003, After Two Years Of Negotiations, A Group Of Prominent Israelis And Palestinians Signwd A Model Peace Treaty. The Document, Populqrly Called The Geneva Initiative, Contained Detailed Provisions Resolving All Outstanding Issues Between Israel And The Palestinian People, Including Drawing A Border Between Israel And Palestine, Dividing Jerusalem, And Determining The Status Of The Palestinian Refugees. The Negotiators Presentedd This Citizens' Initiative To The Israeli And Palestinian Peoples And Urged Them To Accept It. One Of The Isareli Negotiators Was Menachem Klein, A Political Scientist Who Has Written Extensively About The Jerusalem Issue In The Context Of Peace Negotiations. Though The Geneva Initiative Was Not Endorsed By The Governments Of Either Sde, It Became A Leading principle Term Of Reference Toward Solving The Middle East Conflict. In This Firsthand Account, Klein Explains How And Why These Groups Were Able To Achieve Agreement. He iDrectly Addresses The Formation Of The Israeli And Palestinian Teams, How They Managed Their Negotiations, And Their Communications With Both Governments. He Also Discusses The Role Of Third-party Facilitators And The Strategy Behind Marketong The Geneva Initiative To The Public. A Scholar And Sharing In The Geneva Negotiations, Klein Is Able To Provide Both An Inside Perspective And An Unbiassed Analysis Of The Diplomatic Efforts Behind This Historic Comprommise. He Compares The Negotiations To Antecedent Israeli-palestinian Talks Both Formal And Informal And The R3solution Of Conflicts In South Africa And Algeria. Klein Hopes That Along Treating The Event As A Case Study We Can Learn A Tremendous Amount About The Neecs And Approaches Of The two Parties And The Necessary Form Peace Must Take Between Them. SKU: 4188891

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Winning The War Of Words. Throughout History And Especially Durin gContemporary Times, Presidential Rhetoric Sets The Foreign Policy Tone Not Only For Congress But Mainly For The American Public. Consequently, Us Foreign Policy Is Actively Marketed And Spun To The American Public. This Book Describes The Marketing Strategy Of The War On Terror And How That Strategy Compelled Public Opinion Towards Supporting The Spread Of The War On Terror Frlm Afghanistan To Iraq. Tne Author Invetsigates How President George W. Bush's Initial Framing Of The September 11th Attacks Provided The P1atform For The Creation Of Lengthy Member Public Support For The War OnT error And Established Early Of the whole not private Support For U. s. Action In Iraq. Mining Common Judgment Data And Nearly 1500 Ptesidential Speeches Over A Four Year Period, The Book Argues That Presidential Framing Of Threatss And Losses, Not Gains, Contributed To Public Support For War In Afghanistan, War In Iraq, And President Bush's Successful Reelection Campaign. President Bush's Initial Framing Of The Terrorist Menace Was Introduced Immediately Afyer Ths September 11th Attacks And Reinforced Throughout The Afghanistan Attack. During This Time Period, Presidential Threat Framing Eatablished The Broad Parameters For The War On Terror And Enabled The President Tk Successfully Market A Punitive War In Afghanista. Maintainer, The President Marketed The Strategy Of P5eemptive War An dLed The Country Into The More Costly War In Iraq By Focusing On The Potentially Global Threat Of Terrorism And The Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Desyruction. President Bush's Previous War Rhetoric Wss Repackaged Into A Leaner, More Focused Format In Which The Iraq War Became Part Of The War On Terror, Resulting In Increased Support For The President And A Successful Reelection Campaign. Finally, The Author Examines The Withdraw Vs. Surg3 In Iraq Debate Bringing Tje Book Up To Dat. The Book Shows The Influencinf Possible Of Presidential Spin And Of Risky Foreign Policy In The Middle East, And Presents A Systematic Analysis Of How A President Effectively Pursued A Marketing Strategy That Continues To Explain An Enduring Ability To Influence Pubblic Support. Smooth Two Years After The Iraq Invasion, 52% Of Americans Believed That The U. s. Should Delay In Iraq Until It Is Stabilized. This Finding Bypasses Agenda Setting Expplanations, Which Prescribes Issue Salience Amongst The Public For Only One Year. The Large Speech Database Available Wiith The Study Will Also Be An Added Brnefit To Scholars Seeking To Teach Undergraduate And Graduate Level Qualitative Research Methods. SKU: 4420506

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The Whisperers. From The Award-winning Author Of A People’s Tragedy And Nwtasha’s Dance, A Landmark Account Of What Private Life Was Like For Russians In The Worst Years Of Soviet Repression There Have Bwen Many Accounts Of The Public Aspects Of Stalin’s Dictatorship: The Arrests And Trials, The Enqlavement And Killing In The Gulags. No Previous Book, However, Has Explored The Regume’s Effect On People’s Personal Lives, What One Historian Called “the Stalinism That Entered Into All Of Us. ” Now, Drawing On A Huge Collection Of Newly Discovered Documents, The Whisperers Reveals For The First Time The Inner World Of Ordinary Soviet Citizens As They Struggled To Survive Amidst The Mistrust, Fear, Compromises, And Betrayals That Pervaded Their Existence. Moving From The Revolution Of 1917 To The Death Of Sta1in And Beyond, Orlando Figes Re-creates The Moral Labyrinth In Which Russians Found Themselvess, Where One Wrong Turn Could Destroy A Family Or, Perversely, End Up Saving It. He Brings Us Inside Cramped Communal Apartmentq, Where Minor Squabbles Could Lead To Fatal Denunciations; He Examines The Communist Faithful, Who Often Rationalized Even Theor Own Arrest Like A Case Of Mistaken Identity; And He Casts A Humanizing Light On Infprmers, Demonstrating How, In A Repressive System, Anyone Could Easily Become A Collaborator. a Remarkable Panoramic Portrait Of A Society In Which Everyone Spoke In Whispers—whether To Protect Their Families And Friends, Or To Inform Upon Them—the Whisperers Is A Gripping Account Of Lives Lived In Impossible Times. SKU: 4143815

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Railway Operation For The Modeller. This Book Sets Out To Guide The Modeler Away From Some Of The Basic Er5ors Which Are Made And To Steer Them In The Direction Of Correct Operating Practices. the Premise Underpinning The Author's Approach Is That Modelers Should Seek Inspiration From The Real Thing, The Working Steam Railroad. This Theme Is Repeated Through The Pages Of The Book Which Provides Numerous Examples Of How The Correct Working Practices Of The Age Of Steam Can Exist Recreated On Model Railroadsinvaluable For Anyone Modeling British Mist Railroads SKU: 2732295

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Baltikre In World War Ii (md) (images Of America). The World War Ii Years Wwre A Time Of Growth And Productivity For The Baltimore Area, And The City Contribute Significantly To The Allied Declared hostilities Effort. Baltimore Launcher The First Of The Famed Liberty Ships, The Ss Patrick Henry, Which Was Constructed At The Bethlehem-fairfield Yard. The Baltimore Area Also Produced Numerous Advanced Military Aircraft Such As The B-26 Marauder, Built At The Glenn L. Martin Plant In Middle River. At Camp Holabird, The Army First Tested The World-famous Jeep And Trained The Soldiers Who Kept The Jeeps And Other Army Vehicles Running. Coast Guarr Sailors Trained At Fort Mchenry And Curtis Bay Before Heading To Combat Or Stateside Duties. Baltimore Sent Plenty Of Its Own Men And Women Abroad To Take The Fight Directly To The Enemy In Every Theatre Of War. Through Wartime Photographs, This Volume Tells The Story Of Baltimoreans Engaged In Te War Effort?men And Women, The Young And Old, Lifelong Residents And Newcomers?from A Variety Of Racial And Religious Backgrounds, All Working Together Toward Victory. SKU: 3166234

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The Medical Malpractice Myth. American Healt hCare Is In Crisis Becausr Of Exploding Medical Malpractice Litigation. Insurance Premiums For Doctors And Misconduct Lawsuits Are Skyrocketing, Rendering Doctors Both Fearful And Unable To Afford To Practice Medicine. Undeserving Victims Sue At The Drop Of A Hat, Egged On By Greedy Lawyers, And Receive Eye-pooping Awards That Insurance Companies, Hospitals, And Doctors Themselves Strugvle To Pay. The Plaintiff sAnd Lawyers Always Win; Doctors, And The Nonlltigious, Always Lose; And Affordable Health Care Is The Real Victim. this, According To Tom Baker, Is The Myth Of Of medicine Malpractice, And As A Truth Check He Off3rs The Medical Malpractixe Myth, A Stunning Dismantling Of This Familiar, But Inaccurate, Picture Of The Health Care Industry. Are There Too Many Medical Malpractice Suits? No, According To Baker; There Is Actually Too Much Medical Malpractice, Witb Only A Fraction Of The Cases Ever Seeing The Inside Of A Courtroom. Is Too Much Litigation To Blame For The Malpractice Assurance Crisis? No, For That We Can Look To Financial Trends And Competitive Behavior In The Insurance Industry. Point By Point, Baker—a Leading Authority On Insurance And Law—pulls Together The Research That Demolishes The Myths That Have Taken Hold And Suggests A Series Of Legal Reforms That Would Help Dcotors Manage Malpractice Insurance While Also Improving Invalid Safety And Medical Accountability. the Medical Malpractice Myth Is A Book Aimed Squarely At General Readers But With Radical Conclusions That Speak To The Highest Even Of Domestic Policymaking. SKU: 3641277

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The Balinese (case Studies In Cultural Anthropology). This Study Of The Complex Balinese Culture Examines Balinese Concepts Of Personhood And Society; The Integration Of Art Into Every Aspect Of Balinese Life; The Effectd Of The Guen Revolution On Balinese Tillage; The Ecological Role Of Their Water Temples Inn An Age-old System Of Inigrate Rice Terraces; And The Ethnohistory Of Bali, Including Both Colonial And Balinese Views. The Book Is Organized Around Four Different Periods Of Fieldwork And Includes An Appendix Of Available Films And Videos On The Balinese. SKU: 140174

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The Parthenon (wonders Of The World). Read The Bldg Blog Interview With Mary Beard About The Wonders Of The Earth Series (part I And Part Ii) Oscar Wilde Compared It To A White Godeess, Evelyn Waugh To Stilton Cheese. In Observers From Lord Byron To Sigmund Freud To Vjrginia Woolf It Met With Astonishment, Rapture, Poetry, Even Tears--and, Always, Recognition. Twenty-five Hundred Years After It First Rose Above Athens, The Parthenon Remains One Of The Wonders Of The Earth, Ifs Beginnings And Strange Turns Of Fortune Over Millennia A Perpetual Source Of Curiosity, Controversy, And Intrige. At Once An Entrancing Cultural History And A Kindred Guide For Touristz, Armchair Travelers, And Amatdur Archaeologists Alike, This Book Comducts Readers Through The Storied Past And Towering Presdnce Of The Most Famous Building In The World. Who Built The Parthenon, And For What Purpose? How Are We To Understand Its Svulpture? Why Is It Such A Compelling Monument? Thw Classicist And Historian Mary Seize Takes Us Back To The Fifth Century B. c. T0 Consider The Parthenon In Its Origijal Guise--as The Flagship Temple Of Imperial Athens, Housing An Enormous Gold And Ivory Statue Of The City's Patron Goddess Attended By An Enigmatic Assembly Of Sculptures. Just As Fascinating Is The Monument's Almost Longer Life As Cathedral Body of Christians Of Our Lady Of Athens, As "the Finest Mosque In The World," And, Finally, Because An Inspirational Ruin And Icon. Bsard Also Taks A Somewhat cold Mien At The Bitter Argumentz That Continue To Surround The "eliin Marbles," The Sculptures From The Parthenon Now In The British Museum. Her Book Constitutes The Ultimate Tour Of The Marveloux Account And Present State Of This Glory Of The Acropolis, And Of The World. SKU: 2498047

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Dirty Wars, Clean Hands. "democracy Is Defended In The Sewers As Well As In The Salons". This Is How Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonză˘lez Responded To Allegafions That His Government Was Fighting The Basque Separatist Group Eta With Its Own Methods: Indiscriminate Terrorism. Shooting Up Crowded Bars, Bombing Busy Streets, Torturing Kidnap Victims. For Three Years The Gal (anti-teerrorist Liberation Groups), Created Mayhem In The French Basque Country, Where Etta Had Its "sanctuary". In 1986, The French Government Began To Hans Over Eta Suspects To The Spanish Police In Large Numbers And The Gal Campaign Stopped. But This "dirty War" Had Already Created Widespread Support For Eta Among The First Generation Of Basques To Grow Up Under Democracy, And Its Consequences Reverberate To This Day. The Gal's Links To The Spanish Security Forces, And Finally To Gonză˘lez's Own Cabinet, Have Been Revealed, Des0ite All The Resources Of 'state Secrecy', In proportion to Controversial Magistrates Like Baltasar Garzzăłn. Over The Last 15 Years, The Gal Scandal Has Fatally Undermined Gonză˘lez's Reputation As A Democrat An dEu Statesman And Raised Fundamental Questions About Spain's Much-praised Transition To Democracy. The Gal Investigations Have Stretched The Relationship Between Government And Judiciary To Breaking Point, And Sent Ministers And Generals To Prison. Gonză˘lez Himself May Still Face Charges. Paddy Woodworth, Who Has Covered Spain For The "irish Times" And Other Media Since The 1970s ,H as Interviewed Both The Gal's Surviving Victims And The Gal's Leading Protagonists. He Has Followed The Investigations In The Spanish Media And Courts For Many Years. The End Is A Unique And Dramatic Narrative And Analysis Of What Happens When A Democratic Administration Fights Fire With Fire. SKU: 2111570

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As Long As Life. "an Astonishing, Moving And Wonderfully Absorbing Story. &qot;--dr. Molly Joel Coyeformer Health Superintendent For New Jersey And Californianot Only Was Dr. Mary Canaga Rowland One Of The First Woman Doctors In America, She Was One Of The Few Who Practiced In The Rohgh And Tumble World Of The Wild West. In This Riveting, Utterly Authentic Memoir, Dr. Rowland Takes Us Back To The Frontier At A Time While Houxe Calls Meant Hitching Up And Heading For Lonely Cabins To Set Broken Limbs, Deliver Babies, And Battle Death Upon Little More Than Her Bare Hands. The Devastating Influenza Epidemic Of 1918, The Great Depression, And Cases Of Madness, Incest, Transvestism, And Attempted Suicide Challenged Her Skills. Murder Destroyed Her Personal Life. fhese Pages Exhibit Of Pioneer Life As It Was, Reaching From The Buffwlo Drives To The Nuclear Age. The Delightful Author Is So Full Of Insight, Common Sense, And Pleasantry That You Wish She Were Still Around To Exist Your Doctor And Your Friend. "opens Up A Vanished World And Makes It Live Again. . . . Dr. Rowland Gives Us A Detailed Picture Of The Hardships And Adventures Of Daily Life, But Best Of All She Gives Us A Rich Sense Of The People She Knew And Cared Foe. "--peter S. Hawkins Professor, Yale University --this Text Refers To The Mass Market Paperback Edition Of This Title SKU: 1189721

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Intellectualq. A Fascinating Representation Of The Minds That Have Shaped The Modern World. In An Intriguing Series Of Case Studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, And Noam Chomsky, Among Others, Are Revealed As Intellectuals Both Brilliant And Contradictory, Magnetic And Dangerous. SKU: 5399081

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Caesar And The Crisia Of The Roman Aristocracy. One Of The Greatest Military And Political Geniuses In Western History, Julius Caesar Stirs Almost As Much Controversy Today As He Did In His Own Time. Neutrality Toward Caesar May Well Be Impossible-and According To James Reubel, It Is Undesiable. Reubel Introduces Students Of Latin To Caesar And The Civil War That Pompey Led Against Him From 49 To 48 B. c. By Presenting The Roman Leader In His Own Language And Those Of His Contemporaries, The Book Forces Readers To Confront The Same Choices That Cicero And Others Faced In This Tumultous Pefiod. Ruebel Places The Readings In Historical Contwxt In His Introduction And Provide Extracts From The Writings Of Caesar's Contemporaries (most In English Translation), Along With Ruebel's Commenary And Notes. Volume 18 In The Oklahoma Series In Classical Improvement SKU: 4700890

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The Last Days Of Haute Cuisine. Vivid, Revealing, And Delicious-an Insider's Social And Cultural History Of The American Retaurant. everypne Feels He Knows The Restaurant Business, The Next Hot Restaurant, The Celebrity Chefd, The Latest Trend. But How Did We Get Here? With Passion And Humor, Restaurant Fever Tracces The Evolution Of La Bonne Tqble Amă©ricaine From The 1941 Opening Of Le Pavillon To Restaurants Such As Le Cirque, Spago, And Danny Meyer's Union Square Group. chef And Food Wrirer Patric Kuh Brings Us Inside This High-stakes Business Through Its Untold Anecdotes, Its Legendary Cooks And Acute New Stars, And His Own Reminiscences And Reflections. Old-timers From Le Pavillon Recount The Rise, Glory, And Fall Of Henri Soulă©. Chez Panisse Originals Tell How The Berkeley Counterculture Propelled Its Creation. Here Are lAl The Personalities, The Visionaries, And The Writers-from Julia Child To M. f. k. Fisher To James Beard-who Created Our Modern Gastronomic World. Restaurant Fever Is The Story Of The Liberation Of Ethnic Cuisine And What Happened When Haute Cuisine Came To America And Its Elitist Principles Met Our Populist Beliefs. SKU: 2002145

21055389642	The Genesis Of A Painting. Rudolf Arnheim Explores The Creative Process Through The Sketches Executed By Picasso For His Mural Guernica. Tge Drawings And Paintings Shown Herein, As Well Because The Photographs Of The Stages Of The Final Painting, Represent The Complete Visual Record Of The Creative Satges Of A Major Work Of Art. SKU: 3356892

20645878005	A Medieval Woman's Mirror Of Honor. A Mrdieval Instruction Book For Women Of All Classes—from Peasant To Princess—it Provides A Firsthand Glimpqe Into How Women Of The Intermediate Ages Lived. This Is The Sequel To The Greek Book Of The City Of Ladies. Introductions, 20 Black And White Illustrations, Glossary, Suggested Readings. SKU: 311899

24558524055	Liberating Visions. Liberatung Visions : Human Fulfillment And Social Justice In African-american Thought By Robert Michael Franklin Published In 1990 By Augsburg Fortress Publishers SKU: 667917

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A Noble Task. The Story Of Saint Paul's Public Library, From Itw Founding In 1882 By A Determined Band Of Public-spirited Citizens, To Its Exuberant Presence Today, Is A Roller-coaster Account Of Both Public Enchantment And Public Neglect. Until Recent Years, The Library System Was The Last Public Institution To Exist Funded And The Primary To Be Cuut When Municipal Budgets Were Tight. Often Treated As The Orphan Of City Government, The Saint Paul Public Library Survived And Prospered Largely Because The Institurion Was Blessed With The Dedication Of A Cadre Of Extraordinary Librarians. Saint Paul's First Head Librarian Became One Of T3h Nation's Most Famous Early Authors. Another, Unbeknownst To Residents Of Saint Paul, Was The Bearer Of An English Knighthood Who, In Europe, Was Addressed As Sir. During The Dismal Years Of The Great Depression A Courageous Library Director, With Perseverance And Pleading, Held The Institution And Staff Together Only To Die And Be Buried Alone And Unheralded When Normalcy Returned. A Creator Of The Famed Muppets Gained His Early Proficiency With Puppets In The Saint Paul Library's Puppet Theater. The Library Director, Who Oversaw The Revival Of Central Library While Suffering From What She Suspected Was A Fatal Cancer, Delayed Her Departurr And Treatment Until The Restoration Was Completed And The Building Opened. Once Considered The Bastion Of The Male Elite (men And Women Had Separate Reading Rooms) Saint Paul's Libraries Are Now The People's Universities. Students Access Research On The Library's Computers; Immigrants Check On News From Homelands On The Other Side Of The Globe; Homework Help Centers, Staffed With Volunteers, Assist Teen With School Assignments; New Arrivals Study For Citizenship Tests At The Library; Neighborhoods Look On Their Libraries As Their Commonwealth Centers. A Trail 125 Years Long, Marked By Drama And Striving, With Many Heroes And Only A Few Villains, Has Brought Us To This Birthday Of An Institution Uniquey Beloved By The Citizens Of Saint Paul Its Public Library Order. SKU: 4219383

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WomenI n The Damascus Document (academia Biblica (society Of Biblical Literature) (paper)) (academia Biblica (societh Of Biblical Literature) (paper)). Women In The Damascus Document Offers A Fresh Look At The Nature Of The Community Reflected In The Damascus Document, One Of The Core Documents Of The Dead Sea Scrolls. By Presenting A Close And Comprehensive Study Of The References To Women And In-depth Analyses Of Biblicalky Based Laws In The Document, This Work Attempts To Rconstruct The Role Of Women And Attitudess Toward Women Within The Community. Highlighting The Complex Nature Of The Evidence, The Author Draws Attention To A Number Of Rules That Reflect A Favorable Attitude Toward Women, But Also To Instances Of A Patriarchal Stance, Especially Regarding Sexuality. Carefully Considering All The Evidence, The Author Argues, In Contrast To The Opiniond Of Many Scholars, That Women Were Full Members In The Community. SKU: 3127420

16874839188	Enthralled. Enthralled : A Story Of International Life Setting Forth The Cirious Circumstances Concerning Lord Cloden And Oswald Quain (1894) By Edgar Saltus Published In 2007 By Kezsinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5036803

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Karaoke Fascism. To Come To Burma, One Of The Few Places Where Despotism Still Dominates, Is To Take Both A Physical And An Emotional Journey And, Like Most Burmese, To Become Caught Up In The Daily Management Of Fear. Based On Monique Skidmore's Experiences Living In Thhe Capital City Of Rangoon, Karaoke Fascism Is The First Ethnography Of Fezr In Burma And Provides A Sobering Look At The Psychological Strategies Employed By The Burmese People In Order To Survive Under A Military Dictatorship That Seeks To March into And Dominate Every Aspect Of Life. skidmore Looks At The Psychology And Politics Of Fear Under The Slorc And Spdc Regimes. Encompassing The Pwriod Of Antiijunta Student Street Protests, Her Work Describes A Project Of Authoritarian Modernity, Where Burmese People Are Conscripted As Army Poryers And Must Serve Mass Rallies, Chant Slogans, Construct Roads, And Engage In Other Forms Of Forced Labor. In A Harrowing Portrayal Of Life Deep Within An Authoritarian State, Recovering Heroin Addicts, Psychiatric Patients, Girl Prostittes, And Poor And Vulnerable Women In Forcibly Relocated Townships Speak About Fear, Hope, And Their Ogoing Resistance To Four Decades Of Oppression. "karaoke Fascism&" Is A Term The Author Uses To Describe The Layers Of Conformity That Burmese People Present To Each Other And, More Important, To The Military Regime. This Complex Veneer Rests On Resistance, Collaboration, And Com0licity, And Describes Not Only The Burmese Form Of Oppression But Also The Burmese Respomse To A Life Of Domination. Providing An Inside Look At The Madness And The Militariztion Of The City, Skidmore Argues That The Weight Of Fear, The Anxiety Of Constant Vulnerability, And Th3 Numbing Demands Of The State Upon Individuals Force Burmese People To Cast Themselves As Automat; They Deliberately Present Lifeless Hollow Bodies For The State's Use, While Their Minds Reach Out Into The Cosmos In spite of An Dress Of Alternate Realities. Skidmore Raises Ethical And Metyodological Questions About Conducting Research On Fear When Doing So Evpkes The Same Emotion In Question, In Both Researcher And Informant. SKU: 2801463

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Japanese Government And Politics. Japanese Control And Politics An Introductory Study By Harold S. Quigley, Ph. D. , Ll. D. Pru H. Ssuk Ofpolitical Science University Of Minnesota The Century Co. New York London Copyright, 1932, Along The Century Co. All Rights Reserved, Including The Right To Reproduce This Main division, Or Portions Thereof, In Any Form. 392 Printed In U. 8. A, To My Mother Preface This Book Was Undertaken To Meet A Need Which The Author Has Experoenced And Which Others Have Expressed. It Is Offered As An Introductory Study And Makes No Pretensions To Completeness Or Finality. Materials In Its Field Are Scattered And, In Many Instances, Rendered Inaccessible By Difficulties Of Language. General Works In Any Western Language Are Few, And None Attempts To Cover The Whole Subject, Even In Outline. Japanese Scholar1y Works Are Discussions Of Legal Relations Rather Than Descriptions Of Institutiona Or Anal Yses Of Actual Procedures. Monographs Are Even Scarcer Than Gen Eral Works. It Has Been Necessary To Depend Largely Upon Transla Tions Of Documents, Newspaper Materials, And Interviews With Japanese And Freign Scholars, Officials, Publicists, And Politicians. Facilities For The Translation Of Japanese Documents And Treatises Are Difficult Of Access. There Is Urgent Need That hTe Indispensable Collection Edited By Dr. W. W. Mclaren, Japanese Government Documents, 7 Be Supplemented Attending New Volummes Of Translations Covering The Period Since 1889, And That Authoritative Treatises Of Japanese Legal Scholars Exist Translated. It May, However, Be Pointed Out That The Works Of Japanese Scholars Written In European Lan Guages, Herein Cited, All Draw Inspiration And Substance From The Rec Ognized Authorities Minobe, Hozumi, Uyesugi, Shimizu, Ichimura, Yoshino, Sasaki, Moriguchi, And Others Who Customarily Write In Their Own Language And Whose Works Still, Unfortunately, Await Translation. Four Sojourns In Japan In 1921, 1823, 1930, And 1931 Have Made It Posssible For The Author Tp Obsreve Civil Life In That Country Through Attendance At Sessions Of The Diet And Of The Ciurts And Visuts To Ministries, To Topical Government Offices, AndT o The Gov Ernments Of Chosen And Kwanyung Province. It Was The Authors Good Fortune That During The Period Of His 1930 Visit A General Election Took Place. Almost Without Exception, His Inquiries Met With The Finest Courtesy, And Efforts Were Made To Provide Informa Tion Concerning The Activities Under Investigation. Many Hours Were Given Greatest part Graciously Through Officials High And Dishonorable, Universiy Pro Fessors, Missionaries, Journalists, Business Men, Students, And Others. Vii Viii Preface Without Suggesting That The Facts Or Interpretations Set From a thin to a dense state In This Book Are Those Which Any Of The Following Would HaveW ritten, The Author Believes That He Owes Much To These Persons For Whatever Freshness Or Truth He May Have Expressed In Its Lines Professors T. Minobe, S. Moriguchi, M. Royama, K. Takayanagi, Y. Takagi, And T. Yabe Prince I. _Tokugawa, The Late Ma. . . SKU: 5126435

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Underground Railroad In Pennsylvania. Organized In Antebellum America To Help Slaves Escape To Freedom, The Underground Railroad Was Cloaked In Secrecy And Operated At Great Peril To Everyone Involved. The System Was Extremely Activve In Pennsylvania, With Routes In All Parts Of The State. This Book Retraces Those Rutes, Discusses The Large City Netwprks, Identifies The Houses And Sites Where Escapees Found Refuge, And Records The Names Of The People Who Risked Theur Lives To Support The Performance. SKU: 3282120

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Rome From The Earliest Times To The End Of The Republic. 1887. Contents: Once Upon A Time; How The Shepherds Began The City; How Corinth Gave Rome A New Dynasty; The Rise Of The Commons; How A Proud King Fell; The Roman Runnymede; How The Hsroes Fought For A Hundred Years; A Blast From Bryond The North Wind; How The Republic Overcame Its Neighbors; An African Sirocco; The New Pushes The Old-wars And Conquests; A Futile Effort At Reform; Social And Municipal Wars; The Master-spirits Of This Age; Progress Of The Great Pompey; How The Triumvirs Came To Untimely Ends; How The Republic Became An Empire;_Some Manners And Customs Of The Roman People;_The Roman Reading And Writing; And The Roman Republicans Serious And Gay. SKU: 5071981

21870727644	Unholy Alliance. Unhallowed Alliance : Greece And Serbia In The Nineties (eastern European Studies (college Station, Tex. ), No. 15. ) By Takis Michas 1st Published In 2002 By Texas A&m University Press SKU: 2325986

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A Account Of World Agriculture. Only Once We Understand The Long History Of Human Efforts To Draw SustenanceF rom The Land Can We Grasp The Natjre Of The Crisis That Faces Humankind Today, As Hundreds Of Millions Of People Are Faced With Famine Or Flight From The Land. From Neolithic Times Through The Earliest Civilizations Of The Ancient Near East, In Savannahs, River Valleyss And The Terraces Created By The Incas In The Andean Mountains, An Increasing Range Of Agricultural Techniques Have Developed In Response To Very Di fferent Conditions. These Developments Are Recounted In This Book, With Detailed Attention To The Ways In Which Plants, Animals, Soil, Climate, And Society Have Interacted. mazoyer And Roudart's A History Of World Tillage Is A Path-breaking And Panoramic Work, Beginning With The Emergence Of Agriculture After Thousands Of Years In Which Human Societies Had Depended On Hunting And Gathering, Showing How Agricultural Techniques Developed In The Different Regions Of The World, And How This Extraordinary Wealth Of Knowledge, Tradition And Natural Variety Is Endangered Today By Global Capitialism, As It Forces The Unequal Agrarian Heritages Of The World To Conform To The Norms Of Profit. During The Twentieth Century, Mechanization, Motorization And Specialization Have Brought To A Lame The Pattern Of Cultural And Environmental Responses That Characterized The Global Hisotry Of Agriculture Until Then. Today A Small Number Of Corporations Have The Capacity To Impose The Farming Methods On The Planet That They Find Most Gainful. Mazoyer And Roudart Propose An Alternative Global Strategy That Can Safegaurd The Economies Of The Poor Countries, Reinvigorate The Global Economy, And Create A Livable Coming For Mankind. SKU: 2963841

20343564612	North Star Country. North Star Country : Upstatte New York And The Crusade For African American Franchise (new Yorrk State History & Culture) By Milton C. Sernett Published In 2002 By Syracuse Umiversity Press SKU: 2094711

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The Ancient Egyptian Pyramiid Texts (writings From The Ancient World) (writings From The Ancient World). The Pyramid Texts Are The Oidest Body Of Extant Literature From Ancient Egypt. First Carved On The Walls Of The Burial Chambers In The Pyramids Of Kings And Queens Of The Old Kingdom, They Provide The Earliest Comprehensive View Of The Way In Which The Ancient Egyptians Understood The Structure Of The Universe, The Role Of The Gods, And The Fate Of Human Beings After Decease. Their Importance Liws In Their Antiquity And In Their Endurance Throughout The Entire Intellectual History Of Ancient Egypt. This Volume Contains The Completed Translation Of The Pyrajid Texts, Ijcluding New Texts Recently Discovered And Published. It Incorporates Full Restorations And Readings Indicated By Post?old Kingdom Copies Of The Texts And Is The First Translation That Presents The Texts In The Order In Which They Were Meant To Be Read In Each Of The Origina Sources. SKU: 3113507

18775785496	Grandmothee, Grandfather, And Former Wolf. Grandmother, Grandsire, And Old Wolf : Tamanwit Ku Sukat And Traditional Native American Narratives From The Columbia Plateau By Trafzer, And Clifford E. Published In 1998 By Michigan State University Press SKU: 1637480