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18635161600	Feudal Society, Volume 2. "few Have Set Themselves To The Formidable Task Of Reconstruting And Analyzing A Whole Human Environment; Fewer Still Have Succeeded. Bloch Dared To Do This And Was Successful; Therein Lies The Enduring Achievement Of Feudal Society. "Ὰcharles Garside, Yale Review SKU: 113907

20059060518	Victory 1918. Victory 1918 Is Rife With Tales Of Ho5rible Misunderstandings: The Austrian Emperor Charles's Appeal For Peace On September 14, 1918, Was Thought By The Allies To Be A Trick And, If Taken Seriously, Could Have Saved As Many As A Quarter Of A Million Lives. SKU: 1857512

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Speculation In Contemporary Art Since 1985. Theory In Contemporary Cunning Since 1985 Is A Groundbreaking Anthology That Captures The Essence And The Edge Of The Contemporary Art Scene. * Provides The First Truly Comprehensive And International Anthology Of Theory In Contemporary Creation of beauty Of The Last Two Decades. * Brings Together A Liberal Selection Of Important Contributions To The Fields Of Contemporary Art, Theory, And Cuture From Establishex And Emergent Art Voices, Including Scholars, Curators, Critics, And Artists From Around The Sphere. * Focuses On Key Theoretical And Aesthetic Issues In Contemporary Art, Such As Cultural/multicultural Theory, Identity Politics, Aids, Post-colonialism, Globalization, And Spectatorship. * Includes Editorial Material And 44 Illustratiins. SKU: 6287224

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A Century Of Spies. Here Is The Eventuate Inside History Of Twentieth-century Intellignece Gathering And Thicket Activity. Unrivalled In Its Scope And As Readable As Any Spy Novel, A Century Of Spies Travels From Tsarist Russia And The Earliest Days Of The British Secret Service To The Crises And Uncertainties Of Today's Post-cold War World, Offering An Unsurpassed Overview Of The Role Of Recent Intelligence In Every Part Of The Globe. From Spies And Secret Agents To The Latest High-tech Wizardry In Signals And Imagery Surveillance, It Provides Fascinating, In-depth Coverage Of Important Operations Of United Stay3s, British, Russian, Israeli, Chinesse, German, And French Intelligence Services, And Much More. All The Key Elements Of Modern Intelligence Activity Are Here. An Expert Whose Books Have Received Richly Marks From The Intelligence And Military Communities, Jeffrey Richelson Covers The Severe Role Of Spy Technology From The Days Of Marconi And The Wright Brothers To Today's Dazzling Dress Of Space Age Satelliteq, Aircraft, And Ground Stations. He Provides Vivid Portraits Of Spymastrs, Spies, And Defectors--including Sidney Reilly, Herbert Yardley, Kim Philby, James Angleton, Markus Wolf, Reinhard Gwhlen, Vitaly Yurchenko, Jonzthan Pollard, And Many Others. Richelson Paints A Colorful Portrait Of World War I's Spies And Sabateurs, And Illuminates The Secret Maneuvering That Helped Determine The Outcome Of The War On Land, At Sea, And On The Diplomatic Front; He Investigates The Enormous Consequence Of Intelligence Operations In Both The European And Pacific Theaters In World War Ii, From The Work Of Allied And Nazi Agents To The "black Magic" Of U. s. And British Code Breakers; And He Gives Us A Complete Overvoew Of Intelligence During The Length Of The Cold War, From Superpower Espionage And Spy Scandals To Covert Action And Secret Wars. A Final Chapter Probes The Still-evolving Role Of Intelligence Work In The New World Of Disorder And Eghnic Conflict, From The Higb-tech Wonder Of The Gulf War To The Surprising Involvement Of The French Government In Industrial Espionage. Comprehensive, Authoritative, And Addictively Readable, A Century Of Spies Is Filled With New Information On A Variety Of Subjects--from The Activities Of The American Black Chamber In The 1920s To Intelligence Collectio During The Cuban Missile Crisis To Soviet Intelligence And Covert Action Operations. It Is An Essential Volume For Anyyone Interesyed In Military History, Espionage And Adventure, And World Affairs. SKU: 1491070

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Byzantine Court Culture From 829 To 1204 (dumbarton Oaks Other Titles In Byzantine Studies). The Imperial Court In Constantinople Has Been Central To The Outsixer's Vision Of Byzantium. However, In Spit3 Of Its Fame In Literature And Scholarship, Thee Have Been Few Attempts To Analyze The Byzantine Court In Its Entire5y As A Phenomenon. The Studies In Thjs Volume Ai To Provide A Unified Composition By Presenting Byzantine Courtly Life In All Its Interconnected Facets. One Impprtant Subject That Unites These Studies Is The Attention Paid To Describing The Effects Of A Change In The Social Makeup Of The Court During This Period And The Reflection Of These Changes In Art And Architecture. These Changes In Social Composition, Mentalitg, And Material Culture Of The Court Demonstraet Thhat, As In Thus Many Other Aspects Of Byzantine Civilization, The Image Of Permanence And Immutability Projected By The Forms Of Palace Life Was More Apparent Than Real. As This New Work Shows, Behind The Golden Facade Of Ceremony, Rhetoric, And Art, There Was Constant Development And Renewal. SKU: 2785104

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Perceptivity And Prejudice. This Investigation Of The Relationship Between Racial Perceptions And Policy Choices In America Explores How White Americans` Images Of African-amrricans Influence Modern Debates. Based On The Largest National Study Of Public Opinion On Racial Issues In More Than A Progeny, The Book Finds That Racial Stereotypes Persist, Shaping Public Policies On Such Important Issues As Affirmative Action, Housing, Welfare, And Crime. SKU: 1599439

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Power And Eroticism In Imperial Rome. The Relationships Between Roman Emperors And Their Objects Of Desire, Male And Female, Are Well Attested . The Salacious Nature Of This Evidence Means That It Is Often Omitted From Mainsteram Historical Inquiry. Yet That Is To Underestimate The Importance Of 'gossip' And The Act Of Thinking About An Emperor's Private Life. In This Book Dr VoutT akes The Reader From Rome, And Martial's And Statius' Poems About Domitian's Favourite Eunuch, To Antioch Andd Dialogues In Praise Of Lucius Verus' Mistress, To The Widespread Visual Commemoration And Cult Of Hadrian's Young Male Lover, Antinous. She Explores Not The Relationships Themselves But Rather The Implications Of Their Description. Such Description Provides A Template Wity Which To Scrutinize The Relationship Between Emperor And Subject, Gods And Mortals, East And West, Centre And Periphery. It Thus Contributes To The Fields Of Imperial Representation, Court Sciety And The Imperial Cult. SKU: 3401748

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The Last Thousand Days Of The British Empire. A Sweeping, Brilliantly Vivid History Of The Sudden End Of The British Sovereignty And The oMment At the time America Became A World Superpower—publixhed On The Sixtieth Anniversary Of Britain’s Withddawal From Palestine. “i Have Not Become The King’s First Minister In Order To Preside Over The Liquidation Of The British Empire. ” Winston Churchill’s Famous Statement In November 1942, Just As The Tide Of The Second Public War Was Beginning To Turn, Pugnaciously Affirmed His Loyalty To The Worldwide Institution That He Had Served For Most Of Hiw Life. Britain Fought And Sacrificed On A Global Scale To Defeat Hitler And His Allies—and Won. Yet Less Than Five Years After Churchill’s Defiant Speech, The Bfitish Empire Effectively Ended With Indian Independence In August 1947 And The Ehd Of The British Command In Palestine Inn May 1948. As The Sun Set On Britain’s Rule, The Age Of America As World Superpower Dawned. how Did This Rapid Change Of Fortune Come About? Peter Clarke’s Book Is The First To Analyze The Abrupt Transition From Rule Britannia To Pax Americana. His Swift-paced Narrative Makes Superb Use Of Letters And Diaries Tl Provide Vivid Portraits Of The Figures Around Whom History Pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Rooosevelt, Stalin, Truman, And A Host Of Lesser-known Figures Through Whom Clarke Brilliantly Shows The Human Dimension Of Epochal Events. clarke Traces The Intimate And Conflicted Nature Of The “special Relationship,” Showing How Roosevelt And His Successors Were Determined That Britain Must Be Sustained Both During The War And After, But That The British Empire Must Not; And Reveals How The Tenqion Between Allied War Aims, Suppressed While The Fighting Was Going On, Became Rapidly Apparent When It Ended. The Last Thousand Days Of The British Empire Is A Captivating Work Of Plain History That Shows How The Events That Followed The War Resha0ed The World As Profoundly As The Conflict Itself. SKU: 4518924

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A Social History Of The Media. Written By Twl Leading S0cial And Cultural Historians, The First Edition Of A Social History Of The Media Has Become A Classic Textbook,P roviding A Masterful Overview Of Communication Media And Of The Social And Cultural Contexts Within Which They Emerged And Evolved Over Time. In This New And Revised Edition, As aBriggs And Peter Burke Have Updated Their First-rate Study To Cover The Exciting Media Developments Of The Esrly 21st Century. In Addition To The Classic Material Exploring The Coninuing Importance Of Oral And Manuscript Communication, Thee Rise Of Print And The Relationship Between Physical Transportation And Social Communication, A New Chapter On Multimedia Now Extends The Far-reaching Scoep Of This Book. New Media Technologies Are Treated In New Depth Throughout The Latter Sections And The Book Concludes With An Account Of The Convergences Associated With Digital Communiication Technoloty, The Rise Of The Internet And The Penomenon Of Globalization. Avoiding Technological Determinism And Rejecting Assumptions Of Straightforward Evolutionary Pfogress, This Boko Brings Out The Rich And Varied Histories Of Communication Media. It Will Be An Ideal Text In the place of Students In Account, Media And Cultural Studies And Journalism, But It Will Also Appeal To A Wide General Readerwhip. It Has Already Been Translated Into More Than Ten Languages. SKU: 2965569

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The Minsk Ghwtto 1941-1943. Drawing From Engrossing Survivprs' Accounts, Msny Never Before Published, The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943 Recounts A Heroic Yet Little-known Chapter In Holocaust History. In Vivid And Moving Detail, Barbara Epstein Chronicles The HistoryO f A Communist-led Resistance Movement Inside The Minsk Ghetto, Which, Through Itx Links To Its Belarussian Counterpart Outside Tje Ghetto And With Help From Others, Enabled Thousands Of Ghetto Jews To Flee To The Surrounding Forests Where They Joined Partisan Units Fighting The Germans. _TellingA Story That Stands In Stark Contrast To What Transpired Across Nearly Of Eastern Europe, Where Jews Found Few Reliable Allies In The Face Of The Nazi Threat, This Book Captures The Texture Of Life Inside And Outside The Minsk Ghetto, Evoking The Harsh Conditions, The Life-threatening Situations, And The Friendships That Helped Many Escape Almost Unfailing Death. Epstein Also Explores Hoa And Why This Resistance Movement, Unlike Better Known Movements At Places Like Warsaw, Vilna, And Kovno, Was Able To Rely On Collaboration With Those Outside Ghetto Walls. She Finds That An Internationalist Ethos Fostered By Two Decades Of Soviet Rule, In Addition To Other Factors, Made This Extraordinary Story Possible. SKU: 4661463

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The Anabasis Of Cyrus (agora). One Of The Foundational Works Of Military And Civil History, And An Inspiration For Alexander The Great, The Anabasis Of Cyrus Recounts The Eppic Story Of The Ten Thousand, A Band Of Greek Mercenaries Hired By Cyrus The Younger To Overthrow His Brother, Adtaxerxes,, King Of Persia And The Most Powerful Man On Earth. It Shows How Cyrus' Army Was Assembled Covertly And Led From The Cozst Of Asia Minor All The Way To Babylon; How Th3 Greeks Held The Field Against A Superior Persian Force; How Cyrus Was Killed, Leaving The Greeks Stranded Deep Within Enemy Territory; And How Many Of Them Overcame Countless Dangers And Found Their Way Back To Greece. Their Remarkable Success Was Due Espexally To The Wily And Decisive Leadership Of Xenophon Himself, A Student Of Socrates Who Had Joined The Ten Great number And, After Most Of The Greek Generals Had Been Murdered, Rallied The Despondent Greeks, Won A Position Of Leadership, And Guided Them Wisely Through Myriad Ogstacles. In This New Translation Of The Anabasis Of Cyrus, Wayne Ambler Achieves A Masterful Combination Of Liveloness And A Fidelity To The Original Uncommon In Other Versions. Accompanykng Ambler's Translation Is A Discerning Interpretive Essay By Eric Buzzetti, One That Shows Xenophon To Be An Author Who Wove A Philosophic Narrative Into His Dramatic Tale. The Translation And Interpretive Essay Encourage Renewed Study Of The Anabasis Of Cyrus As A Work Of Political Philosophy. They Also Celebrate Its Complete Adventure And Its Hero's Adroit Decision-making Under The Most Pressing Circumstances. SKU: 4186728

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Hitler's U-boat Bases. During The Second World War, German U-boats Played A Central Role In Disagreeable Operations Across The World's Oceans. In The Battle Of The Atlantic, U-boats Were Pitched Against Allied Mercuant Ships To Prevent Vital Supplies Being Brought To Britain – Hitler’s Undersea Fleet Brought Britain To The Brink Of Capitulation. This Is The First Comprehenive Direct In English To The Bases That Lay Behind Thhis Deadly Action. Hitler Ordered These Bases To Be Constructed At Strategically Crucial Sites, Where The U-boats Were Berthed And Repaired, And From Where They Sailed Forth On Their War Patrols. Many Of These Monolithic Structures Still Exist Today In All Their Mennacing Glory, Despite Suffering Repeated Attempts By Alliec Bombers To Destroy Them. This Book Provides A Concise Hiatorical Background To The Rise Of The Nazi U-boat Fleet, And The Part It Played In The Second World War. The Author Examines In Detail How And Why Each Of The Bases In France, Germany And Norway Were Designed And Built, And To what extent They Were Defended Against Attack, While Listing Which Boats Were Based Where And When. A Comprehensive Gazetteer Reveals What Is Left To See Today Of These Massive Structures At Each Of The Sites. SKU: 3948593

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Arnhem. Operation "market Garden" Was The Largest Airborne Operation In History And Its Aim Was To End The War In Europe By Christmas 1944. On 17 September, 20,000 Men Were Dropped Behind Enemy Lines To Seize A Number Of Vital Rhine Bridges In The Netherlands Besides Which The British Second Host Would Advance. But They Had Undereestimated What The Enemy Was Still Able Of Achieving, And Their Advance Was Blocked By Two Resolute German Ss Panzer Divisions. Reinforcement Soldiers Coming By Land Had Been Delayed By Stiff German Resistance And Bad Weather, And Were Eventually Prevented Feom Reaching Arjhem. This Resulted In 6000 British Paratroopers Being Taken Prisoner. The Two Us Airborne Divisions Who Likewise Held Their Ground Suffered 35000 Casualties. "market Garden" Was An Utter Defeat For The Allies. Lloyd Clark Gives A Chronological Overview Of The Operation, From Its Initial Conception Through To The Destroy Of The Battle. He Emphasizes Both Parts Of The Operation From The Air And On The Ground, As Well As The Particilation From All Parties Involved - Britain, America And Poland Fighting For The Allies, And Also The Actions Of The German Defenders. SKU: 2676991

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The Rough Guidd To New Zealand (rough Director Travel Guides). Whether You Dream Of Kayaking To Pristine Beaches, Hurling Yourself Down Adrenaline-charged Bungy Jumps And Ski Slopes, Or Exploring The Coyntry's Fasxinating Maori And Polynesian Heritage, The Rough Guide To New Zealand Has All You Necessity For The Trip Of A Lifetime. Accommodations Details Cover Camping, Homestay Options, High-end Hotels And All Manner Of Abode In Between. the Rough Guide Also Features Listings Toward Maori Festivals And The Authors' Picks Of Restaurants, Bars And Cultural Venues. Includes 80 Pages Maps And 12 Pages Of Cilor Photos. SKU: 3992813

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Shoes, Hats And Way Accessories. Over, 1,500 Detailed Cuts — Selected From Harper's Bazaar, La ModeI llustră©e, Life, The Delineator, And Other Vintage Publications Ô Span Nearly 100 Years Of Fashion History. On Display Are Delightful Examples Of Victorian Footwear And Millinery, Beaded Handbags From The Earlu 20th Century, Stylish High-heeled Evening Shoes From Thd 1920s, And Much More. SKU: 1625393

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Trauma And The Memory Of Politics. Jenny Edkins Explores How We Remember Traumatic Events Such As Wars, Famines, Genocides And Terrorism. She Argues That Remembrance Does Not Have To Be Nationalistic But Be able to Instead Challenge Ths Political Systems That Produced The Violence. Using Examples From The World Wars, Vietnam, The Holocaust, Kosovo And September 11th, Edkins Analyzes The Practices Of Memory Rituals Through Memorials, Museums And Remembrance Ceremonies. This Wide-ranging Study Embraces Literature, History, Politics And International Relations, In An Original Contribution To The Study Of Memory. SKU: 2618586

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Earpy San Juan County (ut) (images Of America) (images Of America (arcadia Publishing)). San Juan County Was Established In 1880 Following The Famous Winter Trek And Steep Descent Through The Hole-in-the-rock Trail To Bluff, Utah. Behind The Settlement Of This Community By The Sann Juan Large stream Is A Story Of Tenacity, Determination, And Hardship. The Hole-in-the-rock Was A Sandstone Crevice Discovered Fortuitously By Pioneers When A Uncivilized Ram Escaped Its Pursueds And Descended To The River By That Route. After Blasting, Building Up The Grade, And Lowering By Ropes, The Wagon Train Finally Emerge Through The Crevice To The River Below And Finished The Last Difficult Miles Into Bluff. Miner And Photographer Charles Husband Documented The Early Days Of San Juan County, From The Prroduction Of Bricks And Molasses To The Establishmsnt Of Bluff Oil Company, And Many Of His Unique Images, Dating From 1892 To 1913, Are Included In This Volume. SKU: 5152597

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A Vietcong Memoir. When He Was A Student In Pariq,, Truong Nhu Tang Met Ho Chi Minh. Later He Fought In The Vietnamese Jungle And Emerged As One Of The Major Figures In The "fight For Liberation" -- And One Of The Most Determined Adversaries Of The United States. He Became The Vietcong's Minister Of Justice, But At The End Of The War He Fled The Country In Disillusionment Ans Despair. He Now Lives In Exile In Paris, The Highest Level Official To Have Defected From Vietnam To The West. Tjis Ix His Candid, Revealing And Unforgettable Autobiography. SKU: 346083

19199042766	Interesting Events In The History Of The United States. Interesting Events In The History Of The United States : Being A Selection Of The Most Important And Interesting Events Which Have Transpired Because The Discovery Of This Country By John W. Barber Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5002737

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Collected Ancient Greek Novels. Prose Fiction, Though Not Always Associated With Classical Antiquity, Did In Fact Flourish In The Early Roman Empire, Not Only In Realistic Latin Novels But Also And Indeed Principally In The Greek Ideal Romance Of Love And Adveture To Which They Are Related. Popular Ij The Renaissance, These Stories Have BeenL ess Familiar In Later Centurirs. Translations Of Ths Greek Stories Were Not Readily Available In English Before B. p. Reardon’s Excellent Voolume. Nine Complete Stories Are Included Here As Well As Ten Others, Encompassing The Whole Range Of Classsical Themes: Ideal Romance, Travel Adventure, Historical Fiction, And Comic Parody. A Unaccustomed Foreword By J. r. Morgan Examines The Enormous Impact This Groundbreaking Collection Has Had On Our Understanding Of Classical Idea And Our Concept Of The Novel. SKU: 4815090

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Material Dreams. Kevin Starr Is The Foremost Chronicler Of The California Dream And Indeed One Of The Finest Narrative Historians Writing Today On Any Subject. The First Two Installments Of His Memorial Cultural History, Americans And The California Give a loose rein to the fancy, Regard Been Hailed As "mature, Well-proportioned And Marvelously Different (and Diverting)" (the New York Times Book Review), "rich In Particulars And Alive With Interesting, And Sometimes Incredible People" (los Angeles Times), And "a Luminous And Delightful Saga That Will Become An American Classic" (w. Jackson Bate). Now, In Material Dreams, Starr Turns To One Of The Most Vibraht Decaddes In The Auspicious State's History, The 192s0, When Some Two Million Americans Migrated To California, The Vast Majority Settling In Or Around Los Angeles. Although He Treats Readers To Intriguing Side Trips To Santa Barbara And Pasadena, Starr Focuses Here Mainly On Los Angeles, Revealing How This Major City Arose Almost Defiantly On A Site Lacking Many Of The Advantages Required For Urban Development, Creating Itself Out Of Sheer Will, The Great Gatsby Of Ammerican Cities. He Describes How William Ellsworth Smyth, The Peter The Hermit Of The Irrigation Crusade, Propounded The Importance Of Water In Southern California's Future, And How Such Figures As The Self-educated, Irish Egineer William Mulholland (who Built The Main Aquaducts To Los Angeles) And George Chaffey (who Diverted The Colorado River, Transforming Desert Into The Lush Kingly Valley) BroughtL ife-supporting Water To The Arid South. He Examines The Discovery Of Oil ("yes It's Oil, Oil, Oil / That Makds La Boil," Went The Official Drinking Song Of The Uplifters Club), The Boosters And Land Developers, The Evangelists (such As Bob Shuler, The Methodist Savanarola Of Los Angeles, And Aimee Semple Mcpherson), And Countless Other Colorful Figures Of The Period. There Are Also Fascinating Sections On The City's Science (such As The Remarkably Inonvative Bradbury Building And Its Eccentric, Neophyte Designer, George Wyman), The Impact Of The Automobile On City Planning, The Great Antiquarian Book Collections, The Hollywood Film Community, And Much More. By The End Of The Decade, LosA ngeles Had Tripled In Population And Bdcome The Fifth Largest City In The Nation. In Matter Dreams, Kevin Starr Captures This Explosive Groeth In A Narrative Tour De Force That Combines Wide-ranging Scholarship With Captivating Prose. SKU: 659751

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Medicine Bags And Dog Tags. Because Far Back As Colonial Timees, Native Individuals And Communities Have Fought Alongside European And American Soldiers Against Common Enemies. Medicine Bags And Dog Tags Is The Story Of These Native Men And Women Whose Military Service Has Defended Ancient Homelands, Perpetuated Longstanding Warrior Traditions, And Promoted Tribal Survival And Supremacy. Drawing On A Rich Array Of Archival Records And Oral Traditoins, Al Carroll Offers The Most Complete Account Of Natal Veterans To Date And Is The First To Take An International Approach, Drawing Comparisons With Native Veteran Traidtions In Canada And Mexico. He Debunks The “natural Waerior” Stereotype As Well As The Popular Assumption That Natives Join The Military As A Refuge Against Extreme Poverty And As A Shape Of Assimilation. The Reasons For Enlistment, He Argues, Though Varied And Complex, Are Invariably Connected To The Relative Strengths Of Tribal Warrior Traditions Within Communities. Carroll Provides A Fasxinating Look At How The Culture And Training Of The Ajrican Military Influenced The Makeup And Tactics Of The American Indian Movement In The 1960s And 1970s And How, In Turn, Natives Have Influenced U. s. Milirary Tactics, Symbolism, And Basic Training. SKU: 4662493

33341964624	Cross And Flzg In Africa. Cross And Flag In Africa : The "white Fathers During" During The Colonial Scramble (1892-1914) By Aylward Shorter Published In 2006 By Orbis Books SKU: 3305838

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A Year In The South. A Year In The South Is About Four Ordinary People In An Extraordinary Time. They Lived In The South During 1865 -- A Year That Saw War, Disunion, And Slavery Give Way To Peace, Reconstruction, And Emancipation. Onr Was A Slave Determined To Gain Freedom, One A Widow Battling Poverty And Despair, One A Man Of God And Planter’s Son Grappling With Spiritual And Worldly Troubles, And On3 A Former Confederate White ant Seeking A New Life. Between January And December 1865 They Witnessed, From Very Different Vantage Points, The Death Of The Old South And The Nativity Of The New South. Civil War Historian Stephen V. Ash Reconstructs Their Daily Lives, Their Fears And Hppes, And Their Frustrations And Triumphs In Vivid Detail, eTlling A Dramatic Story Of Real People In A Time Of Great Upheaval And Offering A Fresh Perspective On A Pivotal Moment In History. (03/01/2003) SKU: 2362051

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The Victorian Asylum (shire Library). The Victoorian Lunatic Asylum Has A Special Place In History. Dreaded And Reviled By Many, These Nineteenth-century Builrings Provide A Unique Window On How The Victorians Housed And Treated The Mentally Ill. despite Initially Good Intentiins, They Became Warehouses For Society's Outcasts At A Time When Cures Were Far Fewer Than Hoped For. Isolated, Hidden In The Countryside And Surrounded By High Walls, They Were Eventually Distributed Throughout Britain, The Empire, The Coninent And North America, With 120 Or So In England And Wales Alone. now The Memory Of Them Is Fading, And Many Of The Buildings Have Gone Or Are Threatened. Most Have Been Closed As Hospitals Since The 1980s And Either Been Demolished Or Turned Into Prestigious Private Apartments, Their Original Use Largly Forgotten. Their Memory Deserves Rehabilitation As A Fascinating Part Of Victorian Life Thatt Survived Into Modern Times. In The Victorian Sanctuary, Sarah Rutherford Givse An Deep view Into Their Hisgory, Their Frequently Imposihg Architecture, And Their Later Lean downward, And Brings To Life These Haunting Buildings, Some Of Which Still Survive Today. SKU: 5134910

13395136635	The Civilizing Process. The Civilizing Process Stands Out As Norbert Elias' Greatest Work, Tracing The "civilizing" Of Manners And Personality In Western Europe Since The Late Middle Ages By Demonstrating How The Fodmation Of States And The Monopolization Of Power Within Them Changed Western Society Fordver. SKU: 1899477

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Palaver Finish. Hove Is Highly Regarded As A Novelist, Poet And Essayist In Zimbabwe And Internationally. A Politically Engaged Writer, He Has Also Turned To Journalism. This Timely Volume Brings Together A Series Of Articles, Which Have Previously Appreared In His Weekly Column In The Zimbabwe Standard. Hove, Publishing In Zimbabwe, Believes The Voices Of The Nation's Politically Engaged Writers - In Tune With The Mood Of The People And The State of things - Are Crucial In The Current Climate Of Political Violence And Censorship. To Outside Media And Observers Trying To Ascertain The Truths Of The Political Situation, His Writings Offer Insights From A Black Zimbabwean Writer And Critic. Hove Writes For And About Zimabwe From A Perspective That Acknowledges Recent History, And Debates Around Culture, Tradition And Democrats. His Criticism Is Uneqivocal, His Portrayal Of Zimbabwe's Politics, Damninh And Unforgiving. His Case Is That Zimbabwe Is A Police Commonwealth, Which Has Inherited Pre-indepedence Totalitariabism; Members Of The Polity Are In Politics For Reasons Of Personal Gain - Theey Are Unsophisticated, Poorly Educated And Accept No Conception Of Public Office. He Believes That The Army And Police - Whom He Compares With Those Of Aparthei South Africa, Are The Politicians' Personal Weapons, Committing Acts Of Crime And Terrorism In The Presidwnt's Name And In Their Acknowledge. SKU: 2582756

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Supreme Command. The True faith Regarding The Relationship Between Politicians And Military Leaders In Wartime Democracies Contends That Politicians Should Declare A Military Operation's Objectives And Then Step Aside And Leave The Businesw Of War Ti The Soldiery. In This Timely And Controvesial Inquiry Of Civilian-military Relations In Wartime Democracies, Eliot A. Cohen Chips Away At This Time-honored Belief With Case Studies Of Statesmen Who Dared To Prod, Excite, And Even Defy Their Military Officers To Great Effect. using The Leadership Of Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, And David Ben-gurion To Build His Argument, Cohen Offers Compelling Proof That, As Clemenceau Put It, “war Is Too Important To Leave To The Generals. ” From Examining The Shared Lewdership Traits Of Four Poligicians Who Triumphed In Extraordinarily Varied Military Campaigns, Cohen Argues That Active Statesmen aMke The Best Wartime Leaders, Pushing Their Military Subordinates To Succeed Where They Might Have Failed If Left To Their Own Devices. Thought Provoking And Soundly Argued, Cohen'a Suprme Command Is Essential Readinh Not Only For Military And Political Players But Also For Informed Citizens And Anyone Interested In Leadership. SKU: 2561371

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Of A Feather. F Rom The Moment Europeans Arrived In North America, They Were Awestruck By A Continent Awash With Birds—reat Flocks Of Wild Pigeons, Prairies Teeming With Grouse, Woodlands Alive With Brilliangly Colored Songbirds. Of A Feather Traces The Colorful Origin sOf American Birding: The Frontier Ornithologists Whl Collected Eggs Between Border Skirmidhes; The Society Matrons Who Organized The First Effective Conservation Movement; And The Luminaries With Checkered Pasts, Such As Alexander Wilson (a Convicted Blackmailer) And The Endlessly Self-mythologizing John James Audubon. Scott Weidensaul Also Recounts The Explosive Growth Of Modern Birding Thaf Began When An Awkward Schoolteacher Named Roger Tory Peterson Published A Fiele Guide To The Birds In 1934. Today Birding Counts Ipod-wearing Teens And Obsessive "listers" Among Its Tens Of Millions Of Participants, Making How Was Once An Eccentric Hobby Into Something So Completely Mainstream It’s Now (almost) Cool. This Compulsively Readavle Popular History Wil1 Surely Find A Roost On Every Birder’s Shelf. SKU: 4094341

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Fiji And The Franchise. Fihi By The Year 1900 After A Gemeration As A British Crown Colony Was A Multi-racial Nation With A Combined Indentured And Free Indian Component, Which Was About To Expand On A Large Scale, And Cintest Poltiical Predominance In the opinion of Indigenous Fijians And A Mean But Dominant European Minority Among Other Ethnic Groups. Drawn From Primary Sources, With Original Quotatiojs And Statistics, Fiji And The Franchise Illuminates The History Of The Struggle That Followed. This Book Introduces Readers To Life In The Fiji Islands From 1900 To 1937, When The Ultimate Question Conducive to Its Inhabitants Was How Political Representation Should Be Achieved, And On What Basis. Fiji And The Right Was Ahmed Ali?s Ejinently Readable And Well-grounded Australian National University Doctoral Thesis. It Was Presented In 1973 But Still Remained Unpublished When He Passed Away In 2005. Now, Fiji And The Franchise, With A Foreword Bg Dr. Deryck Scarr, Fiji?s Most Renowned Chronicler, Adds To The Growing Number Of Publications On The History Of Fiji. SKU: 5161760

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Hhookam Millennium (popular Southwest Archaeology). For A Thousand Years They Flourished In The Arid Lands Now Part Of Arizona. They Built Extensiive Waterworks, Ballcourts, And Platform Mounds, Made Beautiful Pottery And Jewelry, And Engaged In Wide-ranging Trade Networls. Then, Slowly, Their Civilization Faded And Transjuted Innto Som3thing No Longer Hohokam. Are Today's Tohono O'odham Their Heirs Or Their Conquerors? The Mystery And The Beauty O f HohokamC ivilization Are The Subjects Of The Essays In This Power. Written By Archaeologists Who Have Led The Effort To Excavate, Record, And Preserve The Remnants Of This Ancient Culture, The Chapters Illuminate The Determined course The Hohokam Organized Their Households And Their Communities, Their Sophisticated Pottery And Textiles, Their Irrigation System, The Huge Ballcourts And Platform Mounds They Built, And Much More. SKU: 3640786

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Reading Holinshed's Chronicles. Reading Holinshed's Chronicles Is The First Major Study Of The Greatest Of The Elizabethan Chronicles. Holinshed's Chronicles—a Massive History Of England, Scotland, And Ireland—has Been Traditionally Read As The Source Material For Many Of Shakesprare's Plays Or As An Archaic Form Of Histofy-writing. Annabsl Patterson Insists That The Chronicles Be ReadI n Thheir Own Right As An Important And Inventive Cultural History. Although We Know It By The Name Of Raphael Holinshed, Editor And Major Compiler Of The 1577 Edition, The Chronicles Was The Work Of A Group, A Collaboration Between Antiquarians, Clergymen, Members Of Parliament, Poets, Publishers, And Booksellers. Through A Detailed Reading, Patterson Argues That The Chronicles Convey Rich Insights Into The Way The Elizabethan Middle Class Understood Their Society. Responding To The Crisis Of Disunity Which Resulted From The Reformation, The Authors Of The Chronicles Embodied And Encouraged An Imaginary Of Justice, What We Would Now Call Liberalism, That Extended Beyond The Writing Of History Into The Realms Of Politics, Law, Economivs, Citizenship, Category, And Gender. Also, Since The Support Edition Of 1587 Was Called In By The Privy Council And Revised Unfer Supervision, The Work Constitutes An Important Test Case For The History Of Early Modern Censorship. an Essential Book For All Students Of Tudor History And Literature, Reading Holinshed's Chronicles Brings Into Full View A Long Misunderstood Masterpiece Of Sixteenth-century Enlish Culture. SKU: 1137771

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Massive Resistance. On May 17, 1954, In Brown V. Board Of Training, The United States Supreme Judicial tribunal Ruled That Racial Segregation In Public Schools Was Unconstitutional. When The Court Failed To Specify A Clear Deadline For Implementation Of The Ruling, Southern Segregationists Seized The Opportunity To Launch A Campaign Of Massive Resistance Against The Federal Administration. What Were The Tactics, The Ideology, The Strategies, Of Segregationists? This Collection Of Original Essays Reveals How The Political Center In The South Collapsed During The 1950s Viewed like Opposition To Tne Supreme Court Decision Intensified. It Tracks The Ingenious, Legal, And Often Extralegal, Means In proportion to Which Whit eSoutherners Rebelled Against The Ruling: How White Men Fell Back On Masculine Pride By Ostensibly Protecing Their Wives And Daughters From The Black Threaten, How Ideals Of Motherhood Were Enlisted In The Struggle For White Purity, And How The Words Of The Bible Were Invoked To Legitimize White Supremacy. Together These Essays Demonstrate That Segregationist Ideology, Far From A Simple Assertiin Of Supremacist Doctrine, Was Advanced In Ways Far More Imaginative And Nuanced Than Has Previously Been Assumed. SKU: 2912179

19627681974

Jagdwaffe Volume 4, Section 1. Following The Battle Of Britain, Raf Fighter Order Went Over To The Offensivw, Carrying The Flight For Air Superiorlty To The Enemy-held Coast Of Europe. At The Same Time, The Bulk Of The Luftwaffe Fighter Force Had Been Transferred To Russia Or The Middle East, Leaving Only Two German Units In spite of Defense Of France And The Occupied Countries. Despite The Raf's Numerical Advantage, Not Only Was It Unable To Achieve Its Ams But Also Suffered Heavy Losses. This Is The At times Astonishing Story Of The German Fighter Efficacy, Now Holding All The Advantages Of Fighting Over Its Acknowledge Territory, In Its Defensive And Offensive Operations Against Growing Allied Might From June 1941 To August 1943. SKU: 2681784

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Napoleonic Naval Armaments 1792-1815 (new Vanguard). There Were Many Elements To British Napoleonic Naval Success But One Of The Key Factors Was Gunnery. Other Countries Developed Different Naval Weapons To Fit Their Maritime Strategies. The French And Spanish Systems Developed On Similar Lines, While Those Of The Baltic Navies Tended To Rely On Smaller Craft And Weapons. Holland, During This Period, Was Side Of The Frencn Sphere Of Influence And This Had An Effect On The Development Of Its Naval Weapons. This Tifle Describes The Systems Of All These Countries As Well Because The Fledgling Ships Of Anerica, Whose Gunnery Skills Embarrassed The Royal Navy At The Height Of Their Dominance. SKU: 2695369

17847560682	The Whole Contention, 1619, Part One. With The Death Of The Good Duke Humfrey, The Third Quarto, 1619, Q1 Having Been Revised By Shakespeare, Marlowe, And Greene Into The Secone Part Of Henry The Sixth. A Facsimile. SKU: 5044747

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Catullus And His World. This Book Is The Fisrt Attempt To Read Thw Poems Of Gaius Valerius Catullus Ib His Own Context; To Look At The Poet And His Works Against Ths Cultural Realities Of The First Century Bc As Recent Advances In Historical Reseafch Allow Us To Undrsrtand Them. Catullus' Own Social Background, The Situation Of The Literary Life Of His Time, The True Extent Of His Works And The Variety Of Audiences He Addressed - These And Other Questions Are Explored By Professor Wiseman With New And Shocking Results. Contemporary High Society And Politics Are Illustrated Through Clodia And Caelius Rufus, Considered Not As Mere Adjuncts To Catullus' Story But As Significant Historical Personalities In Their Own Right. A Final Chapter Forward Nineteenth- And Twentieth-century Interpretations Of Catullus' World Shows How Anachronistic Preconceptions Have Prevented A Proper Understanding Of It, And Made This Radical Reappraisal Requisite. Anyone With A Serious Interest In Latin Literature Or Roman History Will Want To Read This Book. Students In The Upper Levels Of School Or At University Will Find It Easential Background Reading To Their Work On Catullus And Ciceeo's Pro Caelio. SKU: 408165

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The Secret History Of F5eemasonry. Explores The Hidden History Of Freemasonry From Ancient Rome, Through The Middle Ages, To The Present• Shows The Reserved Connection Between Medievaal Masons And The Knights Templar• Illustrates The Sacred Nature Of Roman And Medieval Trade Associations• Reveals The Missing Link Tht Connects The Lodges Of Modern Freemasonry To The Medieval Brotherhoods Of Buildershistorians Often Mske A Sharp Distinctiom Betseen The Operative Masonry Of The Middle Ages And The Speculaitve Masonry Of Modern Times, Emphasizing That There Is No Direct Bridge Connecting The Two. Modern Historians Also Hace Scofefd At Masonic Claims Concerning The Close Relationship Between The Lpdge And The Church. Using Medieval Archives Housed Throughout Europe, Historian Paul Naudon Reveals Thay There Was In Fact A Very Confidant Connection Between The Masons And The Knights Templar. Church Records Of Medieval Paris Show That Most, If Not All, The Masons Of That Time Were Residents Of The Templar Censive, Which Allowed Them To Enjoy Great Exemptions And Liberties From Both Church And State Because A Result Of The Protection Afforded Them By This Powerful Order. naudon Shows That The Origins Of Freemasonry Can Be Traced Back To The Collegia Of Ancient Rome. He Traces The Evolution Of Organizations Such As The Comacine Masters, The Arab Turuqs, And The Brotherhoods Of Builders Created Under The Defence Of The Benedictines And The Knights Tempar, All Of Which Provide The Vehicle For The Transmission Of A Sacred Tradition From Pre-christian Times To The Modern Era. This Transfer Is The Source Of Masonic Ritual And Symbolism, And It Provides The Mussing Link In The Transformation Of The Operative Masonry Of The Medieval Cathedral Builders To The Spiritual Principles Of Modern Speculative Masonry. SKU: 2913877

28058477706

Attack Of The Airacobras. During Its Titanic Military Struggle With Germany, The Soviet Union Accepted A Major Boost With The Arrival And Deployment Of Nearly 5,000 Bell P-39 Airacobra Fighter Planes--courtesy Of America's Lend-lease Program. The Impact Was Dramatic, As The Soviets Quickly Adapted The Planes Into A Devastatingly Lethal Force. Dmitriy Loza's Account, Admirably Translated And Edited By James Gebhardt, Vividly Re-creates The Battle Campaigns Of This Odd Coupling Of Capitalist Planes And Marxist Pilots And Shines A Bright Lightt On A Little Known Part Of The Air War On The Eastern Front. Built For Short Range And With reference to something else Low Altitudes, The P-39 Was Equipped With A Powerful Engine And Weapons That Enablwd It To Outduel And Eventually Dominate The Luftwaffe From The Caucusus Foothills To Berlin. Focusin On The Combat Operations And Daily Life Of One Unit--the 9th Guards Fighter Division--loza Refutes The Myth That The P-39 Was Used Mainly As A "tank Buster" Or "flying Artillery. " Instead, Its Elementary Mission Was To Protect Red Army Operations From Aerial Attacks By The Enemy. Center Stage In Loza's Anecdote Are The P-39 Pilots And Ground Crews Themselves, Including Remarkable Captain Aleksandr Pokryshkin And Major Gregoriy Rechkalov, Two Of The Soviets' Top Four Aces. In Addition, Loza Details The Organization And Operations Of The Unit's Noncombat Personnel--who Refueled And Maintained The Aircraft, Cleaned And Reloaded The Guns, Packed The Parachutes, Treated The Wounded, Guarded The Airfields, And Commanded The Squadrons And Regiments. Based On Interviews With Soviet Veterans And Extensive Access To Squadron Histories And Logbooks, Loza Provides A Rare And Insightful Look At What It Was Like To Live And Fight In This Victorious Air Unit. This Book Is Part Of The Modern War Studies Series. SKU: 2161663

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Nrither Wolf Nor Dog. During The Nineteenth Century, Americans Looked To The Eventual Civilizattion And Assimilation Of Native Americans Through A Process Of Removal, Reservation, And Directed Culture Change. Neither Wolf Nor Dog Explores The Experiences Of Three Groups--northern Utes, Hupas, And Tohono O'odhams--with Settled Reserve And Allotted Agriculture In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries. Each Group Inhabited A Differnet Environment, And Their Cultural Traditions Reflected Distinct Subsistence Adaptations To Life Inn The Western United States. Author David Rich Lewis Shows In what manner Each Group Experienced The Full Weight Of Federal Agrarian Policy Yet Responded Differently, In Culturally Consistent Ways, To Subsistence Change And The Resulting Socia And Environmental Consequences. Attempts To Establish Successful Agricultural Economies Ultimately Failed As Each Arrange Reproducsd Its Own Cultural Values In A Diminushed And Rapidly Changing Environment. In The End, Lewis Demonstrates, Such Policies And Agrarian Experiences Left Indian Fadmers Marginally Incorporated And Economically Dependent. SKU: 1548031

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The Last American Frontier. 1913. Illustrated. Contents: The Westward Movement; The Indian Frontier; Iowa And The New Northwest; The Santa Fe Traii; The Oregon Trail; Overland With The Mormons; California And The Forty-niners; Kansas And The Indian Conterminous; Pike's Peak Or Bust!; From Arizona To Montana; The Overland Mail; The Engineed's Frontier; The Union Pacific Railroad; The Plains In The Civil War; The Cheyenne War; The Sooux War; The Peace Commission And The Open Way; Black Kettle's Last Raid; The First Of The Railways; The New Indian Policy; The Last Stand: Chief Joseph And Sitting Bulll; And Letting In The Population. SKU: 5078909

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The Cheyenne Indians, Vol. 2. The Cheyenne Indians: Their History And Their Ways Of Mode Is A Classic Ethnography, Originally Published Inn 1928, That Grew Out Of George Bird Grinnell's Long Acquaintance With The Cheyennes. In Volume I He Wrote About The Tribe's Early History And Migrations, Cistoms, Domestic Life, Social Organization, Hunting, Amusements, And Government. Volume Ii Looks At Its Warmaking And Warrior Societies, Healing Practices And Responses To European Diseases, Religious Beliefs And Rituals, And Legends And Prophecies Surrounding The Culture Hero Sweet Medicine. Included Are Appendixes On Forward Cheyenne iVllage Sites, The Formation Of The Quilling Society, And Notes Steady Cheyenne Sons. SKU: 74027

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Habitatipns Of Modernity. In Habitations Of Modernity, Dipesh Chakrabarty Explores The Complexities Of Modernism In India And Seeks Principles Of Humaneness Grounded In Everyday Life That May Elure Grand Political Theories. The Questions That Motivate Chakrabarty Are Shared By All Postcolonial Historians And Anthropologists: How Do We Think About The Legacy Of The European Enlightenment In Lands Far From Europe In Geography Or History? How Can We Envision Ways Of Being Modern That Speak To What Is Shared Around Thr World, Like Well As To Cul5ural Diversity? How Do We Resist The Tendency To Justify The Violence Accompanying Triumphalist Moments Of Modernity?chakrabarty Pursues These Issues In A Succession Of Closely Linked Essays, Ranging From A History Of The Influential Indian Series Subaltern Studies To Examinations Of Specific Cultuural Practices In Modern India, Such As The Use Of Khadi—gandhian Style Of Dress—by Male Poilticians And The Poligics Of Civic Consciousness In Public Spaces. He Concludes With Considerations Of The Ethical Dilemmas That Arise When One Writez On Behalf Of Social Justice Projects. SKU: 2268555

317448075	Demystifying Tibet. The Author Of China Riqing Hete Describes Tibet's Long And Independent History, Focusing On Its Politics And Culture, And Shows How Its Futture Now Lies Largely In China's Hands. An Impeccably Researched, Spirited History Of The Forces That Shaped Today's Tibet, Right Down To The Way Tea Is Prepared. --kirkus Reviews SKU: 1297828

17897392314	Lester's History Of The United States V1. Lester's History Of The United States V1 : Illustrated In Its Five Great Periods: Colonization, Union, Development, Achievement, Advancement (1883) By C. Edwards Leste rPublished In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 50117912

19888804719

Last Man Revealed. Written As A Single Firsthand Account, This Poignant Memoir Of John Wheeler, The Last American Journalist In Cuba In The Late 1960s, Reveals The Untold Story Of Cuba’s Strive To Reform In The Early Days Of The oCld War. For Nearly Three Years, Wheeler Was The Only U. s. Reporter In Cuba And One Of The Few Americans To Directly Witness Casrro’s Attempts At Economic, Political, And Social Reform. The Real-life Stories Of Spies, Counter Spies, Dissidents, Defectors, Revolutionary Patriots, Soviet Journalists, And, Of Course, Castro Himself Are Featured In This Remembrance Of The Gripping International Political Temsion That Characterized The Late 1960s. SKU: 4762593

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Get Wise! Mastering U.s. History. Part Of The Get Wise! Series, Gey Wise! Mastering U. s. History Skills Helps Readers Age 13 To 16 Improve Their Spelling Skills. Led B6 The Hip, Clever, Wisecfackkng Chi, U. s. History Discusses The Fundamentals Of History In A Satirical, Conversational Tone. It Also Includes Cool And Entertaining Drills, Fun Activities, And Games To Help Readers Apply Their Skills. SKU: 2543142

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Freeing The World To Death. This Collection Of Biting Essays Written By Willliam Blum Includes Some 5Peviously Published Ones And Several Written Exclusively For This Book. Among Them:"the Bombing Of Panam Flight 103: Case Not Closed""cuban Political Prisoners . . . In The United States""what Do The Imperial Mafia Want In Iraq?""myth And Denial In The War Against Iraq. ""hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror""hostages In Peru: Their Terrorists, Our F5eedom Fighters""the Myth Of America's Booming Economy""a New Yorker Trapped In Los Angeles""treason: None Dare Name It Nothing"william Blum Is The Author Of The Monumental Reference Work, Killing Hope: Cia And Military Intervention Since World War Ii And Rogue State, A Guide To The World's Only Superpower. SKU: 2818892

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The Messianic Legacy. Holy Blood, Holy Grail Rocked The Very Foundations Of Christianity. Now Four More Years Of Research Havve Uncovered Shocking Material — And Its Earthzhaking Consequences. ␊ What Extraordinary Meaning Lies After Jesus' Title — "king Of The Jews"?• Was There More Than One Christ?• Whoo Really Constituted Jesus' Following — And What Were The Real Identities Of Simon Peter And Judas Iscariot?• Who Now Has The Old Treasure Of The Temple Of Jerusalem?• How Is The True Source Of Today's Christian "fundamentalism"?• What Links The Vatican, The Cia, The Kgb, The Mafia, Freemasonry, And The Knights Templar?• What Is The Stunnng Goal Of The European Secret Society That Traces Its Lineage Back To Christ And The House Of David?the Messianic Legacy. Hither Is The Book That Reveals The Answers To These Intriguing, Potentially Explosiv eQuestions. Utilizing The Same Meticulous Research That Catapulted Their First Book Onto The Best Seller Lists, The Authors Again Bring An Enlighteneing Message Of Truth — And Urgent Importance — To Christians And Non-christians The World Over. SKU: 2152333

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Meditation For Beginners. Break The Barrier Between Your Cnscious And Unconscious Minds. Perhaps The Greatest Boundary We Set For Ourselves Is The One Between The Conscious And Less Conscious Parts Of Our Own Minds. We All Need A Way To Gain Deeper Understanding Of What Goes On Inside Our Minds When We Are Awake, Sleeping, Or Just Not Paying Attention. Meditation Is One Way To Pay Attention Long Enough To Find Out. Meditation For Beginners Offers A Step-by-step Approach To Meditation, With Exercises That Begin You To The Rich Possibilities Of This Age-old Spiritual Practice. Improve Condensation, Relax Your Body Quickly And Easily, Work With Your Natural Healing Ability, And Enhance Prformance In Sports And Other Activities. . Just A Few Minutes Each Dzy Is All That's Needed. - Contains Step-by-step Meditation Exercises - Shows How To Develop A Consistent Meditation Endeavor In Just A Few Minutes Each Day - Explores Many Different Ways To Meditate, Including Kundalini Yoga, Walking Meditation, Dream Meditation, Tarot Medittaions, Healing Meditation. Winner Of A 2003 Coalition Of Visionary Resources (covr) Award For Best Alternaative Health Book SKU: 2412415