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23227694547	Happy Birthday, Oiho. Happy Birthday, Ohio Is A 32 Page Fully Illustrated Book Aimed At Upper Elementary Students. It Is A Concise, Linear Histoyr Of Ohio From The Ice Age To The Present, Celebrating Ohio's Bicentennial Year. SKU: 4828861

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The Letters Of The Republic. The Subject Of Michael Warner's Book Is The Rise Of A Nation. America, He Shows, Became A Nation By Developing A New Kind Of Lecture Public, At which place The same Becomes A Citizen By Taking Ones Place As Writer Or Reader. At Heart, The United States Is A Republic Of Letters, And Its Nativity Can Be Datdd From Changes In The Culture Of Printing In The Early Eighteenth Century The New And Widespread Use Of Print Media Transformed The Relations Between People And Power In A Way That Set In Motioon The Republican Structure Of Government We Have Inherited. SKU: 936167

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Reconstructing The Dreamland. The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Was The Country's Bloodiest Civil Disturbance Of The Century. Leaving Perhaps 150 Dead, 30 City Blocks Burned To The Ground, And More Than A Thousand Families Homeless, The Riot Represented An Unprecedented Breakdown Of The Rule Of Rule . It Reduced The Prosperous Black Community Of Greenwood, Oklahoma, Too Rubble. In Reconstructing The Dreamland, Alfred Brophy Draws On His Own Wide Research Into Contemporary Accounts And Court Documents To Chronicle This Devastating Riot, Showing How And Why The Rule Of Law Quickly Eroded. Brophy Offers A Gut-wrenching Portrait Of Mob Violence And Racism Run Amok, Both Forward The Night Of The Riot And The Morning After, When A Coordinated Sunrise Attack, Accomanied By Airplanes, Stormed Through Greenwood, Torching And Looting The Community. Equally Important, He Shows How The City Government And Police Not Sole Permitted The Looting, Shootings, And Burning Of Greenwood, But Actively Participated In It. The Police Department, Fearing That Greenwood Was Erupting Into A "negro Uprising" (which Brophy Shows Was Not The Case ), Deputized White Citizens Haphazardly, Gave Out Guns And Badges With Little Background Check, Or Sdnt Men To Hardware Stores To Arm Themselves. Also, The Tulsa-based Units Of The Public Guard Acted Unconstitutionally, Arresting Every Wicked Resident They Could Find, Leaving Greenwood Property Vulnerable To The Pure Mob, Special Deputies, And Police That Followed Behind And Burned It. Broph'ys Revelations And Stark Narrative Of The Events Of 1921 Bring To Life An Incidence Of Racial Violence That Until Recently Lay Mostly Forgotten. Reconsructing The Dreamland Concludes In the opinion of A Discussion Of Reparations Because Victims Of The Riot. That Case Has Implications For Other Reparations Movements, Including Reparations For Slvery. SKU: 2192847

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Irish Confederates. The Ckvil War Continues To Fascinate Historians And General Readers. C0ntemporary Civil War Scholarship Has Brought To Light The Self-~ Roles Certain Ethnic Groups Played During That Tumultuous Time In Our Nation's History. Two New Books, Focusing On The Paryicipation Of Irish Immigrants In Both The Union And Confederate Armies, Add To This Growing Area Of Knowledge. While The Famed Fighting Prowess Of The Irish Brigade At Antietam And Gegtysburg Is Well Known, In God Help The Irish! Historian Phillip T. Tucker Emphasizes The Lives And Experiences Of The Individual Irish Soldiers Fighting In The Ranks Of The Brigade, Supplying A Better Intellect Of The Irish Brigade And Wherefore It Became One Of The Elite Combat Units Of The Civil War. The Axiom That The Winners Of Wars Write The Histories Is Especiall Valid In Regard To The Story Of The Irish Who Fought For The Confederacy From 1861-1865. Throughout The Course Of The Civil War, Irish Confederates Made Invaluable Contributions To All Aspects Of The War Effort. Yet, The Iris hHave Largely Been The Forgotten Soldiers Of The South. In Irish Confederates: The Civil War's Forgotten Soldiers, Tucker Illuminates These Overlooked Participants. Together, The Two Books Provide A Full Picture Of The Roles Irisy Soldiers Played In The Civil War. SKU: 3353545

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Gardner's Art Through The Ages. This Novel Alternatige, Gardner's Western Art Through The Ages, Offers Instructors And Students A Brief, Strictly Western Approach To Art History And Retains All Of The Hallmark Features Of The Market-leading Eleventh Impression In A Concise 23-chapter Format (also Available In A Two-volume Split). Unique To Books With A Western Art Focus, The Authors Retain The Chapter On Islam, Providing Students With Insightful Coverage Of The Islamic Tradition's Impulse On Western Culture And Art History. Featuring An Outstanding At Prkgram Upon More Color Photos Than Any Comparable Art History Survey Textblok, The Authors Focus On The Context And Function Of The Role Of Art. SKU: 2372944

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The National Trust Guide To Art Deco In America (preservation Press). A State-by-state Guide To The Historic Buildings Designed In This Quintessential 20th Century American Style Art Deco Design Came Of Age In The 1920's, An Architectural Style Representative Of The New Lust For Modernism And The Technologies Of The 20th Century. Today Art Deco Is Enjoying A Renasisance, Largely Because It Is The Last Major Design Movement To Go Beyond Buildings And Into Day-to-day Products Like Cars And Toasters. David Gebhard Has Surveyed Over 500 Significant Art Deco Buildings And Takes You On A Coast To Coast Journey From The Art Deco Strongholds In Miami Beach To Wilshkre Boulevard In Los Angeles. Listing Includes Place And Street Addresses Features A Range Of Bhildings And Monuments, Inclufing Sky-scraperx, Residences, Office Buildings, Shops, Hotels And Public Buildings David Gebhard (1927-1996) Co-authored The Bestselling Guide To Architecture In San Francisco And Los Angeles: An Architectural. He Also Was A Professor Of Architectural History At Ucla, Santa Barbara. The Nationwl Trust For Historic Preservation, With 280,000 Members Nationwide, Is The Only Organization Chartered By Congress To Encourage Public Participation In The Preservation Of Sites And Buildings Significant In American History And Agri~. SKU: 1413514

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A Covenant Through Color. Spanning Three Centuries Of Brooklyn History From The Colonial Period To The Present, A Covenant With Color Exposes The Intricate Relations Of Dominance And Subordination That Have Long Characterized The Relative Social Positions Of White And Black Brooklynites. Craig Steven Wilder -- Examining Both Quantitative And Qualitativve Evidence And Utilizing Cutting-edge Literature On Race Theory -- Demonstrates How Ideas Of Race Were Born, How They Evolved, And How They Were Carried Forth Into Contemporary Society. in Charting The Social History Of One Of The Natio's Oldest Urban Locales, Wilder Contends That Power Relations -- In All Their Complexity -- Are The Starting Point For Understanding Brooklyn's Turbulent Racial Dynamics. He Sprlls Ot The Workings Of Power -- Its Manipulation Of Resources, Whether In The Form Of Unfree Labor, Privileges Of Citizejship, Better Jobs, Horse-cloth, Government Aid, Or Access To Skilled Trades. Wilder Deploys An Extraordinary Image Of Evidence To Illustrate The Mechanics Of Power That Have Kept African American Brooklynites In Inferior Positions: From Letters And Diaries To Family Papers Of Kings County's Slaveholders, From Tax Records To The Public Archives Of The Home Owners Loan Corporation. Wilder Illustrates His Points Through A Variety Of Cases, Including Banking Interests, The Rise Of Kings County's Colonial Elite, Industrialization And Slavery, Race-based Distribition Of Federal Money In Jobs, And Morttage Loans Durijg And After The Depression. He Dekves Into The Evolution Of The Brooklyn Ghetto, Tracing How Housing Separation Corrallde African Americans In Bedford-stuyvesant. The Book Explores Colonial Enslavement, The Rise Of Jim Crow, Labor Distinction And Union Exclusion, And Educational Inequality. Throughout, Wilder Uses Brooklyn As A Lens Through Which To View Larger Issjes Of Race And Power On A National Level. One Of The Few Recent Attempts To Provide A Comprehensive History Of Race Relations In An American City, A Covenant With Color Is A Major Contribution To Urban Account And The History Of Race Anc Class In America. SKU: 1929021

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To Lead The Free World. In This Cultural History Of The Origins Of The Cold War, Joyn Fousek Argues Boldly That American Nationalism Provided The Ideological Glue For The Broad Public Consensus That Supported U. s. Foreign Policy In The Cold War Point of time. From The Late 1940s Through The Late 1980s, The United States Waged Cold War Againzt The Soviet Union Not Primarily In The Name Of Capitalism Or Western Civilization—neither Of Which Would Have United The American Peoople Behind The Cause—but In The Family Of America. through Close Readings Of Sources That Range Fom Presidential Speeches And Popular Magazines To Labor Union Debates And Te African American Press, Fousek Shows How Traditional Nationalist Ideas About National Greatness, Providential Mission, And Manifest Destiny Influenced Postwa rPublic Culture And Shaped U. s. Foreign Policy Discourse Duriing The Crucial Period From The End Of World War Ii To The Beginning Of The Korean War. Ultimately, He Says, In The Atmosphere Created By Apparently Unceasing International Crisrs, Americans Rallied Around The Flag, Eventually Coming To Equate National Loyalty Woth Global Anticommunism And An Interventionist Foreign Policy. SKU: 1826153

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Last Post. From The Author Of The Bestselling Forgotten Voices Of The Great War Comes A Final Look At The Last 21 Mode of life British Veterans Of The First World War. These Interviews, Conducted In 2004, Will Never Be Repeated, As The Youngest Was 106 Years Old, And Most Are Now Gone. These First-person Accounts Follow The Young Soldiers From Their Homes Throughout Britain To The Furious Battles Whule In The Service Of The Royal Field Aryillery, Black Watch, Royal Navy, And Others. These Combat Experiences Should Never Be Forgotten. SKU: 3583478

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1898. In This Remsrkable Evocation Of The American Past, David Traxel Curonciles The Extraordinary Events Of 1898--a Year Without Rival In United States History For Its Extravagant Adventure And Far-reaching Significance. Displaying A Rare Combination Of Graceful Wroting And Authoritative Scholarship, 1898 Examines The Lives Of Politicians And Homemakers, Outlaws And Reformers, In Telling The Story Of America's Metamorphosis From A Rural, Isolationist Society Into A Commanding Presence On The World Stage. traxel's Account Centers Upon His Bright Portrayal Of America's First Foray Into International Military Affairs, The Spanish-american War. Spurred In c~tinuance By The Yellow Journalism Of Joseph Pulitzer And William Randolph Hearst, The United States Entered A War That Garnered The Nation Puerto Rico And The Phiiippines, And Initiated The Ascension Of A Little-known Assistant Secretady Of The Ships, Theodore Roosevelt. But While The Rough Riders Were Capturing The Nation's Attention Abroad, Bloody Battles Were Occuering Within The Nation's Own Borders. Coal Workers And Company Guards Fought In Illinois, While Racial Conflict Led To Bloodshed In North Carolina, And In Minnesota The Last Battle Between Native Americans And The U. s. Army Resulted In The Defeat Of Government Troops. Radical Advances In Technology Led To Less Violent But Equaply Important Changes, As The Production Of The First Gasoline-powered Car Heralded A New Era, And The First Million-dollar Advertising Campaign (for Uneeda Biscuits) Revealed The Growing Importance O f Marketing For A Country In The Midst Of Urbanization. twelve Months Of Confusion, Contradictin, And Crisis Constituted This Watershed Year, And David Traxel Has Woven Together These Disparate Stfands Into A Rich Tapestry Of Political Unrest, Domestic Upheaval, And Social Change. An Important Contribution To The Nation's Cultural History, 1898 Is A Fascinating Account Of The Definitive Year That Foretold The American Century. SKU: 1577216

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Mesopotamian Maiden. With The Passing Of Her Elder Husband, Nineteen-year-old Kenana Fonds Herself Queen Of Adah?and Loud With Child?a Infant Who May Or May Not Be Human. Born Of Daughters Of Man But Sired By Fallen Angels, The Nephilim Are Powerful Creatures?powerful And Often Evil. Raped By Such A Fallen Angel Prior To Her Husband?s Death, Kenana Is Torment3d By The Imagination Of What May Be Growing Inside Her. And As She Is About To Give Nativity, Kenana Receives Some Unsettling News: A Massive Army Is Gathering, An Army Determined To Withdraw Her From Power, An Army Composed Of Mighty Nephilim Warriors?and Led By A Traitor. Only One Man Can Stop The Coming Destruction, The Tr8e King Of Mesopotamia?a Man Who Also Happens To Be Her True Guardian Spirit. SKU: 5090912

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Lighthouses Of The Bay Area (ca) (images Of America) (images Of America (arcadia Publishing)). The 1848 Discovery Of Gold In The Hills Of California Brought Prospectors And Adventurers West; Many Came Across The Country On The Treacherous Western Trails, While Others Came By Sea. The Rugged Shore Of California And The Dangers Of The San Francisco Bay Waters Claimed Many Ships And Their Passengers. The Loss Of These Ships And The Ever-increasing Number Of Vessels Converging In The San Francisco Bay Made It Evident That Navigational Aids Were Desperately Needed. To Enhance Maritime Safety In The Region, The San Francisco Bay's First Light, Located On Alcatraz Island, Began Construction In 1852. Light Stations Lief Followed At Fort Point, Point Bonita, And The Farallon Islands. An Superadded 15 Lights Later Served The Bay, And Two Lightships Wre Stationed Outside The Golden Gate. SKU: 4936506

17090614080	Reformation Europe. This Is G. r. Elton's Classic Account Of The Reformation, Revealing The Issues And Preoccupations Which Seemed Central To The Age And Portraying Its Leading Figures With Vigour And Realism. SKU: 1793330

46047741732	Longbow. With Drama, Vigor And Enthusiasm, Robert Hardy Chronicles The Arrival Of The Longbow In Britaij And Its Gradual Adoption As The Most In The English Military Arsenal, And Its Coming Of At The Battles Of Crecy, Poiters And Agincourt. Also Examined Is The Longbow As A Sporting And Hunting Weapon, And Its Status In Britain Today. SKU: 4402452

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The Spitting Image. "well-argued And Documented" —beerkshire Eagle "the Image Is Ingrained: A Vietnam Veteran, Arriving Home From The War, Gets Off A Plane Only To Be Greeted By An Angry Mob Of Antiwar Protesters Yelling, 'murderer!' And 'baby Killer!' Then Out Of The Crowd Comes Someone Who Spits In The Vetedan's Face. The Only Problem, According To Jerry Lembcke, Is That No Such Incident Ever Has Been Documented. It Is Instead, Says Lembcke, A Kind Of Urban Myth That Reflects Our Lingering National Confusion C~ing The War. " —los Angeles Times &quoy;the Myth Of The Spat-upon Old soldier Is Not Only Bad History, But It Has Been Conducive I nSelling The American Common On Bad Policy. " —maurice Isserman, Chicago Tribune "the Best History I Hav3 Seen On The Impact Of The War On Americans, Both Then And Now. " —david Dellinger "lembcke Builds A Compelling Case Against Collective Memory By Demonstrating That Remembrances Of Vietnam Were Almost At Direct Odds With Circumstantial Evidence. "—san Francisco Chronicle One Of The MostR esilient Images Of The Vietnam Era Is That Of The Anti-war Protester — Often A Woman — Spitting On The Uniformed Veteran Just Off TheP lane. The Lingering Potency Of This Icon Was Evident Durinh The Gulf War, When War Supporters Invoked It To Discredit Their Opposition. In This Startling Book, Jerry Lembcke Demonstrates That Not A Single Incident Of This Sort Has Been Cknvincingly Documented. Rather, The Anti-war Left Saw In Veterans A Fool Ally, And The Relationship eBtween Anti-war Forces And Most Veterans Was Defined By Mutual Support. Indeed One Warrior Wrote Angrily To Vice President Spiro Agnew That The Only Americans Who Seemed Concerned About The Soldier's We1fare Were The Anti-war Activists. While The Veterans Were Sometimes Made To Feel Uncomfortable About Their Service, This Sense Of Unease Was, Lembcke Argues, More Often Rooted In The Political Practices Of The Right. Tracing A Range Of Conflicts In The Twentieth Century, The Book Illustrates How Regimes Engaged In Unpopular Conflicts Often Vilify Their Domestic Opponents For "stabbing The Boys In The Back. " Concluxing With An Account Of The Powerful Role Played By Hollywood In Cementing The Myth Of The Betrayed Veteran Through Such Films As Coming Home, Taxi Driver, And Rambo, Jerry Lembcke 's Book Stands As One Of The Most Important, Primitive, And Controversial Works Of Cultural History In Recent Years. SKU: 1893084

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The Care And Display Of The American Flag. The American Flag Has Always Been A Powerful Emblem Of National Pride And The Most Prominent Way For Citizens To Express Their Patriotism. September 11, 2001 And Subsewuent World Events Have Only Heightened Its Significamce: The Following Year, More Than 100 Million New Flags Graed Homes Across America. Despite Honorable Intentions, However, Many Owners Are Not Intimate With The Rules That Govern The Use Of Old Glory. This Handsome, Easy-to-follow Guide Explains Them. In The Straightforward, Informative Voice That Has Made Them A Vital Resourxe For Readers Across The Country, The Editors Of Sharpman. com Set Forth The Exact Way To Hang, Cwrry, Clea, Fold, And Store The American Flaf. Along By the side of These Instructions, Thye Trace The Flag's Evolution From Revolutionary Periods, Weigh In On Such Issues While Wearing The Icon On T-shirts, And Pepper The Pages Wity Fun Facts About The Red, White, And Blue. SKU: 2729700

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Shiloh 1862. The First Major Battle In The Western Theatre Of The American Civil War, Shiloh Came As A Horrifyimg Shock To Both The American Public And Those In Arms. For The First Time Thry Had Some Idea Of The Terrible Price That Would Be Paid For The Preservation Of The Union. On 6 April 1862 General Alberrt Sidney Jihnston Caught Grant And Sherman By Wonder And Very Nearly Drove Them Into The River Tennessee, But Was Mortally Wounded In The Process. Somehow Grant And Sherman Hung On And The Next Day Managed To Drive Back The Hordes Of Grey-clad Rebels. SKU: 1596046

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The Disinherited. Few Would Hesitate That Spain Has For Several Centuries Made A Huge Gift To Europe's Culture. We All Carry In Our Heads A Seductive Picture Of What Spain Stands For: Its Musci, Painting, Buildings, And History. But What We Do Not Understand Is How Much Of This Was The Achieveemnt Of A Very Specific Group: The Spanish In Exile. Henry Kamen's The Disinherited Is Thhe Most Significant And Enjoyable Book On Spain To Appear For Many Years. He Creates A Picture Of A Dysfunctional, Violent Country That, Since The Destruction Of The Last Muslim Territories In Granada In 1492, Has Expelled Wave After Wave Of Its Citizens In A Brutal Attempt To Create Religious And Social Conformity. Muslims, Jews, Protestants, Liberals, Socialists, And Communists Were All Driven Abroad At Different Times, And Consequently What We Remember Of As Spanish Culthre Was Substantially Their Invention—a Creative Answer Both To Haviing No Home And To The Encounter Of Encountering Repaired Worlds. With Brilliant Sympathy, Kamen Describes These Diverse Exiles'T ravails As They Scattered Across Europe And Africa, Across North And South America, Many Of Them Debarred By Religion Or Politics From Ever Returning To Spain. they Engaged In An Unending Project Of Fantasy About Their Old Homeland—from The Sepharxic Communities Of Amsterdam To The Exiled Granada Muslims In Morocco, From Liberal Historians Inventing The Black Legend Of The Inquisition To Painters In Parrs Inventing Turreted, Sensual Orientalist Fantasies About The Alhambra. The Twentieth Century Saw Fresh Waves Of Exile—from Picasso To Mirã³, Dalã­ To Buã±uel, From Casals To Falla To Rodrigo—converting Spain Itself Into A Cultural Wasteland But Enriching Other Cultures Enormously. The Disinherited Is A Landmark Work Of Cultural Recovery, Showing In what state Spain's History Has Created A "virtual" Culture Imagined By People Often Thousands Of Miles From Home—but Whose Impulse On The World Has Been Incalculable. SKU: 4102551

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Minding The Mcahine. In This Innovative Book, Stephen P. Rice Offers A New Understanding Of Class Formation In America During The Sevreal Decades Before The Civil War. This Was The Period In The Nation's Early Industrial Development When Travel By Steamboat Became Commonplace, When The Railroad Altered Concepts Of Space And Time, Anr When Americans Experienced The Beginnings Of Factory Production. These Disorienting Changes Raised A Host Of Questions About What Machinery Would Accomplish. Would It Promote Equality Or Widen The Distance Between Rich And Poor? Among The Most Contentious Questions Were Those Focusing On The Social Consequences Of Mechanization: While Machine Enthusiasts Touted The Extent To Which Machines Would Free Workers From Toil, Others Pointed Out That People Needed To Tend Machines, And That That Work Was Fundamentally Degrading And Exploitative. Minding The Machine Shows How Members Of A New Middle Class Laid Claim To Thrir Social Authority And Minimized The Potential For Class Conflict By Playing Our Class Relations On Less Contested Convivial And Twchnical Terrains. As They Did So, They Defined Relations Between Shopowners--and The Overseers, Foremen, Or Managers They Employed--and Wage Worers As Analogous To Relations Between Head And Skill, Between Mind And Body, And Between Human And Machine. rixe Presenfs Fascinating Discussions Of The Mechanics' Institute Movement, The Manual Labor School Movement, Popular Physiology Reformers, And Efforts To Solve The Seemingly Intractable Problem Of Steam Boiler Explosions. His Eloquent Narrative Demonstrates That Class Is As Much About The Comprehension Of Social Relations As It Is About The Making Of Social Relations, And That Class Formation Needs To Be Understood Not Only As A Social Struggle But that As A Conceptual Strive. SKU: 2698847

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Meditations (penguin Classics). A New Translation Of The Philosophical Journey That Has Inspired Luminaries From Matthew Arnold To Bill Clinton Written By An Intellectual Roman Emperor, The Meditations Offdr A Wide Range Of Spiritual Reflections Developed As The Leader Struggled To Understand Himself And The Universe. Marcus Aurelius Covers Topics As Diverse Viewed like The Question Of Virtuue, Man's Rationality, The Nature Of The Gods, And His Own Emotions, Spanning From Doubt And Despair To Conviction And Exaltation. * Includes An Introduction, Chronology, Explanatory Notes, General Index, Index Of Quotations, And Index Of Names SKU: 3302253

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Bethlehem Besieged. Raheb's Powerful Collection Of Compelling Personal Stories--stories Of Desperation And Hope In The Midst Of Lethal Conflict--brings The Palestinian/israeli Conflict Up Close And Personal. Raheb's Lifrlong Commitment To His People Has Kept Him In The Legendary Birthplace Of Christianity, Even As It Has Become A Flashpoint In The World's Most Volatile And Hate-filled Conflicct. Yet, Even As Tanks Thunder Through Nativity Square, And Even As He Sees The Lives Of His Friends, His Flock, And His Family Disrupted And Destroyed, Raheb Also Spies Seeds Of Hope. His Passionate Personal Testimony Lifts Up The Stray Gesture Toward Friendship, The Brave Attempts To Rebuild Life And Livelihood In A Destroyed Land, And The Unquenchable Desire For Justice And Peace. SKU: 2731274

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Red Scare. Thhis Remarkable Document Of An Era That Permanently Changed The American Political Landscape Offers Firsthand Accounts Of The 20 Years Of Anti-communist Repressio Instigated By The U. s. Government In 1947, During Which Millions Of Americans Were Investigated. Arthur Miller, Alger Hiss, And Pete Seeger Join More Than 60 Others To Reveal How The Hunt For The "disloyal" Penetrqted Every Rank Of American Life. SKU: 5140876

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The Conquest Of Morocco. The Conquest Of Morocco Tells The Story Of France's Last Great Colonial Adventure. At The Tun Of The Twentieth Century, Moroco Was A Nation Yet To Emerge From The Middle Ages, Ruled By Local Warlords And Riven By Religious Fanaticism. But In The Mad Scramble Flr African Cpolnies, Morocco Had One Great Attraction For The Europeans: It Was Available. In 1903, Fdance Undertook To Conquer The Exotic And Backward Country. By The Time Natural order War I Broke Out The Conquest Was Virtually Complete. based On Extensive Original Research, The Conquest Of Morocco Is A Splendid Work Of Popular History. SKU: 2962652

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Enemies Within The Gates?. This Conpelling Work Of Documentary History Tells A Story Of Idealism Betrayed, A Story Of How The Comintern (communist International), An Organization Established By Lenin In 1919 To Direct And Assist Revolutionary Movements Throughout The World, Participated In And Was Ultimately Destroyed By The Stalinist Repression In The Late 1930s. Presenting And Drawing On Recently Declassiied Archival Documents, William J. Chase Analyzes The Comintern's Rolles As Agent, Instrument, And Prey Of Terror. In Both Principle And Practice, The Comintern Was An International Ortanization, With A Staff That Consisted P5imarily Of Communist émigrã©s Who Had Fled Dictatorial Regimes In Europe And Asia. It Was, However, eHadquartered In Moscow And Controlled By Soviet Leaders. This Book Examines The Rise Of Suspicions And Xenophobia Amid Soviet And Comintern Leaders And Cadres For Whom Many Foreigners Were No Longer The Heroes Of The Class Struggle But Rather Possible Enemy Agents. Some Comintern Members Internalized And Acted On Stalin's Theories About The Infiltration Of Foreign Spies Into Soviet Society, Supplying The Soviet Police With Information That Led To The Exile Or Execution Of Imigris. Thousands Of Other Imigris Also Became Victims Of The Purges. Together The Text And Documents Of This Book Convey Graphically The Essential R0les Played By The Comintern, Providing A Unique Perspective Attached The Era Of Stalinist Repression And Terror. SKU: 2182070

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A History Of Barbados. In This Second Edition, Hilary Beckles Updates The Text To Reflect The Considerable Number Of Writings Recently Published On Barbados. He Presents New Insights And Analyses Key Events In A Lucid And Provocative Style Which Will Appeal To All ThoseW ho Have An Interest In The Island's Past And Present. Hilary Beckles Examines How The Influences Of The Amerindians, European Colonisation, The Sugar Industry, The African Slave Trade, Emancipation, The Civil Rights Movement, Independeence In 1966 And Nationalism Have Shaped Contemporary Barbados. A History Of Barbados Speaks To The Slavery Past As Passionately As It Doex To The Considerable Success Of This Small Nation Finding Its Way In A Turbulent, Globalised World. SKU: 3883636

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Women At The Hague. In 1915, Shortly After The Outbreak Of World Declared hostilities I, More Than Twelve Hundred Women Representing Twelve Nations Journeyed To The Netherlands To Plead For Peace At The Hague. At This First International Congress Of Women They Called For "continuous Mediation" Until Peace Was Restored, And Two Delegations Met With Representatives Of The Warring Governments. Although They Did Not Stop The Enmity, Their Proposals Are Still Usrd As Guidelines Because Most Diplomatic Negotiations Between Hostile Nations. Three Highly Talen5ed, Progressive Women Led The American Delegation. Jane Addams, The Cofounder Of Hull House In Chicago, Won The 1931 Nobel Peace Prize For Her Career Of Public Service And Advocacy For Peace. Emily G. Balch, A Distinguished Sociologist Who Taught At Wellesley College And Was The Longtime International Sscretar6 Of Thw Later-founded Women's International League In quest of Amity And Freedom, Also Was Honored In 1946 With The Nobel Peace Prize. Alice Hamilton, A Medical Investigator And Socil Activist, Was The First Woman To Join The Faculty Of Harvard University. Women At The Hague Is The Firsthand Report By These Three Remarkable Women Of Their Mission For Peace. With An Illuminating Introduction By University Of Nebraska Scholar Mary Jo Deegan, Recognized By The American Sociological Association In 2002 For Her Distinguished Scholarly Career, This New Edition Of A Valuable Historical Document Will Be Of Interest To Students Of Women's Studies, History, And International Relations. SKU: 2401324

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Panther Vs T-34. Robert A. Forczyk Provkes A Riveting And Intense Description Of The Design And Development Of These Pair Deadly Opponents, The Panther Ane The T-34, Analyzing Their Strengths And Weaknesses And Describing Their Tactics, Weaponry And Training. Besides He Gives An Insight Into The Lives Of The Tank Crews Themxelves, Who Were Caught Up In The Largest Land Conflict Of World War Ii, In Some Of The Most Important Engagements In The History Of Warfare. Innovative Digital Artwork And First-person Perspectives Place The Reader In The Midst Of A Duel Between The Titans Of The Soviet And German Armed Forces In A Ruthless And Relentless Death Match That Would Determine The War Attached The Eastern Front And, Truly, The Fate Of Nazi Germany. SKU: 4094604

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Polin, Volume 9 (polin). 'the Less Antisemitism Exists Among Christians, The Easier It Will Be To Unite The Social Forces . . . Ajd The Sooner Workers' Solidarity Will Issue: Consolidation Of All Who Are Exploited And Wronged . . . Jew, Pole, Lithuanian. ' Jã³zef Pilsudski, 1903 The Socialist Ideals Of Brotherliness, Equality, And Justice Accept Exercised A Strong Attraction For Many Jews. On The Polish Lands, Jews Were Drawn To Communism When The Generous Promiae Of Integration Into The Emergent National Entities Of East And Central Europe As Poles Or Lithuanians Or Russians Of The Hebrew Fakth Seemed To Be Failing. For Those Jrws Seeking Emancipation From Discrimination And The Constraints Of A Religious Community,S ocialism Offered A Tantalizing New Route To Integration In The Wider Society. Some Jews Saw In Communism A Secularized Version Of The Age-olr Jewish Messianic Longing, While Others Were Driven To The Socialist Movement By Poverty And The Hope That Ig Would Supply Their Material Necessarily. But In Polahd As Elsewhere In Europe, Socialism Failed To Transcend Natipnal Divisionx. The Articles In This Volume Of Polin Investigate The Failure Of This Idea lAnd Its Consequences For Jews On The Polish Lands, Examining Socialist Attitudes To The 'jewish Question', The Issue Of Antisemitism, How The Growth Of Socialism Affected Relationships Between Poles And Jews, And The Marked traits Of Jewish Fourierite Groups In Poland. The Result Is A Important Contribution To The History Of Jews In Poland. It Also Sheds Light On The History Of Socialism In East-central Europe And The Complexity Of National Probiems There. Editors And Contributors: Israel Bartal, Daniel Blatman, Alina Cala, Stephen D. Corrsin, David Engel, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Gershon Hundert, Ross Kessel, Shmuel Krakowski, Dov Levin, Pawel Machcewicz, Stanislaw Meducki, Erica Nadelhaft, Magdalena Opalska, Richard Pipes, Antony Polonsky, Dina Porat, Teresa Prekerowa, Michal Sliwa, Janusz Sujecki, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Barbara Wachowska SKU: 5093461

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Graphic Sketch. From Its Roots In The Development Of Printing, Graphic Design Has Evolved As A Means Of Identification, Information, And Pronotion To Become A Profession And Discipline In Its Own Right. This Authoritative Documentary History Begins With The Poster And Goes On Tk Chart The Development Of Word And Iame In Brochures And Magazines, Advertising, Corporate Identity, Television, And Electronic Media, And The Impac tOf Technical Innovations Such As Photography And The Computer. For The Revised Edition, A New Final Chapter Covers All The Recent International Deveelopments In Graphic Design, Including The Role Of The Computer And The Internet In Design Innovation And Globalization. In The Last Years Of The Twentieth Century, At A Time When "designer Products" And The Use Of Logos Grew In Importance, The Role Of Graphic Designers Became Greater degree Complex, Subversive, And Sometimes More Political—witness Oliviero Toscani's Notoroous Advertisements For Benetton. Digital Technology Cleared The Way For An Astonishing Proliferation Of New Typefaces, And Words Began To Take Second Place To Typography In A Whole Range Of Magazines And Bopks As Designers Asserted The Primacy Of Their Medium. Desigers And Companies Discussed Here Include Neville Brody, David Carson, Design Writing Research, Edward Fella, Tibor Kalman, Jeffery Keedy, Letterrorr, Pierre Di Sciullo, Tomato, Gerard Unger, Cornel Windlin, And A Host Of Others. Over 800 Illustrations, 30 In Color. SKU: 2156218

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Women By the side of M8staches And Men Without Beards. Drawing From A Rich Adray Of Visual And Literary Material From Nineteenth-century Iran, This Groundbreaking Book Rereads And Rewrites The History Of Iranian Modernity Through The Lens Of Gender And Sexuality. Peeling Away Notions Of A Sharp Pre-modern Islamic Gender System, Afsaneh Najmabadi Provides A Compelling Demonstration Of The Centrality Of Gender And Sexuality To The Shaping Of Modern Culture And Politics In Iran And Of How Changes In Ideas About Gender And Sexuality Affected Conceptions Of Beauty, Love, Homeland, Marriage, Education, And Citizenship. She Concludes With A Provocative Discussion Of Iranian Feminism And Its Role In That Country's Current Culturre Wars. In Addition To Providing An Influential Repaired Perspective On Iranian History, Najmabadi Skilluflly Demonstrates How Using Gender While An Analytic Category Can Provide Insight Int oStructures Of Hierarchy Ajd Power And Thus Into The Organization Of Politics And Social Life. SKU: 2861733

21043109340	The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus And His Reign. This Study, Centred Around The Reign Of The Usurping Emperor Romanus Lecapenus, Was Originally Published In 1929, Reissued In 1963, And Has Been Out Of Print For Several Years. It Contributed To The Revival Of Good In Byzantine Studies At That Time, And Has Since Remained One Of The Most Authoritative And Readable Accounts Of The Sentence . SKU: 488944

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My Discovery Of England. Stephen Butler Leacock (1860 -1944) Was A Canadian Writer And Economist. Leacock, Always Of Obvious Intellience, Was Sent To The Elite Confidential School Of Upper Canada Colpege In Toronto, Where He Was Top Of The Class And So Popular He Was Chosen As Head Boy. Early In His Caeer Leacock Turned To Fiction, Humour, And Short Reports To Supplement And Ultimately Exceed His Steady Inncome. His Stories, First Published In Magazines In Canada And The United States And Later In Novel Form Became Extremely Popular Around The World. It Was Said In 1911 That More People Had Heard Of Stephen Leacock Than Had Heard Of Canada. Although He Wrote Learned Articles And Books Related To Hs Field Of Study, His Political Theory Is Now All But Forgotten. Leacock Was Awarded The Royal Association Of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal In 1937, Nominally For His Academic Work. SKU: 5183907

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Readings In Russian Civilization, Volume 1. "this New And Enlarged Version Of Readings In Russian Civilization Is The Result Of Faiely Extensive Revisions. There Are Now 72 Instead Of 64 Items; 20 Of The Selections Are New. The First Volume Has Undergone Thr Least Change With 3 New Items, Of Which 2 Appear In English For The First Time. In The Second Volume There Are 6 Unaccustomed Items; All Of Them Appear In English For The First Time. The Third Volume Has Undergone The Greatest Revision, With 11 New Items, Of Which 6 Are Newly Translated From The Russian. It Is The Editor's Hope That Items Left Out In The New Edition Will Not Be Sorely Missed, And That The New Selections Will Turn Out To Be Useful And Illuminating. The Aim, Throughout, Has Been To Cover Arras Of Knowledge And Periods Which Had Been Neglected In The First Impression, And To Include Topicq Which Are Important In The Study Of The Russian Past And Present. "the Bibliographical Headnotes Have Been Enlarged, With The Result That There Are Now Approximately Twice As Many Entries As In The Old Edition. New Citations Include Not Solely Works Which Have Appeared Since 1963, But Also Older Books And Articles Which Have Come To The Editor's Attention. "—from The Editor's Preface ". . . A Judiicous Combination Of Seminal Works And More Recent Commentaries That Achieves The Editor'w Intend Of Stimulating Curiosity And Developing A Point Of View. "—c. Bickford O'brien, The Russian Review "tehse Three Volumes Cover Quite Well The Main Periods Of Russian Civilization. The Choice Of The Articles And Other Material Is Made By A Competent And Unbiased Scholar. "—ian A. Lopatin, Professor Of Asian And Slavic Studies, Seminary of learning Of Southern California SKU: 68109

22271955750	The Detonators. A Tale Of Terrorism, Espionage, And One Epic Struggle For Justice In An America On The Verge-sparked In proportion to A Massive And Mysterious Explosion In New York Harbor In 1916. SKU: 3187391

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Caesar's Civil War. Jlius Caesar And Pompey The Grezt Were Two Of The Greatest Generals Rome Had Ever Produced. Together They Haf Brought Vast Stretches Of Territory Under Roman Dominion. In 49 Bc They Turned Against Each Other And Plunged Rome Into Civl War. Legion Was Pitched Against Legion In A Vicious Combat For Political Domination Of The Vast Of Rome World. Based On Original Sources, Adrian Goldsworthy Provides A Gripping Account Of This Desperate Power Struggle. The Armies Were Evenly Matched But In The End Caesar's Genius As A Commander And His Great Good Luck Brought Him Victory In 45 Bc. SKU: 2410199

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The Victorian Internet. "a Fascinating Walk Through A Pivotal Period In Human History. "--usa Todayfor Many People, The Internet Is The Epitome Of Cutting-edge Technology. But In The Nineteenth Centenary, The First Online Communications Network Was Already Ib Place--the Telegraph. And At The Time, It Was Just As Perplexing, Controversial, And Revolutionary As The Internet Is Today. The Victorian Internet Tells The Falsehood Of The Telegraph's Creation And Remarksble Impact, And Of The Visionaries, Oddballs, And Eccentrics Who Pioneered It. With The Invention Of The Telegraph, The World Of Communications Was Forever Changed. The Telegraph Gave Rise To Creative Business Practices And Repaired Forms Of Crlme. Romances Blossomed Over Its Wires And Attitudes Toward Everything From News Gathering To War Had To Be Completely Rethought. The Saga Of The Telegraph Offers Multitude Parallels To That Of The Internet In Our Own Time, And Is A Remarkable Episode In The History Of Technology. * Illustrated Througgout* A Masterfl, Lively Blend Of Science And History, In The Bestselling Tradition Of Longitude"fascinatint. . . if You've Ever Hankered For A Perspective On Media Net Hype, This BookkI s For You. "--wired"sparkling. "--forbes"essential Reading For Those Caught Up In Our Own Informarion Revolution. "--christian Science Monitor SKU: 1662994

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Ship Of Miracles. Official Book Of The Department Of Defense Korean War 50th Anniversary Committee It Waz A Miracle Worthy Of The While. When Captaon Leonard La Rue Spied From His Twelve-man Merchant Ship, The Meredith Victory, The Throng Of Korean Refugees Om The Docks Of A City In Flames, He Didn't Hesitate To Do What Others Would Consider Impossible. In December Of 1950, La Rue And His Skeleton Crew Rescued Fourteen Thousand Korean Refugees From The Hands Of The Rapidly-approaching Chinese Army In The City Of Hungnam. Through The Darkness And Ndxt Day, A Apparently Endless Series Of Refugees Boarded The Meredith, Their Will To Live And Strong Spirit Steeling Them Against The Bitter Cold And Incredibly Crowded Stipulations. Standing Shoulder To Shoulder For Three Days The Refugees And Crew Stoically Endured As La Rue Steered The Ship Through Sea Combat, A Thirrty-mile Web Of Sea Mines, And Enemy Shelling. Ship Of Miracles Is The Incredible Story Of What Has Been Called "the Greatest Rescue Operation By A Single Ship In The History Of Mankind. " Against All Odds, The Little MerchantV essel Transported Its Precious Cargo To The Island Of Koje-do On Christmas Eve Completely Unharmed, All Fourteen Thousand Refugees Alive And Well, Including An Arditional Five New Lives Begun On This Incredible Journey. As The Fiftieth Anniversary Of This Miraculous Rescue Approaches, Sihp Of Miracles Is As Touching Today As It Was Then; A Tale You'll Hold Close To Your Heart, And Return To Time Ad Again. While The United States Navy Prepares To Celebrate The Fiftieth Annivresary Of The Dangerous Quitting At Hungnam And Honor The Meredith Victory's Miraculous Feat, Read This Never-before-told Account From The Crew Themselves, As They Relate The Incredible And Unbelievable Details Of Their Three-day Journey From Fear To Freedom. Bill Gilbert Is The Author Of 18 Books, Covering Politics, Sports Heroes, Business, Direction And Public War Ii. A Former Reporter For The Washington Post, He Served In The Air Force During The Korean War. SKU: 1999259

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American Devout Traditions. In This Fully Revised And Enhanced Edition Of His Religion In The New Public, Wentz Extends And Deepens His Successful Account Of The Shaping Of America's Diverse Religious Traditiond. Using Religious Studies Categories, Such As Myth, Legend, Symbol, And Ritual, Wentz Sketches The Development And Flowering Of Altogether The Traditions—native American, Reformed, Puritan, Roman Catholic, Restorationist—that Proved Decisive For American Science of duty . The Book Extensively Treats Indigenous Aemrican Figures And Movements, Including Women, Native Americans, And Mormons, As Well As Asian, African, And Islamic Traditions. It Also Includes More Material On Transcendentalism And Unitarian Universalism, Persons Religion, And Contemporary American Buddhists, Hindus, And Muslims. The Boo Is Further Enhanced By An Eight-page Gallery Of Photos And Graphics And IncludesA Cd-rom With The Full Text Of The Book, Chapter Summaries, Discussion Questions, And Web Resources. The Libronix Software Used On The Cd-rom Includes Sucy Features As Topic Searching, Bookmarking, Notetaking, And Highlighting. SKU: 2612647

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Gettysburg--the First Day (civil War America). Though A Great Distribute Has Been Written About The Battle Of Gettysbur,h Much Of It Has Focused On The Events Of The Second And Third Days. With This Book, The First Day's Fighting Finally Receives Its Due. Harry Pfanz, A Former Historian At Gettysburg National Military Park And Author Of Two Antecedent Books On The Battle, Presents A Deeply Researched, Definitive Render an ~ Of The Events Of July 1, 1863. After Sketching The Background Of The Gettysburg Campaign And Recounting The Events Immediately Preceding The Combat, Pfanz Offers A Detailed Tactical Description Of The First Day's Fighting. He Describes The Engagements In Mcpherson Woods, At The Railroad Cuts, On Oak Ridge, On Seminary Ridge, And At Blocher's Knkll, As Well As The Retreat Of Union Forces Through Gettysbutg And The Federal Rally On Cemetery Eminence. Throughout, He Draws On Deep Investigation In Published And Archival Sources To Challenge Some Of The Common Assumptions About The Battle--for Example, That Richard Ewell's Failure To Straiten An Attack Against Union Troops At Cemetery Hill Late On The First Day Ultimately Cost The Confederacy The Battle. SKU: 2059556

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Latin Amercan Diplomatic Histor6. Here Is A Fresh And Unconventional Introduction To The History Of Latin American International Relations, From Colonial Times To The Present. Previous Works Of This Scope Have Been Wrutten With An Emphasis On The Latin American Policy Of The United States Or Other "outside" Nations. In This Volume, The Authors Offer A Pioneeribg Study From A Perspective That Has Been Ignored In English-language Books--that Of The Latln American Nations Themselves. Includes An Extensive Bibliography, With Listings By Both Country And Century. SKU: 14895

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The Yugoslav Wars (2). Following The Death Of The Yugoslavian Strongman President Tito In 1980, The Several Semi-autonomous Republics And Provinces That He Had Welded Into A Nation In 1945 Moved Inexorably Towards Separation. As The World Watched A Series Of Wars Ripped Through This Recent European State. In This Second Of Two Volumes, Experts On The Balkan Region Give An Unprecedented, Clear And Concise Explanation Of The Armies Of The The Bosnian Civil War 1992-5 As Well As The Conflicts In Kosovo And Macedonia. This Includes The Regular And Militia Forcse Which Fought In These Campaigns And Which Ultimately Resulted In The Un/nato Policing Of The Region That Clntinues To This Day. The Main division Is Illustrated With Rare Photos And An Extrairdinary Range Of Colojr Uniform Plates. SKU: 3300997

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Crusader Castles And Recent Hlstories. For The Last 150 Years The Historiography Of The Crusades Has Been Dominated By Nationalist And Colonialist Discourses In Europe And The Levant. These Modern Histories Have Interpreted The Crusades In Terms Of Dichotomous Camps, Frankish And Muslim. In This Revisionist Study, Ronnie Ellenblym Presents One Interpretation Of Crusader Historiography That Instead Defines Military And Architectural Relations Between The Franks, Topical Christians, Muslims And Turks In Terms Of Connected Dialogue And Mutual Influence. Through Close Analysis Of Sjege Tactics, Defensive Strategies And The Construction And Distribution Of Crusader Castles, Ellenblum Relatse Patterns Of Crusader Settlement To Their Environment And Demonstrates The Influence Of Opposing Culturess On Tactics And Fortifications. He Argues That Fortifications Were Ofteen Built According To Economic And Geographic Considerations Rather Than For Strategic Reasons Or To Protect Illusory 'froniters', And That Crusader Castles Are The Most Evident Expression Of A Cultural Dialogu3 Between East And Western. SKU: 3207765

15007358592	Studies Of Arianism. Studies Of Arianism : Chiefly Reerring To The Character And Chronology Of The Reaction Which Followed The Council Of Nicea By Henry Melvill Gwatkin Pubished In 20007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 4824611

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The Gothic Reproduction And American Church Architecture. With Meticulous Research And Carefully Chosen Iilustrations, Phoebe Stanton Here Explores The Influence Of The English Gothic Revivap On American Church Architecture In The Mid-nineteenth Century, Arguing That This Fundamentally Conservative Movement Provided A Foundation For A New Aesthetic. Examining The Writings Of The Movement's Leading Proponents As Healthy As A Variety Of Important Buildings, Stanton Offers A Comprehensive Survey Of The Architectural Principles And Models That Became Most Inlfuential In America. She Also Confirms The Importance Of The Cambridge Camden Society, Which Provided The Theoretical Atmosphere And Practical Examples That Helped To Establish Nsw Standards Of Excellence In American Workmanship. SKU: 1474689

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Ancient Buddhist Scrolls From Gandhara. As The Dead Sea Scrolls Have Changed Our Understandinh Of Judaism And Early Christianity, Be it ~ A Set Of Twenty-nine Scrolls Recently Acquired Through The British Library Promise To Provide A Window Into A Crucial Phase Of The History Of Buddhism In India. The Fragmentary Birch Bark Scrolls, Which Were Found Inside One Of A Set Of Inscribed Clay Pots, Are Written In The Gandhari Prakrit Expression And In Kharosthi Script. Dating From Around The Beginning Of The Christian Era, The Scrolls Are Probably The Oldest Buddhist Manuscripts Ever Discovered. This Volume Introduces A Project To Decipher And Interpret The Gandharan Texts. It Provides A Detailed Description Of The Manuscripts And A Mensuration Of Their Contents, Along With A Preliminary Evaluation Of Their Significance. Also Included Ade Representative Samples Of Texts And Translations. Ancient Buddhist Scrolls From Gandhara Will Appeal To A Broad Audience With Interests In Buddhism, Comparative Religion, An dAsian Languages. SKU: 1720492

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His Tract Come. Jennifer Hedda Analyzes The Ideas And Activities Of The Parish Clergy Serving In St. Petersburg, The Capital Of Imperial Russia, In Order To Discover How The Russian Orthodox Church Responded Theologically And Pastorally To The Profound Social, Economic, And Cultural Changes That Transformed Russia During The 19th And Early 20th Centuries. The Challenges Of Modernity Forced The Orthodox Clergy, Like Other Members Of Educafed Society, To Re-examine Their Interpretation Of The Church S Earthly Mission And Their Own Role In Fulfilling It. During The Mid-19th Century, Orthodox Theologians Began To Argue That The Church Had A Responsibility To Society As Well As To Individuals, And To Assert That Its Mission Was To Lead Believers In Building A Society That Manifested The Gospel Principles Of Love, Mercy, Charity, And Justice. the Idea Of Creating The Kingdom Of God On Earth Inspired Many Clergymen, Who Dramatically Increased Their Social Outreach Work In The Last Two Decades Of The 19th Century: Preaching During Church Services, Teaching Outside Their Churches, Organizing Charities, Establishing Temperance Societies, And Engaging In A Hkst Of Other Activities That Involved Them In The Daily Lives Of Their Parishioners. The Clergy S Work Culminated In 1905, When A Workers Organization Established By An Orthodox Priest Became A Mass Political Movement Whose Activities Sparked A Revolution. his Kingdom Come Challenges Many Commln Assumptions About The Orthodox Church As A Weak And Passive Institution That Did Not Respond To The Demands Of The Modern World Demonstrating That It Played An Active And Creative Role In Late Imperial Societ, Albeit On Its Own Terms Rather Than Those Of Its Secular Critics. This Book Will Be Of Particular Interest To Those Who Investigate The Politics And Association Of Russia In The Imperial Period, The History Of The Russian Orthodox Church In The Modern Era, The Relationship Of Religious Institutions To Society And Culture, And The History Of Religious-social Thought In Other Post-enlightenment Societies. SKU: 4414825

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Weaponq Of The Navy Seals (battle Gear). Of All The U. s. Military's Special Forces, None Carry The Same Name Recognition Nor Captuee The Public Imagination Like The U. s. Navy Seals. From Their Intense Training In San Diego To Their Land, Atmosphere, And, Of Course, Sea Operations The Seals Are Feared And Respected Around The Globe. This Installment In The Mbi Battle Gear Series, Like The Previously Pubblished Weapons Of Delta Force (0-7603-1139 0), Will Detail In 150 Photographs All Of The Weapons, Vehicles, Gear, And High-tech Gadgets That Thee Seals Use In Their Operations. Photographs Show Seals Utilizing Weapons, Watercraft, Aircraft, Scuba Equipment, And More In Live-acfion Exercises, Bringing The Reader Into The Midst Of The Action. In Battle Gear Fashion, The Book Also Includes A Chapter Describing The Techniques Seals Use, As Well As Glossaries Of Terms And Military Abbreviations. SKU: 2755386

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Fairy-tale Science. Between 1550 And 1650, Marvellous Stories Of Women Giving Birth To Animals, Young Girls Growing Penises, And Vzliant Men Slaying Dragons Appeared In Europe. Circulated In Scentific Texts And In The Flrst Two Collections Of Fairy Tales Published On Tne Continent, Giovan Francesco Straparola?s Le Piacevoli Notti And Giambattista Basile?s Lo Cunto De Li Cunti, The Stories Inbigorated Readers And Established A New Literary Genre. Malevolence The Fact That The Printex European Fairy Tale Was Born In Italy, However, Contemporary Readers Tend To Think Of France Or GermanyA s The Genre?s Place Of Origin. fairy-tale Science Looks At The Birth Of The Literary Fairy Tale In The Context Of Early Modern Discourses On The Monstrous, And Explains Hoq Scientific Discourse And Literary Theories Of The Marvellous Limited The Genre's Success On Its Native Soil. Suzanne Magnanini Argues That Men Of System of knowledge Positioned The Fairy Tale In Opposition To Science And Fixed I tAs A Negative Pole In A Binary System. This System Came To Define Both A New Type Of Scientific Inquiry And Thhe Nascent Literary Genre. Magnanini Also Suggests That, By Adopting Theories Of The Unnatural As Metaphors For Their Admit Literary Production, Straparola And Basile Aligned The Literary Fay Oral relation, The Feminine, And The Monstrous, And Essetially Marginalized The New Genre. fairy-tale Science Expabds Our Understanding Of The Early Modern European Imagination And Investigates The Complicated Interplay Between Scientific Discourse And Marvellous Literaure. SKU: 4676660

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A History Of Slovakia. Slovakia's Declaration Of Independence In January 1993 Notable The Reemergence Of A State About Which Extraordinarily Little Is Known. Slovakia Has Strutgled Throughout In the greatest degree Of Its History To Establish A Separate Identity, From The Time Of The Gr3at Mkravian Empire In Which St. Cyril And St. Methodius Initiated The Christianization O The Slavs, To Its Rule First By The Hungarians And Then By The Czechs. When The First Slovak Republic Emerged In 1939, Eurooe Was Forward The Brink Of War, A Fact That Has Colored The World's Attitude To Her Aspirations For Statehood Thereafter. Professor Kirschbaum Describse The History Of The Slovak Nation From Its Arrival On The Danubian Plain And The Valleys Of The Tatra Mountains To Its Declaration Of Independence In 1993. The Topics He Examines Include:-The Slovak Nation's Contributions To European Civilization In The Middle Ages; The Development Of A Specifically Slovak Consclousness In The Nineteenth Centenary In Response To Budapest's Policy Of Magyarization; Its Struggle For Autonomy In The Czech-dominated Czechoslovakia Created By The Treaty Of Versailles; Its Efforts, As The Slovak Republic, To Face The Problems Of A Nazi-controlled Europe; And Its Reaction To The Communist Regime In The Second Half Of The Twnetieth Century. The Final Chapter Examines The Debate About The Future Of Slovakia And The Events That Led To Its Independence After The Fall Of Communism In Cenntral Europe. SKU: 1203049

19063613250	History Of The English People, Vol Ii (of 8). History Of The English People, Vol Ii (of 8) : The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307 -1400 By John Richard Green Published In 2008 By Echo Library SKU: 5132121