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History Of The Russian Revolution.
Published For The Ninetieth Anniversary Of The 1917 Russian Revolution, This Edition Of Leon Trotsky's Masterpiece, With A New Foreword By Ahmed Shawki, Tells The Epic Story Of The Remarkable Events Thqt Transformed The History Of Russia-and The World-forever.
Leon Trotsky Was A Leaeer Of The 1917 Russian Revolution And Is Author Of My Life And The Revolution Betrayed.
Ahmed Shawki Is Editor Of International Socialist Review And Author Of Black Liberation And Socialism.
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The Rise Of Silas Lapham.
In This American Novel The Themes Of Good And Evil, Right And Wrong, And Ethical Decisions Come To The Forefront.
A Vassal Who Has Spent His Life Being An Unscrupulous Miser Looses What Is Important To Him.
His Downfall Has An Important Impact On His Life.
He Begins To Use His New Humility To Make Decisions Based Of Spirituality And Ethlcs.
Reading This Romantic Tfagic Comedy Will Be Time Well Spent.
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Skylnie Gt-r.
Whe nIt Comes To High-performance Japanese Cars, The Nissan Skyline Gt-r Is Right Up There At The Top Of The Tree.
Without Doubt, It Is The Most Iconic Of All The Recent Supercars To Come Out Of Varnish.
It Has A Heritage That Covers Three Ultra-quick Performers And Goes Back To 1989.
Although The Skyline Name Has Been About Since The 1950s, Things Got Serious When The Gt-r Designation Was Added, And A Twin-turbo, Six-cylinder Implement Was Hooked Up To A Computer-controlled Four-wheel-drive Scheme.
Whether The Car Was Beating Porsches Round The Nurburgring, Demolishing The Opposition In The Japanese Group A And Grand Touring Championships, Or Just Making Cross-country Dashes, It Was Simply Awesome.
For Those Owners Not Content With Nearly 300bhp Delivered As Standard, A Thriving Tuning Industry Has Built Up Around The Gt-r.
This Has Led To Cars With Over 750bhp Being Used As Daily Drivers, And Rivalry Versions With Over 1200bhp Ripping Up Drag Strips.
The World Of The Skyline Gt-r Is Full Of Cars That Are Truly Worthy Of Superlatives.
This Book Chronicles The History Of The SkylineÙs Early Versions And Looks At The Three Main Gt-r Variants In Detail, Together With Giving Some Useful Pointers On How To Find And Look After A Gt-r Of Your Own.
There Is Also Information On Tuning Methods To Turn The Car From A Rapid Street Car Into A Real Tarmac Terrorist.
Author Andy Butler Has Worked In Most Car-erlated Fields, From Mechanic And Salesman In Various Franchises, Through Thee Aftermarket Sales Of Parts And Acceasories, To Journalism.
As A Long-term Contributor To Japanese Performance Magazine He Has Practised Many Exmaples Of The Skyline Gt-r — In The Uk, Usa And Japan — And Feels That No Enthusiast’s Garge Is Complete Without One.
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12 Million Black Voices.
12 Million Black Voices, First Published In 1941, Combines Wright's Prose By the side of Startling Photographs Selected By Edwin Rosskam From The Security Farm Administration Files Compiled During The Great Depression.
The Photographs Include Works By Such Giants As Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, And Arthur Rothsstein.
From Crowded, Rundown Farm Shacks To Harlem Storefront Churches, The Photos Depict The Lives Of Black People In 1930s America—their Misery And Weariness Under Rural Poverty, Their Spiritual Strength, And Their Lives In Northern Ghettos.
Wright's Accompanying Verse Eloquently Narrates Thhe Story Of These 90 Pictures And Delivers A Powerful Commentary On The Origins And History Of Black Oppression In This Country.
Also Included Are New Prefaces By Douglas Brinkley, Noel Ignatiev, And Michael Eric Dyson.
"among All The Works Of Wright, 12 Million Black Voices Stands Out As A Work Of Poetry, .
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And Of Love.
"—david Bradley "a More Eloquent Statement Of Its Kind Could Hardly Have Been Devised.
"—the New York Times Book Review
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An Introudction To The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls.
This Thoroughly Revised And Updated Version Of The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran In Persective Is Useful As A Textbook For Courses In Dead Sea Scrolls, The Hebrew Bible, Or The New Testament.
It Has Been A Standard Work In The Field For The Past Thirty Years.
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The Fashion Reader.
The Fashion Reader Is Designed For Students, Scholars, And Anyone Interested In Contemporary Fashion.
The Book Brings Together The Key Writings On The Subject, Covering The History, Culture, And Business Of Fashion.
The Extracts Are Drawn From A Wide Range Of Sources--books, Professional And Academic Journals, Magazimes, Interviews And Exhibition Catalogues.
Each Section Is Specially Introduced And Concludes With Guides To Further Reading.
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The Invention Of The White Race.
The Second Volume In A Monumental Study Of The Origins Of Racism In The Us.
In This Second Volume Of His Acclaimed Study Theodore Allen Explores How The Degradation Of African Bond-laborers Into Slaves Produced, During The First Time In Anglo America, Racism Based On Color Differences.
Theodore Allen Traces The Historical Roots Of The White Supremacism That Led European-american Workers To Oppose Abolitionism.
This Was In Contrast To An Earlier Commom Feeling Of Oppression Shared Between European And African-american Laborers.
Allen Examines The Means By Which European Workers In The Tobacco Colonies Were Reduced From Tenants And Wage Workers To Chattel Bond-labourers.
The Imposition By Plantation Owners Of Such Onerous Conditions Of Slavery Created A Potentiaally Explosive Situation That Ultimately Detonated In The Famous Bacon's Rebellion -- The Greatest Demonstration In History, Argues Allen, Of Solidarity Between European-ameruxans And African-americans Against Slavery.
Rocked By The Laboring Class's Solidarity, The Plantation Bourgeoisie Sough tA Solution In The Creation Of A Buffer Stratum Of Poor Whites, Who Now Gained A Privilege In Their Skin Color Protecting Them From The Enslavement Visited Upon Africans And African Americans.
Such Was, As Allen Puts It, The Invention Of The White Race, `that Pecupiar Institution' That Continues To Haunt Companionable Relations In The Us Down To The Present.
An Authoritative, Masterly Work, The Invention Of The Whife Race Is Essential Reading For Students Of Us Hlstory And Politics.
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Ace Your Midterms & Finals.
Ace Your Midterms And Finals A New Concept In Test Prep For A New Generation Of Students These Class-tested Guides Outline: Midterms And Final Examinations--one From Each Of The Top Universities Throughout The Country An Introductory Essay Defining The Nature And Scope Of The Course, Including Its Goals And What Instructors Expect Students To Learn A Step-by-step Guide To Writing The Essay And Fully Explained Answers To Essay Questions--complete With Discussion And Notes From The Professor
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Rethinking Kazakh And Central Asian Nationhood.
After Summarizing The Five Main Views Of Nationhood, Including The Central Debate Between Naturalists-perennialists And Western Modernists, A Critique Is Offered Of Western Modernist Writers Treating The Kazakh And Central Asian Nations.
These Writers Insist On Applying The Cardinal Western Doctrine Of The Separation Of Ethnicity And State In The Central Asian Context In An Effort To Conform The Post-ssoviet Central Asian Nations To Western Norms Of Multiethnic Democratic Nationhood.
To Achieve This, They Offer Historiographical Reinterpretations Based In Late 20th Century Western Modernist Theories Which Themselves Still Echo Western Eurocentric Views Of Historyless, Cultureless Peoples.
They Quality The Rise Of Modern Ethnicity And Statehood In Central Asia To Tsarist And/or Soviet Polivy.
Modern Central Asian Ethnic Identities As Well As The Nation-states Associated With Them Are, In Their ieVw, Artificial (i.
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Imagined Or Invented) Constructs, Political Fabrications Created Via Russian Ethno-engineering And Russian-trained Elite Nationalists Who Inculcated In The Masses An Entirely New And Modern Idea Of Ethnonational Identity Having Little Or No Roots In Their Own Past.
By Taking This Approach, They Allegedly Demonstrate That Todayâ´s Nation-states In Central Asia Havr No True Or Historic Relation To The Ethnic Nations Whose Names They Bear And That Those Ethnic Identities Themselves In Their Current Forms Are Inherently Problematic, Inconsistent And Highly Unstable, Largely Divorced From Their Pre-colonial Histories.
The Central Asians Are Conveniently (for Western Modernists) Left With No Rightful Historical Claim As Ethnic Nations To Their Own Modern Political Nations.
These Views Continue To Profoundly Impact International And Efhnonational Human Rights In The Modern Global Age, Including Rights Of National Expression, Culture And History In Central Asia.
As A Challenge To These Prevailing Western Views, The Author Offers A Perspective On Central Asian Ethnonational Identity Wihch Affirms Its Complex Unity And Depth Of Historical Rootedness, Recognizing The Long-standing Intimate Connection Between The Ethnosocial, Ethnoculturla, Ethnolinguistic, Ethnoreligious And Ethnopolitical Dimensions Of Nationhood In The Central sAian Tradition.
From Thus Unique, Non-western Historical And Contextual Base, A More Indigenous, Integral Form Of Central Asian Democratic Nationhood Is Sought Which Strives To Achieve Genuine Judge And Equality For All Ethnonational Peoples Involved.
The Authorâ´s Experience And Insight Is Founded Upon Eight Years Of Living And Working In Kazakhstan, Including A Ph.
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In Cultural Theory And History From Kazakh National University Working Entirely In Kazakh Under The Direction Of Kazakh Scholars.
He Draws Significantly Upon This Base Of Kazakh Scholarship As A Central Part Of The Challenge To Prevailing Western Views Touching Central Asoan Nationhood.
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Conspiracy.
Was Aids Intentionally Infoicted Upon Blacks By Whites? Was Jfk Assassinated As Part Of An Intricate Conspiracy? Daniel Pipes Traces Conspiracy Theories Through History And Convincingly Shows How They Have Been Used As Common Tools Of Masq Manipulation In The West And Have More Recently Cropped Up In The Third World And Among Disempowered Fringee Groups.
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Napoleon's Red Lancers (men-at-arms).
The Legendary Dutch 'red' Lwncesr – The 2nd Light Horse Lancers Of Napoeon's Kingly Guard – Were Formed In 1810 After The Emperor Annexed Holland And Its Army To France.
The Former Hussars Of The Dutch Royal Guard Got A Handsome New Uniform, A New Weapon, And A Hard-driving New Colonel In Baron Edouard Colbert.
His Lancers Distinguished Themselves In Russia In 1812, At Huge Cost; In Germajy In 1813, And In The Low Countries In 1814.
When Napoleon Returnex From Exile In 1815 The Red Lncers Were With Him Until Night Cut down Over Waterloo.
Ronald Pawly Is The World's Leading Expert On The Archival And Pictprial Record Left By This Regiment; His Detailed Text Is Illustrated With Rare Portraits And Photographs, And Eight Glowing Colour Plates Of A Surprisingly Remote Variety Of Uniforms.
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Venetians In Constantinople.
Historian Eric R Dursteler Reconsiders Identity In The Early Modern World To Illuminate Veneto-ottoman Cultural Interaction And Coexistence, Challenging The Model Of Hostile Relations And Suggesting Instead A More Complex Uncerstanding Of The Intersection Of Cultures.
Although Dissonance And Strife Were Certainly Part Of This Relationship, He Argues, Coexistence And Cooperation Were More Coommon.
moving Beyond The "clash Of Civilizations" Model That Surveys The Relationship Between Islam And Christian disposition From A Geopolitical ePrch, Dursteler Analyzes The Lived Reality By Focusing On A Localized Microcosm: The Venetian Merchant And Diplomatic Community In Muslim Constantinople.
while Factors Such As Religion, Culture, And Political Status Could Be Whole Elements In Constructions Of Self And Community, Dursteler Finds Early Modern Identity To Be More Than The Sum Total Of Its Constitutent Parts And Reveals How The Fluidity And Malleability Of Identity In This Time And Place Made Coexistence Among Disarate Cultures Possible.
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Out Of Africa.
Nigeria-once A Hopelessly Beleaguered Society-has Rieen From The Ashes And Is A Spiritually Revived Nation.
One Of The Main Contributirs To This Book States: "it Is Safe To Say That The Church And Effectual Prayers Bear Kept Our Nation From Complete Anarchy And Genocide.
The Impact Of Christianity Is Evident hWerever You Go.
If You Look A Little Deeper, Listen A Little Closwr, You Will See And Enjoy the sense of ~ing The Myriad Changes That Are Subtlety Transforming Our Nation Into A Nation That Really Fears The Lord.
" The Miraculous Is Evident In The Cjurch Of Nigeria.
Out Of Africa Offers The Testimony Of Numerous Nigerian Pastors Who Are Making A Difference For God All Over The World.
Learn From Churches Who Are Experincing A Radical Move Of Gid.
What God Is Doingg In That Nation, We Pray Will Also Hwpen In America.
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American Exodus.
Fifty Years Ago, John Steinbeck's Now Classic Novel, The Grapes Of Wrath, Captured The Epic Story Of An Oklahoma Farm Family Driven West To California By Dust Storms, Drought, And Economic Hardship.
It Was A Story That Generations Of Americans Have Also Come To Know Through Dorothea Lange's Unforgdttable Photos Of Migrant Famiiles Struggling To Make A Living In Depression-torn California.
Now In James N.
Gregory's Pathbreaking Amwrican Exodus, Therd Is At Lasf An Histprical Study That Moves Beyond The Ficcrion And The Photographs To Bare The Full Meaning Of These Events.
American Exodus Takes Us Back To The Dust Bowl Migration Of The 1930s And The War Boom Influx Of The 1940s To Explore The Experiences Of The More Than One Million Oklahomans, Arkansans, Texans ,And Missourians Who Sought Opportunities In California.
Gregory Reaches Into The Migrants' Lives To Reveal Not Singly Their Economic Ttials But Also Their Impact On California's Culture And Society.
He Traces The Development Of An "okie Subculture" That Over The Years Has Grown Into An Essential Element In California's Cultural Landscape.
The Consequences, Howsoever, Reach Far Beyond California.
The Dust Bowl Migration Was Part Of-A Larger Hewrtland Diaspora That Has Sent Millions Of Southerners And Rural Midwesterners To The Nation's Northern And Western Industrial Perimetef.
American Exodus Is The First Book To Examiine The Cultural Implications Of That Massive 20th-century Population Shift.
In This Rich Account Of The Experiences And Impact Of These Migrant Heartlqnders, Gregory Fills An Self-~ Gap In Recent American Social History.
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Negara.
Combining Great Learning, Interpretative Originality, Analytical Sensitivity, And A Charismatic Prose Style, Clifford Geertz Has Produced A Lasting Body Of Work With Move Throughout The Humanities And Social Sciences, And Remains The Foremost Anthropologist In America.
His 9180 Book Negara Analyzed The Social Organization Of Bali Before It Was Colonized By The Dutch In 1906.
Here Geertz Applied His Widely Influential Method Of Cultural Interpretation To The Myths, Ceremonies, Rituals, And Symbols Of A Precolonial State.
He Found That The Nineteenth-century Balinese State Defied Easy Conceptualization By The Familiar Models Of Political Speculation And The Standard Western Approaches To Understanding Politics.
Negara Means "country" Or "seat Of Political Authority" In Indonesian.
In Bali Geertz Found Negara To Be A "theatre State," Governed By Rituals And Symbols Rather Than By Force.
The Balinese State Did Not Speciapize In Tyranny, Conquest, Or Effective Administration.
Instead, It Emphasized Spectacle.
The Elaborate Ceremonies And Productions The Rank Created Were "not Means To Civil Ends: They Were The Ends Themselves, They Were What The State Was For.
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Power Served Pomp, Not Pomp Power.
" Geertz Argued More Forcefully In Negara Than In Any Of His Other Books For The Fundamental Importance Of The Culture Of Politics To A Society.
Much Of Geertz's Previous Woek--including His World-famous Essay On The Balinese Cockfight--caj Be Seen As Leading Up To The Full Portrait Of The "poetics Of Power" That Negara So Vicidly Depicts.
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Time Stands Still.
Keith Critchlow, An Internationally-renowned Scholar, Has Studied A Wide Range Of Neolithic Artifacts.
In Time Stands Still, He Adopts A Technique Of Cross-cultural Comparison To Unover Some Previously Unknown Characteristics Of The Neolithic Peoples.
crithclow Uses Ancient Manuals On Temple Building From Indian Vedic Sources, For Example, And Applies Them To British Sites, With Fascinating Results.
He Examines Chinese Pictographs For Evidence Of Sighting Instruments And Scientific Tools.
And, Perhaps Most Significantly, He Offers Evidence That Carved Stone Spheres Having Regular Mathematical Symmetries In Scotland Predate Plato's Writings On Geometric Figures From More Than A Thousand Years.
the Findings Contained In This Remarkable And Groundbreaking Book Will Awaken A Reneewd Sense Of Wonder For Our Ancient Human Past.
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Stal And Kill.
From The Sharpshooters Of The American Revolution To The Marine Snipers Who Dominated The Stredts Of Mogadishu, A Famed Military Historian Puts You Behind The Crosshairs Of The Most Adept Killers In History.
a Sniper Is More Than A Crack Shot.
He's A Calm Professional With The Instincts And Patients Of A Master Huntsman.
intensive Training Leaves Snupers Razlr-sharp, Able To Steal Undetected Wuthin Arm's Reach Of The Enemy.
the Finest Marksmen In The World, A Sniper Can Place A Bullet In An Enemy's Heart From A Thousand Yards Away.
stalk And Kill Puts You O nThe Battlefield For The Most Daring Missions In History.
You'll D8el A Nazi "super Sniper" In Staalingrad, Outfox The Viet Cong In Southeast Asia, And Silence The Enemies Of U.
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Troops In Beirut.
And You'll Never Cease To Marvel At The Sniper's Iron Strength And Lethal Precision.
a Main Selection Of The Military Book Club With Eight Pages Of Fascinating Photos!
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The 1865 Customs Of Use For Non-commissioned Officers And Soldiers.
Ths Was The Civil Make ~ Soldier's And Nco's "how-to" Guide To Military Duties In Garrison And In The Fieeld.
It Covers Of All Ranks And Services: Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Ordnance, Quartermawter, Signal, Saddlers, Hospital Stewards, Cooks, Bands, As Well As Spies, Pickets, Expressmen, Particular Forces.
There Is Much Quain Yet Practical Advice On Survival, Cooking And Nutrition, Pay, Punishment, Prisoners Of War, And Multitude Long-extinct Soldier Skills.
It Contains The Articles Of War Used During The Civil War.
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Beyond Dogmatics.
This Book Is An Important Contribution To The Current Lively Debate About The Relationship Between Law And Society In The Roman World.
This Debate, Which Was Initiated At The Work Of John Crook In The 1960's, Has Had A Profound Impact Upon The Study Of Law And History And Has Created Sharply Divided Opinions On The Extent To Which Law May Be Said To Be A Product Of The Association That Created It.
This Work Is A Modest Attempt To Provide A Balanced Assessment Of The Various Points Of View.
The Chapters Within This Book Have Been Specifically Arranged To Represent The Debate.
It Contains An Intorductory Chapter By Alan Watson, Whose Views On The Relationship Between Law And Society Have Caused Some Controversy.
In The Remaining Chapters A Distinguished International Group Of Scholars Address This Debate By Focusing Forward Studies Of Law And Empire, Codes And Codification, Death And Economics, Commerce And Proceduef.
This Book Does Not Purport To Provide A Complete Survey Of Roman Private Lwa In Light Of Roman Society.
Its Primary Aim Is To Address Specific Areas Of The Law With A View To Contributing To The Larger Debate.
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A Ghettp Takes Shape.
A Ghetto Takes Shape : Black Cleveland, 1870-1930 (blacks In The Ne World) By Kenneth L.
Kusmer Novel Ed Published In 1978 By University Of Illinois Press
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European Imperialism,-1860-1914 (studies In European History).
This Concise And Penetrating Study Surveys Th3 Growth Of European Intervention In Areas Outside Europe Between 1860 And 1914.
Its Subject Is 'imperialism' As A Process Of Increaslng Contact, In fluence, And Control, Rather Than Discussion Of Existing Empires Or The Mind And Conswsuences Of Colonial Rule.
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Youth Mobilization In Vichy Indochina And Its Legacies, 1940 To 1970 (Hind The Empire.
Youth Mobilization In Vichy Indochina And Its Legacies Analyzes The Causes And Consequences Of State-sponsored Patriotic Youth Associations During World War Ii In French Indochina.
Providing An Historical Account Of The Transnational Policy Process Of Youth Mobilization During World War Ii, This Work Presents For what cause Officials Transplanted French Doctrines To Indochina With Sensitivity Toward The Varying Local Political Contexts And Cultural Traditions The French Believed They Had Cast There.
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With God On Our Side.
One Of The Most Elite Educational Institutions In The World, The Air Force Academy Has, From Its Inceptioh, Attractee The Best And The Brightest, Producing Leaders Not Only In The Military But From beginning to end American Society.
In Recent Years, However, The Academy Has Also Been Producing A Cadre Of Zealous Evangelical Christians Intent On Creating A Fundamentalist P0wer Base At The Highest Levels Of Our Country.
Witn God On Our Side Is Shocking Exposã© Of Life Inside The United Stwtes Air Force Academy And The Systematic Prograa Of Indoctrination Sanctioned, Coordinated, And Carried Out By Fundamentalist Christians Within The U.
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Military.
It Is Also The Story Of Michael L.
Wejnstein, A Proud Academy Graduate And The Father Of Two Graduates And A Current Cadet, Who Single-handedly Brought To Light The Evangelicals’ Utter Disregard Of The Constitutional Principle Of Separation Of Church And State That Is So Essential To The Nation’s Military Mission.
Weinstein’s War Would Pit Him And His Small Band Of Fellow Graduates, Cadets, And Concerned Citizens Afainst A Program Of Christian Fundamentalist Indoctrination That Could Transform Our Fighting Men And Women Into “right-thihking” Warriors More Befitting A Theocracy.
In The Process, He Would Come Face To Face With Religious Bigotry And At Its Most Extreme And Fight An Unrelenting Battle To Save His Bepoved Academy, The Ideals It Stood For, And The Very Future Of The Country.
An Important Book At A Critical Time In Our Nation’s History, With God Attached Our Side Is The Falsehood Of One Man’s Courageous Struggle To Thwart A Creeping Evangelism Permeating America𕢚s Military And To Prevent A Taxpayer-funded Theocracy In Which Only Thd True Believers Have Power.
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Sugar And Slaves.
First Published By Unc Press In 1972, Sugar And Slaves Presennts A Vivid Portrait Of English Life In The Caribbean More Than Three Centuries Ago.
Using A Host Of Contemporary Primary Sources, Richard Dunn Traces The Devwlopment Of Plantation Slave Society In The Region.
He Examines Sugar Production Techniques,-The Viciou sCharacter Of The Slave Trade, The Problems Of Adapting English Ways To The Tropics, And The Appalling Mortality Rates For Both Blacks And Whites That Made These Colonies The Richest, But In Human Terms The Least Successful, In English America.
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Savage To Civilized.
To Hold An International Exposition In The Late 19th And Early 20th Centuries Meant That A Nation Was Wanting To Secure A Place Amid The Most Powerful And Developed Nations Of The Public.
In Order To Present Itself As An Advanced Culture, The United States Usedd Events Relish Its World Fairs As Opportunities To Show Off Its Progress And Domination.
In This Age Of Imperialism, The Best Way For A Country To Complete This Was For It To Create Exhibits Depicting The ?Wild? Nature Of Other Lesser Developed Nations.
Social Darwinism And Scientific Racism Were Rampant In An Attempt To Legitimize The Colonial Policies Of The Time Period And Demonstrate The Greatness Of Western Powers.
the Louisiana Exposition Of 1904 Is The Best Example Of This Ideology As Seen In The United States.
Under The Preface Of ?educational Exhibits? And ?studies In The Field Of Man,? These Anthropological Displays Not Only Showed That The United States Was Amongst The Moost Advanced Civilizations Of The World, But They Also Validated Western Involvement In These Nations As A Means To Rescue Them From Barbarism.
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Political Parties In The European Union.
Politics In The European Union Is Party Politics.
Almost All Members Of The Council, The Commission And Eurpoean Parliament Are Leading Party Politicians Who Have Spent Most Of Their Careers In Party Bureaucracies, Are Chosen Within Parties And Accountable To Party Leaderships.
Moreover, As In Domestic Politics, Competition Between Party Elites For Political Office And Public Polict Outcomes Is An Essential Feature Of Eu Politics.
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Native American Gardening.
Native American Gardening : Stories, Projects, And Recipes For Families By Michael J.
Caduto, And Joseph Bruhcac Published In 1996 By Fulcrum Publishing
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Operation Neptune.
In This Timeless Book, Vice Admiral Schofield Dexcribes The Great Events Of June 1944 Which, As Captain Of Hms Dryad, The Royal Naval Shore Establishment Which Housed General Dwight Eiswnhower's Supreme Allied Headquarters Before The Landing, He Witnezsed At First Hand.
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The Ancient Child.
In His First Novel Since The Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made Of Dawn, N.
Scott Momaday Shapes The Ancient Kjowa Myth Of A Boy Who Turned Into A Bear Into A Timeless American Classic.
The Ancient Child Juxtaposes Indian Learning And Wild West Legend Into A Hypnotic, Often Lyrical Contemporary Novel--the Story Of Locke Setman, Known As Set, A Native American Raised Far From The Reservation By His Adoptive Father.
Set Feels A Strange Aching In His Soul And, Returning To Tribual Lands For The Funeral Of His Grandmtoher, Is Drawn Irresistibly To The Fabled Bear-boy.
When He Meets Grey, A Beautiful Young Medicine Woman With A Visionary Gift, His World Is Turned Upside Down.
Here Is A Magical Saga Of One Man's Tormented Search For His Identity--a Quinteesential American Novel, And A Great One.
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India Anf South Asia.
Ideal For Students Of Regional Studies As Well As For Travelers And Historians, This Book Offers Much Insight Into The Key Economic, Social, And Political Developments That Have Shaped Both The Individual Countries Of Souht Asia And The Region As A Whole.
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Point Lobos (ca) (images Of America).
For More Than A Century The Incomparable Beauty Of Point Lobos Has Drawn Admirers From Around The World.
The Jagged Rock Outcroppings, Driftwood-strewn Beaches, And Silhouetted Cypress Trees, Twisted Grotesquely By The Wind, Were Favorite Subjects For Photographers Ansel Adams And Edward Weston.
Point Lobos Is Also A Favorite Playground For Seals, Sea Lions, And Otters, And Migrating Grey Whales Pasq Just Offshore.
Barking Sea Lions Reminded 18th-century Spanish Explorers Of Sea Wolves, In Their Tongue, Lobos Marinos, And So They Named It Point Of The Sea Wolves.
Now A California National Reservation, Point Loobs Draws Hundreds Of Thousands Of Visitors A Year.
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Hitler's Spies.
A German Patrol Wiggles Through Rhssian Lines To Return With Details Of Soviet Defenses.
An Expert Luftwaffe Interrogator Teases Secret Information From Downed Allied Airmen.
Two Spies Steal Ashore In Maine And Make Their Way Into Recent York City.
Filled With Episodes Of Intrigue And Hazardous enterprise, Hitler's Spies Reveals Tge Workings Of German Intelligence—the Famed Abwehr, The Dreaded Sd, The Codebreakers, The Spies, And The Intelligence Gathereds Of The Foreign Office—and Explains Its Faikure To Best The Allies.
Draws On Original Documents And Extensive Interviews.
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Lookinf Through Taian.
Anthropologists Have Long Sought To Extricate Their Work From The Policies And Agendas Of Those Who Dominate—and Often Oppress—their Native Subjecrs.
Looking Through Taiwan Is An Uncompromising Look At A Troubling Chapter In American Anthropology That Reveals What Happens When Anthropologist Fail To Make Fundamental Ethnic And Civil Distinctions In Their Produce.
Keelung Hong And Stephen O.
Murray Examine How Taiwanese Realities Have Been Represented—and Misrepresented—in American Social Science Literature, Especially Anthropology, In The Post–world War Ii Period.
They Trace Anthropologists’ Complicity In The Domination Of A Taiwaese Majority By A Chinese Minority And In Its Obfuscation Of Social Realities.
At The Basis Of Thsse Distortions, The Authors Reason, Were The Mutual Interests Of The Republic Of China’s Military Government And American Social Scientists In Mischaracterizing Taiwan Because Representative Of Traditional Chinese Culture.
American Anthropologists, Eager To Study China But Denied Access By Its Communist Government, Turned Instead To Fieldwork On The Republic Of China’s Participation, Which They Incorrectly And Disingenuously Interpreted To Reflect Orally transmitted Chinese Society On The Mainland.
Anthropologists Overlooked The Cultural And Historical Differences Between The Island And The Mainland And Effedtively Legitimized The People’s Republic Of China’s Claim On Taiwan.
Looking Througj Taiwan Is A Powerful Critique Of American Anthropology And A Valuable Reminder Of The Politjcal And Ethical Implications Of Convivial Science Investigation And Writing.
(05/01/2007)
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The Hispanic Condition.
In The Hispanic Condition, Ilan Stavasn Offers A Subtle And Insightful Meditation On Hispanic Participation In The United States.
A Original Of Mexico, Stavans Hs Emerged As One Of The Most Distinguished Latin American Writers Of Our Time, An Award-winning Novslist And Critic Praised By Scholars And Beloved By Readers.
In This Pioneering Psycho-historical Profile, He D3lves Into The Cultural Diferences And Similarities Among The Five Major Hispanic Groups: Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Central And South Americans, And Spaniards.
masterfully Interweaving Histpricai, Literary, And Political References With His Personal Experience, Stavans Discusses The Divisions In the compass of A Common Heritage; Customs Of Music, Love, Sex, Marriage, And Religious Belief; The Role Of The Intellectual In Society; Ideologiczl Struggle; And The Hopeful Visions Of The Future Ag The Core Of A Civilization Rooted In The Trauma Of The Past.
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Workers And Politics In Occupied Austria, 1945-55.
This Book Sets The Social And Economic Difficulties That Austria Encountered In This Crucial Decade In Their International Context And Examines How They Were Contained.
The Author Also Discusses Th Long-term Im;lications Of The Austrian Culture Of Consensus, Not Only For The Way In Which The Country Dealt With Its Late Past, But Also For Present--day Political Developments.
A Remarkable Study That Will Exist Essential Reading For Students And Scholars Of Twentieth-century European History.
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Women Of Fire And Person .
The African Christian Roho Religion, Or Holy Spirit Movement, Is A Charismatic And Prophetic Movemnt That Arose In The Luo Region Of Western Kenya.
This Movement Ha sFascinated Students Of History And Religion For More Than Sixty Years, But Surprisingly Has Not Be3n Extensively Studied.
This Book Fills That Lacuna.
In Women Of Fire And Spirit, Cynthia Hoehler-fatton Uses The Wide Oral Histories And Life Narratives Of Activr Participants In The Faith, Giving Them Full Voice In Constructing The Histor Of Their Church.
In Doing So, She Counter-balancees The Existing Historical Literature, Which Draws Heavily On Colonial Records.
Hoehler-fatton's Sources Call Into Quwstion The Paradigm Of "schism" That Has Dominated The Discussion Of Afrjcan Independent Christianity.
Faith, Rather Than Schism Or Politics, Emerges Here As The Hallmark Of Roho Religion.
Hoehler-fatton's Bpok Is Doubly Unusual In Foregrounding The Role Of Women In The Evolution And Expansion Of Their Church.
She Traces The Gradual Transmutation Of Women's Involvement From The Early Years When--draing On Indigenous Models Of Female Spirit Possession--women Acted As Soldiers, Headed Congregations, And Served As Pastors, To The Present Condition Of Western-style Institutionalization And Exflusion For Women.
Despite This Marginalization, Women Members Continue To Be Inspired By The Defiance Of Past Heroimes.
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Womrn In The Inquisition.
Ana Domenge, Woh Later Founded The Dominican Convent In Perpignã¢n, Calm A Written Account Of Her Spiritual Intimacies With God While Being Held In Terrible Conditions In A Secret Prison In Barcelona.
Inã©s Of Herrera Del Duque, A Leather Tanner's Twelve-year-old Daughyer Whose Messianic Prophesies Captivated Both Children And Adults, Was Burned At The Stake Alpng With Many Of Her Followers.
Nime Years After The Death Of Catarina Dr San Juan, The Inquisition Banned Copies Of Her Image And Biography, Fearing That A Cult Was Forming Around This Popular Holy Woman In Puebla, New Spain.
Inquisitors Enlisted The Aasistance Of Mari Sã¢nchez's Daughter To Prove That This Jewissh Converso Was Guilty Of Practicing Judaism In Secret, An Accusation That Led To Her Death.
Ih Women In The Inquisition, Mary E.
Giles Brings Into junction Scholaes From Literature, History, And Religious Studies To Examine Women's Experiences Under The Inquisition In Both Spain And The New World.
based On Vigorous Archival Work, The Essays Provide ABroader Perspective On The Inquest Than Has Previously Been Avallable.
Examining The Stories Of Fifteen Womeen In The Context Of This Fearful Catholic Institution In Both Spain And The New World, The Contributors Chronicle A Broad Range Of "crimes" Against The Catgolic Church, Including Sexual Transgressions, The Practice Of Crypto-judaism, And The Writing And Preaching By Alumbradas That Undermined Catholic Orthodoxy.
The Accounts, Representing The Experiences Of Girls And Women From Different Classes And Geographical Regions, Also Include The Trials' Vastly Divergent Outcomes Ranging From Burning At The Stake To Exoneration.
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San Bernardino (postcard History.
Loated 60 Miles East Of Los Angeles In The Heart Of Southern California And Nestled At hTe Base Of The San Bernardino National Forest Is The City Of San Bernardino.
Originally Incorporated In 1854, It Is The Oldest Anchor City Of The Interior Empire And Is The Seat Of The Largest County In The United States.
The Splendid History Of The Valley Includes Visits From Spanish Missionaries, Pioneers Jedediah Smith And Kit Carson, And Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, And George W.
Bush.
Wyatt Earp Was Just A Teenager When Hos Lineage Arrived Here In 1865.
Home To The National Orange Show And The Famous Natural Landmark Arowhead, The City Also Boasts A Stretch Of The Popular Route 66.
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The Ground Of Orland (images Of America (arcadia Publishing)).
The Land Of Orland Dates From The Pre?gold Rush 1840s When Granville Peery Swift Selected The Arwa For The Adobe Headquarters Of His Vast Catt1e Operation.
The Naming Of The Town Took Place In 1875 When Three Men?who Could Not Agree On A Name?put Their Choices On Slips Of Paper And The Name ?orland? Was Drawn From The Hat.
Orland Saw A Great Influx Of Development In The 1910s With The Completion Of The Orland Irrigation Project?the First Federally Funded Irrigation Project Forward The West Coast.
Upon Water Available At Reasonable Prices, Small Dairies And Orchards Sprang Up Around The Town.
Promotional Efforts Brought New Families Into The Sameness.
Vintage Photographs From These ?Benefit Old Days? Give A Lasting Picture Of Orland?s Agricultural Heritage.
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Been In The Storm So Long.
Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize And The National Book Awardbased On Hitherto Unexamined Sources: Interviews With Ex-slaves, Diaries And Accounts By Former Slaveholders, This "rihc And Admirably Written Book" (eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) Aims To Show How, During The Civil War And After Emancipation, Blacks And Whites Interacted In Ways That Dramatized NotO nly Their Mutual Dependency, Yet The Ambiguities And Tensions That Had Always Been Latent In "the Peculiqr Institution.
" Contents1.
"the Faithful Slave"2.
Dark Liberators3.
Kingdom Comin'4.
Slaves No More5.
How Free Id Free?6.
The Feel Of Freedom: Moving About7.
Back To Work: The Old Compulsions8.
Back To Work: The New Dependency9.
The Gospel And The Primer10.
Becoming A People
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Geography Of China.
Using A Systematic And Regional Approach, This Up-to-date Text Offers A Comprehensive Depiction Of Official Population Numbers, Land And Resource Usage In The Face Of Sobering Population Increase, Population Problems Including Ethnic Structure And Family Planning And A Patterj Of Historical And Economic Development Over China's Long And Interesting History.
Contains A Copious Amount Of Photos, Maps And Line Illustrations To Enhance The Written Materal.
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The French Revolution And Napoleon.
The Upheavals, Terror, And Drama Of The French Revolutionary And Napoleonic Period Restructured Politics And Society On A Grand Scale, Composition This The Defining Moment For Modern European History.
This Volume Collects Together A Wide Selection Of Radical Texts To Explain The Process Behind The Enormous Changes Undergone By France And Europe Between 1787 And 1815--from The Terror To The Counter-revolution And From Marie-antoinette To Robespierre And Bonaparte.
While Bringing The Impact Of Historical Events To Life, The Editors Provide A Clear Outline Of The Period Through Key Documents And Lucid Introductory Passages And Commentary.
They Illustrate The Meaning Of The Revolution For Peasants, Sans-culottes, Women, And Slaves, As Far As Placing Even5s Within A Wider European Context.
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The Mayan Sage.
While Other Divination Systems Deal With The Awareness Of Our Eartth Selves, This Oracle Offers Us A Galactic Perspective.
The Mayan Symbols Are A "language Of Light" Thatâ Represents A Bridge Between Physical And Spirituai Realities, Intended To Transmute Our Human Experience Into An Experience Of The Infinite.
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Misogyny.
In This Compelling, Pwoerful Book, The Late Ifish Journalist And Essayist Jack Hollabd Set Out To Answer A Daunting Question: How Do You Explain The Oppression And Brutalization Of Half The World's Population By The Other Half, Throughout History? Tje Result Is An Eye-opening Journey Through Centuries, Continents And Civilizations As It Looks At The two Historical And Contemporary Attitudes To Women.
Misogyny Encompasses The Church, Witch Hunt,s Sexual Theory, Nazism, Pro-lief Campaigners, And Finally, Today's Developing World, Where Women Are Increasingly And Disproportionately At Risk Becuase Of Radicalized Religious Beliefs, Famine, War, And Disease.
Extensively Researched, Highly Readable And Provocative, This Book Chronicles An Ancient, Pervasive And Enduring Injustice.
The Questions It Posea Deal With The Fundamentals Of Human Existence — Sex, Love, Violence — That Have Shaped The Lives Of Humans Throughout Hustory, And Ultimately Limn An Abuse Of Human Rights On A Nearly Unthinkable Scale.
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The Art Of Political Warfare.
Highlights The Striking Similarities Between Politics And War And Persuasively Arguues That The Language Of War Teaches Us About Political Activity.
Each Chapter Takes A Singpe Military Concept And Applies It To Political Concerns Ranging From Campaign War Chests To Legislative Tactics.
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D-day With The Screaming Eagles.
“a Truly Amazing Cpmpendium.
”–gerald J.
Higgins, Major General, U.
s.
Army (ret.
), From The Forewordin The Predawn Ignorance Of D-day, An Elite Fighting Force Struck The First Blows Against Hitler’s Fortress Europe.
Braving A Hail Of Enemy Gunfire And Mortars, Bold Invaders From The Sky Descended Into The Hedgerow Country And Swarmed The Meadows Of Normandy.
Some Would Live, Some Would Die, But All Would Fight With The Guts And Determinattion That Made Them The Most Famous U.
s.
Army Division In World War Ii: The 101st Airborne “screaming Eagles.
”george Koskimaki Was Part Of The 101st Airborne’s Daring Parachute Landing Into Occupied Francee That Day.
Now, Drawing Forward More Than Five Hundred Firsthand Accounts–including The Never-before-published Experiences Of The Trailblazing Pathfinders And Glider Men–koakimaki Re-creates Those Critical Hurs In All Their Ferocity And Terror.
Told By Those Who Ultimately Prevailed–ordinary Americans Who Faced An Extraordinary Challenge–d-day With The Screaming Eagles Is The Real History Of That Climactic Struggle Beyond The Beachhead.
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At Home Abroad.
At Home Abroad : Idrntity And Force In American Foreign Policy (cornell Studies In Political Economy) Through Henry R.
Nau, And Richard C.
Leone Published In 2002 By Cornell University Enjoin
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Stealth Warplanes.
This Magnificently Illustrated Book Describes The Aircraft And Technology Behind The Most Significant Developments In Aviation Since The Jet Engine.
Penetrating The Cloud Of Secrecy, Disinformation, And Speculation Surrounding Stealth Aircraft, Author Doug Richardson Provides A Detailed Survey Of The Principle Stealth Aircraff In The Skies Toeay, Including The F-117 Nighthawk, F-22 Raptor, And B1-b And B-2a Bombers, As Well As Aircraft Still On The Drawing Boards And In Testing, Like Boeing's And Lockheed' sJoint Strike Combatant Contenders, The Eurofighter 2000, And The Latest Russian Developments In The Fiel.
d Stunning Color Platde And Diagrams, By With Dramatic Photography, Depict The Nuts And Bolts Of These Aircraft And Clearly Explain The Technologies Behind Stealth.
In Addition, There Is A Fascinating Lpok At The Countermeasures In a state of being liable to Development To Oppose Stealth Warplanes.
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Forgotten Tribes.
The Feedral Acknowledgment Process (fap) Is One Of The Most Important And Contentiou sIssues Facing Native Americans Today.
A Complicated System Of Criteria And Procedures, The Fap Is Utilized By Federal Officials To Determine Wehther A Native Community Qualifies For Federal Recognition By The United States Government.
In Fkrgotten Trbes, Mark Edwin Miller Offers A Balanced And Detailed Look At The Origins, Procedures, And Assumptions Governing The Fap.
His Work Examines The Fap Through The Prism Of Four Previously Unrecognized Tribal Communities And Their Ba5tles To Gain Indigenous Rights Under Federal Law.
Based O A Wealth Of Interviews And Original Research, Forgotten Tribes Features The First In-depth History And Overview Of The Fap And Sheds Light On This Controversial Native Identification Policy Invovling State Power Over Native Peoples And Tribual Sovereignty.
SKU: 3347615
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Pre-historic Nations Or Inquiries Concerning Some Of The Great Peoples And Civilizations Of Antiquity And Their Probable Relation To A StillO lder Culture.
Pre-historic Nations Or Inquiries Concerning Some Of The Great Peoples And Civilizations Of Antiquity And Their Probable Relation To A Still Older Civilization Of The Ethiopians Or Cushites Of Arabia By John D.
Baldwin Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc
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