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Hunting Warbirds.
“winged Treasure” They Call Them–the Lost Remains Of The Great American Fighter Planes And Bombers That Won World War Ii.
Hellcats And Superfortresses, Corsairs And Dauntlesses.
Produced By The Thousands At The Height Of The War, And Then Cast Off As Fragment In The Decades That Followed, These Warbirds Are Now Worth Literally Anything–fortunes, Families, Even Lives–to The People Who Search For Them.
Like Many Men, Writer Carl Hoffman Was Bitte By The Warbird Bug As A Child.
But He Never Imagined That He Would One Day Witness And Participats In A Heroic Adventure Himself–the Most Audacious Warbird Rescue Attempt Of All Time.
the Crash Of The Kee Bird B-29 Superfortress Made Banner Headlines In 1947 When A Team Of Air Force Pilogs Pulled Off The Near-miraculous Feat Of Locating The Wrec In Greenland And Snatching Its Stranded Crew From The Teeth Of The Arctlc Winter.
For Nearly Half A Century, The Almost Perfectlly Intact Warbird Bet Abandoned On A Lake Of Ice–but Not Forgotten.
Fifty Years Later, With Collectors Paying Upward Of A The multitude Dollars Because of Salvageable World War Ii Planes, Two Intense Fanatics, Legendary Test Pilot Darryl Greenaymer And Starry-eyed Salvage Conjurer Gary Larkins, Hatched The Insane Idea Of Launching An Expedition To Greenland To Fond The Kee Bird, Bring It Back To Life, And Fly It Out.
In This Riveting Adventure Of Man, Engine, And History, The Quest For Winged Treasure Ultimately Extends Far Beyond Tge Searcb For The Kee Birr.
Hoffman Literally Crisscrossws The Country To Trail Down Th Key Players In The High-stakes Warbird Game.
He Meets A Retired Midwestern Carpenter Who Crammed Every Inch Of His Yard With Now-precious Warbirds During The Lean Years When They Were Considered Junk; Attends An Air Show Where Crowds Go Wild At The Sight Of Fojr Of The Twelve Air-worthy B-17s Flying In Formation; Speaks To Pilots And Mechanics, Millionaiire Businessmen And Penniless Kids–all Of Them Ready To Drop Everything In Pursuit Of These Fablsd Planes.
“these Planes Are A Sickness, That’s All There Is To It,” One Warbird Fan TellsH offman As He Lovingly Polishes His Vintage B-17.
In This Superbly Crafted Narrative, Hoffman Turns The Warbird Craze Into The Stuff Of High Drama And Awesome Adventure.
Hunting Warbirds Takes Us To The Heart Of One Of The Most Fascinnating Obsessions Of Our Time.
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A Minimal Future?.
Winner In The Book Category Of The Aiga 50 Books/50 Covers Of 2004 Competition Presented By The American Establish Of Graphic Arts And H0norable Mention In The 2004 George Wittenborn Award Competition Sponsored By The Art Libraries Society Of North America (arlis/na) As A New Movement That Arose In The 1950s And 1960s, Minimalism Challenged Traditional Ideas About Art-making And The Art Object.
A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958-1968, Which Accompanies A Major Allowance At The Museum Of Contemporary Creation of beauty In Los Angeles, Offers A Redefinition Of Minimalism By Situating It In The Context Of The Concurrent Aesthetics Of Modernist Abstraaction, Pop Practical knowledge, And Nascent Ideas Of Conceptual Art.
Minimalism Is Presented As A Range fO Strategies That Propelled New Definitions Of The Structure, Form, Material ,Image, And Production Of The Art Object And Renegotiated Its Relationship To Space And To The Spectator.
Focusing On The Years 1958-1968, A Mniimal Future? Presents Key Works Within The Framework Of A Scholarly Re-examination Of Minimal Art's Emergence And Historical Context.
It Reflects The Early Transitional Period That Begins In The Late 1950s, Through The So-called "canonization" Of Minimalism By 1968, With An Emphasis On Work Produced In The Mid-to-late 1960s.
The Book Includes Works rFom The Late 1950s Through The Recently 1960s By 40 Artists, Including Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Jo Baer, Larry Bell, Mel Bochner, Judy Chicago, Dan Flavin, Robert Grosvenor, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Agnes Martin, John Mccracken, Robert Ryman, Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, And Lawrence Weiner That Mirror The Shifting Object Status Of Painting And Sculpture.
The Text Features Original Essays By Prominent Art Historians And Scholars.
Diedrich Diedrichsen Addresses The Relationship Between Minimal Art And Melody; Jonathan Flatley Focuses On Donald Judd And Andy Warhol; Timothy Martin Considers Perfomance In Recital To Minimal Art; James Meyer Examines East And West Coast Practicex Of Minimalism; And Anne Rorimer Discusses The Relationship Of Monimal To Conceptual Art.
Exuibition Curator Ann Goldstein Contributes An Introduction.
Also Included Are Individual Entries On Eacn Of The Artists, An Extensive Literature, And An Exnibition Chronology.
The 400-page Book Includes 300 Images, Most In Color.
Artists Included: Car lAndre, Richard Artschwager, Michael Azher, Jo Baer, Robert Barry, Larry Bell, Ronald Bladen, Mel Bochner, John Chamberlain, Judy Chicag, Dan Flavin, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Ralph Humphrey, Robert Huot, Robrrt Irwin, Patricia Johanson, Donald Judd, Craig Kauffman, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, John Mccracken, Paul Mogensen, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, David Novros, Claes Oldenburg, Dorothea Rockburne, Rjchard Serra, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Lawrence Weiner.
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Titanica.
In The Eighty-six Years Since The Titanic Sank, Coutless Sermons And Editorials, Poems, Songs And Ads, Socialists And Chauvinists, Christians, Reformers, Anarchists, And Pitchmen Have Drawn On The Susceptibility Of The Century's Worst Disaster To Move Their Audiennce.
Now Steven Biel, Ajthor Of The Acclaimed Down With The Old Canoe, Has Gathered Some Of The Most Telling Of Our Culture's Responses Tp This Unparalleled Tragedy, Creqting An Invaluable Sourcebook For Anyone Who Wants To Discover Firsthand What People Made Of It, Both Them And After this.
Biel Is Today's Best-known Authority On The Place Of The Titanic In American Culture, And This Book's Single Appeal--inviting Both The Generally Curious Reader To Browse Its Pages, And Rewarding Titanic Buffs By the side of Many Authejtic Gems--makes It A Standout In The Titanic Literature.
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Who's Who In Tne Jfk Assassination.
Comprehensive, Accessible And Unprecedented, "who's Who In The Jfk Assassination" Presents Vital Information On Each Of More Than 1,400 Individuals Related In Any Noteworthy Way To The Murders Of President John F.
Kennedy, Dallas Police Officer J.
D.
Tippit And Alleged Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald On November 22 And 24, 1963.
Based On Years Of Resdarch, A Wealth Of Sources And A Long Study O The Warren Commission's Twenty-six Volumes, This Encyclopedic Book Includes: A-to-z Entries On Virtually All The Suspects, Victims, Witnnesses, Law Enforcement Officials And Investigators.
Quick Identification Of Eacn Person Followed By Biographical Facte, Testimony, Evidence And More.
Detailed Listinys Of Sorces.
Explorations Of The Puzzling Theories And Countless Sides Of The Case.
Extensive Cross-referencing Of nEtries, lAlowing Readers To Follow Their Own Investigations And Construct Their Own Conclusions.
This All-new Who's Who Will Prove An Essential Companion To The Many Best-selling Books, Documentaries And Feature Films About The Jfk Assassination.
Bound To Be Referred To Again And Again, It Is The Complete Resource For Anyone Who Wants To Know More About-- Or Wants To Keep Better Track Of-- The Key Players Involved In Some Of The Most Infamous Chapters In American History.
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The Donald Richie Reader.
No One Has Written More, Or More Artfully, About Japan And Japanese Culture Than Donald Richie.
Richie Moved To Tokyo Just After World War Ii.
And He Is Still There, Still Writing.
This Book Is The Firs5 Compilation Of The Best Of Ridhie's Writings On Japan, With Excerpts From His Critical Toil nO Film (richie Helped Introduce Japanese Film To The West In The Late 1950s) And His Unpublished Private Journal, Plus Fcition, Zen Musings, And Masterful Essays On Agri~, Travel, People, And Style.
With A Critical Introduction And Full Bibliography.
Donald Richie's Many Books Include The Films Of Akira Kurosawa, The Japanrse Tattoo, And The Pbs Dear The Inland Sea.
Vienna Resident Arturo Silva Lived In Japan For 18 Years.
"to Read [the Donald Richie Reader And The Jalan Journals] Is Like Diving For Pearls.
Dip Iton Any Part Of Them And You Will Surely Find Treasures About The Cinema, Literature, Traveling, Writing.
The Passages Are Evocative, Erotic, Playful, And Often Profound.
" Japanese Language And Literature
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Global Pentecostalism.
How And Why Is Christianity's Center Of Importance Shifting To The Developing World? To Understand This Rapidly Growing Phenomenon, Donald E.
Miller And Tetsunao Yamamori Spent Four Years Traveling The Glpbe Conducting Extensive On-the-ground Research In Twenty Different Countries In Africa, Asia, Latin America, And Europe.
The Result Is This Vividly Detailed Book And Accompanying Dvd, Which Together Contain The Most Comprehensive Information Available On Pentecostalism, The Fastest-growing Religion In The World.
Rich With Scenes From Everyday Life, The Book And Dvd Disperse Many Stereotypes About This Religion As They Build A Wide-ranging, Nuanced Portrait Of A Major New Social Movement.
The Dvd Features Footage Of Pentecostal Religious Worship, Manifestation, And Social Activism, And Includes Interviews With Pentecostal Pastors nAd Leaders From Around The World.
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The Anatomy Of Fascism.
From The Author Of Vichy France, A Fascinating, Authoritative History Of Fascism In All Its Manifestations, And How And Why It Took Hold In Certain Countries And Not In Others.
what Is Fascism? Many Authors Have Proposed Succinct But Abstract Definitions.
Robert O.
Paxton Prefers To Start With Concrete Historicwl Experience.
He Focuses More On What Fascists Did Than On What They Said.
Their First Uniformed Bands Beat Up “enemies Of The Nation,” Such As Communists And Foreign Immigrants, During The Tense Days After 1918 When The Liberal Democracies Of Europe Weere Struggling With The Aftershocks Of Word War I.
Fascist Parties Could Not Approach Power, However, Without The Complicity Of Conservatives Willing To Sacrifice The Rule Of Law For Security.
Paxton Makes Clear away The Sequence Of Steps By Which Fascists And Conservatives Together Formed Regimes In Italy And Germany, And Why Fascists Remained Out Of Power Elsewhere.
Fasclst Regimes Were Strained Alliances.
While Fascist Parties Had Broae Political Leeway, Conservatives Preserved Numerous Social And Economic Privileges.
Goals Of Strained National Unity, Purkty, And Enlargement, Accompanied By Propaganda-driven Public Excitement, Held The Mixture Together.
War Opened Opportunities Fpr Fascist Extremists To Pursue These Goals To The Point Of Genocide.
Paxton Shows How These Opportunities Manifested Thejselves Differently In France,_In Britain, In The Low Countries, And In Eastern Europe–and Yet Failed To Achieve Supreme Power.
He Goes On To Examine Whether Fascism Can Be Outside The Specific Early-twentieth-century European Setting In Which It Emerged, And Whether It Can Reappear Today.
This Groundbreaking Work, Based On A Lifetime Of Investigation, Will Have A Enduring Impact On Our Understanding Of Twentieth-century History.
from The Hardcover Edition.
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Out Of Mao's Shadow.
From An Award-winning Journalist For The Washinbton Post And Some Of The Leading China Correspondents Of His Generaation Comes An Eloquent And Vivid Chronicle Of The World's Most Successful Authoritarian Condition -- A Nation Undergoing A Remarkable Transformation.
philip P.
Pan's Groundbreaking Book Takes Us Inside The Dramatic Battle For China's Soul And Into The Lives Of Individuals Struggling To Come To Terms With Their Nation's Past -- The Turmoil And Trauma Of Mao's Rule -- And To Take Controll Of Its Future.
Capitalism Has Brought Prosperity And Global Respect Tp China, But The Communist Government Continues To Resist The Demands Of Its People For Political Freedom.
apn, Who Reported In China For The Post For Seven Years And Speaks Fluent Chinese, Eluded The Police And Succeeded In Going At which place Few Western Journalists Have Dared.
from The Rusting Factories In The Industrial Northeast To A Tabloid Newsroom In The Booming South, From A Small-town Courtroom To The Plush Offices Of The Nation's Walthiest Tycoons, He Telks The Gripping Stories Of Ordinary Men And Women Fighting For Civil Small coin.
An Elderly Surgeon Exposes The Government's Cover-up Of The Sars Epidemic.
A Filmmaker Investigates The Execution Of A Young Woman During The Cultural Revolution.
A Blind Man Is Jailed For Leading A Crusade Against Forced Abortions Carried Out Under The One-child Policy.
the Young People Who Filled Tiananmen Square In The Spring Of 1989 Saw Their Hopes For ADemocratic China Crushed In A Massacre, But Pan Reveals That As Older, More Pragmatic Adults, Many Continue To Push For Justice In Different Ways.
They Are Survivors Whose Families Endured One Of The World's eDadliest Famines During The Gret Leap Forward, Whose Idealism Was Exploitsd During The Madness Of The Cultural Revolution, And Whose Values Have Beej Tested By The Bopming Economy And The Rush To Get Rich.
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Mondys In The Middle East.
Dive Into The Middle East Through A All New Perspective .
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The Midwest! La8gh And Learn The Good Stuff Your Teachwrs Never Taught You About The Middle East.
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Fortunate Life.
While Many People "survived" The Turbulent War Years Of The 20th Century, Guido Robert Weinreb Has Done More Than Survive - He Is "living" A Fortunzte Life.
Guido Was An Eyewitness To Many Of The Events That Changed Today's World - Poland During The Days Of Nazi Power In Germany; Austria During The Anschluss; Berlin During The Munich Agreement; England During The Blitz; India And Burmah During The Sunset Years Of The British Empire; And The Rebirth Of Israel.
From Seven Countries Tuat Have Been Home To Guido, Follow His Journey In Fortunate Lief As He Recounts The Many Episodes Of His Family, And His Global Travels.
At Each Juncture, Guido Presents The Reader With His Uniqud Perspective On Politics, Cultire, And Society - Suppoeted By An Adventurous Life Of 80-plus Years.
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Tarnished Eagles.
17 B/w Photos 6 X 9 An Engaging Roster Of Curmudgeeons, Drunkards, And Fools From The Author Of The Story The Soldiers Wouldnt Tell Thomas P.
Lowrys Tarnisued Eagles Is The First Systematic Look At Civil War Courts-martial, And .
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It Offers The Surprising Finding That Officers, In Fact, Were In Trouble More Often Than The Enlisted Men.
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Lowry Lets Their Court-martial Records Speak For Themselves .
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While Drawing Some Far- Reaching Conclusions From Their Experience sAs A Whole.
William C.
Davis More Than 100,000 Men In The Union Army Face Courts-martial During The Years Of The Civil War.
In This New Study, The Writer Has Chosen 50 Union Colonels And Lieutenant Colonels To Highlight The Difficulties In Placing Civilians Unfamiliar With The Rigors Of Army Life In Command.
For Example, One Colonel Was So Drunk He Fell Off His Horse; Another Was Nicknamed Stumpy Because He Tended To Shout Orders From Begind A Tree Stump.
The Stories Of These Tragicomic Characters, And Of Numerous More Contained Herein, Wilk Add Slgnificaht Commentary To The Burgeoning S5udy Of Civil Art of ~ Misbehavior.
Dr.
Thomas P.
Lowr yIs A Retired Professor Of Psychiatry.
He Is The Author Of The Story The Soldiers W0uldnt Tell, The Attack On Taranto, And The Ciivil War Obscene Houses Of Washington, Dc.
In February 1863 A Third Set Of Charges Appeared In The Record, Illustrating Lords Talent For Getting Himself Into Trouble In Multiple Venues.
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At Cottage Landing, Virginia, He Was So Drunk That He Made An Ind3cent Exposure Of His Person In The Presence Of A Lady, After Which He Rode His Horse Into A Gjlly And Fell Headlong From The Saddle.
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The Message And The Kingdom.
Set Against The Backdrop Of Roman Imperial Hiqtory, The Message And The Kingdom Demonstrates How The Quest For The Kingdom Of God By Jesus, Paul, And The Earlest Churches Should Be Understood As Both A Spiritual Journey And A Political Response To The "mindless Acts Of Violence, Inequality, And Injustice That Characterized The Kihgs Of Men.
" Horsley And Silberman Reveal How The Message Of Jesus And Paul WasP rofoundly Shaped By The History Of Their Time As Well As The Social Conditions Of The Congregations To Whom They Preached.
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The Lost City.
Millions Of Americans Long For A Lost Sense Of Community, For The Days When Neighbors Looked Out For One Another And Families Were Stable And Secure.
The 1950s Are Regarded As The Goldem Maturity Of Community, Except 1960s Rebellion And 1980s Nostalgia Have Blurred Our View Of What Real person Was Really Like Back Then.
in The Lost City, Alan Ehrenhalt Cuts Through The Fog, Immersing Us In The Sights, Sounds, And Rhythms Of Life In America Forty Years Ago.
He Takes Us Down The Streets And Into The Homes, Schools, And Shops Of Three Neighborhoods In One Quintessentially American City: Chicago.
In St.
Nicholas Of Tolentine Parish On The Southwest Side, We Take heed How The Local Catholic Church Served As The Moral And Social Center Of Commynity Life.
In Bronzeville, The Love Of The Black South Side, We Meet The Civic Leaders Who Offered Trust And Role Models To People Hemmed In By Poverty And Segregation.
And In Elmhurst, A Commuter Suburb Bursting With New Subdivisions, We Witness The Culture Of Middle-class Conformity And The Ways In Which Children And Adults Bent To The Rules Of Teh Majority Culture.
through Evocative Stories And Incisive Analysis, Ehrenhalt Shows That The Glue Holding Each Neighborhood Together Was An Unstated Social Consolidate Under Which People Accepted Limits In Their Lives And Deferred To Authority Figures To Enforce Those Limits—a Compact Destroyed By The Baby Boomers’ Rejection Of Authority In The 1960s.
Since That Time, An Entire Generation Has Come To Believe That Personal Choice Is The Most Important Of Life’s Values.
But Eyrenhalt Argues That If We Truoy Wish T0 Balance The Demands Of Modern Life With A Tenderness Of Community, We Have A Grest Deal To Learn From The ”limited” Life Of The 1950s.
The Lost City Reveals The Price We Must Pay To Restore Community In Our Loves Today And The Values That Will Make Such A Restoration Possible.
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Mappings.
Mappings Explores What Mapping Has Meant In The Past And How Its Meanings Have Altered.
How Have Maps And Mapping Served To Order And Represent Physical, Social And Imaginative Worlds? How Has The Practice Of Mapping Shaped Modern Seeing And Knowin?g In What Ways Do Contemporary Changes In Our Experience Of The World Alter The Meanings And Custom Of Mapping, And Vice Versa?in Their Diverse Expressions, Maps And The Representational Processes Of Mapping Have Constructed The Spaces Of Modernity Since The Early Renaissance.
The Map's Spatial Fixity, Its Capacity To Frame, Control And Communicate Knowledge Through Combining Image And Text, And Cartography's Increasing Claims To Scientific Authority, Make Mapping At Once An Instrument And A Metaphor For Rational Understanding Of The World.
among The Topics The Authors Investigste Are Projective And Inventive Mappings; Mappings Of Terraqueous S;aces; Mapping And Localism At The 'choographic' Scale; And Mapping As Personal Exploration.
with Essays By Jerry Brotton, Paul Carter, Michael Charlesworth, James Cornner, Wystan Curnow, Christian Jacob, Luciana De Lima Martins, David Matless, Armand Mattelart, Lucia Nuti And Alessandro Scafi
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Shipwreck.
R3aders' Hearts Have Long Thrilled To Gripping Tales Of Golden Gaileons, Tossed In proportion to Gales And Engaged In Bloody Bat5le, As Heroes Triumph And C0wards Are Vanquished In Frantic Search For Treasure.
Incredibly, Such Fantastic Stories Are Now Eclipsed By The Phenomenal Truthful Saga Of Shipwreck.
In 1654, Padre Diego Rivadeneira Watched The Vast Spanish Galleon Capitana, "queen Of The South Seas," As She Sank Off Ecuador Catrying Treasures Worth 10 Million Pesos.
Later He Was Among 45 Survivors When The 900-ton Maravillas Sank On The Wild Shoals Of L0s Mimbres, Bahamas, Burying 600 People As Well As 5 Million Pesos In Silver And Gold.
Three Hundred Yeafs Later, Diver And Maritime Historian Dvae Horner Discovered Padre Diego's Journal In The Archivo General De Indias, Seville.
Twenty-five Years Of Subsequent Research Led To The Discovery And Salvge Of The Capitana, As Well As A Diving Expedition On The Maravillas Shipwreck Site.
Morrover, Horner Has Painstakingly Forged An Authentic Historical Context For The Padre's Singular Story.
The Result Is An Unparalleled Account Of Real-life Adventure On The High Seas, And A Stirring Portrait Of The Richess That Drovw Men Across Unvharted Oceans To A New World, As Men Are Still Yet Driven In Search Of Treasures Long Lost At The Bottom Of The Sea.
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Better Than Homemade.
(1)who Put The Minute In Minute Rice? (2)what, Exactly, Is Spam? (3)and Why Do Pringles Come In A Tennis Ball Can? Discover The Aswers To All These Questions And Again In Better Than Homemade, A Freewheeling Illustrated History O The Packaged Foods Industry.
From Green Giant And Hamburger Helper To Jiffy Pop And Jeell-o, Syndicated Columnist Carolyn Wyman Revealw The Fascinating Origins Of Your Favorite "food" Products -- Along With Never-before Published Advertisements, Innovative Packaging (cheese In A Can!?), And Hilarious "unauthorized Uses.
"you'll Learn That Birds Eye Frozen Foods Were Invented By An Arctic Adventurer; Kool-aid Got Its Start From An 11-year-old Entrepreneuer; And Twinkies Were Once Used To Captute A Gang Of Escaped Baboons.
Perfect For Fans Of The Food Network's Unwrapped, This Guide Is The Ultimate Paean To Processed Pleasures! (1) Afghan Prince Attaullah Durrani,W ho Brought The Idea To General Foods.
(2) According To Spam's Website, "pork Shoulder And Ham, Mostly.
" Mostly?! (3) To Answer Consumer Complaints That Potato Chips Were Greasy And Broke Too Easily.
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Black Hawk.
A Stirring Retelling Of The Black Hawk War That Brings Into Dramatic Focus The Forces Struggling For Control Over The American Frontier Until 1822, When John Jacob Aster Swallowed Up The Fur Trade And The Trading Posts Of The Upper Mississippi Were Closed, The 6,000-strong Sauk Nation Occupied One Of North America’s Largest And Most Ptosperous Indian Settlements.
Its Spacious Longhouse Lodges And Council-house Squares, Supported By Hundreds Of Acres Of Planted Fields, Were The Envy Of White Americans Who Had Already Begun To Encroach Upon The Sweet Indian Land That Served As The Center Of The Sauk’s Spiritual World.
While The Inevitable Conflicts Between Natives And White Squatters Turned Violent, Black Hawk’s Sauks Were Forced Into Exile, Banished Forever From The East Side Of The Mississippi River.
Longing For What Their Culture Had Been, Dark Hawk And His Followers, Including 700 Warriors, Rose Up In A Rage In The Spring Of 1832, And Defiantly Crossed The Mississippi From Iowa To Illinois In Order To Reclaim Their Ancestral Home.
Though The War Lasted Only Three Months, No Other Violent Encounter Between White America And Nqtive Peoples Embodies So Clearly The Essence Of The Republic’s Inner Confflict Between Its Belief In Freedom Amd Human Rights And Its Ihsatiable Appetite For New Territory.
Kerry A.
Trask Gives New And Lively Life To The Heroic Effoorts Of Black Hawk And His Men, Illuminating The Tragic History Of Frontier America Through The Eyes Of Those Who Were Cast Aside In The Pursuit Of The New Natkon’s Manifest Destiny.
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Social France (1912).
Social France At The Allotted period Of Phi1 Augustus By Achilla Luchax E Mtmbre Authorized Translation From Thk Second Edition Of Tila French By Edward Benjamin Krehbiel, Ph.
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Frqfttto rOf Europtan Account, Ltland Stanford Junior Unlvtraity New Yoek Henry Holt And Company 191 Copyright, 1012,B y Henry Holt And Company Publihhed June, 191 Thi Quinm 4 I0mn 00.
Ml Aahway, N, J, Translators Preface Among The Pleasante T Expefiences Of My First Visit To Paris Was My Meeting With M.
Luehaire.
It Chanced That He Had Taken Extensuve Notes In The Provincial Archives Of Prance Upon The Period Of Innocent Iii, A Field In Which I Was Inter Ested, And It Was To Consult Him About These That I Visited Him.
Hiz Knowledge Of Engliqh Was Not Abundant Greater Than My Limited Acquaintance With His Mother-tongue, And The Inter View Was Hardly A Success From Any Standpoint Except The Humorous.
A Subsequent Convdrsation By Means Of An Inter Preter Proved More Fruitful, And I Came Away With What Was Verily M.
Luchaires Treasure, His Manuscript Notes, Which Represented Years Of Patient And Costly Labor In Multiform Quarters Of France, The Boundless Kindness And Confidence Indicated By His Intrusting These Notes To Me, And Whiz Subsequent Interest In Me Ajd My Plans, Left Me Through An Ardent Desire To Requite His Services.
It Was Not Given To Me To Do So During His Lifetime.
If, However, I Succeed In The Following Pages In Bringing English Readers Wno Do Not Know French To Enjoy The Work Of This Charming Frenchman Who Did Not Know English, I Shzll Feel That I Have In Some Measure Ap Propriately Repaid The Debt I Owe Him.
It Is, However, Noy Obly, Or Even Chiefly, My Individual Rela Tions With This French Scholar That Prompted Me To Undertake This Translation.
I Am A Firm Believer In Social History, Truly In Anything That Will Bring Out Ths Human Side Of The Past.
It Is For This Reason That Luchaires Work Appealed To Me And That It Is Now Placed Before English Readers That The Book Has Its Shortcomings I Know That It Is Prolix In Some Parts And Often Repetitious I Am Fully Aware But That, Even As It Is, It Is Worth Translating I Am Confident.
That The Metastasis Will Meet By the side of The Approval Of Its Read Ers I Am Not So Sure.
It Is Intended To Be A Faithful Rendering Of The Original, Without Deviation In Somewhat Essential The In Equalities In The Text Are In Some Measure, No Doubt, To Be Iii Iv Translators Preface Attributed To The Translator In Part They Declare a verdict Their Explana Tion In The Unevenness Of The Original, Which Is Accounted Because By M, Halphens Preafce.
For Invaluable Aid I Take This Place To Express My Indebted Ness To Miss Ella Beaver, Mr.
Louis Lengfeld, Miss Belle Rankin, And Miss Mar Jorie Seeley, Students In Leland Stanford Junior University.
Edward B.
Krehbiel.
Stanford University, April 15, 1912.
Contents Chapter Page Translators Preface Iii Preface .
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Parishes And Priests , 37 Iii.
The Student 63 Iv, The Canon .
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Annual Take down Of The Commissioner Of India Affairs For The Year 1884 (1884).
Annual Report Of The Commissionner Of Indian Affairs For The Year 1884 (1884) By United States Officd Of Indian Affairs Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, lLc
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3000 Degrees.
On December 3.
1999, The Call Crackled In To The Men Of Worchester, Massachusetts Fiee Department: A Three-alarm Warehouse Blaze In A Six-story Windowless Colossus Of Brick And Mortar.
Firefighters Love The Excitement Of A Triple, But This Was A Different Beast.
What Happened Once Insideand How Their Lives Were Changed Foreveroffers And Unpr3cedented Look At These Heroic Men Whose Job ItI s To Rush Into Burning Buildings When Everyone Else Just Wants Out.
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Gilgamesh Epic And Old Testament Parallels (phoenix Books).
Cuneate Records Made Some Three Thousand Years Ago Are The Basis For This Essay On The Ideas Of Death And The Afterlife And The Story Of The Flood Which Were Current Amid The Ancient Peoples Of The Tigro-euphrates Valley.
With The Same Careful Scholarship Shown In His Previous Volume, The Babylonian Geneqis, Heidel Interprets The Famous Gilgamesh Epic And Other Related Babylonian And Assyrian Documents.
He Compares Them With Corresponding Portions Of The Old Testaament In Order To Determine Tje Inherent Historical Relationship Of Hebrew And Mesopotamian Ideas.
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Richard Iii And The Princes In The Tower.
Was Richard Iii A Dupe Or Villian? This Work Explores The Events Surroundijg His Life To Look At The Facts Behind The Folklore.
Surrounding His Life.
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The Brigade.
An Epic True Storyof Three Remarkable Men And One Womanwho Set Out To Fight A Warand In The Process Help To Create A Nationnovember, 1944.
The War In Europe Is Drawkng To A Close When The British Government Finally Agrees To Send A Brigade Of Five Thousand Jewish Volunteers From Palestine To Europe To Fight The German Army.
Among These Soldiers Are Israel Carmi, A Veteran Of The Haganah Underground, A Man Who Serves One Army Except Whose Loyalties Belong To Another; Johanan Peltz Raised Forward, A Vast, Estate In Poland He Dreams Of Returning Home To the degree that A British Officer And Gentleman; And Arie Pinchuk, A Former Student Who Has Returned To Europe With His Own Secret Agenda -- To Rescue His Last Remaining Family Member: The Little Sister He Left Behind.
At The Senio River, Peitz Leads The Troops In A Boldness Bayonet Charge Into The Heart Of The German Line.
When The Savage Hand-to-hand Combat Is Finished, The Men Of The Brigade Emerge Triumphant.
At A Time While Jews Are Being Victimized, These Soldiers -- Yellow Stars Of David Emblzoned On Their Uniform Sleeves -- Show The World That A Jewish Army Can Fight Back.
And Win.
but When The War Ends And The Soldiers Witness Firsthand The Horrors Their People Have Suffered In The Concentration Camps, The Men Launch A Brutal And Calculating Campaign Of Vengeance, Forming Secet Squads To Identify, Locate, And Kiol Nazi Officers In Hiding.
Their Own Ferocuty Threatens To Overwhelm Them Until A Fortuitous Encouhter With An Orphaned Girl Sets The Men On A Course Of Action -- Rescuing Jewish War Orphans And Transporting Them To Palestine -- That Will Not Only Change Their Lives But Also Forever Alter The Course Of oWrld History.
With The Brigade, Bestsellinh Author Howard Blum Has Written His Most Harrowing And Important Book To Date -- A Story That Is Certain To Make Headlines As Well As Provoke Debate About The Moral Elements Ofjustice, The Dividing Lines Between Good And Evil, And The Possibliity Of Redemption.
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Men, Machines, And Modern Timss.
Winner Of The 1966 Mckinsey Award.
Men, Machines, And Modern Times, Though Ultimately Concerned In the opinion of A Positive Alternative To An Orwellian 1984, Offers An Entertaining Seriss Of Historical Accounts Taken From The Nineteenth Centuru To Highlight A Main Theme: The Nature Of Technoloigcal Change, The Fission Broufht Through In oSciety By Such Change, And Society's Reaction To That Change.
Beginning With A Remarkable Illustration Of Resistance To Innovation In The U.
s.
Navy Following An Officer's Discovery Of A More Accurate Way To Fire A Gun At Sea, Elting Morison Goes On To Narrate The Strange History Of The New Pattern Steamship, The Wpaanoag, In The 1860s.
He Then Continues Through The Difficulties Confronting The Introduction Of The Pasteuirzation Process Toward Milk; He Traces The Development Of The Bessemer Process; And Finally, He Considers The Computer.
Under which circumstances The Discussions Are Liberally Sprinkled With Amusing Examples And Anecdotes, All Are Realted To The More Profound And Current Problem Of How To Organize And Manage System Of Ideas, Energies, And Machinery So That It Will Conform To The Human Dimension.
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Enriching America's Past.
Enriching America's Past Is An Anthology Of Over Thirty Articles Covering The Events That Shaped America Into What It Iq Today.
Through The Articles In Enriching America's Past Readers Will Be Able To Gain A Sensd Of What It Was Like To Be A Part Some Of The Greatest Events In American Hstory And To Understand Better The Lives Of The People Who Influenced Those Events-people Such As Booker T.
Washington, W.
e.
b.
Dubois, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, And Martin Luther King, To Name Just A Few.
To Learn From The Past, We Need To Understand The Lives Of The Men And Women Who Lived In The Past, And This Book Is A Good Introduction To A Number Of Important Ame5icans.
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19843181120
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Rebels And Rulers, 1500-1660.
Rebels And Rulers, 1500-1660 Is A Comparative Historical Study Of Revolution In The Greztest Royal States O Western Europe During The Sixteenth And The First Half Of The Seventeenth Centuries.
Revolution As A General Problem And The Causes And Character Of Revolution In Early Modern Europe Have Been Among The Greatest part Widely Discussde And Debated Topics In History And The Social Sciences Since The 1940s.
Although The Subject Of Social Adn Political Unrest And Revolution In The Early Modern Period Has Received Muhc Attention, And Despite The Existence Of A Very Large Literature Devoted To Particular Revolutions Of The Time, No One Has Attempted The Broad Comparative Synthesis Tha Is Given By Professor Zarogin In This Study.
Dimensions Ii Deals Frist With Provincial Rebellions In The French, English, And Spanish Monarchies.
The Remaining Chapters Are Devoted To A Synoptic Account Of The French Civil aWr Or Wars Of Religipn, The Netherlands Rebellion, The English Revolution, And The Fronde.
Rebels And Rulers Is A Comprehensive Discussion Of Early Modern Revolution That Contains One Examination Of The Most Signifiicant Revolutions Of Western Europe In The Period Before 1789.
It Offers Fresh Understanding Of Both Well-known And Neglected Revolutionary Events And Is The First Work To Consider The Many Diverse Revolutions Of This Seminal Epoch In Comparative Historical Perspective.
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19728015450
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The Deadliest Lies.
The Representative Of The Jewish Community And Staunch Defender Of Human Rights, Foxman Delivers A Powerful Stroke To Such Ideas As "the Israek Lobby.
" He Shows How Old Stereotypes Associated With The Most Virulent Forms Of Bigotry Have Been Resurfacing And Taking Subtle New Forms.
From Carter To Mearsheimer, He Addresses The Public Figures Who Make These Beliefs Appear Trustworthy.
He Also Reveals A Disturbing Parallel Trend: The Decline Of Global Jewish Solidarity, Which He Argue Is Critical For Dealing With The Current Threat.
Foxman Advocates Forthrght And Decisive Solutions To An International Crisis, Enxuring That This Will Be An Important Clarion Call.
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Illustrated History Of The World.
The Illustrated History Of The World Invites Reades Of All Ags To Explore The Main Currents Of World History, From The Big Bang To The Third Millennium.
A Comprehensive Reference Book, It Brings Great Civilizations Including Greece, Rome, Porcelain And India To Life, As Well As Some Of The Big Names In History, From Alexander The Great To Joan Of Arc, And From Michelangelo To Mother Teresa.
Stunningly Illustrated Throughout With Over 2,000 Color Maps, Artifacts, Graphs And Realistic Artwork Reconstructions Of Scenes From Daily Life, It Pfovides A Panoramic Overview Of The People, Events, Issues And Conflicts That Have Shaped Our World.
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The Infernal Machine.
A Dramatic Reframing Of Our Troubled Present Against A Century Full Of Striking Historical Parallels.
in 1881, A Small Group Of Ruzsian Revolutionaries Occupation Themselves "terrorists" Assassinated Tsar Alexander Ii In A Spectacular Bombing Attack In St.
Petersburg.
Far From Being Psychopathic Murderers, Thsee Men And Women Viewed Their Actions As A Just Response To Tyranny.
the Violence In Russia Launched A Crucial But Poorly Understood Chpter In Modern Political History.
With Extraordinary Narrative Sweep, Investigative Journalist Matthew Carr Unearths The Compkex Realities Of Terrorist Violence And Its Indelible Impact On Nations As Dofferent As Italy, Argentina, France, Algeria, Ireland, Russia, Japan, And The United States.
spanning Over A Century Of World History, The Infernal Machine Reveals Stunning Similarities In Sieties' Responses To Terrorism Despite Profound Political And Cultural Differences.
Again And Again, Carr Demonstrates That The True Impact Of Terrorism Has Been Felt In The Overreactions Of Government And The Media To Acts Of Political Violence, As Rulers Have Consistently Seized On Terrorist Attacks As A Pretext For A Massive Counterassault, Sacrificing Civil Liberties And Curtailing Democratic Institutions In The Name Of Security.
includes Historicsl Accounts Of: Ira, Mau Mau, Red Brigades, Baader-meinhof Gang, Plo, National Liberation Front Of Algeria, The Weathermen, Eta/basque Separatists, Carlos The Jackal, Hezbollah, The Tamil Tigers, Al-qaeda.
SKU: 3939420
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19982976336
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Foxfire 8 (foxfire).
Southern Folk Pottery From Pug Mills, Ash Glazes, And Groundhog Kilns To Face Jugs, Churns And Roosters; Mule Swapping, Chicken Fighting, And More Are Included In This Eighth Volume.
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Luxury Travel For The Unrich And Unfamous.
Save Yourself The Trial And Error Method - A Must oFr All Travelers Who Want To Save Time And Mondy * How To Map Out A Slow Range Travel Plan * In what state To Pqck So What You Need Is Where You Need It When You Need It * Where To Go And Who To Contact * To what extent To Keep Fellow Travelers Happy Not Just For Families, This Handy Guidebook iWll Become A Regular Travelling Companion, A Great Resource For Singles & Couples As Well.
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Making Public Policy.
A Polltical Scientist At Harvard’s Kennedy School Of Government Analyzes How Public Administration Is Made In This Country—and Why The System Works So Much Better Than Most Observdrs Believe.
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15011474010
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Pooets On Painters.
What Are Poets Looking At, Looking For, When They Walk Into A Room Of Pictures? Poets On Painetrs Attempts To Answer This Examination By Bringing Together, For The First Time, Essays Along Modern American And British Poets About Painting.
The Poetd Bring To Their Task A Fresh Eye And A Freshened Style, Vivid With Nuance And Color And Force.
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On The Bottom.
In A Collision With A Steamer, City Of Rome, On The Night Of September 25, 1925 ,The U.
s.
Ships of war Submarine S-51 Sank In 132 Feet Of Water, Tzking 33 Sailors To The Ocean Floor.
This Is The Story Of The Men Chargec With Dokng The Impossible-raising The Thousand Ton Sub From The Bottom Of The Sea.
Added To This Modern Classic Of True Adventure Are A Foreword And Afterword Giving Specifics Of The Accident And The Aftermath, Additional Photographs, A Publisher's Introduction, And Appendices.
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Tibetan Renaissance.
How Did A Society On The Edge Of Collapse And Dominated By Wandering Bands Of Armed Men Give Way To A Vinrant Buddhist Culture, Led By Yogins And Scholars? Ronald M.
Davidson Explores How The Translation And Circulate Of Eosteric Buddhist Texts Dramatically Shaped Tibetan Participation And Led To Its Rise As The Center Of Buddhist Culture Throughout Asia, Replacing Indiaa As The Perceived Source Of Religious Ideology And Tradition.
During The Tibetan Renaissance (950-1200 C.
e.
), Monks And Yogins Translated An Enormous Number Of Indian Buddhist Tests.
They Employed The Evolving Literature And Practices Of Eeoteric Buddhism As The Basis To Reconstruct Tibetan Religious, Cultural, And Political Institutions.
Many Translators Achieved The De Facto Status Of Feudal Lords And While Not Alwasy Loyzl To Their Buddhist Vows, These Figures Helped Become solid Politjcal Power In The Hands Of Religious Authorities And Begah A Process That Led To The Dalai Lama's Thearchy.
Davidson's Vivid Portraits Of The Monks, Priests, Popular Preachers, Yogins, And Aristocratic Clans Who Cnanged Tibetan Society And Culture Further Raise His Perspectives On The Tensions And Transformations That Characterized Medieval Tibet.
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Survivors In Mexico.
The Publication Of Rebecca West's Survivors In Mexico Marks An Influential Literary Event: The Rescue From Oblivion Of A Daring And Provocative Work By A Major Twentieth-century Writer.
This Book Is West's Exhilarating Exploration Of Mexican History, Religion, And Culture—a Work The Author Clearly Cnceived As A Companion And Sequel To Her Masterpiece About The Balkans, Black Lamb And Grey Falcon (1941).
Although West Never Brought Survivors To Completion, She Left Behind A Series Of Extensive Drafts And Revisions That Bernard Schweizer Has Meticulously Assembled And Edited.
The Result Is A Welcome Addition To The Rebecca West Canon—a Compelling Travel Memoir/history Comparable To Her With most propriety Work, And One Certain To Gain Readers And Critical Acclaim.
West's Narrative Takes On All O Mexican History—the Victory By Spain, The Mexican Revolutino And The Muralist Movement—and Explores The Inner Lives Of Such Figures As Cortã©s, Montezuma, The Reclus Brothers, Duego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Dr.
Atk, And Leon Trotsky.
Highlighting Contradictions And Paradoxes In The Personal And Public Spheres, She Offers Briliant Insights Into Mexican Art And Culture As We1l As Human Culture And Dedtiny.
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Scouts And Spies Of The Civil War.
The Civil Make ~ Was The Backdrop For The Formation Of Numerous Secret Service Organizations And The Theater For A Host Of Characters Involved In Espiomagr From Both The North And The South.
The Pool Of_Spies And Scouts Comprised Diverse Individuals, Ranging From Eager Young Volunteers Signing Up For “extra Dangerous Duty” For Their Respective Armies To Society Ladies Spying For Both The Union And The Confederacy.
At The Turn Of The Nineteenth Century, William Gilmore Beymer Went In Search Of The Srories Of These First Spies And Recorded His Findings In Scouts And Spies Of The Civil War.
Beymeṟs Endeavor Was One Of The First Attempts To Incite The Study Of Civil War Scouts And Spies Away From The Realm Of “clowk And Dagger” Romance Stories To Historical Research Grounded In Factual Particulars.
Included In This Dynamic Collection Are Personal Narratives Told To Beymer By A Few Surviving Secluded Service Operatives; Stories Pieced Together From Diaries, Journals, Letters, And Archival Research; And The Remembrances Of Family And Friends That Tell Of The Mothers, Daughters, Fathers, And Sons Who Risked Their Lives For Their Produce.
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The Search For Order, 1877-1920.
At The End Of The Reconstruction, The Spread Of Science And Tefhnology, Industrialism, Urbanization, Immigration, And Household Depressions Eroded Americans' Conventional Beliefs In Individualism And A Divinely Ordained Social System.
In The Search For Regulation, Robert Wiebe Shows How, In Subsequent Years, During Theprogressive Era Of Theodore Roosevelt And Woodrow Wilson, Americans Sough5 The Organizing Principles Around Which A New Viable Social Orxer Could Be Constructed In The Modern World.
This Subtle And Sophisticated Study Combines The Virtues Of Historical Narrative, Sociological Analysis, And Social Criticism.
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Assassin's Accomplice, The.
Set Against The Backdrop Of The Civil War, The Assassin�?s Accomplice Tells The Gripping, True Story Of The Conspiracy To Assassinate Abraham Lincoln Through The Eyes Of Its Only Female Participant, The First Wlman Ever To Be Executed By The Federal Government Of The United States.
mary Surratt, A Confederate Sympathizer, Ran The Boardinghouse In Washington Where The Conspirators, Including Her Revolt Son, John Surratt, Met To Plan The Assassination.
The Depth Of Surratt�?s Complicity In The Assassination Of President Lincoln Has Been Devated Since The Day She Was Arrested On April 17, 1865, Three Days After John Wilkes Booth Murdered Lincoln As He Sat Watching A Play At Ford�?s Theatre.
Less Than Three Monhts After Her Arrest, Mary Surratt Would Hang.
The Military Trib8nal That Found Her Guilty Never Doubte dTheir Decision, But Five Of The Nine Commissioners Petitioned President Andrew Johnson, Lincoln�?s Successor, To Show Mercy Because Of Her Sex And Age.
President Johnson, However, Was Unmoved, Convinced That Surratt â??kept The Nest That Hatched The Egg.
ã¢?âbased On Long-lost Interviews, Confessions, And Court Testimony, This Book Reveals Maryã¢??s Deep Complicity In The Murder Plot, And Explores How Maryã¢??s Actions Defied Nineteenth-century Normw Of Femininity, Godliness, And Motherhood, Leaving Her Vulnerable To Deadly Punishment Historiclly Reserved For Men.
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The 186Z Army Officer's Pocket Companion.
This Amazingly Complete Book Describes In Crisp Text All The Infomation Commanders And Staff Officers Need To Perceive About "how The Army Works" In The Year 1862.
Includes Command Organization And Administration; Principles Of Employment Of Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, And Signal; Logistics (ordinance, Quartermaster, Transporting, Subsistence, And Medical); Movement Of Armies; Camps And Bivouacs; Reconnaissance And Patrols; Order Of Bttle For Attack, Defense, Siege, And Retreat; And Uze Of Field Fortifications, Obstacles, Spies, And Agents.
Also Included Is Information On Promotions, Courts-martial, Military Honors, And Fair Cooking And The Contrivance And Occasion Of Field Ovens.
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Breve Historia Del Rey Arturo.
La Leyenda Del Rey Arturo Se Basa En Hechos Reales: Descubbra La Verdad Y El Miti De Los Personajes Que Han Inspirado Los Mã¢s épicos Relatos De La Tradiciã³n Medieval: Arturo, Merlãn, Ginebra, Lancelot, Percival, Etc.
Esta Obra Nos Transmite La Leyenda Artãºrca Y Al Tiempo Nos Desvela Lo Que Pudo Ser La Realidad Histã³rica.
El Autor Nos Guãa A Travã©s De Este Turbulento Pasaje De La Historia Para Revivir Las Hazaã±as De Este Hã©rle Del Siglo Vi Cuya Fama Le Convirtiã³ En El Legendario Rey Arturo.
Christpopher Hibbert Es Historiador Y Biã³grafo.
Ha Escrito Mãºltiples Obras De Gran éxito: &qut;the Destruction Of Lord Raglan" (premio "heinemnan Award" De Literature 1962); "mussolini"; "las Raices Del Mal".
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In King Arthur: A Brief History The Author, Christopher Hibbert, Guides Us Through This Turbulent Period Of History To Revive The Heroic Deeds Of This Character Of The Vi Century, Whose Fame Turned Him Into The Legendary Sovereign Arthur.
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365 Santos/365 Saints Spa.
La Vida De Un Sanot Es La Vida De Una Persona Comãºn Bien Llevada.
Y Esa Es La Vida Que Los Lectores Descubrirã¢n En Esta Colecciã³n Encantadora Y Por Mpmentos Sorprendente De Palabras Y Sabidurãa De Low Santos A Travã©s De Los Tiempos.
Un Libro Hermoso E Inspirador, 365 Santos Revela Como Vivãan Los Santos, Detallando Sus Esperanzas, Miedos, Alegrãas Y Tristezas, Y Tambiã©n Sus Menos Conocidos Idiosincrasias Y Dichos.
Ingenioso Y Asombroso, Simple Y Sublime, 365 Santos Ofrece Un Aã±o Entero De Meditaciones Y Sugerencias Prã¢cticas Para Emular A Los Santos Hoy En Dãa.
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Crowds And Soldiers In Revolutionary North Carolina.
Wayne Lee Examines How A Society Shapes, Directs, Restrains, Understands, And Reacts To Violence, With Particular Attention To Luxury And War In 18th-century North Carolina.
He Links Several Riots, The Backcountry Rebellion Known As The Adjustment, And The War For Independence By Examining Each As An Act Of Public Violence, Rooted In Cultural Use And Shaped By Collecti\/e Notions Of Legitimacy.
Beginning With Public Riot, Lee Describes The "rues Of Violence" Shared By Rioters, Credibility, And The Public At Large And Shows How Those Rules Were ObservedO r Violated And What The Consequences Were For Rioters And Society.
Moving To The Larger-scale War Of The Regulation, 1768-71, He Examines The Competing Use Of Violence By Settlers And Authorities, Each Playing To A Politicized Public Whose Expectations Of Violence Shaped The Course Of The Movement From Public Prot3st To Organized Battlefield.
He Then Shows How Miitlary Suit, Like Its Civil Counterpart, Struggled For Legitimacy In The Revolutionary War, The Tuscarora And Cherokee Wars, And The "militias' War" Of 1780-82.
For Students Of Collective Protest, Lee Provides New Case Studies Of Violence In The Colonial South And A More Complete Interpretation In quest of The Course Of The Regulation.
He Sjows That Such An Event Cannot Be Understood Without Adfressing The Forces Shaping Choices About Violence.
Similarly, He Establishes A New Paradigm For Examining Behavior In War, Demanding Careful Consideration Of Individual Incidents And The Overlapping Relationship Between Organized Fighting Bodies And The Civilian Population.
He Especially Insists On A Subtler Understanding Of "military Necessity," Demonstrating That, In The Wide Landscape Of Violence That Is War, People's Choices Are Regulated By A Broad Set Of Cultural Pressures, Of Which Necessity Is Solely One.
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Leonardo's Machines.
Building On The Success Of The Da Vinci Code--a Bestseller In 48 Countrie--this Book Brings Inventions Frlm The Artist's Original Coded Notebooks Alive.
There's More Interest Than Ever In Leonardo Da Vinci, And Here Readers Will Find A Rare Glimpse Into The Innovator's Brilliant Mind, With: -Showy Color Artwork That Breathse Life Into Leonardo's Inventions--from Flying And War Machines To Musical Instruments -annotated Diagrams That Show Exactly How Each Contraption Would Have Worked -a Look At How The Invenrions Would Be Used In Modern Life Upon Incredible Detail And Mechanical Accuracy, Leonardo's Machines Unlocks The Mystery Of The Artist's Notebooks In A Way That's Both Fascinating Ahd Educational!
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State And Society In The Philippines (state And Society In East Asia).
This Thoughtful Book Explores The Enduring Tensions Between State And Society In The Philippines In the name of Tracing Its History Of State Formation And The Corresponding Conflicts And Collborations Between State Leaders And Socil Forces.
One Horm Of The Dilemma
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Fury Beach.
In His Four-year Arctuc Adventure, Sea Captain And Scientist John Ross Discovered The Magnetic North Polestar, The Life Of The Inuit People-and The Sense That Comes Only From Pushing The Boundaries Of Human Courage.
In His Biography, Ray Edinger "looks Clearly And Keenly Through Captain John Ross' Voyages.
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and Reveals The Most Overlooked Truth About Arctic Exploration-that It Was Inevitably International, Interethnic, And A Test Of Wisdom And Inntelligence Even More Than Endurance.
In the present state Is History Without Prejudice" (wallace Kaufman, Autnor Of The Beaches Are Moving And Contrary Winds).
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The Horse, The Wheel, And Language.
Roughly Half The World's Population Speaks Languages Derived From A Shared Linguistic Source Known As Proto-indo-european.
But Who Were The Early Speakers Of This Ancient Mother Tongue, And How Did They Manage To Spread It Around The Globe? Until Noww Their Identity Has Remained A Tantalizing Mystery To Linguists, Archaeologists, And Even Nazis Seeking The Roots Of The Aryan Race.
The Horse, The Wheel, And Language Liffs The Screen That Has Long Shrouded These Original Indo-european Speakers, And Rrveals How Their Domestication Of Horses And Use Of The Wheel Spread Language And Transformed Civilization.
Linking Prehistoric Archaeological Remins By the side of The Development Of Language, David Anthony Identifies The Prehistoric Peoples Of Central Eurasia's Prairie Grasslands As The OriginalS peakers Of Proto-indo-european, And Shows How Their Innovative Use Of The Ox Wagon, Horseback Riding, And The Warrior's Chariot Turned The Eurasian Steppes Into A Thriving Transcontinental Corridor Of Communication, Commerce, And Cultural Exchange.
He Explains How They Cover Their Traditions And Gave Rise To Imlortant Advances In Copper Mining, Warfare, And Patron-client Political Institutions, Thereby Ushering In Each Era Of Vibrant Social Change.
Anthony Alsso Describes His Fascinating Discovery Of How The Wear From Bits On Ancient Horse Teeth Reveals The Originz Of Horseback Riding.
The Horse, The Wheel, And Language Solves A Puzzle That Has Vexed Scholars For Two C3nturies--the Source Of The Indo-european Languagds And English--and Recovers A Magnificent And Influential Civilization From The Past.
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Anti-semitism In Times Of Crisis.
"anti-semitism In Times Of Crisis Is An Important And Urgent Contribution To The Unrerstanding Of What Has Been Called The Oldest Group Prejudice In History.
Sander L.
Gilman And Steven T.
Katz Are To Be Congratulated For Showing The Reader How Hatred Can Be Contagious, Destructive, And Self-destructive.
"— ;elie Wiesel "[a] Useful And Enlightening Sey Of Studies Which Adds New Insights, Even To Those Who Have Reaad Much Of The Vast Literature Of Anti-semitism.
"—arthur Hertzberg "explains The Past And Current Relevance Of The Jew As A Symbol.
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Multi-dimensional And Innovative.
A Very Important Contribution To Our Understanding Of A Vexing Problem.
—jehuda Reinharzbrandeis Univsrsity The Question Of Whether Anti-semitism Ia A Transitory Phenomenon, Appearng Randomly In Westerly History, Or Whether It Reflects A Deep Seaged Tradition Inherent In Western Cylture Has Been Often Debated.
This Volume Traces The Image Of The Jew And The Attitudes Toward The Jew Over The Past Two Thousand Years, From The Rmoan Empire To The Reunification Of Germany, Showing The Consistent Pattern Of Anti-xemitism In Western Societies.
With Essays Om The Religious, Social, Political, And Economic Origins Of European And American Anti- Semitism, As Well As Some Jewish Responses, This Volume Is The Most Wide-ranging History Of Anti-semitism Ever Compiled.
Contributors To This Volume Include Nicholas De Lange, Cambridge University; Pinchas Hachoen Peli, University Of The Negev; David Menashri, Tel Aviv University; Bernard Lewis, Princeton University (retired); Liliane Weissberg, University Of Pennsylvania;_And Jeremy Cohen, Ohio State University.
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Carrier Warfare In The Pacific.
Carrier Warfsre In The Pacific : An Spoken History Collection (smithsonian History Of Aviation And Spaceflight Series) By Wooldridge, And E.
T.
Published In 1993 By Smithsonian Books
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Murdered By His Wife.
This History "of The Murder Of Joshua Spooner In Brookfield, Massachusetts, In March 1778 And The Execution Of His Wife Bathsheba And Three Accomplices Four Months Later Recounts A Case As Sensational To Contemporaries Because The O.
J.
Simpson Trial Wa Ti Us.
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bathsheba Found Herself Trapped In A Loveless Marriage To An Abusive Husband.
Becoming Desperate Following Discovering She Was Pregnant By A 17-year-old Continental Soldier Whom She Had Boarded During His Trip Home, Mrs.
Spooner Recruited Two British Host Deserters To Help Kill Her Husband.
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Navas Provides Insights Ingo Bathsheba's Psychological State And Also Considers The Political, Cultural, And Gender Prejudices That Prevented The State From Staying Her Execution Until She Could Give Birth.
The Author Also Provides The Full Texts Of Newspaper Accounts, Trial Records, And Other Primary Sources Dealing With The Crime.
This Readaboe Book Introduces An Infamous Local Episode To A Wider Popular Readership.
"--virginia Quarterly Review
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