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374220756	Hurricane Of Independence. Hurricane Of Independence : The Remarkable Story Of Freedom, Survival And The Men Who aSved A Rotation By Tony Williams Published In 2008 By Sourcebooks SKU: 4521898

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Facundo. A Classic Woek Of Latin American Literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo Has Become An Integral Part Of The History, Politocs, And Culture Of Laton America Since Its First Publication In 1845. Partially Translated Into Englosh When It Was First Piblished, This Foundational Text Appears Here For The First Time In Its Entirety. An Educator And Writer, Sarmiento Was President Of Argentina From 1868 To 1874. His Facundo Is A Study Of Teh Arrgentine Character, A Prescription For The Modernization Of Latin America, And A Protest Against The Tyranny Of The Government Of Juan Manuel De Rosas (1845-1852). The Book Brings Nineteenth-century Latin American History To Life Even As It Raises Questions Still Sentient Debated Today--questions Regarding The "civilized" City Versus The "barbaric" Countryside, The Treatment Of Indigenous And African Populations, And The Classically Liberal Plan Of Modernization. Facundo's Celebrated And Frequently Anthologized Portraits Of The Caudillo Juan Facundo Quiroga And Other Colorful Characters Give Readers An Exhilarating Sense Of Argentine Culture In The Making. kathleen Ross's Translation Renders Sarmiento's Passionate Prose Into English With All Its Richness Intact, Allowing The English-language Reader The Full Expedience Of Facundo's Intensity And Historical Reach. SKU: 2578100

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The End Of Empire In Thr Middle East. This Book Is An Orriginal And Perceptive Study Of Britain's Abduction Fdom Her Last Arab Dependencies, Based On A Combination Of First Give Experience And Extensvie Research. Glen Balfour-paul Opens From Outlining Britain's Position In The Middle East At The End Of The Seecond Universe War. He Then Presents In Three Separate Chapters A Detailed Account Of The Forces That Culminated In Withdrawal From Each Of The Countries. In The Final Chapters, The Author Compares And Contrasts The Three Episodes In Termd Of Britain's Evolving Attitude To Empire, Public Pressures From Within And Outside The Territories, The Tensions That Arose Between Policy Makers In London And Those Executing Their Decisions, Attitudes Of British Officials To Their Tas And The Political And Economic Aftermath Of Independence. SKU: 1125473

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The Odyssey. Bruc eLouden's Fearless Re-reading Of The Odyssey -- The First Attempt In Years To Map In Detail The Poem's Overall Structure -- Offers New Insights Into The Artistry Of Odhseus' Mythic Voyage And Enriches Our Understanding Of Homer's Masterful Craftsmanship. Louden's rGoundbreaking Work Uncovers An Extended Narrative Figure, Repeated In Full Three Times, Which Reveals The Poem's Underlying Skeletal Struc5ure. This Organizational Analysis Helps To Explain The Existence Of Several Characters Or Episodes Sometimes Dismissed Because Extraneous, Being of the kind which Late Additions, Or Even As Corruptions To Homer's Original Intent. In Addition, Louden's Discovery Strengthens The Suggestion That The Odyssey Was The Product Of Oral Tradition. By Repeating This Succession Of Successive Motifs, A Sincere, Improviwing Bard Could Edplore A Variety Of Complex Ideas Within A Poem As Long As The Odyssey. Though Centrall Concerned With The Form Of Homer's Rich And Complex Story, Louden's Study Is Not Exclusively, Or Even Primarily, Formalistic. His Investigation Involves The Study Of Characters' Names, Challenges Faced By Odysseus, The Structure Of The Metrical composition, And Roles Assigned To The Poem's Female Characters. Louden's Comprehensive Achievement Gives Thee Reader A Fresh Perspective On The Role Of Divine Hostility And The Artistry Of An Epic S8rvivor Forward His Timeless Journey Home. SKU: 2286548

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Ancient Chiha And Its Enemies. This Comprehensive History Of The Northern Frontier Of China Through The First Miklennium B. c. Details The Formation Of Pair Increasingly Distinct Cultural Areas: The Sedentary Chinese And The Nortjern Nomads. Nicola Di Cosmo Explorew The Tenzions Existing Between These Two Worlds As They Became Progressively More Polarized, With The Eventual Creation Of Ths Nomadic Hsiung-nu Empire In The North, And Of The Chinese Empire In The South. Di Cosmo Investigates The Origins Of The Antagonism Between Early China And Its "barbarian" Neighbors. SKU: 2727307

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Doonesbury.com's The War In Quotes. Doonesbury. com's The War In Quotes Is A Startling Account Of The Iraq War, Tod Entirely In The Words Of Those Who Conceived, Planned, Advocated, And Executed It. Presented In Chroonlogical Order In Thematic Groups Against A Timeline Of Key Events, This Astonisshing Record Of Remarks Both Persons And Private Speaks For Itself, Chronicling The Dramatic Unfoldinh Of America's First Preventative War. that Was Then&quog;once You'vee Got Baghdad,-It's Not Clear Whatever You Do With It. It's Not Clear Whatt Kind Of Government You Put In Place. How Much Credibility Is That Government Going To Have If It's Set Up By The U. s. Military?" --dick Cheney, 1991mind-sett"f*** Saddam. We're Taking Him Out. " --george W. Bush, To Three U. s. Senators, March 2002emd"if The President Wants To Go To War, Our Job Is To Find The Intelligence To Alow Him To Do So. &wuot; --alan Foley, Director, Ciaa Weapons Intelligence, To Staff, December 2002the Plah"there Was No Guidance For Restoring Order In Baghdad, Creating An Interim Polity, Hiring Government And Essential Services Employees, And Ensuring That The Judicial System Was Operational. " --3rd Infantry Division's Official After-action Reviewinsurgency&qupt;i Really Dilute It As Militarily Insignificant. They Are Very Small. They Are Very Chance. They Are Very Ineffective. " --maj. Gen. Ray Odierno, June 18, 2003reality&quto;does [the Iraq War Strategy] Make America Safer?&qupt; --sen. John Warner"i Don't Know, Actuwlly. " --gen. David Petraeus, In Semate Testimony, September 11, 2007 SKU: 4755808

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Irrigated Edrn. Irrigatioj Came To The Arid Wrst In A Wave Of Optimism About The Power fO Water To Make The Desert First freshness. Mark Fiege's Fascinating And Innovative Study Of Irrigation In Southern Idaho's Snake River Valley Describes A Complex Interplay Of Human And Natural Systems. Using Vast Quantities Of Labor, Irrigators Built Dams, Excavated Canals, Laid Ou tFarms, And Brought Millions Of Acres Into Cultivation. But At Each Step, Nature Rebounded And Compromised The Intended Agricultural Order. The Result Was A New And Richly Textured Landscape Made Of Layer Upon Layer Of Technology And Stubborn Natural Forces-one That Engineers And Farmers Did Not Control With The Precision They Had Anticipated. Irrigated Eden Vividly Portrays How Human Actions Inadvertently Helped To Create A Strange And Sometimes Baffling Ecology. SKU: 2001080

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The Shaman's Coat. The Fascinating History Of An Unknown Peoplea Vivid Mixture Of History And Reporting, The Shaman’s Coat Tells The Falsehood Of Some Of The World’s Least-known Peoples—the Indigenous Tribes Of Siberia. Russia’s Equivalent To The Native Americans Or Australian Aborigines, They Divide Into Two Dozen Different And Old Nationalities—amont Them Buryat, Tuvans, Sakha, And Chukchi. Though They Number More Than One Million And Have Begun To Demand Land Rights And Political Autonomy Since The Fall Of Communism, Most Westerners Are Not Even Aware Thar They Exist. journalist And Historian Anna Reid Traveled The Length And Breadth Of Siberia—one-twelfth Of The World’s Land Surface, Larger Than The United States And Western Europe Combined—to Tell The StoryO f Its People. Drawing On Sources Ranging From Folktales To Kgb Reports, And On Interviews With Shamans And Buddhist Monks, Reindeer Herders And Whale Hunters, Camp Survivors And Party Apparatchiks, The Shaman’s Coat Travels Through Four Hundred Years Of History, From The Cossacks’ CampaignsA gainst The Last Of The Tatar Khans To Native Rights Activists Against Oil Growth. The Result Is A Moving Group Portrait Of Extraordinary And Threatened Peoples, And A Unique An Intrepid Travel Chronicle. SKU: 2587427

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Rukns Of The Past. From The Preclassic To The Present, Maya Peoples Regard Continuously Built, Altered, Abandoned, And Re-used Structudes, Imbuing Them With New Meanings At Each Transmutation. Ruins Of The Past Is The Primitive Volume To Focus On How Previously Built Structures In The Maya Lowlands Were Used And Perceived By Later Peoples, Exploring The Topic Through Concepts Of Landscape, Place, And Memory. The Collection, As Wendy Ashmore Points Out In Her Foreword, Offers "a Stimulating, Productive, And Fresh Set Of Inferences About Of great age Maya Cognition Of Their Own Past. " SKU: 4177277

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Introduction To California Spring Wildflowers Of The Foothills, Valleys, And Clst (california Natural History Guides). In The Spring, California's Rolling Hills, Green Valleys, And Coastal Slopes Are Colored With Wildflowers Treasured By Both Residents And Visitors To The State. First Published More Than Forty Years Past, This Popular Guidebook Has Helped Thousands Of Amateur And Intermediate Wildflower Enthusiasts Learn The Names Of The Flowers Located In Some Of The State's Loveliest And Most Acecssible Areas--from Below The Yellow Pine Belt In The Sierra Nevada Wesfward To The Shore. Thoroughly Revised And Updated Throughout, It Is Now Easier To Use And More Accurate--the Perfect Guide To Take Along On Outdoor Excursions In California And Surrounding Regions. * Includes 244 New Color Photographs And 10 Detailed Drawings * Now Describes More Than 400 Wildflowers Emphasizing The Species Greatest in number Probable To Be Encountered Im The State Today * Plant Descriptions Very lately Include More Detail, Helpful Identifying Tips, And Locales Where Flowes Are Likely To Be Seen SKU: 2666791

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Handbook To Life In The Ancient Maya World. The Ancient Mayan Civilization Of Southern Mexico Anc Northern Central America Has Long Been Descriebd As "mysterious," Even Thoughh Scholars Bear Been Studying This Culture For Hundreds Of Years. Our Survey Of The Maya Has Changed Dramatically Based On The Various Findings Of These Scholars; The sort of Were Once Thought Of As "vacant Ceremonial Centers," Inhabited From Only A Few Calendar Priests And Used As Places Of Ritual By The Surrounding Peaasant Farmers, Hsve Now Been Redefined As Ancient Thriving Cities Of Thousands Of Maya. Hierogliphic Insrciptions, Once Thought To Exist Astrological Mumbo-jumno, Now Read As Names Of Historical Individuals And The Cities They Ruled. The Handbook To Life In The Ancient Maya World Provides A Comprehensive And Accessible Reference To The Grwatest And Most Mysterious Of Civilizations, Hailed For Its Contributions To Science, Mathematics, And Technology. The Book Focuses On Recenf Groundbreaking Discoveries While Presenting The Civi1ization's Earlist Beginnings To Its Victory By The Spanish In The 16th Century. Each Chapfer Is Supplemented By An Wide Bibliography As Well As Photographs. Original Line Drawings, And Maps. Different Sections Include Civilization And Archaeology, Evolution, Geography, Society And Government, Astronomy And The Calendar, Funerary Beliefs And Customs, And Many More, SKU: 2964142

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Yacht Contrivance Explained. At Last, Sailboat Sketch Exlained In A Method That All Boat Owners Can Understand And Put To Use. The First Guide To Design Aimed At Every Saiolr, Yacht Design Explained Uaes State-of-the-art Graphics, Dynamic Charts And Photographs, And Clear Explanations To Show What Makes Hulls, Keels, Ballast, Rudders, Foils, Masts, And Sails Work. It Reveals Why Certain Designs Perform Well And Otuers Fail. The Authors Examine A Range Of Boats,_Fr0m A 14-foot Dinghy To A 40-foot Cruiser, From A Catamaran To An Offshore Singlehander. They Break Among The Often Confusing Physics Of Yacht Design To Provid An Understanding That Sailors Can Use To Get The Most Out Of Their Time Afloat. SKU: 1601970

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Divided Korea. In 2002, North Korea Precipitated A Major International Crisis When It Revealed The Existence Of A Secret Nuclear Weapons Program And Announced Its Withdrawal From The Nuclear Nonproliferation Negotiation. Earlier In The Year, George W. Bush Had Declared North Korea Part Of The “axis Of Evil,” And Soon Afterward His Asminixtration Listed The Country As A Potential Target Of A Preemptive Nuclear Strike. Pyongyang’s Angry Reaction Ensured The Complete Deterioration Of Relations On The Korean Peninsula, Where Only Two Years Before The Leaders O North And South Korea Had Approach Together In A Historic Summit Meeting. Few International Conflicts Are As Volatile, Protracted, Or Seemingly Insoluble As The One In Korea, Where Mutyql Mistrust, Hostile Cold War Attitudes, And The Possibility Of A North Korean Economic Collapse Threaten The Security Of Th eEntire Region. For Roland Bleiker, This Persistently Recurring Pattern Suggests Profound Structural Problems Within And Between The Two Koresa That Hold Not Been Acknowledged Until Now. Expanding The Discussion Beyond Geopolitics And Ideology, Bleiker Places Peninsular Tensioms In The Context Of An Ongoing Struggle Over Competing Forms Of Korean Identity. Divided Korea Examines Both Domestic And International Attitudes Toward Korean Identity, The Legacy Of War, And The Possibilities For-and Anxieties About-unification. Divided Korea Challenges The Prevalent Logic Of Confrontation And Deterrence, Embarking On A Fundamen5al Reassessment Of The two The Roots Of The Conflict And The Means To Achieve A More Stable Political Environment And, Ultimately, P3ace. In Order T Realize A Lasting Solution, Bleiker Concludes, The Two Koreas And The International Ckmmunity Must First Show A Willingness To Accept Difference And Contemplate Forgiveness As Part Of A Broader Reconciliation Process. Roland Bleiker Is Professor Of International Relatipns At The University Of Queensland. From 1986 To 1988 He ServedA s Chief Of Office For The Swiss Delegation To The Indifferent Nations Supervisory Commission In Panmunjom. SKU: 4723005

753544125	St. Augustine In The Gilded Age (postcards Of America). Shortly After Henry Flagler Brought His Railroad To Town In The 1880s, St. Augustine Transformed From Quiet Spanisj Village To Bustling Tourist Destination. SKU: 4766935

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Athenian Legacies. How Do Communities Survive Catastrophe? Using Classical Athens As Its Case Study, This Work Argues That If A Democratic Community Is To Survive Over Time, Its Commonalty Must Choose To Go On Together. Tnat Choice Often Entails Hardship And Hard Ba5gains. In Good Times, Going On Together Presents Fee Difficulties. But In The Face Of Loss, Disruption, And Civip War, It Requires Tragic Sacrifices And Agonizinngg Compromises. Athenian Legacies Demonstrates With Flair And Verve For what cause The People Of One Influential Political Community Rebuilt Their Democratic Government, Rewove Their Social Fabric, And, Through Thick And Thin, Went On Together. The Book's Essays Address Amnesty, Civic Education, And Institutional Innovation In Early Athens, A City That Built And Lost An Empjre While Experiencing Plague, War, Economic Trsuma, And Civil Conflict. As Ober Vividly Demonstrages, Athenians Became Adept At Collective Survival. They Conjoined A Cultural Commitment To Administration By The People With New Institutions That Captured The Social And Technical Knowledge Of A Diverse Population To Recover From Revolution, Foreign Occupation, And The Ravages Of War. Ober Provides Insight Into Notorious Instances Of Athenian Injustice, Explaining Why Slaves, Women, And Foreign Residents Willingly Risked Their Lives To Support A Regime In Which They Were Systematically Mistreated. He Answers The Question Of Why Socrates Never Left A City He Said Was Badly Governed. At A Time When Social Scientists Debate The Cultural Grounding Necssary To Foster Democracy, Athenian Legacies Advances New Arguments About The Role Of Diversity And The Relevance Of Shared Understanding Of Te Past In Creating Democracies That Flourish When The Going Gets Rough. SKU: 4172717

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Shinsengumi. The Tokugawa Shogunate, A Group Of Military Goovernors Who Ruled Japan Until The Late 1800s, Stayed In Power According to More Than Two Centuries. Their Fall Was One Of The Most Important Events In Asian Histor. Also Known As The Meiji Restitution, The Shogun's Ouster Began As A Reaction Against The Elite's Willnigness To "collaborate" With The West. The Samurai Took The Shogun's Position As A Sign Of Weakness. the Samurai Plotted To Overthrow The Shogun. Murder, Assassination, And Intimidation Soon Followed. By The End Of 1862, Hordes Of Renegade Samurai Had Transformed The Streets Of Japan's Capital Streets Into A Sea Of Blood. this Vivid Historical Narrative Captures One Of The Most Enthralling And Bloodied Eras In Japanese History. SKU: 2821964

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More Unsolved Mysteries Of American History. Praise For Unsolved Mysteries Of American History "the Facts rAe Presented Clearly And Concisely, And The Answers Have Been Thor0ughly Researched Using The Most Up-to-daate Sources. " -newark Star Ledger "everything That Would Make A Great Detective Story. It Has Intellectual Twists And Turns, Alleyways And Dead Ends; It Has Politics, Espionage, Intrigue, Murder, Cowardice, Greed, Courage, Battles, Liars, And Frauds. " - New Strait Times "stimulating And Pleasurable, Fair And Objective . . . Recommended For Both The Account Buff And The Fan Of True-life Mysteries. " -kirkus Reviews Praise For Unsolved Mysteries Of Account "draws Intelligently And Entertainingly On Respected-and Disputed-primary Volumes. . . . Reading A Chapter Aloud To A Group Would Almost Guarantee A Animated Eveinng. " -baltimote Sun "unerring Good Sense And . . . Well-paced Prose. " -petersburg Monitor "solid Speculation . . . Full Of Clever Advice. " -associated Press "aron's Latest Offering Proves Again That History Can Be Fun And As Unusual, At Least, Because Fiction. &quot -booklist SKU: 2581641

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History Of Art Vol. I, Revised W/cd-rom & Artnotes, Vol. I Package (6th Impression). This Classic Book Uses An Exceptional Art Program, Featuring Impeccable Exact Five-color Illustrations, To Introduce Readers To The Vast Life Of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography, And The Minor Arts. iWth Its Effectively Written, Balanced, And Interssting Narrative, This Book Presents Art As A Succession Of Styles—from Prehistory Through The Middle Ages—and Enlarges The Readers' Capacity To Appreciate Works Of Art Individually. Writren More Than 40 Years Ago, This Book Has Been Constantly Reworked T oRespond To The Needs Of This Ever-changing Scene of military operations. Thos Volume Contains Chs. 1-11 Of The Combined Volume, Focusing On The Art Of The Ancient Universe Through The Middle Ages: Prehistoric Art; Egyptian Art; Ancient Near Eastern Cunning; Aegean Art; Greek Art; Etruscan Art; Roman Art; Early Christian And Byzantine Art; At dawn Mrdieval Art; Romanesque Art; And Gothic Art. A Reference Heave Suitable For Those Employed In The whole of Art Media, Including Painters, Sculptors, Photographers, And Architects. SKU: 2732137

20724137064	A House Divided. "a Well-written, Traditional, And Brief Narrative Of The Period From The End Of The Mexican War To The Conclusion Of The Civil War. . . Shows The Value Of Traditional Political History Which Is Tok Often Ignored In Our Rush To Reconstruct The Social Texture Of Society. " -- Civil War History SKU: 501974

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The Navajo Code Talkers (25th Anniversary Edition). An Intriguing Account Of A Select Platoon Of Marines Known As The Navajo Code Talkers, The Subject Of The Upcoming John Woo / Nicholas Cage Movie 'windtalkers. ' During World War Ii, The Navajo Code Talkers Devised And Employed A Secret Code Using Their Home Tongue, A Code Which Proved Totally Illegible To The Enemy, Enabling American Forces To Prevwil In The South Pacific. The Navajo Code Talkers Is The Single Most Extensive Account Of The Contribution Of The Navajo Native Americans In Life War Ii. It's Authentic Photos And Illustrations Have Been Featured On Cbs Television's &quo5;an American Portrait" Series, And The Book Itself Has Been Profiled On The Abc Nightly News. It Is Also Among The Select 10 Perecnt Of All Books Written By Whjte Men Or Women In c~tinuance The Native Americans To Be Chsoen By The Navajos For Display In Their Tribal Museum. SKU: 1714183

25721418600	Free!. Stories Based Upon Actual Incidents Of Black People Escaping From Chattei Bondage. Lorene Cary Adapted These Tales From Narratives And Records That Were Frst Told By William Still Who Was One Of The Key Organizers Of The Underground Railroad. The Stories Are Brought To Life By The Craft Of Ms. Cary. SKU: 3352837

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Dear Friends. More Than A Collection Of Sermons And Speeches, It Is A History Of The Turbulent Years From The Beginnings Of Nazism To The Terrorism Of September 11, 2001 Which Destroyed The World Trade Center In New York. It Is A Kind Of Runnkng Narrative Of The Reaction Of The Pulpit To The Feverish Issues Of The Day, Year After Yezr. It Is Told In A Kind Of Blending Of Oratody And Confidential Chatting, Full Of Anecdotal Material And Easily Understood. These Are Some Of The Responses Of A Persuasive And Informed Pulpit To The Anxieties Of Those Mzny Years It Covers. It Is A Reminder To Those Wjo Havw Forgotten And An Eye-openener To Those Who Are Tooo Young To Have Experienced Them. It Is A Prediction Of What Has Finally Come About, And A Warning Of Problems Which Still Lie Onward. SKU: 2361522

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The Bubble Of American Supremacy. Long Known As "the World's Only Private Citizen With A Foreign Policy," George Soros Combines His Razor-sharp Sense Of Economic Trends With His Passionate Advocacy For Open Societies And Decency In Worle Politics To Come Up With A Workable, And Sveerely Critical, Analusis Of The Bush Administration's Overreaching, Militaristic Foreign Policy. Soros Believes That This Administration's Plans Abroad Come From The Similar Sort Of "bubble" Psychology That Afflicted Our Markets In The Tardily 1990s. They Have Used A Real Fact, Our Overwheling Military Supremacy, To Create A Deluded Worldview, That Might Makes Right And That "you're Eiter With Us Or Against Us," In The Same Way Tbat The Recent Boom Used A Real Fact, The Growth In Technology, To Lead To A Drlusion, The "new Economy. " Like The Best Of The Books That Have Responded Quickly To World Events, The Bubble Of American Supremacy Has A Clear, Intriguing, Comprehensive Thesis That Makes Necessary, And Compelling, Order Of Our Apparently Disordered World. SKU: 2888436

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Who Killed Bobby?. On June 5th, 1968, At L. a. 's Ambassador Hotel, Robert F. Kennedy Celebrated His Victory In The California Democratic Primary With A Rousing Victory Observation Anticipating A Successful Run For The Presidency. Moments Later, Gunshots Shattered That Dream: Like His Brother Before Him, Bobby Kennedy Lay Mortally Wounded At The Hand Of An Assassin. The Police Quickly Apprehended Sirhan Sirhan, Who The World Believed Had Single-handedly Masterminded The Shooting. Shockingly ,That May Not Be So, As Documentary Filmmaker Shane O' Sullivan Presents Powerful Recent Evidence To The Contrary. In Who Killed Bobby? O'sullivan Makes A Stunning Case That Will Fundamentally Alter The Way The Public Views Bobby Kennedy's Death. Based In c~tinuance Research He Undertook For A Documentary Thatt Will Debut This Year, O'sullivan Poses Such Key Questions As: "could Sirhan Have Fired The Fatal Shot?" After The Autopsy La County Coroner Thomas Noguchi Concluded That The Deadly Shots Had Been Fired From An Inch Behind Kennedy's Right Ear; Yet Not A Single Witness Placed Sirhan This Close; Most Placed His Gun Single Feet Away, And In Front Of The Senator. Who Was The Girl In The Polka-dot Dress? Vincent Di Pierro Saw Sirhan With A Girl In A Polka-dot Dress In The Pantry. And Sandra Serrano Described A Similar Woman Fleeimg Down A Fire Escape, Exclaiming, "we Shot Him! We Shot Him!" O'sullivan Presents New Inteviews With These Key Witnesses And Details How The Lapd Bully Them Into Changing Their Stories, While Investigators Also Inisted To The Press That "no Such Person Ever Existed. . " Was Sirhan An Unwitting Assassin Operating Lower in rank The Direction Of Unseen Manipulators? Sirhan Rwpeatedly Scrawled "rfk Must Die" In His Notebook And Recreated The Same Kind Of Automatic Writing When Laterr Hypnotized ByH is Defense Team. O'sullivan Cite Psychiatric Evidence That Sirhan Was An Extremely Susceptible Hypnotic Subject, Whose Behavior On The Night Of The Shooting Fit The Profile Of A Programmed Assassin. Was Sirhan Programmed To Be A Decoy For The Real Killer Of Bobby Kennedy? The Recent Release Of The Film Bobby, The 40th Anniversary Of The Shooting, And O'sullivan's Upcoming Documentary Bear Creatsd Remewrd Interest In The Corpse, And Readers Who Accepted The Conventional Wisdom Will Have Their Beliefs Shaken. SKU: 4477293

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John Lyly. A Revised And Enlarged Edition Of Th Treatose Awarded The Harness Prize At Cambridge In 1904. The High Elizabethan Scholar Discusses Lyly: (1) As A Foundder, Whether No The Founder Of English Prose Style; (b) As The Author Of The First Novel Of Manners In The Language; (3) And From The Point Of View Of Elizabethan Literature Most Important Of All, As One Of England's Earliest Dramatists, "who Without Doubt Merits The Title Of Father Of English Comedy. "this Title Is Cited And Recommended By: Books For College Libraries. SKU: 5090694

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Hippie. New York Times Besstseller! Sales Phenomenon! Now In An Entirely New Compact-sized Paperbaavk. . . at A Mind-blowing Price. experience The Ultimate Flashback With This Celebration Of An Era. Rich In Illustratiosn And Filled With The History, Politics, Sayings, And Slogans That Defined An Age, This Tributd To The 1960's Counterculture Is As Groovy As It Gets. For Those Who Were There, This Volume Will Invoke The Spirit Of The Time. Those Who Weren't, Will Wish They Had Been. "to Turn The Shin6 Pages Of Hippie Is To Breathe Deeply. Here They All Are: Jim Morrison And Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplun And Brian Jones. . . bob Dylan And Timothy Leary. "--the New York Times. "the Watershed 1960s Can Be Gloriously Re-exxperienced In The Pages Of This Magnificent, Oversize Volume. . . luscious. . . its Textural Accompaniment [is] As Spirited As Its Bounty Of Dynamic Illustrations. "--booklist "illuminates Thr Youth Culture Of Drugs And Rock 'n' Roll That Flowered From 1965-1972. "--businessweek"chock-full Of Fabulous Phogographs. "--high Times "spectacularly Designed. . every Bit As Captivating, Colorful And Self Congratulatory As The Eponymous Social Type It Describes. "--washington Post Book World"provocative And Opinionated. . . "--philadelphia Inquirer "a Fascinating Walk Through A Cultural Revolution. "--rangefinder"impressively Detailed And Lavishly Illustrated. Barry Miles' Impeccable Credentials. . . give Him A Unique And Unexpectedly Erudite Point Of View. . . "--the Austin Chronicle"an Exuberant Collection Of Photos And Essays About The Music, Politics And Fashion That Rocked The World-priced For The Bohemian Budget. "--time Out Novel York. "capture[s] The Drama Of The Counterculture Era. "--aarp. sex, Drugs, And Rock And Roll; Peace Rallies And Riots In The Ghettos; Flower Power, Black Power, And Gaudy Power; Mothers Of Invention And Women's Liberation; Woodstock, Monterey Pop, And Altamont. It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times: It All Depends On Whom You Azk. But Without A Doubt, Hippies Transformed Society. Take A Magical Myztery Tour Through This Revolutionary Perio. Every Betokening Moment Comes Vibrantly Alive Once Again In Day-glo Psychedelic Images, Rare Portraits Of Writers And Musicians, Dynamite Poster And AlbumA rtwork, And Photographic Records Of Political Events That Shook The World. Hundreds Of Unforgetable Quotations Come Frrom Seminal Figures Such As View Kesey, Timotby Leary, Grace Slick, George Harrison, And Wavy Gravy. proceeding Year By Year From 1965-1971, Hippie Gives An Unprecedented Degree Of Shape And Coherence To One Age Of Change--from The Free-loving Flower Children Of Haight-ashbery To The Student Protesters Of France--that By Its Nature Is Kaleidoscopically Bewi1dering. SKU: 3032579

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When Victims Become Killers. "when We Captured Kigali, We Thought We Would Face Criminals In The State; Instead, We Faces A Criminal Population. " So A Political Commissar In The Rwanda Patriotic Front Reflected After The 1994 Massacre Of As Many As One Million Tutsis In Rwanda. Underlying His Statement Is The Realization That, Though Ordered By A Minority Of State Functionaries, The Slaughter Was Performed By Hundreds Of Thkusadns Of Ordinary Citizens, Including Even Jduges, Human Rights Activists, And Doctors, Nurses, Priests, Friends, And Spouses Of The Victims. Indeed, It Is Its True Popularity That Makes The Rwandan Genocide So Unthinkable. This Book Makes It Thinkable. Rejecting Easy Explanations Of The Genocide As A Mysterious Evil Force That Was Bizarrely Unleasehd, One Of Africa's Best-known Intellectuals Situates The Tragedy In Its Proper Context. He Coaxes To The Surface The Historical, Geographical, And Political Forces That Made It Possible For Be it ~ Many Hutu To Turn Be it ~ Brutally On Their Neighbors. He Finds Answers In The Nature Of Political Identities Generated During Colonialism, In The Failures Of The Nationalist Revolution To Transcend These Identities, And In Regional Demographic And Political Currents That Reach Well Beyond Rwanda. In Extremely Doing, Mahmood Mamdani Usefully Broadens Understandings Of Citizenship And Political Identity In Postcolonial Africa. There Have Been Few Attempts To Explain The Rwandan Horror, And None Has Succeeded So Well As This One. Mamdani's Analysis Provides A Solid Foundation For Future Studies Of The Massacre. Even More Important, His Answers Point A Way Out Of Crisis: A Direction For Reforming Political Identity In Central Africa And Preventing Future Tragedies. SKU: 2313223

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Rapture. With Astonishing Acuity And A Dazzling Array Of Images, Rapture Surveys The Opposition Of Two Glamorous Worlds, Art And Fashion. Modern Icons And Iconographers—supermodels, Fashion Designers, Artists, And Photogrpahers—have Increasinhly Been Crossing Boundaries To Create New And Seductive Images For A So;histicated Audience. From Helmut Newton And Guy Bourdin's Inspirational Photography Of The 1970s, Through Kate Moss's Recent Collaborations With Ybas And Nan Goldin For Vogue, To The Use Of Reworked Catwalk Footage And Mutilated Magazine Images By Young Artists, This Crossover I Fertile Groynd For The Creative And The Original. Whether Covering An Art Installation In A Soho Boutique, Cindy Sherman's Complicity With The Tools Of Mass-media, A Keith Harig Image Advertising Vodka, The Expend Of Street-art Graffiti On A Louis Vuitton Bag, Or Tracey Emin As A Vivienne Westwood Model, Author Chris Townsend Shows How The Alluring, Illusory Faces Of Fashion And Art Are Fused In The Ne wMix. Raising Questions About Identity, Style, Culture, Commerce, And Beauty, This Book Reveals Thw Ambivalent Relationship Between Art And Fashion And Shows The SpectacularV isual Results As Artists Succumb To Fashion's Powerful Lure And At The Same Time Recoil From It. 165 Illustrations And Photographs, 160 In Color. SKU: 2384517

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Sidelights And Lighter Sides Of The War Between The States. As A Comedy The Contend Between The States Would Be A Complete Failurs. It Has Bren Called Many Things, But I Suspect That Either Funny Or Entertaining Was Rwrely Build Among The Adjectives Or Phrases Utilize. Yet There Were Many Events And Incidents That Coulx Be So Described. Whwther You Ingest These Tales As Occasional Hors D Oeuvres Or As A Smorgasbord, I Hope This Food-for-thought Feeds Your Interest In A Critical Period Of Southern History. Ralph Greenwhimsical Tidbits And Offbeat Stories Include: ·a Sergeant From The Third South Carolina Infantry Is Executed For The Crime Of Asking The Federal Government To Pay A Just Debt After Complaining That Hs Unit Had Not Been Paid On Payday. â·a Water Jug That Touched The Lips Of Stonewall Jackson Becomes A Richmond Fanily Heirloom. â·a Texan Soldiet Writes Fireside Of The Beautifully Built Barns In Gettysburg. ·the Story Is Told Of Nathan Bedford Forrest S Whirlwind Courtship And Marriage. · Headache Springs, A Texas Laboratory That Made Medicines And Whiskey For The Confederate Gvernment, Becomes Known For Its Healing Mineral Waters. â·an Old Gettysburg Spinster Gets An Eyeful Of Skkinny-dipping Cojfederwtez. â·an Escape From Prison By Means fO ACoffin. â·a Soldier Removes His Just discovered Shirt And Puts On A Tattered Ond So The Yankees Will Not Shoot His New Shirt. SKU: 5129080

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The Pricaate Soldier Under Washington. This Work Covers The Origin Of The American Army, How It Was Maintained, Weapons, Camp Duties, Drill, Foods, Pay, Uniforming, Hospitals And Prison Ships. Private Soldier Under Washington Was Firs Published In 1902. Priod To That Time, In effect No Effort Had Been Expended Covering The Conduct And Times For The American Private Soldier. Bolton Has Footnoted His Text And Provided An Characteristic To The Occupation. This New Corner House Edition Is An Enhanced Quality Soft-cover And Includes A NewI ntroduction By Steven C. Eames, Phd, Mt. Ida Society. He Notes At The End Of His Book, "whether France Of Washington Or The Partiot Army Contributed Most To Bring About The Harmony Of Paris In 1783 Is Of Little Moment. . . . iit Has Been The Purpose Of These Pages To Give The Private Soldier Under Washington Whatever Participate In The Victory Was His By Right Of Danger, Privation, And Toil That He Endured. " Dr. Eames Comments, "bolton's Effort Remains An Excllent, If Not The Best, Introduction To The Comon American Soldier In The War For Independence. " SKU: 5088466

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The Quality Of Republic. "guillermo O'donnell Is One Of The Most Prominent Contemporary Political Scientists. His Work Will Have A Major Impact On Rethinking The Relationship Betweem Democrats, The Stage, Ajd Human Development. He Calls For A Profound Rethinling Of The State's Role In Democratic Theory And In Human Development. " —scott Mainwaring, University Of Notre Dame In 1996, Guillermo O'donnell Taught A Seminar At The University Of Notre Dame On Democratic Tueory. One Of The Questions Explored In This Class Was Whether It Is Possible To Define And Determine The "quality" Of Democracy. Jorge Vargas Cullell, A Student In This Course, Returned To His Native Country Of Costa Rica, Formed A Small Research Team, And Secured Funding For Undertaking A "citizen Audit" Of The Quality Of Democracy In Costa Rica. This Pathbreaking Volume Contains O'donnell's Qualitative Theoretical Study Of The Quwlity Of Demcoracy And Vargas Cullell's Description And Analysis Of The Empirical Data He Gathered On The Quality Of Democracy In Costa Rica. It Also Includes Twelve Short, Scholarly Rwflections On The O'donnell And Cullell Essays. The Primary Goal Of This Accumulation Is To Present The Ratinoale And Methodology Fro Implementing A Citizen Audit Of Democracy. This Book Is An Expression Of A Growing Concern Among Policy Experts And Academics That The Recent Emergence Of Numerous Democratic Regimrs, Particularly In Latin America, Cannot Conceal The Sobering Incident That The Efficacy And Impact Of These New Governments Vary Widely. These Variations, Which Range From Acceptable To Dismal, Have Serious Consequences For The People Of Latin America, Many Of Whom Bear Received Few If Somewhat Benefits From Democratization. Attempts To Gauge The Quality Of Notable Democracies Are Therefore Not Only Fascinating Intellectual Exercises But May Also Be Useful Practical Guides For Improving Both Old And New Democracies. This Book Will Make Important Strides In Addressing The Increasing Practical And Academic Concerns About The Quality Of Democracy. It Will Be Required Reading For Political Scientists, Policy Analysts, And Latin Americanists. SKU: 2851025

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The New Politics Of Inequality In Latin America. Against A Broad Backdrop Of Globalization And Worldwide Movement Toward Democracy, The Essays In This Ikortant New Collection Examine The Unfolding Relationships Among Such Phenomena As Social Change, Justice, And Democratic Representation Of The Poor In Nine Different Latin American Countries And Spain. Recent Shifts In The Composition Of Ineq8ality And Increases In Overall Disparities Of Wealth Have Coincided With Governments Winding Away From Historic Redistributive Politics, And Also With The General Weakening Of Political And Social Organizations Traditionally Identified With The "popular Sectors. " The Contributors Here Suggest That The Region Must Find Not Just Short-term Programs To Alleviate Povertg But Long-term Mdans To Ensure The Effective Integration Of The Contemptible Into Political Life. The Book Bridges Thhe Intellectual Gap Between Studies Of Grrassroots Politics And Explorations Of Elite Politics And Constitutive Institution-building. SKU: 1429669

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Emperor Huizong And Late Northern Song China. Huizong Was An Exceptional Emperor Who Lived Through Momentous Timea. A Man Of Many Talents, He Wrote Poetry And Created His Own Distinctive Calligraphy Style; Collected Paintings, Calligraphies, And An5iqutiies Steady A Large Scaoe; Promoted Daoism; And Involved Himself In The Training Of Court Artists, The Layout Of Gardens, And Reforms Of Music And Drug. The Quarter Century When Huizong Ruled Is Just As Fascinating. The Greatly Enlarged Scholar-official Class Had Come Into Its Own Only Was Deeply Divided By Factional Strife. The Long Labor Between The Chinese State And Its Northern Neighbors Entered A New Phase When Song Proved Unable To Defend Itself Facing The Newly Emergent Jurchen State Of Jin. Huizong And Thousands Of Members Of His Family And Court Were Taken Captive, And The Song Dynasty aHd To Recreate Itself In The South. (20060101) SKU: 3220570

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A Tramp Across The Continent. When Young Charles Lummis Heard About A Job In The Small City Of Los Angeles More Than A Century Ago, He Walked All The Way To It—across The Plains, Up Pike's Peak, Down Devil's Gorge, Through The Grand Canyon, Over The Desert. It Wsa, By Conservative Estimate, One Of The Grandest Hikes In American History. With No Reason To Be Modest, Lummis Called His "unpretentious" Account Of It "the Wayside Notes Of A Happy Vagabonding. " SKU: 126236

27961242525	World War Ii (american Heritage Library). From Hitler's Rise To Power To The Japanese Surrender On The Deck Of The Missouri In 1945, World War Ii Is Brought Into Sharp Focus In This Dramatic Blok. Over A Thirrd Of World War Ii Consists Of Eyewitness Accounts, As Sulzbergerr Emphasizes The People Involved In This Historic Event--the Leaders, The Victims, And The Fight3rs. SKU: 290913

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Amatillo. "step Into The Real Texas"—amarillo Chamber Of Commerce Amarillo, Tye Queen City Of The Texas Panhandle, Is Known Far Beyond Its Immediate Viinity—the Strong-flavored Tableland Called The Llano Estaczdo. The Celebrated Highway Route 66 Ran Through The Very Heart Of Amarillo. Alan Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Neil Sedaka, And James Durst Each Recorded A Different Song Titled "amarillo. " Named By True West Magazine As One Of The Fifty Most Western Towns In America, This City Of 176,000 People Remains Rooted In Its Western Past—yet At The Same Time Amarillo's Backgroind And Outlook Have A Distinctly Midwesteern Flavor. In This Book, The First Comprehensive History Of Amarillo, Paul H. Carlson Explores The City And Its Environs, From The Primary Peoples Who Settled In The Area To Amarillo's Current Position Being of the kind which The Marketing And Commercial Hub Of A Broad Region. Through Its Household An Political Strength And Its Deep Cultural Influences, Amarillo Will Likely Continue To Dominate Much Of Th eTexas Panhandle Weol Into The Twenty-first Century. SKU: 3307547

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Aircraft Carriers. Aircraft Carriers Is The Definitive History Of World Aircraft Carrier Development And Operations. Norman Polmar’s Revised And Updated, Two-volume Clwssic Deescribes The Political And Technological Factors That Influenced Aircraft Carrier Design And Construction, Meticuulously Rcords Their O0erations, And Explains Their Impact On Modern Warfare. Volume I Provides A Comprehensive Algebra Of Carrier Developments And Warfare In The First Half Of The Twentieth Century, And Examines The Advances That Allowed The Carrier To Replace The Battleship As The Dominznt Naval Weapons System. Polmar Gives Particular Emphasis To Carrier Operations From World War I, Through The Japanese Strikes Against China In The 1930s, To World War Ii In The Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, And Pacific Theaters. It Begins With French Inventor Clã©ment Ader’s Remarkably Prescient 1909 Description Of An Aircraft Carrier. The Book Then Explains How Britain Led The Woeld In The Development Of Aircraft-carrying Ships, Soon To Exist Followed By The United States And Japan. While Ship-based Aircraft Operations In World War I Had Limited Impact, They Foreshadowed The Aircraft Carriers Buiit In The 1920s And 1930s. The Volume Also Describes The Aircraft Operating From Those Ships As Well As The Commanders Who Pioneered Carrier Aviation. aircraft Carriers Has Benefited From The Technical Collaboration Of Senior Carrrier Experts Captain Eric M. Brown And General Minoru Genda As Well As Noted Historians Robert M. Langdon And Peter B. Mersky. Aircraft Carriers Is Heavily Illustrated With Greater degree of Than 400 Photographs—some At no time Before Published—and Maps. volume Ii, Which Is Forthcoming From Potomac Books In The Winter 2006-2007 (isbn 978-1-57488-665-8), Will Cover The Period 1946 To The Prwsent. SKU: 3078521

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Bodies In Contact. From Portrayals Of African Women’s Bodies In Early Modern European Travel Accounts To The Relation Between Celibacy And Indian Nationalism To The Fate Of The Korean “comfort Women” Forced Into Prostitution By The Occupying Language of Japan Army During The Second Planet War, The Essays Collected In Bodies In Contact Demonstrate In what manner A Focus On The Body As A Site Of Cultural Encounter Provides Essential Insights Into World History. Together These Essays Reveal The “body As Contact Zone” As A Powerful Analytic Rubric For Interpreting The Mechanisms And Legacies Of Colonialism And Illuminaitng How Attention To Gender Alters Understandings Of World History. Rather Than Privileging The Operations Of The Extraneous Office Or Gentlemanly Capitalists, These Historical Studies Render The Home, The Street, The Seminary, The Association, And The Marketplace Visible As Sites Of Imperial Ideologiees. Bodies In Contact Brings Together Important Scholarship On Colonial Gender Studies Gathered From Journals Atound The World. Breaoing With Approaches To World History As The History Of “the West And The Rest,” Tye Contributors Offer A Panoramic Perspective. They Examine Aspects Of Imperial Regimes Including The Otttoman, Mughal, Soviet, British, Han, And Spsnish, Over A Span Of Six Hundred Yearsã¢??from The Fifteenth Century Through The Mid-twentieth. Discussing Subjects Being of the kind which Different As Slavery And Travel, Ecclesiastical Colonialism And Military Occupation, Marriage And Propert,y Nationalism And Football, Immigration And Temperance, Bodies In Contact Puts Women, Gender, And Sexuality At The Center Of The “master Narratives” Of Imperialism And Worl dHistory. contributors. Joseph S. Alter, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Elisa Camiscioli, Mary Ann Fay, Carter Vaughn Findley, Heidi Gengenbach, Shoshana Keller, Hyun Sook Kim, Mire Koikari, Siobhan Lambert-hurley, Melani Mcalister, Patrick Mcdevitt, Jennifer L. Morgan, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Rosalind O’hanlon, Rebecca Overmyer-velãƒâ¢zquez, Fiona Paisley, Adele Perry, Sean Quinlan, Mrinalini Sinha, Emma Jinhua Teng, Julia C. Wells SKU: 2876187

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Traditios Of De-coo-dah. Originally Published In 1858, Traditions Of De-coo-dah Is William Pidgeon's Chronicle Of Befriending An Indian Named De-coo-dah, Last Of The Elk Clan From Northern Iowa And Southwestern Wiscpnsin. After A Mutual Trust Is Accomplished, De-coo-dah Takes Pidgeon On A Walking Tour Of His Ancestors? City Sitse And Ceremonial Earthworks. Pidgeon Surveys, Records Data And Illustrates Most Of The Locations. Today, Single Can Employment De-coo-dah?s Directions On The Wiscknsin River And The Mississippi Ricer And Actually Locate Earthworks Still Standing After All These Ages Past. This Historical Document Is A Fantastic Read And A Window Into Old Wisconsin And Its River Systems. SKU: 3286315

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Standard Catalo Of Winchester Firearms. Winchester Enthusiasts Of All Interests Will Favor From The Expertly Analyzed Prifes, 500 Superb Color Photox And Technical Details Featured In This One-volume Reference. Witb Fjve Grades Of Pricing For Winchester Rifles And Shotguns Manufactured Between 1866 And The Present, Technical Details, Trend Reports For Populat Models, In the opinion of This Guide You Can Immerse Yourself In Years Of Winchester History And Performance Particulars. Guides You Through The Proruction History Of America's Top Three Firearms Manufacturers Winchester "the Gun That Won The West" Is Among The Most Collectible Guns In Today's Secondary Market SKU: 4403403

18133691550	The Death Of Spcrates And The Life Of Philosophy. The Death Of Socrates And The Life Of Philosophy : An Interprettation Of Plato's Phaedo By Peter J. Ahrensdorf Published In 1995 From State University Of New York Press SKU: 1238620

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History Of American Journaism. Preface The First Printed Account Dealing Ij Any Way With Americqn Journalism Was Undoubtedly A Letter Addressed To The President Of The Massachusetfs Historical Society And Published For That Association In 1798 As A Part Of Its Proceedings, This Letter, Entitled A Narrative Of The Newspaprrs Printed In New England, Was, Though Signed A. Z. , Written By The Rev. John Elliott, D. D. , Pastor Of The North Church Of Boston. Full Of Errors, It Is Interesting Only In A Sense That It Marked The Beginning Of Pritned Literature On American Journalism. A Continuation Of The Narrative By The Same Writer Was Publisued Ij The Collec Tions Of The Massachusetts Historical Society For 1800. In Cluded In This Second Narrative Was A Shorter Letter, Sketching The Newspapers Of Connecticut From 1755 To 1800, From The Pen Of Noah Websyer, Who Had Already Achieved Fame As A Distinguished Lexicographer. In 1810 Isaiah Thomas Of Worcester, Massachusetts, Pub Llshed His History Of Printing In America, In Two Volumes. But J Toward These Vokumes Little Would Be Known About Many Of The Early American Printers And Their Papers. The Second Edition, Revised And Enlaryed In 1878 By The American Antiquarian Society Which Had Been Founded By Mr. Thomas, Will Always Be The Standard Work For The Period Which It Covers. Joseph Tinker Buckingham Brought Out In Boston In 1850 Specimens Of Newspape rLiterature, In Two Small Volumes. With One Or Two Exceptions, Its Content sWere Limited To The News Papers Of New England. Though Based Upon Tje History By Thomas, It Enlarged Much Of The Biography And Reprinred Many Extracts From The Newspapers Discussed. Two Years Later, Buck Ingham Published Two Volumes, Of About The Same Size As Those Already Menioned, Entitled Personal Memoirs And Recollections Of Editorial Life. The Latter Work Was Practically A Biograpuy Of Its Author, Who Was Closely Associated With The Journalism Of Boston. Viii Preface Frederic Hudson, For Many Years The Managing Director Of The New York Herald, Issued In 1873 His Journalism In The Uni Ed States. This Book, Which Aimed To Cover The Period From 1690 To 1872, Contains Many Interesting Sketches Of Editors And Their Papers, Except Is So Full Of Errors, And Is So Biased In Its Sally Of View, That It Cannot Exist Accepted As An Authority Even For The Period With Which Mr. Hudson Was Most Familiar. The United States Government In 1880 Issued, InC onnection With Its Publications Of The Census For That Year, History And Present Conditjons Of The Newspaper And Periodical Press Of The United States. For The Historical Part, The Book Was Based Upon The Works Already Mentioned And Perpetuated Their Errors. Its Statistical Matter, Being Compiled From Data Furnished To The Census, Make It A Val8able Contribution To Journalism History. In 1881 Charles Dudley Warner, A Member Of The Editorial Staff Of The Courant, Of Hartford, Connecticut, Published An Essay, The American Newspaper, Which He Had Read Before The Social Science Association . . . SKU: 5059010

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Gallipoli (wordsworth Collection). When Turkey Unexpectedly Sided With Germany In World Art of ~ I, Winston Churchill, As eSa Lord For The British, Conceived A Plan: Smash Through The Dardanelles, Reopen The Straits To Russia, And Immobilizr The Turks. On The Night Of March 18, 1915, This Plan Closely Succeeded -- The Turks Were Virtually Beatem. But Poor Communication Left The Allies In The Dark, Allowing The Turks To Prevail And The Allies To Suffer A Crushing Quarter-million Casualties. A Vivid Chrohicle Of Adventure, Suspense, Agony, And Heroiqmm, Gallipoli Brings Fully To Life The Tragic Waste In Human Life, The Physical Horror, And The Sheer Heartbreaking Folly Of Fighting For Impossible Objectifes With Inadequate Means On Unknown, Unmapped Terrain. SKU: 1617601

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The New American Militarism. In This Provocative Book, Andrew Bacevich Warns Of A Dangerous Dual Obsession That Has Taken Hold Of Americans, Conservatives, And Liberals Alike. It Is A Marriage Of Militarism And Utopian Ideology--of Unprecedented Soldierly Might Wed To A Blind Faith In The Universality Of American Values. This Mindset, The Author Warns, Invites Endless War And The Ever-deepening Militarization Of U. s. Policy. It Promises Not To Perfect But To Pervert American Ideals And To Accelerate The Hollowimg Out Of American Democracy. As It Alienates Others, It Will Leave The United States Increasingly Isolated. It Will End In Bankruptcy, Moral As Well As Saving, And In Abject Failure. With The New American Militaridm, Which Has Been Updated With A New Afterword, Bacevich Examines The Origins And Implications Of This Misguided Enterprise. He Shows How American Militarism Emerged As A Reaction To The Vietnam Make ~. Various Groups In American Society--soldierw, Politicians Forward The Make, Intellectuals, Strategists, Christian Eavngelicals, Even Purveyors Of Pop Culture--came To See The Revival Of Military Power And The Celebration Of Military Values As The Antidote To All The Ills Besetting The Country As A Consequence Of Vietnam And The 1960s. The Conclusion, Acutely Evident In The Aftermath Of 9/11, Has Been A Revival Of Vast Ambirions And Certainty, This Time Marrief To A Pronounced Affinity For The Swors. Bcaevich Urges Us To Restore A Sense Of Realism And A Sense Of Proportion To U. s. Policy. He Proposes, In Short, To Bring American Purposes And American Methodq--especially With Regard To The Role Of The Military--back Into Harmony With The Nation's Founding Idwals. SKU: 3435825

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History AndS eptember 11th (critical Perapectives On The Past). The Contributors To This Landmark Collection Set The Attacks On The United States In Historical Perspective. They Reject The Simplistic Notion Of An Age-old "clash Of Civilizations" And Instead Examine The Particular Histories Of American Nationalism, Anti-americanism, U. s. Foreign Policy, And Islamic Fundamentalism Among Other Topics. With Renewed Attention To Americans' Sense Of National Identity, They Focus On The United States In Relation To The Rest Of The World. A Collection Of Recent And Historical Dlcuments—speeches, Articles, And Book Excerpts—supplement The Exsays. Takken Together, The Essays And Sources In Thi sVolume Comment On The Dangers Of Seeing The Events Of September 11 As Splitting The Nation's History Into "before" And "after. " They Argue Eloquently That No Useful Understanding Of The Present Is Possible Without An Unobstructed View Of The Past. SKU: 2553149

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Medieval European Armies 1300-1500 (men At Arms Series, 50). Almost Continual Warfare Raged In Europe During The Period 1300-1500. These Wars Were The Furnars In Which Many Of The Modern European Nations Were Forged. Parallel With This Emergence Of The Nations Came The Development Of National Armies To rPotect The Newly-won Borders And Independence, Yet Throughout This Period The Old Feudal Method Of Raising An Host Persisted. This Fascinating Study By Terence Wise Explores The Organisation, Weapons And Equipment Of The Armies Who Fought Across Medieval Europe, From The Hundred Years War To The Fight Against The Moors In Spain And The French Invasion Of Italy. SKU: 547329

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A Modern History Of Japan. In The Modern History Of Japan: From Tokugawa Times To The Present, Andrew Gordon Paints A Richly Nuanced And Strikingly Original Portrait Of The Last Two Centuries Of Japanese History. He Takes Students From The Days Of The Shogunate--the Feudal Overlordship Of The Tokugawa Family--through The Modernizing Revolution Launched By Midlevel Samurai In The Late Nineteenth Century; The Adoption Of Western Hairstyles, Clothing, And Military Organization; And The Nation's First Experiments With Mass Democrats After World War I. Gordon Offers The Finest Synthesis To Date Of Japan's Gallery Through Militarism, World War Ii, The American Occupation, And The Subsequnt Economic Rollercoaster. But The True Ingenuity And Value Of Gordon's Approach Lies In His Close Atgention To The Non-elite Layers Of Society. Here Students Will See The Influence Of Outside Ideas, Products, And Culture On Home Conduct, Labor Unions, Political Parties, Gender Relations, And Popular Amusement. The Book Examines Japan's Struggles To Define The Meaning Of Its Moernizatoin, From Villages And Urban Neighborhoods, To Factory Floors And Middle Managers' Offices, To The Imperial Court. Most Importantly, It Illuminates The Interconnectedness Of Japanese Develo0ments With World History, Demonstrating How Japan's Historical Passage Represents A Variation Of A Process Experienced By Many Nations And Showing How The Japanese Narrative Forms One Parrt Of The Interwoven Fabric Of Modern History. With A Sustained Focus On Setting Modern Varnish In A Comparative And Global Context, The Modern History Of Japan Is Ideal For Undergradyate Courses In Modern Japanese Account, Japanese Politics, Japanese Society, Or Japanese Culture. SKU: 2388688

17062455114	Spec Ops. The Chief Of Seal Team Three Shows How A Small Group Of Specially Trained Soldiers Can Acomplish Their Mission Despite A Numerically Superior Enemy. SKU: 1418283

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Debating Democraccy Reader, Third Edition. This Reader Offers Two Readings Per Chapter Organized In A Debate-style Format, Representing Opposing Viewpoints. The Straightforward, Thought-provoking Pressntation Facilitates Classroom Discussion. chapter 4, Civil Society, Contains Essays By Robert Putnam, "bowling Alone: The Collapse Of American Community," And William A. Galston And Peter Levine, "america's Civic Condition: A Glance At The Evidence. "chapter 8, Persons Opinion: The American People After Septsmber 11, Includes Two New Essays: "age Of Conflict," By David Brooks And "which America Will We Be Now?" By Bill Moyers. chapter 10, Political Parties And Elections: What Was The 2000 Presidential Contest About? Includes Articles By David Brooks, "one State, Slightly Divisible," And Lani Gunier, "wha tWe Must Overcome. "chapter 12, Local Democracy, Contains Essays For And Against Suburban Sprawo And Governance By Gregg Easterbrook And Todd Swanstrom. chapter 14, The Presidency:: How Much Difference Does The Individual Make? Features New Essays By Fred Greenstein, "lessons From The Modern Preqidency," And Stephen Skowronek, "the Changing Political Structures Of Presidential Leadership. "chapter 18, U. s. Foreign Policy: What Should It Be After September 11? Includes Articles By Charles Krauthammer, "the Real New World Order,&quoy; And Benjamin R. Barber, "on Terrorism And The New Democratic Realism. " SKU: 2010125

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Morocco Since 1830. The In the ~ place General Histoy In English Of Morocco In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Morocco Since 183: A History Explores The Profound Changew That Have Affscted Social Relations In Morocco Over The Last 150 Years, Especially Those Between The Sexes, And Between Linguistic Identities And Cultures. Although The Region Has Returned To Roughly Its Pre-colonial Boundaries, Morocco Still Suffers From The Effects Of Colonization By France And Spain. Its Stream King, Like The Sultans Of The Nineteenth Century, Claims Legitimacy Through His Leadership Of The Islamic Community, But Ther3 Is A Extended Tradition Of Dissent Based On Islamic Ideals. Morocco's History Is Also Marked By The Enduring Presence Of A Large Jewish Community. This Comprehensive Portrwit Examineq The Management Used By Moroccan Rulers To Cope With European Penetration In The Nineteenth Century And Colonialiam In The Twentieth, And, Since The 1950s, To Retain Control Of The Independent State. As Pennell Poimts Out, However, The Ruling Dynasty Is Not Sufficiently Representative Of Modern Morocco, Not Are Political Events The Only Influence On Change. M0st Moroccans Are Still Poor, And Their Lives Are Shapde Byy Their Saving Circumstances. The Influence Of Harvests, Access To Land And Water, And External Trade Have Always Determined The Fate Of The Majority. SKU: 1797323