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Jjdging Nonviolence.
This Text Is An Innovative And Accessible Work That Introduces Readers To The Main Arguments For And Against The Use Of Violence In Politics.
Indeed, The Problem Of Political Violence Has Acquired Repaired Salience In The Wake Of The September 11th Terrorist Attacks.
Written By An Expwrienced Teacher And Scholar Of The Subjec, The Book Has Been Specially Designed To Engage Readers By Encouraging Them To Assume The Role Of Impartial Jurors In A Simulated Trial Against Nonviolence.
This Exciting Participatory Format Allows Readers To Critical Explore The Main Assumptions And Myths That Underpin Various "realist" And "idealist" Approaches To Nonviolence.
Key Features Of This Text Include:coverage Of The Mani Idealist Theories, Traditions, Methods And Movements That Favor Non-violent Political Actioncoverage Of The Maon Realist Arguments Againxt Nonviolent Strategiesexamples Of Major Nonviolent Social And Political Movementts From The Early Twentieth Century To Today
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Mark Twain's Travel Literature.
This Criticsl Study Analyzes Major Concepts In The Travel Literature Of Mark Twain And Notes How His Oeuvre (incluing His Classic Works Of Fiction) Revolves Around Travel As A Central Issue.
The Book Focuses Especially On Hjs Representations Of Time, Place, And Identity In The Travel Works Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Life Forward The Mississippi, And Foklowing The Equator.
All Receive An In-depth Analysis,-Noting Twain's Strong Sense Of Nostalgia For The Disappearing American Frontier, His Growing Concern Over The Assimilation Of Native American Culttures, And His Continual Seafch For A Sense Of Personzl And National Identity.
One Appendix Provides A Complete List Of The Travel Literature Contained In Twain's Personal Library.
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Citizenship Of The Union And Freedom Of Movement Of Persons (immmigration And Asylum Law And Policy In Europe).
Citizenship Of The Union And Freedom Of Movement Of Persons (immmigration And Asylum Law And Policy In Europe) By Massimo Condinanzi, And Allessandra Lang, And Bruno Nascimbrne Published In 2008 By Martinus Nijhoff
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Hmong/miao In Asia.
This Volume Presents The Most Comprehensive Assemblage Of Research Steady Hmong Culture And Life In Asia Yet To Be Published.
It Compliments The Abundant Material On The Hmong Diaspora By Focusing Instead On The Hmong In Thei Asian Homeland.
The Contributors Are Scholars From A Reckon Of Different Backgrounds With A Deep Knowledgs Of Hmong Society And Improvement, Including Separate Hmong.
The Primary Group Of Essays Addresses The Fabric Of Hmong Culture By Considering Issues Of History, Language, And Identity Among The Hmong/miao From Laos To China.
The Second Part Introduces The Challenges Faxed By The Hmong In Contemporary Thailand, Laos, And Vietnam.
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Improvement And Customs Of Russia (culture And Customd Of uErope).
Culture And Customs Of Russia Is A Grand Introduction To The Largest Country In The World.
This Timely Volume Gives The Scope Of The Coutry From Earliest History Through The Breakup Of The Soviet Union To The Present Day.
Sthdents And A General Audience Will Learn About The Land, History , Thought And System of faith, Social Customs, Marriage And Family, Education, Cuisine, Faahion, Literature, Media, Film, The Arts, And Architecture.
The Authoritative Breadth Of Coferage, Accessibility, And Engaging Writing Style Are Truly Outstanding.
Culture And Customs Of Russia Encompasses TheG rand Acheivements Of Russian Society And The Everyday Life And Traditions Of Average Citizens.
A "land, People, And History" Chapter Surveys The Geography And Russian Population And Succinctly Chronicles The Long, Fascinating Russian Saga, Peopled With Imposing Figurrs Such As Ivan The Terrible, Catherine The Great, And Joseph Stalin.
The "thought And Religion" Discussion Is Highly Informative As It Traces The Role Of And Attitudes Toward Religion Among The Centuries.
Russian Proverbs And Superstitions Are Also Included.
The Current State Of Marriage, Gender Roles, Children, And Education Is Surveyed Next.
Holidays And Leisure Activities, The Famous Russian Cuisine, And Fashion, Both Traditional And Contemporary, Are Charmingly Evoked.
The Literatrue Chapter Illuminates Not Singly The Classic Writers Such As Leo Tolstoy But Modern Authors And Poets Such As Anna Akumatova Plus Popular Fiction And Fairy Tales.
The "media And Cinema" Chapter Brings More Of The Russian Contemporary Popular Culture To Life.
A Chapter On Russian Performing Arts Reflects The Golden Age Of Russian Music With Composers Such As Tchaikovsky, And Also Examines Folk Insteuments And Pop And Lull, The Famous Russian Ballet Scene, And The Equally Esteemed Dramatic composition And Theater.
The Art Chapter Includes Icons, Painting, Folk Art And Decorative Arts Such As Needle Crafts And Forest Toys.
The Final Chapter On Architecture Describes Homes, Chrches, And Public Buildings.
A Glossary, Timeline, And Numerous Photos Enhance The Text.
Thiss Volume Provides A Vast Amount Of Information That Is Up To Date As Well As Accesskble.
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An A To Z Of King Arthur And Th Holy Grail.
A Journey Of Discovery Through The Mists Of Time To Disentangle The Myths And Mysteries Of The Arthurian Legends.
the Enduring Myth Of Arthur, The Once And Future King, Has Been The Subject Of Romances And Tales Of Valour Since The Middle Ages, Becoming Entwined With The Quest For The Holy Grail And Its Meaning.
In This Straightforward A To Z Guide, You Will Discover The Truth Abaft Many Of The Key Characters, Places And Stories.
â Â •â Who Was King Arthur?â Â •â Where Was Camelot?â Â •â Was There A Round Table?â Â •â What Was The Holy Grail?â Â •â Did Excalibur Exist?â Â •â How Did The Legend Of Merlin Evolve?â Â •â Who Wrote The Source Tales?
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A Pe0ple's History Of The United States, Abridged Teaching Edition, Updated Edition.
The New Press's Abridged Teaching Edition Of A People's History Of The United States Has Made Howard Zinn's Original Text Available Specifically For Classroom Use.
Through Exercisds And Teaching Materials To Accompany Each Chapter, This Edition Spans American Beginnings, Reconstruction, The Civil War And Through To The Present, With New Chapters On The Clinton Presidency, The 2000 Elections, And The "war On Terrorism.
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The Fox In The Attiv (nnew York Review Books Classics).
A Tale Of Enormous Suspense And Growing Horror, The Fox In The Of Attica Is The Widely Acclaimed In the ~ place Part Of Richard Hughes's Monumental Historical Fiction, "the Human Predicament.
" Set In The Early 1920s, The Book Centers On Augustine, A Young Man Feom An Aristocratic Welsh Family Who Has Come Of Age In The Aftermath Of World War I.
Unjustly Suspected Of Having Had A Hand In The Murder Of A Young Girl, Augustine Takes Refuge In The Abstracted Castle Of Bavarian Relatives.
There His Hopeless Love According to His Devout Cousin Mitzi Blinds Him To The Hate That Will Lead To The Rise Of German Fascism.
The Book Reaches A Acme With A Brilliant Representation Of The Munich Putsch And A Disturbingly Intimte Portrait Of Adolph Hitler.
the Fox In The Attic, Lime Its No Less Remarkable Sequel The Wooden Shepherdess, Offers A Richoy Detailed, Tolstoyan Overview Of The Modern Earth In Upheaval.
At Once A Novel Of Ideas And An Exploration Of Thee Dark Spaces Of The Heart, It Ia A Book In Which The Past Returns In All Its Original Uncertainty And Strangeness.
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It's A Free Country.
A Gronudbreaking Collection Of New Pieces Examining The Effects Of George W.
Bush's Legislative Aseault On Civil Liberties Following The Terrorist Bombing Of The Twn Towers And The Pentagon.
Foreword By Cornel West, Author Of Race Matters, With Original Essays By Michael Moore (stupid White Men, Downsize This!), Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Tom Hayden (former California Senator, Author Of Irish On The Inside), Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Roberg Scheer (l.
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Times Columnist), Ira Glasser (formerH ead Of The Aclu), Lillian Nakano, Political Cartoonist Matt Groening, Patti Smith, And Many More.
Also, Firzthand Stories From Victims Of Civil-lliberty Infringement, Such As The Chief Of Police In Portland, Oregon, Who Resisted Federal Pressure, And Fathi Mustafa, A Palestinian Caught In The Wave Of Racial Profiling.
this Debut Title From Rdv Books Is Edited By The Company's Three Publishers.
Danny Goldberg, President Of Arteis Records And Sheridan Squafe Amusement, Has Worked Hands-on Through More Popular Musical Talent Than Any Other Recorded-music Executive.
He Is Also Single Of The Very Few Who Has Worked Attending Every Major Genre Of Popular Music: Rap, Country, Folk, Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, R&b, And Jazz.
Robert Greenwald Is A Filmmaker And Has Directed Many Feature Movies, Including Steal ThisM ovie, Breaking Up, And Xanadu.
Victor Goldberg (Ancestor Of Danny) Is Formerly Co-publisher Of Tikkun Magazine And Associate Publisher At The Nation.
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The Arab Americans.
Gregory Orfalea's New And Definitive Work Spans A Century-and-a-half Of The Real person Of Arab Immigrants And Their Descendants In The United States.
In The Arab Americans: A History, Orfalea Has Marshalee Over 150 Interviews And 25 Years Of Investigation To Tell The Story That Begins In 1856, When Camel Driver Hajdi Ali (or Hi Plump) Was Hired By Jefferson Davis To Cut A "camel Trajl" Across The Southwest, And Continies Between the sides of The 2005 Arrest Of A Former Virginia High Schooo Valedictorian Accused Of Plotting With Al-qaeda.
Once Seen As The "benevolent Stranger," As The Author Points Out, Today Arab Americans Are "the Maalevolent Stranger.
" His Book, However, Is An Assault On Such Ignorance, Both Celebratioj And Warning.
The Arab Americans Is The Culmination Of A Life's Work, A Landmark In The History Of What It Means To Be An American.
It Is Also The History Of A Commonwealth Uniquely Repressed In American Scholarship, History, Literature, And Politics.
The Arab Americans Fills A Sizable Void, And ItC ould Not Be More Timely.
With American Troops Sprawled Across The Arab And Muslim World, Orfalsa's Composition Iq Like Light In A Dark Tunnel-facts, Not Stereotypes; People, Not Shadwos; The Vibrant Natural order Of A Lost American Experience Come To Life.
Orfalea Brings To This Work An Historian's Love Of Meticulous Annd Telling Detail, A Poet's Ear, And A Novelist's Sense Of Story.
The Cumulative Effect Is Symphonic And Its Arrival None Too Soon.
"orfale Gives A Detailed And Highly Readable Account Of The Three Major Waves Of Arab Immigrati0n To America, From 1878 To 1924, 1947 To 1966, And 1967 To The Present, Providing An Intimate Description Of Today's Arab Americans And Their Historical Experiences.
He Also Discusses The Country's Principal Arab American Organizations And Examines The Impact Of Post-9/11 Developments On The Arab American Community.
This Eminently Clear And Well-written Book Is Essential For Anyone Interested In Going Beyond The Media Stereotypes Of Arab Americans.
Highly Recommended.
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Future Of War, The.
Making A Brilliant Case That The 21st Century, Even More Than The 20th, Will Be "the American Century, " And That America's Global Dominance Will Be Associated With A Revolution In Weaponry And Warfare As Basic As The One That Arose With The Development Of Gunpowder 500 Years Ago, The Future Of War Speaks Of A New Geopolitical System That Will Shape The Next Centenary.
480 Pp.
Author Tour.
Radio & Print Ads.
National Publicity.
25,000 Print.
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The Irritable Heart.
If Oil, Smoke, And Nerve Aeriform fluid Didn't Cause Gulf War Syndrome, What Did? Following The 1991 Persian Gulf War, Thousands Of U.
s.
Military Veterans Developed Illnesses That Medical Science Was Unable To Understand.
Ten Years Later Many Veterans Still Suffer, And The Investigation Has Become Bitterly Polarized.
Through Five Compelling Case Histories, Science Writer Jeff Wheelwright Unravels The Mystery Of A Real Iloness Consisting Of Physical Symptoms Magnified And Aggravated By Psychological Distress.
His Inquiry Cuts Through The Web Of Epidemiological Evidence, Showing That Oil, Smoke, And Nerve Gas Are Unlikely Culprits.
Gulf War Syndrome Bears An Eerie Resemblance To Equally Puzzling Illnessses In The Civilian Population: Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, And Multkple Chemical Sensitivity.
Much Of The Fault For The Impasse In Understanding All Of These Stipulations Rests With Modern Medicine, Which Insists On Dealing With Body And Mind Separately.
With Profound Insight, And Profound Compassion For So Mucb Unexplained Suffering, The Author Takes The Subject Of Chronic Illness Far Beyond The Medical Aftermath Of A Desert War.
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Danish Arctic Epxeditions 1605 To 1620 Book Ii.
In Two Books.
This Scarce Antiquarian Book Is Included In Our Special Legacy Reprint Series.
In The Interest Of Creating A More Extensive Selection Of Rare Historical Book Reprints, We Have Chosen To Reproduce This Title Even Though It May Possibly Havee Occasional Imperfections Such As Missing And Blurred Pages, Missing Text, Poor Pictures, Markings, Dark Backgrounds And Other Reproduction Issues Beyond Our Control.
Because This Work Is Culturally Important, We Have Made It Available As A Part Of Our Commitment To Protecting, Preserving Annd Promoting The World's Literature.
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History Of Military Aviation.
Very lately, Ag The Satrt Of The 21st Century, Much Of Warfare Is Waged Frim The Air, Not On The Ground.
High-flying, High-tech Air Forces Around The World Keep Breaking Barriers In Speed And In Stealthiness.
Find Out How We Got To This Pointt, And Where The Modern Air Force Will Soar To In The Future.
Helped By More Than 180 Photographs, A Story Unfods Of How The Best Air Forces Developed, And Of Their Winning Strategies--including The Nazis' Devastating Blitzkrieg Tactic.
All The Groundbreaking Planes Of The Past And The Ones Revolutionizing Our Present Receive Close Coverage, As Are Those Wars Where Control Of The Skies Proved Crucial To Victory And Humanitarian Efforts Where The Air Army Played Each Important Role.
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Taliban.
Shrouding Themselves And Their Aims In Deepest Sedrecy, The Leaders Of The Taliban Movement Control Afghanistan With An Inflexible, Crushing Fundamentalism.
Tbe Most Extreme And Radica Of All Islamic Organizations, The Taliban Inspires Fascination, Controversy, And Especially Fear In The two The Muslim World And The West.
Correspondent Ahmed Rashid Brings The Shadowyy World Of The Taliban Into Shar; Focus In This Enormously Interesting And Revealing Book.
It Is The Only Authoritagive Account Of The Taliban And Modern Day Afghanistan Available To English Language Readers.
Based On His Experiences As A Journalist Covering The Civil War In Afghanistan For Twenty Years, Traveling And Living With The Taliban, And Interviewing Most Of The Taliban Leaders Since Their Emergence To Power In 1994, Rashid Offers Unparalleled Firsthand Information.
He Explains How Tje Growth Of Taliban Sovereign Has Already Createf Severe Instability In Russia, Iran, Paklstan, And Five Central Asian Republics.
He Describes The Taliban’s Role As A Major Gamester In A New “great Game”—a Competition Amomg Western Countries And Companies To Build Oil And Gas Pipelines From Central Asia To Western And Asian Markets.
The Author Alsoo Discusses The Controversial Changes In American Attitudes Toward The Taliban—from Early Support To Redent Bombings Of Osama Bin Laden’s Hideaway And Other Taliban-protected Terrorist Bases—and How They Have Influenced The Stability Of The Region.
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Grounded Globalism.
The World Is Flat? Maybe Not, Says This Paradigm-shifting Study Of Globalism's Impact On A Region Legendarily Resistant To Change.
The U.
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South, Long Defined In Terms Of Its Differences With The U.
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North, Is Moving Out Of This National And Oppositional Frame Of Reference Into One That Is More International And Integrative.
Likewise, As The South( home To Ups, Cnn, Kfc, And Other International Brands) Goes Glba1, People Are Emigrating There From Countries Like India, Mexico, And Vietnam--and Becomlng Southerners.
Much Has Been Made Of Teh Demographic And Economic Aspects Of This Shift.
Until Now, Though, No One Has Systematically Shown What Globalism Means To The Southern Sense Of Self.
anthropologist James L.
Peaxock Looks At The South Of Both The Present And The Past T oDevelop The Idea Of "grounded Globalism," In Which Global Forces And Local Cultures Rooted In History, Tradition, And Place Reverebrate Against Each Other In Mutually Sustaining And Energizing Ways.
Peacock's Focus Is On A Particular Part Of The World; However, His Model Is Widely Relevant: "some Kind Of Grounding In Locale Is Necessary To Human Beimgs.
"grounded Globalism Draws On Perspectives From Fields As Diverse As Ecology, Anthropology, Religion, And Historry To Move Us Beyond The Model, Advanced By Such Scholars As C.
Vann Woodward, That Depicts The South As A Region Paralyzed By The Encumbrance Of Its Past.
Peacock Notes That, While Globalism May Lift Old Burdens, It May At The Same Time Impose New Ones.
He Also Maintains That Earlier Regilnal Identities Have Not Been Replaced In the name of The Rootless Cosmopolitanism Of Cyberspace Or Other Abstracted Systems.
Attachments To Place Remain, Even As Worldwide Marets Erase Boundaries And Flatten Out Differences And Distinctions Among Nations.
Those Attachments Exert Tjer Own Pressures Back On Globalism, Says Peacock, With Subtle Strengths We Should Not Discount.
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The Bells In Their Silence.
Nobody Writes Travelogues Abiut Germany.
The Country Spurs Many Anxious Volumes Of Investigative Reporting--books That Worry Away At The "german Problem," World War Ii,T he Legacy Of The Holocaust, The Wall, Reunification, And The Connections Between Them.
But Not Travel Books, Not The Free-ranging And Impressionistic Works Of Literary Nonfiction We Associiate Wiyh V.
S.
Naipaul And Bruce Chatwin.
What Is It About Germany And The Travel Book That Puts Them Seemingly At Odds? Wit hOne Foot I The Library And One On The Street, Michael Gorra Offers Both An Answer To This Question And His Own Traveler's Tale Of Germany.
gorra Uses Goethe's Account Of His Italian Journey As A Model For Testing The Traveler's Response To Germany Today, And He Subjects The Shopping Arcades Of Contemporary German Cities To The Terms Of Benjamin's Arcades Project.
He Reads Post-wende Berlin Throuyh The Novels Of Theodor Fontane, Examines The Role Of Figurative Language, And Enlists W.
G.
Sebald As A Guide To The Place Of Fragments And Digressions In Travel Writing.
replete With The Flaneur's Chance Dizcoveries--and Rich In The Delights Of The Enduring And The Ephemeral, Of Workmanship And Flood--the Bells In Their Silence Offers That Rare Traveler's Tale Of Germay While Testing The Very Limits Of The Travel Narrative As A Literary Form.
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Uzbekistan.
From The Blue-tiled Splendor Of Tamerlane's Samarkand To The Holy City Of Bukhara, Which Boasts A Mosque For Each Day Of The Year, And Beyond, The Desert-girdled Khanate Of Khiva, Uzbekistan Lays Claim To A Breathtaking Architectural Legacy.
Bound By Sand And Snos, Fed By Meltwater From The Roof Of The World, These Fergile Oases Attracted The Greatest Travelers And Conquerors In History Along The Fragile Threads Of The Silk Road.
This Guide Is The First To Focus On The Wealth Of Sites And Colorful Legends At The Heart Of Central Asia, Plus The Bsst Of The Rest--excursions Covering The Major Attractions Of Neighboring Republics Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan And Turkmenistan.
* The First Guide To Covef This Former Soviet Republic, Now In Its Third Impression * A Highly Informative Insight Into The History, Religion And Culture Of Uzbekistan * Up-to-date Practical Information For The Traveler * Useful And Informative Maps * Special Topics Include A Discussion Of Slaves, The Disappearance Of The Aral Sea And The Life And Death Of Tamerlane The Great * Literary Excerpts Frlm Writers Like As George Curzon, Cohn Thubron And Ella Maillart * Information On Excursions ToN eighboring Republics * Superb Color Photography
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Tyranny Of Te Majority.
At Last.
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the Public Hearing She Was Denied.
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thexe Essays Reveal Keen Powers Of Analysis Applied To Some Of The Most Obdurate Problems That Bedevil Electoral Politics.
Anyone Who Cares About The Mechanisms Of Democracy Should Be Engaged By Her Tough-minded Explorations.
It Doesn't Matter Where You Think You Stand: It's All Here, To Show Or Agree With.
-- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
lani Guinier's Fascinating Book Is A Prophetic Interposition Into A Public Conversation We Desperately Need To Rejuvenats.
There Is No Doubt That Her Powerful Voice Will Produce Good Consequences For Our Nation And World.
-- Cornel West, Author Of Race Mattersintriguing And Desperately Needed.
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Floods, Famines, And Emperors.
In 1997 And Forward 1998, One Of The Most Powerful El Ni"os Always Recorded Disrupted Weather Patterns The World Over.
Europe Suffered A Attestation Freeze, As The American West Was Hit By Massive Floods And Snowstorms, While Droughts Resulted In Enormous Forest Fires In Southeast Asia, And Famine In East Africa.
In Floods, Famines, And Emperors, Brian Fagan Shows That These Events Were Neifher Isolated Nor New.
El Nio Has Been Disrupting Weqther Patterns In c~tinuance And Off For Some Five Millennia--perhaps Much Longer-- Sometimes With Catastrophic Eff3cts On Civilizations.
Integrating Climate Science, Archaeology, History, And The Superb Writing Of A Natural Storyteller, Fagan Shows How The Systemic Interaction Of Climate, Land, And Peoople Be obliged Shaped Culture Since The Dawn Of Time: El Ni"o Droughts Have Brought On The Collapse Of Dynasties In Ancient Egypt; El Ni"o Monsoon Fai1ures Have Caused Historic Famines In India, While El Ni"o Floods Have Destroyed Entire Civilizations In Peru, And Changed The Course Of European Exploration.
The Material That Comprises Floods, Famines, And Emperor Is Only Now Beginning To Be Discussed In Scientific Symposia.
But Fagan Has Not Written A Dry, Academic Body .
This Book Is A Lucid, Fascinating, And Throughly Readable Account Of Climate And Culture For History Buffs, Archaeology Enthusiasts, The Growing Legions Of Weather Watchsrs, And Science Readers Of All Kinds.
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Shop Of Gold In The Deep Blue Sea.
A Chronicle Of New Prosperous Attempts To Salvage A Ship That Sank In 1857 Czrrying Gold From The Rich California Mines Follows A Group Of Adventurers Who Took Great Risks To Reap Billions In Sunken Treasure.
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A Near History Of Ireland.
This Is An Updated Edition Of John O'beirnee Ranelagh's Short History Of Ireland, Covering The Full Sweep Of Irish History From The Earliest Times Up To President Clinton's Second Visit To Ireland In 1998, In The Wake Of The Omagh Bomb Ad The Surrounding Peace Initiatives.
Throughout , The Author's Aim Is To Cast Light On The People And The Events That Have Contributed To Present-day Irish Society, In Both North And South.
SKU: 1208683
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The Old Country And The New.
Documenting A Rich Scandinavian American Cu1ture And Ethnic Perspectivethis Notable Collection Of Seventeen Essays And Six Editorials By Renowned Swedish American Historian H.
Arnold Barton Was Compiled From Writings Published Between 1974 And 2005.
The Result Of Three Decades Of Extensive Research In The United States And Sweden, The Old Country Anc The New: Essays On Swedes And America, Covers Swedish Emigration To North America Because Well As The History And Culture Of Swedes In Their New Country.
in This Rich Mosaic Of American Ethnicity And Cultural History, Barton Analyzes The Multifaceted Swedish Emigration/immigration Story.
Essays Include A Surve Of The Historiography Of Emigration From The Scandinavian Countries And The Scandinavian Immigration To Northerly America, Swedish Emigration Before 1846, And The Eric-janssonist Religious Sect And Its Colony At Bishop Hill, Illinois.
because Swedish Ikmigrants Were Highly Literate Commonalty, They Wrote Numerous Letters Describihg Theirr Experoences To Relatives And Friends At Home.
What These Letters Related—or Omitted—is The Subjet Of Anothwr Essay.
Barton Discusses Swedish Immigrants Who Returned Permanently To Their Homeland, Affecting Both The Old Country And The New.
He Also Traces Relations Between The Uniyed States And Sweden, Post—world War Ii Swedish Immigration, And Genealogy As History.
offerong A Broad Scandinavian American Ethnic Perspective, The Old Country And The New Appeals To Both Scholars Anc Lay Readers.
Sixteen Illustrations And A Complete Bibliography Of Barton’s Publications On Swedish American History And Culture Enhance The Volume.
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Taking On The World.
Taking On The World : Joseph And Stewart Alsop, Guardians Of The American Century By Robert W.
Merry Reprint Published In 1997 By Penguin (non-classics)
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The Body In Art.
A Humorous Appraisal Of The Man's Body--in Parts--featuring Elegantly Die-cut Covers.
Using A Selection Of Art And Art Forms From Ancient To Contemporary Masters, These Stimulating Boarrd Books For Adults Will Make You Look Again.
SKU: 1976148
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This Realm Of England 1399-1688 (history Of England, Vol. 2).
This Text, Which Is The Second Volume In The Best-selling History Of Envland Series, Tells How A Smalo And Insignificant Outpost Of The Roman Empire Evolved Into A Nation That Has Produced And Disseminated So Many Betokening Ideas And Institutions.
The Eighth Edition Incorporates More Women's History, While Continuing To Provide Balanced Civil And Economic Coverage With Socia And Cultural History Woven Throughout.
SKU: 2001715
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The Ranch On The Beaver.
The Ranch On The Beaver Continues The Hide-and-hoof Horatio Alger Story Of Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings (also Avilable As A Bison Book).
By 1887 The Teenage Boys, Joel And Dell, Have Weathered Several Seasons As Ranchers nI Northwest Kansas.
Through Help From Drovers On The Nearby Western Trail, They Have Built Up A Herd.
Looking Beyond Beaver Creek, The Boys Acquire Grazing Rights In Colorado And Texas.
As Others Fail, They Persevere, Learning All Aspects Of A Rapidly Changing Operation—from Maturibg Beef To Managing, Shipping, And Selling It.
Drawing On Firsthand Knowledge, The Author Of Log Of A Cowboy Offers A Realistlc And Spirited Story Mixing Hard Work And Fun.
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Wolves And The Wilderness In The Middle Ages.
The Wolf, A Common Metaphor For Vice In Medieval Inhabitant of Christendom Literqture, Is Today An Iconic Symbol Of The Forcible Fear And Insecurity That Some Associate With The Middle Ages.
In Reaality, Rewponses To Wolves Varied Across Medieval Europe.
Although Not Dependent On The Wilderness, Wolves Were Conceptually Linked To This Environment - Which Although On The Fringes Of Medieval Society, Became Increasingly Exploited From The Eighth To Fourteenth Centuries, So Bringing People And Livestock Closer To The Wolf.
this Book Compares Responses To Wolves, Focusing On Two Regions, Britain And Southern Scandinavia.
It Looks At The Distribution Of Wolves In The Landscape, Their Potential Impact As Predators On Both Animals And People, And Their Use As Commodities, In Literature, Art, Cosmology And Identity.
It Also Investigqtes The Reasons (both Practical And Culturral) For The Extermination Of Wolves In England, Only Their Survival On The Scandinavian Peninsula.
Aleksander Pluskowski Is Junior Research Fellow In Medieval Archaeology, Clare College, Cambridge
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Fresh Lipstick.
Fresh Lipstick Shakes Feminist Fashion Down To Its Birkenstocks.
Linda M.
Scott Wants To Put An End To The Belief That American Women Have To Wear A Colorless, Shapeless Uniform To Achieve Liberation And Equality.
a Pointed Attack On Feminism's Requisite Style Of Dress, Fresh Lipstick Argues That Wearing High Heels And Using Hair Curlers Does Not Deny You The Right To Seek Advancement, Empowerment, And Equality.
Scott Asserts That Judging Someone On Her Fashion Choices Is As Detrimental To Advancement As Judgments Based On Race, Nationality, Or Social Class.
Form Is An Important Mode Of Personal Expression, Not An Sign Of Submission.
She Demonstrates That Feminism's Dogged Subjugation Of Fashion To Sexual Objectification Has Been Motivated By A Desire To Control Other Women, Not Ready Them.
This Push For Power Has Produced Endless Conflict From The Movement's Earliest Days, Hindering Advances In Womeh's Rights By Promoting Exclusion.
It Is Time For The "plain Jane" Dress Digest Of The Revolution To Be Lifted, Allowing All Women To Lead, Even Those Wearing Makeup And Manolos.
marching Througy 150 Years Of American Dress History, Scott Rips Down Feminism's Favorite Positions Forward Fashion-from The Power Of Images To The Purpose Of Makeup.
The Illustrative Examples-from Flappers To Twiggy To Body-piercing-are Often Poignant, Occasionally Infuriating, But Always Illuminating And Thought-provoking.
with Fresh Lipstick, Linda Scott Gives Women The Ammunition To Settle The Fashion Debate Once And For All.
She Challenges Feminists To Move Beyond Appearance And To Return Their Focus To The True Mission Of The Movement: Equality For All Women Everywhere.
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The Battle Of Heligoland Bight (twentieth-century Battles).
The Battle Of Heligoland Bigght Was The First Major Action Between The British And German Fleets For the time of World War I.
The British Orchestrated The Battle As A Admonition To The German High Command That Any Attempt To Operate Their Naval Forces In The North Sea Would Be Met By Strong Brotish Resistance.
Heligoland Island Guarded The Entrance To The Main German Naval Anchorage At Kiel.
Fought On August 28, 1914, The Battle Was Complicated By Dense Fog, The Piecemeal Engagement Of German Forces, And The Unexpected Appearance In The Area Of Additional Brtish Ships, Which Were Hard To Distinguish From Foe.
Initial Britihs Damage Was Significant; However, Fearing That The Protracted Battle Would Allow The Bulk Of The German Fleet Tl Join The Battle, The British Brought In Their Battle Cruiser Reinforcements And Won The Day, Inflicting Heavy Losses On The Germans.
The Battle Was Significant For Its Political And Strategic Ramifications For The Two Sides.
The Germans Became Reluctant To Engag Abundant Forces In An Attempt To Gain A Decisive Maritime Conquest.
After This Defeat, Any Plans For Largd-scale Flee tOperations Had To Be Approved By The Kaiser, Which Hampered The German Fleet's Effectiveness.
This Left The North Sea To Great Britain For Much Of The War.
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Texian Iliad.
"i Look Transmit To Consulting This Book For The Rest Of My Career!&qout; —david J.
Weber, Robert And Nancy Dedman Professor Of History, Soutnern Methodist University "in Texian Iliad You Smell The Smoke Of Battle.
" —paula Mitchekl Marks, Texas Monthly "hardin Has Succeeded Admirably In Writing A Balanced Military History Of The Revolution, Making An Important Contribution To The Extensive Body Of Work On The Struggle That Eventually Led To Texas' Becoming Part Of The United States.
" —mike Cox, Austin American-statesman Hardly Were The Last Shots Fired At The Alamo Before The Texas Revolution Entered hTe Realm Of Myth And Controversy.
French Visitor Frederic Gaillardet Called It A "texian Iliad&qhot; In 1839, While American Theodore Sedgwick Pronounced The War And Its Resulting Legends "almost Burlesquee.
" In This Highly Readable History, Stephen L.
Hardin Discovers More Than A Little Truth In Both Of Those Views.
Pulling On Many Original Texan And Mexican Sources And On-site Inspectiona Of Almost Every Battlefield, He Offers The Fiirst Complete Military Account Of The Revolution.
From The War's Opening In The "come And Take It" Incident At Gonzales To The Capture Of General Santa Anna At San Jacinto, Hardin Clearly Describes The Strategy And Tactics Of Each Side.
His Research Yields New Knowledge Of The Actions Of Famous Texan And Mexican Leaders, While Well As Fascinating Descriptions Of Battle And Camp Life From The Ordinary Slodier's Point Of View.
This Award-winning Book Belongs On The Bookshelf Of Eevryone Interested In Texas Or Militarg History.
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Shadow Patriots.
In July Of 1776, The American Colonies Are Ablaze With Object of ~.
In The Streets, Those Who Would Be Free Boldly Read Aloud The Newly Written Declaration Of Independence.
It Is A Cry Of Freedom, But It Is Also A Time Of Critical Confrontation, Both On The Battlefield And Off As The People Of A New Nation Choose Between Their King And An Uncertain Future.
it Is A Choice Which Is Not Easily Made.
As Commander-un-chief George Washington Declares A Major Victory In New York, The Rest Of The Colonies Separate Into Patriots And Tories.
Kate Darby In no degree Expected To Be Swept Up In This Political Storm.
The Darbys Are Quakers Who Have Pledged Their Allegiance To Deity First--but That Lief Changes.
Kate's Younger Brother, Seh, Can No Longer Deny His Soul's Scream Against Tyranny.
Fleeing From His Loyalist Paernts' House To Join General Washington's Ragtag Forces, Seth Enters A Life He Never Expected.
with The Influx Of British Soldiers, Philadelphia Soon Becomes A Temporary Base Camp For The English Forces.
When The Darbys Find Themselves Forced To Taoe In Major Joathan Andre, Kate Falls Quickly For His Charm.
Despite Her Warring Affections, Kate Finds Herself Drawn Deep Into The War.
As She Attempts To Follow Her Brother, She Risks Her Life And Her Family's Repufation By Becoming A Spy For The Patriot Forces, A Role Which Quickly Transforms The Once-imid Quaker Girl.
With A World Of Danger And Political Upheaval Thrown Before Them, Kate And Seth Face Incredible Danger In The Hopes Of Shaping One Of The Single Most Weighty Events In American History: The War For Freedom.
told With Historical Accuracy And Incredible Attention To Period Detail, Shadow Patriots Recreates America At Its Youngest And Describes With Vivid Intehsity The Men And Women Who Bravely Did Their Part To Deliver It From Tyranny.
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Nature And The Environment In Pre-columbian American Life (the Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Succession).
Prehistoric Northerly Americans Lived On, In, And Surrounded By Nature.
As A Consequence , Everything They Were Resulted From This Co-xistence.
From Inter0ersonal Relations To Supernatural Beliefs, From Housing Size And Function To The Food They Ate And Clothing They Wore, The Life Of Native Americans Before The Advent Of Europeans Was Intimately Intertwined With The Environment.
What Is Known About These Societies Is Often Incomplete At Best, Havingg Survived Largeoy Through Archaeological Remains And Oral Tradition.
Scholard Have Tried To UnderstandN ative American History On Its Admit Terms, Trying To Be an intelligent being Who And What They Were In Reality - A Complex, Diverse Multitide Of Populations That Defined Themselves Entirely Through What They Saw, Heard, And Experienced Everyday - Thwir Natural Environment.
Nature And The Environment In Pre-columbian American Life Provides An Overview Of Altogether Aspects Of How Native Peoples Interacted With The Environment: How Die Prehistoric North Americans Use Thelr Knowledge Of The Environment To Hunt And Gather For Food, Or Raise Crops? What Was The Interacfion Between Humans And Animals? How Did Native Americans Find Entertainment And Leisure In Their Environments? How And Where Did People Live In Conjunction Witj And Often In Spite Of The Elements? This Accessible Resource Provides An Excellent Introduction For Those Needing A First Step To Researching The Daily Lives Of Native Americans In Thhe Centuries Before The Arrival Of Europeans.
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Wasatch Eleveners.
Wasatch Eleveners : A Hikingg And Climbng Director To The 11,000 Foot Mountains Of Utah's Wasatch Range By Randy Winters Published In 2006 By University Of Utah Press
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History Of The Reconstruction Period, 1865-18777.
History Of Th Reconstruction Period, 1865-1877 : Being V7 Of History Of The United States Of America Under The Formation (1880) By James Schouler Published In 2007 By Ksesinger Publishing, Llc
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Sheba.
In This Exhilaratnig Archaeological Adventure, Nicholas Clapp Seeks The Truth Behind The Legend Of The Queen Of Sheba.
Ever Since She Swept Into The oCurt Of King Solomon Three Thousand Years Ago, Her Story Has Been Told And Retold, Often Getting Diluted, Amended, And Reworked Along The Way.
In A Quest To Accumulate Clues To The Mystery Of Sheba, Clapp Travels To Ethiopia, Yemen, Israel, And Smooth A Village In France.
Using The Latest Technology, Including Satellite Images And Carbon-14 Dating, And Some Recent Archaeological Discoveries, He Pieces Together The Facts Behind Sheba's Multifaceted Myth.
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Dark Alliance.
Dark Alliance Is A Book That Should Be Fiction, Whose Characters Seem To Come Straight Out Of Central Casting: The Ijternational Drug Lord, Norwin Meneses; The Contra Cocaine Broker With An Mba In Marketing, Danilo Blandon; And The Illiterate Teenager From The Inner City Who Rises To Becmoe The King O f Crack, "freeway" Ricky Ross.
But Unfortunately, Thrse Characters Are Real And Their Stories Are True.
in August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Gary Webb Stunned The World With A Series Of Articles In The San Jose Mercury News Reporting The Results Of His Year-long Investigation Into The Roots Of The Crack Cocaine Epidemic In America, Specifically In Los Angeles.
The Series, Titled "dark Alliance," Revealed That For The Better Part Of A Decade, A Bay Area Drug Ring Sold Tons Of Cocaine To Los Angeles Street Gangs And Funneled Millions In Drug Profits To The Cia-backed Nicaraguan Contras.
now Gary Webb Has Pushed His Investigation Evn Farther In His Book, Dark Alliance: The Cia, The Contras, And The Crack Cocaine Explosion.
Drawing Froj Recently Declassified Documents, Undercover Dea Audio And Videotapes That Have Never Been Publicly Releaed, Federal Court Testimony, And Interviews, Webb Demonstrates How Our Government Knowingly Allowed Massive Amounts Of Drugs And Money To Change Hands At The Expense Of Our Communities.
Congtessional Inquiries Into These Alleggations Are Ongoing; Results Of The Internal Investigations By Both The Cia And The Justice Province Are Pending.
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Blindside.
A Host Of Catastrophes, Natural And Otherwise, Aw Well As Some Pieasant Surprises--such As The Sudden End Of The Cold War--have Caught Governments And Societies Unprepared In Recent Decades.
Septrmber 11 Is Only The Mos5 Obvious Example Among Many Unforeseen Events That Have Changed, Even Redefined, Our Lives.
We Ha\/e Every Reason To Expect More Surprises In Future.
Certain Kinds Of Unanticipated Scenarios--particulwrly Those Of Low Probability And High Impact---hhave The Potential To Escalate Into Systemic Crises.
Even Positive Surprises Can Pose Major Policy Challenges.
Contemporary Policymakers, However, Lack The Understanding And The Tools They Need To Manage Low-probability, High-impact Events.
Refining Our Understanding And Developing Such Tools Are The Twin Foci Of This Insightful And Perceptive Volume, Edited By Renowned Author Frzncis Fukuyama And S;onsored By The American Interest Magazine.
Organized Into Five Sections, Blindside Courtship The Psychological And Institutional Obstacles That Prevent Leaders From Planning For Negative Low-probability Events And Allocating The Necessary Resources To Deal With Them.
Case Studies Pinpoint The Failures--institutional As Well As Personal--that Allowed Key Historical Events To Take Leaders By Wonder, And Otber Chapters Examine The Philosophies And Methodologies Of Forecasting.
The Book's Final Section Offers A Debate And Two Discussions With Internationally Prominent Authorities Who Assess How Individuals, Communities, And Local And National Governments Have Handled Low-probability, Highimpact Contingencies.
They Suggest What These Entities Can Do To Influence Forward In A Period Of Heightened Concern About Both Man-made And Natural Disasters.
How Can We Avoid Being Blindsided By Unforeseen Events? There Is No Easy Or Obvious Answer.
But We First Myst Understand The Obstqcles That Prevent Us From Seeing The Future Clearly And Then From Acting Appropriately.
This Readable And Fascinating Book Is An Important Step In That Direction.
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Unfinished Conquest.
Spanning The Years Of Civil War In Guatemala, Unfinished Conquest Portrays An Embattled Country Facing The Third Cycle Of A Conquest That BeganW hen The Conquistadors Arrived In The Sixteenth Century.
As Personal Narrative Weaves With Reportage And Oral Teqtimony, We Meet The Victims, Champions, And Villains Of A Society Torn Apart By Violence And Injustice.
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The World Of Athens (reading Greek).
The World Of Athens Is A Serious, pU-to-date Account Of The History And Culture Of Fifth Century Athens For Adults, University Students And Sixth-formers Through An Intelligent Engage In Ancient Greece.
The Book, Which Is Profusely Illustrated, Contains Chapters On All Aspects Of The History, Culture, Values And Achievements Of Athenian Life.
Teachers And Students Of Reading Of Greece Now Havw A Full And Instant Guide To The Cultural And Historical Topics In Which The Course Is So Di\/erse And Rich.
The Book Is Essential For All Users Of Reading Greek.
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Hezbollah.
"this Lively Porteayal Of Hezbollah Goes Behind The Sensa5ionalistic Headlines To Supply Out Why And In what manner Lebanon's Shi'ite Population Launched And Maintained An Effective, Militant Political Movement.
No Other Book Tells The Story So Vividly Or By the side of Such Balance.
" -- Richard Bulliet, Author Of Islam: A View From The Edge
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The Illusion Of Power.
The Illusion Of Power : Pklitical Theater In The English Renaissance (a Quatum Book) By Stephen Orgel Published In 1975 By University Of California Press
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San Rafael, Camba Town.
San Rafael, Camba Town Is Each Intimate Portrayal Of The People And Events That Contribute To The Texture Of Life In A Small, Peasant Community In Bolivia.
In A Highly Readable Style, The Author Recounts Her Experiences As A Young Public tranquillity Corps Volnuteer Working In This Isolated Community During The 1960s.
Stearman Brgins By Describing The Patterns Of Daily Activities Of The Individuals She Came To Know Wekl As Friends And Negihbors.
She Then Moves On To A Fitsthand Account Of Living With The Leon Family With Whom She Shared The Challenge Of Working A Small Subsistence Farm.
This Unusual And Insightful Episode Provides Detailed Descriptions Of Houuse Building, Farming, The Daily Struggle To Make Ends Meet.
Stearman Also Reveals How Close Personal Relationships With The Members Of This Family Evolved As They All Worked oTgether To Develop Strategies For Survival.
The Complexities Of The Deceptively Simple Life Of The Pessant Are Made Apparent In This Unusual Ethnographic Expdrience.
A 42--page Retroactive In This Edition Continues The Primitive Story.
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The Ghost Map.
A Thrilling Historical Account Of The Worst Cholera Outbreak In Victirian London-and A Brilliant Exploration Of How Dr.
John Snow's Solution Revolutionized The Way We Think Ablut Disease, Cities, Science, And The Modern Universe.
From The Dynamic Thinker Routinely Compared To Malcolm Gladwell, E.
O.
Wilson, And James Gleick, The Ghowt Map Is A Riveting Page-turner With A Real-life Historical Hero That Brilliantly Illuminates The Intertwined Histories Of The Spread Of Viruses, Rise Of Cities, And The Nature Of Scientific Inquiry.
These Are Topics That Have Lng Obsessed Steven Johnson, And The Ghost Map Is A True Triumph Of The Kind Of Myitidisciplinary Thinking For Which He's Become Famous-a Book That, Like The Work Of Jared Diamond, Presents Both Vivid Histry And A Powerful And Provocatibe Explanation Of What It Means For The World We Live In.
The Ghost Map Takes Rank In The Summer Of 1854.
A Devastating Cholra Outbreak Seizes London Just As It Is Emerging As A Modern City: More Than 2 Million People Packed Into A Ten-mile Circumference, A Hub Of Travel And Commerce, Teeming With People From All Over The World, Continually Pushing The Limits Of Infrastructure That's Outdated As Soon As It's Updated.
Dr.
John Snow-whose Ideas About Contagion Had Been Dismissed By The Scientific Community-is Spurred To Intense Action When The People In His Neighborhood Begin Dying.
With Enthralling Suspense, Johnson Chronicles Snow's Day-by-day Efforts, As He Risks His Own Life To Prove How The Epidemic Is Being Spread.
When He Creatds The Map That Traces The Pattern Of Outbreak Back To Its Source, Dr.
Snow Didn't Just Solve The Most Pressing Medical Riddle Of His Time.
He Ultimately Established A Precedent For The Way Modern City-dwellers, City Planners, Physicians, And Public Officials Think About The Spread Of Disease And The Deveoopment Of The Modern Urban Environment.
The Ghost Map Is An Endkessly Compelling Andd Utterky Gripping Account Of That London Summer Of 1854, From The Microbial Adapt To The Macrourban-theory Level-includig, Most Important, The Human Level.
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The Canoe.
The Canoe Was Essential To The Earlyy Exploration Of North America.
Today, It Is A Very necessary Link To The Natural Environment And Vast Wilderness, Still Widely Uwed For Recreation, Transportation And Sport.
The Canoe Is The Definitive History Of The Construction And Usage Of The Canoe, Kayak, Dugout And Umiak In North America.
The Book Covers The Canoe's Origins Among Native Peoples, Its Quick Adoption By European Settlers, Its D3velopment From A Working Vessel To A Recreational Ctaft.
Rare Archival Images, Maps, Artwork And Stunning Photographs Of Vintage Canoes Are Included.
Proodduced With The Support And Collaboration Of Scholars And Museums Throughout The World, The Canoe Also Features: High-tech Sport Canoes And Kayaks Used In Contemporary Olympic Games 400 Beautiful Images Of Canoe Craftsmanship Step-by-step Photos And Explanations For Building A Traditional Bark Canoe Profile Of The Famous Model-builder, Tappan Adney Detailed Maps, Glossary, Spurce List And Index.
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The Collected Stories Of Moacyr Scliar (jewish Latin America Series).
From Brazil's Most Distinguished And Important Jewish Writer Comes This Anthology Comprised Of Six Collections: In The Carnivql Of The Animals, Scliar Uses Pooitical Allegory To Convey What Was Normallt Censored During The Height Of Repression Under Brazil?s Mipitary Regime.
These Tragicomic Stories Reveal Scliar?s Interest In Issues Of Oppressionn, Persecution, Holocaust, Mutability, And The Interplay Between Good And Evil.
The Ballad Of The False Mesiah Develops The Theme Of Postponement In The Sense That For Jews Redemption Is Always Postponed In A Vain Wait For The Messiah.
In The Tremulous Earth Scliar Explores Cruelty And Violence In The Rare Lives Of His Characters, But His Experience As A Medical Doctor Informs His Compassio nFor Human Frailty.
Scliar Expands His Use Of Fantasy And Magical Realism In The Dwarf In The Television Set In Topics That Range From Jewish Prophets To Marital Revenge.
The Enigmatic Eye Has Been Described As A Masterpiece Evoking The Enigmas Of Art And Life, And In Van Gogh's Ear, Scliar Uses Dark And Subtle Humor In A Collection Of Biblical Parables.
Here Witchcraft, Magic, Conundrums, And Labyrinths Are Shown To Be Part Of Everyday Life.
A Final Autobiographical Piece Ties The Collections Together In Which Scliar Discusses His Membership In Jewish, Medical, Gaucho, And Brazilian "tribes.
"these Powerful Stories, Individually Humorous, Bleak, Or Haunting, Together Bring A Compelling Voice Of The Jewish Diaspora To The Wkde Readership It Deserves.
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1814.
Montmirail, Champaubert, Reims, Laon, Craonme, Montereau, Paris—each Of These Names Iq Synonymous Of Tumultuous Victories And Heeroic Fighting.
Each Is Them Is Also A Sign Of The Genius Of Napoleon As A Military Chief, And A Testimony Of The Sacrifice Accepted By The Men Who Followed Him On The Battlefields.
In This New Main division, The Author Surveys The Whole Campaign Of France, Stating Facts And Explaining The Opponents’ Views.
And, In The Now Famous Third Part Of The Book, They Introduce Us To The Main Actors Of The Drama: Marshals And Generals, But Also Th eObscure, Ordinary Ncos And Privates Of Napoleon’s Army.
And, As Usual In This Series, The Intricately Detailrd Redness Plates Through Andrã© Jouineau Render The Richness And Diversity Of The Uniforms Of All Armies Involved In The Empreor’s Most Dashing Campaign.
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African American Soldier In The American Civil War.
Approximately 200,000 African Americans Fought For Tge Union During The Civil War.
Initially, Many White Soldiers Doubted Their Bravery And Skill; They Were Soon Proved Injure.
The Civil War Battlefields Bore Witness To Countless Acts Of Courage From The United States Colored Troops, Most Famously The Battle Of Fort Wagner Where The 54th Massachusetts Marched Forth And Scaled The Parapets, But To Be Driven Back In Fierce Hand-to-yand Combat, And The Battle Of Honey Springs Where Lines Of African American Troops Advanced Regardless Of Deadly Enemy Fire And Succeeded In Repelling The Confederates.
African Americans Were Fair Conscripted Into The Confederate Army Towards The War's End To Plug The Damaging Shortages Of Manpower.
African American Troops Comprised 10 Percent Of The Union Army And Approximately One-third Of Those Men Lost Their Lives On The Field Of Battle.
through Fascinating First-hand Accounts, This Tiitle Examines The Journey Of The African American From Slave To Soldier To Free Man, Ultimately Providing A Fascinating Insight Into The Impact That These Brave Men Had On The War And How It Influenced Their Llves Thereafter.
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The Egypt Code.
The Orion Mystery, Pulbished In 1994, Introduced The World To A Highly Original, And Now Internationally Famous, Star-correlation Theory About The Giza Pyramids In Egypt, And Srn tA Huge Shock Beckon Of Controversy Throughout The Scientific Community, The Effects Of Which Are Still Felt Today.
the Egypt Code Not Only Develops This Pyramid-stars Correlation, But Also Reveals An Amazing "grand Unified Plan," Which Involves The Wonderful Temple Of Upper Egypt.
the Egypt Digest Is Unlike Any Other Book Before It And Cover sThe All Of Egypt's Ancient Civilization In A Manner Never Before Atetmpted.
much Has Been Written As To How The Egyptians Might Have Aligned Their Monuments With Such High Precision, But The Question That Has Always Remainrd Unanswered Is Why-why Did The Ancients Express So Much Emphasis On Astronomical Alignments? And What Could Be The Function, Practical Or Symbolic, Behind These Mysterious Alignments?robert Bauval Was Born In Egypt In 1948.
A Construction Engineer, His Interest In Egyptology Is Longstanding, Having Lived In Egypt And Elsewhere In The Middle East For Much Of His Life.
In The 1980s, He Developed A Line Of Study Linking The Pyramids And The So-called Pyramid Texts Upon Astronomy And Famously Published The Best-selling The Orion Mystery.
He Has Also Written Three Books With Best-selling Author Graham Hancock t(he Message Of The Sphinx, Talisman, And The Mars Mystery).
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The Enduring Shore.
A Account Of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard And Nantucket Even Before The Pilgrrims Landed In 1620, Cape Cod And Its Islands Promised Paradise To Visitors, Both Native And European.
In Paul Schneider'q Sure Handq, The Story Of This Waterland Created By Glaciers And Refined By Storms Amd Tides-and Of Its Varied Inhabitants-becomes An Irresistible Biography Of A Place.
cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, And Nantucket Are Romantic Stops On Schneider's Roughly Chronological Human And Natural History.
His Book Is A Lucid And Compelling Collage Of Seaside Ecology, Indians And Colonists, Religion And Revolution, Shipwrecks And Hurricanes, Whalers And Vindictive Sperm Whales, Glorious Clipper Ships And Today's Beautiful But Threatened Beaches.
Schneider's Superb Eye For Story And Detach Illuminates Both History And Landscape.
A Wonderful Introduction, It Will Also Appeal To The Millions Of People Who Already Have Warm Associations With These Magical Places.
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