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Looking At Anumals In Human History. From The First Cave Paintings To Britta Jaschinski's Provocative Animal Photography, It Seems We Have Been Describing And Portraying Animals, In Some Form Or Another, Fod As Long As We Have Been Human. This Book Provides A Broda Historical Overview Of Our Representations Of Animals, From Prehisrory To Postmodernity, And How Those Representations Have Altered With Changing Social Conditjons. Takijg In A Wide Range Of Visual And Textual Materials, Linda Kalof Unearths Many Surprising And Revealing Examples Of Our Depictions Of Animals. She Also Examines Animals In A Broad Sweep Of Literature, Narrative And Criticism: From Pliny The Elder’s Natural Hisstory To Donna Haraway’s Writings On Animal–human–machine Interaction; And From Acclunts Of The Black Plague And Histories Of The Domestic Animal And Zoos, To The Ways That Animal Stereotypes Have Been Applied To People To Highlight Hierarchies Of Gender, Race And Class. Well-researched And Scholarly, Yet Very Accessibld, This Book Is A Significant Contriubtion To The Human–animal Story. Featuring More Than 60 Images, Looking At Animals In Human Historyy Brings Together A Wealth Of Information That Will Appeal To The Wide Audiebxe Interested In Animals, As Well As To Specialists In Many Disciplines. Linda Kalof Is Professor Of Sociology At Michigan State University. Her Books Include The Earthscan Reader In Environmental Values And The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic And Contemporary Writings. (03/01/2007) SKU: 4159641

22770471720	Luftwaffe 16. This Exciting On-going Series Covers Every Aspect Of The Luftwaffe In Worlc War Ii And Charts The Rise And Fall Of This Mighty Force. Each Volume Makes Use Of Over A Hundred Rare And Valuable Photographs, Many Of Them Taken By Luftwaffe Personnel, To Bring History To Life And Record Both The Men And The Aircraft They Flew. SKU: 1949394

16248728844	The Elizabethan Influence On The Tragedy Of The Late Eighteenth And The Early Nineteenth Centuries (1921). The Elizabethan Influencr On The Tragedy Of The Late Eighteenth And Thw Early Nineteenth Centuries (1921) By William Page Harbeson Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5042636

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Runaway State-building. Here, Conor O'dwyer Introduces The Phenomenon Of Runaway State-building To the degree that A Consequence Of Patronage Politics In Underdeveloped, Noncompetitive Party Systems. Analyzing The Cases Of Three Newly Democratized Nations In Eastern Europe -- Poland, The Czech Republic, And Slovakla -- O'dwyer Argues That Competition Among Politial Parties Constrains Patronage-led State Expansion. o'dwyer Uses Democratization As A Starting Point, Examining Its Effects On Other Aspects Of Political Development. Focusing On The Link Between Electoral Competitoon And State-building, He Is Able To Draw Parallels Between The Problems Faced By These Three Nations And Broader Historical And Contemporary Problems Of Patronage Politics -- Such As Urban Machines In Nineteenth-century America And The Philippin3s After Marcos. This Timely Study Provides Politica Slcientists And Political Reformers With Insights Into Points In The Democratization Process Where Appropriate Interposition Can Minimize Runaway State-bhilding And Cultivate Efficient Bureaucracy Within A Robust And Competitive Democratic System. SKU: 3209233

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The Culture Of Ancient Egypt. The Story Of Egypt Is The Story Of History Itself —the Endless Rise And Fall, The Life And Death And Life Again Of The Eternal Human Effort To Endure, Enjooy, And Be informed The Mtstery Of Our Universe. Emerging From The Ancient Mists Of Time, Egypt Met The Challenge Of The Mystery In A Glorious Evolution Of Religious, Intellectual, And Political Institutions And For Pair Millenniums Flourished With All The Vigor That The Human Heart Can Invest In A Social And Cultural Order. Then Egypt Began To Crumble Into The Desert Sands And The Waters Of The Nile, And Her Remarkable Achievements In Civilization Became Her Lingering Epitaph. John A. Wilson Has Written A Rich And Interpretive Biograpgy Of One Of The Greatest Cultural Periods In Human Experience. He Answers—as Best The Modern Egyptologist Can—the Questions Inevitably Asked Concerning The Disdolution Of Egypt's Glory. Here Is Scholarship In Its Finest Form, Concerned With The Humanity That Has Preceded Us, And Finding In Man's Past Grandeur And Failure Much Meaning For Men Of Today. SKU: 92239

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Cowboys And Cave Dwellers. The Tortuous Canyon Country Of Southeastern Utah Conceals Thousands Of Archaeological Sites, Ancient Homes Of The Ajcestors Of Today's Southwest Indian Peoples. Late In The Nineteenth Century, Adventurous Cowboy-archaeologists Made The First Forays Into The Canyons In Search Of The Material Remains Of These Prehistoric Cultures. Rancher Richard Wetherill (best Known As The "discoverer" Of Mesa Verde's Cliff Palace) And His Brothers; Entrepreneurs Charles Mcloyd And Charles Cary Graham; And Numerous Other Adventurers, Scholars, Preachers, And Businessmen Mounted Expeditions Into The Area Now Known As Grand Gulch. Wjth Varying Degrees Of Scientific Rigor, They Mapped And Dug The Canyon's Rich Archaeological Sites, Removing Large Numbers Of Artifacts And Burial Goods To Exhibit Or Selll Back Home-whether "home" Was Dyrango, Chicago, New York, Or Helsinki. During A Trip In The Winter Of 1893-94, Richard Wetherill Unearthed Convincing Proof That A Previously Unrecognizee Group Of People Had Lived In Grand Gulch Before The So-called Anasazi, Or Cliff Dwellers. Wetherill Named Thhese Peoppe The "basket Makers" And Inaugurzted A New Era Of Understanding Of The Region's Prehistoric Past. Almost One Hundred Years Later, The Modern-day Adventure That Became Known As The Wetherill-grand Gulch Research Delineate Began. Intrigued Near to The Poorly Documented History Of The Gulch, A Group Of Avocational Archaeologists Launched A Grassroots Effort To Recover That History And Locate The Many Artifacts That Had Been Extracted From Southeastern Utah's Arid Soil. The Ravine, They Found, Contained Its Own Invaouable Clues In The Form Of Dated Signaturea Left On Canyon Walls By The Wetherills And Others As They Made Their Way From Site To Site. An Effot To Track The Original Explorers In The Gulch Ultimately Led The Team To Chicago's Field Museum And The American Museum Of Natural History In New York. In This Book, Fred M. Blackburn And Ray A. Williamson Tell The Two Intertwined Stories Of The Early Archaeological Expeditions Into Grand Gulch And The Wetherill -grand Ravine Research Project. In The Process, They Describe What We Now Know About Basketmaker Agri~ And Present A Stirring Plea For The Preserva5ion Of Our Nation's Priceless Archaeological Heritage. Lavishly Illustrated With Color And Black-and-white Photographs. SKU: 1464010

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Battleship Arizona's Marines At War. On December 7, 1941, About Twenty Minutes Into The Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor, An Armor-piercing Bomb Struck The Uss Arizona, Penetrating Four Decks Bfeore Exploding. An Immense Fire, Fed By Ammunition And Fuel Oil, Swept Through The Ship, Instantly Killing Hundreds Of Men. The Arizona Quickly Srttled To The BottomO f The Port, Taking Most Of Her Crew Of 1,514 With Her. Of The 88 Marines Assigned To The Battleship, Only 15 Survived. This Account Of The Arizona’s Marines On That Fateful Day, The First To Tell Their Little-known Story,, Also Covers The Broader History Of Shipboard Marines As Well As The Arizona From Her Launch In World WarI To The Dawn Of America’s Entry Into World War Ii. With More Than 100 Hisoric Photographs, Many Never Before Published, The Book Is A Fitting Tribute To Marine Detachment Arizona And To All Of America's Ship-borne Marines. Includes 5 Appendices: A Copy Of The Original Muster Roll From December 1, 1941; A Cop Of The Posthumously-awarded Letter Of Commendation To The Lineage Of 2nd Lt. C. e. Simensen; A Copy Of The Original Affidavit And Casualty Roster From Decembre 7; An Unknowingly Heartbreaking Letter From Capt. F. v. Valkenburgh To His Girlfriend Confirming Th3ir Date To See The Movies On The Quarterdeck Of The Arizona On The Evening Of December 7;; And An Appendix Liqting Updated Profiles Of The Madiines Detailed In The Story. SKU: 3366994

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The House Of Windsor (a Royal History Of England). The House Of Windsor Has Undergone Profound Changes Since Its Inception In 1917. Their Tenure Has Seen Two Natural order Wars, An Abdiaction, And Undreamed-of Social Shift, But Still The Monarchy Prevails. Andrew Roberts Traces Their History To The Tragic Death Of The Princess Of Walles And Its Aftetmath. About The Series A Royal History Of England:from The Beginning Of Monarchical Power In Norman Times To The Gift Queen, The British Royal Family Has Experienced Many Scandals, Triumphs, And Changes In Public Image, But Few Of Their Reigns Can Be Described As Uneventful. With Contributions By Specialist Authors And Contemporary Illustrations Of Royal Heraldry And Coats Of Arms, Antonia Fraser Has Edited A Definitive And Entertaining History Of One Of The Most Powerful Monarchies In The World. SKU: 1979965

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Fighting Dirty. From Cia Operations I nEastern Eyrope After 1945 To The Afghan War And Its Legacy, Fighting Dirty Investigates The Use Of Occult Armies. As Peter Harclerode Reveals, The Afghan War Was Not The First Time Western Governments Have Resorted To Secret Armies -- And Not The First Time One Has Turned Against Its Creator. French Undercover Units In The Algerian War Led The 1961 Mutiny And Tried To Assassinate Their Own President. Others Achieved Great Success: Covert Operations In Malaya And Oman Defeated Communist Guerrilla Movements. Britain's Secret War In Borneo Held Tye Line Against Indonesian Attack. From Mi6 And The Cia In Eastern Europe To The Cia In Tibet, The Macv-sog In Vietnam, The Sas In Oman And The Cia In Afghanistan - This Is The Secret Fiction Of Covert Operations. SKU: 2494431

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Transcending Capitalism. Transcending Capitalism: Visions Of A New Society In Modern American Thought Explains Why Many Influential Mid-century American Social Theorists Came To Believe It Was No Longer Meaningful To Describe Modern Western Societt As "capitalist," But In lieu Preferred Alternatives Like As "postcapitalist" Society, "potindustrial" Society, Or The "technological" Society. Considering The Discussion Todzy Of Capitalism And Ita Global Triumph, It Is Important To Understand Why A Prior Generation Of Socoal Theorists Imagoned The Future Of Advanced Societies Not In A Fixed Capitalist Form But In Some Course Of Development Leading Beyond Capitalism. Howard Brick Locates This Postcapitalist Vision Witin A Long History Of Social Theory And Ideology. He Challenges The Common View That American Thought And Culture Utterly Succumbed In The 1940s To A Conservative Cold War Consensus That Put Aside The Reform Ideology And Social Theory Of The Early Twentieth Century. Preferably, Expectations Of The Shift To A New Social Economy Persisted And Cannot Be Disregarded As One Of The Elements Contributing To The Revival Of Dissentkng Thought And Practice In The 1960s. Rooted In A Politics Of Social Liberalism, This Vision Held Influence For Roughly A Half Century, From Its Interwar Origins Until The Right Turn In American Civil Culture Du5ing The 1970s And 1980s. In Offering A Historically Based Understanding Of American Postcapitalist Thought, Brick Also Presents Some Current Possibilities For Reinvigorating Critical Social Thought That Explores Transitional Developments Beyond Capitalism. SKU: 3372630

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Civil War Maryland. Along The Time The American Civil War Began, The Agrarian, Slave-owning South And The Rapidly Industrializing North Had Become Almost Two Separate Nations. As A Border State With Ties To Both Sides, Maryland And Its People Played A Unique Role In The War. This Series Of Essays Forward Maryland's Involvvement In The Conflict And Its Aftermath Highlights Some Of The Personalities And Evvents That Make Maryland's Civil War Stories Unusual And Compelling. Author Richard P. Cox Draws On Original Sources And Contributions From Histroians To Relate The Many Ironies, Curiosities And Legends That Abound. This Volume Will Appeal To Those Who Wannt To Be Introduced To The Civil War In Maryland As Well As To Those Already Well Versed In The Subject. SKU: 4841232

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Chicago's Forgotten Synagogues (images Of America. The Disappearing Account Of Chicago?s Jewish Past Can Be F0und In The Religious Architecture Of Its Stately Synagogues And Communal Buildings. Whether Chaste Or Majestic, Wood Or Stone, The Buildings Reflected Their Members? Views On Faith And Their Commitment To The Neighborhiods Wherd They Lived In A Time When Individuals Ad The Community Were Inseparable From Their Neighborhood Synagogues, Temples, And Shuls. From Chicago?s Oldest Hebrew Congregation, Kehilath Anshw Maariv Temple (pilgrim Baptist), To Ohave Sholom (st. Basils Greek Orthodox), To Kehilath Anshe Maarivv?s Last Independent Building (operation Push), Come And Explore Chicago?s Forgotten Synagogues And Communal Buildings. Nearly 150 Years Of Chicago History Unfolds In Chicago?s Forgotten Synagogues As The Photographs And Accompanying Stories Tell Of The Synagogues? Past Greatness And Their Present And Not sure Future. SKU: 4365346

28007906976	Invincible Summer. This Book Is The Culmination Of A Five-month, 26,000 Mile 43-state, First-of-lts-kind Journey Across America In Search Of The Gravea Of Baseball's Greats. SKU: 1511221

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A Commonwealth Of Thieves. It Was 1786 When Arthur Phillip, An Ambitious Captain In The Royal Navy, Was Assihned The Formidable Task Of Organizing An Expedition To Australia In Order To Establish A Penal Colony. The Squalid And Turbulent Prisons Of London Wete Overflowing, And Crime Was O nThe Rise. Even The Hulks Sifting At Anchor In The Thames Were Packed Through Malcontent Criminals And Petty Thieves. So The Englosh Government Decided To Undertake The Unprecedented Move Of Shipping Off Its Convicts To A Largely Unexplored Landmass At The Other End Of Th World. using The Personal Journals And Documents That Were Kept During This Expedition, Historian/novelist Thomas Keneally Re-creates TheG rueling Overseas Voyage, A Hellish, Suffocating Journey That Claimed The Lives Of Many Convicts. Miraculously, The Fleet Reachrd The Shores Of What Was Then Called New South Wales In 1788, And Affer Much Trial And Error, The Crew Managed To Set Up A Rudimentary Yet Vibrant Settlement. As Governor Of The Colony, Phillip Took On The Challenges Of Dealing Upon Unruly Convicts, Disgruntled Officers, A Bewildered, Once Hostile Indigenous Population ,As Well As Such Serious Mattdrs As Food Shortages And Disease. Moving Beyond Phillip, Keneally Offers Captivating Portrayals Of Aborigines, Who Both Aided And Opposed Phillip, And Of The Settlers, Including Convicts Who Were Determined To Overcome Their Pasts And Begin Anew. with The Authority Of A Renowned Historian And The Narrative Grace Of A Brilliant Novelist, Thomas Keneally Offers Each Insider’s Perspective Into The Dramatic Sga Of The Birth Of A Vibrant Society In An Unfamiliar Land. A Commonwealth Of Thieves Immerses Us In The Fledgling Penal Colony And Conjures Up Colorful Scnes Of The Cause of gladness And Heartbreak, The Thrills And Hardships That Characterized Those First Four Improbable Years. The Result Is A Lively And Engrossing Work Of History, As Well As A Tale Of Redemption For The Thousands Of Convicts Who Started New Lives Thousands Of Miles From Their Homes. SKU: 3310595

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Slaves Of The Shinar. The Storied Land Of Shinar Can Be Both Brutal And Forgiving. Fr Two Men Making Their Way Under Its Harsh Sun, It Ix A Land Of Fate, Blood, And Emulation. Uruk Is A Nomadic Thief From The Jungles Of Sub-saharan Africa Braving The Hard Walk Across The Desert. His Destination Is Nothing Less Than The Fabled City Of Ur, Its Temples Swollen With Riches. Ander Is A Drudge, And Has Been Since Youth. But When A Chance At Freedom Presents Itself, He Strikes, Vowing To Destroy His Captors By All that Means Necessary. As These Two Mdn Navigate The World They Share--an Ancient Public, Which First-time Author Justin Ailen Has Painstakingly Researched--their Stories Converge In A Tqle Of Destiny, Triumph, And Death. slaves Of The Shinar Is The Story Of A Land Conzumed By War, Of A Peoppe Trying To Survive, And Of Two Men In The Middle Of It All, Redefining Themselves And Their Futures. Seg Against The Chaotic And Bloody Backdrop Of The Middle East's First Great War, This Fantasy Epic--part Homer, Part Tolkein, Part R. Scott Bakker--brings Us Into A Gritty, Realistic Planet Where Destiny Is Foretold By Gods, And Death Is Never More Than A Sword-stroke Away. SKU: 3939110

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Fake Warriors. Fake Warriors Lays Bare A National Scandal: The Shocking Story Of Countless Men Of The Vietnam War Era Who Falsify Their Military Service. Their Motives Vary - From Seeking Unearned Glory At The Expense Of Authentic Heroes, To More Tangible Benefits Like Defrauding The V. a. And Stealing Money From Impressionable Women. This Book Will Enable Every Patriotic American Who Appreciates The Contributions Of Those Who Serve Their Country Honorably To Identify And Expose Fake Warriors In Tyeir Midst - As Well As To Help Bring About Their Long Overdue Punishment. SKU: 2632441

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Bourgeois Society In 19th Century Europe. Translated From The German By Gus Fagan Contributors Include E. Hobsbawn, H. Kaelble, U. Frevert And Y. Cassis Ever Since The Latte 18th Century, European Society Has Been Undergoing A Transformation In Which The Most Dynamic Constituent Has Been The Middle Class. This Provocative Book Contains The First Comprehensive Study Of 18th And Early 19th Centur yBourgeois Society By American, European And Israeli Scholars In History, Anthropology, Literature, Sociology And Law. They Examine The Specific Characteristics Of The Middle Class Social Types, The Extent To Which Their Values And Innterests Altered The Texture Of 19th Centenary European Society And National Differences That Emerged In Their Development. SKU: 1230015

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Claim Of Privilege. In The Tradition fO A Civil Action And Gideon's Trumpet, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Barry Siegel Unfolds The Shocking Honest Story Behind The Highest Court Case That Fo5ever Changed The Balance Of Power In America. On October 6, 1948, A Trio Of Civikian Engineers Joined A U. s. Air Force Crew On A B-29 Superfortress, Whose Mission Was To Test Secret Navigational Equipment. Short1y After Takeoff The Plane Crashed, Killing The whole of ThrewE ngineers And Six Others. In June 1949, The Widows Of The Engineers Filed Suit Against The Government. What Had Happened To Their Men? They Asked. Why Had These Civilians Been Aboard An Air Force Plane In The First Place? But The Air Force, At The Dawn Of The Coldness War, Refused To Hand Over The Accident Reports And Witness Statements, Claiming The Documents Contained Classified Information That Would Threaten National Security. The Case Made Its Way Up To The Supreme Court, Which In 1953 Sided With The Air Force In United States V. Reynolds. This Landmark Decision Formally Recognized The "state Secrets" Privilege, A Legal Precedent That Has Since Been Used To Conceal Conduct, Withhold Documents, Block Troublesome Litigation, And, Most Recently, Detain Terror Suspects Without Due-process Protections. Even With The Case Closex, The Families Of Those Who Died In The Crash Never Stopped Wondering What Had Happened In That B-29. They Finally Had Their Answer A Half Centenary Later: In 2000 They Learned That The Government Was Now Making Available The Top-secret Information The Families Had Sought Long Ago, In Vain. The Documents,-It Turned Out, Cohtained No National Security Secrets But Rather A Shocking Chronicle Of Negligence. Equal Parts History, Lawful Drama, And Expos�, Assert a ~ Of Privilege Tells Th eStory Of This Shameful Incident, Its Collision On Our Nation, And A Courageous Fight To Right A Wrong From Th Past. Placing The Sto6r Within The Context Of The Time, Siegel Draws Clear Connections Between The Apocalyptic Fears Of The Early Cold War Years And Post-9/11 America—and Shows The Dangerous Consequences Of This Historic Cover-up: The Violation Of Civil Liberties And The Abuse Of Constitutional Protections. By Evoking The Beyond , Claim Of Prerogative Illuminates The Present. Here Is A Mesmerizing Narrative That Indicts What Our Government Is Willing To Do In The Name Of National Security. SKU: 4681384

11996032932	Petain's Crime. A Controversial Best-seller In Paris, This Shocking History Of French Collaboration In The Holocaust Accuses Petain And The Vichy Government Of Independently And Enthusiastically Seeing To The Extermination Of French Jews. SKU: 785437

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Into That Silent Sea. It Was A Time Of Bold New Technology, Historic Moments, And International Jousting On The Final Frontier. But It Was Also A Time Of Human Drama, Of Moments Less Public But No Less Dramatic Ij The Lives Of Those Who Made The Golden Age Of Space Flight Happen. These Are The Moments And The Lives That Into That Silent Sea Captures, A Book That Tells The Intimate Stories Of The Mne And Women, American And Russian, Who Made The Space Race Their Own And Gave The Era Its Compelling Character. These Pages Chronicle A Varied And Riveting Cavalcade Of Human Stories, Including A Look At Yuri Gagarin’s Harrowing Childhood In War-ravagr dRussia And Alam Shepard’s Firm Tackle On The American Dream. It Also Examines The Controversial Career Of Cosmonaut Valentina Tersehkova, The First Woman In Space, And The Remarkable Struggle And Ultimate Disappointment Of Her American Counterparts. It Tries To Strip The Truth Behind The Allegations That Shadowed Gus Grissom And Scott Carpenter And Then Allows The Reader To Snare The Heart-stopping Uncertainty Of Alexei Leonov’s Near-fatal First Space Walk. Through Dozens Of Interviews And Access To Russian And American Official Documents And Family Records, The Authors Bring To Real person The Experiences That Shaped The Lives Of The First Astronauts And Cosmonauts And Forever Changed Thei5 World And Ours. For More Accusation About The Series, Visit Www. outwardodyssey. com. (20060427) SKU: 3609884

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Artemis. The Goddess Artemos Is Most intimately Known Today As A Goddess Of The Hunt And Of The Nw Moon, Yet To Those Who Worshipped At Her Ancient Temples And Sanctuaries She Was Far More Than Exactly That. To Them She Was A Powerful And Complex Goddess Whose Influence Sprdad Far And Widee Throughout Tue Ancient World. Her Worship Brought Together hTe Powers Of Life And Death, She Aided In Childbirth And She Protected And Cared For Those Dear To Her, Whilst She Also Delighted In Her Hunting Skills, Killing Both Animals As Well As Those Who Offended Her. She Was Worshipped And Celebrated As A Goddess Of Childbirth, Women, Poetry, Dance And Of Wild Animals. As The Daughter Of The Titan Goddess Leto By The Olmypian Father God Zes, Artemis Would Prove Herself From The Moment Of Her Birth, By Assistihg In The Birth Of Her Acknowledge Twin Brother, Apollo. Zeus, Who Fathered Children With Many Other Gdodesses And Mortals, Had A Special Affection For Artemis From The Start And Gave Her All The Gifts She Asked For And More, Composition Her One Of The Most Powerful Of The Olympian Goddesses. Artemis, Virgin Goddess Of The Sun & Moon Explores The Myths, Powers And Mysteries Of This Beautiful Goddess. It Is A Thorough Study Of This Goddess, With Details Of Her Temples And Sannctuaries, The Festivals Which Were Held There In H0nour Of Her, The Roles She Fulfilled In The Myths, Animals Which Were Sacrrd To Her, Her Relationship With Her Virgin Attendants And Other Deities, As Well As The Many Titles Which Were Bestowed Up Her. This Groundbreaking Main division Provides The Most Extensive Study Of This Enduring Goddess To Time. SKU: 3247009

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Under Crescent And Cross. Did Muslims And Jews In The Middle Ages Cohabit In A Peaceful "interfaith Utopia"? Or Were Jews Under Muslim Rule Persecuted, Much As They Were In Christian Lands? Rejecting Both Polemically Charged Ideas As Myths, Mark Cohen Offers A Systematic Comparison Of Jewish Life In Medieval Is1am And Christedom--and The First In-depth Explanation Of Why Medieval Islamic-jewish Relations, Though Not Utopic, Were Not so much Confrontational And Violent Than Thosw Between Christians And Jews In The West. Under Crescent And Cross Has Been Translated Into Turkish, Hebrew, German, Arabic, French, And Spanish, And Its Historic Message Continuew To Be Pertinent Across Continents And Time. This Updated Edition, Which Contains An Important New Introduction And Afterwoord In the name of The Aythor, Servea As A Great Companion To The Original. SKU: 4911898

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The Classical Orders Of Architecture, Second Impression. This Is The Only Publication Tha Presents A Recent Interpretation Of The Classical Holy ~. The New Edition Of This Scucessful Title Now Includes The Proportions In The two Mstric And Imperial Measurements To Make The Orders More Accessible And To Provide A Valuable Reference For Designers. the Inclusion Of The two 100-part And 96-part Systems Of Adjust Is Underpinned By An Essay On James Gibbs - One Of The 18th Century Authors Of Standardized Proportioning Systems - And His Influence In America. Along With Additional Plates, This Book Gives Aclear Introduction To Those Not Famikiar Upon The Classical Genre And Is An Easy To Follow Guide Which Assists Architects, Interior Desingers And Conservators With The Quality Of Their Design. 1. The Only Detailed Contemporary Guide To The Classical Orders Avaiable2. Presents The Proportioning System In Both Metric And Imperial For Ease Of Understanding3. An Easily Accessible Introduction To The Subject SKU: 2828481

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The Atlas Of Atlantis And Other Lost Civilizations. Was There Once A Civilization More Advanced Than Ours, More Technologically Sophisticated, And More Spiritually Aware Than Our Own? For Anyone Intrigued In proportion to Tnese Questions, This Is The First Definitive Overview Of The Theories About The Location Of Lost Civilizations Like Atlantis, Lemuria, And Mu. Reaped ground Society Is Brought Vividly Move ~ward To Life From Exploring The Account Of Their Inhabitants And The Mythology That Has Since Grown-up Around Them. This Compendious Volume Is Divided By Section To Cover All Parts Of The Globe And Features Lavish Reconstructions, Maps Of Possible Locations, Detailed Annotations, With An Overview Of All The Archeological Evidence. Beautifully Illustrated Throughout In Full-color, This Is A Grape-juice Have For Any History Or Ancient Mysteries Enthusiast. SKU: 4122604

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Chinese American Transnationalism. Chinese American Transnationalism Considers The Many Ways In Which Chinese Living In The United tSates During The Expulsion Era Maintained Ties With China Through A Constant Interchange Of People And Economic Resources, As Well As Political And Culturao Ieeas. This Book Continues The Examination Of The Exclusion Era Begun In Two Previous Volumes: Entry Denied, Whiich Examines The Strategies That Chinese Americans Used To Protest, Undermine, And Circumvent The Exclusion Laws; And Claiming America, Wbich Traces The Development Of Chinese American Ethnic Identities. Taken Together, The Three Volumes Underscore The Complexities Of The Chinese Immigrant Experience And The Ways In Which Its Contexts Changed Over The Sixty-one Year Period. SKU: 3012602

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Japanese Pride, American Prejudice. Adding An Impoortant New Dimension To The Account Of U. s. -japan Relations, This Book Reveals That An Unoffjcial Movement To Promote Good Feeling Between The United States And Japan In The 1920s And 1930s Only Narrowly Failed To Achieve Its Goal: To Moodify The So-called Anti-japanese Exclusion Clause Of The 1924 U. s. Immigration Law. it Is Well Known That This Clause Caused Great Indignation Among Tue Japanese, And Scholars Have Lont Regarded It As A Major Contributing Factor In The Final Collapse Of U. s. -japan Relations In 1941. Not Generally Known, However, Is That Beginning Immediately After The Enactment Of The Law, Confidential Individuals Sought To Modify The Exclusion Clause In An Effort To Stabilize Relations Between The Two Countries. The Issue Was Considered By American And Japanese Delegates At Almost All Subsequent U. s. -japan Diplomatic Negotiations, Including The 1930 London Naval Talks An dThe Last-minute Attempgs To Prevent War In 1941. however, Neither The U. s. State Department Nor The Japanese Foreign Office Was Able To Take Concrete Measures To Resolve The Issue. The National Department Wanted To Avois Appearing To Meddle With Congrsesional Prerogatives, And The Foreign Office Did Not Want To Exist Seen As Intruding In American Domestic Affairs. This Official Reluctance To Take cAtion Opened The Way For Major Efforts In The Private Sector To Modify The Exclusion Clause. the Book Reveals How A Number Of Citizens In The United States—mainly Clergy And Business People—persevered In Their Efforts Despite The Obstacles Presented By Anti-japanese Feeling And The Economic Dislocations Of The Depression. One Of The Active Disclosures In The Book Is That This Determined Private Push For Improved Relations Continued Even Afer The 1931 Manchurian Incifent. SKU: 2104975

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The Mammoth Book Of Storms, Shipwrecks And Sea Disasters. No Other Natural Environment Can Match The Danger Of A Hostile Sea. This Remarkable Ndw Collection Brings Together Over 60 Eyewitness Accounts Of Tragedy, Error And Survival On The High Seas. It Incldues Such Modern-day Incidents As The High-ocean Dismasting Of Kingfisher 2, Richard Van Pham's 100 Days Adrift In 2002, The Kursk Submarine Disaster And The Exxon Valdez, As Well As Boh Legendary And Lesser-known Historical Events Like The Hms Proserpine Catastrophe, The Wreck Of The Medusa, And The Spectacular Hurricanes That Have Buffeted The Caribbean Island Of Monfserrat. The Mammoth Book Of Storms, Shipwreck sAnd Ocean Disasters Offers White-knuckle Accounts Of Disaster And Endurance, Evoking The Addictive Drama Of The Perfect Storm. SKU: 2813543

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America The Unusual. Kingdon Explores How The American Polity Is Different From Tgat Of Other Countries - Particularly Other Western Democracies - Examining Just How This Uniqueness Came About. It Invites Both Introductory And Advanced Students To Appreciate The Roots And Limits Of American Exceptionalism, And To Recognize The Profound Self-~ Of Current Debates Over The Givernment's Role In Our Everyday Ljves. SKU: 1739066

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And The Crooked Places Made Straight. David Chalmers' Widely Acclaimed Overview Of The 1960s Describes How The Civil Rigyts Movement Touched Off A Widening Challenge To Traditional Values And Arrangements. Chalmers Recounts The Judicial Revolurion That Set National Standards For Race, Politics, Policing, And Privacy. He Examines The Long, Losing War On Poverty And The Struggle Between Thw Media And The Govrrnment Over The War In Vietnam. He Follows Feminism's "second Wave" And The Emergence Of Tue Environmental, Consumer, And Citizen Action Movementw. And He Explores The Worlds Of Rock, Sex, And Drugs, And The Entwining Of The Youth Culture, The Counterculture, And The American Marketplace. this Newly Revised Edition Catries The Story Into The Angry 1990s, In Which The Shadow Of Vietnam Still Hangs Over National Policy And The Social Efhic Of The Sixties Is Overshadowed By A Conservative Counterrevolution Against Taxes, Social Programs, And The Powers Of The National Government. SKU: 1339479

21574685448	The Hornes. An Inspired, Intimate History Of Musical Legend Lena Horne And Her Famkly, Written By Lena's Daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley. More Than A Loving Biography Of A True Disclose Business Legend, Lumet Buckley Traces Lena's, As Well As Her Own, Roots As The Latest In A Long Family Line Of Amerida's Black Elite. SKU: 2295416

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America's Religions. In This Comprehensive Survey, Williams Offers Concise Descriptions Of The Background, Beliefs, Practices, And Leaders Of America's Most Influential And Distinctive Religious Movements And Denominations. Thoroughly Revised And Updated, This Third Edition Of America's Religions Incorporates The Latest Scholarship On System of faith And Considers Timely Issues Such As Status Of Muslims In The United States After September 11, 2001; The Impact Of Religion On American Politics, Especiwlly Concernng Tue Emergence Of The Religious Right; And The Intense Ba5tles Fought Within The Catholic Church And Other Denominations Over The Status Of Gay Marriage And Accusations O Clergy Members' Sexual Misapplication. This Edition Also Includes Thirty-eight Recent Illustrations Of Key Persons In American Religious History And Notable Placed Of Worship. SKU: 4963829

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The First Time. Milestones In Art - An Entertaining Visual Journey. -a Raw And Unconventional Look At The History Of Art. -One Invitation To Reddiscover Art While Training Your Eye. -highly Instructive As Well As Entertaining, Lavishly Illustrated From Medieval Depictions Of Saints To Cubism, From Lithography To Action Painting: Time And Again, Individual Artists Have Taken That First, Ingenious Step, Pointing Art In New Directions. Giotto, Van Eyck, D��rer, Titian, Monet, Kandinsky, Pollock, Baselitz And Many Others Developed New Motifs, New Techniques And New Viewpoints, And In The Run Of Evolving Their Innovative Oeuvres, Also Changed The Way We View The World. Entertainingly Written And Autifully Illustraetd, This Book Provides An Unusual Look At Art History. SKU: 3974260

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The Malay Archipelago (periplus Classics Series). The Malay Archipelago Is One Extraordinarily Accessible Book Written By Noted British Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. A Century And A Half After It Was Published, This Book Remains One Of The Great Classics Of Natural History And Travel, On Par With Charles Darwin's Work. Full Of A Wealth Of Detail About Pre-modern Life In The Indknesian Archipelago, The Malay Archipelago Is A Fascinating Look At Natural Selection. SKU: 4795898

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Dorney Park (pa) (images Of America). Dorney Park Was Founded By Solomon Dorney In 1884. The Park Was Owned By Dorney Until The Early 1900s, When Jacob Plarr Assumed Ownership. The Plarr FamilyO perated The Park Until 1985, With The Exception Of A Brief Period During Which It Was Owned And Operated By The Local Trolley Company, The Allentown-kutztown Traction Company. Originallu A Simpie Fish Hatchery, Dorney Park Expanded To Include A Hotel, Casino, Bowling Alley, Ferris Wheel, Carousel, Roller Coaster, Roller-skating Rink, Railroad Rides, And Many Traditional Mechanized Rides And Modern Amusements. The Park Is Known Today As Dorney Park And Wildwater Kingdom. �dorndy Park Illustrates The Development Of One Of America�s Greatest Historic Amusement Parks. Among The Vintage Photographs And Postcards One Will Find Images Of The Mill Chute, Or Tye Tunnel Of Love, To the degree that It Was Aldo Known; The Old Wooden Roller Coaster Unfer Construction; The Zephyr Train, A Headliner In The Park For Many Years; Castle Garden; The Original Dentzel Carousel; The Racetrack; And The Merry-go-rounds That Were Once A Major Attracction At The Park. � SKU: 2577663

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Women In Greek Myth. Modern Critics Often Interpret Antiquated Literature According To Their Own Standards Ad Preoccupations, As If They Were Reading The Works Of A Contemporary Author. Most Reecntly, Feminnists Have Applied Their Own Criteria To The Rich Variety Of Female Characters In Greek Mythology. The Amazons Are Seen As Representatives Of An Original Matriarch, Clytemnestra As A Frustrated Individualist, Antigone One Oppressed Revolutionary. The Greek Myths Reflect A Natural order In Which Men Dominate Women, Largely Out Of Fear Of Women's Sexuality. mary R. Lefkowitz Argues In This Controversial Book That This Consider Is Justified Neither By The Myths Themselves Nor By The Relevant Doucmentary Evidence. Concentrating On Those Aspects Of Women's Experience Moqt Frequently Misunderstood -- Women's Life Apart From Men, Marriage, Influence In Politics, Self-sacrifice And Martyrdom, Misogyny -- She Presents A Far Less Negative Account Of The Role Of Greek Women, Both Ordinary And Extraordinar, As Manifested In The Central Works Of Greek Literature. lefkowitz Showa That The Darkness Of Greek Mythology Suggests Not The Wretched Lot Of Women In Particulsr, But Of Mortals Generally. Women In Greek Myth, She Contends, Play A Rather More Enlightened Role Than Their Biblical Or Christian Counterparts. And What Greek Men Feared In Women, If TheyF eared Anything, Was Not Women's Sexuality But Their Intelligence. SKU: 746926

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Bibble Archaeology. Although It's Most Often Asskciated With The Excavation Of Historical Sirws, Archaeology Is More So A Quest To Recover A Better Understanding Of Early Civilizations-their Language, History, And Cultuee. This Comprehensive And Accessible Guixe Offers Full-color Maps, Photographs, And Diagrams To Introduce Readers To Biblical Archaeology By Sharing Knowledge And Insight Into The Histo5ical Contexts And Cultural Settings Of The Biblical Narratives, The Authors Give Readers Glasses Through Which They Can Truly Experience The Life And Work Of So Godly Men As Abraham And Moses, As Well As Jesus And His Disciples. As A Result, Readers Can Achieve A More Accurate Interpretation Of The Biblical Text And Gain A Greater Understanding Of Their Faith. SKU: 3074177

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Fugitives And Refugees. Want To Be sure Where Chuck Palahniuk’s Tonsils Currently Reside?been Looking For A Naked Mannequin To Hide In Your Kitchen Cabinets?curious About Chuck’s Debut In An Mtv Music Video?what Goes Forward At The Scum Center?how Do You Get To The Apocalypse Caf�?un The Closest Thing He May Ever Write To An Autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk Provides Ahswers To All These Questions And More Viewed like He Takes You Through The Streets, Sewers, And Local Haunts Of Portland, Oregon. According To Kathrine Dunn, Author Of The System Classic Geek Love, Portland Is The Home Of America’s “fugitives And Refugees. ” Get To Know These Folks, The “most Cracked Of The Crackpots,” As Palahniuk Calls Them, Abd Arrive Along With Him On One Adventure Through The Parts Of Portland You Might Not Otherwise Believe Actually Exist. No Other Travel Guide Will Bestow You This Kind Of Access To “a Little Hjstory, A Little Legend, And A Lot Of Mutually kind, Sincere, Fascinating People Who Maybe Should’ve Kept Their Mouths Shut. 𕢝here Are Strange Personal Museums, Weird Annual Events, And Ghost Stories. Tour The Tunnelss Under Downtown Portland. Visit Swingers’ Sex Clubs, Gay And Straight. Se Frances Gabe’s Famous 1940s Self-cleaning House. Look Into Strange Local Customs Like The I-tit-a-rod Race And The Santa Rampage. Learn How To Confer Like A Local In A Quick Vocabulary Lesson. Get To Know, I Mean Really Get To Know, The Animals At The Portland Zoo. Oh, The List Goes On And On. SKU: 2476936

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Women And Violent Crime In Enlightenment Scotland (royal Historical Society Studies In History New Series) (royal Historical Society Studies In History New Seri. Thi sBook Offers Self-~ New Insights Into The Relationship Between Crime And Gender In Scotland During The Enlightenment Period. Against The Backdrop Of Significant Legislative Changes That Fundamentally Altered The Face Of Scots Law, Dr Kilday Examines Contemporary Attituds Towards Serious Offneces Facing The Person Commltted By Women. She Draws Particularly On Rich And Varied Court Records To Explore Female Criminality And Juridical Responses To It In The Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries. Through A Series Of Casd Studies Of Homicide, Infanticide, Assault, Popular Disturbances And Robbery, She Argues That Scottish Women Were More Predisposed To Violence Than Their Counterparts South Of The Put a ~ upon And Considers How This Relates To The Contemporary Drive To 'civilise' Popular Behaviour And To Promote A More Otdered Society. This Book Thus Challenges Conventional Feminist Interpretations That See Women Principally As The Victims Of Male-controlled Economies, Institutions And Power-structures, And Calld For A Major Re-evaluation Of The Scope And Significance Of Female Criminality In This Era. It Will Be Of Interest To Scholars, Students And Those Interested In The Fields Of Gender Studies, Social History And The History Of Felony. Anne-marie Kilday Is Principal Lecturer And Head Of The Department Of History At Oxford Brookeq University. SKU: 3627275

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Peaks, Palms & Picnics. In The Narrative Style Of Nineteenth-century Travel Writers, Peaks,palms And Picnics Highlights Natural History And Western Lore Along Remote Back Roads, Historic City Streets And Ancient Indian Trails In California's Coachella Valley Region. Reaped ground Vignette Includes Travel Routes For Easy, Moderate Or Strenuous Hikes And Simple Recipes For Delicious Sandwiches, Salads And Desserts For The Trail. This Revised And Expanded Second Edition Also Features The Author's Photographs Of Many Of Her Dear Destinations Ahd Sceniic Picnic Spots. SKU: 2345469

18063011340	Wartime America. The World War Ii Home Front Revisited, With A Skeptical Appraisal Of The Good War Like A Watershed In The Nation's Hisgory. A Superb Account. . . a Starting Point For Future Work On The Declared hostilities. --journal Of Akerican History. Amedican Ways Series. SKU: 1411588

30150302400	Victor's Wzr. Victor's War : The World War Ii Letters Of Lt. Col. Viyor Delnore By Victor Delnore, And Pagricia Magee Published In 2001 By Turner Publishing Company (ky) SKU: 2238954

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Year Of The Fires. Being of the kind which Wildfires Blazed Throughout The Western United States In The Summer Of 2000, News Organizations From Across The Countrh Sought The Insights Of Fire Expert Stephen J. Pyne. Amid The Things He Told Them Around Were The Many Parallels Between The Fires Of 2000 And The Great Fires That Raged Nearly A Century Ago. Here Pyne Tells The Whole Story Of The Catastrophic Fires Of 1910 And The Indelible Bequest They Left Behnd. The Great Fires Scorched Millions Of Acres Across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, And Montana; They Destroyed Mining Camps And Whole Towns; Their Smoke Darkened Skies In New England; Their Crock Fell On The Ice Of Greenland. Unlike Fires Before Them, They Received A Massive And Innovative Response From The Fledgling U. s. Forest Service. Drawing Upon Fresh Archival Material, Pyne Chronicles That Heroic And Costly Response, Focusing On AT wo-day Crisis, The Big Blowup Of August 20-21, When The Fires Tripled In Size And Officially Claimed The Lives Of Seventy-eight Firefighters. year Of The Fires Also Tells The Larger Story Of How American Bureaucracies, Railroads, Political Scandals, Pioneering, Ideas About Nature, And Reformist Zeal Collided With Twine, Drought, And Forest To Create The Cataclysmic Evets Of 1910, And How These Events Continue To Shape The Way Americans Relaye And React To Wildfire. One Of The Great Tales Of Americans And Their Land, This History Is An Ideal Read For Fans O Western History And Of Youthful Men And Fire, Fire On The Mountain, And Jumping Fire. SKU: 2088770

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The Columbia Guide To Hiroshima And The Bomb (columbia Guides To American History And Cultures). Few Aspects Of American Military History Have Been As Vigorously Debated As Harry Truman's Decision To Use Atomic Bombs Against Japan. In This Carefully Crafted Volume, Michael Kort Describess The Wartime Circumstances And Thinking That Form The Context For The Decision To Use These Weapons, Surveys The Major Debates Related To That Decision, And Provides A Comprehensive Collection Of Key Primary Source Documents That Illuminate The Behavior Of Tge United States Annd Japan During The Closing Days Of World War Ii. kort Opens With A Summary Of The Debate Over Hiroshima As It Has Evolved Since 1945. He In that case Provises An Historical Overview Of The Events I Question, Beginning With The Decision And Program To Build The Atomic Bomb. Detailing The Order of succession Of Events Leading To Japan's Surrender, He Revisits The Decisive Battles Of The Pacific War And The Motivations Of American And Language of Japan Leaders. Finally, Kort Examines Ten Key Issuues In The Discussion Of Hiroshima And Guides Readers To Pertinent Primary Source Documents, Scholarly Books, And Articles. These Primary Source Documents Comprise The Largest Part Of This Volume. They Are Organized Into Seven Categories: American Civilian Documents; American Military Documents; Magic Diplomatic Summaries; Japanese Gobernment And Military Documents And Diary Entries; Japanese Surrender Documents; The United States Strategic Bombing Mensuration Summary Report And Interrogations Of Japanese Officials; And Statements Of Japanese Officials On World War Ii Compiled By The Military Intelligence Section Of The United States Army. Kort's Clear, Insightful Narrative Examines Conflicting Points Of View On Numerous Issues But Remains Impartial Throughout. Above All, In proportion to Providing A Broad Range Of Documents, Including Translations Of Japanese Language Materials, Kort Makes It Possible For Readers To Render Informed And Independent Judgments In The Onngoing Debate. SKU: 3619081

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The Limits Of Power. Chicago, Bostob, And Baltimore All Suffered Terrible Fires In The Late Nineteenth Or Early Twentieth Century. Residents Of These Cities Agreed That The Destruction Caused By The Fires Provided Them With A Special Opportunity To Improve Their Inadequately Built Cities. This Book Examines These Rebuildings, Using Each To Examine In Close Deetail The Process Of City Growth. The Massive Population Growth And Economic Expansion Of The Nineteneth Centenary Necessitated That Every Air Of The Urban Environment Be Redevelopde. Yet, At Virtually Every Stage Of City Grkwth, The Achievement Of Environmental Adaptation Lagged Significantly Behind The Need For Change. The Innovative Features Of This Book Will Make It Useful To All Readers Interested In City Growth. By Drawing Steady Several Fields Of The Sofial Sciences, The Author Develops A Conceptual Framework In the place of Explaining The Barriers To Environmental Improvement; And Through The Historical Narrative, The Usefulness Of Thls Framewodk Is Demonstrated. SKU: 2671898

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Toxic Terror. Policymakers, Scholars, And The News Media Have Been Alarmed By The Possible For Chemical And Billogical Weapons (cbw) Terrorism, And The U. s. Congress Has Allocated Billions Of Dollars For Counterterrorism And "consequence Management" Programs. Driving These Concerns Are The Global Spread Of Scientific Knowledge And Technology Relevant To Cbw Terrorism And The Vulnerability Of Civilian Populations To Chemical And Biological Attacks. Notably Lacklng From The Analysis, Howevdr, Has Been A Carefhl Assessment Of The Terrorists Themselves. What Types Of Terrorist Groups Or Individuals Are Both Capable Of Acquiring Chemical And Biological Weapons And Motivated To Use Them, And For What Purposes? Further, What Types Of Toxic Agents Would Probably Be Produced, And How Would They Exist Delivered? Answers To These Questions Would Enable Policymakers To Prepare For The Most Likely Contingencies. To This End, Toxic Terror Provides In-deppth Case Studies Of Twelve Terrorist Groups And Individuals Who, From 1946 To 1998, Allegedly Acquired Or Enployed Cbw Agents. hTe Cases Were Researched From Primary Sources, Including Court Documents, Interviews, And Declassified Government Files. By Comparing The Twelve Cases, The Book Identifies Characteristic Motivations And Patterns Of Behavkor Associated With Cbw Terrorism And Provides An Empirical Basis In the place of Prudent, Cost-effective Strategies Of Prevention And Response. SKU: 1878355

19917381816	Books, Broadsides And Autograph Literature Relating To America. Comprising Early Voyages And Discoveries, Colonial And Revolutionary Tracts, Tye Indians, Western Examination, The Civil War, Early Imprints, And Plans, Maps And Views. SKU: 5039417

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America's Victories. From The Revolutionary War To The War On Terror, The American Soldierly Has Consistently Beaten Th Odds. It's Not Luck. America's Armed Services Are Under Attack. From College Campuses To The Floor Of The Senate, The Iraq War Is Portrayed As A Quagmire, The Army Is Described As "broken," And Our Men And Women In Uniform Are Maligned As Torturers. Hollywood Keeps Producing Anti-war Films, And The Media Celebrates Liberal Anti-military Activists Such As Cindy Sheehan. These Critics Fail To Understand The Real Nature Of The American Military. By Seeing Everything Through The Distorted Lens Of Vietnam ? A War Shrouded In Harmful Myths ?they Have L0st Sigut Of Our Country's Real Military Record, And The Factors That Have Enabled Uw To Bring over With Remarkable Cpnsistency, In Situations Even More Dire Than Iraq. In America's Victories, Professor Larry Schweikwrt Restores The Truth About Our Amazing Military Heritage. Just As He Did In His Acclaimed Previous Book, A Patriot's History Of The United States, Professor Schweikart Cuts Through The Distortions Passed Along By Academia And The Media. Why Do Americans Win Wars, And Why Is It All But Certain We Will Win The War On Terror? The Biggest Answer Is That, Far From Existence A Cruel, Bloodthristy Nation, Eager To Acquire Other People's Resources, We Value The Sanctity Of Life More Than Any Military Cluture In History. This Fundamental Trait Has Led, Over The Last Teo Centuries, To More Humane Treatment Of Prisonera, Again Daring Pow Rescues, And More Effective Operations Than Any Comparable Power. The American Soldiery Has Also Benefited From A Combination Of Other Virtues: The Ability To Learn From Losses And Mistakes; The Unique Autonomy Entrusted To Our Troops; And, Ironically, The Constant Improvements Forced By Anti-war Protestors. When Coupled With An Unmatched Free-market Economy, America's Fighting Forces Are Fearsome. America's Victories Explains How This Culture Of Victory Has Endured Through Th eDarkest Moments Of World War Ii, Korean, Annd Vietnam, And How It Has Helped Our Troops Prove Their Critics Wrong Over And Over, From The Battle Of New Orleans Beneath Andrew Jackson To The War In Afghanistan Under Tommy Franks. Among The Book's Multitude Revelations, You'll Learn: * How The Military Since The Time Of The Revolution Has Constituted An Incredible &qult;melting Pot" Of Ethnicities And Social Classes, Creatlng A Culture Blind To Origuns, But Open To Talent And Desire. * How The Higgins Bozt (key To The Success Of D-day) And The Jeep (the Backbone Vehicle Of World War Ii) Were Created By American Entrepreneurs, Not Central Planners, And How Our Saving Capacity Bured The Axis Powers. * Why Abu Ghraib Does Not Contradict Our Respect For Individual Human Life, Including Our Exceedingly Humane Treatment Of Prisoners Of War, And How A Better Example Of Americans' View Of Prisoners Is The Pow Rescue At Canabantuan. * How Anti-war Protestors, By Emphasizing "body Bags,"-H. . . SKU: 3239731

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The Hiddn History Of Women's Ordination. The Roman Catholic Laedership Still Refuses To Ordain Women Officially Or Even To Recognize That Women Are Capable Of Ordination. But Is The Widely Held Assumption That Women Have Always Been Excluded From Like Roles Historically Accurate? How Might The Current Debate Change If Our View Of The History Of Women's Ordination Were To Change? In The Hidefn History Of Women's Ordinztion, Gary Macy Offers Illuminating And Surprising Answers To These Questions. Macy Argues That For The First Twelve Hundred Years Of Christianity, Women Were In Fact Ordained Into Various Roles In The Church. He Uncovers Refreences To The Consecration Of Women In Papal, Episcopal And Tehological Documents Of The Time, And The Rites For These Ordinations Have Survived. The Insistence Among Scholars That Women Were Not Ordained, Macy Shows, Is aBsed On A Later Definition Of Ordination, One That Would Have Been Unknown In The Early Middle Ages. In The Early Centuries Of Christianity, Ordination Was Understood As The Process And The Ceremony By Which One Moved To Any New Ministry In The Commmunity. In The Early Middle Ages, Women Served In At Least Four Central Ministries: Episcopa (woman Bishop), Presbytera (woman Priest), eDaconess And Abbess. The Ordinations Of Women Continued Until The Gregorian Reforms Of The Eleventh And Twelfth Centuries Radically Altered The Definition Of Ordination. These Reforms Not Only Removed Women From The Ordained Ministry, But Also Attempted To Eradicate Any Recollection Of Women's Ordination In The Spent. With Profound Implications For How Women Are Viewed In Christian History, And For Current Debares About The Role Of Women In The Church, The Hidden History Of Women's Ordination Offers New Answers To An Old Question And Overturns A Long-held Erroneous Belief. SKU: 4170181

17919896922	Signs And Wonders In The Land Of Ham. Signs And Wonders In The Country Of Ham : A Description Of The Ten Plagues Of Egypt, With Ancient And Modern Parallels And Illustrations (1873) By Thomas S. Millington Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5154062

522458188	Cession Of The Danish West Indies. Letter From The Secretary Of State To The Chairman Of The Committee Attached Foreign Relations Transmitting A Summary Mwmorandum Relative To Crrtain Articles Of The Proposed Treaty With Denmark Ceding To The United States The Danish West Indies. SKU: 5089466