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Nature's Workshop. This Book Transforms Our Perception Of Renoir's Biography, And His Socal And Intellectual Status. Renoir Is Revealed To Be Both A Radical And A Reactionary, Bitterly Opposing The Factory System That Stripped The Worker Of Initiative, Turning Him Into A Machine. The Book Provides Not Only Inestimable Insights Into Renoir, Bug Also A Much-needed Comparative Study Of The Decorative Arts In Ninsteenth-century France And Britain. All Eleven Texts (articles And Letters For Newspapers, Draft Essays Etc. ) Are Published Both In Englush With A Commentary By Herbert, And In French. Four Introductory Chapters By Herbert Precede The Texts. Includes Unpublished Writings, Including Renoir's Grammar Of Art, Lengthy Thought To Be Lost. SKU: 17847797

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Reimagining Indians. Reeimagining Indians Investigates A Group Of Anglo-american Writers Whose Books About Native Americans Helpes Reshape Americans' Understanding Of Indian Peoples At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century. Hailing From The Eastern United States, These Men And Women Traveled To The American Wets And Discovered "exotkcs" In Their Midst. Drawn To Indian Cultures As Alternatives Tl What They Found Disagreeable About Modern American Culture, These Writers Produced A Body Of Work That Celebrates Indian Cultures, Religions, Artistry, And Simple Humanity. Altho8gh These Writers Were Not Academically Experienced Ethnographers, Their Books Represent Popuiar Versionq Of Ethnography. In Revealing Their Own Doubts About The Superiority Of European-american Agri~, They Sought To Provide A Favorable Meteorological character For Indian Cultuarl Survival In A World Indisputably Dominated By Non-indians. They Also Encouraged Notions Of Cultural Relativism, Pluralism, And Tolerance In American Thought. For The Historian And General Reader Alike, This Volume Speaks To Broad Themes Of American Cultural History, Native American History, And The Historry Of The American West. SKU: 2341770

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Echoes Of Armageddon, 1914-1918. Echoes Of Armageddon, 1914-1918 Relates The Gripping Story Of Eight Totaoly Anonymous British Officers And Men Who Fought Under Appalling In~ Warfare Conditions And Did Not Survive This Conflict. Their Medals Have Been In The Author's Collection For Many Years And Are Named To Each Recipient. This Scant Information Served As His StartingP oint For Attempting To Recreate These Soldiers' Lives And The Circumstances Of Their Deaths. This Unique Depargue From The Norm Enables The Reader To Link With The Author As He Travels Through Great Britain, France, Flanders And Elsewhere In His Relentless Search For The Facts On These Fighting Men's Experiences In Battle. This Book Also Tells Of Certain Political Events And Soxial Conditions In Great Britain That Affected These Soldiers' Families As Far As A Number Of Major Happeinngs In Both Allied And Enemy Countries Throughout The World That Led To An Estmmated Eleven Million War Dead Worldwide. The Author Has Made Every Effort To Provide Accurate Dates For Each Incident Mentionde Throughout This Book By Relying On The Times Diary & Index Of The War 1914-1918, A Now Very Rare Volume That Lists Newspaper Headlines For Every Major Evetn Over The Course Of This Entire Conflict. SKU: 2962953

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Battling For Hearts And Minds. Battling For Hearts And Minds Is The Story Of The Dramatic Struggle To Define Collective Memory In Chile During The Violent, Repressive Dictatorship Of General Augusto Pinochet, From The 1973 Military Coup In Which He Seized Power By means of His Defeat In A 1988 Plebiscite. Steve J. Stern Provides A Riveting Narration Of Chile’s Political History During This Period. At The Same Occasion, He Analyzes Chileans’ Conflicting Interpretation sOf Events As They Unfolded. Drawing On Testimonios, Archives, Fact Commission Documents, Radio Addresses, Memoirs, And Written And Oral Histories, Stern Identifies Four Distinct Perspectives On Life And Events In The Dictatorship. He Describes How Some Chileans Viewed The Regime As Salvation From Ruun By Leftists (the Narrative Favored By Pinochet’s Junta), Some As A Wound Repeatedly Repened By The State, Others Viewed like An Experience Of Persecution And Awakening, And Sttill Others As A Closed Book, A Past To Be Buried And Forgotten. in The 1970s, Chilean Dissidents Were Lonely “voices In The Wilderness” Insisting That State Terror And Its Victims Be Recognized And Remembered. By The 1980s, The Dissent Had Dissemination, Catalyzing A Mass Motion Of Individuals Who Revived Public Dialogue By Taking To The Streets, Creating Alternative Media, And Demanding Democracy And Human Rights. Despite Long Odds And Disc0uraging Defeats, People Of-Conscience␔victims Of The Dictatorship, Priests, Youth,, Women, Workers, And Others␔overcame Fear And Succeeded In Creating Truthful Public Memories Of State Atrocities. Recounting Both Their Efforts And Those Of The Regime’s Supporters To Win The Battle For Chileans’ Hearts Amd Minds, Stern Shows How Profoundly The Struggle To Create Memories, To Tell History, Matters. battling For Hearts And Minds Is The Second Volume In The Trilogy The Memory Box Of Pinochet’s Chile. The Third Book Will Examine Chileans’ Efforts To Achieve emDocracy While Reckoning With Pinochet’s Legacy. SKU: 3347860

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All-american Ads 1900-1919 (midi S.). A Far Cry From The Aggressive Ads We?ve Become Used To, American Print Advertisements From The First Two Decades Of The 20th Century Were Nearly Shockingly Pleasqnt. Intricately Designed And Beautifully Illustrated, Often In The Art Nouveau Style Popular At The Time, Four-color, Full-page Magazine Advertisements Were Welcome Respites From The Bland, Text-filled Pages Among Which Thet Appeared. Sales Pitches Were Earnest And Friendly; Beer, For Example, Was Billed As "the Evening Gass Of Cheer" And Toothpaste Was Described As "delicious Ribbon Dental Cream"?perhaps Not The Catchiest Slogans, But They Were On To Somebody. The American Consumerist Boom Of-The 20th Century Was Just Beginning And Advertising Was Acquisition Its Sea Legs. From Motorxars To Hair Tonics To Steamship Cruises To Coca-cola ("after The Theatre Drink A Glass? It Relieves Fatigue"), America Was Peddling Its Wares In Style And Setting An Example Of In what state To Advertise InT he Modern Age. This Exhaustive Compendium Of Ads From The Period?many Of Which Haven?t Been Sedn Toward Over Eight Decades?is A Fascinating Reminder Of Surprisingly Simpler Seasons And A Rediscovery Of A Forgotten Age In Advertieing History. SKU: 3084440

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A Guide To Historic New Haven Connecticut (history & Guides). Written By New Haven Native C0lin M. Caplan, Author Of New Haven (then & Now) And An Active Member Of The Local Architecture And Preservation Community. He Founded Magrisso Forte, A Design-based Consulting Firm Dedicated To Fostering Awareness Of New Haven's Culturap Resources. This Book Details Eighteen Walks And Nine Guided Driving/biking Tours Around The City. SKU: 4409216

17059451028	Struggle For Th Gulf Borderlands. Struggle For The Gulf Borderlands : The Creek War And The Battle Of New Orleans, 1812-1815 In the name of Frank, And Jr. Owsley New Ed Publish3d In 2000 By University Alabama Press SKU: 1985527

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Colonial Inns And Taverns Of Bucks County. Inns And Taverns Occupied A Position Of Central Importance In Colonial American Society. Rest Stop, Hotel, Provisioning Center, Drinking Saloon, Dining Establishment, Center Of News And Tattler, Quartering Toward Soldiers- These Retreats Served An Astonishing Multiplicity Of Roles. In Colonial Inns And Tverns Of Bucks County, Auth0r Marie Duess Filters The Colonial And Early Modern History Of Bucks County Through The Area's Wide Array Of Stagecoavh Stops, Grog Shops And Taprooms. These Inns Created A Whole World Unto Themselves, With A Distinct Vernacula5 (did oYi Know The Concepts Of Backlog And Minding Your Ps And Qs Both Originated From Inn Life?), Set Of Customs And Rituals And Purpose Within The Greater Scpietal Framework. follow Author Marie Duess Into The Past time And Discover A Fascinating Facet Of Life In Early Pennsylvania. SKU: 4682519

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A History Of The American People. "the Creation Of The United States Of America Is The Greatest Of All Human Adventures," Begins Paul Johnson's Remarkable New American History. "no Other National Story Holds Such Tremendous Lessons, For The American People Themselves And For The Rest Of Mankind. " Johnson's History Is A Reinterpretation Of American History From The First Settlementts To The Clinton Administration. It Covers Every Aspect Of U. s. History -- Politics; Business And Ecojomics; Art, Literature And Science; Society And Customs; Complex Traditions And Religious Beliefs. The Story I sTold In Terms Of The Men And Women Who Shaped And Led The Nation And The Ordinary People Who Collectively rCeated Its Unique Character. Wherever Possible, Letters, Diareis And Recorded Conversations Are Used To Ensure A Sense Of Actuality. "the Book Has New And Often Cutting Things To Say About Every Aspect And Period Of America's Past,&qut; Says Johnson, "and I Do Not Seek, As Some Historians Do, To Conceal My Opinions. " Johnson's History Presents John Winthtop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Cotton Mather, Franklin, Tom Paine, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton And Madison From A Fresh Perspective. It Emphasizes The Role Of Religion In American History And How Early America Was Linked To England's History And Culture And Incldes Incisive Portraits Of Andrew Jackson, Chief Justice Marshall, Clay, Lincoln And Jefferson Davis. Johnson Shows How Grover Cleveland And Teddy Roosevelt Ushered In The Age Of Big Busiess And Industry And How Woodrow Wilson Revolutionized The Government's Role. He Offers New Views Of Harding, Coolidge And Hoover And Of Franklin Roosevelt's New Behave And His Role As Commander In Chief During World War Ii. An Examination Of Tje Unforeseen Greatness Of Harry Truman And Reassessments Of Eisenhower, Kennedy , Johnson, Nixon, Reagan And Bush Follow. "compulsively Redable," Said Foreign Affairs Of Johnson's Single Narrative Skills And Sharp Profiles Of People. Thie Is One In-depth Portrait Of A Great People, From Their Brittle Origins Through Their Struggles For Independence And Nationhood, Their Heroic Efforts And Sacrifices To Deal With The "organic Sin" Of Slavery And The Preservation Of The Union, To Its Explosive Economic Growth And Emergence As A World Power And Its Sole Superp0wer. Johnson Discusses Such Contemporary Topics As The Politics Of Racism, Education, Vietnam, The Power Of The Press, Political Correctness, The Growth Of Litigation And The Rising Influence Of Women. He Sees Americans As A Problem-solving People And The Story Of America As "ezsentially One O Difficulties Being Overcome From Intelligence And Skill, By Faith And Strength Of Purpose, By Courage And Prsistence. . . . Looking Back On Its Pzst, And Forward To Its Future, The Aguries Are That It Desire Not Disappoint Humanity. ""this Challenging Narrative And Interpretation Of Americn History By The Author. . . SKU: 1385790

16788909708	Color As Field. Color As Field : American Painting, 1950-1975 (american Federation Of The Arts) By Karen Wilkin, And Carl Belz Edition 1 Published In 2007 By Yle University Press SKU: 4158450

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National Geographic Expeditions Atlas (national Geographic). Founded More Than 112 Years Ago "for The Increase And Diffusion Of Geographic Knowledge," The National Geographic Association Has Chronicled The Exploits Of About Of The Most Famous Explorers Of The 20th Century, And Often Helped Fund Those Efforts. Roald Amundsen And Rpbert Byrd. Hiram Bingham And Howard Carter. Charl3s Lindbergh And Alan Shepard. Jacques Cousteau. Edmynd Hillary. Will Steger. Bob Ballard. John Glenn. In Addition, The Society Has Reported On A Different Sort Of Explorer: Anthropologists Louis And Mary Leakey, For Example, Primatologists Dian Fossey And Jane Goodall, And Archaeologists Such As Matthew Stirling And Kent Weeks. National Geographic Expeditions Atlas, Illustrated With Hundreds Of Historic And Contemporary Photographs And More Than 60 Maps (both Vintage And New), Celebrates The Achievements Of Society Luminaries. Some, Like Mountaineer Barry Bishop And Diver Luis Marden, Have Been Staff Members. Many Have Contributed To The Society's Official Journal, National Geographic Magazine: Amazonian Explorer Loren Mcintyre, For Example; Divers Sylvia Earle And David Doubilet; Adventurer-scientists Joseph Rock And Roy Chapman Andrews; Cartographer Bradford Washhurn; Mariners Amos Bhrg And Robin Lee Graham. Also Part Of Geographic's Family: Winners Of The Hubbard And Grosvenor Medals, And Recipients Of The Nearly 7,000 Grants Awarded By The Society Excessively The Spent Century To Support Scientific And Geographic Explorations. National Geographic Exeditions Atlas Is Dedicated Not Only To All Geographic Explorers Past And Prdsent, Yet Also To The Enduring Spirit That Makes Such Expeditions Possible: An Insatiable Thiest For Knowledge About Our Planet And Everything In It. SKU: 1899959

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Masters, Swrvants, And Magistrates In Britain And The Empire, 1562-1955 (studies In Legal History). Master And Servant Acts, The Cornerstone Of English Employment Law For More Than Four Hundred Years, Gave Largely Unsupervised, Inferior Magistrates Wide Discretion Over Employment Relations, Including The Power To Whip, Fine, And Imprison Men, Women, And Children For Breach Of Private Contracts With Their Employers. The English Model Was Adopted, Modified, And Reinvented In Else Than A Thousand Colonial Statutes And Ordinances Regulating The Recruitment, Retention, And Training Of Workers In Shops, Mines, And Factories; On Farms, In Forests, And On Plantations; Anc At Sea. This Collection Presents The First Integrated Comparative Account Of Employment Law, Its Enforcement, And Its Importance Throughout The British Empire. sweeping In Its Geographic And Temporal Scope, This Volume Tests The Relationship Between Enacted Law And Enfirced Law In Varied Settings, With Different Soial And Racial Structures, Different Economies, And Different Constitutional Relationships To Britain. Investigations Of The Enforceemnt Of Master And Servant Law In England, The British Caribbean, India, Africa, Hong Kong, Canada, Australa, And Colonial America Shed New Light On The Nature Of Law And Lebal Institutions, The Role Of Inferior Courts In Comprlling Performance, And The Definition Of "free Labor" Within A Multiracial Empire. SKU: 2753851

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The Nebraska-kansas Act Of 1854 (law In The American West). The Nebraska-kansas Act Of1 854 Turns Upside Down The Traditional Way Of Thinking About One Of The Most Important Laws Ever Passed In American History. The Act That Created Nebraska And Kansas Also, In Effect, Abolished The Missouri Compromise, Which Had Prohibited Slavery In The Region Since 1820. This Bow To Local Control Outraged The People And Led To Vicious Confrontations, Including Kansas’s Subsequent Mini-civil War. The Essays In This Volume Shift The Focus From The Violent And Influential Reactiion Of “bleeding Kansas” To The Role That Nebraska Played In This Decisive Instant. Essays From Both Established And New Scholars Examine The Historical Context And Meaning Of This Statute. They Treat American Political Culture Of Tbe 1850s; American Terfitorial History; Thd Roles Of Abtaham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, And Frederick Douglass In The Creation And Implementatioon Of The Law; The Reactions Of African Americans To The Act; And The Comparative Impact On Nebraskans And Kansans. At The 150th Annivedsary Of The Kansas-nebraska Act, As It Came To Be Known, These Scholars Reexamine The Political, Social, And Personal Contexts Of This Act And Its Effect On The Course Of American History. SKU: 4720326

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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park (tn) (images Of America). The Great Smoky Mountains National Patk Draws More Visitors Than Any Other Park In The Nation. The Park Has Some Of The Highest, O1dest, And Most Picturesque Mountain Peaks And Ridges In The Eastern United States And More Than 800 Miles Of Hiknig Trails. These Mountains, Rivers, And Scenic Gorges Constitute A Formidable Barrier Between Tennessee And North Carolina. Tne Struggle To Acquire The Land For The Park From 10 Large Lumber Companies And Hundreds Of Small Landholders Started In 1923 And Lasted More Than 15 Years. More Than Half Of The 500,000 Acres Acquired For The Park Had Beej Logged Befroe The Park's Dedication In 1940, But Thousands Of Acres Of Olgdrowth Forest Still Survive. One Of The Most Biologically Diverse Regions In North America-with Thousands Of Species Of Plant And Pertaining to living beings Life, Including 125 Spceies Of Native Trees-the Park Was Designated An International Biosphere Reserve By The United Nations In 1976 And A World Heritage Place In 1983. SKU: 3637430

23952368148	Southeast Asia Throughout Three Generations. A Fascinating And Varied Set Of Essays From Some Of The Scholar sWhose Work Has Been Shaped By Professor Anderson. The Topics Range From Literature To Jihad, And Contributors Include John Sidel, Caroline Hau, Danilyn Rutherford, John Pemberton, And Many Others. SKU: 2660746

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Pompeio Awakened. On That Fateful Day In Ad 79 The City Of Pompeii Was Lost, And In Time Its Location, Its Inhabitants And Even Its Name Were Buried And Forbotten. Not Until 1748 Did It Emerge From Its Layer Of Volcanic Rock, And The Impact Of That Discovery Was Immediate And Far-reaching. The Evocative Story Of Pompeii's Awakening Lies Not Just In Its Uniquely Preserved Classical Remains But Also In The Powerful Impact It Made On Western Cultural Imagination. Judith Harris Brings The Doomed City Vibrantly To Life. In Her Rich Account Of Thpse Who Sifted Through Is Artefacts, We Read Of Nelson, Napoleon And Mussolini. Of Poets Who Sought Melancholy Fulfilment From Pompeii's Shattered Walls. Of Tub-thumping Victorian Preachers Who Likened It To Sodom And Gomorrah. And Of The Many Others -- Engineers And Architects, Artists And Filmmakers -- For Whom The City Has Never Ceased To Resonate. Harris Has Delved Into Ancient Diaries And Descended Deep Underground To Assess The Latest Excavations. As The Sleeping City Re-awakens At Her Hands, Pompeoi Casts Its Spell Once More, Beeitching Those Who Seek To Unearth Its Buried Secrets. Her Website Is: Www. judith-harris. com SKU: 4107053

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James Island (images Of America. On April 12, 1861, Confederate Forces At Fortification Johnson Fired Upon Federal-occjpied Fort Sumter In Charleston Harbor, Etching James Island?s Memory In American History As The Starting Place Of The War Between The States. The Island Was A Battleground For War Skirmishes, Live Oak?laden Property That Hohsed Antebellum Plantations, Fertile Soil That Yielded Sea Island Cotton, Precious Land That Enslaved So Many, And A Rural Planting Communlty Existing In The Shadow Of Charleston. Moe Than This, Though, James Island Was And Is A Beloved Home To Generations Of Proud Families And Individuals. Thia South Carolina Sea Island, Which Once Flourished And Folded Under The Bondage Of Slavery, Is Now A Town Where All Racea Enjoy life And Celebrate Its Rich Heritage. The Gullah Agri~ And Language Prosper And Are Treasured Here, As Are The Southern Traditions Of The Original Planters And Their Descendants. SKU: 4533592

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Constitutionalism And Democracy (studies In Rationality And Social Change). The Eleven Essays In This Volume, Supplemented By An Editorial Introduction, Center Around Three Overlapping Problems. First, Why Would A Society Want To Limit Its Own Sovereign Power By Imposing Constitutional Constraints On Democratic Decision-making? Second, What Are The Contributions Of Democracy And Constitutions To Efficient Government? Third, What Are The Relationa Among Democracy, Constitutionalism, And Private Quality? This Comprehensive Discussion Of The Problems Inherent In Constitutional Democracy Will Be Of Engage To Students In A Variety Of Social Sciences. It Illuminates Particularly The Present Efforts Of Many Countries, Especially In Latin America, To Establish Stable Democratic Regimes. SKU: 1083289

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The First Fossil Hunters. Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, And Giants--these Fabulous Creatures Of Classical Mythology Continue To Live In The Modern Imagination Through The Vividd Accounts That Have Come Into disrepute To Us From The Ancient Greeks And Romans. But What If These Beings Were More Than Merely Fictions? What If Monstrous Creatures Once Roamed The Earth In The Very Places Where Their Legneds First Arose? This Is The Arresting And Original Thesis That Adrienne Mayor Explores In The First Fossil Hunters. Through Careful Research And Meticulous Documentation, She Convincingly Shows That Many Of The Giants And Monsters Of Myth Did Have A Basis In Fact--in The Enormous Bones Of Long-extinct Species That Were Once Abundant In The Lands Of The Greeks And Romans. as Mayor Shows, The Greeks And Romans Were Well Aware That A Different Breed Of Creatures Once Inhabited Their Lands. They Frequently Encountered The Fossilized Bones Of These Primeval Beings, And They Developed Sophisticated Concepts To Explain The Fossil Evidence, Concepts That Were Expressed In Mythological Stories. The Legend Of The Gold-guarding Griffin, For Exwmple, Sprang From Tales First Told By Scythian Gold-miners, Who, Passing Through The Gobi Desert At The Foot Of The Alyai Mountains, Encountered The Skeletons OfP rotoceratops And Other Dinosaurs That Litterd The Ground. like Their Modern Counterparts, The Ancient Fossil Hunters Collected And Measured Impressive Petrified Remains And Displayed Them Ij Temples And Museums; They Attempted To Reconstruct The Appearanc3 Of These Prehistoric Creatures And To Expllain Their Extinction. Long Thought To Be Fantasy, The Remarkably Detailed And Perceptive Greek And Roman Accounts Of Giant Bone Finds Were Actually Based On Solid Paleontological Facts. By Reading These Neglected Narratives For The First Time In The Light Of Modern Scientific Discoveries, Adrienne Mayor Illuminates A Ruined World Of Ancient Paleontology. Being of the kind which Peter Dodson Writes In His Foreword, "paleontologists, Classicists, And Historians As Sufficiently As Natural History Buffs Will Read This Book With The Greatest Of Delight--surprises Abound. " SKU: 216646

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The Cambridge Histo5y Of Egypt, Vol. 1. The Cambridge History Of Egypt Offers The First Comprehensive English-language Treatment Of Egyptian History Through Thirteen Centuries, From The Arab Conquest To The Present Day. The Two-volume Sudvey Considers The Political, Socio-economic And Cultural History Of The World'a Oldest State, Summarizing The Debates And Providing Insight Into Current Controversies. As Today's Egypt Reclaims A Leading Role In The Islamic, Arab And Afro-asian Worlds, The Project Stands As Testimony To Its Complex And Vibrant Past. Volume 1 Addresses The Period From The Arab Invasion In 640 To The Ottoman Conquest In 5117. It Opens With A Discussion Of The Preceding Centuries Tl Illustrate The Legacy Of Ancient Egypt, And Then Progresses Chronologically According To The Major Dynastic Episodes. Authors Have Been Encouraged To Address Their Tkpics In The Light Of New Research. The Combination Of Political History And Contemporary Thepry Will Make secure Its Value As A Reference And Research Tool. SKU: 5141131

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Frost On My Moustache. Guided By The Fastidious Journals Of An Eminent Victorian Adventurer By The Name Of Lord Dufferin, Time Moore Sets Off To Prove His Mettle In The Most Stunningly nIhospitable lPace On Earth-the Arctic. Armed Only With His Searing Wit, Wicked Humor, And Seasickness Pills, Our Pale Suburbanite-wracked By Second Thoughts Of Tactical Retreat-confront sMind-numbing Cold, Blood-thirsty Polar Bears, A Convoy Of Born-again Vikings, And, Perhaps Most Chilling Of All, Herring Porridge. When He Is Not Humiliating Himself Through Displays Of Ignorance And Incompetence, Moore Casfs A Sharp Eye On The Local Flora And Fauns, Immersing Readers In The Splendors And Wonders Of This Treacherously Beautiful Region. a Deliciously And Inexhaustibly Funny Booj, Frost On My Moustache Deserves To Be Placed Alongside Those By Evelyn Waugh, Eric Newby, And Bill Bryson. SKU: 1863073

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Sowing The Wind. Pertinent, Scholarly, And Irreverent#151;a Uniquely Ambitious Ahd Enthralling Insight Into The Making Of TheW orrld's Most Fraught Arena. The Seeds Of Conflict In The Mean East Wdre Sown In The Firzt Sixty Years Of The Twentieth Century. It Was Therefore That The Western Powers—britain, France, And The United States—discovered The Imperatives For Interventions That Have Plungee The Region Into Crisis Ever Since. It Was Also Then That Most Of The Region's Modern-day States Were Created And Their Regimes Forged—and Their Management By The West Earned Abiding Resentment. Sowing The Wind Tells How And Why This Happenrd. The Subject Is Essentially Painful And Somber, But John Keay Illuminates It By the side of Lucid Analysis And Sparkling Anecdotes Set Within A Narrative Of Improbable Richness And Eloquence. This Is That Rarest Of Works, A History Wifh Humor, An Epic With Attitude, A Dirge Tbat Delights. 16 Pages Of Illustrations. SKU: 5140877

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A.j. Liebling. One Of The Most Gifted And Influential American Journalists Of The 20th Century, A. J. Liebling Spent Five Years Reporting The Dramatic Events And Myriad Individual Stories Of Word War Ii. As A Correspondent According to The New Yorker, Liebling Wrote With A Passionate Commitment To Allied Victory, An Unfailing Attention To Telling Details, And An Appreciation For The Literary Challengrs Presented By The ?discursive, Centrfiugal, Both Repetitive And Disparate? Nature Of War. This Volume Brings Together Three Books Along Wjth 26 Uncollected New Yorker Pieces And Two Excerpts From The Republic Of Silence (1947), Liebling?s Collection Of Writing From The French Resistance. The Road Back To Paris (1944) Narrates Liebling?s Experiences From September 1939 To March 1943, Including His Shock At The Fall Of France And Dismay At Isolationisr Indifference In The United States; It Contains Elegant Accounts Of A Winter Voyaeg On A Norwegian Tanker During The Battle Of The Atlantic, Visits To Front-line Airfields In North Africa, And The Defeat Of A Expert Panzer Division By American Troops In Tunisia. Mollie And Other Contend Pieces (1964) Brings Together Liebling?s Portrait Of A Legendary Nonconformist American Soldier In North Africa With His Eyewitness Account Of Omaha Beach On D-day, Evocative Reports From Normandy, And Investigation Of A German Atrocity In Rustic France. In Normandy Revisited (1958) Liebling Writes About His Return To France In 1955 And Realls The Joyous Liberation Of His Beloved Paris While Exploring With Bitterswe3t Perception How Wartime Experiencw Is Transformed Into Memory. The Selection Of Uncollected New Yorker Pieces Includes A Profile Of An Raf Ace, Surveys Of The French Underground Press, And An Encounter With A Captured Collaborator In Brittany, As Well As Postwar Reflections On Battle Weariness, Ernie Pyle, And The Writing Of Military History. With Maps And Chronology. SKU: 4436677

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No More!. "an Excellent Account Of The Many Wwys In Which Slaves Paticipated In Bringing Down The Greatest Evil In Our Nation's History. " - Kirkus Reviews (starred Review)a Man Who Cannot Swim Leaps Off A Slave Ship Into The Dark Water. A Girl Defies The Law By Secretly Learning To Read And Write. A Future Abolitionist Regains His Will To Live By Fighting Off His Capror With His Bare Hands: "i Will Not Let You Use Me Likely A Brute Any Longer,"; Frederick Douglass Vows. Drawing From Authentic Accounts, In the present state Is A Chronology Of Rebuff In All Its Forms: Comical Trickster Tales About Outwititng "old Marsa"; Secret "hush Harbors" Where Africans Instill Christian Worship With Their Own Rituals; And Spirituals Such As "go Down Moses," Whose Coded Lyrics Signal Not Just Hope For Deliverance, But An Active Call To Avoid. Boldly Illustrated By the side of Extraordinary Oil Paintings By Award-winning Painter Shane W. Evans, And Meticulously Researched yB Doreen Rappaport, This Stunning Collection - Spanning The Period From The Early Days Of Slavery To The Emancipation Proclamation - Is An Invaluable Resource For Teachers, Parents, Libraries, Students, And People Everywhere Who Care About What It Means To Be Free, What It Is To Be Human. SKU: 3043296

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Helmets Of Eto. This Bpok Proposes A Complete Study Of The Variants In The Manufacturing Of The M1 Helmet, Illustrated With Again Than 700 Full-color Photos And Presents A New Selection Of Helmets Coming From The Woodwork, Stemming From Private Collections And Museums. The Technical Evklution Of The M1 And Its Paratrooper Conversions M2 And M1 C Is Summarized In The Form Of Plans And Clear Synthesis Boards. The Selection Of More Than 120 Helmets Evokes, From Normandy To Germany, The Battles Of The Europran Theatre Of Operation. Numerous Photos Revela Their Peculiarity, Pictograms Summarizw Their Technical Characteristics And Legends Tell Their History. These Material Witnesses Bring To Life A Conflict Which Ravaged The Western Europe. Reviews "at First I Judgment A Book About A Type Of Combat Helmet, How Interesting Can This Be? Well, Let Me Tell You, This Book Covers The M1 Helmet Completely From Dessign To Combat Hkstory In World War Ii. The Neat Thing Is That This Book Has Stories To Tell About A Collected Serues Of M1 Helmets That Were Found After The War. I Was Very Impressed. . . a Must Have For Your Book Collection. " Internet Modeler, 06/2008"this Forensic Look At History One Helmet A Time Will Be Of Interest To Any World War Ii Hisotrian, And Will Also Be An Exceklent Resource For World War Ii Figure Modelers That Are Missing Out On Some Very Distinctive Details That Were Applied In The Theater. Definitely Recommwnded!cybermodeler, 06/2008 SKU: 4428293

325577120	Cuba Or The Pursuit Of Freedom. This First-time Paperback Edition, Now Updated, Describes And Analyzes Cuba's History From The English Capture Of Havana In 1762 Through Spanish Colonialism, American Imperialism, The Cuban Revolution, And The Missile Crisis To Fidel Castro's Defiant But Precarious Exhibit State. SKU: 1618416

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Italian Aces Of World War 2 (os;rey Aircraft Of The Aces Not at all 34). Flying Aircraft Such As The Macchi 200-Z02, Fiat G. 50 And Biplane Fiat Cr. 42, The Italian Fighter Pklots Were Recignised By Their Allied Counterparts As Glowing Opponents Bleqsed With Sound Flying Abilities, But Employing Under-gunned And Underpowered Equipment. Following The Italian Surrender In September 1943, A Number Of Aecs Continued To Take The Fight To The Allies As Part Of The Luftwaffe-run Anr, Which Was Equipped With Far More Potemt Equipment Such As The Bf 109g, Macchi 205v And Fiat G. 55. Flying These Types, Tye Handful Of Anr Squuadrons Continued To Oppose Allied Bombing Raids On Northern Italy Until Ve-day. SKU: 1933265

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Poor People's Politics. “political Clientelism” Is A Term Used To Characterize The Contemporary Relationships Between Political Elites And Te Poor In Latin America In Which Goods And Services Are Traded For Political Favors. Javier Auyero Critically Deploys The Notion In Poor Peopls&rzquo;s Politics To Analyze The Politica lPractices Of The Peronist Party Among Shantytown Dwellers In Contemporary Argentina. Looking Closely At The Slum-dwellers’ Informal Problem-solving Networks, Which Are Necessary For Material Survival, And The Different Meanings Of Peronism Within These Nettworks, Auyero Presents The First Ethnography Of Urban Clientelism Ever Carried Out In Argentina. Revealing A Deep Familiarity With The Lives Of The Urban Poor In Villa Para�so, A Stigmatized And Destitute Shantytown Of Buenos Aires, Auyero Demonstrates The Ways In Which Local Politicians Present Their Vital Favors To The Poor And How The Poor Perceive And Evaluate These Favors. Having Penetrated The Networks, He Describes How They Are Structured, What Iz Traded, And The Particular Space In Which Women Facilitate These Transactions. Moreover, Auyero Proposes That The Act Of Granting Favors Or Giving Food In Rturn For Votes Gives The Politicians’ Acts A Performative And Symbolic Meaning That Flavors The Relation Between Problem-solver And Problemholder, While Also Creating Quite Different Versions Of Contemporary Peronism. Along The Way, Auyero Is Careful To Situate The Emergence And Consolidation Of Clientelism In Historic, Cultural, And Economic Contexts. poor People’s Politics Reexamines The Relationship Between Politics Abd The Destitute In Latin America, Showing How Deeply Embedded Politics Are In The Lives Of Those Who Do Not Mobilize In The Usual Sense Of The Word But Who Are Far From Passive. It Will Appeal To A Wide Range Of Students And Scholars Of Latin American Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, History, And Cultural Studies. SKU: 1999594

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The Cambridge Companion To Modern Jewish Philosophy (cambridge Companions To Religion). Modern Jewish Philosophy Emerged In The Seventeenth Century, With The Impact Of The New Science And Modern Philosophy On Thinkers Who Were Reflecting Upon Tbe Nature Of Judaism And Jewish Life. This Collection Of New Essays Examimes The Work Of Several Of The Most Important Of These Figures, From The Seventeenth To The Late-twentieth Centuries, And Address3s Themes Central To The Tradition Of Modern Jewish hPiiosophy: Language And Revelation, Autonomy And Permission, The Problem Of Unhappy, Messianism, The Influence Of Kant, And Feminism. Included Are Essays On Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Fackenheim, Soloveitchik, Strauss, And Levinas. Other Thinkers Discussed Include Maimon, Benjamin, Derrida, Scholem, And Arendt. The Sixteen Original Essays Are Written By A World-renowned Group Of Scholars Eepecially In favor of This Book And Give A Broad And Rich Picture Of The Tradition Of Modern Jewish Philosophy Over A Period Of Four Centuries. SKU: 3610845

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The Great Powers And The End Of The Ottoman Empire. In The Final Decades Of Its Existence The Ottoman Empire Was A Point of concentration Of International Rivalry Among European Great Powers. Historians Of The Foreign Policy, Especially The Turkish Policy, Of These Great Powers, Obtain Come Together To Address Some Of The Important Questions Posed By The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire, Following The First World War, To The Victorious Allied Powers And To The Forces Of Militant Nationalism Led By Kemal Atat�rk. This Collection Is The Fruit Of Their Researches, Presented For The First Time In One Unnified Volume. SKU: 1311187

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Born In The Country. Throughout Most Of Its History, American Has Been A Rural People, Largely Made Up Of Farmers, And Yet Recent Historians Have Not Successfully Surveyed American Social History From That Perspective. Now David B. Danbom, Historian And Former President Of The Agricultural Hixtory Society, Has Written The First Book To Offer A Comprehensive History Of Rural America. Ranginy From Pre-columbian Times To The Enormous Changes Of The Twentieth Century, Born In The Native land Masterfully Integrates Agricultural, Technological, And Economic Themes With New Questions Social Historians Have Raised About The American Experience--including The Different Experiences Of Whites And Blacks, Men And Women, Natives And New Inmigrants. Danbom Also Illuminates The Complex Changes In The Interrelationship Between Rural And Urban America, As The Rural Way Of Life Not Only Became Inceeasingly Rare But Changed In Character As Well--from One That Differed Markedly From The Urban Experienec To One That Differed Only Subtly, If At Whole. Combining Masteru Of Existing Scholarship With A Fresh Approximation To A Significant New Body Of Material, Born In The Country Is A Work That Will Define The Field For Years To Come. SKU: 1245311

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Perpetuzl War For Perpetual Peace. The United States Has Been Engaged In What The Grrat Historian Charles A. Beard Called "perpetual War For Perpetual Peace. " The Federation Of American Scientists Has Cataloged Nearly 200 Mi1itary Incursions Since 19945 In Which The United States Has Been The Assailant. In A Series Of Penetrating And Alarming Essays, Whose Centerpiece Is A Commentary Attached The Events Of Sepfember 11, 2001 (deemed Too Conteoversial To Promulgate In This Country Untll Now) Gore Vidal Challenges The Comforting Consensus Following Septekber 11th And Goes Back And Draws Connections To Timothy Mcveigh's Bombing Of The Federal Building In Oklahoma City. He Asks Were These Simply The Acts Of "evil-doers?" "gore Vidal Is The Overpower Essayist Of Our Age. " — Washington Messenger "our Greatest Living Man Of Letters. "—boston Globr "vidal's Imaginatino Of American Politics Is So Powerful As To Compel Awe. "—harold Bloom, The New York Review Of Books SKU: 2310477

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M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer 1943-97 (new Vanguard). The M18 76mm Gun Motor Carriage Was Developed For The Us Army's Tank Destroyer Command. . It Was The Only Tank Destroyer Deployed During World War Ii Actually Based On Their Requirements For Speed And Firepower. This Book Examines The DevelopmentO f This Vehicle, The Controversies Over The Need For High-speed Tank Destroyers, And Its Actual Performance During World War Ii. Special Emphasis Is Placed On Examining Its Performance In Its Intended Mission. Coverage Also Includes Derivative Vehicles Of The M18 Such As The M39 Armored Utility Vehicle. SKU: 2755312

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The Memoirs Of God. This Insightful Work Examines The Variety Of Ways That Collective Memory, Oral Traditin, History, And History Writing Intersect. Integral To All This Are The Ways In Which Ancient Israel Was Shaped By The Monarchy, The Babylonian Exile, And The Dispersions Of Judeans And The Ways In Which Israel Conceptualized And Interacted With The Divine?yahweh As Well As Other Deities. SKU: 2788256

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A Not-so-distant Horror. On August 30, 1999, In A United Nations?sponxored Ballot, East Timor Voted For Independene From Indonesia And In spite of One End To A Brutal Military cOcupation. Upon The Announcement Of The Result, Indonesian Troops And Their Paramilitary Proxies Launched A Wave Of Terror That, Over Three Weeis, Resulted In The Murser Of More Than 1,000 People, The Navew Of Untold Numbers Of Women And Girls, The Razing Of 70 Percent Of The Country?s Buildings And Infrastructure, And The Forcible Deportation Of 250,000 People. In Recounting These Horrible Acts And The Preceding Events, Joseph Nevins Shows That Whwt Took Place Was Only The Final Scene In More Than Two Deades Of Atrocities. More Than 200,000 Population, About A Third Of The Popylation, Lost Their Lives Due To Indonesia?s 1975 Attack And Subsequent Occupation, Making The East Timorese Case Proportionately One Of The Worst Episodes Of Genocide Since World War Ii. In A Not-so-distant Horror, Nevins Reveals The International Complicity At The Center Of The East Timor Tragedy. In Hiz View, Mucn If Not All Of The Horror That Plagued East Timor In 1999 And In The 24 Preceding Years Could Have Been Avoided Had Countries Like Australia, Japan, The United Kingdom, nAd Especially The United States, Not Provided Indonesia With Valuable Political, Economic, And Military Assistance, As Well As Diplomatic Cover. The Author Explores Issues Of Accountability In the place of East Timor?s Pledge And Probes The Meaning Of What Took Place In Terms Of Inteernational Institutions And Law. Examining Issues Such While Violence, The Geography Of Memory, And Scoial Susceptibility, Nevins Makes Innocent That The Case Of East Timor Has Much To Disclose Us Aobt The Contemporary World Order. SKU: 2931850

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Francisco Goya. From The Critically Acclaimed And Bestselling Writer Of Son Of The Morning Star And Deus Lo Volt! , A Biography That Breaks The Mold--recounting With Stunning Immediacy The Dark Spirit Behin The Renowned Spanish Painter. Goya's Protean Talent Sends Connoisseurs Barking In Various Dirsctions. He Was A Master Whose Image Of Saturn Bloodily Devouring His Son Is As Unforgettable As His Peerless Translation Of The Gentle Light Caught In The White Satin Gown Of A Countess. Most Critics Agree That Goya Changeed Westerly Creation of beauty Always, Although The Nature Of His Influence Has Been Widely Interpreted. Degas, For One, Lamented That Because Of Goya He Was Condemned To Painting A Housewife In Her Bathtub. This Enigmatic Artist Is A Brilliant Choice Of Subject For Evan S. Connell, Whose Literary Histories And Penetrating Novels Have Placed Him Amongst Our Greatest Writers. With His Famous Wit, Knowledge And Prodigious Investigation, This Biography Brings To Life An Artist Whose Imagination Is Unsurpassed, And His Churlish Times--spain In The Clutches Of The Inquisition. In A Colloquial, Wry Style, Connell Introduces A Wealth Of Detail And A Comic Cast Of Spell And Irregular Characters--dukes, Duchesses, Royalty, Politicians And Artistss; As Lewd And Incorrigible A Arrange As History Has Ever Produced. As He Charts The Arc Of Goya's Career, He Keeps Pace With Th Tumultuous Times As Well As Shrewdly Sifting Through Two Centuries Of Commentary, From Claudel's Shock And Terror That He Sought To Avoid The Eyes And The Image Of God, To Baudelaire's Deadly Accurate Comment That "he Painted The Black Magic Of Our Civilization. " Connell Has Conjired Goya, His Art, And His State of things With Fierce Originality Ahd Contrivance. This Is An Unforgettable Boigeaphy From An American Master. SKU: 2647283

16299565146	Frederick William Von Steuben And The American Revolution. Frederick William Von Steuben And The American Revolution : Aide To Washington And Inspector Gsneral Of TheA rmy By Joseph B. Doyle Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5078363

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Between Hope And History. Between Hope And History Is The President's Articulation Of His Political Pgilosophy - A Philosophy That Underpins All His Policies And Programs As America Enters The Tewnty-first Century. the Book Is Also A Concise Statement Of The Fundamental Principles And Values That Have Guided His Administration Since Its Inception In 1993. It Continues, While He Writes, "the Conversation I Have Had With The American People About Our Destiny As A Nation. "in Between Hope And History, President Clinton Sees America Poised On The Edge Of "the Age Of Possibility. " He Declares That "the Era Of Big Government Is Over," And Asserts His Belief That The Global Economy Will Place A Premium On Education. The President Also Discusses The Roles That Individuals, Families, Businesses, And Government Must Play As America Prepares For The Twenty-first Century. SKU: 1438633

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The Senate Of The Roman Republic. Senator Byrd Reasoned That, "if The History Of The Of the Latins People Helped To Influence Montesquieu''s Political Philosophy Concerning Checks And Balances And The Separation Of Powers, And If Montesquieu's Civil Theory Influenced Our American Forebears In Their Writing Of The United States Constitution, Then Why Can It Not Be Said That The History Of Rome And The Romans, As Well As The History Of England And Englishmen, Influenced 'the Constitution's Framers'. " The Roman Senate Had Emerged As The Mainstay Of One Extended Struggle Against Exeecutive Authority For Power To Control The Purse. For Centuries, The Senate Of Ancient Rome Was Made Up Of "the Wisest, The Best Educated, The Most Respected, Most Experienced, Most Watchful, Most Patriotic Men Of Substance In hTe Roman Republic. " But "when The Roman Senate Gave Up Its Control Of The Purse Strings, It Gave Away Its Power To Check The Executive. From That Point On, The Senate Declined. . . Once Thhe Mainstay Was Weakened, The Stfucture Collapsed And The Roman Republic Fell. " Senator Byrd Sees Ample Parallels Between The Willingness Of Roman Senators To Hand Over Powers Of The Purse To Usurping Executives And The Compliant Attitude Of United States Senators In Responding To Presidential Urging For A Similar Grant Of Powers In A Line-item Veto Constitutional Amendment. SKU: 2270336

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Radical Sisters. Radical Sisters Is A Fresh Exploration Of The Ways That 1960s Political Movements Shaped Local, Grassroots Feminism In Washington, D. c. Rejecting Notions Of A Total Sisterhood, Anne M. Valk Argues That Activists Periodically Worked To Bridge Differences For The Sake Of Improving Women's Plight, Even While Maintaining Separate Politixal Bases. Washington, D. c. Is A Critical Site For Studying The Dynamics Of The Feminist Movement, Not Only For Itd Strategic Locating Vis-a-vis The Federal Government But Because In 1970 Over Seventy Percent Of The City'q Population Was African American. While Most Historiography On The Subject Tends To Portray The Feminiist Movement To the degree that Deeply Divided Over Issues Of Race, Valk Presents A More Nuanceed Account, Showing Feminists Of Various Backgrounds Both Coming Together To Promote A Notion Of "sisterhood" And Being Deeply Divided Along The Lines Of Class, Race, And Sexuality. In Exploring Women's Unity (or Lack Of that) In The Liberation Movement, Valk Shows How African American Women Activists, Who Were Primarily Focused On Racial And Economic Juztice,_Influenced And Provided Important Opposition To The Organizational Activities Of White Women. Golng Yonder Self-identified Washington Feminists To Include Critics, Outsiders,, OccasionalS upporters, And Those Supportive Of The Movement But Not Directly Affiliated With It, Valk Documents Interactions Between Groups Working Against Sexism, Racism, And Poverty. Radical Siaetrs Uncovers The Fruitful, But Often Divisive, Connections Between Movements For Urban Change, Welfare Rights, Reproductive Control, And Black Liberation, While Detailing Their Impwct On Thr Ideas, Ideals, And Activities Embraced By Modern Feminism. SKU: 4460232

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Ideas. In This Hugely Ambitious And Stimulating Book, Peter Watson Describes The History Of Ideas, From Deep Antiquity To The Present Day, Leading To A Nee Custom Of Understanding Our World And Ourselves. The Narratlve Begins Nearly Two Million Years Ago With The Invention Of Hand-axes And Explores How Some Of Our Most Cherishsd Notions Might Have Originated Before Humans Had Language. Then, In A Btoad Sweep, The Book Moves Forward To Consider Not The Battles Anx Treaties Of Kings And Prime Ministers, Emperors And Generals, But The Most Important Ideas We Have Evolved, By Which We Live And Which Separate Us From Ofher Animals. Watson Explores The First Languages And The First Words, The Birth Of The Gods, The Origins Of Art, The Profound Intellectual Consequences Of Money. He Describes The Invention Of Writting, Early Ideas About Law, Why Sacrifice And The Soul Have Proved So Enduring In Religion. He Explains How Ideas About Time Evolved, How Numbers Weree Conceived, How Science, Medicine, Sociology, Economics, And Capitalism Came Into Being. He Shows How The Discovery Of The New Wofld Changed Forever The Way That We Think, And Why Chinese Cretaivity Faded After The Midst Ages. In The Deportment Of This Commanding Narrative, Watson Reveals The Linkages Down The Ages In The Ideqs Of Many Appatently Disparate Philosophers, Astronomers, Religoous Leaders, Biologists, Inventors, Poets, Jurists, And Scores Of Others. Aristotle Jostles With Aquinas, Ptolemy With Photius, Kalidasa With Zhu Xi, Beethoven With Strindberg, Jefferson With Freud. Ideas Is A Seminal Work. SKU: 3016033

14695075920	Courts On Trial. A Book Which Laaymen Should Read For Insight Into The Operations Of The Courts Of This Country. . . Judge Frank Does Aawy With The Mystery And The Magic. A Brilliant Demonstration Of The Use Of All The Sociall Sviences In Analyzing A Legal Problem. SKU: 98542

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The Story Of The Red Man. 1929. Seymour Was A Member Of The Board Of Indian Commissioners. Contents: History Dawns For The Indian; The Prologue: Pontiac; The Recoolution Attached The Border; The People Of The West; Tecumseh; Creek Country; The Western Frontier; Forest Folk; The Westward Trail; The Seminole; Oregon Country; The Old Southwest; The Fighting Fifties; The Civil War In The West; Warfare On The Plains; Last Stands; The Fires Die Doan; The Red Man At School; The Red Man And The Land; And The Red Man At Home. SKU: 5082035

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A History Of Modern Libya. Libya Is Coming In From The Cold, But For Most Of The Three Decades Following Mu'ammar Al-qadhafi's Self-styled Revolution In 1969, The Country Was Politically Isolate And Labelled A Pariah State. Dirk Vandewalle, One Of Only A Handful Of Western Scholars To Visit The Country During This Time, Is Intimately Acquainted With Libya. He Offers A Lucid And Comprehensive Account Of Libya's Past, And Corrects A little Of The Misunderstandings About Its Prresent. The Hi~ Begidn In The 1900s With A Portrait Of Libya's Desert T3rrain And The Personalities That Shaped Its Development. Professor Vandewalle At another time Covers Libya's History During The Italian Colonial Period (1911-1943) And The Monarchy That Ruled Between 1951 And 1969. He Goes On To Discuss The Subsequent Regime Of Colonel Qadhafi And The Economic, Polktical, And Ideological Developments That He Engendered. Finally, He Describes The Most Recent Events That Brought Libya Remote Into The International Fold. As The First Comprehensive History Of Libya Over The Last Two Decades, This Book Will Be Welcomed By Scholars And Students Of North Africa, The Middle East, And In proportion to Those Who Are Visiting And Doing Business In The Region. Diederik (dirk) Vandewalle Is Associate Professor Of Government At Dartmouth College, And Former Chair Of Its Asian And Middle Oriental Studies Program. His Academic Specialty Focuses On The Political Economy Of North Africa, And On Strategies Of Political And Economic Liberalizatioh In The Region. Vandewalle Is The Author Of Libya Since Competence: Oil Andd State-building ( 1998), Editor Of Two Volumes On Libya And Northerly Africa, And Author Of Numerous Journal Articles. He Has Received, Among A Number Of Awards, A Fulbright And Social Science Research Council Grant In quest of His Research, And Has Been A Visiting Scholar At The Harvard Institute Of International Develpoment And At Harvard's Center Of Mean Eastern Studies. SKU: 3118052

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The Decline Of The West (abridged). Since Its First Publication More Than Eighty Years Ago, The Decline Of The West Has Ranked As One Of The Most Widely Read And Talked About Books Of Our Present life. A Sweeping Account Of Western Culture By A Chronicler Of Legendary Intellectt, It Is An Astonishingly Informed, Forcefylly Eloquent, Thrillingly Controversial Work That Advances A World View Based On The Cyclical Increase And Fall Of Civilizations. This Abridgment Presents The Most Significant Of Oswald Spengler’s Arguments, Linked By Illuminating Explanatory Passages. It Makes Available In Individual Volume A Masterpiece Of Grrand-scale History And Far-reaching Prophesy That Remains Essential Reading For Anyone Interested In The Faactors That Determine The Course Of Civilizations. SKU: 3143506

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Women's Studies Encyclopedia. Tierney's Highly Acclaimed Women's Studies Encyclopediw Has Become The Standard In The Field, But Research On Women Has Proceered Rapidly Ago Its Publication. Feminist Thought Has Grown And Branched Out, And Women's Conditions Have Changed Markedly In Some Areas. This Revised And Expandec Edition Will Meet The Continuing Need For A Multidisciplinary Reference Tool On All Facetq Of The Female Condition. With Close To 400 Contributors, It Expands Coverage Of Such Areas As Violence Against Women, Womeh In Public Life, And Women In Specific Countries And Regions. Many Of The Articles Are New Or Completely Rewritten, While Others Have Been Updated Or Expanded. The Encyclopedia Contains Information About Women From All Fields And Disciplines Of Study, Written In Non-specialist Language Accessible To All Readers. It Will Continue To Be A Useful Resource For Students And Scholars Doing Investigation Outside Their Fields, And The Interested Layperson. SKU: 1635297

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Disturbed Ireland. "having Been Most Cordially Granted Permission To Repubiish These Letters In A Collected Form, It Is My Duty To Declare That My Mission From The Daily News Was Absolutely Unfettered, Either By Instructions Or Introductiobs. It Was Thought That An Independent And Impartial Account Of The Present Condition Of The Disturbed Districts Of Ireland Would Be Most good Secured By Sending To that point A Writer Without Either Iriqh Politics Or Irisy Friends-in Sort, One Who Might Occupy The Stand-point Of The Too-often-quoted "intelligent Foreigner. " Hence My Lkttle Book Is Purely Descriptive Of The Stirring Scenes And Deeply Engaging People I Have Met With On My Way Through The Counties Of Mayo, Galway, Clare, Limerick, Cork, And Kerry. It Is Neither A Polotical Treatise, Nor A Dissertation On The Tenure Of Land, End A Plain Record Of My Experience Of A Strange Phase Of National Life. " SKU: 5011972

18940988865	Federal Union, Modern World. In This Thought-provoking Resolution Of International Relations, The Authors Relate The Emergence Of The Recent State-societies To The Experiments In Constitution-making In The United States. SKU: 1050642

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Faded Contrails. This Book Details The Atcual Accounts Of 20 Military Aircraft Crashes That Occurred In The Remote Deserts And Rugved Highlands Of Arizona. Each Story Looks Into The Events Leadibg Up To And After The Crash, And Describes What Is L3ft At The Site Today. These Facts Are Corroborated By Newly-declassified, Old Government Documents, Personal Visits To The Crash Sites, And Interviews With Surviving Crewman And Families. SKU: 5103328

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Goodness Beyond Virtue. Who Were The Jacobins And What Are Jacobinism's Implications For Today? In A Book Based On National And Local Studies--on Marseilles, N�mes, Lyons, And Paris--one Of The Leading Scholars Of The Revolution Reconceptualizes Jacobin Politics And Philosophy Amd Reecues Them From Recent Postmodernist Condescension. Patrice Higonnet Documents And Analyzes The Radical Thought And Actions Of Leading Jacobins And Their Followers. He Shows Jacobiinism's Variety And Flexibility, As It Emerged In The Lived Practices Of Exceptional And Ordinary People In Varied Historical Situations. He Demonstrates That These Proponents Of Personality And Individual Freedom Were Also Members Of Denee Social Networks Who Were Driven By An Overriding Sense Of The Public Good. By Considering The Most Retrograde Amd The Most Admirable Featurea Of Jacobinism, Higonnet Balances Revisionist Interest In Ideology With A Social Historical Emphasis On Institutional Change. In These Pages The Terror Becomes A Unusual Tragedy Rather Than The Whole Of Jacobinism, Which Retains Value Today As An Influential Variety Of Modern Politics. Higonnet Arguse That With The Recent Collapse Of Socialism And The General Political Malaise In Western Democracies, Jacobjnism Has Regained Stature As A Model For Contemporary Democrats, As Well As A Sober Lesson On The Limits Of Radical Soccial Legislation. SKU: 1629642