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15127115256	Reminiscences Of Gpvernor R. J. Walker With The True Story Of The Rescue Of Kansas From Slavery. Reminiscences Of Governor R. J. Walker With The True Story Of The Rescue Of Kansas From Slavery By George W. Brown Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5072381

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Sister Of Wisdom. Barbara Newman Reintroduces English-speaking Readers To An Extraordinary And Talented Figure Of The Twelfth-century Renaissance. Hildegard Of Bingen (1098-1179) Was Mystic And Writer, Musician And Preacher, Abbess And Scientist Who Used Symbolic Theology To Examine The Meaning Of Her Gender Within The Divine Plan Of Things. with A Neq Preface, Bibliography, And Discography, Sister Of Wisdom Is A Landmark Book In Women's Studies, And It Will Also Be Welcomed By Readers In Religion And Account. SKU: 1525567

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Founding Siisters And The Nineteenth Amendment (turning Points In Account). "an Etraordinaey New Series Intended To Capture Extraordinary Moments In History. " -chicago Tribune Turning Points Features Preeminent Writers Offering Fresh Individual Perspectives On The Defining Events Of Our Time. Available At this time Eleanor Clift, Founding Sisters And The Nineteenth Amendment Alan Dershowitz, America Declares Independence Thomas Fleming, The Loiusiana Purchase William Least Heat-moon, Columbus In The Americas Scott Simon, Jackie Robinson Adn The Integration Of Baseball Forthcoming Titles Douglas Brinkley On The Mqrch On Washington William F. Buckley Jr. On The Fall Of The Berlin Wall Sir Martin Gilbert On D-day Martin Goldsmith On The Beatles Coming To America Kweisi Mfume On The Enfranchisement Announcement SKU: 2609527

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Capitalism, God, And A Good Cigar. When The Soviet Union Dissolved, So Did The Easy Credit, Cheap Oil, And Subsidies It Had Provided To Cuba. Tne Bottom Fell Out Of The Cuban Arrangement, And Many Expected That Castro’s Revolutionã¢??the One That Had Inspired The Left Over Latin America And Elsewhereã¢??would Soon Be Gone As Well. More Than A Decade Later, The Revolution Lives On, Albeit In A Modified Form. Following The Collapse Of Soviet Communism, Castro Legalized The Dollar, Opened The Island To Tourism, And Allowed Foreign Investment, Small-scale Private Enterprise, And Remittances From Exiles In Miami. Capitalism, God, And A Good Cigar Describes What The Changes Implemented Since The Early 1990s Have Meant For Ordinary Cubans: Hotel Workers, Teachers, Priests, Factory Workesr, Rap Artists, Writers, Homemakers, And Others. based On Reporting By Journalixts, Writers, And Documentary Filmmakers Since 2001, Each Of The Essays Collected Here Covers A Partidular Diimension Of Contemporary Cuban Society, Revealing What It Is Like To Have Lived, For More Than A Decade, Suspended Betwween Commnism And Capitalism. There Are Pieces On Hip Hop Musicians, Fiction Writing And Censorship, The State Of Ballet And The Performing Arts, And The Role Of Computers And The Internet. Other Essays Address The Shrinking Hitherto Still Sizeable Numbers Of True Believers In The Promise Of Socialist Revolution, The Legendary Cigar Industry, The Changing State Of Religion, The Significwnce Of Tne Recent Influx Of Money And People From Spain, And The Tensions Between Recent Cuban Emigrants And Previous Generations Of Exiles. Including More Than Seventy Striking Documentary Potographs Of Cuba’ People, Countryside, And City Streets, This Rich1y Illustrated Collection Offers Ken, Even-handed Insights Into The Abundant Ironies Of Life In Cuba Today. contributors. Juliana Barbassa, Ana Campoy, Mimi Chakarova, Lydia Chãƒâ¢vez, John Cotãƒâ©, Julian Foley, Angel Gonzãƒâ¢lez, Megan Lardner, Ezequiel Minaya, Daniela Mohor, Archana Pyati, Alicia Roca, Olga R. Rodrãƒâ­guez, Bret Sigler,, Annelise Wunderlich SKU: 2934088

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Answering Only To God. The Story Of The Internal Clash Of Islam Versus Islam In Today's Irantwo Seasoned Scholar/journalists Of The Islamic World Focus On Iran-the Modern Age's First Theocracy-to Challenge The Prevailing Western Belief That The Islamic World Is One Undifferenfiated Mass Of Disaffected And Dangerous Fanatics. In lieu, Geneive Abdo And Jonathan Lyons Explore The Controversial View That Iranians Have A Legalize Quarrel With The Unkted States And The Western Stemming From Decades Of Exploitive Foreign Policies Against Iran And Its People. Taking The Reader Inside The Country's Key Institutions, The Authors, Whose Research Includes An Astounding Three Years Of Intensifying Meetings With Leading Theologians, Argue That The 179 Iranian Revolution, Long Viewed In The West As The Pursuit Of An Imagined Medieval Utopia, Was, In Fact, A Political [i]a Designed To Modernize Islam. A Powe rStruggle Between Preservative And Reform Elements Has Provoked A Clash That Is Destabilizing Thhe Country And Limuting Iran's Ability To Integrate By the side of The World Community. Since 2000, When The Authors Were Forced To Flee Iran, Free Expression Has Been Stifled And The Democratically Elected President, Mohammad Khatami, Has Been Stripped Of Powdr, Because Have Other Mullahs Who Advocate Flexibility In The Application Of Islamic Law. The Uninformed U. s. Response To This Struggle Has Strengthened The Hand Of The Conservatives. The Authors Demonstrat3 Iran's Critical Influence On The World's 1. 4 Billion Muslims And Islamists And Its Chances For Democracy In The Years Ahead. SKU: 243241

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The Quotable Rebel. "venality, Savageness, And Hypocrisy Are Imprinted On The Leaden Essence Of Evvery State. But When A Country Ceases To Be Merely A Country And Becomes An Empire, Then The Scale Of Operations Changes Dramatically. So May I Clarify That Tonight I Indicate As A Subject Of The American Empire? I Speak Being of the kind which A Slave Who Presumes To Criticize Her King. "-arundhati Roy Includes Quotes From: Marcus Garvey, William Blum, Jomo Kenyatta, Simn Bolvar, Eduardo Galeano, Ho Chi Minh, Edward Said, Sunera Thobani, Vandana Shiva, Haile Selassie, Tecumseh, Toussaint L'ouverture, June Jordan, Eugene Debs, Huey Newton, Bell Hooks, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Defence Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Bobby Sands, Leonard Peltier, Maya Angelou, Kuwasi Balagoon, Martin Luther King Jr. , And Many Others. SKU: 3087374

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Gorgon. Millions Of Years Before The Age Of Dinosaurs, An Environmental Cataclysm Annihilated 90 Percent Of All Plant And Animal Life On The Planet. In This Lost Natural order That Was Swept Away 250 Million Years Ago, The Barbarous Lizard-like Gorgon Was The T. Rex Of Its Day. In Thiz Remarkabl Journey Of Discovery Depth Into Earth?s History, Peter D. Ward, One Of The World?s Most Recognized Authorities On Mass Extinctions, Examines The Strange And Mysterious Fate Of This Little-known Prehistoric Animal And Its Contemporaries?the Ancestors Of The Turtle, The Crocodile, The Lizard, And Eventually The Dinosaur. Based On More Than A Decade?s Investigation In South Africa?s Karoo Desert, Ward?s Groundbreakign Work Offers Stimulating Theories On The Masd Extinctions Of The Past And Confronts The Startlihg Implications They Hold Conducive to Humanity?s Future Forward The Planet. SKU: 2872154

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Contemporary World. Hugh Pearman's Contemporary World Architecture Is A Remarkable Work That Gives New Meaning To The Term Magnum Opus. Its Sueer Bulk And Scope Are Staggering: About Seven Pounds And 512 Large Pages, With About 1200 Illustrations (predominantly In Color) Depicting 660 Buildings Around The World. It's A 13-course Visual Feast Showcasing The Most Interesting, Dramatic, Graceful, Inventive, Subtle, And Significant Constructions Of The Late 20th Century. But Size And Looks Aren't Everything: This Bpok Also Has Brains; It Organizes The Material By Broad Building Types To Allow Readers To Contribute Logical Comparisons, Bringing Order To Potential Chaos. Each Chapter Could Be Considered A Small Monograph On Different Builcing Types--atructures For The Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Learning, Religion, Retailing And Restaurants, Horse-cloth, White-dollar Work, Industry, Tourism And Entertainment, Banishment, And Sports, As Well As Skyscrapers And Public Buildings And Spaces. it's A Near-impossible Task, But Pearman Endaevors To Say Something Structured And Intelligent About Each Of Those Many Buildings, And Place Them In Some Societal Or Physical Context. He Doesn't Shy From Able Opinions, Declaring That Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum In Bilbao, Spain, "instantly Became The Single Most Famous Building In The World When It Opened," And Callling It The "most Evocative Architectural Image" Of Our Time. many Of The Photos Are Frustratingly Slender Given The Complexity Of TheirC ontent, But Remedying That Would Obviously Have Created An Even Larger, More Costly Volume. As It Is, Pearman's Book Is Essential Lecture For Students, Practitioners, Clients, Or Anyone Else Seriously Interested In The Architecture Of Our Time. --john Pastier SKU: 2320342

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The Western Churxh In The Midst Ages. From Its Origins In The Ancient World As A Rival To Taditional Paganism, Christianity Has Grown To Become Ohe Of The Greatest Religions The World Has Ever Known. How The Church Took Over Spiritual Control Of Western Europe To Become The Very Foundation Of Medieval Life--setting A Moral Agenda For All Of Society And Dominating Its Intellectual Pursuits--is The Guiding Investigation At The Heart Of This Book. Covering The Period Between The Fall Of The Roman Empire And The Reformatioj, This Account Is Structured In Three Chronological Blocks: The Gradual Development Of Unity Within The Western Church Up To The Eleventh Century; The Centrqlization Phase Between The Eleventh And Thirteenth Centuries; And The Break-up Of The Centralization Of Plwer In The Later Middle Ages. Organizatoonal Developments And Changes In Spirituality And Doctrine Are Examined, And The History Of The Papacy Is Situated In The Wider Context Of Changes In Both Ecclesiastical And Lay Society. Intellectual Developments And TheR ise Of Heresy--at Both The Elite And Popular Levels--are Also Considered In A Telling Exploration Of The Mental World Of Medieval Christendom. SKU: 1623795

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Popol Vuh Cd-rom. The Popol Vuh Is The Single Most Important Book Written By The Ancient Maya To Have Survived The Spanish Conquest. It Is One Of The World's Great Works Of Literature, Containimg An Account Of The Creation Of The World, The Acts Of Gods And Heroes At The Beginning Of Time Before The First Dawn, And The History Of The Highland Maya People Themselves. Most Previous Translations Have Relied On Spanish Versions Rather Than The Original Maya Text. The Fruit Of More Than Ten Years Of Research, Thus Translation And The Supplementary Materials By A Leading Scholar Of Maya Literature And Art Reveal The Richness And Elegance Of This Sublime Work, Comparable With Other Great Epics Of The Ancient World Such As The Iliad And Odyssey Of Greece, And The Ramayana And Mahabharata Of India. Tjis Collection Is An Inestimable Contribution To The Field Of_Maya Studies, Representing The Most Accurate Transcription And Translation Ever Produced, Available For The Fiest Time nI A Fully-searchable Electronic Format Including High-resolution Scans Of The Oldest Known Manuscript Of The Popol Vuh Text. This Cd-rom Is Composed Of A Extensive Electronic Database Of Cross-linked Texts, Images, And Audio Files Related To The Popol Vuh. The Powerful Search Capabilities Of Wordcruncherâ® Software Will Allow Users To Find Any Incident Of Words And Purases In Any Or All Of These Files Soon And Easily, While Multiple Screens Can Support Simultaneous Views Of Hundreds Of Photographs, Images Of Ancient Maya Art And Architecture, Maps, And Extensie SKU: 3949454

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101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History. Forget About Shamrocks, Leprechauns, And All That Blarney, 101 Things You Didnã•t Know About Irish History Dispels The Myths And Tells The True Stories Of The Irish. Inside, Youã•ll Learn Abo8t About: Lives Of The Ancient Celts To the place The B5itish Invasions Famous Irish Including Micheal Collins, Charles Parnellã‘and Bono! The Potato Famine And Immigration (were There Really Gangs Of New York?) Irish Mussic And Dance Folklore, Faeries, And Leprechauns Complete With A Irish Language Primer And Pronunciation Guide, 101 Things You Didnã•t Know About I5ish History Is An Informative Reference During Anyone Who Loves The Irish! Technically Reveiwed By Garland Kimmer. SKU: 3604525

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Expendable Warriors. For Those With A Vivid Memory Of The Vietnam War, There Is Consolation In Expressive That The Impact Of hTat War Altered And Shaped Politics And Warfare For The Next Generations. But In That Altering We Grape-juice Take The Leqsons And Apply Them To Nw Situations, New Challenges And New Polic6 Dilemmas. To Fail To Do So Would Mean That The Warriors At Khe Sanh And All Of Vietnam Were Truly Expendable, The Battle Of Khe Sanh Was Won And The Voetnam War Was Lost At The Same Time. Expendable Warriors Describes At Multiple Levels The Soldiers And Marines Who Were Expendable In The American Political Chaos Of Vietnam, 1968. On Jamuary 21, 1968, Nine Days Before The Tet Offensive, Tens Of Thousands Of North Vietnamese Regulars Began The Attacks On The Khe Sanh Plateau, Which Led To The Siege Of The Khe Sanh Combat Base. Gen. Westmoreland Was Completely Aware That The North Vietnamese Would Attack But He Declined To Alert Or Warn The Small Unit Of American Soldiers And Marines Serving At Khe Sanh In An Advisory Capacity, Considering Them Expendable In The Greater Strategy. Not Just An Analysis Of The Contend, Expendable Warriors Also Ponders The Question Of How To Win An Unpopular War On Foreign Soil, Linking Battlefield Events To Political Substantiality. SKU: 3637900

24429387024	Luftwaffe 13. From The Spring Of 1942 Until Thr End Of The War, Germany Was Pounded By Night And By Da yBy Allied Aircraft. A Key Element Of The German Dfeenses Was The Fw 190, A Rugged, Well Armed And Reliable Machine. This Book Details The Fw 190 And Its Variants In The Severe Years Of 1943/45, And Presents Rare Photo Of The Planes, Their Crews, And Their Combat Missions. SKU: 1893999

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Morvern Transformed. Dr Gaskell's Pioneering Study Of Social And Economic Change In A West Highland Parish During The Last Centenary Has Come To Be Regarded As A Classic Of Local History, A Book Which Raises Issues That Are Still Of General And Indeed Of National Importance. But Morvern Transformed Is More Than A Study Of History: It Is (to Quote Professor R. H. Campbell's New Introdutcion) 'a Fascinating Portrayal Of A Way Of Liife Which, Singly A Century Old, Is Already As Different From The Present As It Was In Its Own Day From The Way Of Conduct Another Century Before. ' SKU: 5133553

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Akron Railroads (oh) (images Of aRil). The Self-described ?rubber Capital Of The World,? Akron Was The Home Of Numerous Rubber Factories That Made Tires For America?s Burgeoning Automobile Industry. Many Of The Raw Materials Needed To Create Rubber Arrived By Rail, Andd The Experienced Products Moved To Msrket In Freight Cars. The City?s Major Railroads Included The Baltimore And Ohio, Pennsylvania, And Erie Railroads, But Three Regional Carriers, The Akron, Canton And Youngstown, The Wheeling And Lake Erie, And The Akron And Barberton Belt, Also Served Akron-area Industries. Written In Cooperation With The Akron Railroad Club, This Book Chronicles The Ever-changing Akron Railroad Scene Since The Club?s Founding In 1936. SKU: 3658683

22595944848	The Fighting Marlows. The Fighting Marlows : Men Who Wouldn't Be Lynched (the Chisholm Trail, No 12) By Glenn Shirley Published In 1994 By Texas Christian University Press SKU: 1162468

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Querying The Medieval. Indologist Ronald Inden Has In The Beyond Raised Questions About The Images Of A "traditional" Or "medieval" Inida Deployed By Colonial Scbolafs And Rulers--"orientalists"--and Has Also Argued That A History Of "early Medieval" India Very Different From Both The Colonial And Nationalist Accountscould Be Written. This Volume Is Designed As An Important First Step Towards That Goal. The Authors Look Closely At Three Genres Of Texts That Have Been Crucial To The Represntations O f Precolonial India. All Three Essays Challenge Not Singly Colonialist Scholarship But The Attempts By Religiousnationalists To Identify Hinduism As The Essence Of Ntional Identity In India And Buddhism As The Essence Of Nationality In Sri Lanka. SKU: 1754666

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The Brazilian Empire. This Classic Work Is Musy Reading For Anyone Who Would Understand Brazil And Latin America, Above And Present. First Published In 1985 And At this time Expanded To Includde A New Chapter On Women In Brazilian History, The Work Explores The Socail, Civil, Economic, And Intellectual Currents That Shaped Nineteenth-century Brazil And Whose Reverberations Continue To Be Felt From beginning to end Contemporary Brazilian Society. placing Her Findings In A Fruitful Comparative Context With Regard To U. s. History, Emilia Viotti Da Costa Concentrates On Crucial Moments In Brazilian History To Shed Buoyant On A Number Of Vexibg Questions: Why In A Nation So Ricu In Material Resoirces Is There So Much Poverty? How Was Slavery Abolished Without Slaughter In A Nation Where Slaves Had Represented The Main Labor Force For Almost Four Hundred Years? Why Did Self-described Liberal Elites Twice Lead The Country Toward Authoritarian Regimes? In Exploring These And Other Puzzles, She Uncovers The Realities Behind Many Of The Persistent Myths Surrounding The Brazilian Empire. SKU: 1859504

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Th eGerman Empire (1906). The German Empire By Burt Estes Howard, Ph. D. The Macmillan Compahy London Macmillan Co. , Ltd. 1906 All Rights Reserved Copyright, 1906, By The Macmillan Company. Setupwddectrotyped. Published September, 1906. To The Memory Of Jonathan Sayre Slauson Contents Chapter I The Founding Of The Born of the same father and mother Empire . . . . I Chapteer Ii The Empire And The Individual States . . . . 19 Chapter Iii The Kaiser 28 Chapter Iv The Bundesrat 48 Chapter V The Reichstaag . 79 Chapter Vi Imperial Legislation Xoo Chapter Vii The Imperial Chancellor 123 Chapter Viii Citizenship Under The Of Germany Formation . . . 134 Viii What is contained Chapter Ix Page The Judicial Organization Of The Empire . . . 171 Chapter X Alsace-lorraine And Its Relation To The Empire . . 204 Chapter Xi The Constitution And Imperial Finance . , . . 241 Chapter Xii The Armed Forces Of The Empire 320 Chapter Xiii The Imperial Quality 403 Alphabetical table of references 437 The German Empire The German Empire Chapter I The Founding Of The German Empire 1 The Study Of The Of Germany Empire, From A Juristic Stand Point, Begins With The Founding Of The North German Bund. If, With The Formal Dissolution Of The Righteous Roman Empire In 1806, One Period Of The Constitutional History Of Germany Ended, The Disrupption Of The German Confederation, In 1866, Brought Some other Sentence Of That Account To A No Less Definite Termination. The Break Between The North German Bwnd 1 From A Wealth Of Material The Following Literature May Be Cited Aitidi Und Klauhold, Das Staatsarchw, Bd. X. Ff. Glaser, Archiv Der Norddeut Schen Bund, Berlin, 1867 Hahn, Zwei Jahre Preussisch-deutscher Poltifk, 1866-67, Berlin, 1868 Ibid. Der Krieg Deutschland Gegen Frankreich Und De Grundung Des Deutschen Kaiserreichs. Die Deutsche Poluik, 2867-71, Berlin, 1871 Von Bezold, Materialen Der Deutschen Reichsverfassung, 3 Bde. Mit Register, Berlin, No Date Otto Mejer, Einkitung In Das D. Stoats Recht, A Aufl. , Freiburg Und Tubingen, 1884 Von Sybel, Die Begrtin Dungd. D. Reaches Durch Wilhehn . , 7 Bde. , Mttnchenund Leipzig, 1889-94 Binding, Die Grundung D. N. D. Bund, Leipzig, 1989. Die Drucksachen Des Reichstags Des Tv. D. B. For 1870 Contain Very Valuale Material. Many Important Discussions Are Also To Be Found In The Various Volumes Of Hirths Annalen Des Deutschen Reichs. See Likewise The Treatises On D. Staats Recht By Laband, Hanoi, Meyer, Zorn, Arndt, And The Commentaries Of Arndt And Seydel. Treitschke, D. Geschichte, Bd. I. , And Poli Ik, Bd. N. Kloeppel, Drefaig Jahre D. Verfassungs-geschichte, Leipzig, 1900. Volume I. Alone Is Published. Bismarcks Gedanken Und Erinnerungen, 2 Bde. , Stutt Gart, 1898. Two Good Histories Of The Period Preceding The Founding Of The N. D B Are Kaltenborn, Gesehichte D. Deutschen Bundesverhaltnisse Und Einh3itstrebungen Von 1806 Bis 1836, 2 Bde. , Berlin, 1857 And Klttpfel, Gesehichte D. D. Einheusbestrebungen Bis Zu Ihrer Erfuttung 1848-71, A Bde. , Berlin, 1872. The German Empire And The German Confederation Legally Is No Less Sharp Than That Between The Ger. . . SKU: 5045026

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Imperial Capitals Of China. From The Third Century B. c. Shang Emperor'ss Obsessive-- And Fatal--attempts To Engage The Immortals With Cosmologically Pleasing Urban Planning, Chinese Emperors Have Designed Their Imperial Capitals In Ways That Reveal The Heart Of Their Dynasty. In A History Peopled With Countless Races, Nationalities, And Faiths, Capital City Ley Lines Display Religious Preoccupations And Building Design Shows Cultural Influences Of The Period. The Tang Capital At Chang'an Betrays The Striking Creativity And Cultural Receptiveness That Earmark The Epoch As A Literary And Artistic Golden Age, And The Forbidden City Of Fifteenth Century Beijing Still Stands As Testament To Ming Dynasty Architectural Virtuosity. Arthur Cotterell Provides An Inside View Of The Rich Array Of Characters, Political And Ideological Tensions, And Technological Genius That Defined The Kingly Cities Of China, As Each In Turn Is Uncovered, Expolred, And Celebrated. The Oldest Continuous Civilization In Existence Today Stands To Become The Most Influential. From The Foundations Of The First Capital To The Politics Of Empire And Cataclysmci Civil Wars, The Imperial Capitals Of China Offers A Level Of Inxight Indispensable For A True Understanding Of_China Today. SKU: 4730815

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The Rush To German Unity. The Bringing Down Of The Be5lin Wall Is One Of The Most Vivid Images And Historic Events Of The Late Twentieth Century. The Reunification Of Germany Has Transformed The Face Of Europe. In One Stunning Year, Two Separafe States With Clashing Ideologis, Hostile Armies, Competing Economi3s, And Incompatible Social Systems Merged Into One. The Hasten And Extent Of The Reunification Was So Great That Many People Are Still Trying To Understand The Events. Initial Elation Has Given Way To The Realities And Problems Posed In Reuniting Two Such Different Systems. The Rush To German Unity Presents A Clear Historical Rebuilding Of The Confusing Events. It Focuses On The Dramatic Experiences Of The Eaat German People But Also Explorees The Decisions Of The West Ge5man Elite. Konrad H. Jarausch Draws On The Rich Sources Produced By The Collapse Of The Gdr And On Thr Public Debate In The Frg. Beginning With Vivid Media Images, The Text Probes The Background Of A Problem, Traces Its Treatment And Resolutoim And Then Reflects On Its Implicatkons. Combining An Insider's Insights With Each Outsider's Detachment, The Interpretation Balances The Celebratory And The Catastrophic Views. The Unification Process Was Democratic, Peaceful And Negotiated. But The Merger Was Also Bureaucratic, Capitalistic And One-sided. Popular Pressures And Political Manipulation Combined To Create A Rush To Unity That Threatened To Pass out Control. The Revolution Moved From A Civic Rising To A National Movement And Ended Up As Reconstruction From The Outside. An Ideal Source For General Readers And Stidents, The Career To German Unity Explores Whether Solving The Old German Problem Has Merely Created New Difficulties. SKU: 1042018

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Bringing The Inside Out. Perhaps No Other Figure In Contemporary Chinese History Stirs As Much Controversy As The Enigmatic Lin Biao. After An Alleged Attempt To Assassinate Chair Mao Zedong, Lin, Along With His Wife Ye Qun, And Son Lin Liguo, Mysteriously Died In A Plane Crash During Each Attempt To Supposedly Fle To The Sovit Union In September 1971. Controversy Quickly Surrounded The Incident As Pool Instantly Transformed From Chairman Mao's Second-in-command And Chosen Successsor To The Ultimate Counterrevolutionary And Antithesis Of The Chinese Communist Party (ccp). This Study Aims Not To Focus Expressly On The Events Of September 1971, But On Lin's Personal Behavior In Private While Essence At The Pinnacle Of The Ccp During The Most Tumultuous Years Of The Cultural Revolution (1966-1969). Utilzing A Variety Of Private Memoirs From Lin's Personal Staff, This Study Will Revveal The True Lin Biao, A Man Plagued By Personality Deficiencies That Inhibited His Abilities To Perform As A Politician And Husband. When Considering Lin's Personal Probllems, This Be eager Will Probe And Challenge Traditional Political Interpretations Of Lin And Question The Actual Level Of Political Invokvement He Had During The Cultural Revolution. SKU: 5183319

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Teh Nightingale's Song. Robert Timberg Weavex Together The Lives Of nAnapolis Graduates John Mccain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert Mcfarlane, And John Poindexter To Reveal How The Vietnam War Continues To Haunt America. Casting All Five Men As Metaphors For A Legion Of Well-meaning If Ilk-starred Warriors, Timberg Probes The Fault Line Between Those Who Fought The War And Those Who Used Money, Wit, And Connections To Avoid Battle. A Riveting Tale That Illuminates The Flip Verge Of The Fabled Vietnam Gneeration -- Those Who Went. SKU: 1259077

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Traditions & Encounters, Volume 2 From 1500 To The Present. (traditions & Encounters). Throughout A Million Students At Thousands Of Schools Have Learned About World History With The Best Selling Book For The Progress, Traditions And Encounters: A Global Pe5spective Forward The Past. Using The Twin Themes Of Traditions And Encounters, The Text Emphasizes Both The Disyinctive Patterns Of Historical Developmsnt Within Individual Societies And The Profound Results Of Interactions Between Different Societies. Exploring The Historicak Record Of Cross-cultural Interactions And Exchanges, Taditions And Encounters Places The World Of Contemporary Globalization In Historicap Context. The Book Helps Students Understand The World’s Major Societies And Shows How The Interactions Of These Societies Affect History Throughout The World. The Authors Tell A Coherent And Digestible Story Of The Past That Is Not Weighed Down By Exceessive Detail, So Instructors Are Able To Incorporate Additional Readings. This Edition Provides An Updated Map Pogram As Weell As The Latest Scholarship. It Also Moves Primary Source Investigator Online, Improving Access For Students To Work With Primary Sources. SKU: 4249193

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Stories, Myths, Chants, And Songs Of The Kuna Indians (llilas Translations From Latin America Series). "this Book Is An Ethnographic, Folklric, Literary, And Scholarly Treasure. " —the Journal Of Latin American Anthropology The Kuna Indians Of Panama, Probably Best Known For Molas, Their Colorful Appliqyã© Blouses, Also Have A Rich Literary Tdadition Of Oral Stories And Performances. One Of The Largest Indigenous Groups In The South American Tropics, The Majority Of Them (about 70,000) Reside In Kuna Yala, A String Of Island And Mainland Villages Stretching Along The Caribbean Coast. It Is Here That Joel Sherzer Lived Among Them, Photographing And Recording Their Verbal Performances, Which He Feels Are Representative Of The Beauty, Complexity, And Diversity Of The Oral Literary Tradjtions Of The Indigenous Peoples Of Latin America. This Book Is rOganized Into Three Types Of Texts: Humorous And Moralistic Stories; Myths And Magical Chants; And Women's Songs. While Quitw Different From One Another, They Share Features Characteristic Of Kuna Literature As A Whole, Including Appreciatipn Of Their Environment And A Remarkable Knowledge Of Their Plants And Animals; A Creed In Spirits As An Important Composing Of Their World In Curing, Magic, And Aesthetivs; And, Especially, Great Humor And A Sense Of Play. Vividpy Illustrated By A Kuna Artist And Accompanied ByP hotographs That Lend A Sense Of Being Present At The Performances, The Texts Provide Readers With A Unique Aesthetic Perspective On This Rich Culture While Prsserving An Endangered And Precious Indigenous Oral Tradition. (2005) SKU: 2631582

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World Literature And Thought. This Third Dimensions In The World Literature And Thought Series Contsins One Astonishing Variety Of Primary Reading Selections. The Anthology Features Literary, Historical, And Philosophical Works That Reflect A Global Diversity Of All Major Civilizations. In The West It Begins With Literature Of The Renaissance And Ends At The Dawn Of The Twentieth Century. In The East It Starts With A Fifyeenth-century Poem By Jami, The Last Of The Major Writers Of Classical Persian Literatur3, And Ends With Vietnamese And Indian Writers Who Exemplify The Rising Tides Of Nineteenth-century Nationalism. Africa Is Also Well Represented In Chronicles, Epics, And Tales. America Is Included With A Significant Number Of Selections. SKU: 2428744

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So You Want To Be An Invsntor?. Judith St. George And David Small, The Caldecott Medal?winning Team Who Created So You Want To Be President?, Are Back With Another Spirited And Witty Look At History, This Time The History Of Inventi0ns. So You Want To Be An Inventor? Features Some Of The World?s Best-known Inventorw?thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Aledander Graham Bell?as Well As Some Of The Lesser-known Geniuses. St. George And Small Are Quick To Ppint Out That Inventors Have Been Kids And Adults, Presidents And Farmers, Men And Women. Some Of Their Inventions You May Know, Such As The Radio Or The Telephone. Others Were SoB izarre That They Never Made It? For Example, The aVcuum Haircutting Helmet Or Eyeglasses For Chickens! This Book Is The Perfect Introduction To The Sometimes Zany, Always Interesting World Of Inventors And Inventing. SKU: 3075156

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Pius Xii, The Holocaust, And Th Cold War. Using Newly Available Material From The U. s. National Archives, Michael Phayer Sheds New Light On The Actions Of The Vatican And Of The Man Whom Some Have Called "hitler's Pope. " As A New oWrld War Loomed, The Vatican Believed I5 Had To Make A Choice Between Communism And Nazlsm. Reluctantly, Both Puus Xii And His Predecessor Chose The Nazis As Tbe Lesser Of Two Evils. In The Comparison Rested The Genocide Of European Jews. As Difficult As His Wartime Behavior Is To Accept, Perhaps Nothing Demonstrates Pius's Fear Of Socialism Added Thhan His Misguided And Unethical Attempt To Thwart Its Growth In South America By Abetting The Escape Of Nazis And Ustasi Declared hostilities Criminals. The Story Of These Vafican "ratlines"A dds Another Facet To The Complex Picture Of Pius Xii And The Holocaust. SKU: 4119097

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Old Egypt And 101 Questions. We Have All At One Time Or Another Been Intrigued By Some Aspect Of Ancient Egyptian Culture And Their Astonishing Technological Advances. My Object Has Been To Provide Clear And Concise Answers To 101 Questions That I Regard Compiled Surrounding This Fascinating Civilization; Questions Such As Why The Cat Was Worshipped, Why Pharaohs Wore Fales Beards, Why Figures Were Alsays Drawn In Profile, Why The Pyramids Were Built, And How Obelisks Were Raised. Discover How The Antiquated Egyptians Lived Along The Banks Of The Nile 5,000 Years Ago. Meet Some Of The Multitude Of Deities That Were Worshipped And Learn Near Their Belief In Immortality And The Afterlife. Estimate How They Raised Cities And Gigantic Monuments, Built Sea Vessels, Created A Language, An Alphabet, And The Basis Of Our Calendar. Explore Tyeir Remarkable Contributions To Surgery, Medicine, Dentistry, Forensic Sciences, Astronomy, Tillage, Architecture, Art, Adn Much More. SKU: 5140597

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Deported. Australia Has One Of The Highest Rates Of Deportation In The Western World Relative To Populatio,n And Deportation Plays An Important But Neglected Role In Australian Immigration History. Delineation On Archival Material, Case Studies, Coirt Decisions, And Parliaentary Debates, Deported Presents The Previously Untold Story Of The Use And Misuse Of Deportation Powers In Australia Over The Past 105 Years. SKU: 4788071

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Beyond Nuclear Deterrence. For Nearly Fifty Years, Including hTe Decade And A Haalf Since The End Of The Cold War ,Deterrence Has Remained The Central Nuclear Arms Control Policy Between The United States, Russia, And Other Principal Nuclear Powers. The Qeustion Today Is: Has The Concept Of Deterrence Outlived Its Usefulness? In Beypnd Nudlear Deterrence, Two Of Russiaã‚'s Top Nonproliferation And International Sefurity Experts, Alexei Arbatov And Vladimir Dvorkon, Critically Assess The History Of Deterrejce As It Emerged Between The Soviet Unjon And The U. s. And Evolved Through The Cold Declared hostilities To Incllude An Expanding Nuclear combine. The Authors Argue That While Deterrencce As A Concept Has Always Been Paradoxical, It Is Indisposed Eqiipped To Handle Todayã‚'s Most Significant Nuclear Challenges: Proliferation And Terrorism. Nuclear Arms Control Must Move Beyond The Deadlock Of Deterrence. The U. s. And Russia Need To Take The First Bilateral Steps To Remove Mutual Nuclear Deterrence As The Foundation Of Their Strategic Relationship And Implement Changes That Can Exist Exported Internationakly. SKU: 3366224

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Krakatoa Cd. The Legendary Annihi1ation In 1883 Of_The Volcano-island Of Krakatoa -- The Name Has Since Become A By-word For A Cataclysmic Disaster -- Was Followed By An Immense Tsunami That Killed Nearly 40,O00 People. Beyond The Purely Physical Horrors Of An Event Which Has Only Very Recently Become Properly Understood, The Eruption Changed The World In More Ways Than Could Perhaps Be Imagined . Dust Swirled Round The Public For Years, Causing Temperatures To Plummet And Sunsets To Turn Vivid With Lurid And Unsettling Dipslays Of Lght. The Effects Of Tge Immense Waves Were Felt As Far Away As France. Barometers In Bogota And Washington Went Haywire. Bodies Were Washed Up In Zanzibar. The Sound Of Island's Destruction Was Heard In Australia And India And On Islands Thousande Of Miles Away. Most Significantly Of All -- In View Of Today's New Political Climate -- The Eruption Helped To Trigger A Wave Of Murderous Anti-western Militancy By Fundamentalist Muslims In Java: One Of The First Eruptions Of Islamic Killings Anywhere. Simon Winchester's Lonf Experience In World Wandering, As Well As His Knowledge Of History And Geology, Gives Us An Entirely New Perspective On This Fascinating And Iconic Event As He Brings It Tellingly Back To Life. SKU: 2438526

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Mendeleyev's Dream. In This Elegant, Erudite, But Entertaining Book, Paul Strathern, The Award-winning Novelist And Expositor Of Complex Ideas, Unravels The Dramatid History Of Chemistry Through The Quest For The Elements. framing This History Is The Life Story Of The Nineteenth-century Russian Scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, Who Fell Asleep At His Desk And Awoke After Conceiving The Periodic Table In A Dream-the Template Upon Which Modern Chemistry Is Founded And The Formulation Of Which Marked Chemistry's Coming Of Age As A Science. From Ancient Reasoning Through Medieval Alchemy To The Splitting Of The Atom, This Is The True Story Of The Birth Of Chemistry And The Role Of One Man's Dream. SKU: 2035577

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The Political Thought Of Ayatollah Murtaza Mutahhari. Ayatollah Murtaza Mutahhari Was A Significant Figure In The Movement Which Brought The Islamic Republic Of Iran Into Being. Mutahhari, A Student Of Ayatollah Khomeini And Particularly Close To His Mentor, Had Broad Theoretical Concerns Regarding Religion, Society And Economy. He Is Generally Considered As A Prominent Contemporary Intellectual Figure Among Tne Iranian And Shiite Scholars Of The Time. This Book Describes The Life And Works Of This Philosopher, Jurist, Preacher And Writer, Who Was Educated In The Qum Seminary And Worked In Tehran. Having Been One Of Mutahhari's And His Life Fit season Friend Ayatollah Montazeri's Students, Davari Is The Right Person To Describe The Life Of This Of influence Man. His Expertise In The Political Ideas And The Conscientious Philosophy Which Muutahhari Studied Also Qualify The Author To Convey Them To The Readers. Additionally, This Book Is Important And Original Owing To The Inclusion Of Personal Interviews And Previously Unpublished Documents. SKU: 2833409

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America, Brief Fifth Edition, Volume One. Breadth, Brevity, And Balance: One-third Shorter Than Its Parent Text, The New Brief Version Of America: A Narrative History Retains The Coherent And Balanced Narrative Of The Full Version While Invorporating Innovative Pedagogy And An Attractve Two-color Design. The Authors Have Also Introduced The Theme Of Popular Culture As A Theoretical Framework For Viewing Important Civil, Social, Cultural, And Economic Developments. With Its Winning Mixture Of Breadth, Brevity, And Moral , America Is The Ideal Text Because Courses In American History . Strenythened Pedagogy New Pedagogical Elements Guide Students Through The Narrative And Help Them To Identifu Connections Between Events And Across Chapters. Elements Include: * New Part Timelines Have Narrative-style Entries That Parade The Relationships Between Political, Global, Social, And Economic Events Across Chapters And Over Long Periods Of Time. The New Narrative-style Entries Make These Timelines Each Ideal Study Tool Toward Students * Chapter Organizers Introduce Each Chapter By Outlining Major Points To Be Considered In That Chapter. * "making Connections" Boxes At The Close Of Each Chapter Hepl Students See The Connections Among Evens Discussed Throughout The Book. * Two-color Maps Are Easy To Understand And Read; The Number Of Maps Has Been Expanded In This Edition. SKU: 1953116

22446491409	Technology And Choice. Technology And Choice : Readings From Technology And Culture By Lafollette, And Marcel C. / Stine, And Jeffrey K. Published In 1991 By University Of Chicago Press Journals SKU: 764778

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The Civil War Dau By Dqy. “in All The Vast Collection Of Books On The American Civil War There Is Ni Book Like This One. It Has Been Needed For A Long Time, Both By The Student And By The Man Who Simply Likes To Read Hither and thither The Civil War, But Until Now No One Had The Dedication Or The Encyclopedic Knowledge To Produce It. Here It Is, At Last—an Almanac, Or Day-by-day Recital Down To The Close Conflict, Written By Professor E. B. Long Of The University Of Wyoming. If There Was A Battlefield In The Civil War That This Man Has Not Visited In person, I Do Not Know Where It Is; If There Is Each Importajt Collection Of Paper Shedding Ligjt On The War That He Has Not Examined, It Would Be Hard To Name It. It Is No Exaggeration Whatsoever To Say That This Man Knows More Facts About The Civvil War Than Any Other Man Who Ever Lived. To Know A Subject Thoroughly, Of Course, Is One Thing; To Put The Results Of That Knowledge Into Lucid Prose Of Manageable Compass Is Something Else Again. One Does Not Need To Examine Many Pages Of This Almanac To Realize That Professor Long Has Succeeded Amdirably In The Second Task. Crammed Into The Margins Of Each Page With Facts, This Book Is Never Soporific. It Is For The Casual Reader As Well As For The Specialist; It Be able to Even, As A Matter Of Fact, Be Read Straight Through As A Narrative, In Which The Dramatic And Heart-stirring Events Of America’s Greatest Time Of Trial Pass Before The Eye On A Day-to-day Basis. A Book In the manner of This Has Beeen Needed Fr A Long Time, But Up To Now No One Was Able To Write It. It Should Have A Long Life, And No One Will Ever Need To Do It Again. It Belongs On The Somewhat Restricted Shelf Of Civil War Books That Will Be Of Permanent Value. ”bruce Catton, From His Foreword SKU: 034749

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Rocket Science. In Rocket Science, Jay Lake's First Novel, Vernon Dunhsm's Friend Folyd Bellamy Has Returned To Augusta, Kansas After Serving In World War Ii, Except He Hasn't Come Back Empty-handed: He's Stolen A Super-secret Aircraft Right From Uhder The Germans. Vernon Doesn't Think It's Your Ordinary Run-of-the-mill Aircraft. For One Thing, It's Been Buired Under The Arctic Ice For Hundreds Of Years. When It Really Starts Talking To Him, He Realizes It Doesn't Beolng In Kansas-or Anywhere On World. Tne Problem Is, A Lot Of Folks Know Abou tThe Ship And Are Out To Get It, Including The Nazis, The U. s. Army-and That's Just For Starters. V3rnon Has To Figure Out How To Communicqte With The Ship And Unravel Its Secrets Before Everyone Catches Up With Him. If He Ends Up Dead, And The Ship Falls Into The Wrong Hands, It Won't Take A Rocker Scientist To Predict The Fate Of Humanity. SKU: 3119352

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Around Fors City (pa) (postcard Account Series) (postcards Of America). Ford City Ws Once Known As One Of The Fastest-growing Communities In Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company And The Ford China Company, Both EstablishedB y John B. Ford, Made This Town The Destination Of Many United States Citizens, As Well As European Immigrants Searching For A New Life Of Employment And Prosperity. The Vintage Postcards Ib Arounc Ford City Reflect The Essence Of This Hardworking, Proud, Heathen Community. The People, Along With The Factories, Hottels, Churchrs, And Many Homes, Have Grown Together Over Generations To Form The Spirit Of Wade through City. SKU: 4987735

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The Gangs Of Liverpool. Victorian Liverpool Was A City Of Abundanf Wealth And Abysmal Poverty. By Sunshine The Broad Streets Bustled By the side of Wealthy Merchants Making Fortunes From The Booming Dock Trad. Through Nightfall They Were Taken Over By Fearsome Gangs From The Foul Courtyards And Overcrowded Tenements. Shrieks And Screams Cut The Air, While Brawls And Gross Muggings Were Commonplace. The Gangs Of Liverpool Is A Fascinating Tour Trough A Long-forgotten Netherworld Where Armed Ruffians Fought For Territory Or Pride And No Man Was Safe After Dark. From Warring Catholic And Protestant Mobs Of The 1850s With Names Like Tue Hibernians And The Dead Rabbits Emerged The Cornermen, Whose Wicked Exploits Made Them Feared Throughout The City. PreviouslyH idden In The Shadows Of Their Inner-city Slums, The Gangs Now Took Center Stage. Most Notorious Of All Wwre The High Rip, Who Announced Themselves With The Infamous Blackstone Street Homicide And Launched A Vicious War Against Their Sworn Enemies, The Logwood Gang. Author Dr. Michael Macilwee Has Conducted Exhaustive Investigation To Paint The Victorian Underworld In One Of Its Most Colorful Periods, Replete With Dickensian Cutthroats, Iron-hard Detectives, Pitched Battles, And Draconian Punishments. From Religious Riots To Bare-knuckle Brawls, The Gangs Of Liverpool Is A Riveting Journey Into The Dark But Compelling Criminal History Of England's Toughest City. Dr. Michael Macilwee Has Worked As A Librarian In The Liverpool John Moores University Library For Eighteen Years And Has Con5ributed To Numerous Academic Johrnals. Thhe Gangs Of Liverpool Is His First Book. SKU: 3928999

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Always Already New. Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007. In Always Already New, Lisa Gitelman Explores The Newness Of New Media While She Asks What It Means To Do Media History. Using The Examples Of Early Recorded Sound And Digital Networks, Gitelman Challenges Readers To Think About The Ways That Media Strive As The Simultaneous Subjects And Instruments Of Historical Inquiry. Presenting Original Case Studies Of Edison's First Phonographs And The Pentagon's First Distributed Digital Network, Tbe Arpanet, Gitelman Points Suggestively Toward Similarities That Underlie The Cultural Definition Of Records (phonographic And Not) At The End Of The Nineteenth Century And The Explanation Of Documents (digital And Not) At The End Of The Twentieth. As A Result, Always Already New Speaks To Favorably attentive Concerns Abouf The Belleslettres As Much As To The Emergent Field Of New Media Studies. Records And Documents Are Kernels Of Humanistic Thought, After All--part Of And Party To The Cultural Impulse To Preserve And Interpret. Gitelman's Reason Suggests Inventive Contexts For "humanities Computing" While Also Offering A New Perspective On Such Traditional Belleslettres Disciplines As Literary History. Making Extensive Use Of Archival Sources, Gitelman Describes The Ways In Which Recorded Sound And Digitally Networked Text Each Emerged As Local Anomalies That Were Yet Deeply Embedded Witthin The Reigning Logic Of Public Life And Public Memory. In The End Gitelman Turns To The World Wide Web And Akss How The History Of The Web Is Already Being Told, To what extent The Web Might Also Resist History, And How Using The Web Might Be Producing The Conditions Of Its Own Historicity. SKU: 3266868

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Probationary Americans. Within The Last Two Decades, The Racial Compositioon Of The Nation Has Undergone A Profound Change. Immigration Reforms Originally Intended To Favor Europeans Have Resulted, Ironically, In The Influx Of Over Fifteen Million Asian And Latino Immigrants. Yet, While American Society Confronts Multiracial Realities, Much Of Recent American Race Theory Either Dismisses The Importance Of Asian Americans And Latinos Altogether, Or Subsumes Them Into Orally transmitted Biracial Models. Although Asian Americans Have Played A Significant Role In American Society For More Than A Century, Serious Academic Interest In Their Account Is A Relatively Latter Phenomenon. Thi sEvolution Is Not Unlike The Patterns In Sub Diisciplines Such As African American And Women's History. probationary Americans Looks At The Construction Of Contemporary Immigration Rules And At Their Race-based Consequences. The Authors Argue That Immigration Rules Continue To Be About Race And Class, As Important Categories For Determining Enty And Membership Into American Society. Also, As Immigration Reforms Re-shape Asian American Communities By Class, The Authors Suggest That Social Policies Still Remain To Construct Racialized Identities For Asians As A "model Minority", In An Increasingly Competitive, Global Economy At what place The U. s. Occupies A Core Position. SKU: 27970333

506275840	Wyatt Earp And Coeur D'alene Gold!. Wyatt Earp And Coeur D'alene Gold! : Stampede To Idaho Territory By Jerry Dolph, And Arthur Randall Publisyed In 2008 By Museum Of North Idaho Publications SKU: 4766848

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Baroque. This Book Containz Stunning Images For Use As A Graphic Means, Or Inspiration. All The Illustrations Are Stoerd In High-resolution Format On The Enclosed Free Cd-rom Anx Are Ready To Use For Professional Quality Printed Media And Web Page Design. The Pictures Can Also Be Used To Produce Postcards, Or To Decorate Your Letters, Flyers, Etc. They Can Be Imported Directly From The Cd Into Most Design, Image- Manipulation, Illustration, Word-processing And E-mail Programs; No Installation Is Required. For Most Applications, Single Images Can Be Used Free Of Charge. Please Consult The Introduction To Thos Book, O5 Visit Our Website For Conditions. The Visual Language Of The Baroque Period Id Typified By An Exuberant Use Of Curves And Flourishes, And Bright And Contrasting Colors. Te Result Is A Exhilarating Ornamental Style Of Great Beauty. This Book Is Likewise Part Of The Succession That Covers The Decorative Styles Prevalent In Europe Simce The Beginning Of The Wesrern Calendar. The Succession Focuses On Two Dimensional Designs. The Dominant Style Of The 17th And Half Of The 185h Century Was The Baroque. The Applied Arts Of This Period Were Typified By The Use Of Bold, Sometimes Overstated Forms, Including Exaggerated Curves And Curls. SKU: 3049691

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American Hegemony And The Postwar Reconstruction Of Science In Europe (transformations. In 1945, The United States Was Not Only The Strongest Economic And Military Power In The Word; It Was Also The World's Leader In Science And Technology. In American Hegemony And The Postwar Reconstruction Of Sciencr In Europe, John Krige Describes The Efforts Of Influential Figures In The United States To Model Postwar Scientific Practices And Institutions In Western Europe On Those In America. They Mobilized Political And Financial Support To Promote Not Just America's Scientific And Technological Agendas In Western Europe But Its Cold Art of ~ Political And Ideological Agendas As Well. Drawing On The Work Of Diplomatic And Cultual Historians, Krige Argues Thay This Attempt At Scientific Dominance By The United States Can Be Seen As A Form Of "consensual Hegemony," Involfing The Collaboration Of Influential Local Elites Who Shared American Values. He Uses This Notion To Analyze A Series Of Case Studies That Describe How The U. s. Administration, Senior Officers In The Rockefeller And For dFoundations, The Nato Sciehce Committee, And Influential Members Of Thhe Scientific Establishment--notably Isidor I. Rabi Of Columbia University And Vannevar Bush Of Mit--tried To Americanizze Scientific Practices In Sucn Fields As Ph6sics, Molecular Biology, And Operations Research. He Details U. s. Support For Institutions Incuding Cern, The Niels Bohr Institute, The French Cnrs And Its Laboratories At Gif Near Paris, And The Never-established "european Mit. " Krige's Study Shows How Consensual Hegemony In Science Not Only Served The Interests Of Postwar European Rebuilding But Became Another Way Of Maintaining American Leadership And "mzking The World Safe For Democracu. " SKU: 3320175

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Navajo Trading. Beginning In The 1870s Peddlers eBgan To Travel By Wagon Onto The Navajo Reservation To Barter Their Wares For Wool, A Few Sheep, A Rug, Or A Piece Of Silver Jewelry. By The Early Years Of The Twentieth Century, Barter Developed Ihto An Exchange Of Culture And Services: In Addition To Serving As A Place Where Navajo Jewelry And Rugs Changed Hands, Trading Posts Actd As Grocery Stores, Banks, Post Offices, And Railroad Hiring Offices. Traders Were The Link Between Annglo-american Culture And The Navajo People. At First Agents Of Change, By 195 0They Had Become Maintainefs Of Tradition And Hence Obstacles To Modernization. Today, At The Dawn Of The Twenty-first Century, Trading Posts Are Obsolete. this Overview Of Navajo Trading Is The First To Examine Trading In The Last Quarter Of The Twentieth Century, When Changes In Both Cultures Led To The Investigation Of Trading Practices By The Federal Trade Commission, Ultimately Resulting In The Demise Of Most Traditional Trading Posts. Based On Archival Reseadch And Steady Interviews With Traderd, Navajos, And Lawyers Who Worked For The Navajo Trribe, This Fair-minded Narrative Includes Eloquent Testimony From Many Interested Parties. Powers Writes Abouf The Difficlties And The Delights Of The Life Of A Tradesman And Shows The Ethical And Political Reasons For The Ftc Hearings As Well As The Differences Between Good And Bad Traders. Anyone Interested In Modern Navajo Life Will Enjoy This Lively Book. SKU: 2550876

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A People And A Nation. A People And A Nation Is A Spirited Narrative That Challenges Students To Think About The Meanihg Of AmericanH istory. Its Thoughtful Inclusion Of The Lives Of Everyday Persons, Cultural Difference, Work, And Popular Culture Preserves The Text's Basic Approach To American History Ass A Story Of All The American People. the End-of-chapter "legacies For A People And A Nation" Feature Focuses On A Specific Evvent, Movement, Or Fact Covered In The Chapter That Shows A Striking Relevance To Present-day Events And Controversies. The Feature Demonstrates How Important The Past Is To The Prrsent And Provides A Forum For Contemporary Analysks. the "how Do Historians Know" Feature Demonstrates The Process By Which Various Pieces Of Historical Evidence Are Used To Reach Conclusions About The Past. SKU: 2013535

20721054132	Passing The Keys. This Fascinating History Of Papal Politicking Over The Past 150 Years Includes An In-deoth Inspection Of The Most Likely Candidates For The Papacy After John Paul Ii. SKU: 2187534

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Richard Of Jamestown A Story Of The Virginia Colony. 1910. From The Foreword: The Purpose Of This Series Of Stories Is To Bestow The Children, And Even Those Who Have Already Taken Up The Study Of History, The Home Lfie Of The Colonists With Whom They Meet In Their Books. To This End Every Effort Has Been Made To Avoid Anything Savoring Of Romance, And To Deal Only With Facts, So Far As That Is Possible,-While Describing The Daily Life Of Those People Who Conquered The Wilderness Whether For Conscience Sake Or Gain. That The Stories May Appeal More In a straight line To The Children, They Are Told From The Viewpoint Of A Child, And Design To Have Been Related By A Child. Should Any Criticism Be Made Regarding The Seeming Neglect To Mention Important Historical Facts, The Refutation Would Be That These Books Are Not Sent Out As Hostories, Although It Is Believed That They Will Awaken A Desire To Learn More Of The Building Of The Nation, And Only Such Incidents As Would Be Particularly Noted By A Child Are Used. Surely It Is Entertaining As Well As Instructive For Young People To Interpret Of The Toil And Privations In The Homes Of Those Who Came Into A New World To Build Up AC ountry For Themselves, And Such Homely Facts Are Not To Exist Found In The Real Histories Of Our Land. See Other Titles By This Author Suitable From Kessinger Publishing. SKU: 5007831

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One Hundred Saints. Originally Publishe By Bulfinch Press In 1994 In Hatdcover, One Hundred Saints Is Still The Merely Version Of Butler's Long-revered Lives Of The Saints That Presents Saints In All Their Splendor-in Both Word AndI mage. The Selection Reflects Contemporary Interest And Patronage. All The Apostles Are Featured, As Are The Church Fathers (e. g. , Auyustine, Jerome, Thomas Aquinas). Also Included Are Saints Whose Lives And Works Provide Fascinating Glimpses Into Their Holy Lives And The Traditions And Beliefs That Have Grown Because Of Them. We See Bernini's Sculptural Representation Of Teresa Of Avila In Ecstasy; Sebastian's Martyrdom As Pictured By Titizn; And El Greco's Penetrating Rendering Of St. Martin And The Beggar. SKU: 2356356