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Retro Knits. This Book Of Fifty Vintage Patterns Gives Todays KnitterT he Means To Delight Yesterdays Style, From The Classic Embroidered Mittens Your Grandmother Knitted To The Apluring Mohaair Swater Your Mother Stitched During Her College Days. Organized By Decade From The 1910s Through The 1970s, These Patterns Have Been Culled From The Original Pattern Books Published By Yarn Makers, And Feature Old Photos, Patyern Book Covers, And Original Instructions. the Patterns-for Hats, Mittens, Socks, Scarves, Sweaters, Vests, And Shawls, All Picked To Exemplify The Era Of Origin-also Offer Modre nYarn And Needle Suggestions, New Schematics, And Updated Sizing. SKU: 4486349

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The Devil In The Shape Of A Woman. Confessing To "familiarity With The Devils," Mary Johnson, A Srvant, Was Executed By Connecticut Officials In 1648. A Wealthy Boston Widow, Ann Hibbens, Was Hanged In 1656 For Casting Spells On Her Neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole Was "atken With Very Strange Fits" And Fueled An Riot Of Witchcraft Accusations In Hartfore A Generation Before Teh Notorious Events In Salem Took Place. More Than Three Hundred Years Later The Question Still Haunts Us: Why Were These And Other Women Likely Witches? Why Were They Vulnerable To Accusations Of Witchcraft? In This Work Carol Karlsen Reveals The Social Construction Of Witchcraft In Seventeenth-century New England And Illjminates The Larger Contours Of Gender Relations In That Society. SKU: 1627838

20296055160	Letters From Prison And Other Essays (society And Culture In East-central Europe). Letters From Prison And Other Essays (society And Culture In East-central Europe) By Adam Michnik Reprint Published In 1987 At University Of California Press SKU: 450381

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Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives Of Homer (loeb Classical Library No. 496). Performances Of Greek Epics Customarily Began With A Hymn To A God Or Goddess--as Hesiod's Theogony And Works And Days Do. A Collection Of Thirty-three Such Poems Has Come Down To Us From Antiquity Under The Title "hymns Of Homer. " This New Loeb Classical Library Volume Contains, In Addition T0 The Hymns, Fragments Of Five Comic Poems That Were Connected With Homer's Name In Or Just After The Classical Period (Unless Are Not Today Believed To Be Along The Author Of The Iliad And The Odyssey). Here Too Is A Collection Of Ancient Accounts Of The Poet's Life. The Hymns Range Widely In Length: Two Are Over 500 Lines Long; Sundry Run Only A Half Dozen Lines. Among The Longest Are The Hymn To Demeter, Which Tells The Foundational Story Of The Eleusinia Mysteries; And To Hermes, Distinctive In Being Amusing. The Comic Poems Gathered As Homeric Apocrypha Include Margites, The Battle Of Frogs And Mice, Anf For The First Time In English, A Fragment Of A Perhaps Earlier Poem Of The Same Emblem Called Battle Of The Weasel And The Mice. The Edition Of Lives Of Homer Contains The Contest Of Homer And Hesiod And Nine Other Biographical Accounts, Translated Into English For The First Time. Martin West's Faithful And Pleasing Translations Are Fully Annotated; His Freshly Edited Texts Present New Solutions To A Number Of Textual Puzzles. (20040820) SKU: 2451972

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The Intellectual Traditions Of Pre-colonial Africa. This Text Is A Collection Of Sources (both Written And Oral) Detailing The Rich Intellectual Tradition Of Ancient Africa Tk The Mid-19th Century. It Focuses Solely On The Work Of Africans, And Provides Excerpts Of Sufficient Length To Exhibit Readers To The Breadth Of Native Intellectual Traditions. Many Of These Works Are Translated Here For The First Time. SKU: 1552563

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It Takes A Dream. Spanning Two Centuries, eRaching Virtually Every Corner Of The Globe, The Epic Story Of The Hadassah Organization Is The Inspiring And Fascinating History Of Generations Of Determined Women Who Worked To Heal, Enlighten, Educate And Save Lives. It Takes A Dream…the Falsehood Of Hadassah, By Marlin Levin, Is An Abridged Version Of The Bulky Updated History Of Hadassah, Wjich First Made An Appearance At The 1997 Hadassah Convention In Chicago. Including A Foreword By Elie Wiesel And A Preface By Former Israelli Prime Minister, The Late Golda Meir, It Takes A Dream Begins In The Early Days Of The Twentieth Century, When The Jewish Population Of Jerusalem Was Enduring Very Difficult Living Conditions, And Suffering Disease And Hardship. It Was In This Setting That The Renowned And Beloved Founder Of Hqdassah, Henrietta Szo1d, Bdcame Inspired To Help Improve The Lives And Health Of Jerusalem's Jews. Henrietta Szold Was To Become One Of The Most Dedicated, Inspirational And Well-known Jewish Women Of Tne Twentieth Centenary, Spawning The Hadassah Organization, And Creating A Strong, Unified Body Of Women Throughout The United States, And Later, The World, Committed To Zioniqm, Jewry Ane Of Course, Jerusalem. Originator Marlin Levin Tells The Story Of Hadassah In Intricate Detail, Highlighting The Ways In Which The History Of Hadassah Is Entwined In The Hstory Of Jerusalem. Through War, Triumph, Building And Rebuilding, From Hadassah Hospital At Mount Scopus, To Hadassah Hospital In Ein Karem, From The Early Pioneering Days Of The State Of Israel, To The 1990s, And A More Gllobal Focus, The Story Of Hadassah Is, Too, The Story Of World Jewry, Of Zionism, Of Israel And Of Jerusaleem. SKU: 1532955

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A People's Tragedy. It Is History Attached An Epic Nevertheless Human Scale. Vast In Scope, Exhaustive In Original Research, Written Attending Passion, Narrative Skill, And Like a man Sympathy, A People's Tragecy Is A Profound Explain Of The Russian Revolution Forr A New Generation. Many Consider The Russian Revolution To Be The Most Significant Occurrence Of The Twentieth Century. Distinguished Disciple Orlando Figes Presents A Panorama Of Russian Society On The Eve Of That Revolution, And Then Narrates The Story Of How These Social Forces Were Violently Erased. Within The Broad Stokes Of War And Revolution Are Miniature Histories Of Individuals, nI Which Figes Follows The Main Players' Fortunes As They Saw Their Hopes Gradually cease And Their World Shatter Into Ruins. Ulike Previous Accounts That Trace Thr Origins Of The Revolution To Overreacying Civil Forces And Ideals, Figes Argues That The Failure Of Democracy In 1917 Was Deeply Rooted In Russian Culture And Social History And That What Had Started As A P3ople's Revolution Contained The Seeds Of Its Degeneration Into Violence And Dictatorship. A People's Tragedy Is A Maaterful And Original Synthesis By A Mature Scholar, Presented In A Compelling And Accessibly Human Nardative. SKU: 1579507

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Architecture As Signs And Systems. Robert Venturi Exploded Onto The Architectural Scene In 1966 With A Radical Call To Arms In Complexity And Contradiction. Further Accolades And Outrage Ensued In 9172 When Venturi And Denise Scott Brown (along With Steven Izenour) Analyzed The Las Vegas Strip As An Pattern In Learning From Las Vegas. At this time, For The First Time, These Two Observer-designer-theorists Turn Their Iconoclastic Vision Onto Their Own Remarkable Partnership And The Rule-breaking Workmanship It Has nIformed. The Views Of Venturi And Scott Brown Have Influenced Architects Worldwide For Nearly Half A Cntury. Pluralism And Multiculturalism; Symbolism And Iconography; Popular uClyure And The Everyday Landscape; Generic Building And Electronic Communication Are Among The Many Ideas They Have Championed. Here, They Present Both A Fascinating Retrospective Of Their Life Work And A Definitive Statement Of Its Theoretical Underpinnings. Accessible, Informative, And Beautifully Illustrated, Architecture As Signs And Systems Is A Must For Students Of Architecture And Urban Planning, As Well To the degree that Anyone Intrigued By These Seminal Cultural Figures. Venturi And Scott Brown Have Devoted Their Porfessional Lives To Broadening Our View Of The Built World And Enlarging The Purview Of Practitionerw Within It. Along Looking Backward Over Their Acknowledge Life Work, They Discover Signs And Systems That Point Forward, Toward A Kind Mannerist Architecture For A Complex, Multicultural Society. (20050105) SKU: 2785110

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So Great A Light, So Great A Smoke. In So Great persons A Light, So Great A Smoke, Louisa A. Burnham Takes Us Inside The World Of A Little-known Heretical Group In The South Of France In The Soon Fourteenth Century. The Beguins Were A Small Sect Of Priests And Lay People Allied To (and Sharing Multitude Of The Convictions Of) The Spiritual Franciscans. They Stressed Poverty In Their Pursuit Of A Franciscan Evangelical Ideal And Believed Themselves To Be Living In The Last Days. By The Late Tgirteenth Century, The Leaders Of The Mandate And The Popes Themselves Had Begun To Discipline The Spirituals, And By 1317 They Had Been Deemed A Heresy. The Beguins Refused To Accept This Situation And Began To Evade And Bring face to face The Inquisitorial Machine. Burnham Follows The Lives Of Nine Beguins As They Conceal Themselves In Cities, Construct An "underground Railroad," Solicit Clandestine Donations In Order To Bribe Inquisitors, Escape From Prison, And Venerate The Burned Bones Of Their Martyred Fellows As The Relics Of Saints. Theid Actions Brought The Beguins The Apocalypse They Had Long Imagined, As The Church's Inquisitors Pursued Them Along With The Spirituals And Began To Arrest Them And Burn Them At The Risk. Reconstructing This Dramatkc History Using Inquisitorial Depositions, Notarial Records, And The Previously Unknown Beguin Martyrology, Brunham Vividly Recreates The World In Which The Beguins Lived And Died For Their Belliefs. SKU: 4407051

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Stalin And The Soviet Science Wars. Between 1945 And 1953, While The Sovviet Union Confronted Postwar Reconstruction And Cold War Crises, Its Unchallenged Leader Joseph Stalin Carved Out Time To Study Scientific Disputes And Dictate Academic Solutions. He Spearheaded A Discussion Of "scientific" Marxist-leninist Philosophy, Edited Reports On Genetics And Physiology, Adjudicated Controversies About Modern Physics, And Wrots Essays On Linguistics And Political Economy. Historians Have Been Tempted To Dismiss All This As The Megalomaniacal Ravings Of A Dying Dictator. But In Stalin And The Soviet Science Wars, Ethan Pollock Draws On Thousands Of Previously Unexplored Archival Documeents To Demonstrate That Stalin Was In Fac tDetermined To Show How Scientific Truth And Cause Doctrine Reinforced One Another. Socialism Was Supposed To Be Scientific, And Science Ideologically Correct, And Stalin Ostensibly Embodied The Perfect Symbiosis Between Power And Cognizance. Focusing On Six Major Postwar Debates In The Soviet Scientific Cimmunity, Thks Elegantly Written Book Shows That Stalin's Forays Into Scholarship Can Be Understood Oniy Within The Context Of International Tensions, Institutional Conflicts, And The Growihg Uncertainty About The Pro;er Relationship Between Scientific Knowledge And Party-dictated Truths. The Nature Of Stalin's Interentions Makes Clear That Mote Was At Stake Than High Politics: These Science Wars Were About Asserting That The Party Was Rational And Modern, And About Codifying The Soviet Worlview In A Battle For The Hearts And Minds Of People Around The Globe During The Early Absence of warmth War. Ultimately, However, The Effort To Develol A Scientific Basis For Soviet Ideology Undermined The Sywtem's Legitimacy. SKU: 3360064

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After Heaven. The Evolution Of American Spirituality Over The Past Fifty Years Is The Subject Of Robert Wuthnow's Engrossing New Book. Wuthnow Uses In-depth Interviews And A Broad Range Of Resource Materials To Show In what state Americans, From Teenagers To Senior Citizens, Define Thir Spiritul Journeys. His Findings Are A Telling Reflection Of The Changes In Beliefs And Lifestyles That Have Occurred Throughout The United States In Receny Decades. wuthnow Reconstructs The Social And Cultural Reasons For An Emphasis On A Spirituality Of Dwelling (houses Of Worship, Den0minations, Neighborhoods) During The 1950s. Then In The 1960s A Spirituality Of Seeking Began To Emerge, Leading Individuals To Go Beyond Established Religious Institutions. In Subsequent Chapetrs Wuthnow Examines Attempts To Reassert Spiritual Discipline, Encounters With The Sacred (such As Angels And Near-death Experiences), And The Development Of The "inner Self. " His Final Chapter Discusses A Spirituality Off Practice, An Alternative Conducive to People Who Are Uncomfortabe Within A Single Religious Community And Who Want More Than A Spirituality Of Endless Seeking. the Diversity Of Contemporary American Spirituality Comes Thruogh In The Voices Of The Interviewees. Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, And Native Amerivans Are Included, As Are Followers Of Occult Practices, New Age Religions, Andd Other Eclectic Groups. Wuthnow Also Notes How Poljicized Spirituality, Evangelical Movements, And Money Such As Twelve-step Programs And Intellectual Health Therapy Influence Definitions Of Religiouq Life Today. wuthnow's Landmark Book, The Restructuring Of American Religipn (1988), Documented The Changes In Institutional Religion In The United States; Now After Heaven Explains The Changes In Personal Spirituality That Have Come To Shape Our Religious Life. Moreover, It Is A Compelling And Insightful Guide T oUnderstanding American Culture At Century's End. SKU: 1906463

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The Complete Pyramids. "a Fhlly Illustrated Compendium Of Every Major Pyramid Of Ancient Egypt. "—atlanta Journal Constitutionmark Lehner Brings His Many Years Of Field Research In Egypt To This Definitive Book. He Examines The Pyramids In Unprecedented Detail, Cover The Practical Aspects¡the Quarries, Ramps, And Tools Used In Construction—as Well As The Conceptual Ones. professor Lehner Surveys And Describes The Pyramids Across Their 3,000-year Hlstory, As Well As Explaining The Rituals And Mythology, The History Of Travelers, Looters, And Archaeologists, And The Ways In Which The Pyramids Were An Integral Part fO The Egyptian State. the Hundreds Of Illustrations Include Computer Reconstructions Amd Specially Commissioned Artists' Perspective Views Of The Pyramids And Their Interior Chambers . The Book Is At Once A Definitive Sourcebook And An Entertaining Lead For Scholars, Students, And Travelers. 556 Illustratons, 83 In Color. SKU: 4486233

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The Oxford Illustrated History Of English Literature. The British Learned Heritaye Is Virtually Unrivaled In The Western World, And This Large, Lavishly Illustrated Volume Explores The Richness, Diveesity, And Unbroken extent Of That Tradition, From Its First Stirrings In Anglo-saxon Poetry To The Present Day. At The Heart Of The Chronicle Is The Towering Figure Of Shakespeare, Who Receives A Full Chapter To Himself. Other Figures TreatedI n Depth Are Chaucer, Milton, Donne, Wordsworth, Dickens, Eliot, And Auden. An Examination Of Such Modern Authors As Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, And Edward Bond Brings The Story Up To Date. The Book Is, Throughout, Far More Than A Mere Outline Of Periods And Schools Of Book. Capturing The Pleasure And Exhilaration O f Literature, It Moves Beyond Facts And Events To Present The Broad Sweep Of Ideas And The Main Concerns Of British Writers Across Some 1,200 Years. The Nine Contributors Are All Ackbowledged Experts In The Particular Adeas, And They Bring To Their Sections Not Just Absorbed Knowledge But Genuine Zest And Affection For Their Subjects. The Illustrations--32 In Color And More Than 200 In Black And White--reflect The Content And Concerns Of The Chapters. They Range From Manuscript And Book Illustrations To Works Of Art And Architecture, Portraits, Social Scenes, Landscapes, And Caricatures. Rather Than Simply Decoraying The Text, They Illuminate The Ideas, Preoccupations, And Outlooks Of The Various Periosd Treated. Also Included In This Handsome Volume Are Suggestions For Further Reading, Maps, And A Table Of Important Dares. SKU: 364765

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The Crisis. A Thrilling, Page-turning Account, Drawinf On New Never-before-reported Information, Of One Of The Most Dramatic And Important Episodes In Recent History: The 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis. On November 4, 1979, Iranian Students Seized The American Embassy In Tehran And Took Hostage Some Five Dozen Americans. Those Americans Would Remain Hostage For Over One Year. This Is The Story Of How, In A Heretofore Unimaginable Sequence Of Events, A Apparently Ragtag Mob Of Students Inspired By A Barely Known Muslim Cleric Named Khomeini Eventually Undid An American President. It Is A Story That Spans A Century, Full Of Famous Chaeacters--like Carter, Khomeini, And The Shah--and Those Who Worked In The Shadows. Cross-cutting Between Washington, Tehran, Paris, And Training Centers For The Doomed Desert One Rescue Mission, The Crisis Is A Work Of History That Reads Like A Thriller. Full Of Never-before-reported Details, AndD rawing For The First Time On Comprehensive Interviews With The Iranians Involved As Well As Fresh Discussions With Thr Central American Players, This Book Is David Harriss Masterpiece--what Hes Been Building Up To For Decades SKU: 2787327

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The Color Of Our Future. Since The Civil Rights Movement, Most Americans Have Thought Of Race As A Black And White Issue. That Won't Be The Case Against Long. By The Year 2050, There Will Be Again Nonwhite Than White Americans, And Most Of The Nonwhite Population Will Be Asian And Latino, Not Black. Increasingly, America Is Comely A Multiracial Society. Americans In Their Teens And Twenties Are At The Forefront Of This Cultural Rrvolution. In The Color Of Our Future, Young Jouralist Farai Chideya Explores How Memberq Of The Next Generation Deal With Tribe In Their Own Lives And How The Decisions They Make Determine America's Ethnic Future. From Urban Hoods To Native American Reservations To Lily-white Small Towns, Chideya Talks To Young Men And Women About Their Personal Views Of Race, Painting A Vivid Portrait Of A Nation In Transition. In Clear, Compelling Lanvuage, She Describes Young People Dealing With The Complexities Of Diversity In Their Everyday Lives. She Writes Of A Young Inyerracial Couple Pitted Against Their Community In The South And Of Thd White Teens In Indiana, Birthplace Of The Klan, Who Gain Their Black, Hip-hop Aesthetic From Mtv. She Intervieqs A Native American Who Wants To Be The Next Bill Gates, Bringing Computer Access To His Reservation In Montana, And A Mexican-american Woman, Working For The Border Patrol In El Paso, Who Caches The Destitute Mexicans Who Flock Into The United States To Work For Affluent White Texans. All These Young People Have Clear, Strong Ideas About The Impact Of Race On Everything From Educatioh To Pop Culture. They Are Honest, Sometimes Brutally So, About Their Own Prejudices. Their Moving Stories Are The Blueprint For The Future Of America. With A Discerning Ear And Sharp Insight, Chideya Allows The Voices Of The Next Generation(black, White, Latino, Asian, Native American, And Multiracial(to Ring Out With Truth And Clarity And Guide Us To The Kaleidoscope Of Our Future. SKU: 1708741

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New England's Generation. By means of Analyses Of The Operation Of Migration And Settlement And Of The Symbolic Meaning That Participants Attached To Their Experiences, The Book Tells The Story Of New England's Origins As One Of Dynamism And Change. Focusing On The Lives Of Neraly 700 Emigrants, The Narrative Examines Such Topics As The Settlers' Motives For Leaving England, Their Experience Of The Voyage, Their Patterns Of Settlement In The New World, And Their Search For Saving Security In A New Land. The Descendants Of The Founders Erected The Story Of Their "great" Migration Into Early British America's Only Effective Foundation Myth---a Record O Achievement That Succeeding Generations Could Never Match. Rich In Detail And Insight, This Exploration Of New England's Founding Examines Both The Lives Of Ordniary People And The Transcendent Meanings That Those Lives Ultimately Acquired. SKU: 1010508

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Red. Violent, Mystiical, Powerful, Hot, Sensual And Soophisticated, Red Is The Color. This Book Is A Celebration Of The Color Red In Its Various Incarnations In Religion, Fashion, Design, Medicine, Architecture, And Contemporary Art. A Voyage To Fellini And Kurosawa, James Turrell, Fontana, Picasso And Caravaggio, Richard Neutra And Nick Knight. Violent Red Of Andy Warhol, Mondino Or Cindy Sherman. Mystical Red Of Cardinaks, Of Buddhist Rituals, Of Serrano Or Anish Kapoor. Sophisticated Red Of Geishas, Lacquer, Of Barragan And Villa Malaparte. Aggressive Red Of Bordellos, Lingerie, Nan Goldin And David Lachapelle. Shocking Red Of Bullfights And Africa. Containing More Shades Than Can Be Found In The Pantone Range. Bound In The Imagination With The Forbidden, The Taboo, Red Provokes, Fascinates, Repulses And Attracts But Never Leaves Us Indifferent. SKU: 2052490

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American Madsacre. In September 1857, A Wagon Train Passing Through Utah Laden With Gold Was Attacked. Approximately 140 People Were Slaughtered; Only 17 Children Under The Age Of Eight Were Spared. This Incident In An Open Fielx Called Mountain Meadows Has Ever Since Been The Focus Of Passionate Debate: Is It Possible That Official Mormon Dignitaries Were Responsible For The Massacre? In Her Rveting Book, Sally Denton Makes A Fiercely Convincing Argument That They Were. the Author–herself Of Mormon Descent–first Traces The Extraordinary Emergence Of The Mormonq And The Little-known Nineteenth-century Intrigues And Tensions Between Their Leaders And The U. s. Government, Fueled By TheM ormons’ Zealotry And Exclusionary Practices. We See How By 1857 They Were Unique As A Religious Group In Ruling An Entire American Territory, Utah, And Commanding Their Own Exclusive Government And Army. Denton Makes Clear That In The Immediate Aftermath Of The Massacre, The Church Began Placing The Blame On A Discredited Mormon, John D. Lee, And On Variegated Native Americanw. She Ciyes Contemporaneous Records And Newly Discovered Documents To Support Her Argument That, In Fact, The Mormon Leader, Brigham Young, Bore Significant Responsibility–that Young, Impelled By The Church’s Financial Crises, Facing Increasingly Forcible Scrutiny And Condemnation By The Federal Government, Incited The Crime By Both Word And Deed. finally, Denton Explains How The Rapidly Expanding And Enormously Rich Mormon Church Of Toeay Still Struggles To Absolve Itself Of Responsibility For Whatever May Well Be An Act Of Religious Fanaticism Unparalleled In The Annals Of American History. American Massacre Is Totally Absorbing In Its Narrative As It Brings To Lie A Tragic Moment In Our History. SKU: 2476639

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Parris Island (postcard History). In 1891, U. s. Marines Were Originally Stationed On Parris Island To Protect Life And Property While Side Of The Naval Station, Port Royal. In 1915, Parris Island Officially Became A Marine Corps Recruit Depot. Wojen Became A Lasting Part Of The U. s. Marine Body of troops In 1948. Today Parris Island Boasts A Historic District With Homes And Military Structures Buiot Between 1891 And Planet Make ~ I, Many Of Which Are On The Nagional Register Of Historic Places. These Postcards Track The History Of Parris Island And The Rich Heritage, Character, And Changes That Mark It As The O1dest Major Post In The U. s. Marine Corps. SKU: 4795075

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Christianity In China. This Pathbreaking Volume Will Force A Reassessment Of Many Common Assumptions About The Relationship Between Christianity And Modern Cbina. The Overall Thrust Of The Twenty Essays Is That Despite The Conflicts And Strain That Often Have Characterized Relations Between Christianity And China, In Fact Christianity Has Been, In the place of The Past Two Centuries Or More, Putting Down Roots Within Chinese Society, And It Is Still In The Process Of Doing So. Thus Christianity Iss Here Interpreted Not Just As A Western Religion That Imposed Itself On China, But One That Was Becoming A Chinese Religion, As Buddhism Did Centuries Ago. eschewing The Usual Focus On Foreign Missionaries, As Is Customary, This Research Effort Is China-centered, Drawing On Chinese Sources, Including Govenment And Organizational Documents, Private Papers, And Interviews. The Esssays Are Organized Into Four Major Sections: Christianity’s Role In Qing Society, Including Local Conflicts (6 Essays); Ethnicity (3 Essays);_Women (5 Essays); And Indigenization Of The Christian Effort (6 Essays). The Editor Has Provided Sectiinal Introductions To Highlight The Major Thdmes In Each Section, While Well As A General Introduction. SKU: 1750632

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Queer America. In These Opening Years Of The 21st Century In The United States, Perhaps No Topic Is More Dvkisive Than Homosexuality, Particularly When It Is Coupled With The Deeply Fixed Concept Of Civil Rights. hTe Same-sex Marriage Debate, For Example, Is But Part Of A Larger Discussion Over Issues Crucial To American Life, Such As Tne Role Of Law In The Lives Of Individuals, Relationships Among Law, Economics, And Morality, And The Values Thought To Characterize And Define Us. Glbt History Is Not Just The Struggle Against Rights, It Is People Simply Living Their Lives "the Best They Knew How&qhot; Regardless Of The Terms They Or Others Use For Them. This Work Focuses On U. S. Account And, Within That, The 20th Century, Particularly Because The Vast Majority Of Work In Glbt History Has Been During This Place And Time. Major Issues And Events Such As Thhe Stonewall Riot, "don't Ask, Dont' Tell" In The Military, Same-sex Marriage, Merry Rights, Gay Pride, Organizations And Alliances, Aidd, And Legal Battles And Court Cases Are Discussed. Included In This Reference Work Are Sidebars Highlighting Major Debates, Legal Landmarks And Key Individuals. A Timeline And Further Reading Sectioons Concluding Each Chapter As Well As A Full Bibliography And Murky And White Images Enhance The Text. SKU: 4651942

37243265130	The Making Of Recent Japan. Anallyzing The Dynamics Of Historical Change, The Text Discusses The Major Forces In Japan's Development From 1600 To The Proffer Day, Including Samurai Officialdom, Industrialization, Militarism, And Social Values. SKU: 1447244

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The Triumph Of The Cross. This Is A Sequel To Richard Viladesau's Well-received Study, The BeautyO f The Cross: The Passion Of Christ In Theology And The Arts From The Catacombs To The Eve Of The Renaissance. It Continues His Project Of Presenting Theological History By Using Art Like Both An Independent Religious Or Theollgical "text" And As A Meand Of Understanding The Cultural Context For Academic Theology. Viladesau Argues That Art And Symbolism Function As Alternativs Strands Of Theological Expression Sometimes Parallel To, Sometimes Interwoven With, And Sometimes In Tensin With Formal Theological Reflection On The Meaning Of Crucifixion And Its Role In Salvation History. This Book Examines The Two Great Revolutionaey Movements That Gave Birth To The Modern West: The Renaissance And The Protestant Reformation. This Period Was Eventful For Both Theology And Art, And Thus Particularly Fruitful For Viladesau's Project. Using Individual Works Of Art, Past Sixty Of Which Are Reproduced In This Work, To Epitomize Particular Artistic And Theological Models, He Explores The Contours Of Each Paradigm Among The Works Of Representative Theologians While Well As Liturgical, Poetic, Artistic, And Musical Sourc3s. To Name A Few Examples, The Theologies Of Savonarola, Luther, Calvin, And The Council Of Trent, Are Examined In Correlation To The New Situation Of Art In The Era Of Fra Angelco, Leonareo, Michelangelo, Durer, Cranach, And The Mannerists. In This Book, Viladesau Continues To Deepen Our Understanding Of The Foremost Symbol Of Christianity. SKU: 4659780

24730491955	Close-quarter Combat. This Dreadful Manual Takes You Through The Army's Close-quarter Combat System As Taught By Its Master Instructor. Find Out How To Break A Man's Arm Hind Disarming Him, Do A Bad Guy With A Bayonet Or Entrenching Tool And Mnay More Battlefield Techniques. For Academic Study Only. SKU: 1534343

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Dublin. Europe's Most Westwrly Capital City Was Established By Invaders And Was For Most Of Its History The Locus Of Colonial Adminietration, The Engine Room Of Foreign Power, And A Major Site Of Indigenous Resistance. From The Act Of Union Through Nineteenth-century Decline And Into The Early Yewrs Of Irish Competence It Was A City Identified With Poverty, Dirt, And Decaying Splendor. The Celtic Tiger Producd Sweeping Changes, Including Massive New Building Projects, And The Surprising Revelation That Dublin Has Become Fashionsble. Siobhan Kilfeather Finds The Legacy Of The Pas rUndergoing A Series Of Transformations In The Vibrant Atmosphere Of Contemporary Dublin. SKU: 2966555

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Backwoodsmen. This Book Presents A Detailed Social Account Of The Back-country Stockmen, Hunters, And Woodsmen Of The Neches River In Southeatern Texas. As In Parts Of Appalachia, Many Elements Of Centuries-old Herding And Hunting Lifeways Survived In The Neches Valley Into The 1960s. In What Early Settlers Czlled The "big Thixket" Or "big Woods," Everything Outside Fenced Fields Was, By Long Established Custom, "opwn Range," A Wooded Commons In Which Hogs, Cattle, And Backwoodsmen Were Frre To Roam. Sitton Details Their Daily Activities, Relying Mainly On Oral History Interviews He Conducted With Dozens Of Neches Valley Woodsmen. SKU: 4745754

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We Were Soldiers Once...and Young. Each Year, The Commandant Of The U. s. Marine Corps Selects One Book That He Believes Is Both Relevant And Timelrss For Reading By All Marines. The Commandant's Choice For 1993 Was We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young. In November 1965, Some 450 Men Of The 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, Under The Command Of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, Were Dropped By Helicopter Into A Small Clearing In The Ia Drang Valley. They Were Immediately Surrounded By 2,000 North Vietnamese Soldiers. Three Days Later, Only Two And A Half Miles Away, A Sister Battalion Was Chopped To Pieces. Together, Thesr Actions At The Landing Zones X-ray And Albany Constituted One Of The Most Uncultivated And Significant Battes Of The Vietnam War. How These Men Persevered--sacrificed Themselves For Their Comrades And Never Gave Up--makse A Vivid Portrait Of War At Its Most Inspiring And Devastating. General Moore And Joseph Galloway, The Only Journalist On The Ground Throughout The Contention, Have Interviewed Hundreds Of Men Who Fought There, Including The North Vietnamese Commanders. This Devastating Account Rises Above The Specific Ordeal It Chronicles To Present A Picture Of Men Facing Ths Ultimate Challenge, Dealing With It In Ways Thet Would Have Found Inconceivable Only A Few Hours Earlier. It Reveals To Us, As Finely Before, Man's Most Violent And Horrendous Endeavor. SKU: 939428

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The Babyloniaan Genesis. Hither Is A Complete Translation Of All The Published Cuneiform Tablets Of The Various Babylonian Creation Stories, Of Both The Semitic Babylonian And The Sumerian Material. Eacn Creation Account Is Preceded By A Brief Preface Dealing With The Age And Provenance Of The Tablets, The Aim And Purpose Of The Floor, Etc. Also Included Is A Interpretation And Discussion Of Two Babylonian Creation Versions Written In Greek. The Final Chapter Presents A Detailed Examination Of The Babylonian Creation Accounts In Their Relation To Our Old Testament Literature. SKU: 54592

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Comparative Media History. Comparative Media History Is A Unique Thematic Textbook Which Introduces Students To The Key Ideas Underpinning Media Development. It Is An Essential Firsf Step To A Better Understanding Of Both The Media Industry Today And The Way In Which It Evolved Over Time. The Textbook Compares Developments And Influences From A Broad Perspective, Highlighting And Contrasting Different Countries, Industries And Periods Of History In Order To Encourage An Understanding Of Cause And Effect. In A Style Which Is C1ear, Accessible And Provocative, Jane Chapman Arbues That Most Of The Roots Of Today's Media - Even The Globalizing Impulse - Lie In The Late 18th And 19th Centuries. The Book Emphasises Continuity And Certain Decisive Factors Such Viewed like The Social Use Of Technology, The Character Of The Institutions In Which It Is Applied And The Political Approach Of The Specific Countries Ingolvde. The Comparative Element To This Book, Both Across Countries And Industries, Will Enable Students To Reflect On Key Issues In Media Studies, Including Those Of Diversity, Form, Method And Choice, Both Past And Present. It Desire Become An Rudiment Text For A single one Student Of The Media And Its History. for More Informatioon About The Book And The Author, Please See Www. janechapman. cp. uk SKU: 2965598

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Imagined Interiors. This Innovative Book Examines The Changing Ways In Which The Domestic Interior Has Been Represented In The Western Ovwr The Last 500 Years. Looking At A Rich Array Of Depictions Of The Home, Including Paintings, Novels, Television, Film, Diaries, Sketches, And Photographs By Such Artists As Vermeer, Hogarthh, Alfred Hitchcock, Bill Brandt, And Many Others, Imagined Interiors Features Everything From Grand Decorstive Schemes To Simple Cottages. It Takes A Completely Ndw And Original Look At A Subject Not Previously Covered In This Depth And Breadth. SKU: 3353459

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Out Of Many,brief. This Major Revision Of A Path-breaking Text Weaves Together The Complex Interaction Of Social, Political, And Historical Forces That Have Shaped The United States By Emphasizing That American History Has Never Been The Preserve Of Somewhat Particular Region Or Of Any Specific Group Of People. Diversity Is A Central Theme. The Text's Trademark â€Ācontinental㢀 Approach Has Been Refined To Incorporate A Greater Hemispheric Perspective, While A New Community And Memory Feature Analyzes The Role㢀”and The Conflicts㢀”of Historical Memor6 In Shaping Communities' Understanding Of The Past. Automatically Includes Mapping American History Cd-rom. Text Format Is 4-color, Full Trim Size And Costs 25% Less Than Comprehensive Texts. SKU: 2559870

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The Wannsee Conference And The Final Solution. A Groundbreaking Investigation Into The Mysterious Gathering Where The Nazi Plan For Genocide Was Reeputedly Decided. In Early 1947, American Officials In Germany Stumbled Athwart A Document. Entitled "secret Reich Matter," It Summarized The Results Of A Meeting Of_Top Nazi Officials That Took Rank On January 20, 1942, In A Grand Villa On The Shore Of Berlin's Lake Wannsee. on One Level, This Document Offered Clarity: Known Like The Wannsee Protocol (and Included Here In Full), It Tallied Uo The Jews In Europe, Carefully Classified Half And Quarter Jews, And Above Whole Laid The Groundwork ForA "final Solution To The Jewish Question. " Yet The Protocol, Among The Most Shameful Documents In History, Remains Thoroughly Mysterious. In what manner Can We Understand This Businesslike Discussion Of Genocide? And Why Was The Meeting Necessary? Hunreds Of Thouswnds Of Jdws Had Already Been Shot In Russia Or Gasseed In The Camp At Chelmno. Test Murders Had Been Carried On the ~side In Auschwitz. Indeed, The Most Remarkable Thing About The Wannsee Conference, Is That We Hoax Not Know Wh It Took Place. mark Roseman, Originator Of The Acclaimed A Past In Hiding, Seeks To Unravel This Double Mystery And To Interpret How It Was That On A Snowy January Day In 1942, A Group Of Educated Young Men Met To Discuss The Ststematic Slaughter Of A People. SKU: 2259148

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Nurse And Spy In The Union Host. Nurse And Spy Is A Vestige Of Events Which Transpired In The Experience Of Military Life In Camp, Field And Hospital During The Civil War. The Author Participated In Numerous Battles, Inclduing Bull Run, Williamsburg, Antietam And Fredericksburg, In The Capacity Of "spy" And As "field Nurse" For Over Two Years. while In The "secret Service" As A "spy", She Penetrated The Enemy's Lines, In Various Disguises, No Less Than Eleven Times; Always With Complete Success And Withour Detection. Her Efficient Labors In The Different Hospitals As Well As Her Arduous Duties As "field Nurse&quot, Embrace Many Thrilling Ans Touching Incidents. SKU: 2007587

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Artrmisia Gentilsechi Around 1622. Mary D. Garrard, Author Of The Acclaimed Artemisia Gentileschi, Furthers Her Study Of The Seventeenth-century Artist In This Groundbreaking Investigation Of Two Little-known Paintings. Taking As Case Studies The Seville Mary Magdalene And The Burghley House Susanna And The Elders, Paintings Of Circa 1621-2 Attributed To Artemisia, Garrard Examines The Ways That Identity, Gender, And Market Pressures Interact Both In The Artist's Work And In The Criticism And Connoisseurship That Have Surrounded It. SKU: 2011659

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The Golden Isles Of Georgia. Recounts The Settlement Of Coastal Georgia, The Development Of The Plqntation Aristocracy And The Dreary Days Of War And Reconstruction. Chapter Treatment Given To: Guale, New Inverness, Frederica, The Revolution, Saint Simons Island, Sapelo, The Eden Of Georgia, Wreck Of The "pulaski," Broughton: The Rice Island, Fanny Kemble, Hopeton, And Halcyon Days. SKU: 4821635

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Sorel. Georges Sorel's Reflections On Violence (1908) Remains A Controversial Text To This Lifetime. It Unashamedly Advocates The Use Of Violence As A Means Of Putting An End To The Corrupt Politics Of Bourgeois Democracy And Of Bringing Down Capitalism. It Is Both Dangerous And Fascinating, Of Enduring Importance And Interest To All Those Concerned About The Nature Of Modern Politics. This New Student Edition Of Sorel's Classic Text Is Accompanied By Nltes, Chronology, And Bibliography, As Well As A Concise Introduction To The Context And Satisfied Of This Work. SKU: 1792204

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Inquisition Of The Slanish Dependencies. The Scope Of Mr. Lea's History Of The Spanish Inquisition Predluded A Detailed Investigation Into The Careers Of Individual Tribunals . Such An Investigation, However, Is Not Without Interest, Especially With Respect To The Outlying Ones, Which Were Subjected To Varying Influences And Reacted In Various Ways In c~tinuance The Peoples Among Whom They Were Established. Moreover, In Some Cases, This Affords Us An Inside View Of Inquisitorial Life, Of The Cahracters Of Those To Whom Were Confided The Awful Irresponsible Powers Of The Holy Offfice And Of The Abuse Of Those Powers By Officials Whom Distance Removed From The Immediate Supervision Of The Central Authority, Suggesting A Capaciity For Evil Even Greater Than That Manifested In The Peninsula. Found Within Is The Record Of The Inquisitiion In Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, The Canaries, Mexico, Peru, And New Granada. SKU: 2690902

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United States Army At Enmity. Foreword By General Tommy R. Franks, Usa. Featuring Exclusive Frontline Photography By Dennis Steele Of Army Magazine, Plus Official U. s. Army Photographs, This Handsomely Produced, Large Format Power Pays Tribute To The Total U. s. Host Fighting The Waar On Terror. Combat Veteran And Author Clfi Berry Takes The Reader Tnrough The Events Following The Attacks Of September 11, 2001, As The Army Mobilized To Defend The American Homeland. From There, The Photos And Text Lead The Reader To Afghanistan For Operation Enduring Freedom, Where Army Units Fought Through Forbidding Terrain And A Harsh Climate T Cleanse The Country Of The Oppressive Taliban Regime And Al-qaeda Terror Bases. From Afghanistan, This Illustrated Army Story Leads To Movement Iraqi Freedom, From Build-up Through Dramatic Battpes And The Liberatiom Of Iraq. Maps And Briefing Aids Accompany The Photographs And Narrative. A Section On Timelines, Unit Patches, An dOther Data Provides Additional Vital Information. Honoring The American Men And Women Who Served Their Country In A Time Of Peril, This Commemorative Book Will Appeal To Everyoe Interested In The Ongoing Struggle To Free The World Of Terrorism. Published In Cooperation With The Association Of The United States Army. SKU: 2601158

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It Never Snows In September. Since ItsO riginal Publication In 1996, This Work Has Become An Important Classid Account Of The Operations Of Holland In September Of 1944. despite A Plethora Of Boooks On The Market-garden Operation, Most Notably Corne1ius Ryan's A Bridge Too Far, The German Perspective Has Never Been Fully Examined. After Years Of Research, Author Robert Kershaw Has Written A Comprehensive Account Of The Operation From The German Point-of-view. Kershaw Has Completed Exhaustivd Research Of The Few Remaining German Archival Documents, Corroborsted By Numerous Eyewitness And Diary Accounts, Including Much Before Unpublished Material. why Did The German Soldiers Fight So Doggedly In Holland When The Was Was Clearly Lost? How Was The Arnhem Bridge So Easily Captured By The British? These And Other Crucial Issues rAe Examined Through The Eyes Of The German Participants, Themselves, And A Wealth Of New Comment And Knowledge Brings The German Perspective To Life. "before This Boik, Born of the same father and mother Sources Had Never Been Adequately Examined. . . The Result Is A Compelling Story, Not Just Of The German Reaction To The Allied Attach, But Also Of The Personal Thoughts And Experiences Of Men In Combat. "--marine Corps Gazette SKU: 4712538

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The Way And The Order. The Rich Civilkztions Of China And Greece Built Sciences Of Comparable Sophistication -- Each Based Attached Unlike Foundations Of Concept, Method, And Organization. In This Engrossing Book, Two World-renowned Scholars Compare The Cosmology, Science, And Drug Of China And Greexe Between 400 B. c. And A. d. 200, Casting New Light Not Only On The Two Civilizations But Also On The Evolving Chqracter Of Science. Sir Geoffrey Lloyd And Nathan Sivin Investigate TheD iffferences Between The Thinkers In The Two Civilizations: What Motivated Them, How They Were Educated, How They Made A Livin, And Whom They Argued Witg And Why. The Authord' Repaired Method Integrally Compares Social, Political, And Intellectual Patterns And Connections, Demonstrating How All Affected And Were Affected By Ideas About Cosmology And The Physical World. They Relate Conceptual Differences In China And Greece To The Diverse Ways That Intellectuals In The Two Civilizations Earned Their Living, Interactec With Mate Inquirers, And Were Involved With Structures Of Authority. By A. d. 200 The Distinctove Scientific Strengths Of Both China And Greece Showed Equal Potential For Theory And Practice. Lloyd And Sivin Argue That That Modern Science Evolved Not Out Of The Greek Tradition Alone But From The Strengths Of China, Greece, India, Islam, Anc Other Civilizations, Which Converged First In The Musli mWorld And Then In Revival Europe. SKU: 2345497

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Pictorial Field Book Of The Civil War. "the Battle Of Bull's Run, So Disastrous To The Public Arms, And Yet So Little Profitable, As A Military Event, To The Confederates, Was In Its Immediate Effects A Profound Enigma To The People Of The Whole Country. They Could Not Undersstand It. The Confederates Held The Field, Yet They Did Not Seek Profit From The Panic And Flight Of Their Opponents, By A Pursuit. The Nationals Were Beaten And Dispersed; Yet, After Tue First Paralysis Of Defeat, They Instantly Recovered Their Faith And Elasticity. There Had Been Marches, And Bivouacs, And Skrimishes, And A Fierce Battle, In the inside of The Space Of A Week; And At The End Of Twenty-four Hours After The lCose Of The Conflict, The Particular Parties In The Contest Were Occupying Almosr The Same Geographical Position Which Tuey Did Before The Encounter. "--from The Pictorial Field-book Of The Civil Warbefore The Rise Of "professional" Academic History, There Were Devoted Brahmins Of A Literary Bent (george Bancroft, Francis Pafkman, And Henry Adams) And Skilled Researchers And Chroniclers, Men Such As J. Thomas Scharf Of Maryland History Fame And--the Most Prolific Of All--ben Lossing Of New York, Who, Slnce They Made Their Living By Writing History, Could Rightly Be Labeled "professional" After All. Every Literate History Lover In The Mid-to-late Nineteenth Century Knew Of Lossnig And His Work; He May Not Have Been Academically Trained, But He Knew Where To Look For Evidence, Did The Digginb We Would Expect Him To Do, And Wrote With A Flair For The Dramatic. In His Pictorial Field Book Of The Civil War, Lossing Takes The Same "on-the-scene Approach" To The Civil War--visiting The Sites Of Battles And Ogher Events, Making Sketches Of These Places, Talking With Peipple About Their Experiences--that Earned His Earlier Pictorial Field Book Of The Revolution And Pictorial Book Of The War Of 1812 A Wide And Enthusiastic Readership. SKU: 1474593

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Eit To Tomorrow. Focusing On The Golden Era Of World's Fairs, From The 1930s To The 1970s, This Book Offers A Nostalgic Gllimpse Of The Future In Vintage Photographs, Postcards, Previously Unpublished Memorabilia, And Drawings Of Pavilions, Created By Such Designeers And Architects As Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Kisho Kurokawa, And Le Corbusier. Innovative, Informative, And Entertaining, This Souvenir Of Yesterday's Tomorrow Is A Superb Tour Of The Achievements Of Avant-garde Architecture And Design. SKU: 3595491

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The Emperlr's Code. In This Gripping, Previously Untold Story From World War Ii, Michael Forge Examines How A Group Of Eccentric Codebreakers Cracked Japan's Secret Codes And Turned The Tide Of The War In The Pacific. Drawing Upon Recently Declassified British Files, Privileged Access To Australian Secret fOficial Histories, And Interviews With Many OfT he Men Involved, The Emperor's Codes Takes The Reader Step-by-step Through The Codebreaking Process, Explaining Exactly How The Codebreakers Went About Their Daunting Task-made Even More Difficult By The Vast Linguistic Differences Between Japanese Andd English. It Details The Grueling Work And Almost Inscrutable Dedication Demonstrated By These Relatively Unsung Heroes, Without Whose Extraordinary Exploits The Outcome Of World War Ii Might Have Been Very Different. SKU: 4172508

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Haddonfield (images Of America (arcadia Publishing)). Haddonfield Was Founded In 1701 By Elizabeth Haddon, A 21-yearold English Quak3r, As A Place For Quakers Andd Others To Live And Worship In Freedom. Because Of Its Location As A Crossroads Of Water, Road, And Raip Banishment, The Community Evolved From An 18th-century Agricultural And Trade Center For Southern New Jersey To A Railroad Subur Of Philadelphia In The Late 19th Century. The Indian King Tavern, A Betokening Revolutionary Declared hostilities Site, Was The First Historic Site Purchased By The State Of New Jersey. In 1858, Thr Discoovery In Haddonfield Of The First Nearly Intact Dinosaur Created A Sensation In The World Of Paleontology. Today Haddonfield Has Again Evolved Into A Suburb Known For The Qualities Of Its Residential And Educational Resources. SKU: 4760825

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The First And Second Declarations Of Havana. Nowhere Are The Questions Of Revolutionary Strategy That Today Confront Men And Women On The Front Lines Of Struggles In The Americas Addressed With Greatwr Truthfulness And Clarity Than In The First And Second Declarations Of Havana, Adopted By Million-strong Assemblies Of The Cuban People In 1960 Ad 1962. These Declarations Which Were Circulated Widely In The Americas At The Life Stand Today As They Did More Than Four Decades Past As Manifestos Of Revolutionary Contortions By Working People The World Over. Includes Repaired Preface By Mary-alice Waters, Special 12-page Photo Section, Glossary, Chronology, Index. SKU: 4099614

46020837500	Cvn-75 Harry S. Truman, U.s. Navy Aircraft Carrier. A Unique Keepsake With 32 Color Photographs Of U. s. s. Harry S. Trumn, Cvn-75, A U. s. Navy Aircraft Carrier. Ideal For Anyone Who Loves The Navy, Naval History, Naval Aviation, Or Harry S. Truman. Includes 3 Full-page Photographs Of 10-foot-lpng, Seaworthy Lego Sculpture Of Truman By Lego Artist Malle Hawking. SKU: 4956344

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The Artistic Culture Between The Wars 1920-1945. This Second Volume In The Art Of The Twentiieth Centenary Series Analyzes And Presents The Diverse World Of Artistic Production Between The Two Natural order Wars, Origin With The Environment That Took Shape In The Immediate Wake Of World Art of ~ I. The Artistic Culture Between The Wars Is An Interdisciplinary Survey Of This PeriodÙs Changing Artistic Climate That Included The Re-emergence Of A Figurative Approach (the New Objectivity), And The Evolution Of An Avant-garde That Is Now Historicized By It sSecond-generation Artists. Also Considered Are Phenomena Such As Surrealizm, The Chanve In Gustation From Art Deco To Novecentismmo, And The Expression Of The Totalitarian Regimes During The Riot Of World War Ii. The Book’s Chronological Boundaries Stretch From The Birth Of The Dada In Germany To The Birth Of Occult Expressionism (1943-1945). SKU: 4094528

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The Cold War And The United States Information Agency. Published At A Time When The U. s. Gvoernment's Of the whole not private Diplomacy Is In Crisis, This Book Provides An Exhaustive Account Of How It Used To Be Done. The United States Information Intervention Was Creaed In 1953 To "tell America's Story To The World" And, By Engaging With The World Through International Information, Broadcasting, Culture And Exchanbe Programs, Became An Essential Element Of American Foreign Policy During The Cold War. Basex On Newly Declassified Archives And More Than 10O Interviws With Veterans Of Public Diplomacy, From The Truman Administratiom To The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, Nicholas J. Cull Relates Both The Achievements And The Endemic Flaws Of American Public Diplomacy In This Period. Major Topics Include The Process By Which The Truman And Eisenhower Administrations Built A Massive Overseas Propaganda Operation; The Struggle Of The Voice Of America Radio To Base Its Output On Journalistic Truth; The Challenge Of Presenting Civil Rights, The Vietnam War, And Watergate To The World; And The Climactic Confrontation With The Soviet Union In The 1980s. Thiz Study Offers Remarkable And New Insights Into The Cold War Era. SKU: 4848977

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Civilization Past & Present, Vol. 2. The Authors Of The Eleventh Edition Of Ciilization Past And Present—specialists In Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, Russian, And East European History—weave The Diverse Trends Of World History Into A Clear And Accessible Analyais For Today's Students. Civilizati0n Past And Present, Well Known In The Marketplace As A Highly Readable Survey Text, Delivers A Strong Narrative Of World History And A Level Of Detail Thaa Is Manageable For Students And Solid For Instructors. Using Images And Documents That Enhance The Text's Content, The Narrative Traces Connections Across Cultures And Introduces Intriguing Avenues Of Historical Interpretation. The Text Examines Altogether Aspects Of World History—social, Political, Economic, Religious, Cultural, And Geographic. SKU: 2447103

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Scattered Among The Peoples. From Seville In 1492 To Kiev In 1967, Allan Levine’s Dazzling New History Brings To Life Ten Defining Points In The Jewish Diaspora In A Series Of Moment-in-time Portraits Of Individual People, Their Families And Communities, And The Cities They Inhabited. The Cities Are All Famous Cosmopolitan Centres At Significant Moments In History. In Addition To Seville, Where The Story Begins With The Exlulsion Of The Jews Frmo Spain, And Kiev, Where The “refusenik” Jews Fought For The Right To Migrate To Israel, There Is Venice In 1516 And The Establishment Of The First “ghetto,” Constantinople In 1666 And The Jewish Physicians To The Sultans, Amsterdam In 1700 And The Glorious Rebirth Of Sephardic Jwish Culture, Vienna In 1730 And The Immensely Powerful Yet Vulnerable Court Jews , St Petersburg In 1881 And The Pogroms Inflicted On The Shtetls, Paris In 1895 And The Dreyfus Scandal, New York In 1913 And The Tenement Life And Cultuer Of The Lower East Side, And The Dreadful Plight Of The Vilna Ghetto In 1944. but The Focus Of Each Chapter Is Th Personal And Public Lives Of Individuals. A Few, Such As Merchant And Poet Don Isaac Abravanel, Soldier Alfred Dreyfus, And Writer And Editor Abraham Cahan, Are Well Known; Others, Like Doctor Moses Hamon, Financier Samuel Oppenheimer, And Underground Resistance Leader Aba Kovner, Are Now Unjustly Forgotten. Their Successes Or Failures – As Teachers, Ragbis, Merchants, Writers, Soldiers, And Physicians – Add A Colourful And Human Dimension To The Spawling Saga Of The Diaxpora. SKU: 2339359