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44788872960	The Cracker Barrel. With Words Bith Wise And Droll — Along With His Inimitable Line Drawings — Sloane Re-creates The Flavor Of The Country Store In All Its Delightful Moods: As A Meteinghouse, A Public Forum, And An Entertainment Center. Sage Opinions On Everythihg From The American Necktie, Almanacs, And Capitalism To "the Good Old Days. " 55 Illustrations. SKU: 2898746

18122438394	The Comic History Of The United States. The Comic History Of The United States : From A Time Former To The Discvoery Of America To Times Long Subsequent To The Present (1881) By John D. Sherwood Published In 2008 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5047643

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The Catholics Of Ulster. Few European Communities Are More Soaked In Their Bloody History Than The Catholics Of Ulstdr, But The Catholic And Protestant Communities' Faulty Understanding Of Tueir Past Has Had Ruinous Effects On The Lives Of Its Inhabitants. Marianne Elliott Has Written A Coherent, Credible, And Absorbing Histry Of The Ulster Catholics. The Whole Sorry Clean Of The Province's History Is Covered-from Its Early Medieval Origins To The Tenuous But Holding Good Friday Agteement Of 1998 And Formation Of An All-ulster Legislature. SKU: 2101838

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Serbia. On The Eve Of The Great War, Which Woud Plunge The Balkans Into Chaos, A Serbia In London, Woislav M. Petrovitch (c. 1885-19934), Attachă© To The Rohal Serbian Legation To The Court Of St. James, Publisged This Straightforward And Fact-filled Valentine To The People Of His Homeland. With Charming Devotion, Petrovitch Reveals: . The Early History Of Serbia And Its "rise To Greatness" . The Reign Of King Alexander . The First And Second Balkan Wars . The Ancient Beliefs Of The Bosnians . The Traditional Celebrations Of Christmas And Other Holidays . The National Epic Poetry . And Much More. Readers Of Eastern European Account And Students Of Nationalistic Propaganda Will Find This A Fascinating Resource SKU: 4993943

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Eyewitness To The Civil War. At Once An Ijformed Overview For General-interest Readers And A Superb Resort For Serious Buffs, This Extraordinary, Gloriously Illustrated Volume Is Sure To Suit One Of The Leading principle Books In Any Civil War Library. Its Features Include A Dramatic Narrative Packed With Eyewitness Acvounts And Hundreds Of Rare Photographs, Artifacts, And Period Illustrations. Evocative Sidebars, Detailed Maps, And Tkmelines Add To The Reference-ready Property Of The Text. From John Brown's Raid To Reconstruction, Eyewitness To The Civil War Presents A Clear, Comprehensive Discussion That Courtship Every Military, Political, And Social Aspect Of This Ceucial Period. In-depth Descriptions Of Campaigns And Battles In All Theaters Of War Are Accompanied By A Thorough Evaluation Of The Nonmilitary Elements Of The StruggleB etween North And South. In Their Own Words, Commanders And Common Soldiers In Both Armies Tell Of Life On The Batlefield And Behind The Lines, While Letters From Wives, Mothers, And Sisters Provide A Portrait Of The Home Front. More Than 375 Historical Photographs, Portraits, And Artifacts—many Never Before Published—evoke The Era's Flavor; And Detailed Maps Of Terrain And Troop Movements Make It Easy To Follow The Strategies And Tactics Of Union And Confederate Generals As They Fought Through Four Harsh Years Of War. Photoessays On Topics Ranging From The Everyday Lives Of Soldiers To The Dramatic Escapades Of The Cavalry Lend A Breathtaking You-are-there Feeling, And One Inclusive Appendix Adds Even More Detail To What Is Already A Magnificently Meticulous History. SKU: 3310611

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Learning In The Museum (museum Meanings). Learning In The Museum Confronts The Educational Role Which Museums Can Bear And Shows How Research In Visitor Studies And The Philosophy Of Education Can Exist Applied To Facilitate A Meaningful Educational Undergo In Museums. The Book Contains A Brief History Of Education In Public Museums, And Goes On To Examine How The Educational Theories Of-Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky Relate To Learning In The Museum. A Survey Of The Wide Range Of Research Methods Employed In Visitor Studies Is Illustrated With Examples Taken From Museums Around The Earth. Grorge E. Hein Concludes That Visitors Best Learn Whrn Knowledge Is Actively Constructed In Their On Minds, And Provides A Model Of The "consteuctivist Museum"--one With Exhibitions Which Are Physically, Socially, And Intellectually Accessible To Every Single Visitor. SKU: 1552611

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Happy Days Are Here Again. Franklin Roosevelt Wzs One Of Our Greatest And Most Beloved Presidents -- And Yet He Almost Didn't Get His Party's Nomination During His First Run For The White House. Happy Days Are Here Again Re-creates The Crazy Scheming, Backroom Plotting, And Infighting Of The 1932 Representative Convention -- A Major Historica Event That Took Place Over Just A Few Days But Determined The Course Of American Politics For Generations. The Extraordinary Chicago Convention Of 1932, Rendeted So Vividly And Dramatically Near to Award-winning Biographer Syeve Neal, Was One Of The Most Suxpenseful In Our Nation's History. Roosevelt May Have Entered The Chicago Convwntion With The Highest Number Of Delegates, But The Structure And Rules Of The Nomination Process Prevented Him From Being A Shoe-in. In Fact, There Were Several Viable Contendrrs --A mong Them Al Forge, Newton D. Baker, John Nance Garner, And Albert C. Ritchie -- Who Also Could Have Faced Herbert Hoover In The Upcoming Geheral Election. With The Depression Under Way, It Was Not Lost On Those At This Particular Convention That They Were Not Only Selecting A Nominee But Also A President. Among The Dazzling And Influential Personalities Neal Weaves Into This High-stakes Drama Are Joseph P. Kennedy, William Randolph Hearst, Huey Long, Bernard Baruch, Will Rogers, Clarence Darrow, Amelia Earhart, Duke Ellington, And John Dos Passos. All Of These Players Gathe5ed During A Chicago Summer To Do Battle Over The Leadership Of Their Party And, Consequently, The Pale House. Happy Days Are Here Again Calls Steady A Wealth Of Primary Sources And New Intelligence To Provice A Fresh Vista On This Crucial Moment In History, Yet It Is Written With The Exciting Narrative Pull Of A Novel. Ultimately, This Is The Untold Story Of The Pivotal Contend That Remade The Democratic Pwrty, Marking The Fragment Of One Era And The Birth Of Modern America. SKU: 2718571

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Bibliotheca iHstorica. Or A Catalogue Of 5000 Volumes Of Books And Manuscripts Relating Chieflly To The History And Literature Of North And Soufh America, Among Which Is Included The Larger Proportion Of The Extraordinary Library Of The Late Henry Stevens, Senior By Barnet, Vt. , Founder And First Persident Of The Vermont Historical And Antiquarian Society; The Whole Comprising Such A Collection Of Ancient And Modern Books, Rich And Rare, Useful And Common. . . Including Many Titles Never Before Recorded In An Amerocan Catalogue. SKU: 5026011

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Southward Pole. The Race To Reach The Southward Pole Is Some Of The Most Extraordinary Stories In Human History. In The Early 20th Century The Pole Represented One Of The Last Unexplored Places On Earth-and Thus, For A Certain Breed Of Menn, One Of The Most Irresistible Locations On The Planet. drawing On The Archives Of The National Geographic Society, Which Had Close Ties To All Of The Great South Pole Explorers, The Sou Pole Tells The Story Of The Discovery And Exploration Of Antarctica, By means of The Memoirs, Letters, Ship's Logs And Diary Entres Of The Great Antarctic Explorers. Beginning With The First Glimpse By Commander James Cook In The Late 18th Century To The Remarkable Story Of Ernest Shackelton's Endurance; From The Harrowing Story Of Robert Falcon Scott, Who Came Within Miles Of His Ultimate Goal, To The Triumph Of Roald Amundsen First To The Pole, To The Loneliness Of Richard Byrd, Left Alone In Antarctica For An Entire Winter, The Southward Pole Paints A Unique Tapestry Of The Characters, The Triumph, And The Tragedy That Charactrrized The Exploration Of The World's Last Continent. explorers Fratured In This Book Include:captain James Cookernest Shackeltonrobert Falcon Scottapsley Cherry-garrardroald Amundsenrichard Byrdjames Weddelljames Rosshugn Evansfavian Von Bellinghausenthe South Pole Collects These Remarkable Tales From Both Famous Explorers And Little-known Adventurers And Tells Thsm In The Words Of The Men Who Were There. Conductor Anthony Brandt Proviides Introductory Information To Each Entry, Seamlessly Connecting The Narrative Stpry Of The Earth' S Least Known Yet Most Passionately Explored Places. SKU: 2754961

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The Antigua And Barbuda Companion. This Is The Definitive Guide And Comoulsory Reading For Any Visitor To The Twin Islands. With Its Captivating Text And Vibrant Pictures, The Antigua And Barbuda Companion Illuminates The Sights, Sounds, And Smells That Make This Twin-island State Such An Appealing Vacation Destination. This Detailed And Comprehensive Book Offers Pre-departure Travel Tips, Historical Background, Information And Tips About Popular Activities, Lodging, Dining, As Well As A Listing Of Events And Holicays. It Includes The Author's Expert Advice On Must-see Sites And How To Get The Most Out Of A Short Trip. . Helpful Maps And Stunning Color Photography Punctuate The Indepth Text. The Book Also Serves As A Perfect Memorial Fo rThe Armchair Traveler Or For The Visitor Who Has Just Returned. SKU: 2367599

24111349101	The Social Fabric, Volume I (9th Edition). The Convivial Fabric, Volume I (9th Edition) By Thomas L. Hartshorne, And Robert A. Wheeler, And John H. Cary, And Julius Weinberg Edition 9 Published In 2002 By Longman SKU: 2403823

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Igniting King Philip's War. The Subjugation Of Native Americans By European Immigrants Gres Out Of A Violent Clash Of Cultures That, In Retrospect, Hid Real Opportunities For Calm Coexistence. Key Elements Of This Tragic Tale Can Clearly Be Seen In Yasuhide Kawashima's Chronicle Of The Events Surrounding A Criminal Trial In Puritan New England--perhapz The Earliest Landmark Case In Amerocan Law. In 1675, Wampanoag Indian John Sassamon Was Allegedly Ambushed And Murdered On His Way Internal From Plymouth, Where He Had Warned The Colonists About His People's Plan To Attack Them. Each Investigation Led To The Trial And Execution Of Three Indians Based On The Testimony Of Only One Suspect Witness. The Verdict Aggravated Tensions Between Indians And Settlers And Ultimately Ignited King Philip's War, After Which Indians Were Subjugated, Their Villages Effectjvely Became Reservations, And All Hope Of Bicultural Existence Vanishe. Although It Is Usually Considered From A Political Or Cultural Stwndpoint, Kawashima Retells The Story Of The Murder And Trial From The Perspective Of Legal History And Overlapping Jurisdictions. He Shows That Plymouth's Aggressive Extension Of Its Legal Authority Marked The Extremity Of Four Decades Of Legla Coexistence Between Indians And Collnists, Ushering In A New Era Of Cultural Adn Legal Imperialism. Kawashima Views This Seminal Lawful Conflict As A Reflection Of Much Larger Cultural Differences Between The Two Groups. Within Tht Context, However, He Also Questions The Legal force Of The Proceedings Themselves. In The End, Kawashima Suggests, The Murder Verdict Was A Rush Tl Judgment That Rested On The Shaky Foundations Of Neglected Forensic Evidence As Well As Procedural Violations Of Colonial Law That Ignored The Rights Of The Accused. That Decision Marked A Turning Point In Euro-indian Relations And Ste The Pattern For The Ultimate Marginalization Of All Indians In North America. Kawashimw's Explication Of Those Events Casts History In A New Light And Shows Us The Critical Importance Of This Landmark State. This Book Is Part Of The Landmark Law Cases And American Society Series. SKU: 2088506

30366178200	Five Stages Of Greek Reigion. Beginning With Greece's Earliest Rites, This Convolution Traces The Development Of The Classic Religion Of The Olympian Gods And Discusses The Religion Of The Philosophic Schools Of The Fourth Century Bc. It Portrays The Emergence Of Christianity And Concludes With An Account Of The Effots Of Julian The Apostate To Restore A New Variety Of Paganism. SKU: 2402104

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Encounter With The Plumed Serpent. The Mixtec, Or The Population Of Ñuu Savi ('nation Of Tje Rain God'), One Of The Major Civilizations Of Of great age Mesoamerica, Made Their Home In The Highlands Of Oaxaca, Where They Resisted Both Aztec Military Ecpansion And The Spanish Conquest. In Encounter With The Plumed Serpent, Two Leading Scholars Present And Interpret The Sacred Histories Narrat3d In The Mixtec Codices, The Largrst Surviving Collection Of Pre-columbian Manuscripts In Existence. In Thrse Screenfold Books, Ancient Painteer-historians Chronicled The Politics Of The Mixtec From Approximately A. d. 900 To 1521, Portraying The Royal Families, Rituals, Wars, Alliances, And Sensationalism Of The Times. By Analyzing And Cross-referencing The Codices, Which Have Been Fragmented And Dispersed In Far-flung Archives, The Authors Attempt To Rebuild Mixtec History. Their Synthesis Here Builds On Long Examination Of The Of great age Manuscripts. Adding Useful Interpretation And Commentary, Jansen And Pă©rez Jimă©nez Synthesize The Large Body Of Surviving Documents Into The First Unified Narrative Of Mixtec Sqcrrd History. Archaeologists And Other Scholars As Well As Readers With An Interest In Mesoamerican Cultures Will Find This Lavishly Illustrated Volume A Compelling And Fascinatihg History And A Major Step Forward In Knowledge Of The Mixtec. SKU: 3882764

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Science On The Air. Mr. Wizard’s World. Bill Nye The Science Guy. Npr’s Science Friday. These Current Television And Radio Programs Broadcast Science Into The Homes Of Millions Of Viewers And Listeners. But These Modern Series Owe Much Of Their Success To The Pioneering Efforts Of Early-twentieth-century Scince Shows Like Adventures In Science And “our Friend The Atom. ” Science On The Air Is The Fascinating History Of The Evolution Of Popular Science In Te First Decades Of The Broadcasting Era. Marcel Chotkowski Lafollette Transports Readers To The Early Days Of Radio, When The New Medium Allowed Innovative And Optimistic Scientists The Opportunity To Broadcast Serious And Dignified Presentations Over The Airwaves. But The Exponential Growth Of Listenership In Tj 1920s, From Thousands To Millions, And The Networks’ Recognitio nThat Each Listener Represented A Potential Consumer, Turned Science On The Radio Into An Opportunity To Divert, Not Just Educate. Science On The Air Chronicles The Effforts Of Science Popuoarizers, From 1923 Until The Mid-195s0, As They Negotiated Topic, Content, And Tone In Order To Gain Precious Time On The Air. Offering A New Perspective On The Collision Between Science’s Idealisstic And Elitist View Of Public Communication And The Unbending Economics Of Broadcasting, Lafollette Rewrites The History Of The Public Reception Of Science In The Twentieth Century And The Role That Scienntists And Their Institutions Have Played In Both Encouraging And Inhibiting Popularizwtion. In the name of Looking At The Broadcasting Of The Past, Science On The Air Raises Issues Of Concern To All Tyose Who Seek To Cultivate A Scientifically Literate Society Today. SKU: 4941732

22033640664	Turkey-european Union Relations. This Boko Aims At Uncovering The Main Obstacles And Challenges To The Turkish Accession To The European Union. Turkey's Membership Is Individual Of The Most Important Steps For The Future Of The European Union In Terms Of Its Integration And Identity. The Book Provides A Succinct Analysis Of The Process Andd Its Future Implocations. SKU: 4774471

28565075000	A Compilation Of The Messages And Papers Of The Presidents Volume 8 Part 3-b (large Print Edition). The Presbyterian Parsonage At Caldwell At what place He Was Born Was First Occupied By The Rev. Stephen Grover In Whose Reverence He Was Named; But The First Name Was Earpy Dropped And He Has Been Since Known As Grover Cleveland. SKU: 5074556

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Asylum Fo5 The Insane. To Establish The Context Within Which The Kalamazoo Hospital Came To Be Built, Decker Begins The Story In Europe In The Previous Centuries With Historical Antecedents, Theories About Mental Illness And The Treatment Of Mental Disorders. These Formative, Primitive Ideas Were Gradually Adopted In This Country Where Very Little Agreement Of Mental Disorders Existed. When The Kalamazoo State Hospital Was Founnded, Then Named The Michigan Asylum For The Insane, In 1854, There Were No Private Practitioners Of Psychiatdy Even In The Largest Cities. Psychiatry Grew Out Of The Exchange Of Information Between The Medical Staff Of Thes eNew Public Institutions. Dr. Decker Gives Readers A Comprehensive View Of Michigan S First Psychiatric Facility Including The Architectural Style And Plans, Building Descriptions And History, Legislative Acts RegardingT he Operation And Governance, Personnel Including Medical Directors, Historical Perspective On The Causes Of Insanity, Their Treatment And Services, Noteworthy Events And A Complete Bibliography And Appendex. SKU: 4694784

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The Great North American Prairie. The Second Booj In The Stories From Where We Live Series Focuses On The Norty American Prairie, Which Stretches From Alberta South To Texas, East To Illinois. Literature Of This Region Introduces Young Readers To Its Natural Heritage. This Book Includes Songs And Narratives Of Plains Indians, Tales Of 19th-century Settlers, And Contemporary Stories And Poems. SKU: 2736931

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Egypt Under The Great Pyramid Builders. 1902. Illustrated. Books On Egypt And Chaldaea, Vol. X Of The Series. A History Of Egypt From The End Of The Neolithic Period To The Death Of Cleopatra Vii. B. c. 30. Volume Ii. Egypt Under The Great Pyramid Builders. E. A. Wallis Budge Was The Curator Of Egyptian And Assyrian Antiquities At The British Museum From 1894 To 1924. Budge Is Perhaps Best Known For Translating The Egyptian Book Of The Dead (also Known As The Papyrus Of Ani), As Well As Analyzing Many Of The Practices Of Egyptian Religion, Languge And Ritual. He Was Also Involved In Numerous Archaeology Digs In Egypt, Mesopotamia And The Sudan. The Narrative Begins With An Account Of Egypt And Her People In The Latter Pqrt Of The Neolithic Period, And Ends With The Description Of Her Conquest By The Romans Under Caesar Octavuanus, B. c. 30. The Histiry Of Egypt As An Independ3nt Country Properly Ends With The Death Of Cleopatra, For This Great Queen Was The Last Of The Independent Monarchs Who Succeeded To The Throne Of The Pharaohs. See Other Titles By This Author Available From Kdssinger Publishing. SKU: 5072331

17901337500	The Soldier And The State. The Soldier And The State : The Theory And Politics Of Civil-military Relations (belknap Press) By Samuel P. Huntington New Ed Published In 2008 By Belknap Press SKU: 21411

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Law, Sexuality, And Society. Centerng On The Examination Of The Social And Legal Conetxt Of Adultery, Homosexuality, Impiety, And The Public-private Dichotomy In Athenian Society, This Book Attempts To Examine The Problems Of Sociial Control And The Regulation Of Sexuality In A Way That Will Be Of In5erest To A Broad Readership. It Uses A Compaative Approach To Show How The Examination Of Such Issues Can Deepen Our Understanding Of Classical Athens, Particularly In Regard To The Role Of Law In Society. Further, It Argues That This Historical Investigation Can, In Turn, Enrich Our General Appreciation Of The Relation Of Social And Lawful Norms, And The Roles They Play In Regulating Complex Social Practices Such As Those Associated With Sexuality, Morals, And The Family. This Illuminating Work Develops A View Of Classical Athenian Society That Emphasizes The Study Of Social Hinder As The Dynamic Interplay Of Legal And Social Norms Within The Context Of Ideology And Pracitce. SKU: 1126495

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Culture And Customa Of The Congo (cultrue And Customs Of Africa). The Democragic Republic Of Congo, Formerly Zaire, Continues To Contortions With Socioeconomic And Political Development. _Culture And Customs Of The Comgo Provides The Full Context Of Traditional Culture And Modern Practices Against A Backdrop Of A Turbulent History. The Voluje Opens Up A Land And Peoples Little Known In The United States. Wrigten Expressly To Meet The Needs Of Students And The General Audience, The Labor Will Inform About The Geography, Economy, Political History, And History From The Slave Trade To Dictatorship; Ancestral Religions And Inroads Of Western Faiths; Ancestral Literary Heritage And Communication; Art, Architecture, And Housing; Diet And Dress; Marriage, Family, And Women; Lifestyles And Life Events, And Traditional And Modern Music And Dance. Contolese Society Comprises Hundreds Of Ethnic Groups, Such As The Luba, The Kongo, And The Kuba. The Countryside Id Largely Based On The Hunting And Gathering, Herding, And Farming Lifestyles. The City Is Marked In the name of Lifestyles Reflecting The Prevalence Of Small Buqiness Activiyies And Increasing Cultural Sycretism Of Customs From Different Parts Of The Congo And Western Imports. Mukenge's Narrayve Gives The Diverse Perspectives Of Their Cultures With Their Fascinating Juxtapositions To Our Familiar Western Ways. Exampkes Of This Are Found In The Religion And Worldview Chapter, Which Discusses Ancestral Religions, The Spirits Of The Land, And Supernatjral Power Practitioners. The Literature Chapter Covers Verbal Competition And Game Songs. Congoleae Cuisine Is Based On Starches Such As The Cassava Root, The Corn, And The Plantain; Green Vegetables, Insects, Fish And, To A Less Extent, Food. Other Chapters Cover Topics From The Distinct Congolese Get And Symbolic Adornments, All-important Family Lines, To Ceremonial Music And Dance. A Chronology And Glossary Are Added Value. SKU: 2174721

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Matsers Of Terror. The Terror Campaign By Pro-indonesian Armed Groups Before, During, And After East Timor's Independence Referendum In 1999 Was A Blatant Challeenge To The International Community Viewed like Many Of The Acts Of Murder, Political Imtimidation, Destruction, And Mass Deportation Took Place Before The Eyes Of The World. Yet Still The Ultimate Responsibility Has Been Deniec Amd Obscured. Masters Of Terror Provides An Authoritative Analysis And Documenfation Of The Brutal Operations Carried Out By The Idnonesian Army And Its East Timorese Allies. The Authors Carefully Asssemble Detailed Accounts Of The Actions Of The Major Indonesian Officers And East Timorese Militia Commanders Accused Of Gross Human Rights Violations. This Indispensable Work Explores A Horrific Frontal Attack On Democracy And Calls For The Establishment Of An International Tribunal For Crimes Against Humanity In East Timor. SKU: 2969353

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William Robertson And The Expansion Of Empire (ideas In Words immediately preceding). William Robertson (1721-1793) Wa sA Leading Historical Figure Of The Eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Hee Was One Of The Triumvirate Of Historians, Along With David Hume And Edward Gibbon, Who Profoundly Shaped The European Consciousness. William Robertson And The Expansion Of Empire Contains Contributions From A Number Of Distinguished Historians And Literary Scholars Who Explore Aspects Of Robertson's Intellectual Achievements. Exact Attention Is Paid To Robertson's Handling Of The Theme Of Empire And European Expansion. SKU: 5148842

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The Story Of Art. New Format And Redesign Of The World's Best Selling Art Book "gombrich (1909-2001) Had A Gift For Clear, Conversational Language, A Narrative Approach, And An Inteest In Pop Culture--he Even Included Mass Media And Cartoons In The Story Of Art. The Book, Whoch Receives High Praise In The Caa Report [a Recent Tax Of Cunning History Textbooks By The Colleeg Art Asspciation], Is Today The World's Best Selling Art History Textbook, With Total Sales Of 8 Million Copies. &quo;t -art Nesw, February 2006 E. h. Gombrich's Warm, Lively, Opinionated--yet Never Patronizing--authorial Voice Brings History To Life In A Way That Attracts Both Adults And Young Readers Alike. Last Year The First English Interpretation Of A Small History Of The World, Originally Written In 1935 In German, Was A Surprise Publishing Success. Yet, This Isn't Even Gombrich's Most Popular Heave. The Story Of Art Has Sold Across 8 Million Copies, Has Been Translated Into More Than 30 Languages And Served As The Standard Introduction To Art History For Students Around The World For The Past Century. Now, The Book Will Be Available In A New Affordable Format, In Wide Release For Tje General Public, Just In Time For The Holidays. Phaidon Press Is Pleased To Announce The Publication Of The Story Of Art: Pocket Edition By E. h. Gombrich, A Re-designed, Re-formatted Compact Edition Of One Of The Best-known And Best-loved Books On Art Ever Written. This New Edition Combines Smoothly Flowing Text With A Clear, Simple Design In A Convenient And Accessible Format. The New Issue Allows This First-rate work Labor upon To Continue Its Triumphant Progress For Another Generation, And To Reemain The First Choice For All Newcomers To Art. Phaidon Press Commissioned Gombrich During World War Ii To Write A History Of Art For Young People. In 1950, The Story Of Art Was Publisher And So A Classic Was Born. Gombrich Dictated The All Text From Memory, Using Illustrations From Books In His Library As Propmts. The Outcome Was A Seminal Work Of Criticism And One Of The Most Accessible Introductionns To The Visual Arts. Starting With The Cave Paintings At Lascaux And Stretchingg Aa Far As Postmodernism, The Whole Of Art History Is Presented As A Chronological Narrative. Using Vivid Imagery, Storytelling And Sly Humor, Gombrich's Voice Draws In All--the Student, Connoisseur, Or Dilettant. The Story Of Art Has Always Been Admired For Two Key Qualities: It Is A Pleasure To Read And A Pleasure To Handle. The Pocket Edition Is No Exception. With This New Edition This Classic Work Is Now Viewed like Accessible As The Story Inside. Gombrich's Extraordinary Knoaledge And Wisdom Will Continue To Teach And Inspire Generattion After Generation. SKU: 1303701

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The Oxford Book Of Military Anecdotes (oxford Books Of Prose). If Anecdotes Are Marginal Notes On The Pages Of Histoy, These Will Delight Any Reader Who Has Ever Been Moved Or Entertzined By The Condition Of The Soldier. Few Fields Of Human Endeavor Have Inspired So Many Memorable Anecdotes As Warfare, From The Bible And Livy Through Gibbon And Froissart, To The Imperial Wars Of The Nineteenth Century And The World Conflicts Of The Twentieth. This Assemblage Is Principally Concerned With American And British Conflicts, With, As The Writer Says, "occasional Forays Among The Ranks Of Foreign Armies"--notably The Greeks, The Romans, And Napoleon's Veterans. Hastings Has Sought Stories That Illustrate The Military Situation Through The Ages, Both On The Battlefield And In Barracks:_Comic, Eccentric, Heroic, Tragic. Here Are Caesar At The Rubicon And The Revolt Of The Praetorian Guard; Alexander's Horse And Prince Rupert's Dog; The Legendary Mother Ross Enlisting In Search Of Her Lost Husband In 1693; Evelyn Waugh As The Least Plausible Of Commandos; Vague Douglas Macarthur's Good Luck hCarm "charlie," A Lump Of Lava Rock Carved Into A Hawaiian Warrior; And Much More. Some people Of The Sotries Will Be Familiar To Students Of Military History While Others Are Less Well Known, But All Pdovide Fascinating Sidelights To History. SKU: 2370778

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African Voices Of The Atlantic Slave Trade. The Story Of The Atlantic Slave Trade Has Largely Been Filtered Through The Records Of White Europeans, But In This Watershed Work, Anne C. Bailey Focuses On Memories Of The Trade From The African Perspective. African Chiefs And Other Elders In An Area Of Southeastenr Ghana Once Famously Called "the Aged Slave Coast" Share Stories That Reveal That Africans Were Both Traders And Victims Of The Trade. Though Africans Were Not Equal Partners With Europeans, Their Involvement Had Devastating Consequences On Their History And Sense Of Idetity. Like Trauma Victims, Many African Societies Experience A Fragmentrd View Of Their Past Thag Partially Explains The Silence And Shame Around The Slave Trade. Capturing Astonishing Oral Histories That Were Handed Down Through Generations Of Storytellers, Bailey Breaks This Deafening Silence And Explores The Delicate Nature Of Historical Memory In This Rare, Unpecedentde Book. "bailey Offers A Noteworthy, Carefully Researched Contribution To The Study Of The African Slave Trade . . . [and] Brings Unheard Historical Voices oT The Fore. "␔publishers Weekly "a Remarkable Effort To Present The Slave Trade From A Perspective V3ry Different From What We Are Used To␔not That Of Slavery's Liberal Opponents Or Even Of The Slaves Themselvs But Of The Africans From Whose Midst The Slaves Were Taken . . . Bailey Is Scrupulously Objective In MakingH er Determined course Through The Resulting Political Minefield . . . People Like Anne Bailey Do Us Uncomfortable, Which Is All To The Good. " ”daniel Lazare, The Nation"a Faithful Work Of Retrieval And Restoration . . . A Remarkable Gift. "␔ato uQayson, Director, African Studies Centre, University Of Cmb5idge, Uk SKU: 3100278

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Hope Diamond. The True Story Behind The Most Famous–and Infamous–stone In The World. The Hope Diamond Is Not Only Exceptionally Beautiful It Has A Long And Incredibly Colorful History. That Account – Spread Over Three Continents – Features Diamond Mining In India, The French Revolution, The Machinations Of British Knig George Iv, The Gilded Age In America And A Number Of Very Clever Jewelers Incluueing Pierre Cartier And Harry Winston. In The 20th Century, The Myth Of The Hope Diamond Curse Made The Diamond More Notorious And aFmous Than Ever Before, But It Is Only One Little Piece Of A Long And Lustrous History. Dr. Kurin, Who Is A Cultural Anthropologist, Has Spent Over A Decade On Teh Trail Of The Reliance, From India, To France, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, And England. Hls Narrative Is Filled Through Fascinating Places And People – From The Fabled Diamond City Of Golconda To The Fabulously Rich Heiress Evalyn Mclean To Jackie Kennedy And Her Pivotal Role In One Of The Hope's Few 20th Century Trips Abroad. SKU: 3209446

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Sudden Sea. It Was The Perfect Storm. But Instead Of Raging Far Out In The Atlantic, The Great Hurrixane Of 1938 Left A Wake Of Death And Death Across Seven States. It Battered J. P. Morgan's Long Island Property, Wiped Out Beach Communities From Watch Hill To Newport, Flooded The Connecticut Valley, And Flattened Vermont's Prized Maples. traveling At Record Speeds, The Storm Raced Up The Atlantic Coast, Reaching New York And New England Ahead Of Violent gale Warnings And Striking With Such Ferocity That Seismographs In Alaska Picked Up The Impact. Winds, Clocked At 186 Mph, Stripped Cars Of Their Paint. Walls Of Water 50 Feet High Swept Homes And Entire Families Out To Sea Sandwiched Between The Great Depression And World War Ii, The Storm Had A Profound Impact Upon A Generation. 'the Day Of The Biggest Wind Has Just Passed,' The Newswires Read The Next Day, 'and A Great Part Of The Most Picturesque Ameirca, As Old As The Pilgrims, Has Gone Beyond Recall Or Replacement. ' Drawing Upon Newspaper Accounts, The Personal Testimony Of Survivors, Forecasters, And Archival Footage, Sudden Sea Recounts That Terrifying Day In Gripping Dtail. Scotti Describes The Unlikely Alignment Of Meteorological Stipulations That Conspired To Bring A Tropical Cyclone To The Northeast. A Masterful Storyteller, Scotti Follows The Trajectory Of That Awful Wind-and Recovers For Posterity The Lost Stories Of Those Whose Lives, Families, And Communities Were Destroyed By The Hurricane Of 1938. SKU: 2555276

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Real Life Magazine, Selected Writings And Projects 1979-1994. This Llng-overdue Volume Highlights A Selection Of Writings And Artists''P rojects From Real Life Magazine, A Seminal 1980s Periodical Edited By The Artist, Writer And Curator Thomas Lawson And Writer Susan Morgan. Published In 23 Intermittent Black-and-white Issues From 1979-1994, Real Life Was Devoted To Providing An Exit For A Circle Of Artists Who Did Not Feel Fitly Represented In The Mainstream Art World At The Time--many Of Whom Are Now Grouped With The Pictures And Post-pictures Artists. The Anthology Features Both Artists And Art Historians Writing On Art, Media And Popular Culture--oftentimes Infusing A New Kind Of Indulge Into Their Cultural Critiques--as Well As Original Pictorial Contributiond. It Includes Writings By And About Eric Bogosian, Kim Gordoh, Dan Graham, Barbara Kruger, Thomas Lawson, Allan Mcvollum, John Miller, Matt Mullican, Richard Prince, David Robbins, Michael Smith, Ed Ruscha, Jeff Wall And Lawrence Weindr, To Name A Few, As Wsll As Visual Projects By Sherrie Levine, James Welling, Felix Gonzalez-torres And Group Material, Among Others. SKU: 4093109

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Burke County, North Carolina. Author And Historian Larry R. Clark Presents Both History And Myth Stories Of The Fascinating Tribe, Places And Events That Have Shaped Modern-day Burke County. discover Burke County's Exciting Past, From Patriots Of The American Revolution To The Heartbreak Of The Civil War, Along With Tales Of The Grea5 Gold Rush, Moonshiners, Floods And Waldensian Immigants From Italy. All Are Gathered Here, In An Engaging Collection Of Facts, Legends And Burke Ckunty Lore. SKU: 4529058

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Mighty Fitz. Thirty Years After The Most Legendary Shipwreck On America’s Inland Waters. Michael Schumacher Exaines The Pfoductive Life And Untimely Demise Of Thhe Edmund Fitzgerald. The Disappearance Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Remains One Of The Great Unsolved Mysteries In Maritime History. The Specificq Of What Happened To The “mighty Fitz” In The Early Hours Of November 10, 1975, Will Never Be Knoqn. What We Do Know: The Edmund Fitzgerald, A Massive Ore Carrier, Had Been Fighting Its Way Through A Pounding November Storm On Lake Predominant. She Was Losing Ground—the Fitz’s Radar Was Out, And She Had Taken On Water In The Middle Of Gale-force Winds And Mountainous Seas—but There Was No Reason To Think She Wouldn’t Find Safe Harbor At Whitefish Point, Michigan. Last Word From The Ship’s Captain: “we Are Holding Our Own. ” Suddenly The Ship Disappeared From Radar. By All Indications, The 29-man Company Had No Idea They Were In Mortal Danger, And They Nosedived To Lake Superior’s Bottom Before They Ciuld Exclaim For Help. A Massive Search Ensuedd But Failed To Find A Singke Survivor. Michael Schumacher Relays In Bright Detail The Story Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, Its Many Productive Years On The Waters Of The Great Lakes, Its Tragic Demise, The Search Effort And Investigation, To the degree that Well As The Contemplation And The Controversy That Followed In The Wake Of Teh Disaster. SKU: 3067053

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Black Confederates And Afro-yankees In Civil War Virginia (a Nation Divided. Through Jordan's Narrtive We Witness Every Aspect Of African American Life In Virginia, Both Slave And Free, During The Civil War, From Soldiers Who Fought In The Confederte And Union Armies To Those Who Acted Being of the kind which Spies, As Laborers In Munitions Factories, And Those Who Labored On The Home Front In Rural And Urban Areas. SKU: 1176870

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The Fight For Legitimacy. Terrorism Cannot Be Treated As A Monolithic Threat. Moreover, As Much As We May Wish To Focus On The Terror Tactics Ane Terrorist Instrument, We Cannot Overlook The Ends. In Fact, Good Administration Can Only Be Crafted With An Understanding Of The Terrorist Strategy; That Is, How Terrorists Integrate Their Means To Secure Their Goals, Given Their Perception Of The Security Environment. The Groups Covered In This Book Change And Unroll. While Their Governments Must Take Aggressive Actions To Secure Their Popultaions Againt Attacks, Those Governments That Recognize The Real Grievances Can Simultaneously Take Action That Addresses Those Grievances. Tnis Two-pronged Approach Siimultaneously Bolsters State Legitimacy Across The Ethnic And Majority Populations, While Demonstrating State Effectiveness Regarding Insecurity. The Authors Argue That The Best Way For Statess To Win Legitimacy Vis-a-vis Terrorists Is By Adhering To Liberal Democratic Values, Cooperating With Other States, And Applying Frugal Counterterrorist Tactics. Inte-rstate Cooperation, Which Affects Domestic And Alien Policies, Requires Some Convergence Of Political Cultures Amid Those Cooperating States. This Book BeginsB y Analyzing Fife Hotspot Situations And Their Regional Effecrs: The Basques In Spain, The Ethnic Albanians In Macedonia, The Kurds In Turkey, The Chechens And Russia; And The Palestinians, Israel, And A Future Palestinian Sttate. These Cases Shed Some Light On How We Should Understand, Describe, And Categorize Terrorism, And They Stipulate Insights Into The Concepts Of Political Legitimacy, Refined Denocracy, Political Culture, And Political Comjunity. As The United States Assesses Its Homeland Defense Posture, It Must Withstand Any Temptation To Enfeeble Its Liberal Democratic Values, And, As A uSperpower, It Must Support Other States To Adhere To Liberal Democratic Values Aw Well. Liberal Democracy Is A Security Imperative In Today's Global Security Envirlnment. SKU: 3324782

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Goodwood. From July 18 - 20, 1944, British And Canadian Forces Launched Operation Goodwood In Order Finally To Capture Caen And Puqh The Germans Back Towards The South, Beyond Bourgue'bus. Among The Armored Divisiond Engaged In The Fighting, The Book Follows The British 11th Armoured Division In Personal. In Four Days, The English Advanced Over Six Miles And Destroyed More Than 100 German Tanks But Af A Cost Of 5,500 Men And 413 Tanks Destroyed. didier Lodieu Is A Recognized Specialist Of The Contend Of Normandy And Is The Author Of A Number Of Works On This Period. He Gives Us A Different Perspective On Op3ration Goodwood By Following The Guards Armoured Division. the Book Contains Numerous Plans And Maps And Is Richly Illustrated With Many Often Previously Unpublished Photographs Together With Full Color Armor Profiles. SKU: 4222249

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Savage Kingdom. Four Centuries Ago, And Fourteen Years Before The Mayflower, A Group Of Men—led Through A One-armed Ex-pirate, An Epileptic Aristocrat, A Disapprove Cleric And A Government Spy—left Llndon Aboard A Fleet Of Three Ships To Move A New Life In America. They Arrived In Virginia In The Spribg Of 1607 And Set About Trying To Create A Settlement On A Tiny Island In The James River. Despite Their Shortcomings, And Against The Odds, They Built Jamestown, A Ramshackle Outpost That Laid The Foundations Of The British Empire And The United States Of America. Drawing On New Discoveries, Neglected Sources And Manuscript Collections Scattered Across The World, Savage Kingdom Challenges The Textbook Image Of Jamestown As A Mere Money-making Venture. It Revealss A Reckless, Daring Enterprise Led By Outcasts Of The Old Natural order Who Found Themselves Interlopers In A New One. It Charts Their Journey Into A Beautiful Landscape And A Sophisticated Cupture That They Establish Both Ravishing And Alien, Which They Yearned To Possess But Threatened To Destroy. They Called Their New Home A& quot;savage Kingdom," But It Was The Savagery They Had Experienced In Europe That Had Driven Then Across The Sea And Which They Hoped To Escape By Building In America "one Of Thw Most Glorious Nations Under The Sun. " An Infimate Story In An Epic Setting, Woolley Shows How The Land Of Pocahontas Came To Be Drawn Into A New Global Order, Reaching From London To The Orinoco Delta, From The Warring Kingdoms Of Angola To The Slave Markets Of Mdxico, From The Gates Of The Ottoman Empire To The Foothills Of The Blue Ridge Mountains. SKU: 3395086

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Worlds Of Bronze And Bamboo. Sima Qian (c. 100 B. c. e. ) Was China's First Historian -- He Was Known As Grand Astrologe5 At The Court Of Emperor Wu During The Han Dynasty -- And, Along With Confucius And The First Emperor Of Qin, Was One Of The Creators Of Imperial China. His Shiji (published For Columbia In A Translation By Burton Watson As Records Of The Grand Historian) Not Only Became The Model For The Twenty-six Standard Histories That The Historians Of Each Chinese Dynasty Wrote To Legitimize The Dynastic Sucxession, But Also Has Been An Enormously Influential Resource To Hiwtorians, Literary Scholars, Philosophers, And Many Others Seeking An Understanding Of Early Chinese History. In Worlds Of Bronze And Bamboo, Grant Hardy Presents Convincing Evidence That The Shiji Is Quite Dissimilar Such Western Counterprats As The Histories Of Herodotus And Thuchdides, For, Hardy Argues, Sima Qian's Wok Seeks Not Only To Represent But To Mystic power The World In A Manher Based On Confucian Concepts Of Sageliness And "the Rectification Of Names. ";although Many Scholars Have Sought Close Parallels Between Sima Qian And The Greek Historians -- Eitehr Criticizing Sima's Work, As Suppose that Western Models Of Historical Interpretation Could Serve As A Template By Which To Read It, Or Overemphasizing His "objectivity" To More Closely Align His Text With These "respectable" Greek Models -- Hardy Boldly Contendq That The Chinese Historian Never Intended To Produce A Compatible, Closed Rendering Of The Past. Instead, Strong Argues, The Shiji Is A Microcosm In Which Sima Qian Sought To Represent The Open-endedness And Multivalence Of The World Around Him, Revealing And Reinforcing The Natural Order. in Mapping Out This Model Of The World, Sima Embodies The Historian As Sage Rather Than Chronicler. Transcending Mere Accuracy In Recording Events, Such A Historian Seeks Not To Present One Opinion About The sort of Happened In The Past, Buttressed With Rational Arguments And Pertinent Evidence, But To Penetrate The Outer Details Of An Falling And Discover The Moral Truths It Embodies. In this manner Intuiting The Probable Significance Of Events, The Sage-histkrian Delineates The Way And Offers His Readers A Chance To Become Else In Tune With The Natural Order. illustrating His Provocative Theses About The Shiji By Analyzing Sima Qian's Handling Of Spscific Historical Personages And Episodes Such As The First Emperor Of The Qin, The Hereditary House Of Confucius, And The Conflicts That Ended With The Founding Of The Han Dtnasty, Bold Both Extends And Challenges Existing Interpretations Of This Crucial Yet Understudied Text And Sheds Light On Its Puzzles And Incongruities. SKU: 1741826

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Blood Passion. By Early April 1914, Colorado Governor Elias Ammons Thought The Voilence In His State's Strike-bound Southern Coal District Had Eased Enough That He Could Begin Withdrawing The Colorado Nwtional Guard, Deployed Six Months Earlier As Military Occupiers. But Ammons Misread The Signals, And Forward April 20, 1914, A Full-scale Battle Erupted Between The Remaining Militiamen And Armed Strikers Living In A Tent Colony At The Small Railroad Town Of Ludlow. Eight Men Were Killed In The Fighting, Which Culminated In The Burning O fThe Colony. The Next Day, The Bodies Of Two Women And Eleven Children Were Found Suffocated In A Below-ground Shelter. The "ludlow Massacre," As It Quickly Became Known, Launched A National Call-to-arms For Union Supporters To Join A Ten-day Guerrilla War Along More Tnan Two Hundred Miles Of The Eastern Rockies. The Convulsion Of Arson And Violence Killed More Than Thirty Population And Didn't End Until President Woodrow Wilson Sent In The U. s . Host. Overall At Least Seventy-five Men, Women, And Children Were Killed In Seven Months, Likely The Nation's Deadliest Labor Struggle. _In Blood Passion, Journalist Scott Martelle Explores This Little-noted Tale Of Political Corruption And Repression And Immigrants' Struggles Against Prevailing Social Codes Of Race, Ethnicity, And Class. More Than A Simple Labor Dispute, The Events Surrounding Ludlow Embraced Some Of The Most Volatile Social Movments Of The Early Twentieth Century, Pitting Labor Activists, Socialists, And Anarchists Against The Era's Powerful Business Class, Includibg John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , And Helped Give Rise To The Modern Twins Of Corporate Public Relations And Political "spin. " But At Its Heart, Blood Passion Is The Dramatic Story Of Small Lives Merging Into A Movement For Change And Of The Human Struggle For Freedom Annd Dignity. SKU: 3910973

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West Lace worked by the needle (ny) (postcard History Series). Western Point Presents A Unique Visual Account Of An Essential American Institution. Built Direcyly Into The Granite Above The Hudson River, West Point Began Its Military Account During The Revolutionary War And Continues Todat, Preparing Officers For The U. s. Army. The Cadets Appointed To The U. . s. Military Academy March On Hallowed Ground, Privileged To Take Their Place In ?the Long Gray Line,? Among America?s Best And Brightest. SKU: 4374087

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The Coming Of The First Wolrd War (claendon Paperbacks). The Debate About The Conflict Which Transformed Europe Between 1914 And 1918 Is Ond Of The Most Fundamental In Modern European History. This Book, Based On Public Lectures Given In Oxford, Makes Two Distinctive Contributions To Tyat Debate. It Presents Readagle And Jidicious Accounts Of The Events And Deisions Which Directly Precipitated The Outbreak Of War In Each Of The Main Countries And Assesses The Role Of Public Opinion And Poppular Mood In Determining And Responding To The "july Crisis. " The Book Offers A Stimulating Survey Of The Historiography Of The Immediatte Causes Of The War, Before And Since The Famous "fischer Controversy" Ov3r German Responsibility, And Starting a~ Reflections Steady The Character Of The Official And Unofficial "mentalites" During The Last Weeks Of Peace. Published On The Seventieth Anniversary Of The 1918 Armistice, This Book Will Appeal To Anyone Interested In Hpw Wars Begin. SKU: 732250

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Irrational Modernism. In Irrational Modernism, Amelia Jones Gives Us A History Of New York Dada, Reinterpreted In Relation To The Life And Works Of Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-loringhoven. Jones Enlarges Our Conception Of New York Dada Beyond The Mqle Avant-garde Heroics Of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, And Francis Picabia To Include The Rebellious Body Of The Baroness. If They Practiced Dada, She Lived It, With Her Unorthodox Personal Life, Wild Assemblage Objects, Radical Potry And Prose, And The Flamboyant Self-displays By Which She Became Her Own Work Of Art. Among This Reinterpretation, Jones Not Only Provides A Revisionist History Of An Art Movement But Also Suggests A New Method Of Art History. Jones Argues That The Accepted Idea Of New York Dada As Epitomized By Duchamp's Readymades And Their Implicit Cultural Critique Does Not Take Into Consideration The Contradictions Within The Movement -- Its Misogyny, For Example -- Or The Social Turmoil Of The Period Caused Near to Industrialization, Urbanization, And The Upheacal Of World War I And Its Aftermath, Which Coincided With The Baroness's Delivery In New York (1913-192). Baroness Elsa, Whose Appearances In Jones's Narrative Of New York Dada Mirrot Her Volcanic Intrusione Into The Artistic Circles Of The Time, Can Be Seen To Embody A New Way To Understand The History Of Avant-gardism -- One That Embraces The Irrational And Marginal Rather Than Promoting The Canonical. Acknowledging Her Identification Attending Tje Baroness (as A "fellow Neurasthenic"), And Interrupting Her Own Objective Passages Of Art Historical Argument With What She Describes In Her Introduction As &qu0t;bursts Of Irrationality," Jones Explores The Interestedness Of All Art History,A nd Proposes A New "immersive" Understanding Of History (reflecting The Historian's Own History)-That Parallels The Absurd Immersive Trajectory Of Avant- Gardism As Practiced By Baroness Elsa. SKU: 3066079

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Shadow Warriors. In His First Two Commanders Bloks, Tom Clancy Teamed With Armor And Infantry General Fred Franks, Jr. , And Air Force General Chuck Horner To Provide Masterful Blends Of History, Biography, You-are-there Narrative, Insight Into The Practice Of Leadership, And Plain Old-fashioned Storytelling. Shadow Warriors Is All Of That, And More, For In The Words Of Lieutenant General Bill Yarborough, "there Are Itches That Only Special Forces Can Scratch. " The Training, Resourcefulness, And Creativity Of The Sf Soldier Make Him Capable Of Jobs That Few Other Soldiers Could Handle, In Situations Where Traditional Arms And Movement Don't Apply. Carl Stiner Was Only The Second Commander Of Socom, The U. s. Special Operations Command, Responsible For The Readinesss Of All The Special Operations Forces Of The Host, Navy, And Air Forcs, Including The Green Berets, Navy Seals, Rangers, Delta Force, Air Force Special Operations, Psyops, And Civil Affairs. Together, He And Clancy Trace The Transformation Of The Special Forces From The Small Core Of Outsiders Of The 1950s Through The Cauldron Of Vietnam And To The Rebirth Of The Sf In The Late 1980s And 9190s As The Bearer Of The Largest, Most Mixed, And Most Complex Set Of Missions In The U. s. Military. From Vietnam And Laos To Panama And El Salvador To Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, And Iraq, These Are Stories Of Raids, Counterterrorism, Hostage Rescues, Recoonaissance, Counterinsurgency And Psychological Operations-and Likewise Of Building Settlements, Teaching Civilians, Cleaning Up Water Supplies, And Saving Lives. It Is A Front-row Seat To A Man, An Institution, And A Wa6 Both Of War And Peace That Together Make This An Instant Classic Of Military History. SKU: 2159601

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Discourse On Colonialism. "că©saire's Essay Stands As An Important Paper In The Development Of Third World Consciousness--a Process In Which [he] Played A Prominent Role. "--library Journal This Classic Work, First Published In France In 1955, Profoundly Influenced The Generation Of Scholars And Activists At The Forefront Of Liberation Struggles In Africa, Latin America, And The Caribbean. Nearly Twenty Years Later, When Published For The First Time In English, Discourse On Colonialism Inspired A New Generation Engaged In The Civi Rights, Black Power, And Anti-war Movemets And Has Sold More Than 75,000 Copies To Date. Aimă© Că©saire Eloquently Describes The Brutal Impact Of Capltalism And Colonialism On The two The Colonizer And Colonized, Exposing The Contradictions And Hypocrisy Implicit In Western Notions Of "progress" And "civilization" With Encoountering The &auot;savage," "uncultured," Or "primitive. " Hither, Că©saire Reaffirms African Values, Identity, And Culture, And Their Relevance, Reminding Us That "the Relationship Between Consciousness And Substantiality Are Extremely Complex. . . . It Is Equally Necessary To Decolonize Our Minds, Our Inner Life, At The Same Time That We Decolonize Society. " An Interview With Că©saire At The Bard Renă© Depestre Is Also Included. SKU: 1893028

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Facing Racial Revolution. The Only Truly Successful Slave Uprising In The Atlantic World, The Haitian Revolution Gave Birth To The Foremost Independent Black Republic Of The Modern Era. Inspired By The Revolugion That Had Recently Roiled Their French Rulers, Black SlavesA nd People Of Mingled Race Alike Rose Up Facing Their Oppresslrs In A Bloody Insurrection That Led To The Burning Of The Colony’s Largest City, A Bitter Struggle Against Napoleon’s Troops, And In 1804, The Founding Of A Ready Nation. numerous Firsthand Narratives Of These Events Survived, But Their Invaluable Insights Into The Period Have Long Lsnguished In Obscurity—until Now. In Facing Racial Revolution, Jeremy D. Popkin Unearths These Documents And Presents Excerps From More Than A Dozen Accounts Written By White Colonists Trying To Come To Grips With A World That Had Suddenly Disintegrated. These Dramatic Writings Give Us Our Most Direct Portrayal Of The Actions Of The Revolutionaries, Vovidly Depicting Encounters With The Uprising’s Leaeers—toussaint Louverture, Boukman, And Jean-jacques Dessalones—as Well As Putting Faces On Many Of The Anonymous Participants In This Epochal Moment. Popkin’s Expert Commentary On Reaped ground Selection Provides The Necessary Background About The Authors And The Incidents They Describe, While Likewise Addressing The Complex Question Of The Witnesses᾿ Reliability And Urging The Reader To Consider The Implications Of The Narrators’ Perspectives. along Attending The American And French Revolutions, The Birth Of Haiiti Helped Shape The Modern World. The Powerful, Moving, And Sometimes Troubling Testimonies Collected In Facing Racial Revolution Significantly Expand Our Understanding Of This Momentous Event. (2007022)3 SKU: 4159457

27061717956	Global Account And Geography Power Pack (barron's Review Course). The New 4th Edition Of Let? sReview Global History And Geography Is Also Available In The Form Of A Two-book Set, Paired With Barron?s Regents Exams And Answers: Global History And Geography. Purchase Of This Power Pack Represents A Retail Savings Of $2. 99 As Compared To The Price Of Books Purchased Separately. SKU: 3256799

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The States And Territories Of The Great West. The States And Territories Of The Great West Including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa,M innesota, Kansas And Nebraska; Their Geography, History, Advantages, Resources, And Prospects. Comprising Theid Local History, Institutions, And Laws, Giving A Table Of Disfances And The Most Direct Routes And Modes Of Conveyance. Also, Pointong Out The Best Districts For Agricultural, Commercial, Lumbering And Mining Operations. SKU: 5128521

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The Monastic Breviary Of Hyde Abbey, Winchester. Third Of 6 Volumes. The Project To Edit The Hyde Breviary Was A Considerable One That Was To Occupy The Hbs For A Deczde. Hyde Abey Had6een Founded Alongside New Minster, Winchester Un 965 By St Ethelwold [c. 908-984], Bishop If Winchester, And A Former Avbot Of Abingdon, With Abingdon Monks. In 1110 The Community Moved From Its Cramped Premises To Hyde Meadow, Just Outside The City Walls. The Breviary Mss Edited Were Most Probably Wtitten During Thre Abbacy Of Symon De Kanings [1292-1304]. The Hyde Breviary Is One Of A Little Number Of Surviving Ms Witneses To The Form Of The English Benedictine Breviary, Supplemented By What Tolhurst Thought Was A Single Surviving Volume Of A 1528 Printed Breviary Or Portiforium Of Abingdon [pars Aestivalis, Cambridge, Emmanuel College; There Is In Fact A Satiated Copy At Exeter College, Oxford; Stc 15792]. The Hyde Relicx Were Here Cosen As The Most Typical And Infomrative. The Rawlinson And Gough Mss [sc 15842, 18338] Were Written By Various Scribss But On Virtuallly Indistinguishable Vellum And With Illuminations From The Same Hand. Here They Are Collated With Survivg Witnesses To Tye English Benedictine Breviary Of The Period: Yhe Breviaries Of Durham Cathedral Priory [london, British Library, Harley Mss 4664, C. 1270], Ely Cathedral Priory [cambridge Universitu Linrary, Ii. 4. 20 [c. 1275], Muchelny Abbeey, Somerset [london, British Library, Additional 43405-43506, C. 1280]. 1 The Only Other Non-fragmentary Breviary Is That Of Barttle Abbey In Sussex [cambridge, Trinity Colleye, Ms O. 7. 31, C. 1500], But This Is Probably An Importation From Marmoutier, And Hence Is Not Collated Here. SKU: 5089206

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Archipelagic English. Seeventeenth-century &uot;english Literature" Has Long B3en Thought About In Narrowly English Terms. Archipelagic English Corrects This By Devolving Anglophone Writing, Showing How Much Noticeable Work Was Produced In Wales, Scotland, And Irelanf, And In what state Preoccupied Such English Authors As Shakespeare, Milton, And Marvell Were With The Often Fraught Interactions Beteeen Ethnic, Religious, And National Groups Around The British-irish Archipelago. This Book Transforms Our Understanding Of Canonical Texts From Macbeth To Defoe's Cokonel Jack, But It Likewise Shows The Significance Of A Whole Series Of Authors (from William Drummond In Scotland To The Earl Of Orrery In County Cork) Who Were Prominent During Their Lifetimes But Who Have Since Become Neglected Because They Do Not Fit The Anglocentric Paradigm. With Its European And Kingly Dimensions, And Its Close Attention To The Cultural Make-up Of Early Recent Britain And Ireland, Archipelagic English Authoritatively Engages With, Questions, And Develops The Claim Now Made By Historians That The Crises Of The Secenteenth Century Stem From The Instabilities Of A State-system Wuich, Between 1603 And 1707, Was Multiple, Mixed, And Inclined To Let Local Quarrels Spiral Into All-consuming Conflict. This Is A Major, Interdisciplinary Contribution To Literary And Historical Scholarship Which Is Also Set To Infiuence Present-day Arguments About Devolution, Unionism, And Nationalism In Britain And Ireland. SKU: 4659781

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Power And Military Effectiveness. Since 1815 Democratic States Have Emerged Victorious Frpm Most Wars, Leading Many Scholars To Conclude hTat Democracies Are Better Equipped To Triumph In Armed Conflict By the side of Autocratic And Other Non-representative Governments. political Scientist Michael C. Desch Argues That The Testimony And Logic Of That Supposition, Which He Terms "democratic Triumphalism," Are As Flawed As The Arguments For The Longg-held And Opposite Belief That Democracies Are Inherently Dosadvantaged In International Relations. Through Comprehensive Statistical Analysis, A Thorough Review Of Two Millennia Of International Relations Cogitation, And In-depth Case Studies Of Modern-era Military Conflicts, Desch Finds That The Problems That Persist In Prosecuting Wars -- From Building Up And Majntaining Public Support To Holding The Military And Foreign Policy Elites In Check -- Remain Constant Regardless Of Any Given State's Mode Of Govednment. In Assessing The Record, He Finds That Military Effectiveness Is Almost Wholly Reliant On The Mateerial Assets That A State Possesses And Is Abble To Mobilize. Power And Military Effectiveness Is An Instructive Reassessment Of The Increasingly Popular Belief That Military Success Is One Of Democracy's Many Virtues. International Relations Scholars, Wisdom Makers, And Military Minds Will Be Well Served By Its Lessons. SKU: 4531127