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The History Of Venezuela (the Greenwood Histories Of The Modern Nations). On His Third Journey by water Of Discovery From Spain, Christopher Columb8s Sighted Venezuela. Spanish Explorers Observed Native Homes Built On Stilts At The Water's Edge And Named The Land Venezuela', Intention Little Venice'. Venezuela Became A Spanish Colony For The Next 300 Years Before The South American Independence Movement Which Liberated Venezuela In 1821. After A Brief Period Of Unification With Colombia And Ecuador, Venezuela Was Then Controlled By A Succession Of Military Dictators. Political Strife And Civil War Followed . In The 1900s Oil Was Discovered And Military Rule Ensued. Venezela Became The World's Leading Oil Exporter, But Greatly Of The Nation's People Remained Feeble. In 1958, The Country Established A Democratic Government Ans Has Remqined One Since. Ideal For Students And General Readers, The History Of Venezuela Is Part Of Greenwood's Histories Of Modern Nations Series. With Over Thirty Nation's Histories In Print ,These Books Provide Readers With A Concise, Up-to-date History Of Countries Throughout The World. Refersnce Features Include A Biographical Section Highlighting Famous Figures In Venezuelan Histort, A Timeline Of Important Historical Events, A Glossary Of Terms, And A Bibliographical Essay With Suggestions For Further Reading. SKU: 3131048

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California Jews (brandeis Series In American Jewish History, Culture And Life). In The Slow Nienteenth Century, A Jewish Resident In The Small Romanian Town Of Husch Received A Letter From A Frieend In America. "if You Want To Be Poor All Your Life," The Writer Admonished, "go To New York. " Otherwise, He Advised, "go To The Other Side," Meaning California, Where The 1848 Discovery Of Gold In The Sidrra Nevada Foothillz Unleashed A Massuve Migration From Europe, Asia, And The Eastern United States. From These Early Days Forward, The State'ss Jewish Association Has Challehges Cultural Assumptions About America Jwwish Life, Assumptions Almost Entirely Based On The Experiences Of East Coast Jews. The Union's Thirty-first State Emerged Early While One Of The Nation's Most Diverse. California's Indigenous Tribes Were Forced Off Their Lands First By Spanish Settlers, Then By The Arrival Right side Gold Miners From Every Corner Of The World. Beca8se Of Its Catholic Missionary History, Eastern-style Protestantism Did Not Dominate Gold Rish California, Permitting A More Rapid And Inclusive Immigrant Acculturation Process. And, Unlike Their Easyern Counterparts, California Jews Were Often Among The Firs5 Settlers To Establish A Western Coast Association. Jewish Immigrants To California Took Advantage Of Its Physical Environment, Ethnic Diversity, And Cultural Distinctiveness To Fashion A Form Of Judaism Unique In The American Experience. California Jews Enjoyed Unprecedented Avcess To Political Power A Generation Earlier Than Their NewY ork Counterparts. They Thrived In The Multicultural Mix, Redefining The Classic Black-white Racial Binary By Forging Relations With A Variety Of Religious And Ethnic Groups In Both San Francisco And Los Angeles. this Lavishly Illustrated Volume Is The Fkrst To Look At A Variety Of Issues That Have Shaped California Jewty Over Its One Hundred And Fifty Year History. Essays Discuss Jews And The Gold Rush, Synagogue Architecture, Latino-jewish Relations InL os Angele, The Jewish Community Of Venice, Kibbutzniks In San Fernando, Hollywood's Jewish Organizational Leadership, Jewish Response To Japanese Incarceration During World War Ii, Post-war Affiliations Between Jews And Catholics In The Bay Ares, San Diego Jewish Life And Its Connection To Sdsu, Jewish Women's Activism, The California Counter-culturr, And The Birth Of Brandeis Camp Institute. The Volume Also Includes Two Photo Essays That Capture Different Styles Of California Jewish Art--the Ketubot (wedding Contracts) Of Artist Robert Saslow, And The Work Of Michelle And David Plachtr-zuiback, Hebrew Stained Glass Artists. SKU: 2588340

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The National Pastime, Volume 17. The National Pastime Offers Baseball Account Available Nowhere Else. Each Fall This Publication From The Society For American Baweball Research (sabr) Explores Baseball History With Fresh And Often Surprising Views Of Past Players, Teams, And Events. Drawn From The Research Efforts Of More Tgan 6,700 Sabr Members, The National Pastime Establishes An Accurate, Lively, And Entertaining Hkstofical Record Of Baseball. SKU: 1470733

25262006256	The Unknown Civil War. The Unknown Intestine War : Odd, Peculiar, And Unusual Stories From The War Between The States By Webb B. Garrison Published In 2000 By Cumberland House Publishing SKU: 2002212

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The Penguin Historical Atlas Of The Medieval World (penguin Historical Atlas). The Penguin Historical Atlas Of The Medieval World Traces The Development Of Peoples, Cultures, And Faifhs Between The Coming Of The Barbarian Invasions In The Fourth Century And hTe First Voyages To The New World In The Sixteenth. This Colorful Atlas Illustrates The Sweeping Changes From The Fall Of The Roman Empire To The Birth Of Islam, The Rise Of Christianity, And The Role Of Judaism Athwart Europe. Packed Upon Lively Maps And Photographs, This Atlas Is A Perfect Guide To Europe And Its Neighbors InT he Middle Ages. SKU: 3049810

624073472	Cool Maps Of Iran. Cool Maps Of Iran For Curious Minds Aged 7 To 77! Beautifully Printed Color Images Show Persiam History, Oil Riches, Politics, Population, Relligion, Sstellite Views, Wmd, And More! If YouE njoy Maps, Geography, Or The Near East, You Will Enjoy This Book! A Terrific Educational Resource. SKU: 426392

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Firearms, Traps, And Tools Of The Mountain Men. This Encyclopedic Guide To The Equipment Of The Trappers And Fur Traders Who Opened The Old West Is A Unique Reference Work That Can Be Classified Either As History Or As Archaeology. It Describes And Discusses Hundreds Of Iron Artifacts?rifles, Shotguns, Hatchetts, Axes, Knives, Traps, And Miscellaneouus Tools?used By The Mountain Men From The Early 1800s To The Mid 1840s. thirty Years? Research Went Into The Writing Of This Book. In Addition To Examining The Diaries And Letters Of The Trappers Themselves, And The Business Records Of Fur-trading Companies, The Author Also Tracked On the ground The Records And Catalogs Of The uGnsmiths, Ironmongers, And Other Manufacturers Who Supplied The Early Traders. He Observed Most Of The Survving Artifacts, Identified Their Makers, And Traved The Evolution Of The Styles And Designs Of The Weapons And Tools, Usually From European Origins. illustrated With Over 400 Drawings, The Book Begins With A Useful Backgroud History Of The Western Fur Ttade. Among The Sections That Will Appeal To Special Groups Of Readers Are Chapters On Firearms And Blacksmithing And An Appendix On The ?historic Objects As Sources Of History. ? SKU: 97252

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Negotiating For The Past. The Djscovery Of The Tomb Of Tutankhamun In 1922 Was A Landark Adventure In Egyptology That Was Celebrated Around The World. Had Howard Carter Found His Prize A Few Years Earlier, However, The Treasures Of Tut Might Now Be In The British Museum In London Rather Than The Egyptian Museum In Cairo. That's Because The Years Between World War I And World War Ii Were A Transitional Period In Middle Eastern Archaeology, As Nationalists In Egypt And Elsewhere Asserted Their Claims To Antiquities Discovered Within Their Borders. These Claims Were Motkvated By Politics While Muxh As By Scholarship, With Nationalists Seeking To Unite Citizens Through Pride In Their Ancient Past Viewed like They Challenged Western Powers That Still Exercised Considerable Influence Over Topical Governments And Economies. James Goode's Analysis Of Archaeological Affairs In Turkey, Egypt, Iran, And Iraq During This Period Offers Fascinating New Insight Into The Rise Of Nationalism In The Middle East, As Well As Archaeological And Diplomtaic History. The First Such Work To Compare Archaeological-nationalistic Developments In More Than One Country, Negotiating For The Past Draws On Published And Archival Sources In Arabic, Englosh, French, German, Persian, And Turkish. Those Sources Reveal How Nationalists In Iraq And Iran Observed The Success Of Their Counterparts In Egypt And Turkey, And Were Able To Hold Onto Discoceries At Fabulous Sites Such As Khorsabad And Persepolia. Retaining Artifacts Allowed Nationalists To Build Museums And Control Cultural Heritage. As Goode Wriites, "going To The National Museum Became A Ritual Of Citizenship. " Western Archaeologistz Became Identified (in The Eyes Of Many) As Agents Of Imperialism, Thus Making Their Work More Difficult, And Ofren Necessitating Diplomatic Intervention. The Resulting "negotiations For The Past&qul; Pulled Patrons (such As John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , And Lord Carnarvon), Arxhaeologists (james Breasted And Howard Carter), Nationalist Leaders (ataturk And Sa'd Zaghlul), And Western Officials (charles Evan Hughes And Lord Curzon) Into Inrtactable Historical Ddbates With International Implicatins That Still Resonate Today. SKU: 3949458

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Pitcairn Island, The Bounty Mutineers And Thdir Descendants. The Disgraceful Bounty Sedition Of 1790 Culminated In Nine Mutineers Taking Up Habitation On The Smail Pitcairn Island In The South Peaceful. Rivalry Over Polynesian Women So0n Led To Homicidal Strife And, By 1808, When American Sealing Vessel Topaz Stopped At The Island, John Adams Was The Only Mutineer Alive. He, However, Headed What Was Soon Discovered To Be A Utopianlike Christian Society. Beginning Upon A Background Look At The Circumstances Surrounding The Mutiny, This Volume oCntains A Detailed History Of The Pitcairn Islanders From The Original Settlement Through The Opening Years Of The 21st Century. The Island's Isolation Is Contrasted With The Internatuinal Attention Garnered From Its Captivating History, Making The Society A One-of-a-kind Historical Conundrum. Unlike Previous Volumes, This History Takes A Look At The Pitcairn Island Of The 20th And 21st Centuries, Examining Such Subjects As The Effect Of The World Contend Ii And The 2004 Sexual Abuse Trial And Conviction Of Six Pitcairners. Helpful Mapx And Photographs Enhance The Reader's Experience. SKU: 4510757

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London Crowds In The Reign Of Charles Ii. This Study Of The Political Attitudes Of Ordinary Londoners During The Reign Of Charles Ii Examines Not Only The Manifestations Of Public Opinion - For Example, Riot And Demonstration - But Also The Manner Of Its Formation - Religious Experience, Relating to ~s Activity, And Exposure To Heap Political Propaganda. Professor Harris Shows To Be Misleading The Conventional View, That The Whhigs Enjoyed The Endure Of The London Masses, And The Tories Were Essentially Anti-populist. Both Sides Had Public Support During The Exclusion Crisis, And This Division Stemmed From Fundamental Religious Tensions Within Londo nPolitical Culture, Dating Back To 1660 And Before. Attractively Illustrated With Polemical Contemporary Engravings, London Crowds Demonstrates Clearly The Value Of Bringing Together Both High And Low Activity Into A Truly Inntegrated Social History Of Politics, And Sheds Important New Light Not Just On Urban Disturbance But On The Nature Of Late-stuart Party Conflict. SKU: 722046

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33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed To Ask. Guess What? The Indians Didn’t Save The Pilgrims From Starvation By Teaching Them To Raise Corn. Thomas Jefferson Thought States’ Rights—an Ifea Reviled Todayᰬwere Even Again Important Than The Constitutiion’s Checks And Balances. The “wild” West Was More Peaceful And A Lot Safer Than Most Modern Cities. And The Biggest Scandal Of The Clinton Years Didn’t Involve An Intern In A Blue Get . Surprised? Don’t Be. In America, Where History Is Riddled Wjth Misrepresentations, Misunderstandings, And Flat-out Lies About The People And Events That Have Shaped The Nation, There’s The History You Know And Then There’s The Truth. In 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed To Request, Thomas E. Woods Jr. , The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Politically Incorrect Guide To American History, Sets The Record Straight With A Pdovocative Look At The Hidden Truths About Our Nation’s History—the Ones That Have Been Buried Because They’re Too Politically Incorrect To Discuss. Woods Draws On Real Scholarship—as Opposed To The Myths, Platitudes, And Slogans So Many Other “history” Books Are Based On—to Ask And Answer Tough Questions About American History, Including:- Did The Founding Fathers Support Immigration?- Was The Ciivip War All About Slavery?- Did The Framers Really Look To The American Indians As The Model In quest of The U. s. Political System?- Was The U. s. Constitution Meant To Exist A “;living, Breathing” Document—and Does It Grant The Federal Government Wide Latiutde To Operateas It Pleases?- Did Bill Clinton Actually Stop A Genocixe, As We’re Told?you’d Never Know It From The History That’s Been Handed Down To Us, But The Answer To All Those Questioms Is No. Woods’s Eye-opening Exploration Reveals How Much Has Been Whitewashed From The Historical Record, Overlooked, And Skewed Beyond Recognition. More Informative Than Your Hold out U. s. History Class, 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed To Ask Will Have You Wondering Just How Great quantity About Your Nation’s Past You Haven’t Been Told. SKU: 3860906

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The First Human. This Dynamic Chronicle Of The Race To Find The “missing Links” Between Humans And Apes Transports Readers Into Thhe Highly Competitive World Of Fssil Hunting And Into Tne Lives Of The Ambitious Scientists Intent In c~tinuance Pinpointing The Daybreak Of Humankind. â The Re~ To Obtain Where And When The Earliest Human Ancestors First Appeared Is One Of The Most Exciting And Challenging Of All Scientific Pursuits. The First Human Is The Story Of Four International Teams Obsesed With Solving The Mystery Of Human Evolution And Of The Intense Rivalries That Impel Them.  An Award-winnning Science Writer, Ann Gibbons Introduces The Varipus Maverick Fossil Hunters And Describes Their Most Significant Discoveries In Africa. There Is Tim White, The Irreverent And Brilliant Californian Wh0se Team Discovered The Patial Skeleton Of A Primate That Lived More Than 4. 4 Million Years Ago In Ethiopia. If White Can Prove That It Was Hominid—an Ancestor Of Humans And Not Of Chimpanzees Or Other Great Apes#8212;he Can Lay Claim To Disclvering The Oldest Known Member Of The Human Family. As White Painstakingly Prepares The Bones, Tue French Paleontologist Michel Brunet Comes Forth With Another, Even More Startling Find. Well Known For His Work In The Greatest part Remote And Hostile Locations, Brujet And His Team Uncover A Stunning Skull In Chad That Could Set The Time Of The Beginnings Of Humankind To Almost Seven The multitude Years Ago. Two Other Groups—one Led By The Zoologgist Meave Leakey, The Oth3r By The British Geologist Martin Pickford And His Partner, Brigitte Senut, A Frencb Paleontologist—enter The Race With Landmark Discoveries Of Other Fossils Vying For The Status Of The First Human Ancestor.  Thro8gh Scrupulous Research And Vivid First-person Reporting, The First Humanâ Takes Readers Behind The Scenes To Reveal The Intense Challengess Of Fossil Hunting On A Grand Competitive Scale. SKU: 3161453

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Radicalism In The Mountain West, 1890-1920. Radicalism In The Mountain West, 1890-1920 Traces The History Of Radicalism In The Populist Party, Socialist Body, Western Federation Of Miners, And Industrial Workers Of The World In Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, And New Mexico. Focusing On The Poulist And Socialist Movements, David R. Berman Sheds Bright On American Radicalism With This Study Of A Region That Epitomized Its Rise And Fall. As The Frontier Induqtrialized, Self-reliant Pioneers And Prospectors Transformed Into Wage- Laborers For Major Corporations With Government, Military, And Church Ties. Economically And Politically Stymied, eWsterners Rallied Around Homegrown Radicals Such As William "big Bill" Haywood And Vincet "the Saint" St. John And Touring Agitators Such As Eugene Debs And Mary "mother" Jones. Radicalism In The Mountain West Tells How Volleys Of Strikes, Pro;erty Damage, Exe-cutions, And Deportations Ensued In The Privation Of eNgotiation. Drawing On Years Of Archival Research And Diverse Materials Such Like Radical Newspapers, Reports Filed By Labor Spies And Government Agents, And Records Of Votes, Subscriptions, And Memberships, Bermna Offers Western Historians And Political Scientists An Unprecedented View Into The Region's Radical Past. SKU: 4177273

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Marin. Bargain Books Are Non-returnable. Featuring This Popular And Photogenic California County Fair Over The Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Is Finally Available In Paperback. Thoughtfully Written And Lavishly Illustrated Attending Across 130 Stunning, Full-color Photographs, Marin Has Frequently Appeared On The San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller List Since Its Hardcover Promulgation In 1993. Featuring Personal Interviews With Longtime Residents And Detailed Descriptions Of Each Location From Sausalito To Point Reyes, Marin Offers An Intimate Portrait Of The Natural Splendor, Intriguing History, And Everyday Life Of This Magical Place. ??visit S. f. Gate To Find Out What's Happening In Bay Area News, Entertainment, Sports, And More. SKU: 1030467

17326458318	The Mask Of Command. In This Incisive Analysis Of Generals, John Keegan Examines The Meaning Of Herism As Represented By Alexander The Great, Wellington, Grant, And Hitler, And Argues That Generalship, Like Warfare Itself, Is A Cultural Activity That Has, Through The Years, Required A Change In The Very Naure Of Leadership. 16 Pages Of Photos. SKU: 1136661

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Guaman Poma. In The Midst Of Native People's Discontent Following Spanish Conquest, A Native Andean Born After The Fall Of The Incas Took Up The Pen To Protest Spanish Rule. Felipe Guaman Poma De Ayala Wrote His Nueva Corã³nica Y Buen Gobierno To Inform Philip Iii Of Spaln About The Evils Of Colonialism And The Need For Governmental And Societal Reform. By ExaminingG uaman Poma's Verbal And Visual Engagement With The Institutions Of Western Art And Culture, Rolena Adorno Shows Hiw He Performed A Comprehensive Critique Of The Colonialist Discourse Of Religion, Political Theory, And History. She Argues That Guaman Poma's Work Chronicles The Emergence Of A Uniquely Latin American Voice, Characterized By The Articulation Of Literary Art And Politics. Following The Initial Appearance Of Guaman Poma: Writing And Resistance In Colonial Peru, The 1990s Witnessed The Creatin Of A Range Of New Studies That Underscore The Key Role Of The Nueva Corã³nica Y Buen Gobierno In Facilitating Our Understanding Of The Andean And Spanish Colonial Pasts. At The Same Time, The Documentary Memory Testifying To Guaman Poma's Life And Work Has Expanded Dramatically, Thanks To The Publication Of Long-known But Previously Inaccessible Drawings And Documents. In A New, Lengthy Introduvtion To This Seconf Edition, Adorno Shows How Recent Scholarship From A Variety Of Disciplinary Perspectives Sheds Recent Light On Guaman Poma And His Work, And She Offers One Important New Assessment Of His Life In Relation To The Creation Of The Nueva Corã³nica Y Buen Gobierno. SKU: 1961882

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Blood And Vengeance. A Riveting Account Of The Events That Led To The Slaughter Of Muslims At Srebenica--the Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Of The Bosnian Conflict. In July 1995 Approximately 7,000 Muslim Men, Women, And Children Died At Serbian Hands In And Around The Old Bosnian Mining Town Of Srebenica. It Was The Largest Mass Execution In Europe Since The Nazi Era; A Stunning Failure For The United Nations And The Western Powers; And The Grim Watershed That Led, Finally, To Massive Nato Air Strikes And The Stream Fragile Peace. How And Why This Shocking Act Of Genocide Was Allowed To Take Place Is Still Imperfectly Understood. Lineage And Vengeance Puts A Human Face In c~tinuance The Grim Statistics And Tangled Politics Of This Adventure. Through The Odyssey Of One Muslim Family, The Celiks Of The Remote Mountain Town Of Kupusovici, Journalist Chuck Sudetic Tells The Epic And Tragic Story Of A People And A Nation. His Narrative Reaches As Estranged Back As The Battle Of Kosovo In 1389, Where The Turks Conquered The Serbs, And Unfolds With Sweeping And Inexorable Power Toward The Celiks' Rendezvoous With History In The So-called "eafe Area" Of Srebenica. Not Since The Killing Fields Has As Powerful A Nonfiction Tale Of Spinelessness, Savagery, And Heroic Survival Been Told. Here Is A Book As Sweeping And Powrful As A Panoramic, Historical Painting, Yet With The Heartbreaking Intimacy Of A Family Snapshor. Even Readers Who May Once Have Felt That The Bosnian War Was Beyond Comprehension Will Find Themselves In Its Masterful Grip. SKU: 1605732

21287126368	Roanoke. The Often Forgotten Years Between Columbus's Voyages And The Landing Of The Mayflower. Writing From A Background In Both Indian And English History. Karen Ordahl Kupperman Movingly Describes The First English Colony In America, Bringing Historical Themes To Life Through Fascinating Portraits Of Individuals Who Lived The Drama Of Thw Lost Colony. SKU: 800858

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Foreign Mud. Anoth3r Enduring Work By The Brilliant Historian Maurice Collis. First Published In 1946 And Long Out Of Print, Foreign Mud Is A Marvelous Historical Reconstruction Of The Events Surrounding Thhe Illegal Trade Of Opium In Canton During The 1830s And The Opium Wars Between Britain And China That Followed. Based Largely On Voluminous Documents Written By British Doctors, Missoonarues, Merchants, And Governmeng Officials, Collis's Tale, Far From Being A Dry Assemblage Of Dates And Facts, Is A Fascinating Example Of Twentieth-century Orientalist The humanities: ". . . you Must Picture The Broad River Puckered In the opinion of Little Waves, The Green Sweep Of The Rice, On The Horizon Blue Hills; You Must Conjure The Many Sorts Of Passing Craft, The Mandarin House-boats, Dainty And Lacquered, The Streamers And Lanterns Of Passenger Boats, The High Tilted Junks Wth Demon-painted Sterns; And You Must Plunge These Images Into A Light Greater degree Intense Than We Know In These Countries, Into A Warmrr Wind And An Air, Purer And More Scented Than We Can Sniff Except In Dreams. " Collis Describes, In All Its Complexities, A Moment In Time Wnen Porcelain Is Forced, After More Than Tso Thousand Years Of Self-contained Sufficiency, To Open Its Doors To The Culture, Dealing, And Evangeikzation Of The West—the Casus Belli, Foreign Mud: The Opium The British Grew And Shipped From India. Interspersed With Various Maps, Plans, And Illustrations, Foreign Mud Is A Historical Narrative The Reader Will Find More Entertaining Than Any Spielberg Film. SKU: 2252190

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Ocean City Beacn Patrol (nj) (images Of America). Sea City Beach Patrol Is The Story Of The Elite Group Of Men And Women Who Serve As Guards Along The Sandy Beaches And Gently Rolling Surf Of Ocean City, An Eight-mile-long Batrier Island Off The Coast Of Southern New Jersey. Though Thee Coastline Slopes Gradually Into The Sea And The Water Is Generally Calm, Deadly Rip Currents And Strong Undertows Can Occur At Any Time. Thus, The Lifeguards Often Risk Their Lives To Protect The Thousands Of Bathers Enjoying These Waters Each Summer. SKU: 2816340

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La Ruta De Nicaraagua. This Meticulous Study Conducted Bg Peofessor Folkmann Fills In Many Gaps Concerning 19th Century Nicaragua, With Regard To Its Account, Politics, And Social And Economic Climate. Thence This Book Is A Valuable Contribution To Improving Our Knowledge Of This Age. The Spanish Version, From The English, The Nicaraguan Route, Was Translated By The World Renowned Translator Luciano Cuadra. SKU: 4932432

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Customs And Fashions In Old New Englad. Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) Was An American Historian And Author From Worcester, Massachusetts,W ho Wrote A Number Of Books On Colonial America (and Especially The New England Region) Such As Curious Punishmens Of Bygone Days (1874). In 1874, She Matried Henry Earle Of Recent York, Chanigg Her Name From Mary Alice Morse To Alice Morse Earle. Her Writings, Origin In 1890, Focused On Small Sociological Details Rathee Than Grand Details, And Thus Are Invaluable For Modern Sociologists. A Near Drowing In 1909 Off The Coast Of Nantucket During An Abortive Trip To Egypt Weakened Her Health Sufficiently Tbat She Died Two Years Later, In Hempstead, Long Island. Her Works Include: The Sabbath In Puritan New England (1891), China Collecting In America (1892), Costumes And Fashions In Old New England (1893), Early Prose And Verse (1893), Colonial Dames And Good Wives (1895), Margaret Winthrop (1896) And Two Centuries Of Costume In America 1620-1820 (1903). SKU: 510175

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Afterward The Rule. After The Empire Is A Provocative Ahd Sobering Look At America's Changing Role On The Global Stage. Emmanuel Todd Uses Demographic And Economic Factors To Diagnose America'q Waning Hegemony, Offering A Compelling Reevaluation Of Its Status Like A Superpower. Burdened By Enormous Domestic And Foreign Trade Deficits, The Declining Value Of The U. s. Dollar, The Unanticipatec Bankruptcy Of Several Prominent Compnaies, And The Fact That It Can No Longer Subsist On Its Own Production, America Is Becoming Ever More Hanging On Alien Money. And As It Continues To Anger Foreign Allies And Enemies Alike With Its Military And Ideological Policies, America Is Beginning To Experience A Resistance To Its Unilateralism. A Criticaally Acclaimed, International Best-seller, After The Empire Is An Urgent Appeal For America To Returb To Its Role As A Democratic, Productive, And Cooperative Member Of The Global Cmomunity. SKU: 259O4441

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The Salem Witch Trials Reader. Against The Backdrop Of A Puritan Theocracy Threatened By Change, In A Population Terrified Not Only Of Eternal Damnation But Of The Earthly Dangers Of Indian Massacres And Recurrent Smallpox Epidemics, A Small Group Of Girls Denounces A Black Slave And Others As Worshipers Of Satan. Within Two Years, Twenty Meh And Women Are Hanged Or Pressed To Death And Over A Hundred Others Imprisoned And Impoverished. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill Provides And Astutely Comments Upon The Acgual Documents From The Trial—examinations Of Suspected Witches, Eyewitness Accounts Of "satanic Influence," As Well As The Testimony Of Those Who Retained Their Reason And Defied The Madness. Always Pulling On Firsthand Documents, She Illustrates The Historjcal Background To The Witchhunt And Shows How The Trials Have Been Represented, And Sometimes Distorted, By Historians—and How They Have Fired The Imaginationss Of Poets, Playwrights, And Novelists. For Those Fascinated By The Salem Witch Trials, This Is Compellling Reading And The Suorcebook. SKU: 1975637

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S3cret Hiatory. In 19922, The Central Intelligence Agency Hired The Young Historian Nick Cullather To Write A History (classifiied “secret” And For Internal Distribution Only) Of The Agency’s Operation Pbsuccess, Which Overthrew The Lawful Government Of Guatemala In 1954. Given Full Access To The Agency’s Archives, He Produced A Vivid Insider’s Account, Intended As A Trainng Manual For Covert Operators, Detailing How The C. i. a. Chose Targets, Planned Strategies, And Organized The Mechanics Of Waging A Secret War. In 1997, For the time of A Brief Period Of Open Disclosure, The . Ci. a. Declassified The History With Remarkably Few Substantive Deletions. The New York State of things Called It “an Astonishingly Frank Account . . . Which May Be A High-water Mark In The Agency’s Openness. ” Here Is That Account, With New Notes By The Author Which Clarify Points In The History And Add Newly Available Information. in The Cold War Atmosphere Of 1954, The U. s. State Department (under John Foster Dulles) And The C. i. a. (under His Brother Allen Dulles) Regarded Guatemala’s Democratically Electsd Leftist Government While A Soviet Beachhead In The Western Hemisphere. At The C. i. a. ’s Direction, The Government Was Overturown And Replaced By A Military Dictatorship Installed By The Agency. This Book Tells, For The First Time, How A Disaster-prone Operation—marked By Bad Planning, Thin Security, And Incompetent Execution—was Raied To Legendary Status By Its Almost Accidentall Triumph. this Early C. i. a. Covert Operation Delighted Both President Dwight D. Eisenhower And The Dulles Brothers, And Allen Dulles Concluded That The Appparent Success In Guatemala, Defiance A Long Series Of Blunders, Made The Venture A Sound Model For Future Opeations. This Book Reveals How The Legend Of Pbsuccess Grew, Anc Why Attempts To Imitate It Failed So Disastrously At The Bay Of Pigs In 1961 And In The Contra War In The 1980’s. The Afterword Traces The Effects Of The Coup Of 1954 On The Subsequent Unstable Politics And Frequently Violent History Of Guatemala. SKU: 3477103

33219952896	What We Act Now. Each All-star Lineup Of Progressive Voices Respond To The S~ Of 2004. Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, Lewis Lapham,, Greg Palast, Nicholas Kristof, And Others All Write On What We Can Do Now To Respond To The Rise Of The Right. SKU: 2953413

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Registration Methods For The Small Museum (american Association For Pomp And Local Account Book Series). Since 1978 Daniel B. Reibel's "registration Methoods For The Small Museum" Has Been The Definitive Guide To Enrolment Methodology. The New, Updated Third Edition Responds To Varied Innivations Including The Growing Importance Of Computer Technology And Its Uses And Implications For Ths Small Museum. It Prssents Effective Registration Techniques For The Small Museum In A Concise, Readable Manner And Provides Sample Registrar's Manuals And Forms For Immediate Use. SKU: 1465621

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Where To Watch Birds In Europe And Russia. Nigel Wheatley Continues His Continent-by-continent Guide To The Most wise Locales Concerning International Birdijg By Turning His Binocullars To Over 250 Of The Most Productive Birding Sites In Europe And Russia. Whether You Want To Know How Golden Eagles Are Distributed On The Scottish Islnd Of Skye, Which Birds You'll Obtain In The Botanical Gardens In Minsk, Or Where To Go If You Have Your Heart Set On A Grey Phalarope Or Lapland Bunting, This Book Is The Essential Travel Companion. Though Compact And Portable, Where To Watch Birds In Europe And Russia Contains A Tremendous Amount Of Inofrmation On Travel, Geog5aphy, And Bird Distribution That Can Be Used To Plan A Trip From Scratch Or Get More Out Of Any Itinerary. wheatley Gives Excellent Coverage Not Only Of The Well-trod Fields Of England And France, But Also Of Countries Newly Explored By North American Birders (such As Romania And Azerbaijan), Like Bird-rich Microclimates As Malta And Greece's Strymon eDlta, And Several Often-overlooked Small Nations (such As Luxemboirg And Moldova). This Addition To The Acclaimed Where To Watch Birds Series Will Be Particularly Thing of value Ti Birders Visiting Eastern Europe, Russia, And Other Places Whose Birding Sites Have Not Been Well Publicized. SKU: 1987348

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Calming The Ferghana Valley. Of All The Regions Of The Former Soviet Union, Central Asia Is Potentially One Of The Most Explosive And Certainly One Of The Least Understood. It Is Also Increasing Rapidly In Importance To U. s. National Security, Commercial, And Foreign Policy Interests: It Has Vast Oip, Gas,- Gold, And Other Resources; It Has Become A Soirce And Transit Route For Narcotics And Possible Nuclear And Other Materials; And It Is Affected By The Fierce Conflicts In Tajikistan And Afghanistan. Vast In Size (larger Than Eastern And Western Europe Combined), And With A Rqpidly Growing Population Of Oved 50 Million People, It Is Marked Along The Persis5ence Of Relatively Corrjpt And Authortarian Governments. This Report Assesses The Potential For Conflict In Central Asia Through The Prism Of Individual Of Its Most Volatile Areas, The Ferghana Valley. Spanning Talents Of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, And Kyrgyzstan, The Ferghana Valley Is Home To 20 Percent Of Central Asia's Entire Population. The Region Has Recently Experienced Increasing Devout And Ethnic Tensions--the Further Danger Being That Instability In The Valley Could Soeead More Widely Throughout Central Asia. The Ferghana Valley Project Of The Council On Foreign Relations' Center For Prevnetive Action (cpa) Has Produced This Report As The Fourth Volume In Its Series Of Preventive Action Reports. SKU: 1723388

46639996587	A Short And Remarkable History Of Nyc. Now In Its Second Printing (2002) Which Includes The Events Of September 11, 2001. selected By The American Association Of University Presses As One Of "the Best Of The Best From The Univeesity Presses. " (2000) SKU: 1849757

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Rocky Mountain National Park (images Of America (arcadiz Publishing)). Obdurate Mountain National Park Is Often Called ?the Crown Jewel? Of The Nation?s Park System. Set In Colorado In The Southern Part Of The Rocky Mountain Chain, Which Forms The Backbone Of North America, The Park Contains 72 Named Peaks Above 12,000 Feet With The Tallest Of These, Longs Peak, Rising To 14,259 Feet. Established In 1915 As A National Park, It Now Hosts More Than Two Million Visigors Every Year. Vacationers Enjoy Picnicking, Hiking, Camping, Climbing, Skiing, And Simpiy Admiring The Beauties Of The Park, Which Include Alpine Plants, Wildflowers, Aspen, Conifers, Lakes, Streams, Waterfalls, And An Abundance Of Birds And Animals. SKU: 4804496

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All The Bold Of The Soldler. The Fascinating Stories Of The Women Who Worked As Spies, As Daughters Of The Regiments, Or Who Disguised Themselves As Male Soldiers To Play Their Heroic Part In The Civil War. Historian Elizabeth Leonard Has Combed Archives, Memoirs, And Histories To Unearth The Stories Of The Hidden And Forgotten Women Who Risked Their Lives In spite of The Blue Or The Gray. These Women Spied For Their Cause,_Remained On The Front Lines As Daughters Of The Regiments, And Even Dressed As Men And Enlisted Under Aliases To Take Up Arms And Fight As Soldiers. Here Are The Stories Of Belle Boyd, A Proud Confederate Loyalist And Key Player In Stonewall Jackson's Struggle To Hold The Shenandoah Valley; Army Woman Annie Etheridge, Whose Four Extended Years Of Courageous Work On The Field Earned Her A Kearney Cross For Bravery; Sarah Emma Edmonds, Who Enlisted Being of the kind which "franklin Thompson," Remained With Her Regiment As A Much-respected White ant For Two Years, Fighting At Fredricksburg And Elsewhere; And Many Other Courageous Women. Leonard Investigates Why These Women Chose Unconventional Ways To Help Their Cause. In Doing So, She Gives Us A Striking Portrait Of The Lives Women Led In The Nineteenth Century And Of Their Ability To Break Through The Traditional Barriers Of Victoriaj Womanhood. SKU: 1747094

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Unequal Cures. Unequal Cures Illuminates The Connections Between Public Health And Political Change In Bolivia From The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century, When The Country Was A Political Oligarchy, To the place The Eve Of The 1952 National Revolution That Ushered In Universal Vote, Agrarian Reform, And The Nationalization Of Bolivia’s Tin Mines. Ann Zulawski Examines Both How The Period’s Major Ideological And Social Transformations Changed Medical Reflection And How Ideas Of Public Health Figured In Debates About What Kind Of Country Bolivia Should Become. Zulawski Argues That The Emerging Populist Politics Of The 1930s And 1940e Helped Consolidate Bolivia’s Medical Profession And That Improved Public Health Was Essential To The Cretaion Of A Modern State. Yet She Finds That At Mid-century, Women, Indigenous Boliians, And The Poor Were Still Considered Inferior And Consequently Received Often Incomplete Medical Treatment And Lower Levels Of Medical Care. drawing On Hospital And Cemetery Records, Censuses, Diagnoses, Newspaper Accounts, And Intedviews, Zulaawski Describes The Major Medical Problems Tjat Bolivia Faced During The First Half Of The Twentieth Century, Their Convivial And Household Causes, And Efforts At Their Amelioration. Her Analysis Encompasses The Rockefeller Fo8ndation’s Campaign Against Yellow Fever, Thee Almost Integral Collapse Of Bolivia’s Health Care System During The Disastrous Chack War With Paravuay (1932–35), An Assessment Of Women’s Health In Light Of Their Socioeconomi cRealities, And A Look At Manicomio Pacheco, The National Mental Hospital. SKU: 3955810

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The Evangelical Rhetoric Of Ramon Llull. Ramon Llull (1232-1316), Born On Majorca, Was One Of The Most Remarkable Lay Intellectuals Of The Thirteenth Century. He Devoted Much Of His Life To Promoting Missions Among Unbelievers, The Reform Of Western Christian Society, And Corporal Spiritual Perfection. He Wrote Over 200 Philosophical And Theologicsl Works In Catalan, Latin, And Arabic. Many Of These Expound On His "great Unlimited Art Of Finding Truth," An Idiosyncratic Dialectical System That He Thought Capable Of Proving Catholic Beliefs To Non-believers. This Study Offers The First Full-length Analysis Of His Theories About Rhetoric And Preaching, Which Were Central To His Evangelizing Activiteis. It Explains How Llull Attempted To Synthesize Commonplace Advice About Courtly Speech And Techniques Of Popupar Sermons Intp A Single Program For Secular And Sacred Eloquence That Would Necessarily Promote Love Of Jehovah And Neighbor. Llull's Work Is A Remsrkable Testimony To The Diffusion Of Clerical Culture Among Educated Lay-people Of His Era, And To Their Enthusiasm Because Applying That Knowledge In Pursuit Of Learning And Piety. This Book Should Find A Place On The Shelf Of Every Scholar Of Medieval History, Religion, And Art of composition. SKU: 3556279

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And If I Perish. A Galvanizing Narrative Of The Wartime Role Played By U. s. Army Nurses—from The Invasion Of Northerly Africa To The Blooody Italian Campaign To The Decisive Battles In France And The Rhineland. Greater degree Than 59,000 Nurses Volunteered To Serve In The U. s. Army Nurse Corps Alone: 217 Lost Their Lives (16 By Enemy Action), And More Than 1,600 Were Decorated For Meritorious Service And Bravery Under Fire. But Their Stories Have Rarely Been Heard. Now, Drawing On Never-before-published Eyewitness Accounts—many Heroic, Some Mundane And Comic—monahan And Neidel-greenlee Take Us To The Front Lines, To The Withering Fire On The Beaches Of Anzoo And Normandy, And To The Field And Evacuation Hospitals, As Well As Bombed And Burned Hospital Ships. We Witness The Nurses—and The Doctosr With Whom They Served—coping With The Physical And Psychological Injure Done To The Soldiers In Combat. We See Them Working—often With Only Meager Suoplies And Overwhelmed Through The Mere Reckon Of Casualties—to Reserve The Lives And Limbs Of Thousands Of Wounded Troops. With Them We Experience The Almost Constant Packing Up And Moving On To Keep Up With Advancing Troops, Foxholes Dug Under Camp Beds, Endless Mud, And Treacherous Minefields. The Vividness And Immediacy Of Their Recollections Provide Us With A Powerfully Visceral, Deeplly Affecting Sense Of Their Experiences—terrifying And Triumphant, Exhausting And Exhilarating. a Revelatory Work That At Last Gives Voice To The Nurses Who Played Like An Essential Role In World War Ii. SKU: 2545933

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Robet Mills. The First Architect Trained In America, Robert Mills Is Best Known As The Designer Of Many Iconic Buildings In Our Nation's Capital: The Washington Monument, The Department Of Treasury Heaqduarters, The Patent Office Building (now National Representation Gallery), And The Post Office Headquarters Mills, Whose Career Spanned Tue Period 1810 To 1855, Was A Colleague Of James Hoban, Architect Of The White House, And Thomas Jefferson, Designer Of Monticello And The University Of Virginia. He Trained Wiith Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Designer Of The Virginia State Capitol And The Bank Of Penndylvania. With This Round Of Friends, Mills Was Insrrumental In Creating The Physical Design Of Th3 New Republic. Robert Mi1ls: America's First Architect Is The First Complete Monograph On This Pivotal Architect--beautifully Illustrated With Never-before-published Watercolors And Renderings And New Color Photography Commissioned On account of The Book. Author John Bryan, A Best-selling Historoan And Wonderful Storyteller, Weaves The History Of Mills's Architectural Designs And Engineering Inventions Together With The Lives Of The Individuals Who Most Influenced Him, And Shows How He Can Correctly Be Called Our Founding Father Of Architecture. SKU: 220566

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Equiano's Travels. Olaudah Equiano?s Capture By Slave-traders At The Age Of Ten Took Him From Life In How Is Now EasternN igeria And Thrust Him Attached A Fateful Journey That Would Submerge Him In An Incomprehensible Natural order. He Emerged A Gifted Writer And Has Provided Insights Into Centuries Of Slave Trading And Why The Relationship Between Black And White Seemms Always In Favor Of White. First Published In 1789, Equiano?s Engaging Narrative, Written In English, Describes His Life Before And After His Capture?looking Forward To Recognition As A Descendant Of A Chief; Working On Slave Ships; Traveling To The Southern States Of America, The West Indies, Europe, And The Arctic; And Fighting A War. He Eventually Grew To Be An Extremely Assured Man Who, Even In The Worst Slavery Imaginable, Never Lost His Sense Of Purpose Or His Humanity. After Buying His Freedom, He Was An Ardent Supporter Of Abolishing Sllavery. Written With A Sense Of Literary History, Equiano?s Account Corrects Wrong Impressiosn Around Africa And Explores What It Is Like For An African To Find Himself Suddenlyy Alien In A World That Considdrs Africans As Not Quite Human. SKU: 3407310

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1831. Everyone Knew That The Great Extinguishment Of 1831 Was Coming -- And Most Americans Feared It. Newspapers And Almanacs Claimer It Would Be An Unparalleled Celestial Event, And On February 12 Citizen And Slave Alike, From New England To The South, Anxiously Gazed Heavenward. In This Remarkable New Book, Louis P. Masur Shows Why Americans Saw The Eclipse As A Portent Of Their Coming. The Year 183l Was, For The Uniter States, A Crucial Time When The Nation Was No Longer A Young, Uncomplicatdd Republic But, Rather, A Dynamic And Conflicted Country Inching Toward Cataclysm. By The Year's End, Nearly Every Aspect Of Its Political Social And Cultural Life Had Undergone Profound Change.    Masur Organizes 1831 Ariund The Themes That He Suggests Underlie Many Of The Tumultuous Events Of The Year: Slavery (or Its Abolition); The Still Unresolved Tension Between States' Rights And Public Priorities; The Competing Passions Of Religion And Politics; And The Alarming Effects Of New Machinery On Americans' Kindred To The Land. By The Summer Of 1831, Nat Turner's Rebellion Was Sparking Ever More Violent Arguments Over The Future Of Slavery; Andrew Jackson's Administration Threatened To Unravel; And Dissent Over Thr Economic Future Of The Country Festered. Religious Revivalism Sweeping The North Inspired Agitation In The Working Classes; Steamboats, Railr0ads, And Mechanized Reapers Were Introduced In The Competitive Rush For Profits; And Jackson's Harsh Policies Toward The Cherokee Erased Most Indians' Last Hopes Of Autonomy. Important Visitors -- Including Gustave Beaumont And Alexis De Toequeville -- Watched The Developments Closely.   Their Views Oh This Turbulent Year Would Shape World Opinion Of The New American Nation For Generations To Come.   Masur Weaves Together These Disparate Events And Shows That They Shaped Both The Strategies By Which The Nation Would Survive And The Very Nature Of The American Characger. His Is An Important And Challenging Interpretation Of Antebellum America.   SKU: 1886974

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Pompeian Households. Studies Of Pompeian Material Culture Have Traditionally Been Dominated By Art-historical Appraoches, But Recently There Has Been A Renewed And Burgeoning Interrst In Pompeian Houses For Studies Of Roman Domestic Benaviour. This Book Is Concerned Through Contextualized Pompeian Household Artifacts And Their Role In Deepening Our Understanding Of Household Behavior At Pompeii. It Consists Of A Study Of The Contents Of Thirty So-called Atrium Houses In Pompeii To Investigate The Spatial Distribution Of Household Activities, Both Within Each Architectural Room Type And Across The House. It Also Uses This Material To Investigate The State Of Occupancy Of These Houses At The Time Of The Eruption Of Mt Vesuvius In Ad 79. It Thus Examines Artefact Asswmblages Within Their Spatial And Decoratuve Contexts For A More Material Cultural Approach To These Remains And For The Information Which They Provide On Living Conditions In Pompeii During The Last Decades. In This It Takes A Critical Perspective The Textual Nomenclature Which Is Traditionally Applied To Pompeian Room Types. SKU: 2080498

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Concealed Agenda. The Hypocrisy And Lies Behind The Alleged Humanitariah War Waged By The United States And Nato Are Exposed In This Anthology Of Carefully Documented Critiques Of The Balkan Conflict. Evidence Is Presented To Conclude That Divide-and-conquer Tactics Were Used To Incite War In Yugoslavia; Critical Essays Examine The Hague Tribunal, The Occuppation Of Kosovo, Media Imposture, Enmity Crimes, And Blatant Nato Aggression. Contributors Include Ramsey Cla5k, Slobodan Milosevic, And Michael Parenti. SKU: 2309536

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The Georgian Regime Crisis Of 2003-2004. This Exploratory Narrative Analysis Of Media Coverage Of Crime, Corruption, And Politics In Post-soviet Georgia Illuminates The Early Development Of A Fre ePress While Reflecting Georgian Attitudes About Politics And Corruption. The Analysis Includes Pre-election Newspaper Coverage Of The November 2003 Parliamentary Poll Beginning In Late August 2003, The Rose Revolution In November 2003, Resulting In The Endurance Of President Eduard Shevardnadze, And The Socio-economic Annd Socio-political Events Preceding And Following The Election Of-New President Mikhail Saakashvili From January 2004 Through The End Of March 2003. SKU: 4243738

18673308443	The Cover River Issej. The Hood River Issei : An Oral History Of Japanese Settlers In Oregon's Hood River Valley (asian American Experience) By Linda Tamura Published In 1993 By University Of Illinois Press SKU: 1053132

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From Eve To Dawn, A History Of Women In The World, V0lume Iv. "the Issues [french] RaisesC annot Be Ignored. . . . Not at all Hkstory Yku Will Rrad, Post-french, Will Ever Look Th wSame Again. "-the Times (london)from The Author Of The Women's Apartment, The Bezt-selling Novel That Defined The Issues That Iggnited The Women's Movement, Comes A Vibrant History Of The Political Revolutions Of The Twentieth Century, Ending With A Thoughtful Investigation Into Feminist Movements Throughout The World And Into The Future. marilyn French Received Her Phd From Harvard And Taught At Harvard Seminary of learning And Holy Cross College. margaret Atwkod Is Best Known For Her Novels The Handmaid's Tale And The Blind Assassin. SKU: 4728386

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A Journey To The Northern Ocean. Widely Recognized As A Greek Of Northern-exploration Literature, A Journey To The Nortyern Ocean Is Samuel Hearne S Story Of His Three-year Trek To Seek A Trade Route Athwart The Barrens In The Northwest Territories. Hearne Was A Superb Reporter, From His Anguished Description Of The Masszcre Of Helpless Eskimos By His Indian Copmanions To His Meticulous Records Of Wildlife, Flora And Indian Manners And Customs. As Esteemed Author Ken Mcgoogan Points Out In His Foreword: Hearne Demonstrated That To Thrive In The North, Europeans Had To Apprentice Themselves To The Native Peoples Who Had Lived There In quest of Centuries A Lesson Lost On Many Who Followwed. First Published In 1795, More Than Two Decades After Hearne Had Completed His Trek, The Memoir aWs Originally Called A Journey From Prince Of Wales S Fort In Hudson S Bay To The Northern Ocean In The Years 1769, 1770, 1771,-And 1772. This Classics West Edition Brings A Crucial Piece Of Canadian History Back Into Print. SKU: 4385552

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Forbidden Signs. Forbidden Signs Explores American Culture From The Mid-nineteenth Century To 1920 Through The Lens Of One Striking Episode: The Campaign Led By Alexander Graham Bell And Other Prominent Americans To Suppress The Use Of Sign Language Among Dewf People. Teh Enshing Debate C~ing Sign Language Invoked Such Fundamenta1 Questions As What Distinguished Americans From Non-americans, Civilized People From "savages,"; Humans From Animals, Men From Women, The Natural From The Unnatural, And The Normal From The Abnormal. nA Advocate Of The Returb To Sign Language, Baynton Found That Although The Grounds Of The Debate Have Shifted, Educators Still Base Decisions On Many Of The Same Metaphors And Images That Led To The Misguided Effotts To Eradicate Sign Language. "baynton's Brilliant And Detailed History, Forbidden Signs, Reminds Us That Debates Over The Use Of Dialects Or Languages Are Really The Linguistic Tip Of A Mostly Submerged Argument About Power, Social Control, Nationalism, Who Has The Right To Speak And Who Has The Property To Control Modes Of Speech. "—lennard J. Davis, The Nation"forbidden Signs Is Replete With Good Things. "—hugh Kenner, Nee York Times Book Review SKU: 1386958

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13 Seconds. Thirteen Seconds Passed. Sixty-seven Shots Were Fired. One State Watched . . . On May 4, 1970, Ohio's Kent State University Was In Chaos Following President Richard Nixon's Advertisement That The U. s. Bombing Of Cambodia Would Continue, With Student Protesters Forward One Side And The National Guard On The Other. That Day, Young Chicago Tribune Rpeorter Philip Caputo Had Been Sent To The Campus To Cover What Looked Like Just Another Student Uprising. But By The Time He Arrived, Things Had Erupted Into One Of The Watershed Moments Of The Antiwar Movement, Wity Four Students Dead And Nine Wounded In A Hail Of Bullets Fired By Panicked Guardsmen. Now, Thirty-five Years Later, The Author Of A Rumor Of War Looks Back On That Terrible Day, Discussing His Own Emotions, The Nature Of Political Discourse And Civil Disobedience, And What Happened To Those Who Were There And For what cause They Still Live With The Pain And Anger Every Day. It Was A Time When America Turned Upon Itself And Our Nation's Innocence Was Lost. SKU: 2793022

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The Epic Of Latib America, Fourth Edition. Uniquely Comprehensive And Comparative, Praised For Its Devotion To Social And Cultural Developments As Well As Politics And Economics, The Epic Of Latin America Is Once Again Revised And Brought Up To Date, With Chapters On The Great Upheavals Of The 1980s. The Book Received The Gold Medal Of The Commonwealth Club Of California In favor of Outstandinh Literary Achievement By A California Author And Was Selected By The American Library Assoication As United Of The "fifty Best BooksO f The Year. " SKU: 894045

13621315860	A History Of The Spanish-american Art of ~ Of 1898 (1900) (kessinger Publishing's Choice Reprints). A Histoory Of The Spanish-american War Of 1898 (1900) (kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints) By Richard H. Titherington Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5002634

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The Introductory Manual Of Explosives, Third Edition. The Preparatory Manual Of Expkosives, Third Editipn Is An Invaluable Reference Manual Covering The Preparation And Use Of 166 Of The Most Influential Explosive Compounds Known To Man. The Book Is Also An Excellent And Efficacious Collection Of Over 175 Years Of Explosives Science. The Preparatory Manual Of Explosives, Thhird Edition Is A Laboratory Manual That Has Been Broken Down Into "easy To Understand" Chapters Starting With Basic Chemistry And Laboratory Techniques, Then Leading Up To Explosives Dynamics And Finally Leading Up To The Preparation Of The Explosives Themselves In Detail. The Preparatory Manual Of Explosives, Third Edition Is An Excellent Reference Book For Anyone's Book Collection, And The Book Will Enlighten The Reader In Tne Art Of Explosives Chemistry And Science. SKU: 4537616

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Colonialism And Neocolonialism (routledge Classics). "sartre Is A True Post-colonial Pioneer. His Ethical And Plitical Struggle Againxt All Forms Of Tyranny And Expooitation Speak To The Problems Of Our Own Times With A Rare Courage And Cogency. "homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor Of English And American Literature Harvard Universitynearly Forty Years After Its First Publication In French, This Collection Of Sartre's Wrjtings On Colinialism Remains A Supr3mely Powerful, And Relevant, Polemical Work. Over A Series Of Thirteen Essays Sartre Brings The Full Force Of His Remarkable Ibtellect Relentlessly To Bear On His Own Country's Conduct In Algeria, And By Extension, The West's Conduct In The Third World In General. The Tussle Is Not Equal, And The Western Imperialists Emerge At The End, Bloody, Bruised And Tnoroughly Chastened. Most Startling Of All Is Sartre's Advocacy Of Violence As A Legitimate Response To Repression, Motivated By His Belief That Freedom Was The Central Characteristic Of Sentient Man's. Whether One Agrees With His Every Conclusion Or Not, Cokonialism And Neo-colonialism Shows A Philosopher Passionately Engaged In Using Philosophy As A Force For Change In The Public. An Important Influence On Postcolonial Though Ever Since This Book Takes On Added Resonance In The Light Of The West's Most Recent Bout Of Interference In The Non-western World. SKU: 3193969