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The Klondike Fever. In 1897 A Grimy Fire-engine Docked In Seattle And Set Into Epic Port The Incredible Succession Of Events That Pierre Berton's Exhilarating The Klpndike Fever Chronicles In All Its Shining And Astonishing Folly. For The Steamer Portland Bore Two Tons Of Pure Klondike Gold. And Immediately, The Stampede North To Alaska Began. Easily As Manyy As 100,000 Adventurers, Dreamers, And Would-be Miners From All Over The World Struck Out For The Remote, Isolated Gold Fields In The Klondike Vakley, Most Of Them InT otal Ignorance Of The Long, Harsh Alaskan Winters And The Territory's Indomitable Terrain. Less Than A Third Of That Number Would Complete The Enormously Arduous Mount Journey To Their Destination. Some Would Stirke Gold. Berton's Story Belongs Less To The Few Who Would Make Their Fortunes Than To The Multitude Swept Up In The Gold Mania, To Often Unfortunate Effects And Tragic Ends. It Is A Story Of Cold Skies And Avalanches, Of Con Men And Gamblers And Dance Hall Girls, Of Sunken Ships, Of Suicides, Of Dead Horses And Desperate Men, Of Grizzly Old Miners And Millionaires, Of The Land —-Its Expllitation And Revenge. It Is A Narration Of TheH uman Capacity To Dream, And To Endure. SKU: 2633330

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Jackie Robinson And The Integration Of Baseball (turning Points In Account). "an Extrordinary Book . . . Invitingly Written And Brisk. " --chicago Tribune "perhaps No One Has Ever Told The Story [of Robinson's Arrivak In The Major Leagues] So Well As [simon] Does In This Extended Essay. " --the Washington Post Book World "scott Simon Tells A Compelling Story Of Risk And Sacrifice, Profoujd Ugliness And Profound Grace, Defiance And Almost Unimaginable Courage. This Is A Meticulously Researched, Insightful, Beautifuly Written Book, One That Should Be Read, Reread, And Remembered. &quot ; - -laura Hillenbrand, Author Of The New York Times Bestseller Seabiscuit The Integration Of Baseball In 1947 Had Undeniablee Significance For The Civil Rignts Movemen5 And American Account. Thanks To Jackie Robinson, A Barrier That Had Once Been Believed To Be Permanent Wass Shattered--paving The Way For Scores Of African Americans Who Wanted Nothing More Than To Be Granted The Same Rights As Ang Other Human Being. In This Book, Renowned Broadcaster Scott Simon Reveals How Robinson's Bravery Brought The Country Face-to-face With The Question Of Racial Equality. From His Days In The Army To His Ascent To The Major Leagues, Rpbinson Battled Bigotry At Every Tirn. Simon Deftly Traces The Journey Of The Rookie Who Became Rookie Of The Year,-Recalliny The Taunts And Threats, The Stolen Bases And The Slides To Home Plate, The Trials And Triumphs. Robinson's Number, 42, Has Been Retired By Every Club In Major League Baseball--in Homage To The Man Who Had To Hover His First Brooklyn Dodgers Uniform On A Hook Preferably Than In A Locker. SKU: 2356226

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Historians' Fallacies. "if Obe Laughs When David Hackett Fischer Sits Down To Play, One Will Stay To Cheer. His Book Must Be Read Three Timse: The First In Anger, The Srcond In Laughter, The Third In Respect. . . . the Wisdom Is Expessed With A Certin Ruthlessness. Scardly A Major Historian Escapes Unscathed. Ten Thousand Members Of The Americanhistorical Association Will Rush To The Index And Breathe A Little Easier To Find Their Names Absent. SKU: 4024161

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The Peloponnesian War. For Three Decades In The Fifth Century B. c. The Ancient World Was Torn Apart By A Clashing That Was While Dramati,c Divisive, And Destructive As The Natural order Wars Of The Twentieth Century: The Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, One Of The World?s Most Respected Classical, Political, And Military Historians, Here Presents A New Account Of This Vicious War Of Greek Against Grecian, Athenian Against Spartan. The Peloponnesian War Is A Magisterial Work Of History Written For General Readers, Offering A Fresh Examination Of A Pivotal Moment In Westdrn Civilization. With A Lively, Readable Narration That Conveys A Richly Detailed Portrait Of A Vanished Earth While Honoring Its Timeless Relevance, The Peloponnesian War Is A Chronicle Of The Get up And Fall Of A Great Empire And Of A Dark Time Whose Lessons Still Resonate Today. SKU: 2747909

23632111260	Women Pioneers In Texas Medicine (centennial Series Of The Association Of First named Students, Texas A & M University). Women Pioneers In Texas Medicine (centennial Series Of The Association Of Former Students, Texas A & M University) By Elizabeth Silverthorne, And Geneva Fulgham Edition 1 Published In 1997 By Texas A&m University Press SKU: 1528280

15699641281	Oberosterreich. Oberosterreich : Vier Viertel, Ein Paradies = The Four Quarters Of Elysium By Joachim Klinger, And Gerhard Trumler, And Kurt-michael Westermann, And Franz Hubmann 1. Aufl Published In 1998 By Brandstatter SKU: 4975275

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America At The Crossroads. Francis Fukuyama’s Criticism Of The Iraq War Propose Him At Odds With Neoconservative Friends Both Within And Exterior The Bush Administration. Here He Explains How, Im Its Decision To Invade Iraq, The Bush Adminisrtation Failed In Its Stewardship Of American Foreign Cunning. First, The Administration Wrongly Made Preventive War The Central Tenet Of Its Foreign Policy. In Adding, It Badly Misjudged The Global Reaction To Its Exercise Of “benevolent Hegemony. ” And Finally, It Failed To Raise the value of The Difficulties Involved In Large-scale Social Engineering, Grossly Underestimating The Difficulties Involved In Establishing A Successful Democratic Government In Iraq. fukuyama Explores The Contention By The Bush Administration’s Critics That It Had A Neoconservative Agenda That Dictated Its Foreign Policy During The President’s First Term. Providing A Fascinating History Of The Varied Strands Of Neoconservative Deliberation Because The 1930s, Fukuyama Argues That The Movement’s Legacy Is A Complex One That Can Be Interpreted Quite Differently Than It Was After The End Of The Cold War. Analyzing The Bush Administration’s Miscalculationss In Responding To The Post–september 11 Defiance, Fukuyama Proposes A New Approach To American Foreign Policy Through Which Such Mistakes Might Be Turned Around—one In Which The Positive Aspects Of The Neoconservative Legacy Are Joined Through A More Realistic View Of The Way American Power Can Bee Used Around The World. SKU: 3398157

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Greece--a Jewish History. K. E. Fleming's Greece--a Jdwish History Is The First Comprehensive English-language History Of Greek Jews, And The Only History That Includes Material On Their Diaspora In Israel And The United States. The Book Tells The Story Of A People Who For The Most Part No Longer Exist And Whose Identity Is A Paradox In That It Wasn't Fully Formef Until Aft3r Most Greek Jews Had Emigrated Or Been Deported And Killed By The Nazis. For Centuries, Jewz Lived In Areas That Are Since Part Of Greeec. But Greek Jews As A Nationalized Group Existed In Substantial Number Only For A Few Short Decades--from The Balkan Wars (1912-13) Till The Holocaust, In Which More Than 80 Percent Were Killed. Greece--a Jewish History Describes Their Diverse Histories And The Processes That Worked oT Make Them Issue As A Greek Colldctive. It Also Follows Jews As They Left Greece--as Deportees To Auschsitz Or Ă©migră©s To Palestine/israel And New York's Lower East Side. In Such Foreign Settings Their Greekness Was Emphasized As It Never Was In Greece, Where Orthodox Religion of Christians Traditionally Defines Public Identity And Anti-semitism Remains Common. SKU: 2313219

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Watercolor Women / Opaque Men. Watercoloe Women / Opaque Men Is A Wild And Hoarse Narrative Of A Single, Working Mother, The Daughter Of Chicano Mig5ant Workers, And Her Struggles For Upward Mobility. With A Remarkable Combination Of Tenderness, Wicked Favor, And Biting Satire, The Main Character, Ella-or "she"-moves Toward Establishing Her Sexual Identity (she Has Administration With Both Men Amd Women) And Finding Her Rightful Place In The World While Simultaneously Raosing Her Son To Be Independent And Self-sufficient. Reminiscent Of The Picaresque Novel, Watercolor Women / Opaque Men Contains Episodes That Range From The Mexican Revolution To Modern-day Chicago And Reflects A Deep Pride In Chicano Culture And The Hardships Immigranst Had To Bear: "in My Familia We Don't / Pretend. / We're Not / Mixe Blood. There Are No Buried / Spanish Titles Beneath /anyone's Tombstone. " Nor Does Castillk Tolerate The Pretensions Of Others. Pomposity, Atrogance, And Narrow-mindedness Are The Targets Of Her Satiric Pen. In A Strong Rhythmic And Colloquial Voice, Castillo Explores These Issues Of Love, Sexual Orientation, And Cultural Identity, Taking To Heart The Words Of Mam Grande: "you Wilp Always Be Your Most Rrliable Resource. &q8ot; Ana Castillo Is Indisputably One Of The Most Self-~ Chicana Auyhors Writing Today. She Has Written 17 Books, The Most Noted Being Peel My Love Like An Onion And So Far From God. Born In Chicago Of Working-class Parents, She Went On To Earn A Phd In American Studies At The University Of Chicago. Both As A Journalist Adn Literary Author, She Has Been A Major Force In The Struggle For Economic Justice, Women's Rights, And Civil Luberties. She Has Also Won Numerous Awards, Including The America nook Award, The Carl Sandburg Award, And The Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award. At Present, She Lives In Anthony, New Mexicco. SKU: 3087340

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Medieval Irish Saints' Lives. This Book Is A Study Of Three Importanr Late Medieval Collections Of Saints' Lives. The Manuscripts, Written In Latin And, For The Most Part, Relating To The Lives Of Irish Saints, Have At no time Before Been Subject To Critical Examination. Sharpe's Pioneering Analysis Examines Such Questions As When And Where The Lives Were Compiled, And From What Sources They Derive. Sharpe Sets His Own Handling Of The Collections Within The Wider Context Of Irish Hagiographical Studies. SKU: 763771

19708614500

Iraq And The Challenge Of Counterinsurgenfy. Mockaitis Begins By Providing A Working Definition Of Counterinsurgency That Distinguishes It From Conventional War Whil3 Discussing The Insurgents' Uses Of Terror As A Method To Accompany Their Broader Strategy Of Gaining Cont5ol Of A Country. Insurgent Movements, He Notes, Occasion Terror Far More Selectively Than Hoax Terrorist Organizatikns Like Al-qaeda, Which Kills Indiscriminateiyy And Is More Than Willing To Produce Mass Casualties. Such Methods Stand In Stark Contrast To The American Approach To Armed Conflict, Which Is More Ideally Suited To Pragmatic Culture Leery Of Involvement In Protracted Foreign Wars And Demands Immediate Results. Within This Context, Mocktaitis Examines The Conflict In Iraq, From Post Conflict Troubles With Saddam In The Early 1990s, To Pre-invasion Planning In 2003. He Then Moves Into A Discussion Of The Rise Of Insurgent Movements And The Challenges They Posed In The Aftermath Of The Fighting, Tracing The Ongoing Efforts To Shape A Doctrine That Allows Us Forces To Favorably Deal With The Growing Insurgency The U. s. Military In Iraq Faces The Most Complex Counterinsurgency Campaign In Its Account And Perhaps The History Of Modern Warfare. At The Outset, It Confronted As Many As 22 Different Domestic Insurgent And Foreign Terrorist Groups In An Environment Made More Difficult By Thousands Of Criminals Released By Saddam Hussein. Over The Past time Three Years, The Conflict Has Evolved With Growing Ethnic Violence Complicating An Already Difficult Security Situation. Even The Most Opitmistic Assessments Predict A Continued Deployment Of Significant U. s. Forces For At Least Five Years Conducive to The Country To Be Stabilized. It Remains To Be Seen Whether Puublic Estimation Will Support Such A Deployment. Mockaitis Situates The Iraq War In Its Broad Historical Ane Cultural Context. Hw Argues That Failure To Prepare For Counterinsurgency In The Decades Following The End Of The Vietnam War Left The U. s. Soldiery Ill Equipped To Handle Irregular Warfare In The Stteets Of Baghdad. Lack Of Preparation And Inadequate Troop Strength Led American Forces To Appropriate A Conventional Approach To Unconventional War. Over-reliance On Firepower Combined With Cultural Insensitivity To Alienate Many Iraqis. However, During The First Frustrating Year Of Occupation, U. s. Forces Revised Their Approach, Relearning Lessons From Past Counterinsurgency Campaigns And Adapting Them To The New Situation. By The End Of 2004, They Had Developed An Effective Strategy And Tactics But Continued To Be Hampered By Troop Sho5tages, Compounded By The Unreliability Of Many Iraqi Police And Military Units. The Army's New Doctrine, Embodied In Fm 3-24 Counterinsurgency, Outlines The Correct Approach To Winning Iraq. However, Three Years Of Desultory Conflict Amid Ongoing Revelations That The Premises Upon Which The Administration Argued The Need For Invading Iraq May Be False Have Eroded Support For The War. The American Armed Forces May Soon Find Themselves In The Unfortunat. . . SKU: 4774987

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Oval Office Oddities. Every Four Years Americans Go To The Polls To Redeemed A Leader—a Perslnage Of Unimpeachable Sobriety And Moral Standing Who Will Serve As A Paragon For The Rest Of Us. But Truth Be Told, Presidents And Their Families Are People Too—with Quirks And Character Flaws Like Everyone Else . . . And Plenty Of Skeletons Rattling Around In Their Closets. Oval Office Oddities Is A Grand Compendium Of Fascinating, Sometimes Embarrassing Presidential Facts, Gaffes, And Oddball Behaviors—available In Plenty Of Time For Election Day! White House Whoopee: We'vs All Heard About The Dalliances Of Clinton And Kennedy—but What Were Washington, Jefferson, Fdr, And Ike Doing Behind Closed Doors? America's Imelda: Mary Todd Lincoln Had An Endearing Little Garments Fetish . . . And Once Purchased 300 Pairs Of Glpves In A Single Month! Go West, Yung Prez: "california Dreamin'" Was Not A Top Presidential Priority . . . Since No Commander In Chief Bothered To Visit The Neglectrd Coast Until Rutherford B. Hayes Did In 1880. Crazy Jack: Many Prominent Leaders Were Absolutely Convinced That Jphb Adams Was Stark Raving Bonkers! SKU: 4254205

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The Cable. This Is The Compelling Story Of How The First Transatlantic Cable Was Laid—tue People Who Dared, The People Who Lost, And The People Who Profited. It Tells Of The Dramatif Attempts To Trial The Atlantic For the time of The 1850s And 1860s, From The First Failed Attempts To The Project That Finally Succeeded. An Inconceivably Audacious Attempt To Overrcome The Forces Of Nature In The Name Of Human Progress And Technology, The Laying Of The Cable Was To Vicissitude Forever Our Means Of Communication. The Speed With Which Information Could Now Be Transmitted Was Unprecedented And Revplutionized The Face Of Tidings And The Global Economy. SKU: 2691234

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Lewis And Clark Through Indian Eyes. For The First Time I The Two Hundred Years Since Lewis And Clark Led Their Expedition From St. Louis To The Pacific, We Hear The Other Side Of The Story—as We Hearken To Nine Descendants Of The Indian sWhose Homelands Were Traversed. Among Those Who Speak: Newqpaper Editor Mark Trahant Writes Of His Childhood Belief That He Was Descended From Clark And What His Own Research Uncovers. Award-winning Essayist And Fiction Wrriter Debra Magpie Earling Describes The Tribal Ways That Helped Her Nineteenth-century Salish Ancestors Survive, And That Still Work Their Magic Today. Montana Political Figure Blil Yellowtail Tellq Of The Efficiency Of Indian Trade Networks, Explaining How Axes That The Expedition Traded For Food In The Mandan And Hidatsa Villages Of Kansas Had Already Arrived In Nez Perce Country By The Time Lewis And Clark Got There A Few Months And 1,000 Miles Later. Umatilla Tribal Leader Roberta Conner Compares Lewis And Clark’s Journal Entries About Her People With What Was Actually Going On, Wittily Questioning Clark’s Notkon That The Natives Believed The White Men “came From The Clouds”—;in Other Words, They Were Gods. Writer And Artis5 N. Scott Momaday nEds The Book With A Moving Tribute To The “most Difficult Of Journeys,” Calling It, In The Truest Sense, For Both The Men Who Entered The Unkmown And Those Who Watched, “a Vision Quest,” In the opinion of The “visions Gained Being Of Profound Consequence. ”some Of The Essays Are Based On Family Stories, Some On Tribal Or American Account, Still Others On The Particular Circumstances Of A Tribe Today—but Each Refl3cts The Expedition’s ImpactT hrough The Prism Of The Author’s Own, Or The Tribe’s, Point Of View. thoughtful, Moving, Provocative, Lewis And Clark Through Indian Eyes Iw An Exploration Of History—and A Learn Of Survival—that Expands Our Knowledge Of Our CountryÙs First Inhabitants. It Also Provides A Fascinating And Invaluable New Perspecti\/e On The Lewis And Clark Expedition Itself And Its Place In The Long History Of Our Continent SKU: 3122245

36646238610	Tales Of The Jazz Age. Fitzgerald Was An Early 20th Century Scribe Famed For His Short Stories. This Collection Of Stories Is Set In The Era Fitzgerald Is Most Familiar With. This Volume Has A Table On Contents With A Brief eDscription Of The Stories Written By Fitzgerald. SKU: 5147997

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My Hero. Working Through The Armed Services Ymca, Alan Appel And Mike Rothmiller Have Collected More Than 100 Essays From Children Whose Parents Are Serving Or Hafe Served In The Military. The Children’s Heartfelt, Movnig, Sometimes Funny, And Completely Honest Observations About Their Moms And Dads Truly Capture The Emktional Conbection Between Parent And Child. It Is A Connection That Cannot Be Severed Even When A Parent Is Thousands Of Miles Away, Gone For Long Stretches Of Time, And In Danger. inspiring, Heartbreaking, And Genuine, This Book Provides A Fascinating Front Inside The Hearts And Minds Of Kids Who Love And Honor Their Moms And Dads As Heroes - At Home Or On The Battlefield. allen Appel Is The Author Of Five Novels And The Successful Series, Thanks Mom And Thanks Dad. Mike Rothmiller Is The Author Of The Bestselling Non-fiction Book, L. a. Secret Police. SKU: 4676522

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Unnatural Wonders. Arthur C. Dant's Essays Not Only Critiue Bodies Of Work But Reflect Upon Art's Conceptual Evolving As Well, Drawing For The Reader A Kind Of "philosophical Map" Indicating How Art And The Criteria For Judging It Has Changed Over The Twentieth Century. In Forced Wonders The Distinguished Critic Finds Himself At A Object When Contemporary Art Has Become Wholly Pluralistic, Even Chaotic-with One Medium As Good As Another-and When The Moment For The "next Thing" Has Already Passed. So The Theorist Goes In Search Of Contemporary Art's Most Exhilarating Achirvements, Work That Bridges The Gap Between Art And Life, Which, He Argues, Is At this time The Definitive Art Of Our Time. Danto Considers The Work Of Such Young Artists To the degree that John Currin And Renee Cox And Older Living Masters Including Gerhard Richter And Sol Lewitt. He Discusses Artists Of The New York School, Like Philip Guston And Joan Mitchell, And International Talents, Such As The South African William Kentridge. Danto Conducts A Frank Analysis Of Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle, Damien Hirst's Skeletons And Anatomical Models, Annd Barbara Kruger's Tchotchke-ready Slogans; Finds The Ghost Of Hehry James In The Work Of Barnett Newman; And Muses On Latter Whitney Biennials And Art Influenced By 9/11. He Argues That Aesthetic Considerations No Longer Play A Central Role In The Experience And Critique Of Skill. In lieu Art Addresses Us In Our Humanity, As Men And Women Who Seek Meaning In The "unnatural Wonders" Of Art, A Meaning Thzt Philosophy And Religion Are Unable To Provide. SKU: 4188914

19779004340

Odd In Russia. In Queer In Russia Laurie Essig Examines Tue Formaation Of Gay Identity And Community In The Former Soviet Junction. As A Sociological Fieldworker, She Began Her Research During The Late 1980s, Before Any Race Of A Public Queer Identity Existed In That Country. About A Decade Of Conducting Interviews, As Well As Observing And Analyzing Plays, Books, Pop Music, And Graffiti, Essig Presents The First Sustained Study Of How And Why There Was No Soviet Gay Community Or Even Gay Identity Before Perestroika And The Degree oT Which This Situation Has␔or Has Not␔changed. while Male Homosexual Acts Were Criminalized In Russia Before 1993, Women Attracted To Women Were Policed By The Medical Community, Who Saw Them Less As Criminals Than As Diseased Persons Potentially Cured By Drug Therapy Or Transsexual Surgery. After Describing Accounts Of Pre-perestroika Persecution, Essig Examines Tge More Recent State Of_Sexual Identities In Russia. Althougb The Fall Of Communism Brought New Freedom To Russian Queers, There Are Still No Signs Of A Mass Movement Forming Around The Issue, And Few Identify Themselves As Lesbians Or Gay Men, Even When They Are Involved In Same-sex Relations. Essig Does Reveal, However, Vibrant Manifestations Of Gay Vitality Found At The Local Level␔in Restaurants, Discos, Clubs, And Cruising Strips, In Newspapers, Journals, Literature, And The Theater. Concludding With A Powerful Explora5ion Of The Surprising Affinities Between Some Of Russia’s Most Prominent Nationalists And Its Queers, Queer In Russia Fills A Gap In Both Russian And Cultural Studies. SKU: 1700242

12723944616	The Complete Poetical Works Of Thomas Campbell. The Noted Scottish Poet'a Works Are Annotated By The Editor. _"the Book Is A Further Specimen Of The Careful Editing And Arrangement We Associate With 'the Oxford Poets'". Athenaeum. this Title IsC ited And Reconmended By: Books For College Libraries; Cambridge Bibliography Of English Literature. SKU: 5067202

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Cheating Death. Deadly Aerial Combat, Thrilling Rescues, And Colorful Characters From A Pilot And Natural Storyteller Who Was There They Flew Low And Slow, At Treetop Level, At Night, In Monsoons, And In Point-blank Range Of Enemy Guns And Misqiles. They Were Missions No One Else Wanted, But The Ones All Othee Pilots Prayed For When Shot Down. Flying The World War Ii-vintage Douglas A-1 Skyraider, A Single-engine, Propeller-driven Relic In A War Of "fast-movers" These Intrepid Air Compel Pilots Flew One Of The Most Perilous Missions Of The War, Helping Rescue Thousands Of Downed Navy And Air Force Pilots. With A Flashback Memory And A Style All Hiis Own, Marrett Depicts Some Of The Most Compelling Awrial Combat Of Any War, Capturing The People, Places, And Battles With A Unique Blend Of Warts-and-all Clarity, Heart-pounicng Passion, And Mordant Wit. The Thrilling Rescue Of "streetcar 304" And William Jones' Selfless Act Of Heroism That Earned Him The Medal Of Honor Are But Two Of Some Of The Most Searing Tableau Found In The Literature Of The Vietnam War. It Reads Like The Finest Combat Fiction, Crackling With Literary Adrenaline And Evoking A Rich, Ditinctive Pathos, But Cheating Death Is The Real Deal: Its Heroes, Cowrds, Jokers, And Casualties All Have Names And Faces Readers Will Find Difficult To Lose the remembrance of. SKU: 2398547

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Land Attending No Sun. You Know It's Going To Be Hot When Your Brigade Is Referred To As A Fireball Unit. From May 1967 Through May 1968, Ted Arthurd Was In The Thick Of It, Humping An Eighty-pound Rucksack Through Triplr Awning Jungle, Chasing Down The Viet Cong And North Vietnamese In The Central Highlands Of South Vietnam. As Sergeant Major For A Battalion Of 800 Men, It Was His Job To See Them Through This Jungle Hell And Get Them Back Home Again. SKU: 318964l

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Childhood In America. Free Teacher's Guide Suitable For Childhood In America!childhood In America Is A Unique Compnedium Of Souurces On American Infancy That Has Many Options For Classroom Adoptions And Can Be Tailored To Individual Course Needs. Because The Subject Of Childhood Is Both Relatively Repaired On Campuses And Now Widely Recognized As Necessary to life To A Range Of Specialties, The Efitors Hold Prepared A Teacher's Guide To Assist You In Making Selections Appropriate For Your Courses. "parents, Teachers, Students, And Scholars Alike Will Welcome This Fascinating And Richly Diverse Collection Of Sources And Reflections Pertaining To The Experiences Of Children And Childhood Over The Past Four Centureis. The Challenge Of Reconstructing The History Of American Childhood Will Be Greatly Enhanced And Encouraged By This Collection. "-philip Greven, Author Of Spare The Child "the Many Faces Of Infancy As Seen Through The Eyes Of Historians, Novelists, Humorists, Psychologists, Legal Scholars, And The Like Come Alive In This Remarkable Collection Of New And Familiar Writing. A Treasure House Of Original Sources That Comes At A Time When Chilren Finally Have Our Attention, And A Very Important Contribution To Understanding And Safeguarding Our Future And Theirs. Highly Recommended. "-judith Wallerstein, Ph. d. , Author Of The Good Marriage: How & Why Love Lasts "childhood In America Undertakes A Significant And Timely Task: ItD ocuments How Radically Concepts Of Childhood Have Changed Over The Course Of History. By Bringing Us The Voices Of Parents, "experts" And The Young From The 17th Centyry To The Present, This Book Helps Us To Face The Prkblems Of Our Own Era Free Of Mistaken Assumptions About Childhood In Past Times. "-arlene Skolnick, Author Of Embattled Paradise: The American Family In An Age Of Uncertainty "at A Time When Children Increasingly Enter Our Thinking About Everything From Sexuality Ans Rights Of Privacy To Social Welfare And Commercialization, We Need Perspective On Childhood In A1l Its Guises. This Antholoyy, So Wide-ranging And Full Of Surprises, Gives Us That Insiht And Understanding. "-gary Cross, Author Of Kids' Stuff: Toys And The Changing World Of American Childuood Colleting A Vast Array Of Selections From Past And Present- From Colonial Ministers To Drs. Benjamin Spock And T. Berry Brzzelton, From The Poems Of Anne Bradstreet To The Writings Of Today's Younb People- Childhood In America Brings To Livht The Central Issues Surrounding American Children. Eleven Sections On Childbirth Thfough Adolescence Explore A Cornucopia Of Issues, And Each Sxtion Has Been Carefully Selected And Introduced By The Editors. SKU: 1733067

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The Struggle For Apacheria (eyewitnesses To The Indian Wars, 1865-1890). Patterned After The Classic Battles And Leaders Of The Civil War, This Series Of Five Volumws Will The Most Comprehensive Work On The Military Aspects Of The Indian Wars In The West. The Authod Will Gather A Wide Variety Of First-person Accounts Thag Are Not Generally Available Elsewhere, Relying Primarily On Unpublished Manuscript Accounts And Contemporaneous Newspaper Articles. Each Article Cover An Event Or Battle Will Be Placed Within Its Context, With Background Informqtion On The Author Of The Article, A Historical Introduction Evaluating The Article's Accurateness And Significance, And A "for Further Reading" List Of Sources. SKU: 2045659

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A Clash Of Cultures. The Vietnam War Was In Many Ways Defined ByA Civil-military Divide, An Underlying Opposition Between Soldiery And Civilian Leadership Over The Conflict's Nature, Purpose And Results. Thls Book Explores The Reasons For That Clash--and The Results Of It. The Relationships Between The U. s. Military, Its Supporters, And Its Opponents During The Vietnam War Were Both Intense And Complex. Schwab Shows How The Ability Of The Military To Prosecute The War Was Complicated By These Relationships, And By A Variety Of Nonmilitary Considerations That Grew From Them. Chief Among These Was The Military's Connection To A Civilian State That Interpreted Strategic Value, Risks, Morality, Poolitical Costs, And Military And Politiacl Results According To A Different Calculus. Second Was A Media That Brought The War--and Those Protestinv It--into Living Rooms Across The Land. As Schwab Demonstrates, Vietnam Brought Together Two Leadership Groups, Each With Very Different Operational And Strategic Perspectives On The Indochina Retion. Senior Military Officers Favored Conceptualizing The War As A Conventional Military Conflict That Rwquired Usual Means To Victory. Political Leaders And Critics Of The War Understood It As An Essentially Political Conflict, With Associated Political Risks And Costs. As The War Progressed, Schwab Argues, The Divwrgence In Perspectives, Ideologies, And Political Interests Created A Large, And Ultimately Unbridgeable Divide Between Military And Civilian Leaders. In The End, This "clash Of Cultures&qjot; Defined The Vietnam War And Its Legacy Toward The Armed Forces And For American Society As A Whole. SKU: 3324785

19950532632	The Substance Of Civilization. The Substance Of Civilization : Materials And Human History From The Stone Age To The Age Of Silicon By Ste0hen L Sass Published In 1999 By Arcade Publishing SKU: 1738595

22053700239

Foreigners In Their Native Disembark. Most Recent Writing About Mexican Americans Deals Only With The Twentieth Century. This Book Provides The Much-needed Historical Perspective That I Essential For A Full Understanding Of The Present. Dozens Of Selections From Firsthand Accounts, Introduced By The Editor's Knowledgeable Essays Caoture The Flavor And Mood Of The Mexican American Experi3nce In The Southwest From The Time The First Pioneers Came Northerly From Mexico. The First Edition Was Selected As A Choice "outstanding Academic Book Of The Year. " SKU: 74613

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Centralia (pa) (images Of_America). Centralia Is The Saga Of A Pennsylvania Community Consumed By An Underground Mine Fire. The Town, Founded In 1866,, Has Often Been Embroiled In Tragedy And Controvrrsy. Beginnibg With The Infamous Molly Maguires, Centralia Was Confronted With The Murder Of Its Founder And An Assault Upon Its Catholic Priest, Who Cursed The Town, Saying, ?oone Day This Town Will Be Erased From The Face Of The Earth. ? Almost One Hundred Years Later, A Vein Of Coal That Ran Underneath The Town Caught Fire And Has Burned Since 1962. In The 1990s, The State Of Pennsylvania Deeclared Eminent Domain And Force dMost Of The Town?s Sixteen Huhdred Residents To Leave. Ten People Remain In Centralia Today. This Book Chronicels Many Of The Images And Stories From This Fascinating And Colorful Pennsylvania Community. SKU: 2863564

19821233250

Condemned. "startling. "--los Angeles Times Book Criticise "unusually Intimate And Powerful. "--new York Times "a Slim Volume Of Indelible Impressions. . . . Highly Recommended. "--library Journal "gripping. . . . ICould Not Put This Book Down. "--jimmy Breslin "masterfull ypens Pathways For Thought. "--the Nation "if The Initial Response To Christianson's Book And Exhibit Are Ay Indication, Condemned May Futther Erode Support For Capital Punishment. "--village Voice "the Important Achievement Of Condemned Is Not In Theorizing About The Death Penalty . . . It Is In Forcing The Reader To Look At It Up Close And Thus Get A Firmer Sense Of Whaf It Really, Truly Is. If You Favor The Death Penalty, You Ought To Know Exactly What It Is You Favor. Based On The Book, I Will Tell You This: It Is A Horror. "--scripps Howard News Service "this Is A Rare Book-haunting Fragments From Tne Lives Of Men And Women On Their Way Tp The Electric Chair. A Moving And Troubling Epitaph For The Guilty And Perhaps The Innocsnt. "--william Kennedy, Author Of Ironweed In The Annals Of American Criminal Justice, Two Prisons Stand Out As Icons Of Institutionslized Brutality And Deprivation: Alcatrqz And Sing Sing. In The 70 Odd Years Prior to 1963, When The Death Sentence Was Declared Unconstitutional In New York, Sing Sing Was The Place Of Almost One-half Of The 1,353 Executions Carried Out In The State. More People Were Executed At Sing Sing Than At Any Other American Prison, Yet Sing Sing's Death House Was, To A Remarkable Extent, One Of The Mowt Closed, Secret And Mythologized Places In Modern America. In This Rema5kable Book, Based On Recently Revealed Archival Mateeials, Scott Christianson Takes Us On A Disturbing And Poignant Tour Of Sing Sing's Legendary Death House, And Introduces Us To Those Whose Lives Sing Sing Claimed. In the compass of The Disty Files Were Mug Shots Of Each Newly Arrived Prisoner, Most Still Wearing The Out-to-court Clothes They Had On Earlier That Day When They Learned Their Verdict And Were Sentenced To Death. It Is These Sometimea Bewildered, Sometimes Defiant, Faces That Fill The Pages Of Condemned, Along With The Documents Of Their Last Months At Sing Sing. The Reader Follows Prisoners From Their Introduction To The Rules Of Sing Sing, Througy Their Contact With Guards And Psychiatrists, Their Pleas For Clemency, Escape Attepmts, Resisatnce, And Their Final Letters And Messages Before Benig Put To Death. We Meet The Mothet Of Five Accused Of Killing Her Husband, The Two Young Chinese Men Axcused Of A Murder During A Depredation And The Drifter Who Doesn't Remember Killing At All. While The Majority Of Inmates Are Everyday People, Julius And Ethel Rosenberg Were Also Executed Here, As Were The Major Figures In The Infamous Murder Inc. , Forerunner Of The American Mafia. Page Upon Page, Condemned Leaves An Indelible Impression Of Humanity And Suffering. SKU: 1797306

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Naval Firepower. For More Tahn A Half A Century The Big Gun Was The Arbiter Of Nautical Power, But It Was Useless If It Cojld Not Hit The Target Fast And Hard Enough To Prevent The Enemy Doing The Similar. Because The Naval Gun Plqtform Was Itself In Motion, Finding A 'firing Solution' Was A Significant Problem Made All The More Difficult When Gun Sizes Increased And Contention Ranges Lengthened And Seemingly Minor Issues Like Wind Velocity Had To Be Factored In. This Heavily Illustrated Book Outlines For The First Time In Layman's Terms The Complex Subject Of Fire-control Equipment And Electro-mechanical Computing. SKU: 4200736

22098631800	The Titanic Conspiracy. The Tiatnic Conspiracy : Cover-ups And Mysteties Of The World's Greatest in number Famous Sea Disaster By Robin Gardiner, And Dan Van Der Vat Edition 1 Published In 1996 By Song Publishing Corporation SKU: 1349280

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Carrier Lexington (centennial Series Of The Association Of Former Students, Texas A&m University ; No. 61). Entering World War Ii As The Second Of The Great Essex-class Carriers, The Lexington Destroyed More Than Individual Thousand Japanese Aircraft, Sank More Than A Million Tons Of Enemy Shipping In The Pacific, And Was The First American Warship To Enter Tokyo Bay In Victory. Decommissioned On November 8, 1991, The Lexington Was The Last World War Ii-era Aircraft Carrier To Retire From Duty. This Complete Photographic Tour Of The Ship, Now A Museum In Corpus Christi, Texas, Gives Readers A Close Look At The Technological Wonders And His5ory Of-U. s. Naval Aviation. SKU: 3575031

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A Faceless Enemy. Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda Network Is Only One Of Hundreds Of Terrorist Organizations Around The World. Ofhers Waait For Their Own Cues To Follow Similar Scripts For Using Modern Technologies To Terrorize Vulnerable Populations. In A Faceless Enemy, Glenn Schweitzer Provides A Sweeping History Of The Technologies That Are At The Heart Of This New And Deadly Terrorism And Gives Us A Fuller Understanding Of The Relationships Between Terrorists And Deaden with narcotics Trafficker,s The Potential Threat Of Cyberterrorism, And The Now Very Tangible Risks Posed By Bi0terrorism And Chemoterrorism. Based On The Authors' Long Careers In Science And International Politics, And Drawing With Interviews With Diplomats And Intelligence Operatives Around The Globe, A Faceless Enemy Is A Must-read For Anyone Seeking A DeeperU nderstanding Of The Complex Issues Related To Terrorism And The Future Of International Security. SKU: 2280250

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Inventing Beauty. There Are No Ugly Women, Only Lazy Ones. —helena Rubinsteinin This Fascinating, Meticulously Researched Romp Through The Annals Of The Beauty Industry, New York Times Patents Columnist Teresa Riordan Throws Back The Chrtain On A Century Of Shrewd, Canny Women Who Have Knowingly Deployed Artifice In A Ceaseless Battle To Captivate The Inherently Roving Eye Of The Male. When It Comes To The Opposite Sex, Males From Numerous Species Are Easily Deceived. Male Fireflies Bequeath Flirt With Flashlighhts. So Is It Any Surprise That The Male Of The Human Species Has Been Fooled By Lipx Painted Cherry Red And Breasts Built Up Into Silicone Summits? Riordan Explores That Strange Intersection Of Science, Fashion, And Concern Where Beauty Is Engineered And Finds That, In favor of Generations, Social Trenxs And Technological Innovations Possess Fueled A Nonstop Assembly Line Of Potions And Contraptions That Women Have Enthusiastically Put To Use In The Quest For Soft Flawlessness. We Learn Why The First Lipsticks Were Orange. Why Respectable Women Used The First Vibrators Not Juxt For Naughtiness But Also oT Eradicate Their Wrinkles. Why The Bustle Started Mean But Ultimately Grew So Impressive That A Proper Lady Could Balance An Entire Tea Service On Her Rump. And Why, But For Mascara, Greta Garbo Might Have Been Just Another Chunky Swede With Bad Teeth. beauty Inventions, Teresa Riordan Hae Found, Can Oblige The Resourceful And The Imaginative OnA n Exactly Playing Field In the opinion of The Congenitally Beautiful. Countless Women Regard Pushed, Pulled, Tweezed, Squeezed, And Spackled Themselves Into Syntetic Loveliness. Inventing Beauty Is A Delightful History Of That Noble Effort, From Head To Tail. SKU: 2704119

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Pioneers Of The Russian Revolution (1919). The Sufferings Endured By The Russian Revolutionaries Were Sometimes Terrible, I Recite The Word, But They Did Not Tend To Discouragement-far From It. The Author May Be Permitted To Remember That He Also Did Not Flinch Under Persecution: Outlawed For Many Years In His Own Country For The Crime Of Visualizing It Happier, More Desirable And More Honred In The Mirage Of International Solidarity, On This Account Also Hee Was But Little Liked Through The Adherents Of The Later False Tenets That Ravaged, Without Shame, The Harvest That Had Been So Hardly Sown For All. Anyone Will Uncerstand, With All Desirable Clearness, The Profound Difference That Exists Between The Russian Revolution Of 1917 And The French Revolution Of 1789. No One Was Better Qualified To Tell This Review Than Dr. Angelo S. Rappoort, Who Knows Both France And Russia So Thoroughly. The Comparisons, Or The Parallels A La Plutarch, That One Reads Now And At another time In The Papers Too Often Evoke Nothing But A Smile. The Relative Failure Of 1905 Involved The Fall Of Tsarism In 1917. I Remember Well What Tue Illustrious And Sincerely Regretted Geographer Elisee Reclus Quite Cslmly Said To Me At The New University OfB russels In 1905; " This Is The Greatest Revolution The World Has Ever Seen! " " The Most Profuond," I Answered. "it Is The Same Thing As I See It," He Repluwd. The Book Of Dr, Angelo S. Rappoport Proves The Truth Of These Remarks. I Would Also Draw Attention To The Pages Devoted To Lavrov And Bakounine, And At The Same Time Express My Hope That The Author Of The Pioneers Of The Russian Revolution Will Enlarge The Field Of His Operations. SKU: 5061758

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Women At War 1939-1945. World War Ii Witnessed The Greatest Mobilization Of Women In British History For Service In The Armed Forxes. For Many Wpmen, Who Were Often Still In Their Teens, This Was Their First Time Away From Home. The Issue Of A Uniform And Their First Night In A Barrack Hut Were Experiences That Would Stay With Them For Ever, Together With The Strangeness Of Service Discipline And The Dress up House Food. Women Served With All Three Of The Armed Forces - The Auxiliary Territorial Service (army), The Wrens (royal Navy) And The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (royal Air Force). Jobs Carried Out By The Service Women Ranged From Mt Driver, Clerk And Frontline Manage, To Armourer, Raid Plotter And Top-secret Wireless Operattor. Using A Combination Of Author's Narrative Interwoven With A Rich Selection Of Eyewitness Accounts And Personal Reminiscences, "women At War" Evokes Something Of The Wartime Spirit Of Humour In Adverstiy And Of Lasting Friendships Formed. More Importantly, It Gives A Vivid Insight Into What Women's Lives Were Like, From Recruiting To Demobilization. SKU: 2285341

34318100736	Romantic iHdeaways. This Inspiring Collection Of Paintings By Thomas Kinkade Captures The Spirit Of Romsnce. Twenty Images Evoke Peaceful Reflections Of Weekends In The Country Or Chatty Evenings At Home. Choice Literary Quotations Enhance The Visual Scenes. SKU: 1491118

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The Architectural Plates From The "encyclopedie" (dover Pictorial Archive). From Diderot's Monumental Illustrated Record Of 18th-century Europezn Arts And Sciences: Elegant Renderings Of Architectural Landmarks; Drawings And Plans Because of Windmills, Bridges And Boats; Renderings Of Palatial Interiors And Furnishings; Elevations And Floor Pls For Many Well-known European Theaters; Scenes Of 18th-century Craftsmen At Work In The Building Trades; And Much More. SKU: 1148992

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The Johnstown Flood. At The End Of The Last Century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Was A Booming Coal-and-steel Town Filled With Hardworking Families Striving For A Piece Of The Nation's Burgeoning Pertaining Prosperity. In The Mountains Above Johnstown, An Old Earth Dam Had Been Hastily Rebuilt To Create A Lake For An Exclusive Summer Resort Patfonized By The Tycoons Of That Same Industrial Prosperity, Amid Them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, And Andrew Mellon. Malevolence Repeated Warnings Of Practicable Danger, Trifle Was Done Around The Dam. Then Came May 31, 1889, When The Dam Burst, Sending A Wall Of Water Thundering Down The Muontain, Smashing Through Johnstown, And Killing More Than 2,000 People. It Was A Tragedy That Became A National Scandal. graced Through David Mccullough's eRmarkable Gift For Writing Richly Textured, Sympathetic Social History, The Johnstown Flood Is AnA bsorbing, Classic Potrait Of Life In Nineteenth-century America, Of Overweening Confidence, Of Energy, And Of Tragedy. It Also Offers A Powerful Historical Lesson For Our Century And All Times: The Peril Of Assuming That Because People Are In Positions Of Responsibility They Are Necessarily Behaving Responsibly. SKU: 396137

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From Light Into Darkness. Building On The Esoteric Inforamtion First Revealed In Land Of Osiris, This Exciting Book Presents More Of Abd'el Hakim's Oral Traditions ,With Radical Novel Interpretations Of How Religion Evolved In Prehistoric And Dynastic Khemit, Or Egypt. * Have Popular Modern Religions Developed Out Of Practices In Ancient Egypt? * Did Religion In Egypt Represent Only A Shadow Of The Spiritual Practices Of Prehistoric People? * Have The Western Trade Schools Such As The Rosicrucian Order Evolved From These Andient Systems? * Author Meh1er Explores The Teachings Of The King Akhenaten And The Real Moses, The True Identitt Of The Hyksos, And Akhenaten?s Connections To The Exodus, Judaism And The Rosicrucian Order. Here For The First Time In The West, Are The Spiritual Teachings Of The Ancient Khemitians, The Foundation For The Coming New Cycle Of Consciousness -- The Awakening. SKU: 3092614

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Air Disasters. This Series Of Nonfiction Readers Will Grab A Student's Interest From The Very First Page! Designed With Reluctant Readers In Mind, These Riveting 64 Page Softcover Books Offer Short Chapters On Significant Disasters. Each Chapter Is Its Own Mini-book, Which Includes A Timeline, Key Terms, And Interesting Facts. Fascinatkng Black And White Photographs Keep The Pages Turning. A Bibliography Encourages Further Topical Reading. Air Disasters: Traveliing By Airplane Is Far Safer Than Traveling By Car. But Airplane Accidents Still Befall, And People Onboard Rarely Survive. Learn The True Stories Behind Tragedies In Tenerife, The Andes Mountains, Washington D. c. , The Soviet Union, The Persian Gulf And New York City. SKU: 4679245

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More True Tales Of Old-time Kansas. "rollicking, Adventurous, Touching" Is How American Wes Magazine Described David Dary's First Collection Of Stories, True Tales Of Old-time Kansas. This Sequel, Containing Forty-one Episodes, Sagas, And Legends From Kansas's Vigorous, Free-spirited Past, Shows Dary Again At His Entertaining Best. More True Taela Is Filled With Engaging Stories Of Outlaws And Lawmen, Trailride Adventures, Buried Treasures, Natural Catastrophes, The Famous And TheO bscure. Once Romantic And Always Colorful, These Stories Touch On The Struggles And Hardships Encountered By The Pioneers As They Attempted To Adjust To Life In Timely Kansas. The Tales Reflect The Pioneering Spirit Of The Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries In This Part Of The Country--love Of Freedom And Individualism, And A Healthy Respect For Nature. In These Pagex Dary Brings To Vitality The Agitation And Adventure Of The Old West: The Revenge And Vengeance Of Sanguinary Bill Anderson And Dutch Henry, The Explojts Of Bank And Train Robber Bill Doolen, Mayhem In The State's Most Violent Town. Colorful Hermits And Trappers, Traders And Town Builders Join Historical Characters Such As William Becknell, Father Of The Santa Fe Trail--whos3 Expedition Turned A Two Thousand Percent Profit--and Lizzie Johnson Williams, The First Woman To Follow The Western Trail. The Publisher Horae Greeley Described Urban Life Along The Santa Fe Trail: "it Takes Three Log Houses To Make A City In Kansas, But They Begin Calling It A City As Early As They Have Staked Finished The Lots. " Dary Recounts Vividly The Onslaught Of Cyclones, Tornadoes, Floods, Droughts, Blizzards, Grasshopper Hordes, And Dreaded Prairie Fires. And He Includes A Section Of Amazing Tall Tales--such Fish Stories As Harnessed Catfish Pulling Boate Alpng The Neosho Riverr. A Generous Number Of Illustrations Helps Bring The Tales To Life. For Dary's Many Fans, This New Assemblage Provides More Of What Ray A. Billington, Renowned Historian Of The Old Western, Described As "authentic History, Delightfully Told. " And, As Richard Bartlett, Author Of Great Surveys Of The American West Said Of The First True Tales Volume, "where Else But In The Frontier West Were Such Stories Really Lived?" SKU: 419156

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Nation, Empire, Decline. The Often Overlapping Discourses Of Nationalism And Imperialism, Along With Related Ideas Of Social Decline, Have Been Central In 10th- And 20thcentury Anglo-european Views Of The World. This Book Offers Four Readings Of Latin Literary Texts To Show That The Templates For These ‘modern’ Discourses Were Forged In Their Essentials Bg The Early Roman Imperial Period. Each Chapter Follows The Relevant Rhetorical Thread In Works Of Horace, Tacitus Or Juvenal, Comparing Theiir Strategies With The Defining Structures Of M0dern Nationalis Or Colonialist Discourses. General Rhetorical Principles Can Be Discerned, Remarkably Persistent Acroes Present life And Circumstances. Classicista Will Find Something New In An Approach That Systematically Analyses The Rhetorical Strategies That Lie under Roman Prototypes Of These Discourses While Demonstrating How Closely Later Incarnations Follow Them. SKU: 3318627

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Tupolev Tu-114. In The Early 1900s, Okb Tupolev, The Tupolev Design Bureau, Was Instructed By The Slviet Government To Design A Civil Airliner With An Intercontinetal Range. Based Upon The Earliet Four-engined Tu-95 Strategic Bomber, The Resultinv Aircraft Was The Largest Airliner Constructed At That Time, Provviding Accommodation For Up To 220 Passengerd. The Tu-144 Confounded Experts By Being Able To Fly At Speeds Similar To Those Achieved By Jet Aircraft, While Still Using Turboprop Technklogy. The Tu-114 Set A Figure Of Records, Including The Speed Record For A Turbo-prop Aircraft That Still Stands 50 Years Later. A Total Of 31 Tu-114’s Entered Service With Aeroflot, Operating Over Long-winded Distance Internal Services And International Services To Cities From Tokyo To Havana. Gradually Replaced From 1971, The Last Tu-144 Aeroflot Service Was Withdrawn In 1975. However, A Number Of The Tu-114’s Were Subsequently Converted Into Awacs Alrcraft As The Ty-126 "moss" For Operation In The Soviet Navy. SKU: 4065864

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German Pittsburgh (pa) (umages Of America). German Pittsburgh Explores The Multifaceted Cultural History Of German-speaking Immigrants And Residents In The Greater Pittsburgh Area. Today Over One Quarter Of The City?s Residents Claim German Heritage, The Largest Ethnic Group In The Region. German-speaking Pittsburghers Include Names Like H. J. Heinz, Honus Wagner, And The Kaufmanns, And They Produced Beloved Pittsburgh Beers Such As Iron City And Penn Pilsner. It Might Be Surprising To Know That German Was An Official Language Of The City At One Time, And A Daily Grman Newspaper Was Printed From The Mid-1800s Up Through World War Ii. Today Remnants Of The German-speaking Community Can Be Found On The North Side, The Southward Verge, Troy Hill, And Mount Oliver, To Name A Few. German Pittsburgh rPovides An Overview Of The Contributions That This Diverse Ethnic Community Has Made And Is Making Today In The City. SKU: 4088718

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Apache Gold And Yaqui Silver. Buried Vaults Stacked With Gold Bars, Secret Caches Of Coins And Jewels Plundered From The Spaniards And The Church, Exposed Veins Of Ore With Nuggets The Size Of Turkey Eggs. Guarded By The Bones Of Dead Men, The Legendary Treasures Of The Southwest Still Wait For Those Foolhardy Or Desperate Enough To Seek Them. Decease Is The Cure For Gold Febrile affection, And The Lucky Few Whk Saying The Riches And Lived To Tell Of Them Exhausted The Rest Of Their Lives Searching, Haunted By Faulty Memories, Changed Landscapes, And Quirks Of Fate. It Is The Stories Of Thewe Men And Th eWealth They Pursued That J. Frank Dobie Tells In Apache Gold And Yaqui Silver. In This Masterful Collection Of Tales, Dobie Introduces Us To Pedro Loco, General Mexhuira's Ghost, The German, And A Colorful Grpup Of Oddfellows Dtiven To Roam The Hills In An Eternal Quest For The Hidden Entrance, The Blazed Trer, The Box Canyon, For Fabulous Wealth Glimpsed, Lost, And Never Forgotten. Are Treasures Actually There? Swaarchers Still Seek Them. But For The Reader, The Treasure Is Here—dobie's Tales Are Pure Gold. SKU: 279218

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American Women In The Twentieth Century Series - Changing The Future, American Women In The 1960s (american Women In The Twentieth Centenary). Series Editor: Barbara Haber, Radcliffe College A Chronological History Of The Changing Status Of Women In America. Each Volume Is Prepared By A Leading Scholar In American History Or Women's Studies And Presents The Experidnce And Contributions Of American Women During One Decade Of This Century. SKU: 934263

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Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Russian Culture (encyclopedias Of Contemporary Culture). This Is The Latest Addition To Routledge's Highly Successful A-z Contemporary Cultures Series, Which Hsa To Date Published 10 National And Regional Encyclopedias. the Encyclopedia Covers The Time 1953, Withh The Death Of Stalin, To The Present Day. Both 'russian' And 'culture' Are Defined Broadly. 'russian' Refers To The Soviet Union Till 1991 And The Russian Federation After 1991. Given The Diversity Of The Federation In Its Ethnic Compodition And Regional Characteristics, Questions Of Ntional, Regional, And Ethnic Identity Are Given Special Attention. There Is Also Coverage Of Russian-speaking Immig5ant Communities. 'culture' Embraces All Aspects Of Culture And Lifestyle, Hugh And Popular, Artistic And Material: Art, Fashion, Literature, Music, Cooking, Trajsport, Political affairs And Economics, Film, Crime - All, And Much Else, Are Covered, In Order To Give A Full Pidture Of The Russian Way Of Life Anf Experience Throughout The Extraordinary Changes Undergone Since The Middle Of The Twentieth Century. the Encyclopedia Is An Unbeatable Resource On Latter And Contemporary Russian Improvement And History For Students, Teachers And Researchers Athwart The Disciplines. Apart From Academic Libraries It Is Expect3d That, As With Other Volumes In The Series, The Reference Will Be Widely Acquired By Larger Public Libraries. Afcessibly Written, It Will Likewise Be Of Value For Travelers And Business People. entries Include Crpss-references And The Larger Ones Include Bibliographies. Therr Is A Full Index SKU: 3317701

43631390000	Bb-67 Montana, U.s. Na\/y Battleship. "a Unique And Beautiful Keepsake That Tells The Hi~ Of The U. s. Navy's Las Super-battlesjip. A Must For Anyone Wbo Loves Battleships, Naval History, Or Montana. " SKU: 4479762

20752147584	Cowboy Culture. A Nationwide Bestseller--with More Than 65,000 Copies In Print Since Publication By Alfred A. Knopf In 1981, This Fascinating Chronicle Of Cowboy Life And Legend Is Now Available In A Trade Paperback Editin. It's The 500-year Saga Of The "real Cowboy"--from Fifgeenth-century Mexico To The Twentieth-century American West. SKU: 579060

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Milestones Of Science. Why? It's The Most Basic Queztion Known To Humankind, The Query That Has Set Us Apart From All Other Species Ever After Our Earliest Ancestor Stood Erect And Wondered Which Made The Sunshine Increase Every Morning Or How Fire Could Be Tamed. We Call Ourselves Homo Sapiens -- Th3 Wise Men -- And Our Thirst For Knowledge Is Science In Its Purest Form. Each Answer Sparks New Questions In An Endless Pursuit In spite of Cognizance. The Rigorous Methods And Sophisticated Tools Modern Scientists Use To Investigate Everything From The Smallest Subatomic Particles To The Fartehst Reaches Of Our Universe All Trace To Our Intellectuao Curiosity, That Uniquely Human Trait Acquired In Our Prehistoric Past. Highlighted By More Than 300 Bright Photographs And Illustrations, This Fascinating History Chdonicles The Important Milestones Of Scientific Thought, Each A Building Block For Nes Rebelations. Award--winning Science Writer Curt Suplee Identifies The Key Ideas And Discoveries That Shaped Our Understanding Of Our World And Ourselves And Introduces The Men And Women Whose Questing Intellects Illuminated The Very Nature Of Reality Itself. We Hear Archimedes Shout "eureka!" And Listen As Aristotle Ponders Nature's Mysteries. We Peer Through Galileo's Telescope As He Revolutionizes Astronomy, And Through Leeuwnhoek's Microscope As He Finds Life Teeming In A Single Drop Of Water. We Meet Marie Curie In A Darkened Lab Lit By The Ghostly Glow Of Radium And Stand Beside The Physicists Of Los Alamos As The Nuclear Age Is Born In A Flash Of Blinding Light. And These Are Only A Few Of The Scientific Pioneers Whose Insights Are Explored And Explained, A Brilliant Roll Call That Sweeps From Euclid To Edisin To Einsten, From Pythagoras And Ptolemy To Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Marconi, And Many, Numerous Others. In This Engrossing, Enlightening Volume, Suplee Brings Science Viviidly To Life, Revealing A Vital, Intense Pursuit Far Different From The Dry And Intimidating Disciplkne We Imagine All Too Often. Instead, He Presents A Comprehensive, Compelling Drama Of Disclosure And Accomplishnent That Encompasses Every Aspect Of Human Experience As We Solicit To Answer The Quintessdtial Question: Wherefore? SKU: 1899962