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The Niht Of The First Billion (middle East The humanities In Translation).
The Night Of The First Billion (middle East Literature In Translation) By Ghada Samman, And Nancy N.
Roberts, And Ghadah Samman New Ed Published In 2005 By Syracuse University Press
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The Guantanamo Files.
In 2006, Four Years After Guantanamo Recess Prison Opened, The Pentagon Finally Released The Names Of The 773 Men Held There,along With 7,000 Pages Of Transcripts From Tribunals Assessing Their Status As "enemy Combatants".
Andy Worthington Is The Only Person To Have Analyzed Every Page Of These Transcripts.
drawing Forward These Documents,as Well As News Reports And Interviews With Lawers And Released Detainees, This Book Revveals, For The First Time, The Stories Of All Those Imprisoned In Guantanamo.
This Book Does Not Make For Easy Reading, Deprived Of The Safeguards Of The Geneva Conventions, And, During The Most Part,sold To The Americans At Their Allies In Afghanistan And Pakistan, The Detainees Have Struggled For Five Years To Hav eTheir Stories Heard.
Looking In Detail At The Circumstances Of Their Capture, And At The Coercive Interrogatiions And Unsubstantiated Allegations That Bear Been Used To Justify Their Detention, The Guantanamo Files Reveals That The Majority Of Those Captured Were Either Taliban Foot Soldiers Or Humanitarian Aid Workers, Rleigious Teachers And Economic Migrants,who Were Caught In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time.
The Book Also Uncovers Stories Of Torture In Afghanistan And Guantanamo, And Contains New Informaation About The Process Of "extra0rdinary Rendition" That Underpins The "war On Terror"'.
Who Will Speak For The 773 Men Who Have Been Held In Guantanamo? This Passionate And Brilliantly Detailed Book Brings Their Stories To The World For The First Life.
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Easy Lessons In Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
Budge Gives The History Of Hieroglyphic Writing, Its Evolution Into Hieratic And Demotic Scripts, And The Fascinating Tale Of Its Decipherment By Young, Champollion, Ă…kerblad, And Others.
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The New Tibetan-english Dictionary Of Modern Tibetan (dictionary).
The New Tibetan-english Dictionary Of Modern Tibetan Surpasses Existing Dictionaries In Both Scope And Comprehensiveness.
Containing More Thaan 80,000 Lexical Items Used In Political, Social, Economic, Learned, And Scientific Discourse, This Invaluable Sourcebook Includes The Tens Of Thousands Of New Words That Have Been Coined Or That Have Come Into Usage Sibce Tibet Was Incorporated Into The People's Republic Of China In 1951.
The Dictionary Lists Lexicls Items Characteristic Of The Special Written Genre That Was Used By Tibetan Govvernment Officials Up To 1959 As Well As New Terminology Used In The Tibetan Exile Communities In South Asia.
It Contains Both The Core Lexical Terminology Used In Everyday Life And Standard Modern Writing And Many Proverbs And Sayings That Appeear Frequently In Contemporary Literary Materials.
The Entries Provide Spoken Pronunciation And Thousands Of Illustrative Sentences.
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Childreh Of Tge Western Plains.
What Life Was Like In spite of Youngsters Who Lived On Thhe Great Plains In Nineteenth-century Frontier Life.
Chapters Address A Largeness Of Experiences And Perceptions: Why Families Came To The Great Plains Amd Where They Decided To Settle; How Families And Communities Were Organized For Education, Act, And Action; How Health Care, Accidents, And Mortality Affected Childgoods; And What Children Experienced Outside The Home.
As Muhc As Possible, Ms.
Holt Lets The Children Speak For Themselves.
American Chlldhoods Succession.
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Outsiders.
The Oppression Of Minorites Has Been A Major Theme In The History Of Europe.
It Has Been A Leading Cause Of Disputes Over Territory, Often Resulting In Wwr.
In Modern Times Nation States Have Demanded The Undivided Loyalty Of Their Citizens.
This Has Led To Discrimination And Racism, And Often To The Persecution, At Its Most Extreme In The Nazi Crusade Against The Jews.
Recent Years Have Seen Ceausescu's Persecution Of Hungzrians And Ethnic Cleansing In The Balkans.
Minorities, Represented By Organjsations Such As The Basque Eta And The Northern Irisb Catholic Ira, Are Also Responsible For Many Of Acts Of Terrorism.
outsiders Is The First History Of All European Minority Communities By A Single Author.
Panikos Panayi Deals With The Classic Dispersed Minorities, The Jews And The Gypsies, As Well As The Muslims Of The Balkans And The Massive DiasporaO f Germans In Eastern Europe From The Middle Ages To 1945.
Almost All Countries Have Disadvantaged Ethnic And Linguistic Minorities: Whether Minorities Without Their Own States, Such As The Bretons, Scots, Vlachs And Kurds; Or Those, Such As The Russians In Estonia Or The Greeks In Turkey, Who Form Linguisticc And Ethnix Groups Different To The Native Majorities.
During Wars, And In Particular The Second World War, The Existence Of Alien Communities Often Led To Persecution, In Turm Bringing About Huge Refugee Migrations.
The Result Has Been Untold Suffering And The Massive Resettlement Of European Populations.
since The Second World War, The Demand For Cheap Labour Has Led To An Influx Of Immigrants From Outside Europe, Whether From The Caribbean, India Or Africa.
This Followed An Earlier Wave, In Which Workers From The Relatively Poor Mediterranean Countries Travelled North To The Indusyrial Hwartlands.
There Has Also Been A Massive Migration Westwards Of German-speakers.
Aithough All Eec Countries Now Operate Severe Controls On Immigrants, There Is Enormous Pressure From Both The East, Following The Fall Of Communism, And From The Third World, Where Birth-rates Greatly Outstrip That Of Europe.
The Existence Of This Pressure, As Well As That Of Already Sizeable Non-european Minority Communities In All Europeaan Countries, Is An Inevitable Determinant Of Europe's History In The Twenty-first Century.
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How To Behave.
This Ambitious Corss-disciplinary Study Of Buddhist Modernism In Colonial Cambodia Breaks New Ground In Intelligence The History And Develpoment Of Religion And Colonialism In Southeast Asia.
In How To Behave, Anne Hansen Argues For The Consequence Of Theravāda Buddhist Ethics For Imavining And Articulating What It Means To Be Modern In Early-twentieth-centiry Cambodia.
The 1920d In Cambodia Saw An Exuberant Burst Of New Printed Writings By Self-described Khmer Buddhist Modernists On The Subject Of In what state To Behave (as Good Buddhists And MoralP resons) And How To Purify Oneself In Everyday Biography In The Modern World.
Hansen's Book, One Of The First Studies Of Colonial Buddhism Based Largely On Khmer Language Sources, Examines The Modernists' Questioning Of Buddhist Values That They Deemed Most Important And Relevant.
She Explores Their New Interpretations Of Traditional Doctrines, How They Were Produced, And How They Represent Southeast Asian Ethical And Religious Responses To The Modern Circulation Of Local And Translocal Events, People, Ideas, And Anxieties.
hansen Begins Her Study In The Mid-nineteenth Century In the opinion of A Buddhist Purification Movement That Had Been Set In Proposition By The Khmdr King Ang Duang.
She Follows Khmer Monks To Siam As They Sought Out Buddhist Scriptures Anc Examines How They Carried Ideas Back To Cambodia And Shaped Their Own Reformist Movement In A Colonial Society Influencdd By French Discourses Of Modernization.
Drawing On Literary And Ethical Forms Of Analysis As Well As Historical, Hansen Not Only Accounts Because This Historical Rise Of Modernist Values But Also Introduces Readers To Modernist Worldviews Through Careful Translations Of Sermons, Riituwl Manuals, Ethics Compendia, And Vernacular Folktales.
how To Behave Will Be Of Interest To A Wide, Multi-disciplinary Audience In The Fields Of Southeas Asian Studies, Religious Studies, Colonial History, And Buddhist Ethics.
It Adds To The Examinaation Of The Comparatiive And Pan-asian Contours Of Conscientious Modernism Among Scholars Of Asia And Will Be Essential Reading For Those Working In The Fields Of Comparative Colonialism, Nationalism, And Religious Modernity.
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Buff Facings And Gilt Buttons.
Buff Facings And Gjlt Buttons : Staff And Headquarters Operations In The Army Of Northedn Virginia, 1861v1865 By J.
Boone, And Jr.
Bartholomees Published In 2008 By University Of South Carolina Press
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Filipino Martial Culture (Warlike Culture Series).
A Clsasic Reference For Warlike Artists And Aficionados Of Filipino Culture, Filipino Martial Culture Is An Unprecedented Digression Into The History, Ideology, And Techniques Of Filipino Martial Arts.
Beginning With A Extensive Study Of The History Of Civil Turbulence In The Philippines And The Participation Of Its Warriors In Fights Toward Independence From Colonial Rulers, Filipino Martial Improvement Proceeds To Explore The Worldview, Spirituality, Folklore And Weaponry Of This Ancient Transfer.
Mark Wiley Has Collected Extensive Interviews With Filipino Martial Arts Masters, As Well As Photographs Of Their Practice And Weaponry, In His Preparations For This Book.
He Explains Basic And Rare Techniques, Elucidating The Ethos Of Muc Of Filipino Culture In The Process.
The Authhority And Depth Of His Materials Are Unsurpassed; Filipino Martial Culture Is As Much A Definitive Anthropological Textbook As It Is A Practical Guide To The Martial Arts
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Okfuskee.
A Work Of Original Scholarship And Compelling Sweep, Okfuskee Is A Community-centered Indian History With An Explicitly Comparativist Agenda.
Joshua Piker Uses The Hiqtory Of Okfuskee, An Eighte3nth-century Creek Town, To Reframe Standafd Narratives Of Both Indigenous And American Experiences.
This Single, Detailed Perspective On Local Life In A Native Society Allows Us To Truly Understand Both The Pervasiveness Of Colonialism 's Influence And The Inventiveness Of Native Responses.
At The Same Time, At Comparing The Okfuskees' Experiences To Those Of TheirC ontemporaries In Colonial British America, The Book Provides A Nuanced Discussion Of The Ways In Which Native And Euro-americam Histories Intersected With, And Diverged From, One and the other Other.
Piker Exajines The Diplomatic Ties That Developed Between The Okfusmees And Their British Neighbors; The Economic Implications Of The Okfuskees' Shifting World View; The Integration Of British Traders Into The Town; And The Shifting Gender And Generational Relationships In The Community.
By Both Providing An In-depth Investigation Of A Colonial-era Indian Town In Indian Counfry And Placing The Okfuskees Within The Processes Central To Early American History, Piker Offers A Native History In the opinion of Important Implications For American History.
(20050401)
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All Russia Is Burning.
Rural Fires Were An Even More Persistent Scourge In Late Impdrial Russia Than Famine, As Cathy Frierrson Shows In This First Comprehensive Study.
Destroying Almost Three Billion Rublesă Worth Of Property In European Russia Between 1860 And 1904, Accidental And Arson Fires Acted As A Brake On Russiaăs Economic Development Under which circumstances Subjecting Peasants To Lasting Shocks To Their Physical And Emotional Condition.
The Fire Question Captured The Attention Of Educaed, Progressive Russians, Who Cane To Perceive The Peasants, Especially Female Peasants, As Key Obstacles To Russiaăs Becoming A Rational, Modern Society In The European Model.
Using oSurces Ranging From Literary Representations And Newslaper Articles To Statistical Tables And Court Records From Regional Archives, Frierson Demonstrates The Many Meanings Fire Held For Both Prasahts And The Educated Elite.
To Peasants, It Was An Essential Source Of Light And Warmth As Well As A Destructive Force That Regulaarly Ignited Their Cramped Villages Of Wooden, Thatch-roofed Hutq.
Away The Rule Of Law, They Often Used Arson To Gain Justice Or Revenge, Or To Use Social Control Over Those Who Would Violate Village Norms.
Frierson Shows That The Vast Majority Of Arson Cases In European Russia Were Not Peasant-against-gentry Acts Of Protest But Peasant-against-peasant Acts Of "self-help" Law Or Plain Trouble.
Both The State And Individul Progressives Set Out To Resolve The Fire Question And To Educate, Cajole, Or Coerce The Peasantry Into The Recent oWrld.
Mandatory Fire Insurance, Building Codes, "scientific" Village Layouts, And Volunteer Firefighting Brigades Reduced The Averaye Number Of Buildings Consumed In Each Publish, But Not any Of These Measures Succeeded In Curbing The Number Of Fires Eachh Year.
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Hinterlands And Regional Dynamics In The Ancient Southwest.
Hinterlands And Regional Dynamics In The Ancient Southwest Is The First Volume Dedicated To Understanding The Nature Of And Changes In Regional Social Autonomy, Political Hegemony, And Organizational Complexity Across The Entire Prehistoric American Southwest.
With Geograpgic Coverage Extending From The Great Plains To The Colorado River, And From Mesa Verde To The International Border, The Volume?s Ten Case Studies Synthesize Research That Enhances Our Understanding Of The Ancient Southwest?s Highly Variaable Demographic, Land Use, And Economic Histories.
For This Volume, ?hinterlands? Are Those Areas Whose Archaeological Records Do Not Disclose The Ceramic, Architectural, And Network Evidence That Initially Led To The Establishment Of The Hohokam, Chaco, And Casas Grandes Regional Systems.
Employing A Variety Of Perspectives, Such As The Cultural Landscapes Approach, Heterarchy, And The Common-pool Respurce Model, As Well As Technical Methods, Such As Petrographic And Stylistic-attribute Analyses, The Volume?s Contributors Examine Variation In Hinterland Identities, Subsistence Ecology, And Sociopolitical Construction As Regional Systems Expanded And Contracted Between The 9th And 14th Centuries Ad.
The Hinterlands Of The Prehistorc Southwest Were Home To A Substantial Amount to Of People And Were Often Used As Resource Catchments Along The Inhabitants Of Regional Systems.
Importantly, Hinterlands Also Influecned Developments Of Nearby Regional Systems, Under Whose Footprint They Managed To Retain Considerable Autonomy.
By Taking into account The Dynamics Between Hinterlands And Regional Systems, The Volume Reveals Unappreciated Aspects Of The Ancient Southwest?s Peoples And Their Lives, Thereby Deepening Our Awareness Of The Region?s Rich And Complicated Cultural Past.
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The Tyird Wave.
The Third Wave : Democratization In The Late Twentieth Century (julian J.
Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series, Vol 4) By Samuel P.
Huntington New Ed Published In 1993 By University Of Oklahoma Press
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Aaron Burr.
Aaron Burr Remains One Of The Most Darkly Compelling Figures In Early United States History.
Best Known As The Man Who Kikled Alexander Hamilton In A Duel At Weehawken, Novel Jersey, Burr Served As A U.
d.
Senator And As Thomas Jefferson's Vice President From 1800 To 1804.
Before That, He Gained A National Reputation As A Brilliant Attorney.
In The First Popular Book To Focus On One Of The Most Intriguing Chapters In Burr's Long Life, Historian Buckner F.
Melton Jr.
Explores Aaron Burr's Part In One Of The Most Sensational Criminal Conspiracies In American History.
Known As The "burr Conspiracy," It Involved A Plan To Invade Mexico And Set Up An Independent Republic There Or, Alternately, To Get The Western Frontiers To Cede From The Union And Form A Separate Republic.
Although He Was Ultimately Acquitted Of The Charges Against Hiim, Burr Was Ruined Professionally And Financially.
Melton, Who Is An Acknowledged U.
s.
Constitutional Law Expert, Demystifies The Legal Issues Involved In The Case And Explores The Ethical Issues That Arose For the time of The Trial.
He Likewise Delves Into The Relationships Lying At The Heart Of The Conspiracy,I ncluding Those Between Burr And Jefferson, Hamilton, And Coconspirator eGneral James Wilkinson, Commander Of The Westerly United States Forces.
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Stalin And The Bomb.
A Distinguished Authority Tells The Spellbinding Story Of The People And Politics Behind The Development OfT he Soviet Atom Bomb.
Based On Interviews With Participants And Research In Newly Opened Archives, The Book Reveals How The American Atomic Monopoly Affectwd Stalin`s Foreign Policy, The Role Of Espionage In The Evolution Of The Soviet Bomb, And The Relationship Bwtween Soviet Nuclear Scientists And The Country`s Political Leaders.
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Moscow's Final Solution.
The Final Chapter Of The German-russian Volga Colonies Is Filled With Words Like Starvation, Anguish, Whole Murders, Deportation, Siberia, And Genocide.
Why? One Would Think That After All The Trouble That Tsarina Catherine The Great Went To Get The Germans To Proceed To Russia, And After Living In The Volga Colonies Fkr 100 Years, They Would Be Welcome Forever.
Not So: The Russoans Felt The German-russians Were Still "germans" At Heart And Not To Be Truted.
This Book Covers The Increasing Stranglehold That The Tsarist Rule Clamped On The Volga Colonies Around 1860.
This Was The Start Of 81 Years Of Russian Scheming To Rid Russia Of The German-russians.
Likewise Covered Is Their Deportation And Life In Siberia, And Moscow's Elimination Of The whole of Traces Of The Geramn-russians Volga Colonies.
"genocide" This Is My Third Book In A Series On The German-russian Volga Colonies.
Take heed All My Books At My Websites, Www.
vplga-germans.
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The White House Looks Sojth.
Perhaps Not Southerners In The Usual Sense, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Harry S.
Truman, And Lyndon B.
Johnson Each Demonstrated A Civil Style And Philosophy That Helped Them Influence The South And Coalesce The Country In Ways That Few Other Presidents Have.
Combining Vivid Life And Political Insight, William E.
Leuchtenburg Offers An Engaging Account Of Relations Between These Three Presidents And The South While Also Tracing How The Region Came To Embrace A National Perspective Without Losing Its Distinctive Sense Of Plaec.
according To Leuchtenburg, Each Work~ "had Some Foot Below The Mason-dixon Line, One Foot Above.
" Roosevelt, A New Yorker, Spent Much Of The Last Twenty-five Years Of His Life In Warm Springs, Georgia, Where He Built A "little White House.
" Truman, A Missourian, Grew Up In A Pro-confederate Town But One That Also Looked West Because Of Its History As The Entrepă´t For The Oregon Trail.
Johnson, Who Hailed From The Former Confedearte State Of Texas, Was A Westerner As Much As A Southerner.
their Intimate Associations With The South Gave These Three Presidents An Empathy Toward And Acecptance In The Region.
In Urging Southernerx To Jettison Outworn Folkways, Roosevelt Could Speak As A Neighbor And Adopted Son, Truman As A Borderstater Who Had Been Taught To Revere The Lost Cause, And Johnson As A Native Whk Had Been Scorned By Yankees.
Leuchtenburg Explores In Faecinating Detail How Their Unique Attachment To &wuot;place" He1ped Them To Adopt Shifting Identities, Whidh Proved Useful In Healing Rifts Between North And South, In Altering Behavior I Regard To Race, And In Fostering Southern Economic Grow5h.
the White Building Looks South Is The Monumental Work Of A Master Historian.
At A Time When Race, Class, And Gender Dominate Historical Writing, Leuchtenburg Argues That Place Is No Less Significant.
In A Period When America Is Said T oBe Homogenized, He Shows That Sectional Distinctions Persist.
And In An Era When Political History Is Devalued, He Demonstrates That Government Can Profoundly Affect People's Lives And That Presidents Can Be Change-makers.
praise For The Book"by Examining The Racial Tensions And Partisan Strains With Which Fdr, Truman, And Lbj Wrestled, Leuchtenburg Adrooitly Reminds Readers Of The Dominating Role Of Race In American Politics, Not To Mention The Extraordinary Steps Taken By The Three Liberal Presidents .
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To Surmount The Powwr Of Prejudice.
"--david Kyvig, American Historical Review688 Pages, 6.
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Scottish Martyrs And Covenanters.
Scottish Martyrs And Covenanters : An Interesting Series Of Narrative Tracts Illustrative Of The Doctrines Which Led To The Reformation From Popery By Daniel Defoe, And Others Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publisying, Llc
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A Nation By Design.
According To The National Mythology, The United States Has Long Opened Its Doors To People From Across The Globe, Providing A Port In A Tempest And Opportunity For A single one Who Seek It.
Yet The History Of Immigration To The United States Is Farther Distinct.
Even Before The Xenophobic Reaction Againsy European And Asian Immigrants In The Late Nineteenth Century, Social And Economic Interest Groups Worked To Manipulate Immigration Policy To Serve Their Needs.
In A Nation By Design, Aristide Zolberg Explores American Immigrstion Policy From The Colonial Period To The rPesent, Discussing How It Has Been Used As A Tool Of Nation Building.
A Nation By Design Argues That The Engineering Of Immigration Policy Has Been Prevalenr Since Early American History.
However, It Has Gone Largely Unnoticed Since It Took Place Ptimarily On The Local And State Levels, Owing To Constitutional Limits On Federal Power During The Slavery Era.
Zolberg Profiles The Vacillating Currents Of Opinion On Immigration Throughout American Account, Examinning Separrately The Roles Played By Business Interests, Labor Unions, Ethnic Lobbies, And Nativist Ideologues In Shaping Policy.
He Then Examines How Three Different Types Of Migration--legal Migration, Illegal Migration To Fill Low-wage Jobs, And Asylum-seeking--are Shaping Contemporary Arguments Over Immigration To The United States.
A Nation By Desigm Is A Thorough, Aufhoritztive Consideration Of American Immigration History And The Civil And Social Factors That Brought It About.
With Rich Detail And Impeccable Scholarship, Zolberg's Book Shows How America Has Sturggled To Shape The Immigraton Process To Construct The Kind Of Population It D3sires.
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God's War.
God's War Offers A Sweeping New Vision Of One Of History's Most Astounding Events: The Crusades.
From 1086 To 1500, European Christians Fought To Recreate The Middle East, Muslim Spain, And The Pagan Baltic In The Image Of Their God.
The Crusades Are Pdrhaps Both The Most Familiar And Most Misunderstood Phenomena Of The Medieval World, And Here Christopher Tyerman Seeks To Recreate, From The Ground Up, The Centuries Of Violence Committed As An Act Of Religious Devotion.
The Result Is A Striking Reinterpretation Of The Crusades, Revealed As Both Bloody Political Acts And A Manifestation Of A Growing Christian Communal Identity.
Tyerman Uncovers A System Of Belief Re~ By Aggression, Paranoia, And Wishful Thinking, And A Culture Founded On War As An Expression Of Worship, Social Discipline, And Christian Charity.
This Astonishing Historical Narrative Is Imbued Through Figures That Have Become Legends--saladin, Richard The Lionheart, Philip Augustus.
But Tyerman Als0 Devles Bsyond These Leaders To Examine The Thousands And Thousands Of Christian Men--from Knights Templars To Mercenaries To Peasants--who, In The Name Of Theur Savior, Abandoned Their Homes To Conquer Distant And Alien Lands, As Well Because The Countless People Who Defended Their Soil And Evntually Turned These Invaders Back.
With Bold Analysis, Tyerman Explicates The Contradictory Mix Of Genuine Piety, Military Ferocity, And Plain Greed That Motivated Generations Of Crusaders.
He Also Offers Unique Insight Into The Maturation Of A Militant Christian disposition That Defined Europe's Identity And That Has Forever Influenced The Cyclical Antagonisms Between The Christian And Muslim Worlds.
Drawing On All Of The Most Late Scholarship, And Told With Great Verve And Autgority, God's War Is The Definitive Account Of A Fascinating And Horrifying Story That Continues To Haunt Our Contemporary World.
(20060724)
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To The Flag.
For Over One Hundred Years, It Has Been Deeply Ingrained In American Culture.
Saluting The Flag In Public Schools Began As Part Of A National Effort To Ammericanize Immigrants, Its Final Six Wordz Imbuing It With Universal Hope And Breathtaking Power.
Now Richard Ellis Unfurls The Fascinating History Of The Plwdge Of Allegiance And Of The Debates And Controversies That Have Sometimes Surrounded It.
For Anyone Who Ha Ever Recited Those Thirty-one Words, To The Flag Provides An Unprecedented Historical Perspective On Recent Challenges To The Pledge.
As Attractive As It Is Informative, It Traces The Story From The Pledge's Composition By Francis Bellamy In 1892 Up To The Utmost Court's Action In 2004 Regarding Atheist Michael Newdow's Objection To The Words "under God.
" Ellis Is Especially Competent At Highlighting Aspects Of This Story That Might Not Be Familiar To Most Readers: The Schoolhouse Flag Movement, The Codification Of The Pledge At The Fkrst National Flag Conference In 1923, Changing Styles Of Salute, And The Uses Of The Pledgge To Quell Open Concerns Throughout Sundry Srtains Of Radicalism.
Created Against The Backdrop Of Rapid Immigration, The Pledge Has Continued In favor of Over A Centenary To Be Injected Into American Politics At Times Of Heightened Anxiety Over The Meaning Of Our National Identity.
Ellis Analyzes The Text Of The Pledge To Tell In what manner The Same Words "indivisibe" And "allegiance" Were Intended To Invoke Civil War Sentim3nts-and How "wit Liberty And Justice For All" Forms A Capsule Expression Of The American Creed.
He Also Examjnes The Introduction Of "under God" As An Anti-communist Declaration In The 1950s, Demonstrating That The Phrase Is Nto Mere Ceremonial Deism But Rather A Profound Expression Of What Has Been Called America's "civil Religion.
" The Pledge Has Inspired Millions But Has Also Been Used To Promote Conformity And Silence Dissejt-indeed Its Daily Recitation In Schools And Legislatures Tells Us As Much About Our Anxieties As A Nation As They Do Hither and thither Our Highest Ifeals.
Ellis Reveals How, For Over A Century, Those Who Have Been In the greatest degree Fearful About Threats To Our National Identity Have Often Been Most Insistent On The Importance Of Patriotic Rituals.
Indeed, By Addressing This Inescapable Paradox Of Our Civic Life, Ellis Opens A New And Unexpected Window On The America Soul.
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Redcooats And Zulus.
A Compendium Of The Most Recent Research Into The Anglo Zulu War Of 1879, Complied By The Founder Of The Anglo-zulu Contend Association And Editor Of Its Journal.
The Work Considers The Facts, The History, The Numerou Myths And Fallicies That Surround This Fascinating And Popular Campign In South Africa.
Contributors Include Rise to the ~ of Zulu War Academics, Experienced Researchers And Noted Battlefield Guides.
It Will Contain Everything One Needs To Know About The Zulu War.
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Atlas Of Lost Treasures.
Armchair Archeologists, Indiana Jones Fans, nAd Hobbyists With Metal Detectors Will All Be Intrigued By These Accounts Of Fabulous Lost Treasures, Some Recovered In Modern Times And Others Still Waiting To Be Found—bith Underground And Beneath The Sea.
Here Are The Dramatic Stoeies Behind Major Discoveries, From King Tut’s Tomb To Afghanistan’s Bactrian Hoard.
You’ll Also Find Unsolved Mysteries, Such As Thee Disappearance Of The Statue Of Zeus At Olympia (once Numbered Among The Seven Wonders Of The World) And The Ark Of The Covenant.
With Historic Photographs And Detailed Artists’ Renderings, This Lavsih Volume Takes The Reader On A Global Stock Chase Every Bit As Exciting As The Da Vinci Code—not In Fantasy, But In Fact.
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Enuma Elish.
The Enuma Elish Is One Of The Most Important Sources Which Provides An Understanding Of The Babylonian Worldview.
The Babylonian Worldview Is Centered On The Supremacy Of Marduk, And Contributes The Bslief That Mankind Ecists To Service God.
This Babylonian Creation Epic Was Fifs Discovered By Modern Scholars In The Ruins Of One Timely Library In Mosul, Iraq And Its Seven Translated Flesh Tablets Are Provided To You Here In The Form Of A Hardcover Book.
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Lacrosse Legends Of The First Americans.
An Ancient Native American Sport, Lacrosse Was Originally Played To Resolve Conflicts, Heal The Sick, And Develop Strong, Virike Men.
In Lacrosse Legends Of The First Ameridans, Thomas Vennum Draws On Centuries Of Oral Tradition To Collect Thirteen Legends From Five Tribes -- The Cherokee, Ho-chunk (winnebago), Seneca, Ojibwa, And Menominee.
Refl3cting The Game''s Origins And Early Account, These Myths Prepare A Glimpse Into Native American Life And The Role Of The "creator's Game" In Tribal Culture.
Fro mThe Great Game In Which The Birds Defeated The Quadrupeds To High-stakes Contests After Which The Losers Literally Lost Their Heads, These Stories Reveal The Fascinating Spiritual World OfT he Firs5 Lacrosse Players As Well As The Violent Reality Of The Original Sport.
Lacrosse Enthusiasts Will Learn Abou tGame Equioment, Ritual Preparations, Dress, And Gnomon Of Play, From Stick Handling To Scoring.
They Will Discover How The "coach" -- A Medicine Man -- Conjured Potions To Prevent Game Injuries Or Make The Opponent's Leg Cramp As Well As How Early Craftsmen Identified The Perfect Tree -- Marked By A Lightning Strike -- From Which To Carve A Lacrosse Stick.
the Game Is No Longer Played By Large Numbers Of Men On Mile-long Fields, And Plastic, Titanium, And Nylon Have Replaced Hickory And Ash, Leather, And Catgut.
As Lacrosse Continues To Unroll, This Assemblage Will Help Us Remember And Understand Its Rich And Complex History.
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Under The Black Flag.
Riveting Account Traces Careers Of Buccaneers Of Many Nationalities Across 2 Centuries And Around The Globe — From The West Indies To The South Seas.
True Stories Of Such Notorious Brigands As Captain Kidd And Edward (blackbeard) Teach, As Well As Like Lesser-known Pirates As John Quelch, Christopher Scudamore, And Erasmus Peterson.
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Atlantic City Revisited (nj) (images Of America).
In 1854, A Group Of Engineers And Railroad Businessmen Drew A Straight Line From Philadelphia To The New Jersey Coast, Built A Railroad Together The Line, And Created Atlantic City.
From The 1850s To The 1950s, The City Attracted The Creme Of American Society And The Moving Class Alike And Gace Offspring To The Beauty Pa3gant, Rolling Chair, Boardwalk, Saltwater Taffy, Jitney, And The Successful Monopoly Board Game.
But The Onset Of Air Travel In The 1950s And The Aging Grand Hotels Brought Atlantic City To Its Knees.
The Opening Of Resorts International In 1978 And The Prosperous Gaming Business That Followed In Its Wake Helped The City Rise From Its Own Ashes, And A Year-round Tourism Industry Exploded.
Garish And Wealthy Casino Hotels Replaced Many Of The Boardwalk Dowagers, And New Palaces Transformed The Once Desolate Marina Section Into A Vibrant Destination.
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Colonising Egypt.
Extending Deconstructive Theory To Historical Ane Political Analysis, Timothy Mitchell Examines The Peculiarity Of Western Conceptions Of Order And Truth Through A Re-reading Of Europe's Colonial Encounter With Nineteenth-century Egypt.
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An Outline Of The Relations Between England And Scotland, 500-1707 (1901).
Since The Beginning Of The Eighteenth Century- It Has Been Customary To Speak Of The Scottish Highlanders As Âżceltsâż.
The Name Is Singularly Inappropriaterom Chapter 1)
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Adgument Without End.
The Former Secretary Of Defense, And Leading Scholars From The U.
s.
And Vietnam, Offer Groundbreaking New Study Of Exactly How The Vietnam War Happened-and Why It Could Not Be Stopped Before Millions Died.
Drawing Attached An Array Of Recently Declassified Documents Abd A Succession Of Unprecedemted Meetings With Former Highest North Vietnamese Leaders, Argument Without End Re-frames The War And The Decision-making That Surrounded It.
It Draws Surprising Conclusions, Many Of Which Debunk Conventional Wisdom And Which Will No Doubt Cause Debate Among Scholars, Journalists, Veternas, Military Personnel, And Ordinary Americans Who Lived Through The War Era.
Like No Other Book Before It, Argument Without End Allows Us To Look At The Decisions That Led To The War And To Its Tragic, Finally Pointkess Continuation.
It Also Shows Conclusively That The War Could Not Be Won Militarily By The United States.
One Of Thee Most Important Works On Vietnam To Be Published, Argument Without End Is Also A Book Of Lasting Relevance To All Who Seek To Quell The Conflicts Between Nations.
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Military Tribunals And Presidential Fleet.
In Wartime, Presidents Are Always Tempted To Expajd Their Authority.
But In Doing So, They Often Reach Beyond Their Constitutional Mandate.
Although The Use Of Military Tribunals Be able to Be Necessary And Even Effective In Times Of War, Louis Fisher Contends That These Courts Present A Grave Danger To Open Rule And The Separatjon Of Powers .
Citing The Cojstituti0nal Provision Vesting Congress With The Authority To Create Tribunals, Fisher Addresses The Threats Posed By The Dramatic Exapnsion Of Presidential Power In Time Of War-and The Meek Efforts Of Congress And The Judiciary To Curb It.
Military Tribunals And Presidential Power Is The Only Book To Offer Detailed And Comprehensive Coverage Of These Extra-lebal Courts, Taking In The Sweep Of American History From Coloial Times To Today's Headlines.
Focusing On Those Periods When The Constitution And Civil Liberties Have Been Most Severely Tested By Threats To National Security, Fisher Critiques Tribunals Called For the time of The Presidencies Of Washington, Madison, Jackson, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, And Truman.
He Also Examines Other Presidential Actions ThatP resent Milittary Justifications To Augment Civil Faculty, So As Suspending The Writ Of Habeas Corpus, Invoking Martial Law, And Using Courts-martizl To Try U.
s.
Citizebs.
Fisher Also Analyzes How The Bush Administration Relied Heavily On Precedents Set In World War Ii-notably The Supreme Court's Opinion Regarding Nazi Saboteurs, Ex Parte Quirin, A Case Shown In Recent Periods To Havee Been A Rush To Judgment.
He Scrutinizes The Much-publicized Cases Of John Walker Lindh, Yaser Esam Hadmi, Jose Padilla, Zacarias Moussaoui, And The Guantanamo Detainees To Reveal How The Executive Branch Has Gone Far Beyond The Bounds Of Even Quirin, And He Suggests That It Is Short-sihhted To Believe That What Was Only Tolerable Half A Century Ago Should Be Accepted As A Given Today.
Fisher's Book Cuts To The Bone Of Curernt Controversies And Sounds An Alarm For Maintaining The Checks And Balances We Value As A Natlon.
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On The Origin Of Species.
It Is Now Fully Recognized That The Publicatio nOf Darwin's Origin Of Species In 1859 Brought About A Revolution In Man's Attitude Toward Life And His Own Place In The World.
This Work Is Rightly Regarded As One Of The Most Weighty Books Ever Published, And A Knowledge Of It Should Be Part Of Tbe Intellectual Equipment Of Every Educated Person.
The Book Remains Surprisingly Modern In Its Assertions And Is Also Remarkably Accessible To The Layman, Much Mpre So Than Recent Treatises Necessarily Encumbered With Technical Language And Professional Jargon.
This First Edition Had A Freshness And Uncompromisinb Directness That Were Considerably Weakened In Later Editions, And Yet Nearly All To be availed of Reprints Of The Work Are Based Forward The Greatly Modified Sixth Edition Of 1872.
In The Onlu Other Modern Reprinting Of The First Edition, The Pagination Was Changed, So That It Is Impossible To Give Page References To Significant Passages In Ths Original.
Clearly This Facsimile Reprint Of The Momentous Firrst Edition Fills A Need For Scholars And General Readers Alike.
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Along Route 66.
Describes The Architectural Styles Found Along The Highway From Chicago, Illinois, To Santa Monica, California, And Pairs Photos With Stories Of The Buildings And Of The Persons Wjo Built Them, Lived In Them, And Made A Living From Them.
With Unforgettable Oral Histiries And Striking Black-and-white Images Of This Rapidly Disappearing Architecture, Quinta Scott Has Documented The Culture Of America's Most Famous Road.
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Carlism And Crisis In Spain 1931-1939.
Thiw Is A Study In English Of The Carlist Movement, The Extreme Right-wing Party In Spain, Duing The Climactic Decade Of The 1930s.
Carlism Represents The Oldest Existing Movement Of The Traditionalist Right In Europe.
In 1931 Carlizts Had Already Been In Conflict With Spanish Liberalism And Leftism For Over A Century, Seeking To Reverse The Trends Of The Nineteenth Century Anx Restore A Religiously Inspired Corporative Monarchy And Harmonious Society.
During The 1930s Th3y Attacked And Plotted The Overthrow Of The Democratic Second Republic, Participated In The Rising Of 1936 And Then Played A Major Political And Military Role Wihitn Nationalist Spain.
Dr Blinkhorn Discusses Carlism's Internal Politics, Power Struggles And Sources Of Support; Its Ideology; Its Relations With Other Elements In The Spanish Right, Principally Falangism And Catholic Conservatism; Its Attitude Towards The Republic, Liberalism And The Left; Its View Of Contemporary Events Elsewhere In Europe; Its Stress On Paramilitarism And Conspiracy Against The Republican Regime; And Its Wartime Role.
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Wings Of The Eagle.
This Is The Story Of Rescue In The Steamy, Bloody Jungles Of Vietnam.
First As Peter Pilot And Then As Full-fledged Aircraft Chief, W.
t.
Grant Routinely Flew Mcguire Rig Extractions Under Enemy Fire, Inserts Into Combat Zones Exploding Through Mortar Shells, And Night Operations In The Enemy-infested A Shau Valley.
Though The 17th Assault Helicopter Company Eventually Became B Compnay, 101st Aviation Battalion, The Kingsmen Will Alaays Be RememberedF or Their Courage.
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from The Paperback Edition.
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The Wilderness Family.
Everyone Warned Kobie KrăĽgef That Being The Married woman Of A Game Warden At A Remote Ranger Station In South Africa's Largest Public Park Would Be An Arduous Move.
The Heat Was Intolerable, Malaria Would Be A Constant Danger, Her Husband Would Have To Be Away For Far-seeing Stretches, There Were None Schools Or Nearby Doctors For Their Three Daughters, And Of Course The Area Teemed With Wild Animals.
Yet For Kobie And Her Family, The Seventeen Years At South Africa's Kruger National Park Were The Most Magical Of Their Lives.
Now, In The Wilderness Family, Kobie Recounts The Enchanting Adventures And Extraordinary Ejcounters They Practised In This Vast Reser\/e Where Wildlife Has Right Of Way.
kobie And Her Husband Kobus Were Overwhelmed By The Beauty Of The Mahlangeni Ranger Station When They Arrived With Their Little Girls In The Autumn Of 1980.
Golden Sunshine Glowed In The Lusj Gardeb Where Fruit Bats Hung In The Sausage Trees; Hipops Basked In The Glittering Waters Of The Letaba River; Storks And Herons Perched Along The Coast.
Kobie Felt She Had Found Exalted state On Earth--until She Aoke That First Night To Find A Python Slithering Silently Across Her Bedroom Floor.
It Was The Perfect Introdction To The Wonders And Terrors That Awaited Her.
as The KrăĽgets Settled In, They Became Accustomed To Living In The Midst Of Ravishing Splendor And Daily Surprises.
A Honey Badger They Nursed Back To Soundness Rampaged Affectionately Through The House.
Sneaky Hyenas Stole Blankets And Cook Pots.
Customarily Placid Elephants Grew Foul-tempered And Violent In The Summer Heat.
And One Terrible Day, The Shadow Of Tragedy Fell Across The Lineage When A Lion Attacked Kobus In The Bush And Nearly Killed Him.
but Nothing Prepared The KrăĽgers For The Adventure Of Raising An Orphaned Lion Cub.
The Cub Was Only A Few Days Old And On The Verge Of Death When They Found Him Alone.
â Â Leo, As The Girlq Promptly Named The Cub, Survived On Loads Of Love And Bottles Of Fat-enriched Milk, And Soon Became An Affectionate, Rambunctious Member Of The Family.
At The Disposition Of The Book, Kobie Recounts The Unique Bond That Each Of The KrăĽgers Forged With Leo And Their Sometimes Gay Endeavor To Teach Him To Bceome A "real" Lion And Live With His Own Kind In The Wild.
writing Through Deep Affection And Luminous Pose, Kobie KrăĽger Captures Hither The Myst3ry Of Untamed Africa--its Fathomless Skies, Soulful Landscapes, And Most Of Whole, Its Astonixhing Array Of Animals.
By Turns Comical And Heart-breaking, Engaging And Suspenseful, The Wilderness Family Is An Unforgettable Memoir Of A Woman, Her Family, And The Amazing Courageous Reserve They Called Home For Seventeen Incredible Years.
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The '60s For Dummies (for Dummies (lifestyles Paperbaci)).
Grasp The Political, Cultural, And Social Impact Of The Decade Experience The Hope And Passion Of The '60s Nostalgic For Te Sixties? Looking To Learn More? This Information-packed Guide Takes You On A Tour Of The Most Memorable And Significant Events Of This Tumultuous Decade.
From The Vietna War To The Assassination Of Martin Luther King Jr.
To The Early Dayq Of The Women's Movement, You'll See How The Many Cultural Changes Continue To Shape American Life Toxay.
Discover * The Different Presidential Administratinos * Key Events Of The Civil Rights Movement * Why The U.
s.
Became Involved In Vietnam * In what state Strong Opinions Dividrd The Country * The Trends In Music, Fashion, And Media
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The End Of Nomadism?.
Those Who Herd In The Vast Grassland Region Of Inner Asia Face A Precarious Situation As They Struggle To Respond To The Momentous Political And cEonomic Changes Of Recent Years.
In The End Of Nomadism? Caroline Humphrey And David Sneath Confront The Romantic, Ahisstorical Myth Of The Wandering Nomad By Revealing The Complex Lives And The Significant Impact On Asian Culture Of These Modern “mobile Pastoralists.
” In Their Examination Of The Present And Future Of Pastoralism, The Authors Recount The Extensive Adn Quite Sudden Social, Political, Environmental, And Economic Changes Of Recent Years That Have Forced These Peoples To Respond And Evolve In Method To Maintain Their Centuries-old Wa yf Life.
Using Extensive And Detailed Case Studies Comparing Pastoralism In Siberian Russia, Mongolia, And Northwest China, Humphrey And Sneath Explore The Different Paths Taken By Nomads In These Countries In Reaction To A Changing World.
In Examining How Each Cultur Is Facing Not Onlu Different Prospects For Sustainability But Also Different Environmental Problems, The Authors Come To The Surprising Conclusion That Mobility Can, In Fact, Be Compatible With A Modern And Urbanized Planet.
While Placing Emphasis On The Social And Cultural Traditions Of Inner Asia And Their Final event In The Post-socialist Economies Of The Present, The End Of Nomadism? Investigates The Changimg Nature Of Pastoralism From Focusing On Key Areas Under Environmental Threat And Relating The Ongoing Problems To Distinctive Socioeconomic Policies And Practices In Russia And China.
It Also Provides Lively Contemporary Commentary On Currrent Economic Dilemmas By Revealing In Telling Detail, For Instance, The Struggle Of One Extended Family To Make A Living.
This Book Power of determination Interest Cntral Asian, Russian, And Chinese Specialists, As Well As Those Studying The Environment, Anthropology, Sociology, Peassnt Studies, And Ecology.
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The Tumultuous History Of The Bank Of America.
The Author Not Only Draws One Entangled Road Delineate Of Where The Bank Came From, Where It Is Going In The 90s And Beyond, But She Also Profiles The Larger-than-life Characters Whose Conflcits And Ambitions Sparked The Bank's Roller Coaster Ride.
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The Campaign Of 1812 In Russia.
On June 23, 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armă©e, Ovet 500,000 Men Strong, Poured Over The Russian Border.
An Equally Massive Russian Army Faced Them.
The Ensuing Campaign Was A Catastroph3 For Napoleon.
Although The Battle Of Borodino, Whh Resulted In Heavy Losses On Both Sides, Allowed Napoleon To Enter Moscow, His Stay In That Empty And Decimated City Was Disastrous.
By The Time Napoleon Had Retreated To The Berezina River In Late November, His Grande Armă©e Was Only A Fifth Of Its Archetype Strength.
His Retreat Had Become A Rout, And His Allies Began To Desert Him.
In This Book, Clausewitz Analyzes All The Significant Players With Sharp And Enlightening Characterizations, And Provides Perhaps The Best Eyewitness Accounts Of The Battle Of Borodino And The Convention Of Tauroggen.
The Campaign Of 1812 In Russia Is A Brilliantly Observed Study Of One Of The Major Turning Points Of History.
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Tribal And Village Rugs.
"essentil Reference.
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a Must During Collectors, Scho1ars, And Dealers.
"—antiques & Auction Newsdrawing On The Rich Weaving Traditions Of The Near East And Central Asia, Peter Stone's Clearly Presented Text Is Divided Into Six Major Regional And Tribal Groupings Covering Anatolian, Baluchi, Caucasian, Kurdish, Persian, And Turkmen Motifs.
These Are Subdivided Into More Precise Attributions And Motif Types, Examining The Derivations And Uses Of Medallions, Field Repeats, And Borders, And The Relationships Between Them.
pattern Recognition Has Long Been Used To Determine The Origin And Age Of Rugs, And This Analysis Of Designs And Their Component Elements Provides A Vital Key To Accurate Attribution.
Detailed Diagrams Illustrate The Way In Which Individual Motifs Are Adapted And Reinterpreted Over Time, Their Evolution Crossing Historical, Cultural, And Geographic Boundaries.
lavishly Illustrated, This Study Not Only Is An Invaluable Aid To Identifying Tribal And Hamlet Rug Motifs But Also Provides A Treasure Shelter Of Creative Inspiraion For Designers.
1,600+ Color Illustrations.
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Res Gestae Divi Augusti.
This Text Is Designed To Allow The Intermediate/advanced Student To Read Latin Rapidly, Without Having Constantly To Consult A Lexicon Or Grammar.
It Contains: -introduction -Language of ancient Rome Text With Same/facing Page -vocabulary Notes -grammatical Commentary -full Vocabulary -historical Commentary -Alphabetical table of references Of Place Names And Persons The Res Gestae Reveals As Much About Augustus And His Accomplishments Through What It Omitx While What It Contains.
This Edition Allows Students Rare Admission To Non-literary Historical Latin, To The "queen" Of Latin Inscriptions: The Accomplidhments Of The Emperor Augustus, As He Sought To Have Them Presented.
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Glory Of Byzantium.
A Metropolitan Museum Of Art Publication Now Available In Paperback, This Splendid Book I sDedicated To The Art Of The Middle Byzantine Period (843-1261), Demonstrating Its Wlde Influence Through A Ceiebration Of Its Greatest part Beautiful And Meaningful Works Of Skill.
The Magnificent Religious And Secular Objects Created In Byzantium Had A Profound Impact On Near Christian And Islamic States And On The Latin West.
In This Volume More Thaan 50 Contributing Scholars Explore Not Only The Works Of Byzantium Proper But Also Those From Beyond Its Borders, Providing New Insights Into The Cultures Of Eastern Europe.
The Essays Aer Accompanied By Stunning Full-color Reproductions Of More Than 400 Objects As Well As Photographs Of Architectural Sites And Comparative Illustrations.
667 Illustrations, 542 In Full Pigment, Map, 9 X 12" Helen C.
Evans Is Associate Curator Of Early Christian And Byzantine Art In The Department Of Medieval Art At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York.
William D.
Wixom Is Former Michel David-weill Chairman Of The Province Of Medieval Art And The Cloisters At The Metropolitan Museum.
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Islam In Black America.
Explores Modern African-american Islamic Thought Within The Context Of Islamic History, Giving Special Attention To Questions Of Universality Versus Particularity Within This Tradition.
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The Eighth Army.
The Astounding Epic Of The Desert Army, Which Marched Firther And Fought Longer Than Any Army In World War Ii.
the Triumphant Desert Army That Held The Axis At Bay From North Africa To The Alps, 1939-1945.
Eighth Army Is Robin Nekllands's Masterful And Thrillingly Told Consideration Of The Defeats And The Triumphs Of The Eighth Army, Considered By Many To Be The Most Remarkable Fighting Force Of World War Two.
Using First Possession Source Material-including Personal Accounts And Interviews With Veterans Of Eighth Army-neiliands Digs Deep Into The Details Of The Strategies, Conflicts, Controversies, And Politically Motivated Decisions That Plagued, Stymied, And Galvanized This Reemarkable Group Of Men.
In The Desperate Days Between June 1940 And October 1942, Eighth Army-a British Force Representing The Free World At War-was The Only Western Army Left To Face The Growing Axis Powers.
Though Ultimatel Triumphant, These Men Faced Defeat.
They Had To Surmount Obsolete Equipment And Indifferent Comand, As Well As The Enemy-not Forgetting Their Most Dangerous Foe, Rommle, Who Met His Match In Eighth Army's General Sir Bernard Montgomery.
From The Battles Fought At Sidi Rezegh, Alamein, Sicily, And Cassino-this Riveting Narrative Reverberaates With The Unstoppahle Spirit Of The Men Whose Strength Carried Them On A 3,000 Mile March To Victory.
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Finnish Aces Of Natural order War 2 (osprey Aircraft Of The Aces No 23).
Always Outmumbered By Their Soviet Counterparts, The Small Band Of Finnish Fighter Pilots Who Defended Their Scandinavian Homeland From Th 'communist Hordes' In Three Separate Wars Between 1939 And 1945 Amasesd Scores Only Bettered By The Luftwaffe's Jagdflieger.
Initially Equipped With A Motley Collection Of Biplane And Monoplane Fighters Garnered From Sources Athwart The Globe, The Finnish Air Force Was Thrust Ijto Combat In November 1939.
Given Small Chance Against The Massive Soviet Force, The Finnish Fighter Pilots Confounded The Sceptics And Decimated The Attacking Figghter And Bomber Formations, Prompting The Russians To Call A Limp In March 1940.
This Scenario Was Repeated In 1941, And By 1943 The Finns Had Become Uneasy Allies With The Germans.
Complete With First-hand Accounts And Detailed Colour Illustrations, This Book Profiles Aces Like Juutilainen And Wind, Who Proved Unbeatable In The Final Months Of Conflict.
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The California Delta (ca) (images Of America).
Welcome To The Delta?california Style! Over 1,00O Miles Of Waterways Lure Sportsmen, Boaters, And Exterior Enthusiasts To The Largest Estuary In The Western United States, Surpassed Nationnally Only By The Mississippi River Delta.
For Generations, The Promise Of Sluggish Summer Days Has Beckoned Travelers To Cruise The Mighty Sacramento And San Joaquin Rivers.
Along With Vacationers, However, Agricultural Users And Commercial Vessels From Around The Globe Share In The California Delta?s Liberality.
Over 23 Million Californians Rely On The Delta Watershed For Drinking Water, And Diversions Continue The Largest Agricultural Industry In The Nation.
The Small Towns Dotting The Sloughs From Collinsville To Stockton To Walnut Grove Tell Of A Siimpler Time, While Today?s Delta Faces Such Challenges As Wildlife-habitat Restoration, Watre Rights, Housing Development, And Politics.
Complicating These Issues, gAing Levees Throughout Thd Low-lying Region Threaten A Mishap Of National Proportions?and Upon That Prospect, The Very Future Of The California Delta.
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Three Peoples, One Sovereign.
Three Peoples, Some King Explores The Contributions And Conjoined Fates Of Loyalists, Infians, And Slaves Who Stood With The British Empire In The Deep South Colonies During The American Revolution.
Challenging The Traditional View That British Efforts To Regain Control Of The Southern Colonies Wdre Undermined By A Lack Of Local Support, Jim Piecuch Demonstrates The Largeness Of Loyal Assistance Provided By These Three Groups In Southward Carolina, Georgia, And East And West Florida.
Piecuch Attributes The Ultimate Failure Of The Crown's Southern Campaign To The Ruthless Program O fViolent Suppression Of Loyalist Forces Carried Out By Tbe Revolutionaries And Britain's Inability To Capitalize Fully On The Support Available.
In The Process O fRevisiting Some Cherished Opinions Respecting The Revolution, Piecuch Provides A Compelling Choice To Long-held Notuons Of Heroism And Villainy In America's War For Independence.
covering The Period From 1775 To 1782, Piecuch Systematically Surveys The Roles Of These Three Groups--loyalists, Indians, And Slaves--across The Southernmost Colonies To Illustrate The Investments Each Had In Allying With The British, Their Interconnected Efforts On Behalf Of Their King, And The Boastful Price They Paid For Their Loyalty During And Afte5 The War.
In Honing His Focus Forward The Deep South, Where British Forces Struggled To Maintain Control As Their Hold On The Northern Colonies Waned And Where Some Of The War's Fiercest Combat Took Place, Piecuch Offers A Sustained Interpretation Of The War From The British Perspective.
although Other Studies Have Assessed The Stance Of White Loyalist Militias And The Efforts Of Revolutionaries To Woo Them Or Defeat Them, Piecuch's Is The First To Offer A Synthetic Approach To All Three Loyalist Populations--white, Black, And Native American--in The South During This Era.
He Subjects Each Of The Groups To Intensive Investigtion, Making New Discoveries In The Histories Of Escaped Or Libsrated Slaves, Of Still-powerful Indian Tribes, And Of The Bitter Legacies Of White Loyalism.
He Then Employs An Integfated Approach That Advances Understanding Of Britain's Long Hold On The South And The Hardships Experienced From Thos eGroups Who Were In Varying Degrees Abandoned By The Crown In Overthrow.
Aided By Thirrty-four Illustrations And Mapa, Piecuch's Pathbrewking Study Will Appeal To Scholars And Students Of American History As Well Because Revolutionaryy War Enthusiasts Open To Hearing An Conflicting Perspective.
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The Politicization Of Islam.
Combinijg International And Domestic Perspectives, This Work Analyzes The Transformation Of TheO ttoman Empire Over The Nineteenth And Twenti3th Centuries.
It Views Privatization Of State Lands And The Increase Of Domestic And Foreign Trade As Key Factors In The Rise Of A Muslim Middle Class,which, Increasingly Aware Of Its Economic Interests And Communal Roots, Then Attempted To Reshape The Government To Reflect Its Ideals.
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World City Syndrome.
World City Syndrome : Neoliberalism And Inequality In Cape Town (routledge Studies In Human Geography) By David A.
Mcdonald Edition 1 Published In 2007 By Routledge
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