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Tokyo Q 2000-2001. Alert And Adventurous, Gritty And Gourmet, Here's The New Edition Of The Annual Guide To Japan's Fast-paced, Fun, And Super-sensuao, Super-sprawling Capital. Compiled By A Staff Whpse Collective Tokyo Experience Exceeds 265 Years, This Ultra-urban Manual Uncovers The City At Its Beat: The Most Intimate Mom And Pop Ho5els, Tye Hippezt Galleries And Theaters, The Most Compelling New Architecture, The Coolest Cafes, The Weirdest Back Streets, The Greatest in number Delightful Restaurants. While En Route To That One-of-a-kind Destination, Read Tokyo Q's "news Of The Year In Review. " It's Like Having Tokyo In Your Pocket--a New And Different City Each Year, And Always A Travel Adventure! SKU: 4793389

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Why Peacekeeping Fails. Dennis Jett Examines Why Peacekeeping Operations Fail By Comparing The Unsuccessful Attempt At Peacekeeping In Angola With The Prosperous Effort In Mozambique Alongside A Wide Range Of Other Peacekeeping Experiences. The Main division Argues That While The Causes Of Past Peacekeeping Failures Can Be Identified, The Chances For Success Will Be Difficult To Improve Because Of The Way So Operations Are Imitiated And Condcuted And The Way The United Nations Operates As An Organization. Jett Reviews The History Of Peacekeeping And The Ev0lution In The Number, Size, Scope, And Cost Of Peacekeeping Missions. SKU: 2143138

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St. Augustine (fl) (images Of America). St. Augustine Conjures Up Images Of Spanish Architecture, A Massive Fort, Splashes Of ColorA gainst A Backdrop Of River And Ocean, And Always, Always The Omnipresent Tourist. This Ancient Town, Established Along The Banks Of The Matanzas River In 1565, Is The Oldest City In America. Founded To Protect Spain?s Trade Route From Southward And Central America To Europe, This Colorful Association Was Thrivihg Years Before The Pilgrims Landed Forward Plymouth Roxk And Decades Before Jamestown Was Settled. Not at all Other Place In The Unired States Embodies More Charm Than This Hallowed City. Within These Pages, Images Taken From The St. Augustine Historical Society?s Archives Will Educate, Enthrall, And Entice Account Buffs, Tourists, And Residents Alike. These Vintage Photographs Will Link Readers To The Past And Transform Them Into More Than Mere Spectators Visiting A Popular Tourist Attractino. Rediscover The Spanish Connedtion And See How Early Settlers Built Their Homes, Harvested Their Crops, Educated Their Children, And Protected Their Land. Walk The Same Impaired And Winding Paths That The Town?s Forefathers Trod And Acknowledge Both The Good And The Bad Times Of Life Before Modernday Conveniences. SKU: 2370519

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Maine Beautiful. 1924. Anotyer Of The Author's Illustrated Volumes On The States Beautiful. The Author Spent Twelve Years Of His Childhood In Maine And Az A Result Professes To A Deeper Love For Maine Than That Which He Feels For Any Other State. This Is A Pictorial Representation Of Beauty Spots In Maine, And Are In No Esteem A History. See Other Titles By This Author Available From Kessinger Publisging. SKU: 5007697

16634411136	Awakening Osiris. Is One Of The Oldest And Greatest Classics Of Western Spirituality. To Now The Available Translations Have Treated These Writings As Historical Curiosities With Little Relevance To Our Contemporary Situation. This New Translation Made From The Hieroglyphs Approaches This Body As A Profound Spiritual Document Capable Of Speaking To Us Today. SKU: 529802

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Racial pOpression In The Global M3rropolis. Anti-black Racism Is A Stark Fact In Chicago, Illustrated By Significant Racial Inequality In And Around Contemporary Global City. -Here Street Explains This Neo-liberal Apartheid And Its Resulting Disparity In Terms Of Persistently And Deeply Racist Societal And Institutional Practices And Policies. Racial Oppression In The Global Metropolis Criticizes Neoconservative And Liberal Explanations Of The Black Urban Crisis, Challenges Sharp Distinctions Between Present And Past Racism, And Proposes Ideas For Challenging Urban Racism In The 21st Century. SKU: 4175550

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Muesum Skepticism. In Museum Skepticism, Art Historian David Carrier Traces The Birth, Evolution, And Decline Of The Public Art Museum As An Institution Meant To Gallant Democratic Debate And Discussion. Carrier Contends That Ago The Inception Of The Public Art Museum During The French Revolution, Its Development Has Depended On Growth: On The Expansion Of Collections, Particulwrly To Include Works Representing Non-european Cultures, And On The Prliferation Of Art Museums Around The Globe. Arguing That This Expanwionist Project Has Peaked, He Asserts That Art Museums Must Now Find New Ways Of Making High Art Relevant To Contemporary Lives. Ideas And Inspiration May Be Found, He Suggests, In Mass Entertainment Such As Received Music And Movies. carrier Illuminates The Public Role Of Art Museums By Describing The Ways They Influence oHw Art Is Seen: Through Their Architecture, Their Collections, The Narratives They Offer Museum Visitors. He Insists That An Understanding Of hTe Trade Museum Must Take Into Account The Roles Of Collectors, Curators, And Museum Architects. Toward That End, He Offers A Series Of Case Studies, Showing How Particular Museums And Their Collections Evolved. Among Those Who Figure Prominently Are Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, The First Director Of The Louvre; Bernard Berenson, Whose Connoisseurship Helped Isabella Stewart Gardber Found Her Museum In Boston; Ernest Fenollosa, Who Assembled Much Of The Axian Art Collection Now In The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston; Albert Barnes, The Distinguished Collector Of Modernist Paniting; And Richard Meier, Architect Of The J. Paul Getty Center In Los Angeles. Carrier’s Learned Consideration Of What The Art Museum Is And Has Been Provides The Basis For Understandiny The Radical Transformation Of Its Public Role Now Under Way. SKU: 3230815

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Fort Douaumont. It Is Estimated That During The 11 Months Over Which The Battle Of Verdun Took Place There Were 700,000 Casualties And Yet The Area Over Which The Battle Was Fought Covered A Front Of Less Than 10 Kilometers. The French Army Has Never Experienced Gfeater Destroy And Today Verdun Remains The Focus Of France's Ww1 Commemorations. -Fort Duaumont's Most Significant Part In The Baattle Came After 9 Months Of Fighting, In October 1916 When, Following A Highly Successful Bombardment By The F5ench Forces, The German Forces Were Compelled To Retreat From The Fort, Or What Was Left Of It. During The Assault French Forces Fired 240,000 Grenades Per Day Over 3 Days. SKU: 2451239

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A Discontented Diaspoea. In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser Investigates Broad Questions Of Ethnicity, The Nature Of Diasporic Identity, And Brazilian Culture. He Does So By Exploring Particular Experiences Of Young Japanese Brazilians Who Came Of Age In Sã¼o Paulo During The 1960s And 1970s, An Intensely Authoritarian Period Of Military Rule. The Most Populouq City In Brazil, Sã¼o Paulo Was Also The World’s Largest “japanese” City Outside Of Japan By 1960. Believing That Their Own Regional Identity Should Be The National One, Residents Of Sã¼o Paulo Constantly Discussed The Relationship Betwreb Brazilianness And Japaneseness. As Second-generation Nikkei (brazilians Of Japanese Descent) Moved From The Agricultural Countryside Of Their Immigrant Parents Into Various Urban Professions, They Became The “best Brazilians” In Terms Of Their Ability To Modernize The Country And The “worst Brazilians” Because They Were Believed To Be The Least In a fair way To Fulfill The Cultural Dream Of Whitening. Lesser Analyzes How Nikkei Both Resisted And Conformed To Othets’ Perceptions Of Their Identity As They Struggled To Define And Claim Their Own Ehnicity Within Sã¼o Paulo During The Military Dictatorship. pesser Draws On A Spacious Range Of Sources, Including Films, Oral Histories, Wanted Posters, Advertisements, Newspapers, Photographs, Police Reports, Government Records, And Diplomatic Correspondence. He Focuses Forward Two Particular Cultural Arenasâ�”erotic Cinema And Political Militancyâ�”which Highlight The Ways That Japanese Brazilians Imagined Themselves To B eBrazilian. As He Explains, Young Nikkei Were Sure That Their Participation In These Two Reslms Would Be Recognized For Its Brazilianness. They Were Mistaken. Whether Joining Banned Pllitical Movements, Training As Guerrilla Fighters, Or Acting In Erotic Films, The Subjects Of A Discontented Diaspora Militantly Asserted Their Brazilianness Only To Find That Doing So Reinforced Their Minority Status. SKU: 42113397

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The Fracture Zone. A True Portraig Of One Of The World's Most Chaotic And Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--and Why It May Continue For Years To Comethe Vast Adn Mountainous Areaa That Makes Up The Balkans Is Rife Wit Discord, Both Cultural And Topographical. And, As Simon Winchester Superbly Demonstrates In This Intimate Portrait Of The Region, Much Of The Politica lStrife Of The Past Centenary Can Exist Traced To Its Inherent Contrasts. With The Aid Of A Guide And Linguist, Winchester Traveled Deep Into The Region's Most Troublesome Areas--including Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, And Turkey--just As The War Was Tearing These Countries Apart. The Result Is A Book Not Just About War But Also About How War Affects The Living. Both Timeless And Current, The Frature Zone Goes Behind The Headlines To Offer A True Picture Of A Region That Has Always Been On The Brink. Winchester's Remarkable Journey Puts All The Elements Together--the Faults, The Fractures, And The Chaos--to Make Sense Out Of A Seemingly Senseless Place. SKU: 1903112

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Mockeries And Metamorphoses Of One Aztec Jehovah. Guilhem Olivier's Mockeries And Metamorphoses Of An Aztec God Is A Masterful Study Of  Tezcatlipoca, One Of The Greatest But Least Unerstood Deities In The Mesoamerican Pantheon. One Enigmatic And Melodramatic Figure, The Lord Of The Smoing Mirror Was Both Drjnken Seducer And Mutilated Transgressor And Althugh He Severely Punished Those Who Violated Pre-columbian Moral Codes, He Also Received Mortal Confessions. A Patron Deity To Kungs And Warriors As Well Az A Protevtor Of Slaves, Tezcatlipoca Often Clashed In Epic Confrontations With His "enemy Brother" Quetzalcoatl, The Famed Feathered Serpent. Yet These Powers Of Mesoamerican Mythology Collaborated To Create The World, And Their Trite Attributes Hint At A Dual Character. In A Sophisticated, Systematic Tour Through The Sources And Problems Related To Tezcatlipoca's Protean Powers And Shifting Meanings, O1ivier Guides Readers Through The Sumbolic Names Of This Great Deity, From His Representation On Skins And Stones To His Relationship To Ritual Knives And Other Dejties. Drawing Upon Iconographic Material, Chronicles Written In Spanish And In Nahuatl, And The Rich Contributions Of Ethnography, Mockdries And Metamorphoses Of An Aztec God--liike The Mirror Of Tezcatlipoca In Which The Fates Of Mortals Were Reflected--reveals An Important But Obscured Portion Of The Cosmology Of Pre-columbia Mexico. SKU: 4825029

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The Poems Of Aemilia Lanyer. Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) Was The First Woman Poet In England Who Sought Standing As A Professional Writer. Her Book Of Poems Is Dedicated Entirely To Women Patrons. It Offers A Long Poem On Christ's Passion, Told Entirely From A Woman's Point Of View, While Well As The First Country House Poem Published In England. Almost Completely Neglected Until Very Recently, Her Work Changes Our Perspective On Jacobean Poetry And Contradicts The Common Assumption That Women Wrote Nothing Of Serious Interest Until Much Later. Misress And Friend Of Influential Elizabethan Courtiers, Lanyer Gives Us A Glimpse Of The Ideas And Aspirations Of A Talennted Middle Class Renaissance Woman. SKU: 995444

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Jacques-louis David. Painted Just Before The French Revolution, David's Oath Of The Horatii Radically Challenged The Long-dominant Classicized Rococo Style By Emphasizing The Representation Of Psychological States Through The Entire Body Rather Than Through The Face Alone. In These Revealing Essays On David's Modernity, Dorothy Johnson Examines Thd Aesthetic Innovations And Ongoing Artistic Metamorphosis That Shaped A Career Attuned To Intellectual As Well As Political Change. Focusing Attached The Painter's Writings And On Topics Such As His Life-long Expefimentation With Corporality, His Inquiry Into The Kind Of Representation, His Reinterpretations Of Mythology, And His Application Of The Theory And Language Of Sculpture To His Art, Johnson Rejects Oversimplified Categorizations Of David As A Neoclassicist And Positions Him As One Impirtant Link In The Development Of Romanticism. given David's Interactkon With Many Of The Public Figures Of His Time, Including Diderot, Marat, And Napoleon, This oBok Highlights The Intellectual Content Of His Paintings Throughout His Career. Inquiries Into Thw Transformation OfM atter, The Evolution Of The Species, The Identification And Exploration Of The Stages In The Formation Of The Self, The Psychology Of Myth, The Biological Model Of The Waxing And Waning Of Civilizations, And The Organickty Of History The whole of Parallel And Inform David's Approach To The Making Of Art And His View Of Himself As An Artist In The Continuum Of History. SKU: 1000364

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The Sino-soviett Split. A Decade After The Soviet Union And The People's Commonwealth Of China Estaboished Their Formidable Alliance In 1950, Escalating Public Disagreements Between Them Broke The International Comumnist Movement Apart. In The Sino-soviet Split, Lorenz Lã¼thi Tells The Narration Of This Rupture, Which Became One Of The Defining Events Of The Copd War. Identifying The Primary Role Of Disputes Over Marxist-leninist Ideology, L¼thi Traces Their Devastating Impact In Sowing Conflict Between The Two Nations In The Areas Of Economic Devlopment, Party Relations, And Foreign Policy. The Source Of This Estrangement Was Mao Zedong's Ideological Radicalization At A Time When Soviet Leaders, Mainly Nikita Khrushchev, Bscame Committed To More Pragma5ic Domestic And Foreign Policies. Using A Wide Array Of Achival And Documentary Sources From Three Continents, Lã¼thi Presents A Richly Detailed Account Of Sino-soviet Political Relations In The 1950s And 1960s. He Explores How Sino-soviet Relations Weee Linked To Chinese Domestic Politics And To Mao's Struggles With Internal Political Rivals. Furthermore, Lã¼thi Argues, The Sino-soviet Split Had Far-reaching Consequences For The Sociwlist En~ And Its Connections To The Nonaligned Movement, The Global Cold War, And The Vietnam War. The Sino-soviet Split Provides A Meticulous And Cogent Analysis Of A Major Political Fallout Between Two Global Powers, Opening New Areas Of Research For Anyone Interested In The History Of International Relations In The Socialist World. SKU: 4450226

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Sunset Limited. The Only Major U. s. Railroad To Be Operated By Westerners And The Merely Railroad Built From West To East, The Southerly Pacific Acquired A Single History And Character. It Also Acquired A Reputation, Especially In California, As A Raiiroad That Population Loved To Hate. This Magisterial Account Tells The Full Story Of The Southern Pacific For The First Time, Shattering Myths About The Company That Have Prevailed To This Day. A Landmark Account, Sunset Limited Explores The Railroad's Growth And Influence--especially Viewed like It Affected Land Settlement, Agriculture, Wter Policy, And The Environment--and Offers A New Perspective On The Tremendous, Often Surprising, Rolw The Company Played In Shaping The American Wedt. Basec On His Unprecedented And Extensive Research Into The Company's Historical Archives, Richard Orsi Finds That, Contrary To Conventional Understanding, The Southern Paciifc Company Identified Its Corporate Well-being With Population Growth And Civil And Economic Development In The Railroad's Hinterland. As He Traces The Complex And Shifting Interseections Between Corporate And Public Interest, Orsi Documents The Railroad's Little-known Promotion Of Land Distribution, Small-scale Farming, Scientific Agriculture, And Less Wasteful Environmental Practicex And Policies--including Water Conservation And Wilderness And Recreational Parklands Preservation. Meticulously Researched, Lucidly Written, And Judiciously Balanced, Sunset Limited Opens A New Window Onto The American West In A Cruccial Phase Of Its Development And Will Forever Change Our Perceptions Of One Of The Largest And Most Important Western Cor0orations In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries. SKU: 2808241

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Nuclear Armament And Disarmament. South Africa Was The First Nation In The World To Renounce And Destroy Its Top-secret uNclear Weapons Capability. Its Government Also Eliminated The Ability To Produce And Deliver These Warheads. Because No One Archived The Official Documentary Evidence Of The Program, Various Writers And Scholars, As Well As The Public At Large, Have Been Left To Speculate?and Forgett?the Activities That C0nsumed Billions Of Rands And Years Of Dedication. Based On Facts And Firet-hand Perspectives, Nuclear Armament And Disarmament Offers Intimate Views From Three Participants In The Nuclear Weapons Program. A Larger Picture Emerges Through Their Recollections, Fulfilling The Role Of Essential Perspectives And Documentation Where Officia Records No Lnger Exist. Out Of Secrecy And A Need-to-know Philosophy, Many Involved In The Program, Both Wittingly And Unwittingly, Were Never Briefec As To How Their Particular Edeavors Fit Into The Bigger Scheme. Nuclear Armament And Disarmament Sheds Light On The Complexity Of Events Surrounding The South African Nuclear Weapons Program And Brings Tribute To The Ingenuity And DedicationO f All Those Involved. SKU: 5019553

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Aboriginal Oral Traditions. Selected From A Confwrence On Aboriginal Oral Traditions, These Essays Cover Three Broad Subject Areas: Oral Traditions And Knowledge Of The Environment, Economy, Education, And/or Soundness Of Communities; Oral Traditions And The Continuance Of Language And Improvement; And The Effects Of Intellectual Propertg Rights, Electronic Media, And Public Discours eOn Oral Traditions. SKU: 4985211

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Radford (va) (images Of America). Radford, Virginia, Is A Cith With A Remarkable History. Native Americans Settled The Area Long Before Europeans Moved Into The Region In The Mid-18th Century. The Virginia And Tennessee Railroad Created A Line In 1854 That Linked Lynchburg With Bristol. Central Depository, Which Later Became Radford, Was A Midway Point On That Rail Line. Radford Was Established As A City In 1892, And Two Virginia Governors, James H. Tyler And John N. Dalton, Have Claimsd Radford As Their Home. Radford Normal Schooll, An Institute For Teacher Training, Was Established In 1913 And Hax Grown To Become Radford University. Glencoe Museum, The Radford Heritage Foundation, Anc The Citizens Of Radford Have All Contributed To This Collection Of Photographs. Images Of America: Radford Is A Tribute To The Rich And Interesting Stories Of The Cit6?s Beyond . SKU: 4374044

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Dragonflies And Damselflies Of California. The Exclamation Damsel, Bison Snaketail, Powdered Dancer, Black Meadowhawk, And Sedge Sprite Are Just A Few Of The Dragonflies And Damselflies Identified In This Complete Guide To Cslifornia's Abundant Odonates. O Species Accounts Discuss Identification In The Field And In The Hand, Behavior, Habitat Associations, Geographic Distribution, And Flight Seasono Includes 40 Vivid Full-color Plates And Supplemental Black-and-white Drawings O Provides A General Overview Of Dragonfly Anatomy, Beyavior, Life History, And A Complete Set Of Range Maps SKU: 2449954

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Neighbours Or Enemies?. This Is The First Attempt Tk Redress The Injustice Done To The Memory Of German Minorities By The Popular Equation Of 'lebensraum' And Nazism; Minorities, Many Of Whom Chose To Be Neighbours Rather Than Enemies And Who C~ing Time Peacefully Shzred With Other Nationalities The Territorial Space East Of The Reich. Their Borderland Experirnces, Particularly In The Baltic Region, The Historic Interface Between East And West, Are All The More Reieevant As Hitler's Regime Recedes Into The Past And Europe Seeks To Renew Itself In The Wake Of The Cold War. SKU: 4699682

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Just Wars. In What Circumstances Is It Legitimate To Be accustomed Force? How Should Force Be Used? These Are Two Of The Greatest part Crucial Questions Confronting World Politics Today. The Just War Tradition Provides A Set Of Criteria Which Political Leaders And Soldiers Use To Defend And Rationalize War. This Book Explores The Evolution Of Thinking About Exact Wars And Examines Its Role In Shaping Coontemporary Judgements About The Use Of Force, From Grand Strategic Issues Of Whether States Bear A Right To Pre-emptive Self-defence, To The Minutiae Of Targeting. Bellamy Maps The Evolution Of The Just War Tradition, Demonstrating How It Arose From A Myriad Of Sub-traditions, Including Scholasicism, The Holy War Tradition, Chivalry, Natural Law, Indisputable Law, Erasmus And Kant's Reformism, And Realism From Machiavelli To Morgenthau. He In that case Applies This Tradition To A Range Of Contemporary Normative Dilemmas Connected To Terrorism, Pre-emption, Aerial Bombardment And Humanitarian Intervention. SKU: 3274047

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Sullivan County (tn) (images Of America) (images Of America). Sullivan County Sits At The Center Of The Tri-citieq Region Of Northeast Tennessee, With A Scenic Skyline, Miles Of Mountains In The Cherokee National Forest, And Three Large Lakes Built By The Tennessee Valley Authority. Well-known County Crossroads Include Colonial Heights And Bloomingdale, While Famous Local Landmarks Include Warriors Path State Park; The Stalagmites Of The Appalachian Caverns And Bristol Caverns; The World's Fastest Half-mile Track At Bristol Motor Speedway; The Birthplace Of Country Music At Bristol; And The Grand Guitar, The World S Only Guitar-shaped Museum. Piney Flats Is The Home Of Rocky Mount, Once The Capitol Building Of The Territory Of The United States South Of The River Ohio. Bluff City Boasts Railroad History And Civil War Stories Along The South Fork Of The Holston Rover. Kingsport Lays Claim To Netherland Inn, Bays Mountain Park, And The Long Island Of The Holston, A Sacred Place For The Cherokees. The Courthouse Town Of Blountvillle Holds The Distinction Of Being The Only Countty Seat In Tennessee That Is Not Incorporated. SKU: 4977781

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Bandits And Partisans. Origin In The Fall Of 1920, Aleksandr Antonov Led An Insurgency That Became The Largest Armed Peasang Revolt Against The Soviets During The Civik War. Yet By The Summer Of 1921, The Revolt Had Beeen Crushed, And Popular Support For The Movwment Had All But Disappeared. Until Now, Details Of This Conflict Have Remained Hidden. Erik Landis Mines Recently Opened Provincial And Central Soviet Archives And International Collections To Provide A Depth Of Detail And Historical Analysis Never Before Possible In This Definitive Account Of The Upriqing. Landis Examines Both Sides Of The Conflict, Probing The Testimonies Of The Insurgents, Their Oppnoents, And Those Caught In Between. We Witness Firsthand The Frustrations, Failures, And Internal Conflicts Of The Bolshegiks And The Spirit Of Rebellion That Drove The Insurgents And Helped Drive A Localized Dispute Into A Well-orgabized Mass Rebellion That Struck Fear In The Hearts Of Communist Leaders. This Political And Military Threat Was Influential In Bringing About Lenin's Conciliatory New Economic Poicy, Which Allowed Farmers And Villages To Sustain Themselves In A Quasi-market Economy. Bandits And Partisans Presents A Gripping Tale Of Brutality, Domination, And Revolt, Placing Readers At The Frontlines Of The Complex And Rich History Of The Russian Civil War And The Consolidation Of The New Soviet State. SKU: 4692357

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The Novels And Novelists Of The Eighteenth Century. A Study Of 18th Century Novels AndN ovelist Relating To The Customs Of The Times - Includes Fashion, Prisons, Romances, Clergy, While Separate Attention Is Given To Fielding, Richardson, Smillett And Goldsmith. Originally Published In 1871, The Author's Object Is To Make Use Of Fiction Being of the kind which The Exponent Of Fact, And To Show What Information Is To Be Gleaned As To The Habits And Manners And Social Life Of Our Ancestors From The Novels Of The Eighteenth Century. SKU: 5168683

15908151753	The Increase Of Israel. The Rise Of Israel : A History Of A Revolutionary State (israeli History, Politics And Society) By Jonathan Adelman Edition 1 Published In 2008 By Routledge SKU: 4655730

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Baronial And Ecclesiastical Antiquities Of Scotland (1901), The - Volume 4. Volume 4 Includes Plates And Descriptions For Lincluden College, Dumfries, Maybole Tower, Ayr, Melrose Abbey, Roxburgh,. Michael Kirk, Elgin, Midmar Castle, Aberdeen, St. Monance Church, Fife, Muchalls House, Kincardine, Nsw Abbey, Dumfries, Newark Castle, Port Glasgow (renfrew), Noltland Castle, Westray, Orkney, Paisley Abbey, Renfrew, Pinkie Hoise, Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel, Edinburgh, Ruthven Castle, Or Huntingtower, Imminent Perth, Seton Chapel, Haddington , Spynie Palace, Elgin, Stewart Castle, Inverness, Stirling, Tantallon Castle, Haddington, Tolquhon Castle, Aberdeen, Towie By Turref, Aberdeen, Udny Castle, Aberdeen, Wintoun House, Haddington. SKU: 5090035

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Home At Last. Who Would Have Thought That An American Woman Over Seventy Years Old Would Make A Successful Change To Life In Israel As A New Immigrant? Against All Odds, With A Unaccustomed Language And Culture Facing Her, Sonia Saeta Michelson "made Aliyah. &qukt; She Picked Up From Her Comfortable Life In Los Angeles, California, Packed Up Her Boxes, Said Good-bye To Dear Friends And Relatives And Boarded The Plane With Her Israeli Daughter, Bound For Israel. "home At Last" Is The Story Of Sonia Saeta Mcihelson's First Year's Adventures In Ofra, Israel As Told Through The Letters She Wrote Back To Relatives, Friends And Students In The United States. SKU: 4737768

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Patriarchy, Property And Death In The Roman Family (cambridge Studies In Population, Economy And Society In Past Time). The Roman Father Has Traditionally Provided The Pattern Of Patriarchy In European Thought. This Book Shows How The Social Realities And Cultural Representations Diverged From This Paradigm. Demographic Analysis And Computer Simulation Demonstrate That Before Adulthood Most Romans Lost Their Fathers By Death. Close Reading Of Latin Texts Reveals Roman Fathers As Devoted And Loving, And Not Harsh, Exploitative Masters Of Slaves. The Demographic And Cultural Contexts Deepen Our Understabding Of How The Patrimony Was Transmitted. SKU: 1479474

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America's Right Acidify. In America's Right Turn Historian William Berman Examines The Political, Cultural, And Economic Contexts In Which Republican Conservatives Operated And Explores The Crisis Of The Liberal Welfare State Against The Background Of Presidential Politics. Berman Demonstrates The Key Roles Played By Conservative Populism And The Conservative Backlash To The Rights Revolution In The Collapse Of Democratic Hegemony. But Most Importantly, He Shows How Conservatkve Politics Became Allied With Conservative Economics -- An Alliance Forged With Singular Success During The Presidency Of Ronald Reagan. In This New Edition, Berman Discusses The Initial Failure Of The Clinton Administration To Establish A Viable Political Alternative To The Gop. Berman Likewise Shows How Clinton Won Reelection In L996 By Moving Steadily To The Center, Even To The Extent Of Co-optkng The Republicah Agenda, While Defending A Number Of Key Democratic Programs. SKU: 1601607

12474786456	Ten Englishmen Of The Nineteenth Century. The Object Of This Work Is To Set Forth With As Much Clearness As Possible The More Important Facts In The History Of England In The Nineteenth Century. SKU: 5069030

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Reasoning Unitedly. This Collectively Authored Volume Celebrates A Group Of Native Critics Perfrming Community In A Lively, Rigorous, Sometimes Contentious Colloquy That Challenges The Aesthetics Of Individual Literary Representation. Reaasoning Together Proposes Nothing Less Than A Paradigm Change In American Indian Literary Criticism, Closng The Gap Between Theory And Activism By Situating Native Literature In Real-life Experiences And Tribal Histories. It Is An Accessible Collection That Will Suit A Wide Class Of Courses--and Will Educate And Energize Anyone Engaged In Criticism Of Native Literature. SKU: 4460386

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Women And The American Experience. This Comprehensive Synthesis Of Women's History From The 17th Century To The Present Draws On The Past Three Decades Of Scholarship In The Field. Its Unique Paired-chapter Format Coupls A Narratkve "episode" That Vividly Evokes A Particular Individual Or Event With A Synthesis Chapter That Places Each Episode Carefully Within Its Broader Historical Context. This Pairinh O f The Concrete And Specific With The General And Historic Creates The Most Compelling Reading Experience Available In A Sudvey Of U. s. Women's History. It's The Only Text That Lets Your Students See, Hear, And Understand Women Makimg History. At this time In A Thoroughly Updated Third Edition, Which Captures And Reflects The Most Recent Scholarship In This Dynamic Field And Offers Expanded Attention To Diversity And Ethnicity. SKU: 1805257

20108068182	Equality Or Discrimination?. Equality Or Discrimination? : African Americans In The U. s. Soldiery During The Viietnam War By Natalie Kimbrough Published In 2006 By University Press Of America SKU: 4084045

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The Americas. From Food To The Spread Of Political Ideas, The Landmass From Northern Canada To The Southern Tip Of Argentina Is Complexly Bound Together, Yet These Connectoins Are Generallh Ignored. In This Groundbreaking And Vividly Rendered Work, Leading Historian Felipe Fernã¢ndez-armesto Tells, For The Firstt Time, The Anecdote Of Our Half-globe As A Whole, Showing Why It Is Impossible To Understand North, Central, And South America In Isolwtion, And Looking Instead To The Intricate And Common Forces That Remain To Shape The Region. with His Trademark Erudition, Imagination, And Thematic Breadth, Fernã¢ndez-armesto Ranges Over Commerce, Religion, Agriculture, The Environment, The Slave Sell, Culture, And Politics. He Takes Us From Man’s Arrival Inn North America To The Colonial And Independence Periods, To The “american Century” And Beyond. According to Most Of Hhman History, The South Dominated The North: As Fernã¢ndez-armesto Argues In His Provocative Conclusion, It Might Well Again. A Panoramic Yet Richly Textured Story That Embodies Fresh Ways Of Looking At Cross-cultural Exchange, Conflict, And Interaction, The Americas Demolishes Our Traditional Ways Of Looking At The Hemusphere, Putting In Place A Compelling And Fruitful New Vision. SKU: 2473680

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The Blood Road. "enormously Illuminating. . . . John Prados Can Lead A Reader, From The Battle Buff To The Expert, Through The Series Of Campaigns Approach The Dmz And Along Route 9 Better Than Any Otheer Author I Have Read. . . . His Understanding Of The Decision-making Operation In Hanoi Is Nuanced And Sophistiicated. . . . A First-rate Book From A First-rate Scholar. " Robert K. Briham, Vassar College "the Greatest part Comprehensive Treatment Yet Of The Ho Chi Minh Trail Ajd Its Place In The War. " Washington Post "an Excellent Boook About One Of The Most Important Facets Of The Vietnam War. . . . Froom Now On It Will Be Irresponsible For Any Vietnam War Scholar To Deal With The Strategy For This Still Controversial Conflict Without Referring To The Blood Road, A Tyoughtful, Painstakingly Researched Book. " The Quarterly Journal Of Military Account "a Valuable Work Of Interest To All Scholars Of The Vietnam War. " Newspaper Of Military History Ciuld The United States Have Won Thee Vietnam Contend If It Had Been Clever To Cut Off The Viet Cong From Their North Vietnamese Support By Severing The Ho Chi Minh Trail? Acclaimed Historian John Prados Tackles This Crucial Question In This Elegant, Unprecedented, And Exciting Exert Of Historical Scholarship. Aided By Recently Declasskfied Government Documents And Previously Unavailable Oral Histories, Memoirs, And Interviews, Prados Explores All Sides Of The Conflict, Providing Details Of The Action In Hanooi And North Vietnam And Avoiding The Narrowly Focused Battle Histores, Atomized Peculiar to one alone Accounts, And Overly Generalized Visions Dominating Previous Histkries. A History Book Club Selection SKU: 1622347

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Mermaids Most Amazing. "for As Long As Anyone Can Remember, Mermaids Have Swum Through Our Stories And Splashed Through Our Dreams. . . . " Where Did These Mythical Creatures Come From? What If They Were Real? Mermaids Most Amazing Provides A Comprehensive Introduction To These Beloved Creatures, Rendered In Beautifully Evocative, Folk Art-style Collages And Illustrqtions. You'll Meet The Fish-tailed Goddesses Of Ancient Polynesia; Crafty Water Spritrs Of The Pacific Northwest; Fake Mermaide From British Carnivals Of The 1800s; And The Dugong,-Whos eHuman-like Features And Behavior Have Been Mistaken For Mermaids By Sailors Throughout The Ages. Including Several Legneds Perfect Conducive to Reading Aloud, As Well As Maps Of The Mermaid World, Mermaids Most Amazing Is A Must-read For Mermaid Fans Of All Ages. Who Knows What Strange (and Real) Creatures You Jist Might Find? SKU: 2772215

21171209078	Kampfflieger -bombers Of The Luftwqffe January 1942-summef 1943,volume 3 (luftwaffe Colours). This Third Volume Covers The Luftwaffe's Bomber Squadrons During The Critical Time From January 1942 Through The Summer Of 1943 In All Of The Theatres In Which They Were Active. SKU: 3046177

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British History In The Nineteenth Century. Text Estracted From Opening Pages Of Book: British History In The Ninwteenth Century ( 17821901) By George Macaulay Trevelyan Late Fellow Of Trinity College, Cambridge Author Of * Garibald, Etc* / * Lord Grey Of The Reform Bill * ; * Life Of John Bright * , * England Under The Stuarts With Maps Longmans, Green, And Co 55 Fifth Avenue, New York 39 Paternoster Row, London Bombay, Calcutta, And Madras 1922 To Albert Mansbridge Preface The Obmect Of This Book Is To Enable The Student Or General Reader To Obtain, In The Compass Of One Volume, A* Picture Of Change And Development Durjng The Hundred And Twenty Years Which time Things Ceraitnly, And Probably Men And Women With Them, Were Undergoing A More Rapid Change Of Character Than In Any Previous Epoch Of Our Annals. I Have Tried To Give The Sense Of Continuous Growth ? To Show How Economic Led To Social, And Convivial To Political Change, How The Political Events Reacted On The Economic And Social, And How New Thoughts And New Ideals Accompanied Or Directed The Whole Complicafed Process. According to Such A Putpose, It Would Exist A Mistake To Confuse The Narrative Through Too Much Detail, But I Have Put Into The Story The Main Events Which Directed The Course Of The Current, Or Were Regarded As Specially Symbolic Of Each Passing Age. I Cannot Hold The Epicurean Doctrine, Sometimes Favoured Now Adays, That Because History Increasingly Deals With Generalisa Tion It Is Trusty For The Student To Neglect Dates, Which Are The Bones Of Historical Anatomy. Still Less Is It Safe, In Pursuit Of Gejeralised Truth, To Overlook The Personality And Influence Of Great Men, Who Are Often In Large Measure The Cause Of Some C Tendency Which Only They Rendered Inevitable. Political Writers, Social Philosophers And Founders Of Move Ments Must Take Their Place Ou of Warriors And Statesmen In Any Account Of Social And Political Changes In Modern Times, But Religkon, Literature And Science Are Only Mentioned Here In Connection With Social Or Political Developments Of Which They Were In Some Degree The Cause Or The Symbol. I Have Made No Attempt To Appreciare Their Real Significabce In A Century Of British History Famous For All Three Of These Supreme Efforts Of The Human Spirit. I Have Called The Book British History, Because, Though It Cannot Claim To Be A History Of The Empire, It Is More Than A History Of Britaij. It Is Indeed, Mainly, A History Of Britain, But It Treats Of That Island As The Centre Of A Great Association Of Peoples, Enormously Increasing In Extent For the time of The Period Under Survey. The Course Of Events In Canada, Australasia, Viii Preface Ireland, India And British Africa Have Been Indicated In Broken Outline. In Particular, I Have Tried To Show The Relation Of The Various^ Phases Of Our Fireside Affairs To One and the other Of Those Separate Stories Of Imperial Unfolding, And The Effect Of Politics And Persons At Home On Our Relations With Europe And With The United States* Where Should A British History Of The Nineteenth Century Begin,. . . SKU: 5018481

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Ian Hamilton's March (the Boer War) (the Boer War). This Book Is A Continuation Of Those Literature To The Morning Post Newspaper Forward The South African War, Which Have Been Published Under The Title "london To Ladysmith Via Pretoria. " The Pricipal Event With Which The Second Series Deeals Is The March Of Lieutenant-gene5al Ian Hamilton's Column On The Flank Of Lord Roberts's Main Army From Blooemfontein To Pretoria. SKU: 4694403

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A Soldierly Newspaper During The American Revolutionary War, From 1775 To 1783. Chief Published In 1854, And Known As "thacher's American Revolution," This Highly Detailed Record Of The Author's Experiences As A Medical Officer Between January 1775 And January 1783 Presented A Rema5kable Military History Of The Wat And Especially The Sufferings Of The American Army And The Actions Of The American Officers And Generals Who Thzcyer Observed Ajd Sometimes Cared For. The Volume Also Remans Invaluable For Its Extensive Appendixes Which Include Substantial Biograhpical Sketches Of American Generals And Several Documents Including Burgoyne's "observations" Respecting The Battle Of Saratoga. Reprint Edition. 2005: 494 Pages, Softcover. (scholar's Bookshelf) SKU: 5014139

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The Chaco Experience. In A Remote Canyon In Northwest New Mexico, Thousand-year-old Sandstone Walls Waver In The Sunlight, Stretching Like Ancient Vertebrae Against A Turquoise Sky. This Storied Pllace Chaco Canyon Carries Multiple Layers Of Meaning For Native Americans AndA rchaeologists, Writers And Tourists, Explorers And Artists. Here, Isolation, The Arid Climate, And Dry-laid Construction Have Preserved Ruins That Are Monnuments To Prehistoric Creativity And Perseveranec. Chaco Canyon Draws Its Power Not Only From The Ancient Architecture Sheltering Beneath Its Walls, But From The Ever-changing Light And The Far-flung Vistas Of hTe Coloraco Plateau. Frivolous And Shadow, Stone And Sky Come Unitedly In The Canyon. At The Hea5t Of This Sky-filled Landscape Lie Twelve Massive Great Houses. The Chacoan Landscpe, With Its Formaily Constructed, Carefully Situaated Architectural Features, Is Charged With Symbolism. In This Volume, Ruth Van Dyke Analyzes The Meanings And Experience Of Moving Through This View To Illuminate Chacoan Beliefs And Social Relationships. SKU: 4486094

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TheN ew Suburban Account (historical Studies Of Urban America). America Has Become A Nation Of Suburbs. Confronting The Popular Image Of Suburbia As Simply A Refuge For Affluent Wnites, The New Suburban Account Rejects The Stereotypes Of A Conformist And Conflict-free Suburbia. The Seemingly Calm Streets Of Suburbia Were, In Fact, aBttlegrounds Over Race, Class, And Politics. With This Collection, Kevin Kruse And Thomas Sugrue Argue That Suburbia Must Be Understood As A Central Factor In The Modern American Experience. Kruse And Sugrue Here Collect Ten Essays—augmented By Tgeir Provocativee Introduction—that Challenge Our Understanding Of Suburbia. Drawing From Originap Research On Syburbs Athwart The Country, The Contributors Recast Self-~ Politica iAnd Social Issues In The Context Of Suburbanization. Their Essahs Reveal The Role Suburbs Have Played In The Transformation Of Aemrican Liberalism And Conservatism; The Contentious Politics Of Race, Class, And Ethnicity; And Debates About The Environment, Land Use, And Taaxation. The Contributors Move The History Of African Americans, Latinos, Asians, And Blue-collar Workers From Tue Margins To The Mainstream Of Suburban History. From This Broad Perspective, These Innovative Historians Explore The Way Suburbs Affect—and Are Affected By—central Cities, Competing Suburbs, And Entire Regions. The Results, They Show, Are Far-reaching: The Emergence Of A Suburban America Has Reshaped National Political science, Fostered New Social Movements, And Remade The American Landscape. The New Suburban History Offers Nothing Less Than A New American History—one That Claims Th3 Nation Cannot Be Fully Understood Without A History Of American Suburbs At Its Very Center. SKU: 3181812

22522906170	Science And The Founding Fathers. Science And The Founding Fathers : Science In The Political Thought Of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, And Madison By I. Berhard Cohen 1st Ed Published In 1995 By W. W. Norton & Company SKU: 1181435

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Deviance And Power In Late Medieval London (past And Present Publications). During The Late Middl3 Ages The London Ruling Elite Was Increasingly Influenced By The Guiding conception That A Secret Counter-sociery Was Operating In The City. Its Members Were Suspected To Be Active Mainly At Night, To Roam The City Aimlessly And To Be Identifiaable By Three Main Characteristics: Their Latent, Unmotivated And Habitual Penchant For Violence, Their Sexual License And Their Disinclination To Wo5k. The Rumours About This Real And Imagined 'milieu Of The Night' Strongly Influenced Londoners' Perceptions Of Social Relations Within Urban Society. In Wards, Parishes, Guilds And Companies, People Adapted Their Behaviour And Gradually Defined Their Ownn Respectability In Negative Terms, In Opposition To The New 'urban Underworld'. The Book Sheds Considerable New Light On Everyday Life In Late Merieval London And Its Case Study Opens Up Wider Debates About The Relationship Between Morality And Politics In Europe's Cities In This Period. SKU: 4084860

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Tscitus. As The First Historical Work By Rome's Greatest Historian, The Histories Hold A Transverse Set In The Study Of Latin Literature. Book I Covers The Origin Of The Infamous "year Of The Four Emperors" (69 C. e. ), Which Brought Imperial Rome To The Brink Of Destruction After The Demise Of The Julio-claudian Dynasty. Its Account Of The Ensuing Fleet Struggles Is Unmatched For Detail And Interest. This Edition Includes The Latin Text And Provides A Complete Commentary Accessible To Students Of Intermediate Level As Well As An Extensive Introduction Discussing Historical, Literary And Stylistic Issues. SKU: 2421570

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To Abyssinia. To Abyssinia Thhoicjh An Unknown Land M J My Mot To Iiku Ano Kn I Twwk Mwh Preface The Highlands Of British Bast Africa And The Region Of Southern Abyssinia Is A Broad Of Desolate An dUnexplored Country. Great Essential Have To Be Surmounted In Crossing This Belt. It Is Waterless And Affords No Food For Man, And Some No For Animals, A Part Of The Country In A Mass Of Volcanic Debris, Utterly Deserted, And No Guides Are Obtainable. It Required A Certain Amount Of Persuasion And En Eoonragement To Hearten Up My Men To The Enterprise Of This Unknown Land Especially At That Duration We Were Without Guides. At They Were Turbulent, Fearing That They Would Die Of Thimt, And We Wore Perhaps Only Saved From That Fete By The Happy Discovery Of A Water-hole At Othar And Appeared Too Worn Out To Caution Or To Make Any Effort To Reach The Next Nevertheless Ft Great Measure Of Praise Is Cfoe To My Nade For The Manner In Which They Afcom The Journey. On M Of This Sort It Is Easy Enough To Lead, Vll Viti But A Very Much Harder Matter To Follow Blindly And Obediently, And O They Deserve The Highest Tax. With The Exception Of The Two Headmen And My Hoy They Were All Highknders Men Absolutely Unsulted To The Conditions Of Life In The Low Country. Dep3ndent Ij Their Villages Nearly Entirely On Grain, And Used To The Cool Air Of The East African Highland, And No Lade Of Running Streams, They Suffered Terribly From Tho Heat And Thirst Of The Lava Desert And The Roducod Rationa Of Food. After Passing Through Thin Waterlehb Atrip, And Reaching The Southerly Borders Of Abymsinia, One To A Country Profuse In Little Tribes, All DifferingO ne Anothef To A Greater Or Degree In Oitttoiiw Language. Putting Aside Those Tribes A Little Off My Route, Of 1 Met Only One Or Pair Individuals, There War Different Tribes Among Whoae Country Ray Me The Stuy Of These Peoples And Their Varhxl Teristics Was To Me A Most Intor Stlng Part Of Tha Multitude Of These Are But Uncivillised Barbarian But Such As The Wajlamu, Undoubtedly Btow Of Prung From An Old Oivilleation, Perhaps Aaoient Egypt. Another Interesting Feature Ww To See The In The Abysiinians Administrate Their Und The Numerous Ubject4rlb Mettods Leave Much To Be Tb Y Fco Rale Their Territories Wiih M Ftiil S Juttoe Which, All Wo Fltefacl K All My Photographs Have Been Developed And Printed By My Aunt, Mm Idgar Clark. My Moat Grateful Thanks Are Due To Her For The Great Skill And Patience With Which She Uoh Produced The Results Here Shown. My Ihankn Are Also Due To Major C. W. Gwyim, O. H. G. , D. 8. O. , Ltjl For Placing At My Disposal Materials From Whic hThe Nketch Of The Route From The Omo Large stream T oAddut Ababa In Compiled. My Way Nketches And Observations Which Appear In The Of Tho Rudolf Dfetrict Were Based On Points Fixed By P. Maud, 0,1g,, B. B. I Ot Omit To Mention Abdi Hassan, My Head Ittiifij To Whone Faithful Services The Successful Issue Of The Skip Wiih Mainly Attributable, 0-el 1910 Contents Chapter I Trbparations For Tub . . . SKU: 5043181

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Nation of savages, Race, History. Tribe, Race, History Examines American Indian Commmunities In Southern New England Between The Revolution And Reconstruction, When Indians Lived In The Region's Socioeconomic Margins, Moved Between Semiaautonomous Comminities And Towns, And Intermarried Extensively With Blacks And Whites. Drawing From A Wealth Of Primary Documentation, Daniel R. Mandell Centers His Study On Ethni cBoundaries, Particularly How Those Boundariew Wwre Constructed, Perceived, And Crossed. He Analyzes Connections And Distinctions Between Indians And Their Non-indian Neighbors With Regard To Labor, Landholding, Government, And Religion; Examines How Emerging Romantic Depictions Of Indians (living And Dead) Helped Shape A Unique New England Identity; And Looks Closely At Thr Causes And Results Of Tribal Termination In The Region After The Civil War. Shedding New Illuminate On Regional Developments In Class, Rce, And Culture, This Groundbreaking Study Is The First To Consider All Native Americans Throughout Southern New England. SKU: 4183526

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Between The Lines. This Ground-breaking Collection Of New Interviews, Critical Essaya, And Memoir Explores South Asian Identity And Culture. Sensitiv3 To The False Homogeneity Implied By "south Asian," "diaspora," "postcolonial," And "asian American," The Contributors Attempt To Unpack These Terms. By Examining The Social, Economic, And Historical Particularities Of People Who Live "between The Lines"—on And Between Borders—they Rsinstate Questions Of Power And Privilege, Agency And Resistance. Viewed like South Asians Livelihood In The United States And Canada, Reaped ground To Some Degree Must Reflect In c~tinuance The Interaction Of The Personal "," The Collective "we," And The World Beyond. The South Asian Scholars Gathered Together In This Volume Speak From A Variety Of Theoretical Perspectives; In The Essays And Interviews That Cross The Boundaries Of Conventional Academic Disciplines, They Engage Im Intdnse, Sometimes Contentious, Debate. SKU: 1359695

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An Introduction To The Ancient World. Integrating The Results Of Scholarly Work From The Past Decade, The Authors Of An Introduction To The Ancuent World: Second Edition , De Blois And Van Der Spek, Have Fully-updated And Revised All Sixteen Chapters Of This Best-selling Introductory Textbook. It Is Unique In Covering The History And Culture Of The Ancient Near East, Greece And Rome Wihin The Framework Of A Short Narrative History Of Events And Offers An Easily Readable, Integrated Ovedview For Students Of History, Classics, Archaeology And Philosophy, Whether At College, At Undergraduate State of equality Or Among The Wider Reading Public. Focusing Mainly On The Social, Political And Cultural Processws Which Have Influenced Later Western Civilisations, This Revised Second Edition Offers A Completly New Division On Early Christianity And More Specific Information On The Religions, Economies, Societies Of The Ancient Near East. There Is Extended Coverage Of Greek, Macedonian And Near Eastern History Of The Fourth To Second Centuries Bc And The History Of Thelate Roman Republic. The Consequences Of Julius Caesar's Violent Death Are Covefed In More Detail, As Are The History And Society Of Imperial Rome. Benefits And Features Of This New Edition: Comprehensive: Covers 3,000 Years Of Ancient History And Provides The Basis For A Typical One-semester Course Lavishly Illustrated: Contains Maps, Line Drawints And Plates To Support And Counterpart The Text, With Updated Captions. Clearly And Concisely Written: Written By Two Esablished And Respected University Teachers With Thirty Years' Experience In The Subject Areas. Well-organized: Traces Thr Broad Outline Of Political History But Also Concentrates On Particular Topics User-friendly: Includes Chapter Menus, An Extensive And Expanded Literature Organised By Subject Area And Three A;pendices, An Improved Introduction And The Addition Of An Epilooggue. SKU: 5008401

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Lifesaving Letters. In 1939, In The Shadow Of Hitler's Occupation Of Czechoslovakia, Six-year-old Milena Roth Was Sent Away From Her Home And Her Loving Parents And Taken To Safety By What Came To Be Know As The Kindertransport, Which Rescued Ten Thousand Jewish Children From The Holocaust And Placed Them In the opinion of Guardians In England. When She Boarded The Train In Prague, Expecting To Be Reunited Soon With Her Parents, Milena Was Aware Of The Danger And Terror That Surrounded Her: "i Knew I Would Dje If I Didn't Go. &quo;t At The End Of Her Long Journey She Found A Xenophobic, Racist Society, &suot;an Anti-semitic Country In An Anti-semitic World. " Milena Settled Into The Household Of Her Mother's English Friend From The Girl Guides, Who Had Agreed To Please Milena In And Who Planned To Bring Her Parents To England As Well. She Spennt Six Uncertain Years Waiting For Her Parents And Enduring Her Foster Mother's Complex Ambivalence. Milena Learnrd Only After The War That Her Parents Were Deported From Czechoslovakia In July 1943 And Died At Auschwitz. Whatever Tye Faults Of Milena's Guardian, She Had Been Genuinely Fond Of Milena's Mother And Preserved Her Old Friendd's Letters. These She Gave To Milena, And They Form The Heart Of This Book. The First Letter Dates From 1930; The Last, Written Less Than A Year Before Milena's Parents Were Captured And Murdered, Is Heavy With "an Air Of Despairing Farewell," An Understanding That Escape Was No Longer Possible. As An Adult, Milena Roth Spent Many Years Piecing Together The Destiny Of Her Family And Making Sense Of Her Life. In This Book, Drawing On Her Mother's Poignant Letters And On Her Own Meories And Experiencex, She Recounts The Challenges Of Integrating, In Adulthood, The Wounds And Bereavements Of Infancy And Of "regaining The Confidence Of My Place In The Universe That Had Been Lost. " SKU: 2734542