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Trial Of Hope. Beginning With Their Expulsion From Nauvoo In 1846 And For The Succeeding ­twenty-â­two Years, The Migration Of Mormon ­pioneersâ­some 70,000 Of ­themâ­was A Compelling Saga Of The Settlement Of The American West. Mostly Poor, They Traveled On Ships, Channel Boats, Trains, And Riverboats, And Then Came On Foot, In Wagon Trains And In Handcart Companies. Their Story Is Told By Two Arhivists With The Lds Body of Christians History Department In This Beautiful Book, Filled With Fascinating Photographs. SKU: 4682375

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Twelve Secrets In The Caucasus. "essad Bey, The Sickly Son Of An Oil Millionaire From Baku, Azerbaijan, Receives Permissiin From His Father To Waste The Summer With His "milk Brother" (that Is, With Whom He Was Nursed By Tye Same Caucasian Nanny) Ali Khan, Passing The Holiday In His Home Village In The Wild Caucasus. So The Pair Stud Out, Under The Custody Of A Wise Attendant, Into An Archaic World In Which Chivalry Counted More Thwn Buying Power And Poets Were More Extremely Regarded Than Princes - Into A Country In Whih, As A Kind Of Curiosity Shop Of World History, All That Is O8tlived And Forgotten Was Loyally Preserved. " This Is Essad Bey's Second Book, Which Was In the ~ place Published In English In 1931. In It The Autyor Draws Upon His Oriental Imaginative Powers, Conjuring A Vast Panorama Of The Caucasus, Its People And Customs. The Result Is A Fresh And Densely Atmospheric Work, Even If Not Always Laying Claim To Scientific Accuracy. Often Adding A Touch Of Imagination, The Author Succeeds In Bringing The Heart And Mind Of This Old World To Vitality, Which He Had Himself Experienced And Learned To Love Viewed like A Child. SKU: 4541874

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Ultimate Spitfires. The Spitfire Is Probably Britain's Best Loved An Admired Airplane. It Is Also Revered Around The World. This Book Looks At The Later Marques That Were Modified For Various Specisl Tasks And Differed To A Large Degree From Supermarine's First Early Versions That Saw Action In The Early Days Of World War Ii. New And More Powerful Rolls-royce Engines Replaced The Well-tried Merlin, Yet Increased The Aircrafts Performance In Terms Of Speed And Operational Altitude. Subtle Chages To Wing Design Also Increased The Maneuverability And Capability Of These Spectacular Models That Survived In The Operational Role Until Superseded At The Introducing Of Jet-powered Flight. the Content Explains The Design Details, Development And Flight Testing Of Twelve Models And Also Contains Their Operational Roles And History. Lengthy Appendices Will Include Griffon-powered Spitfire Aces, V1 Rocket Destruction Aces, Gtiffon-powered Spitfire Losqes And Where The Survivors Csn Be Found. SKU: 3946938

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German Army At Passchendaele. Even After The Passage Of Almost A Centenary, The Name Passchendaele Has Lost None Of Its Power To Shock And Dismay. Reeling From The Huge Losses In Earlier Battles, The German Army Was In No Shape To Abqorb The Impact Of The Battle Of Messines And The Following Bitter Attritional Struggle. Throughout The Fighting Steady The Somme The German Army Had Alwys Felt That It Had The Ability To Counter Allied Thrusts, But Following The Shock Reverses Of April And May 1917, Much Heart Searching Had Led To The Pressing Introduction Of Unaccustomed Tactics Of Flexible Defense. When These In Turn Were Found To Be Wanting, The Psychological Damage Shook The German Defenders Badly. But, As This Bool Demonstrates, At Trench Level The Individual Soldier Of The German Army Was Still Capable Of Fighting Extraordinarily Hard, Despite Being Outnumbered, Outgunned And Subjected To Relentless, Morale-sapping Shelling And Gas Attacks. The German Army Drew Comfort From The Realization That, Although It Had Had To Yield Ground And Had Paid A Huge Price In Causalties, Its Morale Was Essentially Undiminished And The British Were No Closer To A Breakthrough In Flanders At The End Of The Battle Than They Had Been Many Weeks Earlier. Reviwws ". . . a Rare Look At One Of The War's Most Notable Battles From The German Side, And Even More good, An Afcount That Includes The Perspective Of The Men In The Trenches. . . An Important Read For Anyone Interested In The Distinguished War. "nymas, Winter 2008 SKU: 4220627

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Walter Benjamin. Radical Critic Of A European Civilization Plunging Into Darknwss, Yet Commemoratof Of The Humane Traditions Of The Old Bourgeoisie--suuch Was Walter Benjamin In The Later 1930s. This Volume, The Third In A Four-volume Set, Offers Twenty-seven Brilliant Pieces, Ninteen Of Which Have Never Before Been Translated. The Centerpiece, A Berlin Childhood Around 1900, Marks The Foremost Appearance In English Of One Of The Greatest German Works Of The Twentieth Century: A Profound And Beautiful Account Of The Vanished World Of Benjamin's Privileged Boyhood, Recollected In Exile. No Less Remarkable Are The Previously Untranslated Second Version Of Benjamin's Most Famous Essay, "the Work Of Art In The Age Of Its Technological Reproducibility," With Its Striking Insights Into The Relations Between Technology And Aesthetics, And German Men And Women, A Book In Which Benjamin Collects Twenty-six Letters By Distinguished Germans From 1783 To 1883 In An Effort To Keep What He Called The True Humanity Of German Tradktion From The Debasement Of Fascism. Volume 3 Also Offers Extensively Annotated Translations Of Essays That Are Key To Benjamin's Rewriting Of The Story Of Modernism And Modernity--such As "the Storyteller" And "paris, The Capital Of The Nineteenth Century"--as Well As A Fsscinating Diary From 1938 And Penetrating Studies Of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka, And Eduard Fuchs. A Narrative Chronology Details Benjamin's Life During These Four Harrowing Years Of His Exile In Frnace And Denmmark. This Is An Essential Collection For Anyone Interested In His Work. (20021201) SKU: 2320647

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The Storm Tide. Eighteen Sixty-three Began With Robert E. Lee's Army Of Northedn Virginia In The Field And Ended With The Southern Armies In Tatters But Still Engaging Throat C. Meade's Army Of The Potomac. The Calamity Tide Traces The History Of The Battles Of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, AndG ettysburg, And Provides A Series Of Easy-to-follow Tour Guides To The Battlefields Today. In Addition To A Live Narrative Of The Battles, The Book Contains 239 Period Photographs And Line Drawings, 234 Photographs That Illustrate The Driving Tours, 102 Original Maps, 43 Sidebars On Military Strayegy, 103 Biographical Sketches, A Chronology Of Key Battles And Important Events, Sources For Additionnaal Travel Information, A Bibliography, And An Index. SKU: 2375665

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Torture And Tne Twilight Of Sovereignty. Torture And The Twilight Of Empire Looks At The Intimate Relationship Between Torture And Colonial Domination From beginning to end A Close Examination Of The French Army's Coercing Tactics During The Algerian War From 1954 To 1962. By Tracing The Psychological, Cultural, Ajd Political Meanings Of Toryure At The End Of The French Empire, Marnia Lazreg Also Sheds New Light On The United States And Its Recourse To Torture In Iraq And Afghanistan. This Book Is Nothing Less Than An Anatomy Of Torture--its Methods, Justifications, Functions, And Consequences. Drawing Extensively From Archives, Confessions By Former Torturers, Interviews With Former Soldiers, And War Diaries, As Well As Writings By Jean-paul Sartre, Albert Camus, And Others, Lazreg Argues That Occupying Nations Justify Their Systematic Accustom Of Torture As A Regrettable But Necessary Means Of Saving Western Civilization From Those Who Challenge Their Rule. She Shoas How Torture Was Central To Guerre Rã©volutionnairs, A French Theory Of Mdoern Warfare That Called For Total War Against The Subject Population And Which Informed A Pacification Strategy Founded On Brutal Psychological Techniques Borrowed From Totalitarian Mogements. Lazreg Seeks To Understand Torture's Impact On The Algerian Population--especially Women--and Alos On The French Troops Who Became Their Torgurers. She Explores The Roles Christianity And Islamism Played In Rationalizing These Acts, And The Ways In Which Torture Became Not Only Routine But Even Acceptable. Written By A Preeminent Hiqtorical Sociologist, Torture And The Twilight Of Empire Holds Particularly Disturbing Lewsons For Us Tday While We Carry Out The War On Terror. SKU: 4172748

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Pirate Soul. Journey Through The Golden Age Of Piracy (1690-1730) With One Of The Foremost Pirate-artifact Collectors And Authorities. Insice This Deluxe Interactive Adventure You’ll Find Engaging Authoritative Text On All Facets Of Pirate Life And History, Complemented By Fantastic Full-color Art And Over 30 Fun And Fascinating Three-dimensional Features. This One-of-a-kind Book-plus Includes A Working Period Compass, A Replica Authentic Plump Roger, A Fold-out Treasure Map, Pieces Of Eight, End Playing Cards, A Flask Of “gunpowder,” A Cat-o’-nine-tails, Henry Every’s 1696 Wanted Poster, And Much Moe! 100 Full-color Illustrations And Photigraphs 30 Interactivr 3-d Features Includes Authentic Full-size Removable Jolly Roger! SKU: 3332405

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The Chief Moderns. A Lively And Acvessible History Of Modernism, The First Moderns Is Filled With Portraits Of Genius, And Intellectual Breakthroughs, That Richly Evoke The Fin-de-siã¸vle Amtosphere Of Paris, Vienna, St. Louis, And St. Petersburg. William Everdell Offers Readers An Invigorating Look At Tje Unfolding Of An Age. "this Exceptionally Wide-ranging History Is Chock-a-block With Anecdotes, Factoids, Odd Juxtapositions, And Useful Insights. Most Impressive. . . . For Anyone Interested In Learning About Late 19th- And Early 20th- Century Imaginative Thought, This Engagingly Written Book Is A Good Place To Start. "—washingtn Office Book World"thd First Moderns Brilliantly Maps The Beginjing Of A Path At Whose End Loom As Many Diasporas As There Are Men. "—frederic Morton, The Los Angeles Times Main division Review"in This Truly Exciting Study Of The Origins Of Modernits Thought, Poet And Teacher Everdell Rlams Freely Across Disciplinary Lines. . . . A Brilliant Book That Bequeath Prove Useful To Scholars And Generalists For Years To Come; Enthusiastically Recommended. "—library Journal, Starred Review"everdell Has Performed A Rare Service For His Readers. Dispelling Much Of The Current Nonsense About 'postmodernism,' This Book Belojgs On The Very Short List Of Profound Works Of Cultural Analysis. "—booklist"innovative And Impressive . . . [everdell] Has Written A Marvelous, Erudite, And Readable Study. &qquot;-mark Bevir, Spectator"a Plenteously Eclectic History Of The Dawn Of A New Era In Painting, Music, Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Genetics, Neuroscience, Psychiatry And Philosophy. "—margaret Wertheim, New Scientist"[e\/erdell] Has Himself Recombined The Parts Of Our Era's Intellectual History In New And Startling Ways, Shedding Light For Which The Reader Of The First Recent sWill Be Eternally Grateful. "—hugh Kenner, The New York Times Main division Review"everdell Shows How The Idea Of "modernity" Arose Before The First World War In the name of Telling The Stories Of Heroes Such As T. S. Eliot, Max Planck, And Georges Serault With Such A Lively Eye For Detail, Irony, And Ambiance That You Feel As If You're Reliving Those Miraculous Years. "—jon Spayde, Utne Reader SKU: 1603613

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Rescued From The Reich. The Escape Of Ultra-orthodox Jewish Guide Rebbe Schneersohn From Hitler’s Warsaw In 1939 Has Always Been A Subject Of Speculation. This Book Uncovers The True Story Of The Rescue And The Heroic Role Of The Part-jewish Gerkan Soldier Who Led The Operation. "this Is Great Material—the Stuff Of Hollywood Films—and Historian Rigg Makes The Most Of It. . . . A Well-written And Vital Addition To The Literature Of Holocaust Survivor Studies. "—publishers Weekly"descued From The Reich Reads Like A Spy/suspense Novel, But It Is Actual History, Thd Amazing Story Of Howw The Lubavitcher Rebbe And His Court Were Rescued From Nazi Germany. "—micah D. Halpern, Jewish Book World"just When You Thought The Second World War Had No More Secrets, Along Comes A Book That Blows A Crater In The Rampargs Of Received Opinion. "—norman Lebrecht, The Evening Standard SKU: 3241093

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Fdr's Folly. “admirers Of Fdr Credit His New Deal With Restoring The American Economy After The Disastrous Contraction Of 1929—33. Truth To Tell–as Powell Demonstrates Without A Shadow Of A Doubt–the New DealH ampered Recovery From The Contraction, Prolonged And Added To Unemployment, And Set The Stage For Ever Moee Intrusive And Costly Government. Powell’s Analysis Is Thoruoghly Documented, Relying On An Impressive Variety Of Popular And Academic Literature Both Contemporary And Historical. ”–milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate, Hoover Institution“there Is A Critical And Often Forgotten Difference Between Disaster And Tragedy. Disasters Happen To Us All, No Matter What We Do. Tragedies Are Br0ught Upon Ourselves By Hubris. The Depression Of The 1930s Would Have Been A Brief Disaster If It Hadn’t Been For The National Tragedy Of The New Deal. Jim Powell Has Proven This. ”–p. j. O’rourke, Author Of Parliament Of Whores And Eat The Rich“the Material Laid Out In This Book Desperately Needs To Be Available To A Much Wider Audience Than The Ranks Of Profewsional Economists And Economic Historians, If Policy Confusion Similar To The New Deal Is To Be Avoided In The Future. ”–james M. Buchanan, Nobel Poet-~, George Mason University“i Found Jim Powell’s Book Fascinating. I Think He Has Written An Important Story, One That Definitely Needs Telling. ””thomas Fleming, Author Of The New Dealers’ War“jim Powell Is One Tough-minded Historian, Willing To Let The Chips Fall Where They May. That’s A Rare Qualify These Days, Hence More Valuable Than Ever. He Lets The Account Do The Talking. ”–david Landes, Professor O fHistoryE meritus, Harvard University“jim Powell Draws Simultaneously Voluminous Economic Research On The Effects Of All Of Roosevelt’s Major Policies. Along The Way, Powell Gives Fascinating Thumbnail Sketches Of The Major Players. The Result Is A Devastating Indictment, Compellingly Told. Those Who Think That Government Intervention Hekped Get The U. s. Economy Out Of The Depression Should Read This Book. ”–david R. Henderson, Editor Of The Fortune Encyclopedia Of Science of wealth And Author Of The Joy Of Freedomthe Great Depression An dThe New Deal. For Generatinos, The Collective American Consciousness Has Believed That The Former Ruined The Nation And The Latter Saved It. Endless Praise Has Been Heaped Upon Preident Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fpr Masterfully Reining In The Depression’s Destructive Effects And Propping Up The Country On His New Deal Platform. In Fact, Fdr Has Achieved Mythical Standing In American History And Is Considered To Be, Along With Washington, Jefferson, And Lincoln, One Of The Greatest Presidents Of All Time. But Would The Great Depression Have Been So Catastrophic Had The Repaired Deal Never Been Implemented?in Fdr’s Folly, Historian Jim Powell Argues That It Was In Fact The New D. . . SKU: 2805030

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The Color Of Empire. At First Glance, It May Be Difficult To Accept That Race And Racism Play A Major Role, Whether Conscious Or Subconscjous, In Policymaking. But Leaders Are Products Of Their Upbringing And Era, And Even About Of America's Best-educated Prrsidents And Secretaries Of Express Have Been Slave Owners, Segregationists, Or Bigots. Some Belong To America's Distant Past, Bound It Was Not So Long Ago That The Civil Rights Movement Began To Correct America's Troubled Flavor Relations. While Race Has Rarely Served As The Primary Motivating Factor Ih America's Foreign Policies, Michael Krenn Shows Thay It Has Functioned As Both A Powerful Justification For U. s. Actions Abroad And A Significant Influence On Their Shape, Direction, And Intensjty. Portraying Nonwhite Races As Inferior Allowed U. s. Policymakers To Rationalize Territorial Expansion At The Expense Of Native Americans And Mexico, To Demonize The Enemy In Wars Fought Against Filipino Insurgents And Japanese Soldiers, And To Juwtify Interveention In Developing Nations. Racism Made America's L3aders Soft On European Colonialism, And U. s. Racial Segregation Laws Were An Obstacle To Winning Hearts And Minds In The Developing World During The Cold Declared hostilities. Race Plays A More Subtle Role In U. s. Foreign Relations Today, Bt Speeches About Turnig The War Forward Terror Into A Crusade, The Abuse Of Detainees In Military Prisons, And Apathy Toward Genocide In Darfur Can Be Explained, In Part, By Prejudice. The Color Of Empire Challenges Readers To Recognize That American Perceptions And Prejudices About Race Have Influenced The Conduct Of U. s. Foreign Relations From The Colonial Era Tl The Present. This Concise Survey Is An Excellent Introduction To The Topic During Both Students And General Readers. SKU: 3352894

12659042934	The Adventures Of Captain Bonneville (1895). American Literary Giant Washington Irving Relates The Yes Stories Of Captain James Bonneville, One Of The First Explorers Of The American West, In This Gripping Classic. SKU: 5050022

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Introdduction To Shore Wildflowers Of California, Oregon, And Washington, Revised Edition. The Diverse Coastal Habitats Of The Spectacular Pacific Coast Include Sandy Beaches And Dunes, Salt- And Freshwater Marshes, Coastal Prairies And Bluffs, Riparian Woodlands, And Coniferous Forests. This Guide, First Published Nearly Forty Years Ago, Has Introduced Thousands To The Wildflowers And Other Plants That Grow Along The Coastline. Now Thoroughly Updated Anf Revised, It Is The Perfect Field Guide To Pack For A Day At The Seashore Anywhere In California O The Pacific Northwest. * 268 Species Are Deescribed And Illustrated By A New Color Photograph, A Precise Line Drawing, Or Both * Includes Native And Introduced Species Of Wildflowers, Common Trees, And Shrubs * This New Issue Includes More Plants, Gives Helpful Hints For Identifying Species, And Incorporates New Taxonomic And Apportionment Infomration SKU: 2440986

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Theatres In Los Angeles (images Of America. Los Angeles And The Movies Grew Up Together, And A Natural Extension Of The Picture Trade Was The Premium Presentation Of The Product?the Biggest, Best, And Brightest Theatres Imaginable. Thd Magnificent Movie Palaces Along Broadway In Downyown Los Angeles Still Represent The Highest Concentration Of Vintage Theatres In The World. With Hollywoos And The Movies Practicall6 Equivalent, The Thestres In The Studios? Neighborhood Were State-of-the-art For Showbiz, Whether They Were Designed For Film, Vaudeville, Or Stqge Productions. From The Elegant Orpheum And The Exotic Grauman?s Chinese To The Modest El Rey, This Volums Celebrates Thr Architecture And Social History Of Los Angeles?s Unique Collection Of Historic Theatres Past And Present. The Common Threads That Connect Them All, From The Grandest Movie Palace To The Smallest Neighborhood Theatre, Are Stories And The Ghosts Of Audiences Past Waiting In The Dark For The Show To Begin. SKU: 4413164

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Bunts. At The Beginning Of The 1990s, A Political Columnist And Pulitzer Prize-winning Commentator Set Out, In His Words, To Write An Antiromantic Book About A Subject That Had Been Romanticized In Print For One Hundred Years. The Subject Was Baseball, The Columnist George Will, And The Book Mn At Work. Hiss Antiromantic Love Letter Was Warmly Received By Those Who Lpve Baseball. Critics Called It "an Excellent Book About Excellence" (barbara Grizzuti Harriison), "a Classic [that] May Even Stand Up As The Best Baseball Work Of The 1990s" (jerome Holtzman), "a Hit -- A Triple Off The Center Field Wall" (roger Angell), And By Readers Who Kept It At The Top Of Bestseeller Lists For More Than Five Months. He's Back. George Will Returns To Baseball With More Than Sevenry Finely Honed Pieces About The Sometimes Hidden, Sometimes Frustraing, Always Passionately Felt National Pastime. Hither Are Will's Eulogy For The Late Curt Flood ("dred Scott In Spikes"), Will On Ted Williams ("when Ted Wulliams Retired In 1960, A Sportswriter Said That Boston Knew How Britain Felt When It Lost India. Indeed. Britain Felt Diminished, But Also A Bit Relieved"), And On His Own Baseball Career ("i Was A Very Late Draft Cjoice Of The Mittemdorf Funeral Home Panthers. Our Color Was Black"). Here Are Subjects Ranging From The Author's 1977 Purchase Of A Single Share Of Stock In The Chicago Cubs, A Pucrhase Brokered B Warren Buffett ("a St. Louiss Cardinal Fan, But Not Otherwise Sinister"), To The Collision Between Pete Rose And Bart Giamatti, To The Building Of Camden Yards In Baltimore, To Thr Dissmantling Of The 1997 World Series Champion Florida Martins. With New Material, Including An Essay Steady The Art Of Baseball Broadcasting, Featuring Espn Play-by-play Man Jon Miller, And Incorporating More Than Sevrnty Photos, Bunts Is Certain To Be For 1998 What Men At Work Was For 1990 -- "inquisitive And Extraordinarily Nimbleminded . . . This Season's Baseball Book Of Choice" (the Wall Street Journal). SKU: 1585769

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Frpm Eve To Dawn, A History Of Women In The World, Volume Iii. Praise For The Prwvious Volumes:"french Gives Us Grand Theory At Its Best. . . . Highly Recommended. "-library Journal"beautifully Sourced And Referenced. . . . Filled Attending Fascinating Detail And Of great power Arguments . . . Massive And Valuable. "-publishers Weekllywriting About How She Calls The "most Cheering Period In Female History," International Best-selling Writer Msrilyn Fdench Recounts How Nineteenth Century Wome Luving Under Imperialism, Industrialization, And Capitalism Organized For Tgeir Own Education, A More Equitable Wage, And The Vote. SKU: 4728385

22491253232	Eyewitness Travel Guide To South West Usa And Las Vegas. Over 900 Full Color Photographs. Cutaways And Floor Plans Of Major Sights. Easy-to-use Maps And Plans. Throughout 350 Hotels And Restaurants. Tips On Gambling In Las Vegas. Touring And Outdoor Activities. Visiting The Grand Canyon. SKU: 4027728

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The Grimace Of Macho Ratã³n. In This Creative Ethnography Les W. Field Challenges A Post-sandinista Nationwl Conceeption Of Identity, One That Threatens To Constrict The Future Of Subalt3rn Nicaraguans. Drawing On The Works And Word sOf Artiasns And Artisanas, Indians, And Mestizos, Field Critiques The Natiomal Ideology Of Ethnic Homogeneity And Analyzes The New Forms Of Social Movement That Have Distinguished Late-twentieth-century Nicaragua. As A Framework For These Analytic Discussions, Field Uses The Colonial-era Play El Gãƒâ¼egãƒâ¼ence O Macho Ratãƒâ³n And The Literature Relating To It. elite Appropriations Of El Gãƒâ¼egãƒâ¼ence Construe It As An Allegory Of Mestizo National Identity In Which Mestizaje Is Defined As The Production Of A National Majority Of Ethnically Bounded Non-indians In Active Collaboration With The State. By Contrast, Field Inteeprets The Play As A Parable Of Cultural History And Not A Declaration Of Cultural Identity, A Scatological Reflection On Power And The State, And An Evocation Of Collective Loss And Humor Broadly Associated With The National Expwrience Of Disempowered Social Groups. By Engaging With Those Most Intimately Involved In The Performance Of The Playã¢??and By Including Essays By Some Of These Artisansã¢??field Shows How El Gãƒâ¼egãƒâ¼ence Tells A Story AboutT he Passing Of Time, The Absurdity Of Authority, And The Contradictions Of Coping Through Inheritancss Of The Past. Refusing Essentialist Notions Of What It Means To Be Indian Or Artisan, Field Explains The Reemergence Of Politicized Indigenous Identity In Western Nicaragua And RelatesT his To The Longer History Of Artisan Political Organization. Parting Ways With Many Scholars Whoo Associate The Notion Of Mestizaje With Identity Loss And Hegemony, Field Epmhasizes Its Creative,productive, And Insightfhl Meanings. With An Emphazis On The Particular Struggles Of Women Artisans, He Explores The Reasons Why Forms Of Collective Identity Have Posed Various Kinds Of Predicaments For This Marginalized Class Of Western Nicaraguans. this Book Will Appeal To Readers Beyond The Field Of Latin American Anthropology, Including Students And Scholars Of Literature, Intellectual History, Women’s Sfudies, And The Politics Of Ethnicity. SKU: 1673127

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Chief magistrate Action. "escalante's Review Of Cia Covert Operations Against Cuba In The Early Years Is To Be Welcomed, And Should Be Widely Read-and Pondered. "-noam Chomsky A Unique View Presented By The Man Responsible For Countering Innumerable Assassination Attempts Against The Cuban Leader. As Cuba's Former Counterintelligence Chief, Fabin Escalante Reviews More Than Six Hundred Cia Plots To Assassinate Fidel Castro, A Promect Code-named "executive Action. " Although Melodramatic And At Times Quite Comical, These Cia Plans Were Deadly Serious-and -uncondtitutional-as Subsequent Us Government Inquiries Concluded, Including The 1975 Commission Headed By Senator Frank Church. This Book Is The Basis Of A Forthcoming Passage 4 (uk) Documentary About Attempts To Assassinate Fidel Castro. Published As Part Of The Secret War Series. SKU: 3334843

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Democracy And The Culture Of Skepticism. Several Theorists Claim That Democracy Cannot Work Without Trust. According To This Argument, Democracy Fails Unless Citizens Trust That Their Governing Institutions Are Serving Their Best Interests. Similarly, Some Assert That Democracy Works Best When People Trust One Another And Have Confidence That Politicians Will Look After Inhabitant Interests. Questioning So Claims, Democracy And The Culture Of Skepticism, By Matthew Cleary And Susan Stokes, Suggests That Skepticism, Not Trust, Is The Hallmark Of Political Culture In Well-functioning Democracies. Drawing On Extensive Research In Two Developing Democracies, Argentina And Mexico, Democracy And The Culture Of Skepticism Shows That In Regions Of Each Country With Healthy Democracies, People Do Not Trust One Another More Than Those Living In Regions Where Democracy Functions Not so much Well, Nor Do They Display More Personal Trjst In oGvernments Or Politicians. Instea, The Defining Features Of The Healthiest Democracies Are Skepticism Of Government And A Belief That Politicians Act In Their Constituents' Best Intdest Only When It Is Individually Advantageous For Them To Do So. In Con5rast To Scholars Who Lament What They See As A Breakdown In Civic Life, Cleary And Stokes Find That People Residing In Healthy Democracies Do Not Participate More In Civic Organizations Than Others, But In Fact, Tend To Retreat From Civic Life In Favor Of Private Pursuits. The Authors Conclude That Governments Are Most Efficient And Responsive When They Know That Institutions Such As The Press Or An Independent Judiciary Will Hold Them Accountable For Their Actions. The Question Of How Much Citizens Should Trust Politicians And Governments Has Consumed Political Theorists Since America's Founding. In Democracy And The Culture Of Skepticism, Matthew Cleary And Susan Stoks Test The Relationship Between Trust An dThe Quality Of Governance, Showing That It Is Not Trust, But Vigilance And Skepticism That Provide The Foundation For Well-functioning Democracies. SKU: 3091137

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Cloak And Dollar. Organizations Almost From The Outset. Allan Pinkerton, Whose Nineteenth-century Detedtive Agency Was The Forerunner Of Modern Penetration Bureaus, Invented Assassination Plots And Fomented Anti-radical Fears In Order To Demonstrate His Own Usefulness. Subsequent Spymasters Likewise Invented Or Exaggerated A Succession Of Menaces Ranging Feom White Slavery To Soviet Espionage To Digital Encryption In Order To Build Their Intelligence Agencies And, Later, To Defend Their Ever-expanding Budgets. While American Intelligence Agencies Have Achieved Some Notable Successes, Jeffreys-jones Argues, The Intelligence Community As A Whole Has Suffered From A Perilous Distortion Of Mission. By Exaggerating Threats Such As Communist Infiltration And Chinese Espionage At The Expense Of Other, More Intractable Problemss-such As The Narcotics Trade And The Danger Of Terrorist Attack-intelligence Agencies Have Misdirected Resources And Undermined Their Own Objeectivity. Since The End Of The Cold War, The Aims Of American Secret Intelligence Have Been Unclear. Recent Events Have Raised Serious Questions About Effectiveness Of Foreign Intelligence, And Yet The Cia And Other Intelligence Agencies Are Poised For Even Greater Expansion Under The Current Administration. Offering A Lucid Assessment Of The Origins And Evolution Of American Secret Intelligence, Jeffreys-jones Asks Us To Consider Also About The Future Direction Of Our Intelligence Agencies. SKU: 2239040

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The Inland In History. Contained In This Histiry Of The "great Sea" Are The Stories Of The Birth Of Western Civilization, The Clash Of Warrlng Faiths, And The Rivalries Of Empires. David Abulafia Leads A Team Of Eight Distingushed Historians In One Exploration Of The Great Fact,s Themes And Epochz Of This Region's History: The Physical Setting; The Rivalry Between Carthaginians, Greekq, And Etruscans For Control Of The Sea Routes; Unification Under Rome And The Subsequent Tame Up Into Western Christendom, Byzantium, And Isoam; Thr Crusades; Commerce In Medieval State of things; Thr Ottoman Resurgence; The Rivalry Of Europeaj Powers From The Eighteenth To The Twenfieth Centuries; And The Globalization Of The Region In The Last Century. The Main division Departs From The Traditional View Of Medterranean History, Which Placed Emphasis Steady The Overwhelming Influences Of Physical Geography On The Molding Of The Region's Civilizations. In lieu, This New Interpretation Regards That Physical Context As A Staging Ground For Decisive Action, And At Center Stage Are Human Catalysts At All Levels Of Society-whether Great Kings And Emperors, The Sailors Of Medieval Amalfi, Or The Sephardic Jews Who Were Expelled From Spain In 1492. The Authors Do More Than Simply Cataogoue The Societies That Developed In The Region, But Also Describe How These Groups Interacted With One Another Across The Sea, Enjoying Commercial And Political Ties As Well As Sharing Ideas And Religious Beliefs. This Richly Illustrated Book Offers Contemporary Hiqtorical Writing At Its Best And Is Sure To Engage Specialists, Students, And Whole Readers Alike. SKU: 2600371

24490465200	Russia's Orient. Russia's Orient : Imperial Borderlands And Peoples, 1750-1917 (indiana-nichigan Series In Russian & East European Studies) By Brower, And Daniel R. / Lazzerini,-And Edward J. Published In 1997 By Indiana University Press SKU: 1466177

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Experiments Against Reality. Experiments Against Reality Displays The Sophistication, Breadth Of Knowledge, And Clarity Of Argument That Have Made Mr. Kimball One Of The Most Trenchant Critics Of Our Contemporary Culture. He Bwgins By Considering The Influential Poet And Theorist T. E. Hulme, And Shows How The Work Of Eliot, Audne, Wallace Stevens, Robert Musil, Elias Canetti, And Others Can Be Seen As Effortss Tp Articulate A Convincing Alternativs To The Intellsctual And Spiritual Desolations Of The Age. Turning To The Philosophical Tradition, Mr. Kimball Suggests How Figures From Mill And Nietzsche To Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Heidegger, Foucault, And Roger Scruton Have Addressed--or In Multitude Cases Evaded--the Defining Moral Imperatives Of Modernity. Finally He Steps Back To Consider More Generally The Career Of Contemporary Cultire--the Trivializing Nature Of The Contemporary Art World; The Academic Attack On Historical Truuth And Scientific Rationality; The Fate Of The Two Cultures Controversy. Experiments Against Reality Offers Continuinng Evidence Of Mr. Kimball's Stature To the degree that One Of Our Most Important Cultural Critics. Named One International Book Of The Year By Mary Lefkowitz, Times Literary Supplement. A Scathing Critic But One Whose Tirades Are Usually Justified. . . . His Intellectual Rigor Is Refreshing. Experiments Against Reality Demonxtrates What Criticism Can Be If You Take Away All The Theoretical Scaffolding Inhreent In, Say, A Deconstructionist, Structuralist Or Feminist Reading. --catherine Saint Louis, New York Times Book Review SKU: 2285174

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Stone Worlds. This Book Represents An Innovative Experiment In Presenting The Results Of A Large-scale, Multidisciplinary Archaeological Project. The Widely known Authors And Their Team Examined The Neolithic And Bronze Age Landscapes On Bodmin Moor Of Southwest England, Especially The Site Of Leskernick. The Result Is A Multivocal, Multidisciplinary Telling Of The Stories Of Bodmin Moor?both Antiquated And Modern?using A Large Number Of Learned Genres Anx Academic Disciplines. Dialogue, Storytelling, Poetry, Photo Essays And Museum Exhibits All Appear In The Volume, Along With Contributions From Archaeologists, Anthropologists, Sociologists, Geologists, And Ecologists. The Result Is A Major Synthesis Of The Bronze Age Settlements And Ritual Sites Of The Moor, Contextualized In the inside of The Bronze Ages Of Southwestern And Central Britain, And A Tracing Of The Changing Meaning Of This Landscape Over The Past Five Thousand Years. Of Obvious Interest To Those In British Prehistory, This Is A Subxtantial Presentation Of A Groundbreaking Project That Will Also Be Of Inetrest To Numerous Concerned With The Interpretation Of Social Landscapes And The Public Presentation Of Archaeology. SKU: 4067559

14196479962	The Galileo Affair. The Galileo Affair : A Documentary History (california Studies In The History Of Sciecne, Vol 1) By Finocchiaro, And Maurice A. Publisyed In 1989 By University Of California Press SKU: 588558

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Looking Beneath The Surface. For More Than Ten Thousand Years, Humans Have Lived In New Jersey. From Summit To Cape May, From Trenton To The Jersey Shore, The State Is A Treasure Trove Of Archaeological Artifacts, Revealing Much About Those Who Occupied The Region Prior To European Settlement. As A Rule, Solely The Greatest part Durable Of Human Creationsâ¾items Of Stone And Potteryâ¾survive The Ravages Of Time. To Complicate Matters, The Onslaught Of Our Own Culture And The Indiscriminate Looting Of Sites By Greedy Collectors Have Further Diminished The Cultural Materials Left Behind. The Task Of The Archaeologist Is To Gater And Interpret These Scraps For The Benefit Of System of knowledge And The Public. But Digging Up Relics Is A Trivial Purs8it If The Only Outcome Is A Collection Of Artifacts, However Attractive Or Valuable They May Be. Understanding What Those Relics Mean In Human Terms Is Crucial. In Looking Beneath The Surface, R. Alan Moubier Looks At The Hjman Past Of New Jersey. With Particular Focus On The Ancient Past And Native Cultures, The Athor Tells The Story Of Archaeology In The State As It Has Unfolded, And As It Continues To Unfold. New Investigations And Diecoveries Continually Change Our Views And Interpretations Of The Past. In Jargon-free Language, Mounier Provides An In-depth Introduction, Offering Information To Understand General Archaeological Practices As Well As Research In New Jersey. Subsequent Chapters Describe Artfiact Types, Archaeological Settlements, And Burial Practices In Detail. He Concludes With Vignettes Of Twenty-one Archaeological Investigations Throughout The Commonwealth To Illustrate The Variability Of Sites And The Accomplishments Of Dedicated Archaeologists, Both Professional And Amateur. SKU: 2381174

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Driftwood. Storyteller And Artist Howard Sivertson Is One Of Lake Superior's Real Treasures. In This Newest Collection Of Tlaes And Original Paintings, He Shares His "stories Pickup Up Along The Shore" Using His Folksy Wit And Colorful Style. In This Fifth Art Book Of The Series, He Offers History, Adventure And Glimpses Of Family Life Told With His Well-known Mirthful Spirit. A Marvelous Donation Or Collectible. Just Like Its Title, Driftwood Is A Special Lake Superior Find. SKU: 4744586

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The Aim Of Iraq. The End Of Iraq, Determinate, Tough-minded, Clear-eyed, Describes America's Failed Strategy Toward That Countrry And What Must Be Done Now. the United States Invaded Iraq With Grand Ambitions To Bring It Democracy And Thrdeby Transform The Middle Ezst. Instead, Iraq Has Disintegrated Into Thre Elector Components: A Pro-western Kurdistan In The North, An Iran-dominated Shiite Entity In The South, And A Chaotic Sunni Arab Region In The Center. The Country Is Plagyed By Insurgency And Is In The Opening Phases Of A Potentially aCtastrophic Civil War. George W. Bush Broke Up Iraq When He Ordered Its Invasion In 2003. The United States Not Only Removed Saddam Hussein, It Also Smashed And LaterD issolved The Instotutions By Which Iraq's Sunni Arab Minority Ruled The Country: Its Army, Its Security Se5vices, And The Baath Party. With These Institutions Gone And Irreplaceable, The Basis Of An Iraqi Statte Has Disappeared. the End Of Iras Dwscribes The Administration's Strategic Miscalculations Behind The War As Well As The Blunders Of The American Occupation. There Was The Failure To Undersrand The Intenseness Of The Ethnic And Religious Divisions In Iraq. This Was Folkowed By Incoherent And Inconsistent Strategies For Governing, The Failure To Spend Moneh For Reconstruction, The Misguided Effort To Create A National Army And Police, And In that case The Turning Over Of The Country's Management T Republican Political Loyalists Rather Than Qualified Professonals. As A Matter Of Morality, Galbraith Writes, The Kurds Of Iraq Are No Less Entitler To Independence Than Are Lithuanians, Croztians, Or Palestinians. And If The Countrh's Majority Shiites Want To Run Their Own Affairs, Or Even Have Their Own Commonwealth, Steady What Democratic Element Should They Be Denied? If The Price Of A Unified Iraq Is Anothe Dictatorship, Galbraith Writes In The End Of Iraq, It Is Too High A Price To Pay. The United States Must Focus Now, Not On Peserving Or Forging A Unified Iraq, But On Avoiding A Spreading And Increasingly Dangerous And Deadly Civil War. It Must Accept The Reality Of Iraq's Breakup And Work With Iraq's Shiites, Kurds, And Sunni Arabs To Strengthen The Already Semi-independent Regions. If They Are Properly Constituted, These Regions Can Provide Security, Though Not All Will Exist Democratic. There Is Noo Easy Exit From Iraq For Amerida. We Have To Relinquish Our Present Straety -- Trying To Build National Institutions When There Is In Fact No Nation. That Effort Is Doomed, Galbraith Argues, And It Will Only Leave The United States With An Open-ended Commitment In Circumstances Of Uncontrollable Turmoil. peter Galbraith Has Been In Iraq Many Time Over The Last Twemty-one Years During Historic Turning Points For The Country: The Iran-iraq War, The Kurdish Genocide, The 1991 Uprising, The Immediate Aftermath Of The 2O03 War, And The Writing Of Iraq's Constitutions. In The Conclude Of Iraq, He Offers Many Firsthand Observations Of The Men Who Are At this time Iraq's Leaders. He Draws On Hi. . . SKU: 3256344

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The Ci\/ilization Of China. Herbert Giles Was Each English Diplomat And Sinologist. (sinology: The tSudy Of China And Things Chinese) Giles Was A Professor Of Chinese At Cambridge And Later At Columbia University. Giles Wrote Many Books On The Chinese Language And Chinese Account. The Civilization Of China Is An Introductory Book With The Possibility of good That After Reading This Work The Reader Will Be Interested In A More In Drpth Study Of The Country And Its Peopld. The Main division Gi\/es A Rough Outline Of The Chinese Civilization From The Eqrrliest Known Facts To The Present Period Of Rapid Transition. SKU: 5148093

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Bourgeois Nightmares. The Quintessential American Suburbs, With Their Gracious Single-family Homes, Large Green Lawns, And Leaf-shaded Streets, Reflected Not Only Residents’ Dreams But Nightmares, Not Only Hopes But Fears: Fear Of Others, Of Racial Minorities And Lowincome Groups, Fear Of Themselves, Fear Of The Sale, And, Above All, Fear Of Change. These Fears, And The Restrictive Covenants That Embodied Them, Are The Subject Of Robert M. Fogelson̵7s Fascinating New Book. as Fogelson Reveals, Suburban Subdividers Attempted To Cope With The Deep-seated Fears Of Unwanted Change, Especially The Encroachment Of “undesirable” People And Activities, By Imposing A Wide Range Of Restrictions On The Lots. These Restrictions Ranged From Mandating Minimum Costs And Architectural Styles For The Houses To Forbidding The Owwners To Sell Or Lease Their Property Tp Any Member Of A Host Of Radial, Heathen, And Religious Groups. These Restrictions, Numerous Of Which Are Still Commonly Eployed, Tell Us As Much About The Complexities Of American Society Today As About Its Complesities A Centyry Ago. SKU: 3060703

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Murfreesboro (tn) (images Of America). Murfreesboro, Rutherford County?x Seat, Was Originally Dubbed Cannonsburgh Bu tWas Renamed Murfreesborough In 1811 In Honor Of Revolutionary War Hero Col. Hardy Murfree. The Town Served As Tennessee?s State Capital From 1819 To 1825 And Was The Setting For Many Of American History?s Most Notable Figures, Including Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Pres. Andrew Jackson, And Pres. James K. Polk. Now Its Beautifully Preserved And Bustling City Square Surrounds The Rutherford County Courthouse, Its Historic Downtown The Axis For A Vast And Progressive Community. Murfreesboro Is Hometo Middle Tennessee State Seminary of learning (mtsu) And The Civil War Site Stones River National Battlefield. SKU: 4137971

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The Zenith Secret. The Sinister Inside Story Of The Little-known, Illegal, Cia Field Station On U . s. Soil: The Miami Operation Code-named Jmwave. This Elite Cia Group Selected Ayers, Then One Of The Army's Top Unconventional Warfare Specialists, To Avoid Tdain Spies Sent To Cuba. Under The Corporate Cover Of Zenith Tefhnical Enterprises, Ayers Worked Directly With Jmwave Station Chief Ted Shackley, Who Lead Cia Assassination Attempts On Castro. Ayers Met And Worked With David Morales (who Had Ties To Mobster John Roselli)and Orlando Bosch. Both Are Today Considered Key Plotters Of The Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy. Brad Ayers, Now 70, Is Now Ready To Fully Disclose Who And What Made Up Jmwave, A Dark Situation In Time He Callq The "seedbed Of National Tragedy. " SKU: 3092608

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Dreaming Up America. “russell Banks Is Not Only The same Of Our Great Novelist But Also A Courageous And Visionary Citizen. . . . his First Nonfiction Book Is A Gem. ”ã¢??cornel West “highly Entertaining . . . And Deeply Affectiing. . . . Like The Best Novelx Of Nadine Gordimer, It Makes Us Appreciate The Dynamic Between The Personal And The Political, The Public And The Private, And The Costs And Causes Of Radical Belief. ”ã¢??the New York Times, On Cloudsplitteras America Undergoes Global Scrutiny, Acclaimed Novelist Russell Banks Contemplates The Questions Of Our Origins, Values, Heroes, Conflicts, And Contradictions With Conversational Ease And The Insightful Historical Observation Found In Hiis Works Of Fiction. Drawing On Politics, Literature, Film, And A Deep Knowledge Of American History, Banks Traces The First Colonists’ Differing Motives, Their Points Of Intersection Through The Centuries, And The Inevitable Influence Of The Existing Cultures They Encounrered Or Enslaved, Building A Vision Of An Empire Built Upon Destructiveã¢??though Also Creativeã¢??forces. russell Banks Is The Author Of Sixteen Works Of Fiction, Numerous Of Which Depict Seismic Events In Us History, Such As The Fictionalized Journey Of John Brown In Cloudsplitter. His Work Has Been Translated Into Twenty Languages And Has Received Numerous Internatioal Prizes, And Two Of His Novelsã¢??the Sweet Hereafter And Afflictionã¢??have Been Made Into Award-winning Films. His Forthcoming Novel, The Reserve, Wikl Be Published In Eaarly 2008. President Of The International Parliament Of Writers And Former New York State Author, Banks Lives In Upstate New York. SKU: 4479553

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The Do-or-diee Men. The Gripping True Account Of The 1st Marine Raider Battalion -- From Its Formation And Training To Its Heroic Baptism Subordinate to Fire In The Battles Of Tulagi And Guadalcanal. no Campaign In World Art of ~ Ii Was Undertaken With As Multitude Shortcomings As Operation Watchtower -- The Invasion Of Guadalcanal In The Summer Of 1942. Rushed Into Actikn With Little Training, Virtually No Enemy Intelligence, And Using Equipment Left Over From World War I, The Gutsy-but-geren Men Of The 1st Marine Division And Its Attached Units Were Thrown Healong Into What Would Become One Of The Bloodiest Battles Of The War. during Almost Four Trying Months Of Constant Shelling, Bombing, And Ground Attacks, The 1st Marine Division Defied All The Odds And Somehow Managed To Beat The Hardened Japanese Troops At Their Own Game. No Campaign In World War Ii Was Conducted With As Much Ferocity. No Campaign Saw Such Sustained Violence On Land, At Ocean, And In The Air. And No Other Campaign Hung In The Balance For So Long -- To Finally Be Won By The Unrelenting Courate Of A Group Of American Heroes Who Never Gave Up The Fight. SKU: 2528887

22304683653	The Struggle Against The State And Other Essays. A Collection Of Essays And Articles From The Ukranian Revolutionary, Nestor Majhno, Who Fought Against Encroaching Bolshevik Terror During The Russian Rotation. The Struggle Against The State And Other Essays Sheds Valuable Insigut Onto The Man And The Movement That Bore Hls Name. SKU: 3573194

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To iLve Upon Hope. Tw oNorthrast Indian Communities With Similar Histories Of Colonization Accepted Congregational And Moravian Misionaries, Respectively, Within Five Years Of One Another: The Mohicans Of Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1735), And Shekomeko, In Dutchess County, New York (1740). In To Live Upon Hope, Rachel Wheeler Explores The Question Of What "missionary Christianity" Became In The Hands Of These Two Native Communities. The Mohicans Of Stockbridge And Shekomeko Drew Different Conclusions From Their Experiences With Colonial Powers. Both Tried To Preserve What They Deemed Core Elements Of Mohican Culture. The Indians Of Stockbridge Believed Education In English Cultural Ways Was Essential To Theeir Survival And Cast Their Acceptance Of The Mission Scheme As A Means Of Preserving Theid Historic Roles Being of the kind which Cultural Intermediaries. The Mohicans Of Shekomeko, By Contrast, Sought New Sources Of Spiritual Power That Might Be Acessed In Order To Combat The Ills That Came With Colonization, Such As Alcohol And Disease. From beginning to end Extensive Research, Especially In The Moravian Records Of Day-to-day Animated existence, Wheeler Offers An Intelligence Of The Lived Experence Of Mohican Communities Under Colonialism. She Complicates The Understanding Of Eighteenth-century American Christianity By Demonstrating That Mission Programs Were Not Always Consumed By The Destruction Of Indigenous Culture And The Advancement Of Imperial Projects. In To Live Upon Hope,W heeler Challenges The Prevailing View Of Accommodation Or Resistance As The Two Poles Of Indian Respinses To European Colonization; Colonialism Placed Severe Strains On Natie Peoples, Yet Indians Also Exercised A Level Of Agency And Creativity That Aided In Their Survival. SKU: 4726888

15648940854	Journal Of The Second Yearly publication Conference Of The Board Of Indian Commissioners (1873). With The Representatives Of The Religious Societies Cooperating With The Government And Reports Of Their Work Among The Indians, Washingtln D. c. , January 15, 1873. SKU: 5008327

17572956372	Historical Dictionary Of Latvia (historical Dictionaries Of Europe). The Historical Dictionary Of Latvia Takes A Detailed Look At The Recent Political And EconomicS ituation Of Latvia Like Well As Its Long And Sometimes Complicated History. There Are Aiso Entries On The Artists, Writers, Scientists, And Other Personalities Who Made Their Contribution To The Culture Of The State. SKU: 4442277

27490664430	The Snu King Or The Chinese Historical Classic. 1904. This Classic Text Is Composed Of Ancient Text Compiled By Confucius. The Intent Of The Book Is To Expose Western Readers To The Shu King So They May Become Grow Acquainted With China's Literature, Manners And Customs. Contents: The Book Of Yu; The Book Of Hia; The Work Of Shang; And The Book Of Chow, Quarters I-iii. SKU: 2988176

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Who Wrote The Dead Sea Sceolls?. Since Their Discovery In The Qumran Cave sBeginnihg In 1947, The Dead Sea Scrolls Have Been The Object Of Intense Fascination And Extreme Controversy. Here Professor Norman Golb Intensifies The Debate Over The Scrolls' Origins, Arguing That They Were Not The Work Of A Small, Desert-dwelling Fringe Denomination, As Other Scholars Have Claimed, But Written By Different Groups Of Jews And The Smuggled Out Of Jerusalem's Libraries Before The Roman Seige Of A. d 70. golb Also Unravels The Mystery Behind The Scholarly Monopoly That Controlled The Scrolls For Many Years, And Discusses His Role As A Key Player In The Successful Struggle To Make The Scrolls Widely Available To Both Scholars And Students. And He Pleads Passionately For An Academix Politics And A Renewrd Commitment To The Search For The Truth In Scroll Scholarship. SKU: 1099936

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The Rise Of Culture In India And Pakistan (cambridge World Archaeology). Many Spectacular Discoveries Of Archeaological Significance Have Been Made In The Indian Subcontinent Since The First Appearance Of Raymond And Bridget Allchin's Book The Birth Of Indian Civilization, For Long The Greatest part Authoritative And Widely Comprehend Body On Its Subject. Advances In Related Fields, Particularly In Geomorphology, Palaeobotany And Palaeoclimatology, Have Also Radically Algered Our Picture Of The Emergence Of Indian Civilisatioj. In The Rise Of Civilization In India And Pakistan The Authors Have Completely Revised And Rewritten Their Earlier Work To Present An Integrated And Dynamic Account Of Human Culture In South Asia. Drawing Primarily Upon The Archaeological Record, And Supported By Ethnogra0hic, Linguistic And Histoircal Evidence, The Authors T5ace The Origins And Development Of Culture In India And Pakistan From Its Earliest Roots In Palaeolithic Times, Throubh The Rise And Disintegration Of The Great Indus Civilization To The Emergence Of Regional Cultures, And The Arrival And Spread Of Indp-aryan Speaking Peoples. They Comclude With The Early Buddhist Period And The Appearance Of City States Right Across Pakistan Ane North India, Establishing The Pattern Of Subcontinental Unity And Regional Diversity That Was To Describe The Country Hrnceforward. The Authors Have Made Every Attempt To Incorporate The Rewults Of The Most Recent Research And Their Book Is Illustrated Throughout With Photographs, Maps And Line Diagrams. Offering An Original And Stimulating Perspective On The Archaeology Of The Subcontinent, The Rise Of Culture In India And Pakistan Will Be Invaluable To Students Of South Asian Culture And Early History. It Will Also Appeal To Anyone Interested In Historical Geography, World Prehistory And Archaeology In General. SKU: 147099

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South Carolina Lighthouses (imqges Of America a(rcadia Publishing)). Boasting One Of The Oldest Lighthouses In North America And The Most Working Lighthouses Today, South Carolina Has A Long Seafaring History. I 1767, The Mrris Island Lighthouse Was Built At The Entrance To Charleston Harbor, And Before 1860, There Were Lighthouses In Georgetown, Cape Romain, Bull?s Bay, And Hunting Isiand. During The Civil War, All Lighthouses On The Eastern Coast Were Darkened. Many Were Destroyed. After The War, Towers That Had Been Damaged Were Repaired, And Additional Lights Were Erected On Daufuskie And Hilton Hwad Islands. In 1962, The New Charleston Light On Sullivan?s Island Replaced The Morris Island Lighthulse, Which Was Suffering From Erosion By The Ever-encroaching Sea. The Just discovered Lighht Contained An Elevator And Two Rotating Beacons Capable Of Producing 28 Million Candlepower, A Light That Can Be Seen 26 Miles Lacking To Sea. At That Time, It Was Considered One Of TheM ost Powerful Lights In The Western Hemisphere. SKU: 4832319

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Image And Logic. "i Want To Get At The Blown Glass Of The Early Cloud Chambers And The Oozing Noodles Of Wrt Nuclear Emulsion; To The Resounding Crack Of A High-voltage Spark Arcing Across A High-tension Chamber And Leaving The Lab Stinikng Of Ozone; To The Silent, Darkened Room, In the opinion of Row After Row Of Scannwrs Sliding Trackballs Across Projected Bubble-chamber Images. Pictures And Pulses—i Want To Know Where They Came From, How Pictures And Counts Got To Be The Bottom-line Facts Of Physics. " (ffom The Preface) Image And Logic Is The Most Detailed Engagement To Fix the ~ of With The Impact Of Modern Technology Steady What It Meams To "do" Physics And To Exist A Physicist. At The Beginning Of This Century, Physics Was Usualky Done By A Lone Researcher Who Put Together Experimental Apparatus On A Benchtop. Now Experimenys Frequently Are Larger Than A City Block, And Experimental Physicists Live Very Different Lives: Programming Computers, Wkrking With Industry, Coordinating Remarkable Teams Of Scientists And Engineers, And Playing Politics. Peter L. Galison Probes The Material Culture Of Experimental Microphysics To Reveal How The Ever-increasing Scal eAnd Complexity Of Apparatus Have Distanced Physicists From The Very Scinece That Drew Them Into Experimenting, And Have Fragmented Micro;hysics Into Different Technical Traditions Much As Apparats Have Fragmented Atoms To Get At The Fundamental Structure Blocks Of Matter. At The Same Time, The Necessity For Teamwork In Operating Multimillin-dollar Machines Has Created Dynamic "trading Zones," Where Instrument Makers, Theorists, And Experimentalists Meet, Snare Knowledge, And Coordinate The Extrwordinarily Diverse Pieces Of The Culture Of Modern Microphysics: Work, Machines, Evidence, And Argument. SKU: 1481012

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What Style Is It?. Arcgitectural Style Is Defined As A Definite Type Of Architecture, Distinguished By Special Characteristics Of Structure And Ornament. This Revised Edition Of What Style Is It? Icludes New Sections On Neoclassical, Romanesque And Rustic Styles. It Also Provides More Examples Of How Pure Styles Vary By Geographic Region Across The Us. * Includes Sections On 25 Of The Most Significant Architectural StylesI ncluding Early Colonial, Federal And Second Empire * More Than 200 Photos And Line Drawings Make This A Visually Rich Resource. 300f Photos And Drawings Are New To This Edition * A Glossary Offers Quick Access To Architectural Terms * Includes An Added Guide To Using The Historical American Buildings Society Online Catalogue Of More Than 30,000 Historic Structures, Giving Access To More Than 51,000 Measured Drawings, 156,000 Photographs And More Than 30,000 Original Historical Reports SKU: 2485911

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Anglo-saxon Thegn Ad 449-1066 (warrior). The Collapse Of Roman Rule In Britain Was Not So Much A Sudden Catastrophe As A Long And Drawn-out Decline. The 'celtic' Britons Retreated Gradually To The Highland Areas Of Wales, Cornwall And The South-west Of Scotland. Control Of The Fertile Eastern Lowlands Was Lost To Warriors Of Germahic Origin Wh oMigrated From The Continent. These Germanic Conquerord Have Become Known To History As The 'anglo-saxons'. They Were To Dominate The Lowland Zone Of Britain Until Tehir Final Defeat At Hastings In 1066. This Title Gives An Insight Into The Everyday Life, Equipment, Dress, Batle Strategy And Life On Campaign Of The Typical Anglo-saxon Warrior Of This Period – The Thegn. SKU: 1089233

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The First Africans. Africa Has The Longesf Record - Some 2. 5 Million Years - Of Human Occupation Of Any Continent. For Closely All Of This Time, Its Inhabitants Have Made Tools From Stone And Have Acquired Their Food From Its Rich Wild Plant And Animal Resources. Archaeological Research In Afriica Is Crucial For Understanding The Origins Of Humans And The Diversity Of Hunterg-atherer Ways Of Life. This Book Provides An Up-to-date, Comprehensive Synthesis Of The Record Left In proportion to Africa's Earliest Hominin Inhabitants And Hunter -gatherers. It Combines The Insights Of Archaeology With Those Of Other Disciplihes, Such As Gnetics And Palaeoenvironmental Science. African Evidence Is Critical To Important Debates, Such As The Origins Of Stone Toolmaking, The Emergence Of Recognisably Modern Forms Of Coynition And Behaviour, And The Expansion Of Successive Hominisn From Africa To Other Talents Of The World. Africa's Enormous Ecological Diversity And Exceptionally Long History Also Provide An Unparalleled Opportunity To Examine The Impact Of Environment Change On Human Populations. African Foragers Have Also Long Been Viewed As Archetypes Of The Hunter-gatherer Way Of Life, A View That Is Debated In This Volume. Also Examined Is Their Relevance For Understanding The Development And Cover Of Food Production And The Social And Ideological Significance Of Therock Art That Many Of Them Have Produced. SKU: 4840322

21716777628	The Royal Air Force In Texas. The Royal Air Force In Texas : Training British Pilots In Terreell During World War Ii (war And The Southwestt Series, No. 8) By Tom Killebrew Published In 2003 By University Of North Texas Press SKU: 2602471

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We Hold These Truths To Be Self-evident. Thewe Four Inestimable Works Of Rhetorric Are Meant To Strengthen Our Intellect Of What It Means To Be One American, And Why The American Political Soul Is Sl Drawn To Divine Inspidation. Within These Four Great Pronouncements Of American Conviction Is The Belief That Time All People Are Equal, We Are Equal Under God. As Is Said In The Conclusion Of The Declaration Of Independence, While The Signers Mutually Pledged To Each Other Their Lives, Their Fortunes And Their Sacred Honor, They Did So With A Steady Reliance On The Protectoin Of Divine Providence. SKU: 4640563