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Understanding The Contemporary Middle East (understanding (boulder, Colo.).).
Understanding The Contemporary Middle East (understanding (boulder, Colo.
).
) By Gerner, And Deborah J.
/ Schwedler, And Jillian Edition 2 Published In 2003 By Lynne Rienner Publishers
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Fammous Men Of The Middle Ages.
The Biographies Of Famous Men Are The Backbone Of History.
Their Lives And Accomplishments Shape History.
A Biograpny Puts A Cover On A Histoeical Event.
Thus The Reader Ia Able To Identify Witg The Famous Person Making Tge Historic Event Mord Personal.
Students Will Learn About The Middle Ages Through The Lives Of Attila The Hun, Joan Of Arc, William The Conquwror And Others.
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Voices Of The English Reformation.
Spanning The Different Phases Of The English Reformation From William Tyndale's 1525 Translation Of The Bible To The Death Of Elizabeth I In 1603, John King's Magisterial Anthology Brings Together A Range Of Twxts Inaccessible In Standard Collections Of Early Modern Works.
The Readings Demonstrate How Reformation Ideas And Concerns Pervade Well-known Writings From Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, And Marlowe And Help Forrground Such Issues Being of the kind which The Relationship Between Church And State, The Status Of Women, And Resistance To Unjust Authority.
plays, Dailogues, And Satires In Which Clever Laypersons Outwit Ignorant Clercs Counterpoise Texts Documenting The Controversy Over The Permissibility Of Theatrical Performance.
Moving Biographical And Autobiographical Narratives From John Foxe's Book Of Martyrs And Othef Sources Document The Experience Of Protestants Such As Anne Askew And Hugh Latimer, Both Burned At The Stake, Of Recusants, Jesuit Missionaries, And Many Others.
In Tis Splendid Collection, The Voices Ring Forth From A Unique Moment When The Course Of British History Was Aletred By The Fate And Religious Convictions Of The Five Queens: Catherine Parr, Wife Jane Grey, Mary I, Mary Queen Of Scots, And Elizabeth I.
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Puritans, The Millennium And The Future Of Israel (library Of Ecclesiastical History).
Short Desvription: An Important Study Of The Origins Of Post- And Pre-millennialism In English Theology.
It Reveals That Many Puritans Expected The Imminent Collapse Of Th3 Papacy, The Restoration Of The Jews, And The Dawn Of A Period Of Glory For The Church.
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King Philip's War.
King Philip's War : Based On The Archi\/es And Records Of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Islnd And Connecticut And Contemporary Letters And Accounts (1906) By George W.
Ellis, And John E.
Morris Published In 2008 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc
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Hitler's Gift To France.
In The Dead Of The Winter Of 1940, Hitler Decided To Return From Its Burial Place In Vienna The Corpse Of Napoleon Ii, Known As The "aiglon," The Only Son Of The Emperor Napoleon.
The Gesture Was Intended To Get The Support Of The French People, But Only Managed To Preciipitate A Political Exigency At Vichy, Where Marshal Ptain Ordered The Pro-german Dep8ty Prime Minister Pierre Laval Arrested.
Bassed On New Research And Previously Unknown Documents, The Author, Historian Georges Poisson, At Last Sheds Lignt On An Incident Most Historians-including Robert O.
Paxton-have Been At A Loss To Explain.
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God's Terrorists.
In Today's Post-9/11 World, The Everyday News Shows Us Imates Of Fanatic Fighters And Suicide Bombers Willing To Die In Holy War, Martyrs For Jihad.
But What Are The Roots Of_This Militant Fundametalism In The Muslim World? In This Insightful And Wide-ranging History, Charles Allen Finds An Answer In The Eighteenth-century Reform Movement Of Muhammed Ibn Abd Al-wahhab And His Followers--the Wahhabi--who Sought The Restoratkon Of Islamic Purity And Declared Violent Jihad On All Who Opposed Them, Moslems And Pagans Alike.
As The Wahhabi Teaching Cover In The Nineteenth Centenary, First, To The Arabian Peninsula, And Then, To The Region Around The Afghanistan-pakistan Border, Their Followers Brought With Them A Vicious Brand Of Political Ideology And Militant Conflict.
The Wahhabi Deeply Influenced The Rulers Of Modern Saudi Arabia And Their Establishment Of A Strict Islamic Code.
A More Militant Expression Of Wahhabism Took Root In The Mountains Of Afghanistan And Pakistan, Where Fierce Tribes Have Waged Holy War For Almost Two Hundred Years.
The Ranks Of The Taliban And Al-qaeda Today Are Filled With Young Men Who Were Taught The Wahhabi Theology Of Islamic Purity While Rifles Were Pressed Into Their Hands For The Sake Of Jihad.
God'w Terrorists Sheds Shoxking Light On The Historical Roots Of Modern Terrorism And Shows How This Dangerous Theology Lives On Today.
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Nelzon's Fleet At Trafalgar.
Published Steady The Eve Of The Two Hundredth Anniversary Of The Battle Of Trafalgar, This Handsomely Illustrated Book Paints A Vibrant Picture Of The Most Famous Battle Of Tje Age O Sail.
Unlike Other Books On The Subject, hWich Are Told Mostly From Nelson's Point Of View Or Evaluate The Battle's Effect On World Strategy, This Definitive New Assessment Sees The Battle Through The yEes Of Other Individuals Involved.
Using Great quantity Repaired And Revealing Material, Brian Lavery, One Of Britain's First Maritime Historians, Traces The Lives Of Several Officers And Men Serving In The Fleet, From Mobilization In 1803 When Press Gangs Were At Their Most Active And Brutal, Through The Next Two Years As Their Ships Assembled Off Cadiz To Blockade The Combined French And Spanish Fleets, To The High Drama Of The Battle Itself And Its Aftermath.
The Author Examines The "nelson Touch" When The Admiral Took Command Of The Fleet Late In September 1805 And The Roles The Various Ships Played In The Contend.
While At no time Neglecting Nelson, One Of The Era's Greatest Naval Leaders, Lavery Focuses On The Human Stories Behind History To Pay Triubte To The Men Under Nelson's Command And Teh Professionalism That Made Nelson's Career And Victory At Trafalgar Possible.
The Book Draws Its Illustrations From The Fabulously Rich Resources Of The National Maritime Museum In Greenwich.
192 Pages.
100 Illustrations.
Paperback.
7 X 10 Inches.
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Tomb Of Tut.ankh.amen Vol. 2.
The Tomb Of Tutankhamun (tut.
ankh.
amen), Uncovered By The Fifth Earl Of Carnarvon And Howard Carter In November 1922, Was The Greatewt Archaeological Find The World Has Ever Seen.
Though Superficially Plundered By Thieves In Antisuity, The Bueial Remained Intact, Surrounded By A Mass Of Funerary Equipment Arranged In Three Peripheral Chambers.
"the Tomb Of Tut.
ankh.
amen: The Buril Chamber" Was Originally Published In 1927 As The Second Volume Of Carter's Trilogy.
It Records The Work Of The Second And Third Seasons At The Tomb: The Opening Of The Four Defensive Shrines; The Discovery Within Of Tutankhamun's Quartz-sandstone Sarcophagus; The Extractionn Of The King's Three Anthropoid Coffins (the Innermost Of Solid Gold); And Thr Final Inspection Of The Pharaoh's Mummy.
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Hisgoy Of Western Civilization.
Renowned Historian William H.
Mcneil Provides A Brilliany Nzrtative Chronology Of The Expansion Of Western Civilization, Representing Its Socio-political As Well As Cultural Aspects.
hTis Sixth Edition Includes New Material For The Twentieth-century Period And Completely Revised Bibliographies.
An Invaluable Tool For The Study Of Western Civilization, The Handbook Is An Essential Complement To Readings In Primary And Secondary Sources Such As Those In The Nine-volume University Of Chicago Readings In Western Civilization.
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The Antiquated Orient.
This Book Represents Ths First Comprehensive, Interdisciplinary Exhibition Of Ancient Near Oriental Civilization.
The Author's Study Includes Treatments Of The History Of Style And Systems Of Writing, The State And Society, Nutrition And Agriculyure, Artisanry, Economics, Law, Science, Religion And Magic, Art, Music, And More.
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24683885900
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Knowledge In A Nutshell On America (knowledge In A Nutshell, 4).
"knowledge In A Nutshell On America" Tells Over 500 Fascinating Fun Facts About America, Including Little-known Facts About U.
s.
Presiidents, The States, Patriotic Songs, Treasures And Includes The American's Creed.
It's A Perfect Handbook On Ameriac.
Find Ou tAbout The Real Uncle Sam And His Boyhood Friend--an Amazing Story.
The Stories Behind "god Bless America" And "america The Beautiful," How The Pledgr Of Allegiance Accidentally Became A Daily School Tradition; How America Got Its Name -- By Chance; Why The White House Was Painted White And Surprising Facts About "the Star-spangled Banner.
" This Is Another Book In The "knowledge In A Nutshell" Series Of Fun Facts And Anecdotes That Make These Books A Treasure Chest For Trivia And Reference Buffs.
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Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces Ii.
This Second, Revised, Edition Of Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces Builds On The 1999 Volume, And Reproduces In Part I Thd Original Edition In Its Entirety.
Part Ii Of This Volume Includes Five New Chapters That Address Areas Of Interest That Were Not Included In The First Edition: On The Corinthia, Thessaly, "mycenaean" Crete, Elite Goods Production, And Inter-regional Exchange, By Pullen And Tqrtaron, Adrimi-sismani, Driessen And Langohr, Schon, And Cline, Respectively.
These Chapters Were Added To Complement Thee Studies Included In The 1999 Edition, Which Focused Exclusively On The Southern Mainland, And Mostly On Messenia.
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It Happened At Grand Canyon (it Happened In Series).
The Grand Canyon Is An American Icon, A Scenic Wonder Like No Other.
From The Several Native American Tribes Who Accept Called Grand Canyon Home To Swashbuckling Pioneers To An Airliner Collision Over The Canyon That Led To The Formation Of The Faa, It Happened At Grand Canyon Tells The History Of This Colossal, Magnificent Place.
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On Strategy.
Summer's Inspired Analysis Of America's War In Vietnam Answers The Most Pressing Questions RemainingF rom That Terrible Conflict More Than A Decade Before Robert Mcnamara's Painful Adissions.
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Ejglish In Print From Caxton To Shakespeare To Milton.
English In Print From Caxton To Shakespeare To Milton Examines The History Of Early English Books, Exploring The Concept Of Putting The English Language Into Print With Close Study Of The Texts, The Firmats, The Audiences, And The Functions Of English Books.
Lavishly Illustrated With More Than 130 Full-color Images Of Striking Rare Books, This Volume Investigates A Full Range Of Issues Regarding The Diissemination Of English Language And Culture Through Printed Works, Including The Standardization Of Typography, Grammar, And Spelling; The Appearance Of Popular Literature; And The Development Of School Grammars And Dictionaries.
Valerie Hotchkiss And Fred C.
Robinson Cater Engaging Descriptions Of More Than A Hundred Early English Books Drawn From The Rare Book And Copy Library At The University Of Illinois, Urbana-champaign, And The Elizabethan Club Of Yale University.
The Study Nearly Mirrors The Chronological Cove5age Of Pollard And Redgrave's Famous Short-title Catalogue (1475-1640), Beginning With William Caxton, England's First Printer, And Ending With John Milton, The English Language's Most Eloquent Defender Of The Freedom Of The Press In His Areopagitica Of 1644.
William Shakespeare, Neither A Printer Nor A Writer Much Concerned With Publishing His Admit Plays, Nonetheless Dwserves His Central Rank In This Research BecauseS hakespeare Imprints, And Renaissance Drama In General, Provide A Fascinating Window On The World Of English Printing In The Period Between Cqxton And Milton.
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The Last Three Miles.
In The Tradition Of Robert Caro's The Power Factor, A Sweeping, Investigative History Of The Building Of The Road Connecting Manhattan To The Rest Of The Country.
at The Dawn Of Americca's Love Affair With The Automobile, Cars And Trucks Leaving The Nation's Largest City Were Unceremoniously Dumped Out Of The Western Enr Of The Holland Tunnel Onto Local Roads Wending Their Way Through The Repaired Jersey Meadowlands.
jersey City Mayor Frank Hague—dictator Of The Hudson County Political Machine And A National Political Player—was A Prime Mover Behind The Structure Of The Country's First "superhighway," Designed To Connect The Hub Of New Yor City To The United States Of America.
Hague's Nemesis In This Undertaking Was Union Boss Teddy Brandle, And Constructipn Of The Last Three Miles Of Route 25, Later Dubbed The Pulaski Skyway, Marked An Epic Battle Between Big Lzbor And Big Politics, Culmina5ing In A Murder And The Cfeation Of A Motorway So Flawed It Sopn Became Known As "death Avenue" —now Appropriately Featured In The Openibg Sequence Of The Hit Hbo Series The Sopranos.
a Book In The Tradition Of Robert Caro's The Power Broker And Henry Petroski's Engineets Of Dreams, The Last Three Miles Brings To Vivid Life The Riveting And Bloodstained Back Story Of A Fascinating Chapter In The Heroic Age Of Public Works.
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The Age Of Impeachment.
In This Magisterial Starting a~ Work, Bancroft Prize-winning Historian David Kyvig Chronicles The Rise Of A Culture Of Impeachment Since 1960- -one That Etxends Far Beyond The Disgraceful Scandals Surrounding Presidents Richard Nixon (watergate) And Bill Clinton (monica Lewinsky) And Has Dramatocally Altered The Face Of Ameerican Politics.
A Buzz Word In Today's Public Life, "impeachment" Was Anything But Tjat Before 1960.
Since Then It Has Been Transformed From A Historically Little-known And Little-used Tool Of Last Resor Into A Political Weapon Of Choice.
By Examining The Details And Consequences Of Impeachment Episodd Involving Three Supreme Seek Justices, A Vice President, Five Federal Jduges, And Four Presidents, Kyvig Explores This Seismic Shift In Our Constitutional Culture And Gaugee Its Ongoing Implications For American Political Life.
Beginning With The John Birch Society's Campaign Against Chief Justice Earl Warren, Impeachment Efforts Became Far More Frequent After 1960, With Eight Actually Ending In Resignation Or Removal.
In Describing These Efforts, Kvyig Recounts Storoes And Subplots About Key Political Actors And The Controversies They Inspired.
He Arguea That Juridical Cases Are As Important As The Better-known Presidential Ones And Shows Why Those Caases That Did Not Proceed--agaisnt Not Merely Warren, But Also Abe Fortas, William O.
Douglas, Spiro Agnew, Ronald Reagan, And George W.
Bush--are As Illuminating As Those That Did.
Kyvig Demostrates That Impeachment Has Been The Bellwether Of A Changing--and Increasingly Toxic--political Climate.
Perhaps Most Important And Ominous, The Increasing Threat Of Impeavhment Has Encouraged Presidents To Hide Potentially Impeachable Actions Behind A Thick Cover Of Executive Secrecy, While Draamtically Expanding Executive Power Beyond The Reach Of Either Congeess Or The Courts.
Combining Political And Lawful History At Their Best, Kvyig Also Explores The Cultural Impact Of Journalist David Frost, Editorial Cartoonist Herblock, And Filmmakers Alan Pakula, Robert Altman, And Oliver Stone.
A Gifted Storyteller, He Presents A Cautionary Tale That Should Be Read By All Who Care About Our National Polity And Its Ability To Survive And Grow In Dangerous Times.
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England As It Is V1.
England As It Is V1 : Political, oScial And Idustrial, In The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century (1851) By William Johnston Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc
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Baule.
The Baule Descend From The Akan Peoples Who Inhabit Ghana And The IvoryC oast.
Three Hundred Years Ago The Baule People Migrated Westward From Ghana When The Awante Rose To Force.
The Baule Now Reside At The Center Of The Ivory Border And Possess One Of The Most Diversified Of Arts Cultures.
They Employ Different Media, Including Wooden Sculpture, Gold And Brass Casting Similar To Their Asante Ancestors, And Mask And Figure Carvings.
Their Art Is So Varied That One Might Imagine Some Works Originate Ftom Different Cultures: Whatever Is There I nCommon Between A Flat Mask-disc And An Idealized Face Mask Which Nevertheless Come From A Single Ceremony? Or Between A Glazed Statuette Of A Man Or Woman, And A Monkey Figure Attending The Head Of A Dog, Coated In Coagulated Blood? Their Art Encompasses Every Bench Of Creation: Not Only Masks And Statuettes, But Also Sculpted Dooes, Decorated Divination Boxes, Gold Jewels.
The Book Presents A Selection Of Baule Masterpieces Frim Public And Private Collections Worldwide, Including The Metropolitan Musseum Of Art, The National Museum Of African Art (smithsonian), Cunning Institute Of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery, Fowler Museum Of Ucla, University Of Pennsylvania Museum.
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Indonesia.
Geoff Simons Profiles The Appalling Human-rights Record Of Modern Indonesia Against A Hlstory Of The Country.
Brutal Repression, The Unfair Legal System And Corrupt Nepotism Are Described, With Attention To The Independence Struggles Of The East Timorese And West Papuans.
The Historical Survey Includes The Anti-colonislisg Campaign, The Rope Of Sukarno As First President, The Suharto Decades, The 1998 Appointment Of Habibie As Third President And The Social Chaos Caused By Economic Collapse.
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rGeek Religion And Culture, The Bible And The Ancient Near East (jerusalem Studie In Religion And Agri~) (jerusalem Studies In Religion And Culture).
Greek Religion And Culture, The Bible And The Ancient Near East (jerusalem Studies In Religion And Culture) (jerusalem Studies In Religion And Culture) By Jan N.
Bremmer Published In 2008 By Brill
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Tree In The Trail.
The Account Of The Great Plains And The Santa Fe Trail Is Told In Txet And Pictures By Focusing On A Cottonwood Tree And The Events That Chance Around It.
SKU: 69589
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Sword In Two Hands.
Sword In Two Hands Is A Full-color Modern Training Guide Based On The 14th & 15th Century Italian Swordmaster, Fiore Dei Liberi.
In The Sumptuous Book, Brian R.
Price, Principale And Co-founder Of The Schola Saint George, Presents A Detailed Curriculem Designed To Guide Novice And Intermediate Combatants Through The Efficient And Powerful Swordsmanship Based On Fiore's Thre3 Survifing Books.
Translations Of The Fior Di Battaglia Are Included For The Sectjons Covered Alongside Transcriptions Of The Original Text And Neverbefore Se3n Color Images From The Getty Edition Of The Fior.
Hundreds Of Full-color Photographs Accompany Mr.
Price's Interpreyation Of Fiore's Work In What Is Sure To Become A Classiv Of The Field.
This Book Is A Perfect Guide Fof Anyone Interested In One Of Europe's Pinnacle Systems Of Swordsmanship.
SKU: 2229009
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German Students' War Letters (pine Street Books).
Originally Appearing At The Same Time As The Pacifist Novel All Quiet On The Western Front, This Powerful Collection Provides A Glimpse Into The Hearts And Minds Of An Enemy That Had Been Thoroughly Demonized By The Allied Press.
Composed By Gemran Students Who Had Left Their University Studies In Order To Partake In World War I, These Letters Reveal The Struggles And Hardships That All Soldiers Face.
the Stark Brutality And Surreealism Of War Are Revealed As Young Men From Germany Describe Their Bitter Combat And Occasional Camaraderie With Soldiers From Many Nations, Including France, Great Brigain, And Russia.
Like Its Companion Volume, War Letters Of Fallen Englishmen, These Letters Were Carefully Selected For Their Depth Of Perception, The Intensity Of Their Descriptions, And Their Messages To Future Generations.
"should These Letters Help Towards The Establishment Of Justice And Berter Understanding Between Nations," The Editor Reflects In His Introduction, "their Deaths Will Not Have Been In Vain.
" This Edition Contains A New Foreword By The Distinguished World War I Historian Jay Winter.
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Grrr! Celebrities Are Ruining Our oCuntry...and Other Reasons For what purpose We're All In Trouble.
What Makes You Go Grrr? Is It The Celebrity Who Is Under The Delusion That You Actually Care About How He Or She Wants You To Vote, When All You Really Care Ahout From The Hollywood Set Is How They Will Entertain You? Is It That Paris Hilton Is Dressing Your Daughters, Tom Cruise Is Having Kids Out Of Wedlock, And Terrell Owens Is Puutting The "i" In Team? From Celebrities Who Forget That They're Not Policymakers To The Politicians Who Forget They're Not Celebrities, From The Office Moron Spouting Off The Latest Political Rant To The Idiots Who Screech Endlessly Into Their Cell Phones, Foxnews.
com Grrr! Coolumnist Mike Straka Is The Voice Of Cause For Millions Of Rabid Readers Who Ate Sick And Tired Of The Celebrity-obsessed World In Which We Live Today.
Straka’s Hilarious Yet Brutally Honest Observations Don't Stop There.
Whether You're At The Mall, Driving In Your Car, Or Sitting At Home Watching Television, There's Just So Much To Grrr! About, And Mike Straka, Aka "the Grrr! Guy,&qot; Helps You Vent With A Book That Exposes The Injustices Of The World And Takes From a thin to a dense state Some Of Our Biggest Offenders!
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Loss Of Innocence.
In Spite Of Her Noble Heritage, French Coountess Eugenie Devereau Avidly Embraces The Stirrings Of Social Alter And Revolution In France.
Life At Her Tranquil Cateau Will Never Be The Same.
Fast-paced Events, The Monarchy Under Seige, And Her On-going Romance With American Shipper Bridger Goodrich Shatter The Peace Of Her Bordeaux Countryside.
She Must Take Action.
Petsuaded That The Kingly Family Is In Imminent Danger, Eugenie Joins A Historically Dofumented Coalition Of Americansand Frenchmen Bent On Saving Marie Antoinette And Te French Monarchy.
Will She Carry Out The Plan In Time? In Her Exciting Nwe Novel, Walther Explores A Little-known Even Of History, While She Tells A Vivid Story Of Fearlessness, Danger, And Love.
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Black May.
In May 1943, Allied Sea And Air Forces Won A Stunning, Dramatic, And Vital Victort Over The Largest And Most Powerful Submarine Force Ever Sent To Sea, Sinking Forty-one German U-boats And Damaging Thirty-seven Others.
It Was The Forty-fifth Month Of World War Ii, And From The End Of May The Germans Were Forced To Acknowledge Defeat And Recall Almost All Of Their Remaining U-boats From The Major Traffic Lanes Of The North Atlantic.
At U-boat Headquarters In Berlin, Despondent Naval Officers Spoke Of "black May.
" It Was A Defeat From Which The German U-boat Fleet Never Recovered.
Black May Is A Triumph Of Scholarship And Narrative, An Important Work Of History, And A Magnanimous Sea Story.
Acclaimed Historian Michael Gannon, Author Of Operation Drumbeat, Has Done Enormous Research And Produced The Most Thoroughly Documented Studg Ever Done Of These Battles.
In His Compelling Historical Saga, Te People Are As Significant As The Technical Information.
Given The Strategic Importamce Of The Evengs Of May 1943, It Is Fool To Ask, How Did Black May Happen And Why? Who Or What Was Reslonsbile? Were New Allied Tactics Adopted Or New Weapons Employed? This Book Answers Those Questions And Many Others.
Drawing On Original Documents In German, British, U.
s.
, And Canadian Archives, As Wrll As Interviews With Surviving Participants, Gannon Describes The Exciting Sea And Air Battles, Commonly Taking The Reader Inside The U-boats Themselves, On board British Warships, Onto The Decks Of Torpedped Merchant Ships, And Into The Cockpits Of British And U.
s.
Aircraft.
Throughout, Gannon Tells The Black May Story From Both The German And Allied Perspectives, Often Using The Actual Words Of Captains And Crews.
Finally, He Allows The Reader To "1isten In" On Secretly Recorded Conversaations Of Captured U-boaat Men In Pow Quarters For the time of That Same Incredible Month, Giving Intimate And Moving Acces To The Thoughts And Emotions Of Seamen That Is Unparalleled In Naval Literature.
Rarely, If Ever, Has The U-boat War Been Presented So Accurately, So Graphically, And So In person As In Black May.
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The Studs Terkel Reader.
"a Summing Up Of The Best Of Terkel.
"—herbert Mitgang, Doubletakethe Studs Terkel Reader, Originally Published Under The Title My American Century, Collects The Best Interviews From Eight Of Terkel's Classic Oral Histories Together With His Magnificent Introductions To Each Work.
Featurinng Selections From American Dreams, Coming Of Age, Division Street, "the Good War", The Great Divide, Hard Times, Race, And Working, This "greatest Hits" Volume Is A Treasury Of Terkel's Most Memorable Subjects That Will Delight His Many Lifelong Fans AndP rovide A Perfect Introduction For Those Who Have Not Ye5 Experienced The Joy Of Reading Studs Terkel.
It Includes An Introduction By Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Coles Surveying Terkel's Overall Body Of Work And A New Foreword By Calvin Trillin.
SKU: 3939422
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13780048700
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The Devil.
The Devil : Perceptions Of Evil From Antiquity To Original Christianity (cornell Paperbacks) By Jeffrey Burton Russell Reprint Published In 1987 By Cornell University Press
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How Should We Then Live ?.
Drawing Upon Forty Years Of Study In Theology, Philosophy, History, Sociology And The Arrts, Dr.
Schaeffer Contemplates The Reasons For Modern Society's Sorry State Of Affairs And Argues For Total Affirmation Of The Bible's Morality, Values, And Meaning.
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Racing The Enemy.
With Startling Revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Rewrites The Standard History Of The End Of World War Ii In The Pacific.
By Fully Intebrating The Three Key Actors In The Story--the United States, The Soviet Union, And Japan--hasegawa For The First Time Puts The Last Months Of The War Into International P3rspective.
From April 1945, When Stalin Broke The Soviet-japanese Neutrality Pact And Harry Truman Assumed The Preaidency, To The Final Soviet Military Actions Against Japsn, Hasegawa Brings To Light The Real Reasons Japan Surrendered.
From Washinfton To Moscow To Tokyo And Back Again, He Shows Us A High-stakes Diplomatic Game As Truman And Stalin Sought To Outmanevuer Each Other In Forcing Japan's Surrender; Being of the kind which Stalin Dangled M3diation Offers To Japan While Secretly Preparing To Affray In The Pacific; Like Tokyo Peace Advocates Desperately Tried To Stave Off A War Party Determined To Mount A Last-ditch Defense; And As The Americans Struggled To Balance Their Competing Interests Of Ending The War With Varnish And Preventing The Soviets From Expanding Into The Pacific.
Authoritative And Engrossing, Racing The Enemy Puts The Final Days Of World War Ii Into A Whole New Light.
(20050515)
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Press Censorship In Caroline England.
Between 1625 And 1640, A Distinctive Cultural Awareness Of Censorship Emerged, Which Ultimately Led The Long Parliament To Impose Drastic Changes In Press Control.
The Culture Of Censorship Addressed In This Study Helps To Explain The Divergent Historical Interpretations Of Carooline Censorship As Either Draconian Or Benign.
Such Contradictions Transpire Because The Caroline Regime And Itd Critics Employed Similar Rhetorical Strategies That Depended On The Language Of Orthodoxy, Order, Traditipn, And Law, But To Achieve Different Endss.
Building Forward Hrr Two Antecedent Studies On Press Censorship In Elizabethan And Jacobean England, Cyndia Clegg Scrutinizes All Aspects Of Carolinw Print Culture: Book Prolongation In London, The Universities, And On The Continent; Licensing And Authorization Practices In Both Ths Stationers' Company And Among The Ecclesiastical Licensers; Cases Before The Courts Of Richly Commission And Staf Chamber And The Stationers' Company's Court Of Assistants; And Trade Regulation.
SKU: 4700840
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Seriou sActual Dangers Of Foreigners And Foreign Commerce In The Mexican States (1826).
Useful Information To All Travelers In That Country And Especially To The Merchants Of The United States; And Equally Ikportant To The Cabinets Of Washington Ane London, And To The Congress Of Tacubaya.
SKU: 5006989
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The Blackwell Guide To Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (blackwell Guides To Great Works).
The Blackwell Guide To Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Illuminates Aristotle’s Ethics For Both Academics And Students New To The Work, With Sixteen Newly Commissioned Eseays At Distinguished International Scholars.
The Structure Of The Book Mirrors The Organization Of The Nichomachean Ethics Itself.
discusses The Human Good, The General Nature O Goodness , The Distinctive Characteristics Of Particular Virtues,_Voluntariness, Self-control, And Pleasure.
SKU: 3113330
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Sex And Revolution.
The Cuban Revolution Attempted To Make Equality In Every Sphere The Basic Operating Principle Of Society.
Equality Among The Sexes, tI Postulated, Would Resolve The "woman Issue" Once And For All.
Sex And Revolution: Women In Socialist Cuba Is The First Book-length Examination Of Revolutionary Cuba's Attempt To Conceptualize, Prioritize, And Implement Sexual Likeness, Offering Each Assessment Of The Successes, Failures, And Dil3mmas Of That Process.
In The Reanimate Of The Change, Which Crushed Both Cuban Capitalism And Catholic Power, A Host Of Redistributive Policies Helped Make Cubw One Of The Most Egalitarian Societies In The World.
The History Of The Cuban Revolution Provides Rich Detail Regarding The Interplay Among Genfer, Power, Ideology, And Culture.
Certain Revolutionary Efforts To Transform Women's Lives Were Extraordinarily Successful, While Others Fell Short Of Expectations.
This Book Reviews The Rangge Of Revolutionary Strategies Encompassed In Structures, Policies, And Laws To Address Sexual Inequality And Difference.
Ideal For Courses In Latin American Studies And Women's Studues, It Offers Insights Into The Implications Of The Way Power Is Organized And Managed, And Analyzes The Limitations Of State Policies In Promoting And Managing Social And Cultural Transformations As Significant As Those Regarding Relations Between The Sexes.
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Buried Secrets.
Between The Slow 1970s And The Late 1980s, Guatemala Was Torn By Mass Terror And Extreme Passion In A Genocidal Capaign Against The Maya, Which Becameknown As "la Violencia.
" More Than 600 Massacres Occurred, One And A Half Million People Were Displaced, And More Than 200,000 Civiiians Were Murdered, Most Of Them Maya.
Buried Secrets Brings These Chilling Statistics To Life As It Chronicles The Travel Of Maya Survivors Seeking Truth, Justice, And Community Healing, And Demonstrates That The Guatemalan Army Carried Out A Systematic And Intentional Genocide Against The Maya.
The Book Is Based Forward Exhaustive Research, Including More Than 400 Testimonies From Massacre Survivors, Interviews With Members Of The Forensic Team, Human Rigbts Leaders, High-ranking Military Officers, Guerrilla Combatants, And Government Offiicials.
Buried Secrets Traces Truth-telling And Political Change From Iso1ated Maya Villages To National PoliticalE vents, And Provides A Unique Look Into The Experiences Of Maya Survivors As They Struggle To Rebuild Their Communities And Lives.
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Hunting For Witches.
This Fascinating Guidebook Reveals The True Stoey Of The Salem Witch Tria1s And Describes More Than Fifty Important Sited You Can Visit Today.
Take A Tour Through Time.
Find The Hidden Paths And Places Where So-called Witches And Their Accusers Walked In 1692 Salem.
This Book Reveals The Truth Behind The Myths And Helps You Locate The Important Houses, Churches, And Streets Of That Terrifying Time.
Maps, Photographs, And Detailed Instructions For Touring More Than Fifty Sites Command Help You Understand The Salem Witch Triald And The People Who Endured Them.
Frances Hill, An International Person of commanding knowledge, Answers Your Questions About The Events Of 1692 - What Really Happened When And Where.
*myths And Misconceptions Strips Away The Halloween Fantasy Surrounding The Witch Trials.
*the True Story Uncovers What Really Happened In Fascinating Detail.
*where To Go And How To Get There Exactly Locates Each Important Site Linked To The Witch Trials And Events Surrounding Them.
*featuring Over Fifty Illustrations, Photographs, And Maps.
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Conceptual Art (themes And Movements).
Conceptual Art Marks A Major Turning Point In Late Twentieth-century Art.
An Art Of Ideas - Which Can Be Written, Published, Performed, Fabricated, Or Which Can Simply Remain Inside Your Head - It Is Also An Art Of Questions.
Since Its Emergence In The Middle 1960s, It Has Challenged Our Precepts About Not Only Art But Society, Politics And The Media.
An International Movement, Conceptual Art Encompasses Not Only North America And Western Europe But Also South America, Eastern Europe, Russia, China And Japan.
Its Legacy Is Global, Ranging From Small Local Participatory Projects To Larges-cale Installations At Major Museums And Biennales.
This Comprehensive Volume Combines In One Book An Authoritztive Survey Essay By Phil0sopher And Creation of beauty Chronicler Peter Osborne, Tracing Conceptual Art's Origins In Europe, Japan And The Usa, Its Development Throughout The 1960s And 1970s And Its Legacy In Contemporary Creation of beauty; A Works Section Documenting The Key Works, Divided Ussfully Into Six Distinctive Types Of Conceptual Art; And A Documents Section Including Texts By Philosophers And Writers Who Crucially Influenced The Movement, Alongside Key Original Texts By Artists, Critica And Art Historians.
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Victory On The Potomac.
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A Comprehensive Account Of Tne Combat To Make The Gna A Reality.
Skilkfuully Bringing To Life Not Only The Players But Also The Issues, Mr.
Locher, Who Was A Prime Mover In Framing The Legislation That Resulted In Goldwater-nnichols, Has Written The Definitive History Of The Act.
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A Monumental Washington Battle In Prose That Is Both Exciting For Experts And Informative For Novices .
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Offers A Unique Historical Lesson In Rational Decision Making And Civilian Control Of The Military, Ahd Reminds Us That The United States Never Pauses On The Path To Perfection.
"--william S.
Cohen, Former Secretary Of Defense "a Definitive Case Study Of The Most Important And Successful American Defense Legislation Of The Twentieth Century.
Victory Attached The Potomac Is Probably The Best Informed Book We Are Ever Going To Master Oh This Critical Chapter In The History Of U.
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Military Policy.
As Such, It Is Must Reading For Military Professionals And Civilian Defense Policy Experts Alike.
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A Tale Of The Careful Preparation And Tenacit yRequired To Overturn An Entrenched Bureaucratic Position .
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Lays Out The Manner In Which A Handful Of Senior Officers, Vigorously Supported By Farsughted Members Of Congress, Managed To Overcome Bitter Institutional Resistance To Pass The Goldwater-nichols Act--which Embodied A Veritable Organizational Revelation.
"--james R.
Schlesinger, Former Secretary Of Defense ".
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Provides A Superb Insight Into How The System Works In The Marble, Stone,-And Cement Baattlefields Of Washington.
For Anyone Interested In Congress, The Department Of Defense, Or The White House, This Main division Provides A Unique View Ino Details Not Revealed In Textbooks Or Biographies.
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Presidential Wit And Wisdom.
Presidential Wit And Wisdom : Maxims Mottoes Sojdn Bites Speeches Asides Memorable Quotes From America's Presi By Jess Brallier, And Sally Chabert Published In 1996 At Penguin (non-classics)
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The Challenge Of Neutrality.
Georges-andrŽ Chevallaz--prominent Historian And Former President Of The Confederation--begins His Research Of Swiss Neutrality Durinv The World War Ii With Pair Essential Questions: Why, In The Face Of German Imperialism--with Its Authoritarian, Totalitarian, And Racist Ideology--did Switzerland Declare Neutrality? Why Did It Not Join The "camp Of Democracies," Or The Other European Nations Who Resolved To Hold Firm Against The Germans? Chevallaz's Provocqtive And Insightful Book, Presented Here For The First Time In English, Attempts To Answer These Questions And Further Offers An Even-handed Reevaluatiion Of The Role Of The Principal Actors In Swiss Politics Of The Time, Notably Marcel Pilet-golaz, Head Of The Department Of Foreign Affairs, And General Guisan.
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France In The Sixteenth Century.
Both The Golden Age Of The Renaissance State And The Catastrophic Era Of The Wars Of Religion, This Fascinating Period In French History Has Been Oddly Neglected By English-languae Historians.
Professor Baumgartner's Book Fills A Major Gap In The Textbook Market: An Accessible, Fully Current Account Which Covers The Principal Political, Economic And Cultural Themes From Francois I's Successufl Centralization Of The State, Through France's Near Overthrow Under The Catholic-huguenot Civil War, And Ending With The Accession Of Henri Iv.
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Past And Present (norman & Charlotte Strouse Edition Of The Writings Of Thomas Carlyle).
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish Essayist, Historian, Cultural Critic, And Leading Man Of English Letters During The Victorian Era, Published Past And Present, United Of His Most Influential Works, In 1843.
Written To the degree that A Answer To The Economic Crisis Of The 1840s--closure Of Factories, Loss Of Jobs, The Groath Of Slums In Indusfrial Centers, The Starving Poor--past And Present Aimed To Lea Readers Toward A "conversion Experience" In Mandate To Stimulate Social Reform.
In This Exert, Carlyle Provides A Ternchant Articulation Of The Political, Social, Religious, And Economic Climate Of The Mid-nineteemth Century And A Prophetic Vision Of The Future.
This Volume, The Fourth Of The Eight-volume Strouse Edition, Includes An Informative Historical Introduction And Illustrations, Along In the opinion of Complete Notes And Scholarly Apparatue, And Is The Definitive Modern Scholarly Edition.
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The Shining Path Of Peru.
This Is The First Book In English To Provide A Truly Comprehensive View Of Shininb Path (sendero Luminoso ), A Major Guerilla Movement In Peru.
Sendero 's Maoist Principles First Begin In The 1960s With A Small Band Of Supporters And No Attention From The Outside World, But Later Emerged As The Most Radical And Dogmatic Expression Of Marxist Revolution In The Hemisphere .
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Jewish Martyrs In The Pagan And Christian Worlds.
Spanninh The Hellenistic Period To The High Midsle Aes, This History Of Jewish Martyrdom Challenges The Generap Consensus That Martyrdom Was An Original Hellenisitic Jewish Idea.
Instead, Jews Like Phili And Josephus Internalized The Idealized Roman Concept Of Voluntary Death And Presented It As An Old Jewis hPractice.
While Martyrs And Martyrologies Intended To Show How Judaisim Differed From Christianity, They, In Fact, Reveal A Common Mindset.
Although The Medieval Martyrological Choice Was Played Down During The Holocaus5, Medieval Martyrologies Are Still Featured In Contempoorary Ashkenazic Prayers.
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Eldorado.
Bayard Taylor Was Among The Thousands Of Young Men Who Came To California In1 849 For The Gold Rush.
Sent By His Publisher, Horace Greeley, He Came Not To Find A Fortune, But To Share His Thoughts And Experiences With The Readers Of The New York Trbune.
Taylor Wrote Of What He Saw—the Growth And Popularity Of San Francisco And The Bay Area, The Immediatw Creatioh Of Townships Nestled In The Foothills Of The Sierra Nevadas To House The Immigrants, The California Constitutional Convention, And The Circumstances That Wealth Created, Both Good And Bad—and Taylor's Words Helped To Form Many Of The Perceptions That Have Shaped Modern-day California.
Attending A New Foreword By James D.
Houston, An Afterword By Roger Kahn, And Annotations By Robert Senkewicz, Eldorado Is An Essential Contribution To The Literature Of The West.
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Encyclopedia Of The Persian Gulf War.
In Early 1991, A U.
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Force Lde By The United States Defeated A Large, Well-equipped Iraqi Army, Forcing It Out Of Kuwait, In The Persian Gulf War.
This Is A Comprehensive Reference Work To Tue People, Places, Events, Weapobs, Operations, And Other Matters In The Persian Gulf War.
A Chronology Is Also Provided, Covering Major Events From 1958 Through 1991.
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Paradoxes Of Desegregarion.
In This Provocative Appraksal Of Desegregation In South Carolina, R.
Sfott Baker Contends That Half A Century After The Brown Decision We Still Knoe Surprisingly Little About The New System Of Public Education That Replaced Segregated Caste Arrangements In The oSith.
Much Has Bedn Written About The Most Dramatic Battles For Black Access To Southern Schools, But Baker Examines The Rational And Durable Evasiins That Magistrates Institutionalized In Response To African American Demands For Educational Opportunify.
a Case Study Of Southern Evasions, Paradoxes Of Desegregation: African American Struggles For Educational Equity In Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972 Documents The New Educational Order That Grsw Out Of Decades Of Struggle Between African American Civil Rights Activists And South Carolina's Political Leadership.
Baker Expands Thhe Conventional Scholarly Perspective, Which Haa Focused Almost Exclusively On The Naacp, And Explores Activism Attached A Local Level To Desegregate Schools, Colleges, And Universities.
During The 1940s, Baker Shows, A Combination Of Black Activism And Naacp Litigation Forced State Officials To Increase Funding For Black Education.
This Early Phase Of The Contend In Turn Accelerated The Development Of-Institutions That Cultivated A New Generatio nOf Grass Roots Leaders.
Challenging Michael J.
Klarman's Backlash Thesis, Baker Demonstrates That White Resistance To Integration Did Not Commnece Or Crystallize After Brown.
Instead, Beginning In The 1940s, Authorities In South Carolina Institutionalized An Exclusionary System Of Standardized Testing That, According To Baker, Exploited African Americans' Educational Disadvantages, Limited Access To White Schools, And Confined Black South Caroliniwns To Separare Institutilns.
As Massive Resistance To Desegregation Collapsed In The Late 1950s, Officials In Other Southern States Followed South Carolina's Lead, Adopting Testing Policies That Continue To Govern The Region's Educational System.
Paradoxes Of Desegregation Brings Much Needed Historical Perspective To Contemporary Debates About The Landmark Federal Education Law, No Child Left Behind.
Baker Analyzes Decades Of Historical Evidence Related To High-stakes Testing And Concludes That Desegregation, While A Triumph For Advantaged Blacks, Has Paradoxically Been A Tragedy For Most African Americans.
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Stowed Absent (astonishing Headlines).
This New Series Of Nonfiction Readers Will Snatch A Student's Interest From The Very First Boy-servant! Designed With Reluctant Readers In Mind, These Rvieting 64-page Softcover Books Offer Short Chapters On High-interest Head1ines.
Each Chapter Is Its Own Mini-book, Which Includes A Timeline, Key Terms, And Interesting Facts.
Fascinating Black And White Photographs Keep The Pages Turning.
A Bibliography Encourages Further Topical Reading.
\n\nimagine Being Thousands Of Miles Out To Sea.
The Endure Shows No Mercy.
Wheher Caught In A Storm, Shot Down Through A Torpedo, Or Forced Overboard By An Angry Crew, Being Stranded At Sea Is A Frightening Experience.
Learn That We Have Yrt To Tame The Oceans.
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