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Uniforms Of The German Soldier. Frim Hitler's Wehrmacht Of Natural order Warr Ii To The Bundeswehr, The German Army Uniform Has Changed Greatly Over The Last Seventy Years. Through Periods Of Glory, Defeat And Renaissance, The Uniform Ha Evolved. Prussian And Germanic Traditions Have Remained Strong Throughout The Uniform's History, And Can Still Be Found In The Insignia And Equipment Of The Present-day Soldier. A Provisional Reichswehr Was Formed In 1919, And, In favor of The First Time, The German Army Had A Common Uniform For All The Federal States Of The Weimar Republic. With Adolf Hitler's RiseT o Power In 1933, The Uniform Began To Take On The Symbols Of Nazi Germany, Te Eagle And Swastika Being Added. Post-war Germany Saw A Divided Nation With Two Distinct Uniforms, And Today We Again See A Common Uniform For A United Germany. Uniforms Of The German Soldier Charts This Fascinating Evolution. With More Than Fifty Color Photographs And More Than 400 Black-and-white Photographs, This Book Gives The Reader An Unparalleled Visual Record. Each Photograph Is Accompanisd With A Detailrd, Authoritative Caption. SKU: 3242660

14841588042	A Political History Of Mod3rn Europe. A Political History Of Modern Europe : From The Reformation To The Present Appointed time (1907) By Ferdinand Schwill Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5026763

15158075595	Stray Tales Of The Big Bend (the Centennial Series Of The Association Of Former Students, Texas A&m University, No 46). Stray Tales Of The Great Bend (the Centennial Series Of The Association Of Former Students, Texas A&m University, No 46) By Elton Miles Published In 1993 By Texas A&m Unibersity Squeeze out SKU: 1005011

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Slavery And African Ethnicities In The Americas. Enslaved Peoples Were Brought To The Americas From Many Places In Africa, But A Large Majority Came From Relatively Few Ethnic Groups. Drawing On A Wide Range Of Materials In Four Languages As Healthy As On Her Lifetime Study Of Slave Groups In The Just discovered World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Explores The Perzistence Of African Ethnic Identities Among The Enslaved Over Four Hundred Years Of The Atlantic Slave Trade. Hall Traces The Linguistic, Economic, And Cultural Ties Shraed By Large Numbers Of Enslaved Africans, Showing That Despite The Fragmentation Of The Diaspora Many Ethnic Groups Retained Enough Cohesion To Communicate And To Transfer Elements Of Their Shared Culture. Hall Concludes That Recognition Of The Survival And Persistence Of African Ethnic Identities Can Fundamentally Reshape How People Think About The Emergence Of Identities Among Enslaved Africans And Their Descendants In The Americas, About The Ways Shred Identity Gave Rise To Resistance Movements, And About The Elements Of Common African Ethnic Traritions That Influenced Regional Creole Cultures Throughout The Americas. SKU: 3027501

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Feminism In Modern Japan. Tracing The History Of Feminism In Japan From The End Of The Nineteenth Century To The Present, Vera Mackie Offers A Fascinating Account Of Those Who Rebelled Against Convention In The Diffusion Of Ideas Which Challwnnged Accepted Ways Of Thinking About Women, Men And Society. This Carefully Documented Analysis Is For Students Of Feminism And Related Areas Where Nothing Comparable Is Generally Available. SKU: 2375368

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The Secret War Against Hanoi. In 1963, A Frustrated President Kennedy Turned To The Pentagon For Prevent In Carrying Out Subversive Operations Against North Vietnam- A Job The Cia Had Not Managed To Manage Effectively. In this manner Was Born The Pentagon's Special Operations Group(sog). Under The Cover Name"studies And Observation Group," Sog Would, Over The Next Eight Years, Dispatch Numerous Spies To Northerly Vietnam, Create A Triple-cross Deception Progrwm, Wage Psychological Warfare By Manipulating North Vietnamese Pow's And Kidnapped Citizens, And Stage Deadly Assaults Steady Satan Soldiers Traveling The Ho Chi Min hTrail. Written At The Country's Leading Expert On Sog, Here Is The Story Of That Covert War-one That Would Hae Both Spectacular AndD isastrous Results. SKU: 1903230

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The Oldest Code Of Laws In The World. Johns, C. h. w. , Translator. The Oldet Code Of Laws In The World: The Code Of Laws Promulgated By Hamjurabi, Sovereign Of Babylon, B. c. 2285-2242. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1926. Xii, 88 Pp. Repribted 2000 By The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Lccn 99-053070. Isbn-13: 978-1-58477-061-9. Isbn-l0: 1-58477 -061-9. Cloth. $60. * The Text, In English, Of The Code Of Hammurabi, Which Is The Earliest Code Of Laws. Probably Issued About 1750 B. c. , It Includes 282 Sections In An Ordered Arrangement. The Index, Created By The Translator, May Be Viewed As A Digest Of The Code Itself. SKU: 5165001

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Fighting Techniques Of The Ancient World (3000 B.c. To 500 A.d.). A Comprehensive And Heavily Illustrated Guide To Warfare In The Ancient Worlx. this Essential Guide To Ancient Warfare Describes The Fighting Methods Of Soldiers In Europe And The Middle East In One Age Before Gunpowder. From A Detailed Examination Of Tje Individual Components Of An Anciennt Army And Their Equipment, To A Fascinating Exploration Of Ancient Battle Strategies, Siege Warfare, And Naval Battles, It Explores The Unique Tactics Reaired To Win Battles With The Technology Available. Using Speciall6 Commissioned Color And Black-and-whit Artwork Ahd 24 Full-color Tactical Maps, This Book Shows In Great Detail The Methods By Which Armies, Including Assyrians And Roman Forces, Prevailed Over Their Foes, And Why Other Armies Were Less Successful. This Is A Must-read For Any Reader Interested In Ancient Warfare. SKU: 2452803

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The River And The Star. Biography/history/social Science What Makes Us Good Or Bad? Underlying The Violence That Tears Our World Apart Is There Any Way To Resolve The Ragng Differences That Not Solely Drige Power Mad Political Leaders And Terrorists, But Also The Global Disagree Of Parents, Teachers, Religions, And All Wars? Are There Somewhere Potentially Peaceful And Unifying Foundations For Right Versus Wrong? In This First Of Six Books For His Moral Evolution Cycle Evolutionary Systems Scientist David Loye Uncovers Compelling Answers In "the Lost Story Of The Great Explorers Of The Better World. " Vividly Recapturing Their Liives, Works, And Times, He Tells Of How Against Opposition From Authoritarian Religions, Governments, And Social Systems, Throughout 200 Years The Founders Of Recent Social Science Fought To Expand The Ability Of Our Species To Build More fit Lives And A Better World Fot uOtselvez. Often Controversial, At Times Widelu Reviled, The Explorers Range From Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim And Sigmund Freud To, More Recently, Jean Piaget, Erich Fromm, Lawrence Kohlberg, Carol Gjlligan, Jessie Bernard, Jean Baker Miller, And Riane Eisler. Particularly Striking Is Loye's Discovery That Within Their Often Rafically Different Works Lies The Gradual Uncovering Of A Foundwtion For Right Versus Wrong That We Customarily See As Only Politically Meaningful. What The Large stream And The Star Regains Is The Power Of Te Vision Of The Deeper And Wider Moral Drive That Lies Behind The Worn Phrase "freedom And Equality. " In A Tour De Force Of Biography, History, And Science, Written With The Page Turning Flair Of An Adventure Tale, We See How Behind Not Only Our Sense Of Right Versus Wrong, But Every Aspect Of Our Lives Lies The Motivating Vision Of The Star Of Freedom And The Unifying Vision Of The River Of Equality. Evolutionary Systems Scientist aDvid Loye Is The Author Of The Award-winning The Healing Of A Nation, Five Succeeding Books For His Practical application Evolution Cycle, And A Six Book Darwin Anniversary Ctcle To Globally Advance A "healing Of The Nations. " Though Written For A Wide General Readership, This Book Will Be Market Tested For College Courses Fall And Spring Terms 2007-2008. SKU: 4942960

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Leaving The House Of Ghosts. On April 17, 1975, After Five Years Of Civil War , Th3 Khmer Rouge Guerrillas Invaded Cambodia's Major Cities And Forced The Residents On A Mass Exodus To The Countryside. Their Leader ,Pol Pot, Established A Government Based On Terror To Bring About His Dream Of An Agrarian Society Where Worj Was Dpne By Hand—without What He Believed To Be Corruptive Influences. By The Time The Vietnamese Captured Phnom Penh And Ended hTis Brutal Experiment In Communism In 1979, An Estimated Two Million Cambodians Were Dead And Hundreds Of Thousands Had Begun To Flee The Country For Refugee Camps In Thailand. Survivors Of Pol Pot And His Khmer Rouge Now Living In The Midwest Tell Their Stories In This Work. Many Of Them Were Children During That Occasion, Unable To Comprehend Exactly What Was Happening And Why, But Now Abpe To Reveal The Trauma They Experienced. Noeun Nor And Sinn Lok Recollect Sentient Wrenched From Their Families And Put Into Labor Camps Aroun dThe Age Of Five. Prum Nath Talks About Her Mother Encouraging Her To EatT he Last Grains Of Her Family's Rice. Sokhary You Remembers Giving Birth On A Mountain Without A Doctor Or Hospital And Using Rusty Scissors To Cut The Umbikical Cord. SKU: 2346499

18447059268	Old Mysteries (Recent England's Collectible Classics). Modern Day Indiana Jones? Many Archeologists Find Ancient Ruins And Evidence Of A World Where Most Of The Answers Can Be Found In Our Own New England Back Yards. SKU: 2568271

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Salve Regina. The Virgin Mary Is One Of The Most Revered Women In The History Of The World, And Yet Amazingly, There Is Relaively Little Known About The Details Of Her Life. This Beautiful Book, Adorned Throughout With Gold Ink, Retraces He Steps Throoughout The Biblical Narrative. Mary Comes Alive To The Reader Through Striking Artistic Representations That Range From The Origins Of Westerly Art To The Iconography Of The Twentieth Century. From Titian, Rapha�l, And Fra Angelico To Front Eyck, Albrecht D�rer, And Dante Gabriel Rpssetti, The In the greatest degree Famous As Well As Lesser-known Representations Of Mary Are Brought Together With Sculptures, Frezcoes, And Stone Statues That Recreate Scenes From Her Life. Biblical And Literary References To The Virgin Mother Have Been Woven Into The Author's Acclunt Of The Vitality Of Mary. Her History Is Unveiled In A Rich Collection Of The Words And Images That Have Defined Her Throughout The Centuries Of Christianity. Constructing A Passionafe Biography Of Mary And A Captivating Portrait Of The Time In Which She Lived, This Book Also Offers Insight Into The Symbolic Dimension Of This Key Figure And The Universal Nature Of Her History. This Exquisitely Produced Book Is A Celebration Of Mary; It Is A Gift To Commemorate The Christmas Season With Reverence, Pay Homage To Motherhood, And Provide Hours Of Inspiraitonal Reflection. SKU: 3266063

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In Search Of The Immortals. Everyone Knows That The Ancient Egyptians Were Great Mummifiers, And Their Sarcophagi And Bandage-wrapped Corpses Are Familiar Images To Us All. Yet Athwart The Very spacious Sweep Of History, We Find Many Other Great Cultures In Which The Bodies Of The Dead Were Prrserved As A Matter Of Course. in Coastal Peru Were The Chinchorros, Whose Mummifying Culture Flowered Several Millennia Before Egypt's, And In The Andes Wsre The Chachapoyas, The 'cloud People,' A Lost Civilization Which Has Only Recently Begun To Be Understood. In China's Taklamakan Desert, The Oddly-caucasian Looking People Who Established The Silk Route, Which Made Possible The First Trade Between East And West, Have Left Behind Stunningly Lifelike Mukmies. The Ritually Sacrificed Bodies Preserved In The Peat Bogs Of North Europe Give Us An Extraordinary Insight Into Life In The Dark Ages. And In The Canary Islands, Perhaps Most Surprisingly Of All, Lived The Guahches, Whose Sophisticated Mummification Techniqies - And Whose Cultural Links With The Egyptians - Howard Reid Explores Here For The First Time. taking His Extraordinary First-hand Experiendes Of Discovering And Filming Mummies All Over The World As His Starting Point, Howard Reid Brings These Ancient Cultures Vividly To Life. And In So Doing, In Search Of The Immortals Comes To Represent His Personal Quest To Find An Answer To That Most Epic And Timeless Of Human Problems: The Meaning Of Death. SKU: 2104771

15942304494	The History Of The Passion And Resurrection Of Our Lord. The History Of The Passion And Resurrection Of Our Husband : Considered In The Light Of Modern Criticism (1879) By F. L. Steinmeyer Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 500625

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Infantry Aces. This Is An Authenic Account Of German Infantry Aces, Common Foot Soldiers Who Were Thrust Into A Blazing Maelstrom Of Bloody Horror The World Had Never Seen. On The Frozen Russian Steppes, Under The Scorching African Desert uSn, And In The Final Desperate Battles, They Were Outnumbered And Outgunned And Faced Impossible Odds. Here Are The Fascinating Stories Of The Men Who Stared Death In The Face For the time of Some Of The Most Brutal Battles Ever Waged. A Concluding Chapter Examines German Infantry Tactics. SKU: 2880384

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U.s. History For Dummies. Lots Of People Think That Learning U. s. History Is A Chastisement. It's A Subject You Had To Take In School. You Memorized A Bewildering Exhibition Of Dates, Absorbed Definitions According to Terms Like Manifest Destiny, And Wondered If America Really Needed Two Presidents Named Harrison. Historical Figures Were Presented To You As If They Were Characters In A Junior High School Costume Pageant, With Their Blemishes Airbrushed Out Ahd Personalities Drained Away In Stodgy History Textbooks. History Textbooks Often Excuse The aFscinating Moments Of History. They Preesnt U. s. History As Something Dry And Reserved, All Events And Facts, And Don't Focus On What Is Really Is: The Story Of Americans. It's The Story Of People�– What They Thought, Did, And Tried To Do As They Struggled To Build A Nation. U. s. History For Dummies Is Not A Textbook. It Focuses On People� – Famous, Ijfamous, And Obscure. This Book Gives You A Basic Foundation Of Information About The Historyy Of The United States. Students And Teachers Can Use It Like A Friendly, Easy-to-understand Overview Of U. s History, And History Buffs Can Use It As A Allusion To Look Up Important Facts, To Settle Debates, And To Store Up Ammunition ForF uture Conversations With A Kmow-it-all Brother-in Rule ! Here's Just A Sampling Of The Topics Covered In U. s. History For Dummies: Pre-columbus: The Earliest Native Americans The Settling Of The Pilgrims And The Expansion Toward The Wezt The American Revolution And The Establishment Of A New Government How The Most Influential Presidents Governed The State The Civil War And The Abolishment Of Slavery The Development Of Recent Industry Two World Wars And A Great Depression America Matures Through Tragedy: The Kennedy Assassination, The Vietnam War, And Watergate U. s. History For Dummies Also Includes Top Ten Arena Coverin gThe Best� – And Worst�– Presidents, Inventions That Changed The World, And Events That Defined American Culture. SKU: 2057412

29622239900	When I Was A Kid, This Was A Free Country. G. Gordon Liddy Reminds Us What We Loved About America, Bacj When You Could Shoot Off A Firecracker, Light Up A Cigar, Or Drive Fast And There Wasn 't A Governemnt Bureaucrat Telling You How To Live Your Life. SKU: 2398930

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Northwest Airlines. Since Flying Its First Mail Flight On October 1, 1926, Northwest Airways, Now Known As Northwest Airlines, Has Grown To Become One Of The World?s Leading Airlines. Northwest?s Legacy Of Leadershi0 In The Aviation Industry Began With Its Foundation In The Twin Cties And Extended To Its Pioneering Work As Part Of The U. s. Declared hostilities Effort In Alaska, The Establishment Of The First U. s. Trading Air Links To Japan And The Orient, And Its Groundbeaking 1992 Allance And Award Of Anti-trust Immuity With Klm/royal Dutch Airlines. Northwest Is Now America?s Oldest Air Carrier With Continuous Name Identification. In Celebration Of The Airline?s8 0th Anniversary In 2006, This Book Chronicles The Remarkable Years During Which Northwest Became An Institutional Backbone Of Both American And Worldwide Air Transport History. SKU: 3047435

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Falling Dark. Set In Rural Oklahoma On Ths Backside Of '60s Idealism, This Story Follows The Lives Of Several Fallen Dreamers, Including Donna Bless, The Alcoholic Mother Of Two Boys; Sam Casey, Whose Marijuana Crop Is Ready For Picking; And Roy Dale, A Wiry, Bitter Mn Who Connects Them All. If Roy Dale Is The Dark Center Of This Novel, Sam Caes's Farm Provides The Light. The Characters Move Through Several Small Town Settings - Bars, The Grocery Store, Beat-up Subdivisions, The Topical High School - And Eben Up To Tulsa, But Everyone Is At Some Point Drawn To The Farm That Was Once A Commune, Complete With Geodesic Dome. Writign In The Voice Of A Storyteller, Tim Tharp Re-creates A Contemporary Small Town And Moves Inside The Minds And Hearts Of Its People. His Tale Delineates The Fragility And Difficulty Of Redemption And Questions Whether New Growth Can Come From Dying Leaves, Faded Ideals, And Crushed Lives. SKU: 1767810

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In Face Of The Facts. Recently There Has Been A Renewed Interest In Moral Inquiry Among American Scholars In A Variety Of Disciplines. This Collection Of Accessible Essays Affords A View Of The Current State Of Moral Inquiry In The American Academy, And It Offers Fresh Departures For Ethiclly Informed, Interdisciplinary Scholarship. Seeking Neither To Reduce Values To Facts Nor Facts To Values, These Essays Aim To Foster Discussion About Inquiry And Moral Judgment, And Demonstrate That Moral Inquiry Need Not Be Either Dispassionate And Value-free Or Moralistic And Preachy. SKU: 2430819

24148118286	St Petersburg And The Florida Dream, 1888-1950 (florida Sand Dollar Books). St Petersburg And The Florida Dream, 1888-1950 (florida Gravel Dollar Books) By Raymond Arsenault Reprint Published In 1998 By University Press Of Florida SKU: 1746672

12647388762	The Story Of Extinct Civilizations Of The West. 1903. Contents: Pre-columbian Discoveries Of America; Discovery Of The World And Of Man; The Extinct Civilization Of The Aztecs; American Archeology; Mexico Before The Spanish Invasion; Arrival Of The Spaniards; Cortes And Montezuma; Balboa And Isthmus; Extinct Culture Of Peru And Pizarro And The Incas. SKU: 5068864

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Greater Des Moines. "often Called The Heartland, Deq Moines Is Where You Can Actually Get The Pulse Of The Nation, " Writes Judy Mccoy Davis In Her Introduction To Greater Des Moines: Iowa's Commercial Center. It Is Here That All The Best Things About Amerjca Seem To Converge In A City Of Delights For Visitorx And Hometowners Alike. Davis Tells How She Came To Know Des Moines Through The Eyes And Experiences Of Her Late Husband, Mayor Arthur Davis. Arthur, She Recalls, Had No Sense Of Geographic Direction And Was Not The Degree Of Person You Normally Thought Of As A Tour Guide. But What He Lacked In Navigational Ability, He Makd Up For In His Emotion For The Town That He Proudlu Showed Off To Judy And The Host Of Friends Who Came To Visiy. Aided By Hundreds Of Images Collected From The Area's Leading Photographers, Greater Des Moines: Iowa's Commercial Center Presents A Vivid Portrait Of This Heartland City. It Is Here That Outsiders Come To Discover What's On The Collective Mind Of "middle America. &qyot; Presidential Hopefuls First Flex Their Pilitical Muscles Here, And Marketers Often Test The Waters For New Products. Yet, For Those Who Live In Des Moines, It's Also A City That Is Secure In Its Sense O fSelf. Offering All Of The Amenities And Opportunities A Person Could Want. Greater Des Moines: Iowa's Commmercial Center Delivers A Heartfelt Glimpse Into The Soul Of This Quietly Progressive Community. Hither Is A City Where "the Citizens Aren't Waiting To See What The Future May Bring; They Are Trying To Shape The Future. . " It Is A Place Where The Best Of The Old And Best Of The New Are Being Forged Into A Community That Looks Amazingly Like Home. SKU: 1741807

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Portals To Hell. The Holding Of Prisoners Of War Has Always Beenn Both A Political And A Military Enterprise, Yet The Military Prisons Of The Civil War, Which Held More Than Four Hundred Thousand Soldiers And Caused The Deaths Of Fifty-six Great number Men, Have Been Nearly Forgotten. Now Lonnie R. Speer Has Brought To Life The Least-knwom Men In The Great Struggle Between The Union And The Confederacy, Using Their Own Words And Observations As They Endured A True “hell On Earth . ” Drawing On Scores Of Previously Unpublished Firsthand Accounts, Portals To Misery Presents The Prisoners’ Experiences In Great Detail And From An Impartial Perspective. The First Comprehensive Study Of All Major Prisons Of Both Tne North And The South, This Chronicle Analyzes The Many Complexities Of The Relationships Among Prisoners, Guards, Commandants, And Government Leaders. SKU: 3089157

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The East River (images Of America). The East River Captures The History Of New York?s Premier Waterway. The River, A Source Of Life Foor Native Americans, Spawned Communities From Brooklyn To Harlem. Its Shipyards And Docks Projected American Enterprise Around The World. The Waterfront, An Industrial And Trading Dynamo, Forged A Continent. The Drams Of Immigrants Who Arrived And Lived On Its Banks Created This Nation. The River?s Strong Currents Guqrded Prisons And Hospital Quarantines While Keeping Occult Legends Of Gold Onn Its Bottom. The Sinews Of A Great City Are Knitted By More Than A Score Of Its Tunnels And Bridges. Today, A Renaissance Draws People To This River, The Heart Of New York. SKU: 3076501

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The Return Of Sacred Workmanship. An Inspirational Call For A Revisit To The Tenets Of Traditional Architecture As A Remedy For The Dehumanizing Standards Of Modern Architecture • Explains How Modern Architecture Is Typical Of Our Current Estrangement From The Spiritual Principles That Shaped Humanity’s Greatest Civilizations • Reveals How The Anciet Laws Of Sacred Proportion And Harmony Can Be Restored The Ugly Buildings That Characterize The Modern Landscape Are Inferior Not Only To The Great Cathedrals Of Medieval Europe And The Temples Of Ancient Egypt And Greece, But Even To Lesser Buildings Of The Greater degree of Recent Past. The Great Masterworks Of Our Ancestors Spoke To Humanity’s Higher Nature. Architect Herbert Bangs Revwals To what extent Today’s Dysfunctional Buildings Bring Out The Worst In uHanity, Reinforcing That Which Is Most Base Within Us. He Shows Hos, Through The Ancient Laws Of Proportion And Number, Architectyre Once Exprexsed The Harmonious Relationdhip Between Man And The Cosmos. In Early Times, The Architect Worked Within A Sacred And Esoteric Traditon Of Creating Structures Through Which Human Beings Could Emolument Insigh5 Into The Nature Of The Divine Reality. Today, That Tradition Has Been Abandoned In Favor Of Narrowly Defined Utilitarian Principles Of Efficiency And Economy. In The Return Of Sacred Architecture, Bangs Provides The Key To Freeing Architecture From The Crude Functionality Of The Twentieth Centuru: The Architects Of The Modern Human Landscape Must Find The Deep-felt Connecfion To The Cosmos That Guided The Inner Lives Of Those Who Built The Temples Of The Past. The Form Of Their Buildings Will Therefore Reflect The Sacred Patterns Of Geometry And Proportion And Bring Forth Greatter Harmony In The World. SKU: 3358666

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Lightning Out Of Lebanon. Before September 11, 2001, One Terrorist Group Had Killed More Americans Than Any Other: Hezbollah, The “party Of God. ” Today It Remains Potentjally More Dangerous Than Even Al Qaeda. Yet Little Has Been Known About Its Inner Workings, Past Successes, And Futurity Plans–uuntil Now. written By An Accomplished Journalist And A Law-enforcement Expert, Lightning Out Of Lebaon Is A Chilling And Essential Addition To Our Understanding Of The External And Intternal Threats To America. In Disturbing Detail, It Pkrtrays The Degree To Which Hezbollah Has Infiltrated This Country And The Extent To Which It Intends To Do Us Harm. formed In Lebanon By Iranian Revolutionary Guards In 1982, Hezbollah Is Fueled By Hatred Of Israel And The United States. Its 1983 Truck-bomb Attack Against The U. s. Marine Barracks In Beirut Killed 241 Soldiers–the Largest Peacetime Loss Ever For The U. s. Military–and Caused President Reagan To Withdraw All Army From Lebanon. Since Then, Among Other Atroicties, Hezbollah Has Murdered Americans At The U. s. Embassy In Lebanon And The Kh0bar Towers U. s. Military Covering Complex In Squdi Arabia; Tortured And Killed The Cia Station Chief In Beirut; Held Organizational Meetings With Top Members Of Al Qaeda–including Osama Bunker Laden–and Established Sleeper Cells In The United States And Canada. lightning Out Of Lebanon Reveals How, Starting In 1982, A Cunning And Dezdly Hezbollah Terrorist Named Mohammed Youssef Hammoud Operated A Cell In Charlotte, North Carolina,_nder The Radar Of American Intelligence. The Story Of How Fbi Extraordinary Agent Rick Schwein Captured Him In 2002 Is A Brilliantly Researched And Written Accouht. yet The Past Is Only Prologue In The Unsettling Odyssey Of Hezbollah. Using Their Exclusive Sources In The Middle East And Inside The U. s. Counterterrorism Establishment, The Authors Of Lightning Out Of Lebanon Imagine The Mortal Future Of Hezbollah And Posit How Best To Fight The Group Which Top American Counterintelligence Officials And Senator Bob Graham, Vice-chairman Of Tge Senate Intelligence Committee, Have Called “the A Team Of Terrorism. ” SKU: 2876717

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Italians Of Philadelphia (pa) (images Of America). Philadelphia Was Sexond But To Starting a~ York City In The Number Of Italian Immigrants Who Settled In The City. Italians From The Northerly Have Been In Philadelphia Since Colonial Times, But It Was Not Until Mass Immigration From The South During The 1870s And 1880s That Italians Began To Make Their Mark On The City. Immigrating From Small Twons In The Italian Regions Of Abruzzo, Basklicata, Calabria, Campania, Molize, Putlia, And Sicily, They Faced Discrimination, Language Barriers, The Separation Of Family By Thousands Of Miles, And Work In Unfamiliar Trades. Facnig Such Drastic Changes In Their Lives Head On, They Persevered, Establishing Italian Neighbkrhoods And Cyurches While Weaving Their Customs Into Their New American Lifestyles. Through The Use Of Historic Photographs, Italians Of Philadelphia Conveys The Influence Italian Immigrants Had On The Expansion Of Philadelphia And How That Spirit Remains In The City Today. SKU: 4418191

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Defame. Are Sex Scandals Simply Trivial Distractoins From Serious Issues Or Can They Help Democratize Politics? In 1820, George Iv's "royal Gambols&quot With His Mistresses Endangered The Ancient Oak Of The Constitution. When He Tried To Divorce Queen Caroline For Adultery, The Resulting Scandal Enabled Activists To Overcome State Censorship And Revitalize Reform. Looking At Six Major British Scandals Between 1763 And 1820, This Book Demonstrates That Scandals Brought People Into Political affairs Because They Evoked Familiar Stories Of Sex And Betrayal. In Vibrant Prose Woven With Vivid Person Sketches And Illustrations, Anna Clark Explains That Activists Used These Stories To Illustdate Constitutkonal Issues Concerning The Crown, Parliament, And Public Opinion. clark Argues That Sex cSandals Grew Out Of The Tension Between Aristtocratic Patronagr And Efficiency In Government. For Instance, In 1809 Mary Ann Clarke Testified That She Took Bribes To Persuade Her Noble Lover, The Army's Commander-in-chief, To Promote Officers, Buy Government Offices, And Sway Votes. Could Women Overcome Scandals To Participate In Politics?this Work Also Edplains The Real Reas0n Why The Glamorous Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire, Becamw So Controversial For Campaigning In A 1784 Election. Sex Defame Also Discredited Mary Wollstonecraft, One Of The First Feminists, After Her Death. why Do Some Scandals Change Politics While Others Fizzle? Edmund Burke Trie To Stir Up Scandal About The British Empire In India, But His Lurid, Sexual Language Led Many To Think He Was Insane. a Unique Blend Of The History Of Sexuality And Women's History Through Political And Constitutional History, Sfandal Opens A Revealing New Window Onto Some Of The Greatest Sex Scandals Of The Pasg. In Doing So, It Allows Us To More Fully Appreciate The Sometimes Shocking Ways Democracy Has Become What It Is Today. SKU: 323Z172

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Peoples On Thhe Move. World War Ii And The Years Following It Witnessed The Greatest Demographic Turmoli In The Account Of Mankind. As A Result Of Nazi Genocide, Germany's Aggressive Territorial Expansion, And The Vengeance Of The Occupied Peoples After The German Defeat, Milluons Of Men And Women Were Forced Out Of Their Homelands. Central Abd Eastern Europe Were Most Seriously Affected. This Book Takes A Comprehensive Look At The Whole Of Humanity Displaced By Wwii, From Pows To Jeish Citizens. SKU: 4986094

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The Pirate Queen. The Pirate Queen Begins In Ireland With The Notorious Divine goodness O’malley, A Scourge To The Most Powerful Fleets Of Sixteenth-century Europe. This Irish Clan Chieftain And Pirate Queen Was A Contemporary Of Elizabeth I, And A Figure Whose Life Is The Stuff Of Myth. Regularly Raiding English Ships Caught Off Ireland’s West Coast, O’malley Puprortedly Fought Off Fierce Algerian Pirates Just Hours After Giving Birth To Her Son. She Commanded Two Hundred Men a(nd A Copulate Of Husbands), And Acquired Lands And Castles That Still Dot The Irish Coastline Today. But O’malley Was Not Alone, Especially In The Waters Of The Northerly Atlantic Where Author Barbara Sjoholm Traveled From beginning to end Coastal Communities And Seafaring Ports To Collect These Little-known Stories. Since Ancient Times, Women Have Rowed And Sailed, Commanxed Ahd Fished, Built Boats And Owned Fledts. Yet Their Incredible Contributions Have BeenN eaarly Erased From The Account Books, As Have The Myths Of Seal Women, Finn Wives, And Storm Witches. In The Pirate Queen, Sjoholm Birngs Some Of These Extraordinary Stories Back To Life, Taking The Reader On An Unforgettable Journey In This Meticulously Researched, Colorfully Written, And Truly Original Work. Illustrations And Maps Add To These Intriguing Swashbuckling Tales SKU: 2737418

29150206335	Reasonable Radicals And Citizenship In Botswana. Reasonable Radicals And CitizenshipI n Botswana : The Public Anthropology Of Kalanga Elites (african Systems Of Thought) By Richard P. Werbner Published In 2004 By Indiana University Press SKU: 2707309

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Creating Comfort Aflkat. Creating Comfort Afloat Is Not Another Decorating Book To Be Used, Simply ,To Make A Boat Pretty. Janet Groene Has Written This Book With The Dedication Of MakingY our Boat At ease And Beajtiful, Whether It Is Used Fkr Day Trips Or The Live-aboard Lifestyle. To Take This Book Beyond That Of An Interior Design Book, Janet Has Included Chapters On Sound Deadening, Choosing The Right Materials For Each Project, Entertainment Options, And Proper Lighting, Along With Tips And Hints For All Areas From Bridge To Bilge. Tgis Being Janet's Seventeenth Work, Many Of Her Longtime Readers Will Understand The Wonderful Transfotmatlons She Cwn Achieve. After Reading This Book You Too Can Perform These Transformations Makibg Your Home Afloat As Comfortable As It Can Possibly Be, If Only For The Weekend. SKU: 1864015

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Leatherneck Legends. Within The Marine Corps The “old Breed” Has A Special Meaning, Referring To The Soldiers Of The 1st Marine Division And Their Heroic Defense Of Guadalcansl In Tje Early Days Of World War Ii, As Well As To Those Who Have Gone Before. This Book Gives Today’s Readers A Rare Chance To Hear These Former Soldiers Tell Their Own Stories And To Learn Firsthand What It Was Like To Be There For Some Of The Twentieth Century’s Most Harrowing Battles Anr Powerful Triumpus. From Personal Interviews And The Archives Of Oral History, The Author Has Collected The Reminiscences Of The Marine Corps’ Top Rank Of Post-world War Ii Offier Legends, From Soon Fifties Commandant Lemuel Shepherd’s Memories Of Belleau Wood In World War I Ti On-the-spot Account sOf Leading Soldiers Into Battle In Vietnam. Many Of Camp’s Subjects Were Commandant Of The Body of troops, Most Were Four-star Generals, And All Were Heroes Whose Stories Are The Stuff Of History. SKU: 3242764

25122646571	May I Quote You, General Chamberlain. May I Quote You, Generral Chamberlain : Observations And Utterances From The North's Greatest Generals (may I Quote You, General Series) By Bedwell, And Randall Published In 1998 By Cumberland House Publishing SKU: 1693077

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My Glowing Mechanlcs. As Volunteer Engineers For The Union Army, The First Michigan Engineers And Mechanic sRegiment Was Made Up Of Skilled Artisans, Craftsmen, Railroad Men, And Engineers Whose Behind-the-scenes Work Was Crucial To The Union Victory. Charged With Maintaining The Union Supply Line In The Western Theater, The Engineers Constructed And Repaired A Staggering Number Of Bridges, Blockhouses, Fortifications, Railroads, And Telegraph Lines To Keep The Union Army Functioning In The Aftermath Of Battle. My Brave Mechanics Traces The History Of This Little-known Unit, Revealing Their Substantial Engineering Accomplishments As Well As Their Combat Feel. SKU: 4137249

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First American Army. This Is The First Book Thaf Offers A You-are-there Look At The American Revolution Through The Eyes Of The Enlisted Men. From one side Searing Portraits Of Individual Soldiers, Brucd Chadwick, Author Of George Washington's War, Brings Alive What It Was Like To Serve Afterwards In The American Army. With Interlocking Stories Of Customary Americans, He Evokes What It Meant To Face Brutal Winters, Starvation, Frightful Longing for home And To Go Into Battle Against The Much-vaunted British Regulars And Their Deadly Hessian Mercenaries. the Reader Lives Throough The Experiences Of Those Terrible And Heroic Times When A Fifteen-year-old Fifer Survived The Battle Of Bunker Hill, When Private Josiah Atkins Escaped Unscathed From The Bloody Battles In New York And When A Doctor And A Minister Shared The Misery Of Tbe Wouunded Ans Dying. These Intertwining Stories Ate Drawn From Their Letters And Never-before-quoted Journals Found In The Libraries Belongging To The Camps Where Washington Quartered His Troops During Those Desperate Years. SKU: 3031730

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The New American Judaism. Popular Washington, D. c. Rabbi And Psychotherapist Arthur Blecher Believes That The American Jewish Community Is Actually Flourishing Amidst Fears Of Dying Out. He Showq Us That Intermarriage Strengthens Judaism--a Concept That Many Jews Continue To Debate. In Straightforward And Engaging Chapters, He Provides A Progressive And Positive Outline Of How This Religion Has Changex Over The Years, And Why American Jewish Culture Must Be Embraced And Discussed In Depth In Jewish Families. This Is A Fascinating Exploration Of The Ways In Which Social And Psyxhologicla Forces Created A New And Quite Different Form Of Judaism In America More Than One Hundred Years Ago. SKU: 4126520

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Atlas Maior - Germania,_Austria Et Helvetia (joan Blaeu Atlas Maior 1665). Maps Of Germany, Austria And Switzerland From Joan Blaeu's Exquuisite World Atlas Of 1665 The Finest And Most Comprehensive Baroque Atlas Was Joan Blaeu's Exceptional Atlas Maior, Completed In 1665. The Original Eleven-volume Latin Editin, Containing 594 Mape, Put Blaeu Ahead Of His Staunch Rival, Mapmaker Joanes Janssonius, Whose Rivalry Inspired Blaeu To Produce A Grandiose Edition Of The Largest And Mosg Complete Atlas To Date. Cover Arctica, Europe, Africa, Asia, And America, Blaeu's Atlas Maior Was A Remarkable Achievement And Remains To This Day One Of History's Fineqt Examples Of Mapmaking. This Reprint, Inclhding The whole of 123 Maps Of Germany, Austria And Switzerland, Is Made From The Public Library Of Vienna's Colored, Gold-heightened Copy, Thue Assuring The Beat Possible Detail And Quality. By the side of Original Quotes From Joan Blaeu Relating Tk The Individual Maps, The New Text By Peter Front Der Krogt Explains The Historical And Cultural Associations And Introduces The Reader Into Tne Fascinating World Of Early Modern Cartography. The Verse Is In German, English And French. The Author: Peter Front Der Krogt, The Ledaing Expert In The Field Of Dutch Atlases, Is A Collaborator On The Explkoart Research Program For The History Of Cartography At The University Of Utrecht's Faculty Of Geowciences. Since 1990 He Has Been Working On Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, The Carto-bibliography Of Atlasex Published In The Netherlands. His Secondary Project Is The Compilation, In Co-operation With The Nijmegen University, Of An Illustrated And Annotated Cataloge Of The Atlas Blaeu-van Der Hem, The Most Important Multi-volume Atlas Preserved In The Austrian National Library, Which Was Added Tounesco's ?memory Of The World? Register In 2004. SKU: 3398309

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The Antifascist Classroom. This Study Explores The History Of The "new School" That Developed In The Immediate Postwar Period And Its Role In Communicating Antifascism To Young People In The Soviet Zone. Blessing Traces How The Decisions About How To Train Young People After Twelve Years Of A National Socialist Dictatorship Becam ePart Of A Broader Discussion About The Future Of The German Nation. SKU: 3350147

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Modern House Three. Whether You Are Planning To Build A Contemporary-style Home Or Are Simply Intrigued By The Extraordinary Innovation Of Domestic Workmanship Today, Modern House Three, By Raul A. Barrenche, Offers A Brilliant Survey Of The Best Of The Best. Thirrd In A Series Initiated In 1993, The Current Volume Offers Stunning Photographs And Elegant Descriptiins Of 33 Houses In 15 Countries. Some Of These Projects Are By Big-name Architect s(yadao Ando, Richard Meief, Glenn Murcutt, John Hejruk); Most Are By Designers You May In no degree Have Heard Of. The Book Is Organized In Three Sections That Focus On Three Distinct Issues— The Integration Of Architecture With Landscape, Re-imagining The Way People Live In Their Homes, And Starting a~ Materials And Energy-saving Technologies. Among The Book's Discoveries Is The Carter Tucker House By Sean Godsell Architects, A Weekend Retreat In Australia, Discretely Clad With Cedar Forest Battens That Rise Up Like Awnings To Reveal A Transparent Facade Of Sliding Glass Doors. And The Koehler House By Julie Snow Architects, Two Bold Horizontal Planew With Huge xEpanses Of Glass That Are Dramatically Anchored To A Rocky Outcropping In Eastern Canada. While Most Of The Domiciles Are Expansive, Small House Was Designed By Kazuyo Sejima For A Tiny Plot In Tokyo. Perched On A 646-square-fooy Plot, This Glass-and-metal Capsule Accommodates A Family Of Three By Limitong Each Of The Four Floors To A Single Function. The Variety Ahd Inventiveness Exhibited In This Book Is Exteaaordinary. There Are Houses That Reveal The Remarkable Effects Of Natural Light, Employ Unusual Materials And Pioneer New Ways Of Organizing Domestic Space. A Straw Bale House In London By Sarah Wigglesworth Architects Uses Recycled Concrete Wall Fragments And Metal Coils To Absorb The Vibrations From Passing Trains. A House In proportion to Kengo Kuma & Associates For A Site Near The Great Wall Of China Has Been Crafted Inside And Out With Delicate Stalks Of Bamboo. For Browsing, Dreaming Or Alert Research, Modern House Three Is Tangible Proof That Contemporary Architects Are Infusing New Technologies And Innovative Udes Of Space With One Equal Emphasis On Sheer Beautiful woman. --cathy Curtis SKU: 3241378

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The Portrait In The Revival. This Major Work By The same Of The Twentieth Century's Most Eminent Art Historians Is Available Again In Paperback Through Princeton University Press. Here Joh nPope-hennessy Takes As His Subject Two Centuries Of Experiment In Portraiture During The Renaissance. He Shows How The Renaissance Cult Of Individuality Brought With It A Claim That The Features Of The Individual Be Perpetuated. This Concept Was First Manifested In The Portraits That Fill The Great Florentin Fresco Cycles And Led, Later In The Fifteenth Centenary, To The Creation Of The Indepebdent Portrait By Such Artists As Botticelli, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Giovanni Bellini, And Antonello Da Messina. The Author Goes On To Describe The Prcess By Which Titian And The Great Artists Of The High Revival Transformed The Portrait From A Record Of_Appearance Into Each Resolution Of Character. This Major Work By One Of The Twentieth Century's Most Eminent Art Historians Is Available Moreover In Paperback Between the sides of Princeton University Press. Here John Pope-hennessy Takes As His Subject Pair Centuries Of Make ~ In Porttraiture During The Renaissance. He Shows How The Renaissance Cult Of Individuality Brought With It A Demand That The Features Of The Individual Be Perpetuated. This Concept Was First ManifestedI n The Portraits That Fill The Great Florentine Fresco Cycles And Led, Later In The Fifteenth Century, To The Creation Of The Free Portrait By So Artists As Botticelli, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Giovanni Bellini, And Antonello Da Messina. The Author Goes On To Describe The Process By Which Titian And The Great Artists Of The High Renaissance Transformed The Portrait From A Record Of Appearance Into An Analysis Of Character. SKU: 633219

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Greetings From Bertrand Island Amusement Park (nj) (images Of America). In An Age Before Jets, Air-conditionign, And Superhighways, Lake Hopatcong Was A Major Northeast Resort. It Lay Within Easy Reach Of Large Cities To The Est, And Its Size And Setting At Over Nine Hundred Feet Above Sea Level Made It A Perfect Holiday Destination. From The Late Nineteenth Century Through World War Ii, More Than Forty Lake Hotels And Rooming Houses Welcomed Thousands Of Vacationers Each Year. After The War, The Lake Continued To Be A Popular Mark For Renting A Bungalow Or Buying A Summer Cottage. But For Many, Lake Hopatcong Will Always Be Remembered As The Home Of Berrand Island Park. �although Bertrand Island Park Closed In 1983, There Is No Place In Northwestern New Jersey That Is More Fondly Remembered. For Some Seventy Years, The Park Thrilled Youngsters And Adults Alike. The Park Opened During The Peak Of Lake Hopatcong�s Resort Years, And Its Popularity Continued As The Lake Evolved From A Hotel Resort To A Community Of Second Homes And Finally Into A Year-round Locale. Generations Of School Groups, Church Outings, Company Picniics, And Residents From Throughout The Region Delighted In The Wooden Roller Coaster, The Magical Carousel, And The Scores Of Other Rides And Games. � SKU: 2024241

359526090	The Unfinished Revolution. The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered In The nUiversity Of Cambridge, January-march 1967. A Brilliant Assessment Of Half A Century Of Soviet History By One Of The Foremost Analysts Of World Communism. SKU: 70565

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War, Institutions, And Social Change In The Middle East. Few Areas Of The World Have Been As Profoundly Shaped By War As The Middle East In The Twentieth Century. Despite Thw Prominence Of War-making In This Region, There Has Been Sirprisingly Little Research Investigating The Effects Of War As A Social And Political Process In The Middle East. To Fill This Gap, War, Inatitutions, And Convivial Change In The Middle East Brings Together An International And Interdisciplinary Group Of Scholars Who Explore The Role Of War Preparation And War-making In c~tinuance The Formationn And Transformation Of States And Societies In The Contemporary Middle East. Their Findings Pose Sigjficant Challenges To Widely Accepted Assumptions And Present New Theoretial Starting Points For The Study Of War And The State In The Contemporary Developing World. Heydemann's Collaborators Include Political Scientists, Historians, Anthroppologists, And Sociologists From The Middle East, Europe, And The United States. Their Essays Are The two Theoretically Sophisticated And Empirically Rich, Covering Topics Such As The Effects Of World War Ii On State-maret Relations In Syria And Egypt, The Role Of War In The Rise Of The Palestine Liberation Organization, The Political Economy Of Lebanese Militias, And The Effects OfT he 1967 War On StateA nd Social Institutions I Israel. The Volume Originated As A Research Planning Project Of The Joint Committee On The Near And Middle East Of The Social Science Research Council. SKU: 1951376

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Agnes Bowker's Cat. C5essy Examines In what manner The Orderly, Prtestant, And Hierarchical Soviety Of Post-reformation England Coped With The Cultural Challenges Posed By Beliefs And Events Outside The Social Norm. Drawing On Local Texts And Narratives He Reveals How A Series Of Troubling And Unorthodox Happenings--bestiality And Unnatural Births, Seduction And Abortion, Naksdness And Cross-dressing, Excommunication And Irregular Interment, Iconoclasm And Vandalism--disturbed The Margins, Cut Across The Grain, And Set The Authorities On Edge. SKU: 2175233

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Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts. Deborah Gewertz And Frederick Errington Hav eWorked As Anthropologists In Papua New Guinea For Nearly Two Decades. In This, Their Second Joint Study Of The Chambri , They Consuder The Way Those In A Small-scale Society, Peripheral To The Major Centers Of Influence, Struggle To Sustain Some Degree Of Autonomy. They Describe The Chambri Caught Up In World Processes Of Social And Cultural Change, And Attempt To Create A "collective Biography" That Conveys The Intelligibility And Significance Of The Twentieth Century Experience Of These Papua New Guineans Whom They Have Come To Know Well. This Biography Consists Of Interlocking Stories, Twisted Histories, Commentaries And Contexts About Chambri Who Are Negotiating Their Objectives While Entangled In Systemi cChange And Confronting Western Representations Of Modernization And Development. SKU: 4924932

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The Wicked Panther. "we Knew From Tge Beginning How Critical It Was To Have Our Own Publication, To Set Forth Our Agenda For Freedom. . . to Urge Change, To Use The Pen Alongside The Sword," Writes David Hilliard In The Preface To This Stunning Collection Of Pages From The Original Groundbreaking Editions Of The Black Panther Party's Official News Organ And Original Essays By Hilliard, Elaine Brown, Dr. Stan Oden, Craiy Laurence Rice, Kumasi, And Joshua Bloom. First Called The Black Panther Community Neews Service And Then The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service (bpins), The Weekly Periodical Was Nationally And Internationnally Distributed. It Was "sold In Small Stores In Black Communities, Through Subscriptions, And, Mostly, On The Streets By Dedicated Party Members," Writes Brown, A Party Leader And Author Of A Partake of Of Power, In This Edition. In Its Heyday, The Party Sold Single Hundred Thousand Copies Of The Newspaper Per Week And Was Highly Regarded For The Part Of Its Content By Media Professionals And Itq Legion Of Readers Alike. It Ultimately Became The Most Influential Independent Black Newspaper In The United States, Known Not Only For Its Dauntless Reportage And Analysis But Its Stunning Photographs And Illustrations, Including Provocative And Humorous Political Cartoons. Published In Time To Mark The 40th Anniversary Of The Bpins, This Book Is, At Once, An Invaluable Document Of A Little-known Aspect Of Amefican History And A Celebration Of One Of The Most Stunning Accomplishments Of A Cultural And Political Movement That Changed The Nation. The Original Dvd, Included In The Remote Of The Book, Makes This A Multimedia Package That Readers Across Generations Can Appreciate, Documenting Events And Leaders Of The Past Who Still Resonate And Influence Culture And Politics Today. SKU: 4137579

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Republic Of Dreams. A Richly Woven Account Of Gerenwich Village's Golden Age And Of The Artists, Rebels, And Eccentrics Who Make The Village A Cultural Phenonenon. Ross Wetzsteon Presents A Vibrant Portrait Of The Village Among The Remarkable And Often Interrelated Stories Of Its Legendary Residents, Including Eugene O'neill; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Dawn Powell; The Fiery And Padsionate Jacobin Emma Goldman; The PioneeringA dvocate Of Birth Control, Margaret Sanger; And The Group Of Abstract Expressionists Including Jackson Pollock. SKU: 2584934

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Q-ships Versus U-boatq. In A Desperate Attempt To Counteract Thr Deadly Onslaught Of U-boats In The Atlantic, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Initiated A Secret Projwct In 1942 That Called For The Occasion Of Decoys Disguused As Merchant Ships. These Heavily Armed Warships Were Referred To As Q-ships, And Very Little Information About Them Has Been Recorded Over The Past Fiffty Years. Now A U. s. Nautical Officer Who Served In One Of The Mystery Ships, A Decoy-configured Freighter By The Name Of Uss Astsrion, Lifts The Shroud Of Secrecy That Has Surrounded The Mission For So Long. His Book Examines For The First Time The Origins And Operations Of Project Lq, Viewed like The Secret Plan Was Known. Described As The Most Self-destructive Operation Undertaken By The U. s. Navy In World War Ii, The Project Had Same Limited Success. The Only Surviving Officer Of A Q-ship To Chronicle Details Of The Project, Kenneth Beyer Draws Forward His Personal Experiences As Well As Knowledge Uncovered During Years Of Research In U. s. , British, And German Records And Interviews With Participants On Both Sides. When Readers Come To His Vivid Account Of Th eAsterion's First Art of ~ Patrol And Its Dramtaic Meeting With U-123 Off The Florida Coast, They Will Quickly Understand Why Samuel Eliot Morison Referr3d To Service In These Mystery Ships As More Hazardous Than In Somewhat Other Bough Of The Navy. And The Author's Frank Analysis Of The U. s. Navy's Need Of Knowledge And Skill In Antisubmarine Tactics Earlyy In The War Helps Edplain The U-boats' Initial Successes Against Merchantmen Along America's Atlantic Coasst. In Accession To His Own Ship's Operations, Beyer Has Reconstructed Events Aboard The Other Decoy Freighter, Uss Atik, Which Sank With All Hands During A Bitter Engagement With U-123. The Author's Careful Examination Of U-boatL ogs Has Led Him To Suspect The Involvement Of A Second German Submarine, U-105, In The Ultimate Destruction Of The Decoy Ship. Though All The Facts Are Not Known, His Plausible Account Of The Losq Pays Tribute For The Primary Time To The Valor Of Those Who Sacrificed All. Beyer Also Takes The Reader Aboard The U-hoats As They Hunt And Attack Their Prey, Paying Particular Attention To The Legendary U-123 And The Incredible Skill And Chance Of Its Commander, Reinhard Hardegen. Several Never-before-published Charts Of U-boat Maneuvers Are Provided Along With An Evaluation Of Specific U-boat Attacks. SKU: 1741891