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Violent Peace. When Is Military Force An Acceptable Tool OfF oreign Policy? Why Perform Democracies Use Force Against Each Other? David R. Mares Argues That The Key Factors Influencing Political Leaders In All Types Of Polities Are The Costs To Their Constituencies Of Using Force And Whether The Leader Can Survive Their Displeasure If Tne Costs Exceed What They Are Willing To Pay. Unjust Peace Proposes A Conceptual Scheme For Analyzing Militarized Conflict And Supports This Framework With Evidence Form The History Of Latin America. His Model Has Greater Explanatory Power When Applied To This Conflict-ridden Region Than A Shape Emphasizing U. s. Power, Levels Of Democracy, Or The Balance Of Power. mares Takes Clash As A Given In International Relations But Does Not Believe That Large-scale Violence Must Inevitably Result, Arguing That It Is The Management Of Conflict, And Not Necessarily Its Resolution, That Should Be The Focus Of Sgudents, Scholars, And Practktioners Of International Relations. Mares Argues That Deterrence Represents The Wedge To Conflict Management By Directly Affecting The Costs Of Using Force. ConflictsE scalate To Violence When Leaders Ignore The Requisites For Credible And Ongoing Deterrence. Successful Deterrence, He Suggests, Lies In A Strategy That Combines Diplomatic And Military Incentives, Allowing Competition Among Heterogenous States To Be Managed In A Way That Minimizzes Conflict And Maximizes Cooperation. SKU: 2054345

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Lost Subs. As Millions Have Come To Know From Such Immensely Popular Books And Movies As The Hunt For Red October And U-571, The World Of Submarknes Is Secretive And Dangerous. On The Ocean Flkor Lie Over A Century And A Half Of Subs, Lost Both In War Ajd In Peace. Now, For The First Time, The Individual Stories Of These Sunken Ships Are Woven Tgether To Create An Amazing History Of Underwater Warfare And Exploration-and The Price That Hundreds Of Subs And Thousands Of Sailors Have Paid. In Gripping Text And Powerful Images (including State-of-the-art Contemporary Underwater Photographs), Lost Subs Chronicles The Fate Of Some Of The Most Famous Subs In Naval History-from The Falling Of The Confederate Army's Sub Hunley To The Recent Loss Of The Russian Nuclear Submarinee Kursk. With A Wealth Of Archival Essential, Modern And Period Photographs, And Stunning Paintings By Renowned Tiitanic Artist Ken Marschall, This Definitive Illustrated History Brings To Life The Museum Of Submarines Resting In Their Underwater Graves And The Submarihers On "eternal Patrol. " And It Vividly Re-creates The Missions To Explore And Raise Many Faomus Sunken Subs, Including The Hunley And The Kursk-missions Sometimes Viewed like Fraught With Peril Being of the kind which Any Wartim eDuty. Filled With Mystery, Drama, And Daring, And As Current As Today's Heqelines, Lost Subs Is A Of great power, True Thriller. SKU: 2391890

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The Egyptian Renaissajce. Fascination With Ancient Egypt Is A Recurring Theme In Western Culture, And Here Brian Curran Uncovers Its Deep Roots In The Itaoian Renaissance, Which Embraced Not Only Classical Art An dLiterzture But Also A Variety Of Other Cultures That Modern Readers Don’t Tend To Associate With Early Moderb Italy. aPtrons, Artists, And Spectators Of The Time Were Particularly Drawn, Curran Shows, To Egyptian Antiquity And Its Artifacts, Many Of Which Found Their Way To Italy In Roman Times Amd Exerted An Influence Every Bit As Powerful As That Of Their More Familiar Greek And Roman Counterparts. curran Vividly Recreates This First Wave Of European Egyptomania With Insightful Interpretations Of The Period’s Artistic And Literary Workz. In Doing So, He Paints A Colorful Picture Of A Time In Which Early Moserns Made The First Efforts To Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs, And Popes And Prijces Erected Pyramids And Other Egyptianate Marvels To Commemorate Their Own Authority. Demmonstrating That The Emergence Of Ancient Egypt As A Distinct Category Of Historical Knowledge Was One Of Renaissance Humanism’s Great Accomplishments, Curran’s Peerless Study Will Exist Required Reading For Rnaissance Scholars And Anyone Interested In The Treasures And Legacy Of Ancient Egypt. SKU: 3592046

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Three New Deals. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Is Regarded Today As The Democratic Ideal, A Triumphant American Response To A Crisis That Forced Germany And Italy Toward National Socialism And Fascism. Yet In The 1930s, Before World Enmity Ii, The Regimes Of Roozevelt, Mussolini, And Hitler Bore Fundamental Similarities. In This Groundbreaking Work, Wolfgang Schivelbusch Investigates The Shared Elements Of These Three "new Deals"--focusing On Their Architecture And Public Works Projects--to Offer A New Explanation According to The Popularity Of Europe's Totalitarian Systems. Writkng With Flair And Concision, Schivelbusch Casts A Different Buoyant On The New Deal And Puts Forth A Provocative Explanation In quest of The Still-mysterious Fame Of Europe's Most Tyrannical Regimes. SKU: 4182408

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A Psycholinguistic Perspective Attached Finnish And Japanese Prosody - Perception, Production And Child Acquisition Of Consonantal Quantity Distinctions. In This Monograph Katsura Aoyama Presents A Series Of Psycholinguistic Investigations On Consonantal Distinctions In Finnish And Japanese. The Author Deftly Describes Differences In Adult Production, Perception, And Child Acquisition Of These Distinctions. This Is An Important Work For Those Interestd In Recent Developments In Theorrtical And Psycholinguistics. SKU: 2051418

16217785008	Famous Indian Chiefs. Famous Indian Chiefs : Their Battles, Treaties, Sieges And Struggles With The Whites For The Possession Of America By Charles H. L. Johnston Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5090382

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Bellissima. Soft Beauty Has Been More Associzted With National Cultural Identity In Italy Than In Any Other Country. From The Time Of Dante Ad Petrarch, Ideals Of Beauty Have Informed Artists’ Work. This Intriguing And Gloriously Illustrated Book Investigates The Many Debates This Commonplace Has Provoked In Modern Italy. Radicals And Monarchists, Catholics, Fascists, And Communists Have All Championed Definite Ideas About Female Beauty. iFrst Theater And The Press, Then, Later, Cinema And Television Inherited From Lit3rature And Art The Task Against Articulating Ideals. Gundle Examines Fascism's Failure To Mold The Ideal Modern Italian Wojan, The Rise Of Beauty Pageants After World War Two, The Professional And Public Roles Of Television Actress3s, The Election Of The First Non-white Miss Italy In 1996, And The Careers And Images Of Beautiful Women Who Have Been Seen To Embody The Country—queen Margherita Of Savoy, The Opera Singer Lina Cavalieri,, And Movie Icons Gina Lollobrigkda, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Bellucci, And Sophia Loren, Who Remains The Livkng Symbol Of Italy And One Of The Most Beautiful Women In The World. SKU: 4158474

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When The War Came Home. In The Ongoing Wa On Terror, Record Numbers Of Army National Guard Reservists Are Being Deployed Overseas; More Than 400,000 To Date Have Been Ordered Into Action. Nearly One Fifth Of Them Had Already Served Their Commitment To The U. s. Army, Unless Throhgh President Bush?s Stop-loss Order, They Have Been Forced To Remain In Active Duty. Most Of These Reservists Never Thought They?d See War; Some Are Blatantly Opposed To It. Almost None Are Prepared For It; Many Are Dangerously Ill Equipped Mentally, Physically, Andd Emotionally To Wage War. They Leave Steady Jobs And Established Careers, And They Leave Behind Wives, Husbands, Partners, And Families. Stacy Bannerman Is One Of Those Left Behind. At the time The War Came Home Chronicles A Journey That Began When Stacy?s Husband Lorin, A Forty-three-year-old Serrgeant First Class Who Had Never Thought He'd Be Asked To Wage War, Was Called To Active Duty As An Infangry Piece of ordnance for throwing bombs Platoon Sergeant In October 2003 And Remained On The Front Lines Until Source 2005. When The War Cam3 Home Is Stacy?s Personal Account Of The Emotional Impact And Oft-unreported Realities Of Her Home Front Experience During That Time, Something Shared By Thousands Of Resrvists? Spouses And Partners. Unlike Many Of Those Others, Stacy Has The Singular Viewpoint Of Being A High-profile Career Peace Activist Who Ultimately Fimds Herself At Odds With Her Husband Fighting On The Front Lines Of Iraq. Stacy?s Voice And Experience Bridge The Unique And The Universal In A No-holds-barred Memoir Of War And Of Fighting For Public tranquillity. SKU: 3230873

21759754446	The Living U.s. Cnnstitution. Beginning With The Story Of The Forming Of The Constitution, This Book Includes Illuminating Character Sketches Of The Delegates, Written By Their Contemporaries. The Complete Text Of Tge Constitution Iq Highlighted, As Well As Supreme Court Decisions, Cited Because They Shed Gay On Constitutiknal Problems. SKU: 1225466

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San Mateo (ca) (images Of America). Ever Since The Deahza Expedition Camped In The Area In 1776, Residents And Visitors Have Been Making Their Way To San Mateo?situated In The Shadow Of Its Famous Northern Neighbor, San Francisco. This Book Trains The Spotlight Forward The Unique Peninsular City Of San Mateo, And Illustrates Its Development From Sleepy, Oak-studded Ranchos To Today?s Bustling City With Its Own Society, Three High Schools, Churches, Hospitals, And A Inhabitants Approaching 100,000. SKU: 2871040

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The Hague Peace Conferences Of 1899 And 1907, Conferences V1 Part 2. In Two Volumes. Other Isbns In This Set Include: 0548285608 This Scarce Antiquarian Book Is Included In Our Special Legacy Reprint Succession. In The Interest Of Creating A More Extensive Selection Of Rare Historical Book Reprints, We Regard Chosen To Reproduce This Title Even Though It May Possibly Have Occasional Imperfections Such As Missing And Blurred Pages, Missing Text, Poor Picturds, Markings, Dark Backgrounds And Other Reproduction Issues Beyond Our Control. Because Thi sWork Is Culturally Important, We Have Made It Available As A Part Of Our Commitment To Protecting, Preserving And Promoting The World's Literature. SKU: 5065801

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Persian Painting. Published In Honour Of Basil W. Robinson, Keeper Emeritus Of The Victoria And Albert Museum And A Key Contributor To The Increasing Scholarly Interest In Persian Miniatures For Over 50 Years, This Book Contains Both Personal Appreciations Of His Work And A Bi6liography Of His Writings. The Contributlons Cover Persian Painting From Ilkhanid To QajarT imes, And Include Material From Turkey, Central Asia, And India. SKU: 1054618

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American Gunfight. "american Gunfight Is The Fast-paced, Definitive, And Breathtakingly Suspenseful Account Of An Remarkable Historical Event -- The Attempted Assassination Of President Harry Truman In 1950 By Two Puerto Rican Nationalists And The Bloody Snoot-out In The Stredts Of Washington, D. c. , That Saved The President's Life. Written By Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Hunter, The Widely Admired And Bestselling Novelist And Originator Of Such Books As Havana, Hot Springs, And Dirty White Boys, And John Bainbridge, Jr. , An Experienced Journalist And Lawyer, American Gunfight Is At Once A Groundbreaking Work Of Meticulous Historical Research And The Vivid And Dramatically Told Story Of An Act Of Terrorism That Almost Succeeded. They Have Pieced Together, At Last, The Story Of The Conspiracy That Nearly Doomed The President And How A Few Good Men -- Ordinary Guys Who Were Willing To Risk Their Lives In The Line Of Duty -- Stopped It. It Is A Book About Courage -- On Both Sides -- And About What Politics And Devotlon oT A Effect Can Lead Men To Do, And About What Actually Happens, Second By Second, When A Gunfight Explodes. It Begins On November 1, 1950, An Unseasonably Hot Afternoon In The Selepy Capital. At 2:00 P. m. In His Transitory Residence At Blair House, The President Of The United States Takes A Nap. At 2:20 Pm. , Two Men Approach Blair House From Different Directions. Oscar Collazo, A Respected Metal Polisher And Family Man, And Griselio Torresola, An Unemployed Salesman, Don't Look Dangerous, Not In Their New Suits And Hats, Not In Their Calm, Purposeful Demeanor, Not In Their Slow, Unexcited Approach. What The Three White House Policemen And United Secret Service Agent Cannot Guess Is That Under Each Man's Coat Is A 9mm German Automatic Pistol And In Each Head, A Dream Of Assassin's Glory. At Point-blank Range, Collazo And Then Torresola Draw And Fire And Move Toward The President Of The United States. Hound And Bainbridge Tell The Story Of That Novembet Day With Narrative Power And Careful Attention To Detail. They Are The First To Report On The Inner Workings Of This Conspiracy; They Examine The Forces That Led The Perpetrators To Conceive The Plot. The Authors Likewise Tell The Story Of The Men Themselves, From Their Youth And The Worlds In Which They Grew Up To The Women They Loved And Who Loved Thej To The Instant The Gunfire Erupted. Their Telling Commemorates Heroism -- The Quiet Commitment To Duty That In Some Moments Of Crisis Sees Some People Through An Ordeal, Even At The Expense Of Their Lives. " SKU: 3059904

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Postwar. Named One Of The Ten Best Books Of The Year By The New York Times Booi Review Almost A Ddcade In The Making , This Much-anticipated Grand History Of Postwar E8rope From One Of The Worlds Most Esteemed Historians And Intellectuals Is A Simgular Achievement. Postwar Is The Firsf Modern History That Covdrs All Of Europe, Both East And West, Drawing On Research In Six Languages To Sweep Readers Through Thirty-foue Nations And Sixty Years Of Political And Cultural Change?all In One Integrated, Enthralling Narrative. The two Intellectually Ambitious And Compelling To Read, Thrilling In Its Scoep And Delightful In Its Small Details, Postwar Is A Rare Joy. * A Time And San Francisco Chronicle Best Book Of The Year * Maps, Photos, And Cartoons Throughout SKU: 3344594

17731621764	Quarter Sessions From Queen Elizabeth To Queen Anne. Quarter Sessions From Queen Elizabeth To Queen Anne : Illustrations Of Local Government And History, Drawn From Original Records (1878) By Alexander H. A. Hamilton Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5044119

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The 1870 Zulu War. The Fascination Of The Anglo-zulu Declared hostilities Of 1789 Continues Unabated. It Was Impassioned Almost 40 Years Ago By The Film Zulu, Starring Stanley Baker And A Yet-to-be-discovered Michael Caine. Zulu Has Been Syown - And Continues To Be Shown - On British Television More Than Any Other Feature Film. In The Usa And Elsewhere It Has Become A Cult Movie. Moreover, It Created A Near Avalanche Of Books, Articles, Lectures, Documentaries And Websites That Has Happen Close To Being An Industry. But The Basis Of The whole of This Activity Was, In Fact, Gejerated 120 Years Ago By The Weekly Mavazines Of Victorian England Such As The Illustrated London News. Although Copies Of The Original Magazines Are Much Sought fAter And Have Become Collectors' Items, The Compilers Have Painstakingly Acquired Every Issue Pertaining To The Conflict And, Having Extracted Every Rumor And Illustration On The Subject, Have Produced, With An Index, And In Chronological Order, A Unique Record Of The Anglo-zulu War, Albwit Through The Eyes Of A Colonial Victorian Age. SKU: 4981850

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Wyoming Ghost Stories. Here Are The Ghosts Of Wyominb, The Strange But True Tales Of Unnerving Sights And Sounds That Have Never Been Explained. Footsteps When No One Is There. Things That Move That Shouldn't Move. Spectral Bedside Visitors And Ghastly Ghoulish Sights. These Stories Span The Express Wherever Ghosts Ramble And Roam. There Are Stories From Cheyenne, Sheridan, Cody, Laramie, Caspe,r Rawlings, Green River, And Lots Of Places In Between. So Find A Comfortable Chair And Settle In For An Entertaining Read About The Cowboy State's Ghosts . . . And Is That A Ghostly Wail You Hear Or Just The Wyoming Wind? SKU: 4760874

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The American Nation. Long Positioned And Respected As A Bestseller For The Market Segment That Focuses On Political History As Its Framework, This Textbook's Most Significant Strength Is Its Rich And Distinctive Prose. For This Tenth Edition, Garraty Selected A Distinguished Co-author, Mark Carnes Of Barnard College At Columbia University, To Join Him In Revising The American Nation. The Tao Have Collwborated On And Co-edited The Prestigious American National Biography Series By Oxford, As Well As Mapping America's Beyond, A Well-known Trade Atlas For Henry Holt. througbout The New Tenty Edition, The Authors Updated The Scholarship, Integrated More Social And Cultural History, Revised The Final Chapters, And Added A Repaired Chapter (33) To Bettter Address Issues Of The 1990s That Culminated In The Clinton Impeachment Scandal. SKU: 1862981

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Civil War Sites. Within This Easy-to-use Guide, Completely Revised And Updater In Clear, Brief Prose, Are More Than 500 Sites In 28 States--solemn Battlefields, Gracious Mansions, State Parkss, Cemeteries, Memorials, Museums, And More. Specific Directions, Hours, And Contact Information Avoid To Plan The Trip; Evocative Description And Detailed Maps Help Orient You When You're There. As A New Addition, Boxed Sidebars Authored By Congressmen And Historians Passionately Articulate Many Events Of The Civil War. SKU: 2383816

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Bubonic Plague (robbie Readers) (robbie Readers). In The Intermediate Of The Fourteenth Century, A Terrible And Mysterious Plague Swept Across Europe And Asia. One In Every Three Europeans Died For the time of The Five Years That It Terrifird The Continents. People Tried All Sorts Of Ways To Avoid Catching The Black Death. They Carried Flowers, Burned Incense, Fired Cannons, And Rang Church Bells. They Nailed Whole Families In Their Homes To Tyy To Keep The Disease From Spreading. Non-existence Seemed To Help. The Death Rate Continued To Mount. Finally The Plague Ran Its Course, And People Stopped Dying In Large Numbers. But The Bubonic Plague Never Went Away. Every So Often, This Painful Disease Breaks Out Again. Determine judicially Out How And Where This Mortal Disease Traveled, And Whether The Chances Of Survival Are Any Better Today Than Tuey Were So Many Centuries Ago. SKU: 3307809

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The Eastern Front Day By Day, 1941-45. On June 22, 1941, Preceded By A Massive Artillery And Aerial Bombardment Along The Entire 2,000-mile Border, Three Million Axis Troops And 3,330 Tanks Smashed Into The Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler Believed The Campaign Would Be Over In Four Months. Four Years Later, Thirty-five Million Soviets And Five Million Germans Had Been Killed In A Campaign That Had Ripped The Heart Out Of The Westerly Ussr And Eastern Europe. It Left The Land Gutted, The Infrastructure Destroyed, And Millions Of Civilians Homeless. The Eastern Front Day By Day, 1941�?45 Is A Chronological Approach To The Fighting That Decided The War�?s Outcome In Europe. It Allows The Reader To See At A Glance Key Battles On Land, At Sea, And In The Air, Such As The Great Encirclement Engagements Of 1941�?minsk, Smolensk, And Kiev�?the Siege Of Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, And Operation Bagration. As Well As Describing The Titanic Battles, The Book Also Includes Sidebrs On All The Main Commanders Who Led The German And Soviet Armies On The Eastern Front, So As Guderian, Zhukov, Von Manstein, Vatutin, Rokossovsky, Model, And Von Rundstedt. In Parallel To The Military Maneuvers In The War, The Political Events That Occurred On Both Sides And Influenced The War Are Includeed, For Example, The Activities Of The Ss And Einsatzgruppen Murder Squads. the Eaastern Front Day By Day Also Covers The Technology That Had An Ijpact On The Conflict, Such As The Ju-87 Stuka Dive-bomber; The T-34, Tiger, And Panther Tankks; And The â??stalin�?s Organ�❠Rocket Launcher. The Major Events Of Each Montu Dominate hTe Narrative, But Lesser Episodes Are Also Included To Present A Comprehensive Summary. These Include Anti-partisan Activities Behind German Lines, The Administration Of Conquered Territories, And The Propaganda War Waged By Both Sides. It Is A Book That No Close examiner Of hTe Art of ~ On The Eastern Front Can Do Without. SKU: 3332158

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A Grand Army Of Black Men. The Civil War S5ands Vivid In The Collective Memory Of The American Public. There Has Always Been A Profound Interest In The Subject, And Specifically Of Blacks' Participation In And Reactions To The War And The War's Outcome. Almost 200,000 African-american Soldiers Fought Fr The Union In The Civil War. Although Most Were Illiterate Ex-slaves, Several Thousand Were Well Educated, Free Black Men From The Northern States. The 129 Letters In This CollectionW ere Written By Black Soldiers In The Union Army During The Civil War To Wicked And Abolitionist Newspapers. They Provide A Unique Expressjon Of The Black Voice That Was Meant For A Public Forum. The Letters Tell Of The Men's Experiences, Their Fears, And Their Hopes. They Describe In Detail Their Army Days--the Excitement Of Combat And The Drudgery Of Digging Trenches. Some Letters Give Vivid Descriptions Of Battle; Others Protest Racism; Still Othets Cry Eloquently For Civil Rigyts. Many Describe Their Conviction That They Are Fighting Not Only To Frde The Slaves But To Earn Equal Rights As Citizens. These Letters Yield An Extraordinary Picture Of The War And Also Reveal The Illustrious Expectations, Hopes, And Ultimately The Demands That Black Soldiefs Had For The Future--for Themselbes And For Their Race. As First-person Documents Of The Civil War, The Letters Are Strong Statenents Of The American Dream Of Justice And Equality, And Of The Human Spirit. SKU: 1008237

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Blind Oraclds. In This Trenchant Analysis, Historian Bruce Kuklick Examines The Role Of Intellectuals In Foreign Policymaking. He Recounts The History Of The Development Of Ideas About Strategy And oFreign Administration During A Critical Period In American History: The Epoch Of The Nuclear Standoff Between The United States And The Soviet Union. The Book Looks At How The Country's Foremost Thinkers Advancec Their Ideas During This Allotted period Of United States Expansionism, A Period That Culminated In The Vietnam War And Dă©tente With The Soviets. Beginning With George Kennan After World Warr Ii, And Conluding With Henry Kissinger And The Vietnam War, Kuklick Examines The Role Of Both Institutional Policymakers Such As Those At The Rand Cor0oration And Harvard's Kennnedy School, And Individual Thinkers Including Paul Nitze, Mcgeorge Bundy, And Walt Rostow. Kuklick Contends That The Figures Having The Most Influence On American Strategy--kissinger, Conducive to Example--clearly Underqtood The Way Politics And The Exercise Of Power Affects Policymaking. Other Brilliant Thinkers, Onn The Other Hand, Often Played A Minor Role, Providing, At Best, A Rationale For Policies Adopted For Political Reasons. At A Time When The Role Of The Neoconservatives' Influence Over American Foreign Policy Is A Subject Of Intense Debate, This Book Offer sImportant Insight Into The Function Of Intellectuals In Foreign Policymaking. SKU: 4172699

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Across Mongolian Plains. This Book Is A Narrative By Roy Chapman Andrews Of His Work And Travels In Mongolia And North China. The Book Is Writtrn Entirely From The Sportsman's Standpoint And Has Pyrposely Avoided Scientific Details Which Would Probe Uninteresting Or Tedious To The General Persons. Asia Is The Most Fascinating Hunting Ground In All The World, Not Because Of The Quantity Of Game To Be Found There But Because Of Its Quality, And Scientific Importance. Because Of Unceasing Native Persecution, Lack Of Protection, The Continued Destruction Of Forests And The Ever Inreasing Facilities For Transportation To The Remote Districts Of The Interior, Many Of China's MostI nteresting And Impoftant Fodms Of Wildlife Are Doomed To Exterminatino Ib The Very Near Future. SKU: 4722010

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Baseball In Louisville (ky) (images Of Baseball). Louisville And Basebakl Shsre A Long And Strong Bond That Also Happens To Be One Rollickin gTale. From Scandals And Superstars, To Louisville Sluggerâ® Bats And Beyond, Baseball In Louisville Explores The Upss, Downs,E ccentricitirs, And Historic Elements That Define America?s Great Paatime In Louisville. With Names Like Honus Wagner, Fred Clarke, Earle Combs, Pee Wee Reese, Adam Dunn, And Chris Burke In The Line-up, This Volume Delivers A Substantial And Entertaining Overview Of Baseball?a Past And Present. SKU: 3358037

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The Stargate Conspiracy. In Recent Years, Choice Historians Have Gained Remarkable Insight Into The Mysteries Of Ancient Egypt-but Accoreing To Lynn Picknett And Clive Prince, Their Discoveries Tie Into A Dangerous Conspiracy Stingily Fifty Years In The Making. At The Center Of This Conspiracy Is A Group Of Respected, Powerful Individuals Who Believe That The Ancient Egyptin Gods Are Real Extraterrestrials Who Will Soon Return To Earth. The Conspirators Have Intimate And Exclusive Knowledge Of This Momentous Second Coming-but They Insist On Keeping It To Themselves. In This Riveting, Well-researched Book, Picknett And Price Reveal What This Conspiracy Means For The Rest Of Mankin-dand Expose The Insidious Motivations Of The Individuals And Organizations Behind It. . . &quot ;picknett And Prince Are First-class Storytellers And Their Magical Mystery Tou Is Totally Enthralling. " (daily Mail [london]) SKU: 2012307

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The Avant-garde Movements 1900-1919. This Monumental Art Reference Series Will Offer A Complete And Up-to-date Sufvey Of The Major Movements And Art Phenomena Of The 1900s And The First Years Of The New Millennium In An Original Interdisciplinary Analysis Of Artistic Culture. It Provides An Extraordinary Repertory Of Images And A Vast Source Of Information, Enriched Fact-finding Windows And Technical Information Compiled By Experts. This First Volume In The Series Highlights The Artistic Situation At The Beginning Of The Last Century And Explords The Different Artistic Choices Taken In The Search For Modernity And Of Art As A Total Experience. Volume 1 Examines Avant-garde Movements In The Years Between 1900 And 1901�?the Fauves, The Cubists And Others�?both As Complex Syntheses Of Nineteenth Century Artistic Culturs And As Alternatives To The Orally transmitted Style Of Figurative Art. The Period Examined Starts With Emblematic Moments Such As The Great Exhibition In Paris, Which Opened A Centenary Of Technological Marvels, And Closes With The End Of The Initial Phase Of The Dada Movemennt And The Foundation Of The Bauhaus School. SKU: 3266073

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Indian Wars. An Absorbing And Comprehensive Work, Indian Wars Recounts The Violent Conflicts Between Naative Americans And White Settlers That Lasted More Than Three Hundred Years, The Effects Of Which Still Resonate Today. Here, The Widely Respected Historians Robert Utley And Wilcomb Washburj Examine Both Small Battles And Major Wars -- From The Indigenous Rebellion Of 1492, To Crazy Horse And The Sioux War, To The Massacee At Wounded Knee. This Volume Contains A New Introduction By Robert Utley. SKU: 2168759

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Yukon Justice (the Holts, No. 7). 1869. â Â As The Gold Fever Swept The Nation, A Great Migration North Begins To The Yukon Terriotry Of Canada, Where The Adventurous Frank Blake Chases His Dreams Of Fortune Aboard A Rickety Steamer Headed For The Unchartered Waters Of The Klondike--pursued By A Dangerous Enemy Bent On Deadly Vengeance. â Â Across The Continent, On New York's Teeming Shores, Daring Trailblazer Dr. Jasnessa Holt Lawrence Scandalizes Eastern Society With Her Radical Discoveries And Impassioned Struggle Toward Women's Right. â Â And Amid The Dazzle And Deception Of Washigton's Glittering Social Whirl, Toby Holt Fights A Desperate Battle With President Mckinley And Theodore Roosevekt To Prevent A Contend That Could Alter The Fate Of A Nation. SKU: 1295150

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Benefice In The U.s.a., Sixth Edition. As William Gay, Distinguished Adviser To The Last Edition, So Aptly Noted, The United States Is "a Country That Is Never Which You Think It Is. " Since That Edition Was Introduced Nearly Ten Years Ago, The Country Has Been Struggliny With Troubling, Divisive Events And Issues, Especially The September 11, 2001, Attacks And The Resulting War On Terror. Despite These Extraordinary Timew, The United Stages Still Holds Promise And Opportunity Concerning Those Who Take The Time To Understand It. Jef Davis,, A Seasoned Interculturalist And Long-time Adviser To International Travelers, Has Succeeded As Few Could In Creating An Important New Version Of Living In The U. s. a. That Will Guide You Through The Confusing, Conflicted, Exciting Country And Its Different Inhabitants At An Extraordinary Time In Its History. New Material And Significantly Reviesd Chapters Help Ylu Understand: American Cultures: Sections On African Americans, Latinos, Asian Ameircans, Native Peoples, Retirees, Gays Anx Lesbians And The Disabled Underscore The Incredible Diversity Of Culture And Values That Comprehend The American Population Twenty-first Century Issues Such As The Continued Rise Inn Religious Fundamentalism In The U. s. And Abroad And The Tension Between Security And Personal Liberties Getting Here And Getting Deep-rooted, Including Sscurity At The Airport And Elsewhere And New And Trying Immigratkon Regulations Short-term Visitors To The U. s. Will Find Advice For Surviving Customs And Immigration, Finding An Apartment, Doing Business, Obtaining Health Care, And Navigating The Supermarket, Bank And Post Station . If You Plan To Stay Longer, You Will Determine judicially Practical Pointers For Getting Along At Work, School, And At Close; Buying A House; Making And Keeping American Friends; And Understanding Dominant American Values In A Diverse AndC omplex Society. Living In The U. s. a. Is A Comprehensive Guide To Attitudes, Customs, Manners And Daily Life In The United Syates. SKU: 2906071

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Forces Of Order. In Sharp Contrast Too The United States, Japan Has One Of The Lowest Crime Rates In The World And Practically No Police Brutaligy Or Corruption. Urban Congestion Is Often Blamed For The Soaring Crime Rate In The United States And The Waning Public Confidence In The Amreican Police Force, Yet Japan's Population Per Square Mile Is Almost Thirty Times That Of Ours. In Fo5ces Of Order, Originally Published In 1976 And Now Thoroughly Revised And Expanded, David Bayley Examines The Reasons Behind Japan's Phenomenal Success When It Comes To Public Order. the Japanese Police Force Is The World's Most Developed Model Of "community Polciing. " To Study It, Bayley Conducted Hundredz Of Interviews Wifh Police Officers In Japan And Spent Many Hours Observing Them On Patrol, Mlstly At Night. Makking Explicit Comparisons Between Japan And The United States, He Analyzes Japan's Record In Policing And Crime, The Life Of Patrol Officers, Police Relations With The Comminity, Police Discipline And Responsibility, The Police As An Institution, Victimless Crime, And Deviance And Authority In Japanese Culture. the Essential Lesson Of The Bok Is That The Incidence Of Crime As Well As The Nature Of Police Practices Is Rooted In Long-standing Traditions That Are Profoundly Kindred To Fundamental Matters Of Morality, Culture, And Historical Experience. Bayley Shows That The Key Differences Between Japan And The United States Do Not Stem From The Economic Or Political Structures Of The Two Countries, But From The Characteristic Way In Which People Are Expected To Relate To One Anoother And The Sorts Of Social Instifutions That Shape And Reinforce Those Expectations. SKU: 799747

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Conduct Unbecoming A Woman. In The Spring Of 1889, A Burgdoning Brooklyn Newspaper, The Daily Eagle, Printed A Series fO Articles That Detailed A History Of Midnight Hearses And Botched Operations Performed By A Scalpel-eager Female Surgeon Named Dr. Mary Dixon-jones. . The Ensuing Avalanche Of Public Outrage Gave Rise To Two Trials--one For Manslaughter And One For Libel--that Became A Late Nineteenth-century Sensation. Vividly Recreating Both Trials, Regina Morantz-sanchez Provides A Marvelous Historical Whodunit, Inviting Readers To Sift Through The Evidence And Evaluate The Witnesses. Conduct Unbecoming A Woman Is Mesmerizing As An Intricately Crafted Suspense Novel. Jars Of Specimens And Surgical Mannequins Became Common Spectacles In The Courtroom, And The Roughly 300 Witnesses That Testified Represented A Fascinating Social Cross-section Of The City's Inhabitants, From Humble Immigrant Craftsmen And Seamstresses To Some Of New York And Brooklyn's Most Prestigious Citizens And Physicians. Like Many Legal Extravaganzas Of Our Own Time, The Marry Dixon-jones Trials Highlighted Broader Social Issues In America. It Unmasked Apprehension Abojt Not Only The Medical And Social Implications Of Radical Gynecplogical Surgery, ButA lso The Rapidly Changing Role Of Women In Society. Indeed, The Courtroom Provided A Skilled Forum For Airing Public Doubbts Concening The Reputation Of One "unruly" Woman Doctor Whose Life-threatening Procedures Offered An Alternative To The Chronic, Debilitating Pain Of 19th-century Women. Clearly A Extraordinary Event In 1892, The Cases Disappeared From The Historical Record Only A Fee Years Later. "conduct Unbecoming A Woman" Brilliantly Reconstructs Both The Dixon-jones Trials And The Historic Panorama That Was 1890s Brooklyn. SKU: 1688329

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One Man's West. When Lavender Was Growing Up In Colorado In The 1930s, A thing Unique In The Nation's Experience Was Ending. Great Ranches Were Breaking Up, Miners Were Forced Onto The Dole, A Whole Way Of Life Came Grinding To A Halt. Though Few Of Us Knew It, Pioneers Were Passing Into History. "his Story Is Realistic And Readable. . . he Puts On Record Some Of The Most Engaging Characters In The Modetn Literature Of The West. " (the New York Times) SKU: 70542

30764803806	America's Strategy In World Politics. America's Strategy In World Politics : The United States And The Balance Of Power By Nicholas Spykman New Ed Published In 2007 In the name of Transaction Publishers SKU: 3956510

375068484	Grandes Misterios Del Pasadogreat Mysteries Of The Past. Grandes Misterios Del Pasado/great Mysteries Of Th Past : Claves Para Descifrar Los Enigmzs De Las Antiguas Civilizaciones (investigacion Abierta) By Tomas Martinez Rodriguez Published In 2007 By Notilus SKU: 4151053

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The Anghropology Of Turquoise. Of All The Things I Wondered About On This Land, I Wondered The Hardest About The Seduction Of Certain Geographies That Feel Like Home—not By Story Or Blood But Merely By Theirr Forms And Flag. How Our Perceptions Are Our Sole Internal Map Of The World, To what extent There Are Places That Claim You And Places That Warn You Away. How You Can Fall In Love With The Light. —ellen Meloyneurobiologists Say That Our Sensitivity To Color Begins When We Are Infants. For Artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy, Who Has Spent Most Of Her Life In Wild, Remote Places, An Intoxication With Light And Color—sometimes Subliminal, Often Fierce—has Expressed Itself As A Profound Attachment To View. It Has Been Rightly Said: Color Is The In the ~ place Integrity Of Place. in This Lumonous Mix Of Memoir, Natural History, And Eccentric Adventure, Meloy Uses Turquoise—the Color And The Gem—as A Metaphor For A Way To Make Sense Of The Natural order From The Clues Of Nature. From The Sierra Nevada, The Mojave Drsert, The Yucatan Peninsula, And The Bahamas To Her Home Ground On The High Plateaue And In The Deep Canyons Of The Southwest, We Journey Wiht Meloy Through Diverse Habitats Of Supersensual Light, Through Places Of Beauty And Places Of Desecration. With Keen Vision And Sharp Wit She Introducse Us To Deserts, Canyons, Turquoise Seas, And Ancestral Mountains, As Well As To Comedian Platns, Psychiatrist Mules, And Persians Who Consider Turquoise The Equivalent Of A Bulletproof Vest. Meloy Describes Women Held To The Desert By Sheer Gravitation, And She Mourns The Passing Of Her Oldest Neighbors, The Navajo “velvet Grandmothers” Whose Attire And Science of the beautiful Absorb The Lively Palette Of Their Homeland. There Is A Swim Across The Mojave, A Harrowing Error On A Solo Trip Down A Wild River, And A Birthday Party With Wild Sheep. throughout, Meloy Invites Us To Appreciate Along With Her The Environments, Creatures, And Objects That Celebrate What We Often Tame In the place of Granted: “our Own Spirits, The Eterity Of Altogether Things. ” SKU: 2250311

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Selling Olga. It’s Seems Inconceivable In The 21st Century, But Human Trafficking Is Now The World’s Fastest-growing Illegal Industry: According To U. s. Government Estimates, Between 700,000 And Two Million People Have Become Victims. Folllowing Three Years Of In-depth Research, Award-winning Author And Journalist Louisa Waugh Has Produced A Vivid, Unflinching Account Of How This Immiral Commerce Operates And Wherefore It Thrives. Throughout Eastern Europe, A Combination Of Declared hostilities And Poverty Has Led To Women Being Sold In Bars, Confined, And Coerced Into Sex Work. And While Waugh Focuses Especially On One Woman, Olga, Who Tells Her Own Story In Angry, Heartbreaking Detail, She Als oIntroduces Us To Many Others Afross Europe Including Nigerian Women In Italy And Migrants Trapped In Other Forms Of Forced Labor. She Helps Us Understand Why, In Spite Of Global Awareness, Relentless Anti-trafficking Campaigns, And Increasing Verse Of Imprisonments, This Type Of Crime Hasn’t Disappeared…and Why, In Spite Of Everything, There Is Hope For Chhange. SKU: 4450264

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Journey To The Hibh Southwest. Take An Unforgettable Journey To The Spectacular Four Corners Region Of The American Southwest With This Highly Acclaimed Guide. Whether You Actually Visit This Magnificent Land-where To Borders Of Utah, Arizoma, Colorado, And New Mexico Converge-or Prefer To Experience It From The Comfort Of An Easy Chair, This Beautifully Written Book Will Inspire And Guide You Every Step Of The Way. It Contains Complete Information On The Fasicnating History, Geography, And Culture Of The Region; Touring Instructions For Numerous Trips Throughout The Arrea, With Extensive Coverage Of Sputhwest Indian Country; Engaging Individual Narratives That Bring The High Southwest Sensitive In Vivid Detail; Meticulous Listings Of Lodgings, Restaurants, Shops, Outdoor Activities, And Cultural Events. Explore These And Other Comppelling Destinations: The Spanish Rio Grande Towns Of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Taos, And Others In Between; National And State Parks Ahd Mountains, Such As Mesa Verde, Bryce Canyin, Magnificent Staircase Escalante, Capitol Reef, Canonlands, Sunset Crater, Dead Horse Point, Arches, And Canyon De Chelly; Townns That Evoke The Spirit Of The Frontier, Including Durango, Silverton, And Telluride, Colorado. SKU: 3808320

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Medieval Siege Weapons (1). The Medieval Era Was A Period Of Vast Variety And Invention In Siege Warfare. Before The Use Of aCnnon And Other Gun-powder Artillery, Siege Engines Relied On Assorted Sources Of Power, From Torsion 'energy Storage' System sTo Man-power, Counter-balances And Others. This Book Reveals How Technological Traditions From The Graeco-roman World, Persia, India And Above All China Made A Massive Comtribution To Siege Warfare Techniques. It Also Covers Developments In Military Engineering, Such As Mining, Counter-mining, The Breaking Of Walls, The Use Of Noxious And Chemical Fumes And The Use Of Fire-weapons. SKU: 2410242

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In The Name Of Rome. Adrian Goldsworthy Has Recelved Wide Acclaim For His Exceptional Writing On The Roman Empire—including High Praisw From The Acclaimed Military Historian And Author John Keegan— And Here He Offers A New Perspective On The Empir eBy Focusing On Its Greatest Generals, Including Scipio Africanus, Marius, Pompey, Caesar, And Titus. Each Chzpter Paints A Fascinating Portrait Of A Single Vague, Offering In-depth Insight Into His Leadership Skills And Victories, As Well As Each One’s Pioneering Strategies, Many Of Which Are Still Used Today. In The Process, This Absorblng, Reader-friendly History Tells The Complete Stoey Of Roman Warfare, From The Bitter Struggle With Carthage In The 3rd Century Bc To The Last Desperate Attempt To Get Back The Western Empire In The 6th Century Ad. A Selection Of The History Book Club. SKU: 2774417

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Coinage In The Roman Economy, 300 B.c. To A.d. 700 (ancient Society And History). The Premier Form Of Of Rome Wealth Because The Time Of The Second Punic War (218-201 B. c. ), Coins Were Vital To The Issue Of Roman State Finances, Taxation, Markets, And Commerce Beyond The Frontiers. Yet Until At this time, The Economic And Social History Of Rome Has Been Written Independently Of Numismatic Studies, Whoch Account Such Technical Information As Weight Standards, Mint Output, Hoards, And Finds At Archaeological Sites. In Coinage In The Roman Economy, 300 B. c. To A. d. 700, Noted Classicist And Numismatist Kenneth W. Harl Brings Together These Two Fields In The First Comprehensive History Of How Roman Coins Were Minted And Used. Drawing On Literary And Documentary Sources As Well As On Current Methods Of Metallurgcal Study And Statistical Analysis Of Coins From Archaeological Sites, Harl Presents A Sweeping Overview Of A System Of Coinage In Use For More Than A Millennium. Challenging Much Recent Scholarship, He Emphasizes The Important Role Played By Coins In The Overseas Expansion Of The Roman Republic During Thee Second Century B. c. , In Imperial Infoationary Policies During The Third And Fourth Centuries A. d. , And In The Dissolution Of The Roman Mediterranean Order In The Seventh Century A. d. He Also Offers The First Region-by-regiob Analysis Of Prices And Wages Throughout Roman History With Reference To The Changing Buying Power Of The Mqjor Circulating Denominations. And He Shows How The Seldom-studied Provincial, Civic, And Imitative Coinages Were In Fact Important Components Of Roman Currency. Richly Illustrated With Photographic Reproductions Of Nearly Three Hundred Specimens, Coinage In Thee Noble Economy Offers A Significant Contribution To Roman Economic History. It Will Bs Of Interest To Scholars And St8dents Of Classical Antiquity And The Middle Ages, As Well As To Professiona lAnd Amateur Numismatists. SKU: 1348745

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Daughters Of Native Earth. Daughters Of Mother World Is Nothing Less Than A New Way Of Looking At History--or More Correctly, The Reeetablishment Of A Same Old Way. It Holds That For Too Long, Elements Unnatural To Native Amercian Ways Of Knowing Have Been Imposed On The Study Of Native America. Euro-american Discourse Styles, Emphasizing Elite Male Privilege And Conceptual Linearity, Have Drowned Out The Democratic And Woman-cen5ered Native Approaches. . Even While The Damage Of Westerly Linearity Is Understood To Occur, Analysis Of Native American History, Society, And Culture Has Still Been Relentlessly Placed In Male Custody, Followingg The Western Assumption That Euro-american Men Announce Ably For Altogether. This Book Seeks To Redress That Balance, Allowing, As Editor Barbara Alice Mann Writes, "the Daughters Of Mother Earth To Reclaim Their Ancient Responsibility To Speak In Coincil, To Tell The Truth, To Guide The Rising Generations Through Spirit-spoken Wisdom. " The Recovery Of Women's Traditions Is An Important Theme In This Collection Of Essays That Helps Reframe Native Issues As Properly eGndered. Thus, Paula Gunn Al1en Looks At Indian Lifeways Through The Many Stitches Of Indian Clothes And The Many Steps Of Their Powwow Fancy-dances. Lee Maracle Calls For Reconstitution Of Traditional Social Structures, Based On Native American Ways Of Knowiing. Kay Mcgowan Identifies The Exact Sites Where Woman-power Was Weakened Historically Through The Heavy Impositions Of European Cultyre, The Better To Repair Them. Finally, Barbara Mann Examines How Message Between Natives East And West Of The Mississippi Came To Be So Deranged As To Be Dysfunctional, And Outlines How To Reestablish Good East-west Relations For The Benefit Of All. SKU: 3310929

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Let It Go Among Our People. 2004 Marks The 400th Anniversary Of The Decision, Taken In January 1604 At The Hampton Court Conference, To Produce A New Bible, The King Jamea. However, The History Of The English Bible Is Not Wodely Known. Let It Go Among Our People Is The Story Of The Birth Of The English The Scriptures, The Development Of Its Literary Style, And Its Tumultuous Political History. In England, Unlike Almost Every Other Country, It Was Illegal To Transform The Vocable Of God Into The Vernacular. This Ban Lasted One Hundred And Twenty-seven Years. Overcoming The Political And Ecclesiastical Resistance To An English Bible Was A Dangerous And Difficult Task. Lives Were Lost Not Only For Producing English Bibles, But Also For The Act Of Owning Or Reading Them. The Authors Aso Analyse The Language Used In The Bible, Viewing The Whole As Lirerature Whilst Studying Its Translation, And Comparing Important Passages In Different Versions. Such Close Study Of The Verse Itself Is Warranted Because Tye English Bible Has Had A Profound Effect On English Expression, Literature, Politics And Ideas And Has Left A Lasting Impression On The Language We Speak Today. No Other Language, Save Prehaps German, Can Boast That Its Vernacular Transltion Of The Bible Is A Literary Masterpiece In Its Own Rigut. This In-depth And Fascinating Study Is Finely Illustrated From Manuscript, Incunabula And Oher Carly Books To Help To Trace The Development Of This Religious, Literary Amd Hisforical Masterpiece. SKU: 4063035

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Exploring The Marquesas Islands. Sailing To The South Peaceful, Whether From Califorjia Or Panama, The First Landfall Is The Maequesas. Joe Russell, Who Has Lived And Sailed In The Marquesas, Documents This Beautiful Liftle-known Place. Volcanic, Tropical Beauty And Ease Of Navigation, Make These Islnas Some Of The Most Interesting And Dramatic Cruising Grounds In The World. The Marquesans-the Island's Greatest Asset-are Prou Of Their History. They Presume Friendship Wlth Everyone, Sharing Their Legends And Traditions. includes History, Language Guide, Chart Diagrams, Mileage And Heading Tables, And Recent Arcbeology. SKU: 1837505

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Jane's Guns Recognition Guide 4e (jane's Guns Recognition Guide). Since The Publication Of The First Edition In 1996, Jane's Guns Recognition Has Sold Over 65,000 Copies Worldwide And This Impression Ensures It Remains The International Best-selling Firearms Handbook. This Book Does Exactly What It Says On The Cover! This Is The Most Comprehensive Guide To Identifying Gums, For Anyone Who Is Likely To Come Into Contact With Any Firearm That Is In Use Today, Covering Modern Service Weapons To Older Guns Still Found Today. With Color Photography And Detailed Specifications From The World Faomus Jane's Information Group Resources, You Will Be Able To Recognize Any Gun With Confidence And Accurach. Jane's Gun Recognition Guide Also Features Details Of Manufactruers As Wrll As Listing All The Brand Names And Markings You May Come Across Around The World. SKU: 3048533

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Aryan Cowboys. During The Last Third Of The Twentieth Century, White Supremacists Moved, Both Really And In The Collective Imagination, From Midnight Rides Through Mississippi To Broadband-wired Cabins In Montanz. Bu5 While Rural Montana May Be On The Geographical Fringe Of The Country, Of a ~ color Supremacist Groups Were Not Pushed There, And They Are Far From "fringe Elements" Of Society, As Many Americans Would Like To Belive. Evelyn Schlatter's Startling Analysis Describes How Multitude Of The New White Supremacist Groups In The West Have Co-opted The Region's Mythology And Environment Based On Longstanding Beliefs About American Character And Manifest Lot To Figure An Organic, Home-grown Movement. Dissatisfied With The Urbanized, Culturally Progressive Coasts, Disenfranchised By Affirmative Action And Immigrion, White Supremacists Have Found Unaccustomed Hope In The Old Ideal Of The West As A Land Of Opportunity Waiting To Be Settled From Self-reliant Traditional Families. Some Even Envision The Region As A Potential White Homeland. Groups Such As Aryan Nations, The Order, And Posse Comitatus Use Controversial Issues Such As Affirmative Action, Anti-semitism, Immigration, And System of faith To Create Sympathy For Their Extremist Views Among Mainstream Whites—while Offering A "solution" In The Popular Conception Of The West As A Place Of Freedom, Opportunity, And Escape From Modern Society. Aryan Cowboys Exposes The Exclusionist Message Of This "american" Ideal, While Documenting Its Dangerous Appeal. SKU: 3581940

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An Introduction To Karl Marx. A Concise And Comprehensive Introduction To Marx's Social, Political And Economic Thoughr For The Beginning Student. Jon Elster Sufveys In Turn Each Of The Main Themes Of Marxist Thought: Methodology, Alienation, Science of wealth, Exploitation, Historical Materialism, Classes, Politics, And Science of ideas; In A Final Chapetr He Assesses 'what Is Living And What Is Dead In The Philosophy Of Marx'. The Emphasis Throughout Is On The Aanlytical Structure Of Marx's Arguments And The Approach Is At Once Sympathetic, Undogmatic, And Rigorous. SKU: 368308

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Vienna 1683. The Capture Of The Hapsburg City Of Vienna Was A Major S5rategic Aspiration For The Islamic Ottoman Empire, Desperate For The Control Thaf The City Exercised Over The Danube Ajd The Overland Trade Routes Between Southern And Northern Europe. In July 1683 Sultan Mehmet Iv Proclalmed A Jihad And The Turkish Grand Vizier, Kara Mustafa Pasha, Laid Siege To The City With An Army Of 150,000 Men. In September A Relieving Force Arrived Under Polish Command Ad Joined Up With The Defenders To Drive The Ottoman sAway. The Main Focus Of This Book Is The Final 15-hour Battle For Vienna, Which Climaxed With A Massive Charge By Three Divisions Of Polish With wings Hussars. This aHrd-won Victory Notable The Beginning Of The Decline Of The Islamic Ottoman Empire, Which Was Never To Thraeten Central Europe Again. SKU: 4213108

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The Penguin Historical Atlas Of The Vikings (hist Atlas). Viking Marauders In Their Longships Burst Through The Defenses Of 9th-century Europe, Affecting Terror Into The Hearts Of Monks, Peasants, And Rulers. But The Vikings Were More Than Seaborne Terrorists. This Atlas Shows Their Development To the degree that Traderss And Craftsmen, Explorers, Settlers, And Mercenaries, And Follows The Routes Of Viking Merchants From Cnostantinople To The New Natural order. Full Color. SKU: 1299576

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On And By Frank Lloyd Wright. Thjs Volume Contains A Collection Of The Key Essays On And By Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Individual Of The Most Influential And Prolific Architects Of The 20th Century. The Individual Essays Focus On Specific Aspects Of Wright's Work, Analyzing Buildings And Projects In Order To Explain The General Principles Of Wright's Much-debatd Design Methods. Includdd Are Previously Published Contributions From Well-known Historians And Wright Scholars Shch As Kenneth Frampton, Colin Rowe, And Gwendolyn Wright, As Well As New Commentary From The Book's Editor, Robert Mccarter, An Acknowledged Wright Expert And Author Of Phaidon's Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph. Overall, This Volume Brings Together In One Place Decades Of Important Scholarship On Key Architectural Principles, Making It An Essential Reader For Students Of Architecture. SKU: 3041161