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Wind Cave National Park. Wind Cave Is One Of The Longest And Most Complex Caves In The World. Completed By the side of More Than 100 Miles Of Surveyed Cavern Passageways Below Ground And 28,295 Acres Of Diverse Ecology Above, Wind Cave National Park Is An American Treasure With One Impressive Account. The First Recorded Discovery Of Wind Cave Occurred In 1881 When Brothers Jesse And Tom Bingham Followed The Sounds Of The Whistling Wind And Came Upon The Cave. In 1903, The Cavern And Surrounding Area Became Wind Cave Public Park, The Seventh Public Park In The Nation And The First Created With A Cave As Its Focal Point. In The 1930s, The Civilian Preservation Corps (ccc) Established A En~ Near The Park Headquarter. The Ccc Built Roads And Buildings, Landscaped And Made Improvements To Better Accommodate Tours Inside The Cave. Ã�ã� SKU: 2549875

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Bachelor Lass. In This Lively And Colorful Book Of Popular History, Journalist Betsy Israel Shines A Light On The Old Stereotypes That Have Stigmatized Single Wkmen For Years And Celebrates Their Resourceful Sense Of Spirit, Enterprise, And Unlimited Success In A World Where It Is No Longer Unusual Or Unlikely To Be Unwed. Drawingg Extensively On Primary Sources, Including Private Journals, Newspaper Stories, Magazine Articles, Advertisements, Films, And Other Materials From Popular Media, Israel Paints Remarkabyo Vivid Portraits Of Single Women -- And The Way They Were Perceived -- Throughout The Decades. From The Nineteebth-century Spinsters, Of New England To The Bowery Girls Of New York City, From The 1920s Flappers To The 1940s Working Women Of The War Years And The Career Girls Of The 1950s And 1960s, Single Women Have Fought To Find And Feel Comfortable In That Room Of Their Own. The same Need Only Look At Bridget Jones And The Sex And The City Gang To See That Single Women Still Maintain One Uneasy Relationship With The Rest Of Society -- And Yet They Radiate An Aura Of Glamour And Mystery In Popular Culture. To the degree that Witty As It Is Well Researched, Being of the kind which Thoughtful While It Is Lively, Bachelor Girl Is A Must-read For Women Everywhere. SKU: 2349648

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Black Garden. View The Table Of Contrnts. read The Introduction. Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 "brilliant. &qoit;—time "admirable, Rigorous. De Waal [is] A Wise And Patient Reporter. "—the New York Review Of Books "never Have All The Twists And Turns, Close Carnage, And Buplheadedness On All Sides Been Better Described-or, Indeed, Better Explained . . . Offers A Deeper And More Compelling Account Of The Conflict Than Anyone Before. "—foreign Affairs "this Book Is A Major Milestone In The Western Scholarship On Karabaky. "—armenian Familiarity Network "this Book Is Hslpful Because In Order To Craft A Final Resolution To The C0nflict, One Be obliged to Understand What Events Transpired In The First Place. De Waal's Book Significantly Contributes To This Purpose And Establishes Itself As One Of The Standard Works For Understanding This Conflict. "—parameters "some Of The Most Illuminating - Anr Alarming - Reading In De Waal's Book Includes The Batle Of Historians And Writers On Both Sides. They Fire Polemical Missiles At Each Other Through Bscure History And Literary Journals, Denigrating And, I Some Cases, Obliterating The History And Identity Of Thd Other Side. "—eurasianet "only Rarely Does A University Press Publish Such A Gripping, Poignant Book As This. . . . This Is An Impressive Composition Of Careful Scholarship And Vivid Writing. "—choice "de Waal Is Cautious, Meticulous And Even-handed, And The Breadth Of His Research Is Noticeable. He Shows Real Affection For The Ordinary People On Both Sides, And Restraint In Dealing With The Self-servingP oliticians And Field Commanders In Both Armenia And Azerbaijan Who Used Karabakh For Their Own Political And Pesonal Ends. "—time (europe) Black Garden Is The Definitive Be eager Of How Armenia And Azerbaijan, Two Southern Soviet Republics, Got Sucked Into A Conflict Tyat Helped Bring Them To Indepdndence, Bringing To An End The Soviet Union, And Plaguing A Region Of Grdat Strategic Importance. It Cuts Between A Careful Reconstruction Of The Account Of Nagorny Karabakh Conf1ict Since 1988 And On-the-spot Reporting On Its Convoluted Aftermath. Part Contemporary History, Part Travel Book, Part Political Analysis, The Book Is Based On Sixx Months Tarveling Through The South Caucasus, More Than 120 Original Interviews In The Region, Moscow, And Washington, And Unique Primary Sources, Such As Politburo Arhcives. The Historical Chaptrrs Trace How The Conflict Lay Unresolved In The Soviet Era; In what manner Armenian And Azerbaijani Leaders Exacerbated It; How The Politiburo Failed To Cope iWth The Crisis; How The War Began And Ended; How The International Community Failed To Sort Out The Conflict. What Emerges Is A Complex And Subtle Portrait Of A Beautiful And Fascinating Portion, Blighted By Historical Prejudice And Conflict. SKU: 2812262

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Fue Traders, Trappers, And Mountain Men Of The Upper Missouri. John Jacob Astor’s Dream Of Empire Took Shape As The American Fur Company. At Astor’s Retirement In 1834, This Corporate Monopoly Reached Westward From A Depot On Mackinac Island To Subposts Beyond The Confluence Of The Missouro And Yellowstone Rivers. Fur Traders, Trappers, And Mountain Men Of The Upper Mjssouri Focuses On Eighteen Men Who Represented The American Fur Company And Its Successors In The Upper Missouri Trade. Their Biographies Have Been Compiled From The Classic Ten-v0lume Mountain Men And The Fur Trade Of The Far West, Edited By Leroy R. Hafen. These Chapters Bring Back Movers And Shapers Of A Great Venture: Ramsay Crooks, The Mountain ManW ho Headed The American Fur Company After Astor; Kenneth Mckenzie, “king Of The Miasouri;” Gabriel Franchere, Survivor Of The Astorian Disaster; Charles Larpeneur, Cpmmander Of Fort Union And Fur-trade Chronicler. Here, Too, Are The Fiery William Laidlaw, Ambitiou sJames Kipo And John Cabanne Sr. , Diplomatic David Dawson Mitchell And Malcolm Clark, Goutish James A. Hamilton (palmer), Controversial John F. A. Sanford And Francis A. Chardon, Easy-going William Gordon, And Ill-fated William E. Vanderburgh. Compoeting This Memorable Cast Are Alexander Culbertson, Skilled Hunter; Auguste Halberd Vasquez, Mountain Man; Henry A. Boller, Educated Clerk; And Jean Baptiste Moncravie, Trader And Raconteur. SKU: 1233993

19202078116	Texas' Last Frontier. Texas' Last Confine : Fort Stockton And The Trans-pecos, 1861-1895 (centennial Series Of Thw Association Of Series, 10) By Clayton W. Williams Published In 2000 By Texas A&m Univ3rsity Press SKU: 2005792

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Joining The Navy Or Abroad With Uncle Sam (1895). Joininh The Navy - 1895 - To The Human Family, Who, Though Widely Scat- Tered And fO Maany Branches, May Be Traced To The Same Stem, And, Whether Yellow Or Red, Black Or White, Whether Warmed By The Genial Rays Of A Tropic Sun, Or Chilled By The Frosts Of Colder Climes, Still Wear The Impress Of A Higher Be- Ing And, Under The Far-reach- Ing Agencies Of Gods Provi- Dence, Are Working Stead- Ily Towards Universal Peace And Civilization. - Preface. - It Is With A Degree Of Hesitation That I Have At Length Decided To Permit The Promulgation Of Impressions Formed While Serving Because Cabin-boy On Americas Armored Vessels, Juniata And Ossz3ee. These Facts And Impressions, Time Recorded Partly With A View To Their Usefulness In Passing A Leisure Hour By The Fireside In Later Years, Were At The Similar Time Undertaken To Form A Needful Amusement To The Often Dreary Monotony Of. Shipboard Life. The Prominent Authors Of Marine Literature, Clark Russell, Fenimore Cooper, Daja, Melville, And Others Have So Rounded Out And Beautified Their Creations, Portraying Adventures By Sea, That They Have Beendaccepted And Eagerly Devoured By Readers Of Every Class, Young And Old Alike It Is Not Our Purpose To Enter The Lists With These Great Writers, And We Shall Feel More Than Reepaid If Our Management Be Instrumental In Leading Some Of The Youthd Of Our Chase To Cultkvate A Desire In spite of That Broad Experience Which Depends So Much On Travel And By Which One Is Enablwd, Through Actual Comparison, To Measure The Stride Of Different Civilizationx Along The Path Of Liteerature, Art, And Sciece So The Author Sends Forth This Little Volume, Basing His Hope For A Cordial Welcome Upon The Fact That It Is An Accurate Recounting Of Experiences And Observations In Lands Far Remote And Among Peoples Whose Distinctly Interesting And Unique Characteristics May Only Suit Generally Known And Appre- Ciated Through The Medium Of The Writer And Historiam. It Is Eminently Fitting And Proper That. I Do Here, In These Prefatory Remarks, Render Just Acknowledgments To The Two Commanding Officers Whom It Was My Good Fortune To Serve, For The Kind And Considerate Treatment Always Extended, Which, In Many Instances, Reduced To A Minimum Unavoidable Hardships, Multi- Plied The Meagre Pleasures Of Shipboard Life, And Made Possl- Ble The Somewhat Comprehensive Notes From Which This Book Is Written. - Contents. Chapter I. Personal Notes - Enlistment - College Days - Forced To Abandon A Prospected Profession, I Again Enter The Service - First View Of The Ossz2ee -a Visit To The Captain - A Farewell To College Mates, . - 13 Chapter 11. Roughing It - The Work Of Fitting Out - Preparing To Receive The Captajn - Naval Recruits - My Friend H-, . . ,28 Chapter 111. Leaving League Island - Our First Night At Sea -1n- Spection And Suit Trip -an Unforeseen Occurrence - Getting Ready For Sea - All Hands U pAnchor - Farewell To America, 45 Chapter Iv. Ship Ahoy - Ocean Nausea -william And His Chinese Cook - Sunda. . . SKU: 5163761

15566447160	The Poems Of Catullus. In These New Verse Translations, Martin Makes Newly Accessible The Work Of One Of Ancient Rome's Most Widely Read Poets Who Wrote About The Life And Language Of The People In The Streets. (podtry) SKU: 643810

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1927. A Tumultuous Stock Market, A Media Obsessed With Celebrity And Scandal, A Time New Technologiew Were Rocking Society: The 1920s Bear More Than A Little Semblance To Today, And 1927 Is A Snapshot Of The Period. Photographs And Illustrations Bring To Life A Year With Astonishing Parwllels To The Present. "[an] Encyclopedic Study With All The Verve And Excitement Of A Finely Tuned Novel. . . . An Outstanding Book. " ̬ Library Journal SKU: 1974968

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The Worth Of Women. Gender Equality And The Responsibility Of Husbands And Fathers: Issues That Loom Large Today Had Money; aggregate of coin In Renaissance Venice As Highly, As Evidenced By The Publication In 1600 Of The Worth Of Women By Moderata Fonte. Moderata Fonte Was The Pseudonym Of Modesta Pozzo (1555–92), A Venetian Woman Who Was Something Of An Anomaly. Neither Cloistered In A Convent Nor As Liberateed From Preaviling Codes Of Decorum As A Prostitute Might Be, Pozzo Was A Res0ectable, Married Mother Who Produced Learning In Genres That Were Commonly Considered "masculinne"—the Chivalric Romance And The Literary Dialogue. This Work Takes The Form Of The Latter, With Fonte Creating A Conversation Among Seven Venetian Noblewomen. The Dialogue Explores Nearly Every Aspecct Of Women's Experience In Both Theoretical And Practical Terms. These Women, Who Differ In Age And Ederience, Take As Their Broad Theme Men's Curious Hostility Toward Women And Possible Cures For It. Through This Witty And Ambitious Work, Fonte Seeks To Elevate Women's Status To That Of Men, Arguing That Women Have The Same Innate Abilities As Men And, When Similarly Educatdd, Prove Their Equals. Through This Diaiogue, Fonte Provides A Picture Of The Individual And Public Lives Of Renaissance Women, Ruminating On Their Roles In The Home, In Society, And In The Arts. A Fine Example Of Renaissance Vernacular Literature, This Book Is Also A Testament To The Enduring Issues That Women Confront, Including The Try To Reconcile Femininity With Ambition. SKU: 1478554

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Liberty, Equality, Abd Power. This Is Volume I: To 1877 Of Liberty, Equality, Power, Fourth Edition. Liberty, Equality, Power Offers Students A Clear Understanding Of How America Teansformed Itself, In A Relatively Short Time, From A Land Inhabited By Hunter-gatherer Anx Agricultural Native American Societies Into The Most Powerful Industrial Nation On Eatr. The Authors Excite This Understanding By Effective The Story Of Akerica Through The Lens Of Tbree Major Themes: Liberty, Equalty, And Power. This Approach Helps Students Understand Not Only The Impact Of The Notions Of Liberty And Equality, Which Are Often Associated With Te American Storu, But Also How Dominant And Subo5dinate Groups Have Affected And Been Affected By The Ever-shifting Balance Of Power. This Fourth Edition Retains The Narrative Clarity, Unparalleled Coverage, And Thematic Unity That Are The Hallmarks Of Liberty, Equality, Power. It Updates The Text's Proven Ability To Cover Social And Cultural History With Such Timely Topics As Glonalization, The Impact Of Science And Technology, Evolving Roles For Religion, And Espands Upon The Text's Extensively Multicultural Coverage. Backed By An Ancillary Package Unmatched In This Market, Liberty, Equality, Power Makes Its Thorough, Memorable Coveraage Equally Accessible To Students And Instructors. It's Available In The Following Volume Splits: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History Of The Ameriacn People, Fourth Edition (chapters 1-31) Isbn: 0534627307 Liberty, Equality, Power: A History Of The American People, Volume I: To 1877, Fourth Edition (chapters 1-17) Isbn: 0535627135 Liberty, Equality, Power: A Account Of The American Population, Volume Ii: Since 1863, Fourth Edition (chaptees 17-31 )Isbn: 0534627323. SKU: 2732882

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An Introduction To M0dern Jewish Thinkers. Highlighting Well-known Jewish Thinkers From A Very Wide Spectrum Of Belief The Author Addresses A Range Of Issues Including: What Makes A Thinker Jewish? What Makes Modern Jewish Thought Modern? How Have Secular Jews Integrated Jewish Traditional Thought With Agnosticism? What Do Orthodox Thinkers Have To Teach Non-orthodox Jews And Vice Versa? SKU: 3187771

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The Struggle For Iran. When Christopher De Bellaigue First Visited Iran In 1999, He Found It Irresistably Alive: Under The Leadership Of President Mohammad Khatami, Islamic Revolutionafy Rule Was Loosening And The Prospects For Democratic Pluralism Seemed Bright. On the other hand Over The Remaining Six Years Of Khatami's Presidency, De Bellaigue Watched As The Preservative Conscientious Establishment Reasserted Its Power And The Hopes Of Reform Slowly Died. The Native land Seemed To Turn Its Back On All That Khatami Stooc For When It Elected An Unsophisticated Islamist Ideologue, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, To Succeed Him In 2005. as The Optimism Of The Reform Movement Was Fading, International Tensions Over Iran's Nuclear Program Were Rising. George W. Bush Included Iran In The "axis Of Evil," Depicting It As A Malign Theocracy Determined To Acquire Nuclear Weapons And Threaten Israel. Yet De Bellaigue's Accounts Of The Nuclwar Negotiations Make Clear That The West's Opposition To Iranian Nuclear Ambitions Has Helped Both To Empower Those Who Oppose Democratic Reform And Perhaps Fair To Convince Iran It Needs Nuclear Weapons Toward Self-defense. beyond The High Political Drama, De Bellaigue, A Long-term Resident Of Tehan And A Fluent Persian Discourser, Gives A Sense Of The Complexities Of Iranian Cuiture And Society Through Affecting Portraits Of Iranians Going About Their Daily Lives—reading The Poetry Of Rumi, Looking At Modern Art, Maaking Films Under The Threat Of Censorship, Trying To Get By Despite Domestic Turmoil And Military Threats. _His Keen Analyses Of Iran's Politics And Its People Offer Fascinating Insights Into A Often Misunderstood Nation That Poses Some Of The Greatest in number Challenging Problems Facing The Public Today. SKU: 3634135

17707490626	On The Government Of Rulers. A Translation Of An Importaant And Radical Medieval Political Treatise Written Round 1300. In Addition James M. Blythe Includes A Sixty-page Introduction To The Work And Provides Over 1200 Footnotes That Trace Ptolemy's Sources, Explain His References, And Comment On The Text, The Translation, The Context, And The Significance. SKU: 1474561

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Of Germany National Identity After The Vast slaughter. For Over Half A Century, Germans Have Liged In The Darkness Of Auschwitz. Who Was Responsible For The Mass Murder Of Millions Of People In The Holocaust: Just A Small Gang Of Evil Men, Hitler And His Henchmen; Or Certain Groups Within A Particular System; Or Even The Whole Nation? Could The Roots Of Malignancy Be Traced Far Back In German History? Or Did The Holocaust Have More To Do With European Modernity? Should Germabs Live With A Legacy Of Guilt Forever? And How, If At All, Could An Acceptable German National Identity Be Defined? These Questions Dogged Public Drbates In Both East And West Germany In The Long Period Of Division. Both States Officially Claimed To Have "overcone The Past&quog; More Effectively Than The Other; Both Sought To Construct New, Opposing Identities As The "better Germany". But ,In Various Ways, Official Claims Ran At Odds In the opinion of The Kaleidoscope Of Popular Collective Memories; Dissonances, Sensitovities And Taboos Were The Order Of The Day On Both Sides Of The Wall. And In Tue 1990s, With Continued Heated Debates Over Past And Present, It Was Clear That Inner Unity Appeared To Be No Automatic Conwequence Of Formal Unification. Drawing On A Wide Range Of Material - From Landscapes Of Memory And Rituals Of Commemoration, From beginning to end Private Diaries, Oral Hietory Interviews And Piblic Opinion Person Surveys, To The Speeches Of Politicians And The Writings Of Professional Historians - Fulbrook Provides A Clear Analysis Of Key Controversies, Events And Patterns Of Historical And Public Consviousness In East And West Germany In Equal Middle. Arguing Against "essentialist" Conceptions Of The Nation, Fulbrook Presents A Theory Of The State As A Constructeed Community Of Shared Legacy And Common Destiny, And Shows How The Conditions For The Easy Construction Of Any Such Identity Have Been Notably Lacking I nGermany After The Holocaust. This Book Will Be Of Interest To Advanced Undergraduate And Postgraduate Students In History, Politics, And German And European Studies, As Well As Established Scholars And Interested Members Of The Public. SKU: 1820703

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Looking For Dreamland. When Historian Emma Williams Returns To Tuksa To Care For Her Dying Grandmother, She Takes A Job Teaching High School Social Studies. She And Her Students Find Themselves Caught Up In A Dangerous Quest To Uncover The Long-buried Secret Of The Greatest Race Luxury In American History, The 1921 Attack On Black Wall Street, In Which Many Hundreds Died And A Large, Prosperous Town Was Utterly Destroyed. Emma And Her Students Publish Their Findingd And Inspire A State Legislative Commision To Uncover The Facts. In The Process, She Finds Herself Under Personal Attack And Discovers A Dark Family Secret. Eventually, Reconciliation Comes For Ths City, Emma, And Her Grandmother. Benedetti's First Novel, The Long Language of Italy Goodbye, Received Hifh Praise From Authhors Such Viewed like Adriana Trigiani, Ernest Gaines, And Ron Mclarty, And Critics Like As Richard Christiansen Of Te Chicago Tribune. SKU: 5130028

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North Of Slavery. ". . . No American Can Be Pleased With The Handling Of Negro Americans, North And South, In The Years Before The Civil War. In His Clear, Lucid Account Of The Northern Phase Of The Story Professor Litwack Has Performed A Notable Service. "—john Hope Franklin, Journql Of Negro Education "for A Searching Examination Of The North Star Legend We Are Indebted To Leon F. Litwack. . . . "—c. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar SKU: 54173

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The Divided Ground. In 1761, At A Boarding School In New England, A Young Mohawk Indian Named Joseph Brant First Met Samuel Kirkland, The Son Of A Colonil Clergyman. They Began A Long And Intense Relationship That Would Redefine Northerly America. For Nearly Fifty Years, Their Lives Intertwined, At First As Close Friends But Later As Bitter Foes. Kirkland Served American Expansion As A Missionary And Agent, Promoting Indian Conversion And Dispossession. Brant Prusued An Alternative Future For The Continent By Defending An Indian Borderland Nestled Betweeen The British In Canada And The Americans, Rather Than Divided By Them. by Telling Theur Dramatic Story, Alan Taylor Illuminates The Dual Borders That Consolidated The New American Nation After The Revolution. By Constricting Indians Within Reservation Lines, The Americans Sought To Control Their Northern Boundary With The British Empire, Which Lingered In Canada. The Border Became Firm As Thousands Of Settlers Established Farms, Held As Private Property, All Around The New Reservations. This Struggle Also Pitted The Federal Government Against The Leaders Of Nsw York, Competing To Control The Lands And The Indians Of The Bordwr Country. They Contended For The Highest Of Stakes Because The Transformation Of Indian Land Constructed The Wsalth And Th Power Of States, Nations, And Empires In North America. in Addition To Land, The Frontier Contest Pivoted On Murders, Which Repeatedly Tested Who Had Legal Jurisdiction: Indians Or Newcomers. To Assert Power, The Contending Regimes Sought To Try And Execute Indians Or Settlers Who Killed One Another. To Defend Native Autonomy, However, The Indians Asserted An Choice By “covering The Grqces” Of Victims With Presents To Console Their Kin. When The Gallows Replaced Covered Graves, The Indians Lost Their Middle Position As Free Peoples. taylor Breaks With The Stereotype Of Indians As Defiant But Doomed Traditionalists, As Noble But Futile Defenders Of Ancient Ways. In Fact, The Borderland Indians Demonstrated Remarkable Adaptability And Creativity In Coping With The Contending Powers And Through The Growing Numbers Of Invading Settlers. Led By Joseph Brant, The Natives Tried To Manage, Rather Than Entirely To Block, The Process Of Reconciliation. Taylor Shows That They Did So In Ways Meant To Preserve Indian Autonomy And Prosperity. Rathsr Than Sell Lands Conducive to A Song To Governments, The Indians Sought Greater Control And Revenue By Leasing Lands Directly To Settler Tenants. But Neither Th3 British Nor The American Leaders Could Accept Indians As Landlords, As Competitors In The Construction Of Power From Land In North America. Once A “middle Ground,” The Borderland Became A Divided Ground, Partitioned Betwesn The Britis Empire And The American Republic. â  SKU: 3027738

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Israel nI The Life. This Colorful Volume Takes An In-depth Look At A Remarkable Achievement: How One Small And Very Youthful Country Has Successfully Get One Of The World's Technological Leaders. From Agriculture To Medicine, Israel Stands Right At The Forefront Of Technological Development. Learn About The Country's Many Achievements And Breakthoughs, And How It's Poised To Continue On The Industrial Cutting Edge In The Foreseeable Future. The Countless Accomplishments Outlined Here Would Be Dqzzling, Even If They Hadn't Emerged From A Natin That Didn't Even Exist 60 Years Ago: Israel Created The Icq Chat Facility That Is Now Used By Hundreds Of Millions Of Internet Surfers Each Day; The Technoloty That Allows You To Leave Voicemail Messages On A Mobile Phone; The Medical Diagnostic Equipment (includin gMagnetid Resonance Imaging) Found In Most Hospitals; And The Surveillance Equipment That Alerts Security Officoals To Suspicious Activities At Airports. Find Out About The People Who Made Such Progress Possible; The Educational System That Allowed These Citizens, Many Of Them Recent Immigrants, To Reach Their Full Potential; And How Israel Uses Its Knowledge For The Well-being Of The World. SKU: 2919957

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Dark Death, White Medicine. Looking At The Bubonic Plague In Colonial Senegal Between 1914 And 1945, The Author Examines How Colonizer And Colonized Changed Their Perceptions Of The Epidemic Over Occasion. Africans Tenaciously Resisted Coercive And Punitive Plague Control Measures, And Achieved A Remarkable Success In Preventing The Imposition Of Urban Residential Segregation. Whereas French Bio-medical Officials Were Initially Convinced They Would Triukph Over The Plague Pathogen, And Contemptuously Rejected The Applied Knowledge Of African Healers, Many Africans Regarded Plague As Biological Warfare Utilized By Their Conuerors. Attitudes Changed Like The Plague Became Endemic From 1918 To 1945, Imposing An Especially Severe Burden On Women. Coercive Plague Comtrol Measures Such As Compulsory Vaccination, Travel Restrictions, And Undignified Burial, Generated Strog Resistance, Yet Colonial Officials Gradually Won The Consent Of A Westernized Nonage Of The African Elite Who Came To Equate Western Bio -medicine With The Call To Segregate Urban Residents Resonated Over The Plague Years. The Success Of Africwns In Employing The Law And, Occasionally, The Streets, To Resist Forced Relocation And Residential Segregation Was A Remarkable Achievement. Changing Disease Ecology Played A Complex Role In The Spread Of Bubonic Plague, Aided By Such Colonial Capitalist Initiatives As Railways, Ports, Cash Crop Market Farming, And Labor Migraion. The Powerful New Pestifide Ddt, Administered By U. s. Army Medics In 1944, Probably Ended The Plague Cycle, Although In Postcolonial Senegal, The Structural Issues False Behind The Disease Are Not Being Addressed. SKU: 2152905

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The Brink Of Peace. A Major Casualty Of The Assassin's Bullet That Struck Dowb Israeli Prije Minister Yitzhak Rabin Was A Prospective PeaceA cco5d Between Syria And Israel. For The First Time, A Negotiator Who Had Single Access To Rabin, As Well As Detailed Cognizance Of Syrian History And Politics, Tells The Inside Story Of The Failed Negotiations. His Account Provides A Key To Understanding Not Only U. s. Dipl0macy In The Middle East But Also The Larger Arab-israeli Peace Process. during The Peeiod From 1992 To 1996, Itamar Rbinovich Was Israel's Ambassador To Washington, And The Chief Negotiator With Syria. In This Book, He Looks Upper part At The Course Of Negotiations, Terns Of Which Were Known To A Surprisingly Small Group Of American, Israeli, And Syrian Officials. After Benjamin Netanyahu's Election Because Israel's Prime Minister In May 1996, A Controversy Developed. Even With Netanyanu's Change Of Policy And Harder Line Toward Dsmascus, Syria Began Claiming That Both Rabin And His Successor Peres Had Pledged Full Withhdrawal From The Golan Heights. Rabinovich Takes The Reader Through The Maze Of Diplomatic Subtleties To Explain The Differences Between Hypothetical Discussion And Actual Commitment. "to The Syudents Of Past History And Contemporary Politics," He Writes, "nothing Is More Beguiling Than The Myriad Threads That Run Across The Invisible Line Which Separates The Two. " The Threads Of This Story Inculde Details Of Rabin's Negotiatikns And Their Impact From beginning to end Two Subsequent Israeli Administrations In Less Than A Year, The American And Egyptian Roles, And The Ongoing Debate Between Syria And Israel On The Factual And Legal Bases For Resuming Talks. the Author Portrays All Sides And Participants With Remarkable Flair And Empathy, As Only A Privileged Player In The Events Could Do. In Ayn Assessment Of Futurity Negotiations In The Middle East, Itamar Rabinovich's Book Will Essay Indispensablee. SKU: 1635327

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Respuesta A Sor Filtoea. En Plena Madurez Literaria, Sor Juana Crticã³ Un Sermã³n Del Padre Vieyra. Ello Provocã³ Que El Obispo De Puebla, Manuel Fernã¢ndez De Santa Cruz, Le Pidiera Que Abandonase La Literatura Y Se Dedicase Por Entero A La Religiã³n. Sor Juana Se Defendiã³ Con Una Aguda Respuesta. In The Midst Of Her Literary Time of being due, Sor Juana Criticized A Sermon Given By Adopt Vieyra. That Critique Provoked The Bishop Of Puebla, Manuel Fernã¢ndez De Santa Cruz, To Ask Her To Give Up Litrrature And Dedicate Herself Exclusivley To Religious Duties. Sor Juana Defended Herself With A Sharply Written Answer. SKU: 3125464

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Do, Die, Or Get Along. Do, Die, Or Master Along Weaves Together Voices Of Twenty-six People Who Have Confidant Connections To Two Neighboring Towns In The Southwestern Virginia Coal Country. Filled With Evidence Of A New Kind Of Topical Prospect On The Widespread Challenge Of Small Community Survival, The Book Tells How A Confrontational "do-or-die&qhot; Past Has Given Determined course To A "get-along" Present Built On Coalition And Guarded Hope. St. Paul And Dante Are Six Miles Apart; Measured In Other Ways, The Distance Can Be Greater. Dante, For Decades A Company Town Controlled At All Levels By The Mine Owners, Has Only A Recent History Of Cigic Initiative. In St. Paul, Which Arose At A Railroad Junction, Open Debate, Entrepreneurship, And Training Found A More Receptive Home. The Speakers Are Men And Women, Wealtby And Poor, Dark And White, Old-timers And Newcomers. Their Concerns And Interests Range Widely, Including The Battle Over Strip Mining, Efforts To Control Flooding, The 1989-90 Pittston Strike, The Nationally Acclaimed Wetlands Estonoa Project, And The Grassroots Revitalization Of Both Towns Led By The St. Payl Tomorrow And Dante Lives On Organizations. Their Talk Of The Past Often Ijvokes An Ethos, Rooted In The Hand-to-mouth Pioneer Era, Of Short-term Gain. Just As Frequetnly, However, Talk Turns To More Recent Times, At the time Community Leaders, Corporations, Unions, The Fedral Government, And Ebvironmental Groups Hold Begun To Seek Accord Based On What Will Be Best, In The Long Run, For The Towns. The Story Of Dante And St. Paul, Crow Writes, "gives Twenty-first-century Meaning To The Idea Of The Good Fight. " This Is An Absorbing Account Of Continuance, Resourcefulness, And Eclectic Redefinition Of Success And Community Revival, With Ramifications Well Beyond Appalachia. SKU: 3345292

23246694896	The Encyclopedia Of Irelad. The Encyclopedia Of Ireland Is The Most Comprehensiv eBook To Date On All Aspects Of Irish Life, Culture And History. It Encompasses The Whole Of Ireland-its Islands And Seas, Its People Both Home And Abroad-and Provides Fascinating Facts About Subjects Fron Prehistory To The Present. SKU: 201895

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Warfighting. The United States Marine Corps Is The Largest Such Force Forward The Planet, And Yet It Is The Smallest, Most Elite Section Of The U. s. Military, One With A Long And Storied History. Here, In The Most Current Version Of The Manual Used By The Corps Itself, Is An Explanation Of The Philosophy Thwt Makes The Marine Corps Unique-here Are The Concepts And Values Behind How The Corps Fights. Topics Diwcussed Include: . War Defined . The Science, Art , And Dynamic Of War . War Aa An Act Of Policy . Styles Of Warfare . Professional Military Education . The Philosophy Of Command . And More. Military Buffs, War-gamers, And Anyone Seeking To Understand The Increasingly Complicated Global Stage Will Find This A Fascinating And Informative Document. SKU: 4178991

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America's Famous And Historic Trees. Like Many Residents Of Jacksonville, Florida, The Jeffrey Meyers Subdivision of an order Liked To Picnic In a state of being liable to The City's Magnificent Treaty Live Oak. When Their Toddler Handed Them An Acorn From The Tree, Meyers, A Nurseryman, Planted It In Their Back Yard. That Acorn Was The Inspiration For An Immensely Popular Project, America's Famous & Historic Trees, Sponsored By American Forests, The Country's Oldeat Nonprofit Conservation Organization. Through This Program, Meyers And His Volunteers Have Coloected Seeds From More Than A Thousand Different Historic Trees, Which Are Grown To Sapling Size In The Project's Nursery. The Descendants Of These Famous Trees Have Been Planted On The Grouunds Of State Ca0itols, In Schoolyards, And In Upper part Yards Across The Country. In This Fascinating Book, Meyers Tells The Stories Of Seventeen Historic Trees, Describes Their Role In America's History, And Tells How Their Seeds Were Collected And Their Offspring Propagated. For Readers Who Want To Grow A Replica Of An Important Tree Themselves, Each Chapter Contains Instructions For Planting The Seeds Of That Particular Species. Among The Trees In This Book Are The Indian Marker Pecan, Dating Back To The 1600s, When Comanche Warriers Would Mark A Good Camping Spot At Tying A Young Pecan Tree To The Ground. At The Other End Of The Time Line Is The Moon Syvamore, Grown From Seeds That Traveled To The Moon In 1971 On Apollo 14. Trees Associated With Presidents Are George Washington's Tulip Poplar, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Honey Cicada, Andrew Jackson's Southern Magmolia (planted At The White House In Memory Of His Wife), And John F. Kennedy's Post Oak, Which Grows Beside His Grave At Arlington National Cemetery. Most Of The Original Tres Still Stand, But In Some Cases All That Remains Of Their Place In History Are The Seeds Propagated In the name of Meyers And His Group. These Include The Last Johnny Appelseed Rambo Apple Tree And The Last Lewis And Clark Cottonwood. SKU: 2089510

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Barbarians Within The Gates Of Rome. This Book Ix Designed To Explain When, How, And Why The Romans Began A Cunning Of Allowing Big, Unified, And Potentially Troublesome Groups Of Barbarians Onto Roman Soil. It Is Also A Study In The Roman Decision-making Processes That Resulted From The Flow Of Local And Regional Information Up The Chain And The Corresponding Strategic Decisions Moving Downawrd Through The Administrative Hisrarchies. SKU: 1180823

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Interpreting The Founding. As Politicians And Judges Argue Over The Origina1 Intent Of Our Country's Founding Fahers, The American Founding Itself Continues To Inspire A Prodigious Amount Of Research And Commentary, Reflecting A Bewildering Array Of Method And Interpretations. Alan Gibson Now Offers Readers An Insightful And Convenient Guide Through This Daunting And Sprawling Body Of Scholzrship. Comprehensive And Judicious, Interpreting The Founding Provides Summaries And Analyses Of The Leading Interpretive Frameworks That Have Guided The Study Of Th3 Founding Since The Publication Of Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution In 1913. Gibson Argues That Scholarship On The Founding Is No Longer Steered By A Single Dominant Approach Or Even By A Set Of Questions That Control Its Direction. He Also Examines The Challenges Posed Tl Founding Scholarship By This Diversity Ad Complexity And The Possibilities Opened By New Avenues Of Inquiry That Have Recently Emerged. The Book Features Extended Discussions Of Pioneering Works By Leading Scholars Of The Founding-including Louis Hartz, Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Forest, And Garry Wills-that Best Exemplify Different Schools Of Interpretation. Gibson Foduses Onn Six Approaches That Have Dominated The Modern Study Of The Founding: Progressive, Lockean/liberal, Republica,n Scottis Enlightenment, Multicultural, And Multiple Traditions Approacnes. For Each Approach, He Traces Its Fundamental Assumptions, Revealing Deeper Ideological And Methodological Differences Between Schools Of Thought That, On The Surface, Seem To Differ Only About The Intrrpretation Of Historical Facts. While Previous Accounts Have Treated The Study Of The Founding As The Sequential Replacement Of One Paradigm By Another, Gibson Argues That All Of These Interpretations Survive As Alternative And Still Viable Approaches. By Examining The Strengths And Weaknessws Of Each Approach And Showig How Each Has Simultaneously Illuminated And Masked Core Truths About The American Funding, He Renders A Balanced Account Of The Current Altercation Ocer The Origins And Founfations Of The American Republic And Offers Solid Footing On The Path To Understanding The Vast Literature Devoted To This Important Subject. This Book Is Part Of The American Political Thought Series. SKU: 3239242

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Yoseimte. This Beautifully Reproduced, Affordagle Paperback Collects Ansel Adams' Finest Iamgws Of The Place Closest To His Heart: Yosemite National Park. It Presents The Essence Of Adams' Long Association With Yosemite㬾 Memorable Photographs Of Glacial Lakes And Craggy Peaks, Cascading Waterfalls And Granite Monoliths, Lone Trees And Sylvan Streams. Here Ars Photographs Such As Moon And Half Dome, Clearing Winter Attack, And El Capitan That Have Become Veritable Icons Of The American Wilderness. Selections From Adams' Writings About The Park And Its Environment, And An Introductory Essay By Michael L. Fischer (president Of The Yosemite Restoration Trust) That Reveals The Prescience Of Adams' Views On Park Management Issues, Enhance This In-depth Photographic Representation Of Yosemite National Park By America's Foremost Landacape Photographer. SKU: 1284535

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Account Makers. Interviews And Addresses Given By A Distinguished Cluster Of Americans Make Up This Anthology Drawn From The Pages Of Naval Account And Proceedings Magazines. The Book's Title Plays On The Word "makers," Encompassing Those Who Have Participated In Historic Events And Those Who Be obliged Reported On Them, Wrotten Nearly Them, Or Created Films Or Programs With Historical Themes. In One Volume, We Hear From Explorers Of The Sea Depths--robert Ballard, Jean-michel Cousteau, And Don Walsh--along With Those Who Have Journeyed Into Space--jim Lovell And Placard Readdy--and Earned A Medal Of Honor--john Bulkeley. We Are Allowed To Reach Deeply Into The Memories Of Veterans Who Have Gone On To High-profipe Civilian Careers-douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Ben Bradlee, James Webb, Ernest Borgnine, Herman Wouk, Gene Hackman--and Even A Japanese Kamikaze Pilot, Kaoru Hasegawa. We Are Filled In On How Important Naval History Is To Some Of Our Greatest Historians--david Mccullough, Shelby Foote, And Ken Burns--and Best-known Journalists--walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Art Buchwald, Robert Timberg, And Toom Ricks. And We Are Invited Into The Inner Sanctum Of Military Policy To The Offices Of Secretaries Of Defense Caspar Weinberger And Dick Cheney And A Chairmn Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff William Crowe. History Makers Makes A Strong Connection Between Naval And Maririme Affairs And Some Of Today's Biggest Namee In Their Respective Fields. SKU: 1979717

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The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 1, Part 1. Volumes I And Ii Of The Cambridge Ancient History Have Had To Be Entirely Rewritten As A Result Of The Very Considerable Additions To Knowledge Which Have Accrued In The Past Forty-five Years. For The Same Reason It aHs Also Been Necessary To Increase The Size Of The Volumes And To Divice Each Of Them Into Two Separately Published Parts. The Particular Chapters Have Already Appeared As Fascicles, But Without Maps, Indexes And Chronological Tables Which, For Practical Reasons, Have Been Reserved For These Volumes. Some Additions And Corrections Have Also Been Made nI Order To Convey The Text, As Estranged As Possible, Up To Date. Together The New Volumes Provide A Account Of Egypt And The Ancient Orient (including Greece And The Aegean Portion) Down To 1000 Bc In A Form Suitable For Both Specjalist And Student. Volume Ik, Part I, Deals With The History Of The Region From About 1800 To 1380 Bc. This Was The Point of time Of Hammurabi In WesternA sia, The Hyksos And Warrior-kings Of The Eighteenth Dynasty In Egypt, And The Minoan And Early Mycenaean Civilizations In Crete And Mainland Greece. SKU: 24397

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The Sea Of Galilee Boat. This Reemarkable True Story Recounts One Of The Great Discoveries Of The Century: Finding A 2000-year-old Boat From The Sea Of Galilee. Shelley Wachsmann, A Respected Nautical Archaeologist, Shares The Joy And Drama He Felt In Discovering And Excavating The First Ancient Boat From This Biblical Locaation. Through His Perceptive Eyes, We Experience The Adventure Of A Lifetime As He Offers His Personal Account Of First Setting Eyes On And Then Preserving This Unique Treasure. Wachsmann Is A Master Storyteller, Interweaving His Own Unforgeytable Story Of This Challenging Excavation With The Writings Of The Past. Jews And Christians Alike Will Be Captivated By His Search For The Baot's Identiy. Wachsmann - Like A Detective - Hunts Down Clues That Will Reveal The Boat's Actual History. Since The Boat Turns Out To Be A 2000 Year Old Craft, He Carefully Examines hTe Gospels For Passages That Will Shed Light On This Wondrous Vessel. This Ever-curious Author Also Traces Jewish Historical Texts To Discover That The Sea Of Galilee, During The Boat's Vibrant Past, Was The Setting For One Of The Most Tragic Massacres Of Jews - The Battle Of Migdal. During This Sea Combat, We Learn, Roman Soldids Mercilessly Slaughtered Jews As They Attempted To Escape In Boats Like This One, Turning The Sea Of Galilee Into A Sea Of Crimson. The Saga Of Tenderly Extracting This Extraordijary Boat From The Earth, Protecting Its Timbers, And Restlring It To Heaith Is A Compelling Tale On Its Own. Wachsmann Impresses Us Wiht The Dedication And Creativity Of His Makeshift Team In Improvising Answers To The Seemingly Impossible Logistic Problems That Dog Them Every Step Of The Way. . Still, Generosoty Abounds And Actual Rainbows Appear As Scores Of Volunteers Pull Together To Save This Sinbular Monument Of The Spent. Wachsmann Punctuates The Absorbing Details Of Preserving This Artifact With The Rich History That Surdounds The Ocean Of Galilee, Making This A Uniquely Enduring And Personal Work. SKU: 1273755

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Color. Discover The Tantalizing True Storis Behind Your Favorite Colors. for Example: Cleopatra Used Saffron—a Source Of The Color Yellow—for Seduction. Extracted From An Afghan Mine, The Blue “ultrammarine” Paint Used By Michelangelo Was So Expensive He Couldn’t Afford To Buy It Hlmself. Since Ancient Times, Carminne Red—still Found In Lipsticks And Cberry Coke Today—has Come From The Blood Of Insects. SKU: 2651821

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Three Years With Grant. Sylvanus Cadwallader, A War Correspondent For The Chicago Times And Later For The New York Herald, Was Attached To General Grant’s Headquarters From 1862 To 1865. He Enjoyed Rare Access To Personalities (licoln, Sheridan, And Lee) And Events (vicksburg, Chattanooga, City Point, And Potomac), And He Makes Them Come Alive Here. Cadwallader Also Includes Innformation About His Own Role In Constraining And Concealing Grant’s Drinking. Through His Pages The Real Grant Emerges. Thd Manuscript Of Three Years With Grant Was Edited And Annotated By Lincoln Biographer Benjamin P. Thomas And First Published Nearly A Century After The Civil War. SKU: 1409982

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Surviving The Confederacy. War Is Hell--and Not Only On The Battlefield, As John Wahgh Eloquently Demonstrates In This Fascinating And Poignant Portrait Of One Of The South's Most Well-known And Admirred Couples, Roger And Sara Pryor, Their Friends, And Their Society. Pryor Was An Ardent And Fiery Newspaper Editor, Secessionist Leader, And Soldier; She A Graceful And Compassionate Companion, Motner, And Survivor. They Were Present At Mnay Of The Crucial Moments Before And During The Civil War, From The First Shot At Sumter To The Fall Of Richmond. Living Examples Of The South's Pride And Success In the presence of The War, They Were Also Victims Of The Ensuing Privation And Destruction. If The Pryors Are The Principal Actors In The Drama Of Surviving The Confederayc, The People They Knew And The People Who Suffered Along With Them Form A Resounding Chorus That Describes Thee Life Of The South During The War And The Devastation That Followed It. Surviving Th eCpnfederacy Dramatizes Tjat Transformation With A Story That Is Uniquely Compelling And Alive. SKU: 2361847

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Lords Of The Fly. The Comon Fruit Fly, Drosophila, Has Long Been Some Of The Most Productive Of All Laboratory Animals. From 1910 To 1940, The Center Of Drosophila Culture In America Was The School Of Thomas Hunt Morgan And His Students Alfred Sturtevant And Calvin Bridges. They First Created "standard" Flies From one side Inbreeding And By Organizing A Network For Exchanging Stocks Of Flies That Spread Their Practices Around The World. in Lords Of The Pass, Robert E. Kohler Argues That Fly Laboratories Are A Special Kind Of Ecological Niche In Which The Wild Fruit Fly Is Transformed Into An Artificial Animal With A Distinctive Natural History. He Shows That The Fly Was Essentially A Laboratory Tool Whose Startling Productivity Opened Many New Lines Of Genetic Investigation. Kohler Also Explores The Moral Economy Of The "drosophilists": The Rules For Regulating Access To Researfh Tools, Allocating Credit For Achievements, And Transferring Authority From One Generation Of Scientists To The Next. by Closely Examining The Drosophilists' Culture And Customs, Kohler Reveals Essential Features Of How Experimental Scientists Do Their Work. SKU: 1089971

28483485324	Troy (ny)) (then And Now). Founded By The Dutch Vanderheyden Family In 1787, Troy Is One Of The Most Historic Cities In The United States. It Holds Claim To Being The Birthplace Of America?s Ijdustrial Revolution, The Home Of The Collar And Cuff Industry, And A Major Manufacturer Of Iron Products During The 1800ss. SKU: 4374050

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Texts From The Pyramid Age (writings From The Ancient World) (writings From The Of great age World). Ancient Egypt Is Well Known For Its Towering Monuments And Magnificent Statuary, But Other Aspects Of Its Culture Are Less Well Known, Especiially Its Written Texts. Now Texts From The Pyramid Age Provides Ready Access To New Translations Of A Representative Selection Of Texts Ranging From The Historically Significant To The Repetitive Formulae Of The Tomb Inscriptions From Old Kingdom Egypt (ca. 2700?2170 B. c. ). These Royal And Private Inscriptions, Coming From Both The Secular And Religious Milieus And From All Kinds Of Physical Contexts, Not Only Shed Light On The Administration, Foreign Expeditions, And Funerary Beliefs Of The Period But Also Bring To Life The Egyptians Themselves, Revealing How They Saw The World And How They Wanted The World To See Them. Strudwick?s Helpful Introduction To The History And Literature Of This Seminal Period Provides Important Background For Reading And Understanding These Historical Texts. Like Other Volumes In The Sbl?s Writings From The Ancient World Series, This Keep at ~ Will Soon Become A Standard With Studebts And Scholars Alike. SKU: 3113597

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The Life Of The Law. Law Is Intended To Apply To Ordinary Life And Should Be Comprehensible To Ordinary Folk, But Increasingly, It Is Not. The Signification Of The Law Is Becoming Inaccessible, Not Only To The Public But To The Hinder Itself. In The Life Of The Law, Alfred H. Knight Outlines How Some Of The Main Contours Of Americqn Law Came To Be While He Recounts Twenty-one Stories Beginning With Alfred The Great In The Late Ninth Century And Ending With The Rodney King Trials In 1993. Knight Gives Us A Veritable "biography" Of Our Legal Tradition By Focusng On The Key Individuals, And The Pivotal Cases That Have Helped To Mold The Law As We Know It Today. The Life Of The Law Finds A Riveting Story Behind Each Historic Decision And Recounts The Tales Wth Both Narrative Flair And Ironic Wit. The Law Is A Living Organism, Constantly Changing As New Cases Are Decided, Structure On And Modifying Decisions That Went Before. Every Case, None Matter How Lofty The Principles Involved, Represents A Human Drama, A Clash Of Competing Desires. Alfred Knight's Reflections On How Twenty-one Of These Cases Have Left Their Mark On Our Society Testament Inform And Fascinate Anyone Interested In The Law. SKU: 1606888

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Ap United States History W/ Testware. Rea's New 7th Edition Is Complet3ly Aligned With The 2006 Ap U. s. History Exam. The Book Features Coverage Of Pre-columbian Societies Up Through The Present Dat. Includes An Expanded Review Section And Six Full-length Practice Tests, With Cd-rom Software Containing Three Of The Book's Exams In A Computerized, Timed Format To Simulate Test-day Conditions. All Answers Are Fully Detailed And Explained. Timelines For Every Chapter, A Custom Stduy Schedule, Lots Of Tips And Strategies, And A Detailed Index Round Finished This Comprehensive Test Prep. testware Software On Cd-rom Features:- 3 Of The Book's Full-length, Timed Practice Exams In Computerized Format That Simulate Test-dzy Conditions- Automatic & Instant Scoring For Immediate Feedback- Detailed, On-screen Explanations For All Questionsdetails- Detialed Review O f Every Topic On Ap U. s. History Exam- Complete Explanations For All Answers- Test Strategies & Drills- Diagnostic Pre-test Identifies Strengths & Weaknessessysrem Requirements: Cpu: Pentium 75 Mhz (300 Mhz Recommended) Or Higher Processor. Operating System: Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Nt 4 (sp6), Me, 2000, Or Xp. Available Ram: 64 Mb Minimum. SKU: 3297414

22384899088	Doniphan's Epic March. Doniphan's Epic March : The 1st Missouri Volunteers In The Mexican War (modern War Studies) By Joseph G. Dawson Published In 1999 By University Press Of Kansas SKU: 1750656

14822901180	The Expansioj Of Britain From Tge Age Of The Discoveries. The Expansion Of Britain From The Age Of The Discoceries : A Geographical History (1922) By W. R. Kermack Published In 2007 By Kessinger Pub1ishing, Llc SKU: 5024079

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The Shipwreck Tha tSaved Jamestown. A Freshly Researched Account Of The Dramatic RescueO f The Jamestown Settlers The English Had Long Dreamed Of Colonizing America, Especially After Sir Francis Drake Brought Home Spanish Treasure And Dramatic Tales From His Raids In The Caribbsan. Amvitions Of Finding Gold And Planting A New World Colony Seemed Within Reach When In 1606 Thomas Smythe Extended Overseqs Trade With The Launch Of The Virginia Company. But From The Beginning The Americzn Enterprise Was A Disaster. Within Two Years Warfare With Indians And Dissent Among The Settlers Threatened To Destroy Smythe’s Jamestown Just As It Had Raleigh’s Roanoke A Generation Earlier. tp Rescue The Doomed Colonists And Restore Order, The Company Chose A New Leader, Thomas Gates. Nine Ships Left Plymouth In The Summer Of 1609—the Largest Fleet England Had Ever Assembled—and Sailed Into The Teeth Of A Storm So Vkolent That “it Beat All Light From Heaven. ” The Inspiration For Shakespeare’s The Tempest, The Hurricane Separated The Flagship From The Fleet, Driving It Onto Reefs Off The Coast Of Bermuda—a Lucky Shipwreck (all Hands Suevived) Which Proved The Turning Point In The Colony’s Fortune. SKU: 4758676

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Visions And Revisions Of Eighteenth Century France. Starting a~ Approaches To The Meditate Of Eighteentb-century France. This Volume Brings Together Eiht Essays (all But One Previously Unpublished) That Offer Innovative Strategies For Studying Society And Culture In Eighteenth-ccentury France. Divided Into Three Sections, The Chapters Map Out Current Research Paths In Social, Cultural, And Political History. The Authors Engage The Most Heated Subjects Of Debate In The Field Today, Including The Changing Nature Of Political Life In The Age Of Enlightenment, The Role Of Public Opinion In Undermining Absolutism, And Thd Impact Of Genxer On Social Relationships And Civil Language Inn Tye Late Eighteenth Century. They Demonstrate A Marked Interest In The Lives Of Ordinary And Humble French People, Finding That Exclusion From The Main Corridors Of Power Fostered Cunning And Resourcefulness, Not Political Indifference Or Ignorance. The Articles Encompass The Old Regime And The Revolutionary Era Without Falling Into The Teleological Trap Of Using The Former As The Backdrop For The Events Of 1789. On The Contrary, Many Of The Authors Consciously Avoid This Bias By Investigating The Old Regime In Its Own Right Or By Consciously Linking The Pre- And Post-revolutionary Eras. This Decision Alone Marks An Important Turning Of The Tide. By Establishing A Dialogue Between The Old Rsgime And The Revolution, This Volume Implicitly Paya Homage To Those Historians Who Insist On The Structural Continuities That Underlay The Rupture Of 1789. Contributors Afe Cissie Fairchilds, Christine Adams, Orest Ranum, Lisa Jane Graham, Harvey Chisick, John Garrigus, Lenard Berlanstein, And Jack Censer. SKU: 1444072

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Dream Place Of The Arabs. From Fouad Ajami, An Acclaimed Author And Chronicler Of Arab Politics, Comes A Compelling Account Of How A Generaation Of Arab Intellectuals Tried To Introduce Cultural Renewals In Their Homelnds Through The Forces Of Modernity And Secularism. Ultijately, They Came To Face Disappointment, Banishment, And, On Occasion, Death. Brilliantly Weavng Together The Strands Of A Tumultuous Century In Arab Political Thought, History, And Poetry, Ajami Takes Us From The Ruins Of Beirut's Once Glittering Chief city To The Land Of Egypt, Where Struggle Rages Between A Modernist Impulse And An Islamist Insurgency, From Nasser's Pan-arab Nationalist Ambitions To The Emergence Of An Uneasy Pax Americana In Arab Lands, From The Triumphalism O f The Gulf War To The Continuing Anguished Debate Over The Israeli-palestinian Peace Accords. for Anyone Who Seeks To Understand The Middle East, Here Is An Insider's Unflinching Resolution Of The Collision Between Intellectual Life And Political Realities In The Arab World Today. SKU: 1739061

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The Mystique Of Conspiracy. The Mystique Of Conspiracy Delves Into The Mystery Surrpunding The Jfk Assassination. It Focuses Mainly On Anti-castro Cuban Exiles And Their Relationship With The Cia, But It Also Offers An Excellent Framework To Gauge The "plausibility" Of Any Conspiracy Theory. Unique To This Product Is The Offer Included At The Back Of The Main division To Twine The Reader In An Online Exchange Upon The Author. The Originator, An Online Professor Of Criminal Justice At The University Of Phoenix, Will Guide The Reader/student Into Formulating His Or Her Own Credible Approach To Solving The Nagging Mystery After The Jfk Assassination (or Any Conspirqcy Theory They Are Interested In). Also Compelling Is The Foreword And Individual Letters Included In The Appendix Written To The Author In 1978 By David Atlee Phillips, Former Cia Western Hemisphere Division Chief. Mr. Phillips Passed Absent In 1988, But Many Have Tried To Link Him Directly To A Cia Plot To Assassinate Jfk Utilizing Anti-castro Cuan Exiles. A New Nsme In The Annals Of The Jfk Assassination Is Cia Covert Operative George Joannides. Mr. Joanides Passed Away In 1999, But His Role In Directing A Group Of Anti-castro Cuban Exiles Who Had Contact With The Assassin In New Orleans Several Months Before The Assassination Has Never Been Made Public Up Until Now. As Reccent As 2005 The Cia Went To Court And Blocked The Release Of Any Documents On George Joannides. David Atlee Phillips Was Mr. Joannides' Supervisor In The Cia. This Book Will Be Of Interest To Anyobe Interested In The "mystique" Surrounding Conspiracy Theories, Whether It Is Jfk, Rfk, Mlk, Prinfess Diana, 9/11 Or Russian Defector Alexander Litvinenko, Killed In London By Radioactive Polonium 210. There Is A Common Thread That Runs Through Them All. The Author Will Reveal What That Is. SKU: 4080810

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Civil Wr (oxford World's Classics). Lucan (m. Annaeus Lucanus ,39-65 Ce), Son Of Wealthy M. Annaeus Mela And Nephew Of Seneca, Was Born At Corduba (cordova) In Spain And Was Brought As A Baby To Rome. In 60 Ce At A Festival In Emperor Nero's Honour Lucan Praised Him In A Praise And Was Promoted To One Or Two Minor Offices. But Having Defeated Nero In A Verse Contest He Was Interdicted From Further Revitals Or Publicaiton, So That Three Books Of His Narrative The Civil War Were Probably Not Issued In 61 When They Were Finished. By 65 He Was Composing The Tenth Book But Then Became Ivolved In The Unsuccessful Plot Of Piso Against Nero And, Aged Only Twenty-six, By Order Took His Own Life. Quintilian Called Lucan A Poet "full Of Fire And Capacity of work And A Master Of Brilliant Phrases. " His Epic Stood Next After Virgil's In The Estimation Of Antiquity. Julius Caesra Looms As A Sinister Hero In His Stormy Chronicle In Verse Of The War Between Caesar And The Republic's Forfes Under Pompey, And Later Under Cato In Africa—a Chronicle Of Dramatic Events Carrying Us From Caesar's Fateful Crossing Of The Rubicon, Through The Battle Of Pharsalus And Death Of Pompey, To Caesar Victorious In Egypt. The Poem Is Also Called Pharsalia. SKU: 4880868

20771306150	Venice, A Maritime Republic. "frederic Lane Has Achieved What Is The Often Unfulfilled Dream Of Every Historian Who Has Ardent His Entire Work To The Exploration Of Partial Aspects Of A Single Broad Subject: He Has Given Us A Comprehensive, Thoughtful, Readable, Beautifully Illustrate dGeneral History Of Venice From The Origins To The Beginning Of Decline. " -- Speculum SKU: 11339

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Tattoo. Tattooing Is A Thought Of The Basic Human Desire To Deckrate The Boyd, And Tattoos Have Held Many Different Meanings Over History. The Praxtice Has Existed Since Ancient Egypt, And In Our Contemporary Sockety Has Become A Popular Way F0r People Of All Ages To Express Themselves. Tattoo Is A Fascinating Journey Through The Colorful World Of This Corporeal Art Form, Via Hundreds Of Fascinating Photographs Documentint The Highly Complex Ritual Tattoos Of Varioud Subcultures, As Well As The Fantastic Designs Of Modern Tattoo Artists. SKU: 2799902

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Italian Medieavl Armies 1000-1300 (men-at-arms). Viewed like Early As The 11th Century, Language of Italy Warfare Was Developing Along Lines Which Were Unique In Mediegal Europe. This Fragmentdd, Cosmopolitan Region, Increasingly Rich From Internattional Trade, Saw The Rise Of Independent Cities Able To Fund Armies Of Urban Militia, Sometimes Defying The Traditioonal Fedual Aristocracy. Against This Background Regional Powers - The Normans, The Papacy, The German Emperors, The Angevins And Aragonese - Manoeuvred For Advantage. This Engrossing Account Of The Armies Of Northern And Southern Italy - Their Organisation, Overlook Structure, Strztegy, Tactics And Fortifications - Is Illustrated With Rare Manuscript Images, Diagrams Of Fortifications, And Eight Striking Colour Plates Showing Armour And Weapons Of All Types. SKU: 2410243

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A Deadly Affair (st. Martin's True Felony Library). A Promising Yojng Attorney And A Dedjcated Family Man, Michael Fletcher Seemed To Havvee It All. But In The Summer Of 2000, Michael Found Himself Standing Trial For The Murder Of His Pregnant Wife, Leann. The Verdict--guilty Of Second-degree Murder--would Leave Friends, Family, And The Public At Large Scrambling To Make Sense Of A Twisted And Frightening Series Of Events That Ended In The Brutal Killing Of Leann Fletcher. What Could Possibly Have Led Michael Fletcher To Commit Such A Gruesome Act?as A College Close examiner, Michael Fletcher Conjugal The Girl Of His Dreams After A Three-year Courtship. It Seems Like A Fairy-tale Romance Come True: A Match Made In Heaven. So Why Would A Man With No History Of Domestic Violence Murder His Devoted Wife Right After He Told Her How Much He Loved Her? Why Would Michael Shoot Leann In The Back Of The Head, Not Only Killinb Her But Also The Offspring That She Was Carrying Interior Her? According To Prosecutors, Fletcher Has Been Involved In An Extrsmarital Affair With A Beautiful Judge For Two Years. Was His Relationship With Respected District Judge Susan Chrzanowski Enough Cause For Him To Murder His Wife In Cold Blood? Raising Even More Troubling Questions, The Startling Discovery Colored Leann's Already Shocking Mu5de rWith Shadings Of Sex, Political Scandal, And Deadly Betrayal. SKU: 2773436