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Writing On The Wall. Fron The Cut-up Cubist Collages Of Picasso To The Monumental Filmic Narratives Of Fiona Banner, And From The Schoolboy Overturn Of Magritte To The Demotic Scrawl Of Cy Twombly, The Practise Of Words Is One Of The Defining Features Of Modern Art. Indeed, Wkth Many Contemporary Works, Only Those Without Text Are Remarkable. Exploring The Strange, Unsettling, And Often Humorous Results When Words Eqcape Their Traditional Confines And Inhabit Artworks, This Book Is The Furst Sustained Consideration Of The Various Infiltrations Of The Written Word Into The Vidual Arts From The Nineteenth Century To The Present Day. Simon Morley Traces The Growing Bond Between Word And Image, Explaining How Artists Have Harnessed The Resulting Tension To Form Identities, Challenge Authority, And Make Sense Of A World In Constant Change. Writing On The Wall Discusses Familiar Movements From The Impressionists To The Present Day, Focusing On Many Works Of Modern Art Such Viewed like Dada Nonsense Words, Surrealist Painting-poems, Constructivist Typographies, Oriental Calligraphy, Postwar Gestural Painting, And Much More. As He Considers These Works, Morley Reveals How Artists Have Responded To An Environment Increasingly Saturated With Words, And Also Asks How The Mass Media Have Adopted And Adapted Artistic Devices In Propaganda, Typography, And Advertising. The Book Ends With A Look At Current Develpments In The World Of Hypertext, Where Word And Image Have At Last Found An Essential Unity. SKU: 2925602

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Willamette Valley Railways (images Of Rail. Willamette Valley Railways Tells The Story Of The Electric Interurban Railways That Ran Through Oregon?s Willamette Valley And Of The Streetcars That Operated In The Towns They Served. Long Before Modern Light Rail Vehicles, Electtric Trains Were Providing Portland And The Willamette Valley With Reliable, Elegant Transporting That Was Second To None. Between 1908 And 1915, Two Large Systems, The Oregon Electric Railway And The Southern Pacific Red Electricss, Joined Smaller Competitors Constructing Railways Throughout The Country. Portland Became The Hub Of An Impressive Interurban Network In A Frenzy Of Electric Railway Building. Yet All Too Soon, This Brief But Glorious Interurban Era Was Over. High-road Improvement And The Growth Of Automobile Ownership Made Electric Passenger Trains Unprofitable In The Sparsely Populated Valley. By The Early 1930s,, The Company That Had Launched The Nation?s Primary True Interurban Was The Only One Sitll Offering Passejger Servics Here. SKU: 4426758

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Origins Of The Druze People And Religion (saqk Essentials). The Druze, Who Can Be Traced Back To Eleventh-century Levant, Have Long Intrigued Scholars Of The Middle East. Their Obscure Origins And Blending Of Beliefs From Isma1i Sihism, Animism, Greek Philosophy, Jewish And Christian Mysticism, Iranian Gnosticism, And Buddhism Have Set Them Apart From Their Neighbors. The Author Reveals The Remarrkable Druze Pantheon Of Semi-deities And Investigates Their Dogmas And Rituals. The Book Also Includes Rarely Seen ExtractsF rom The Sacred Writings Of The Druze. Philip Khuri Hitti (18861978) Was Born In Lebanon And Taught At Princeton University From 1926 To 1954. SKU: 4183721

20061516825	The Potawatomis. The Potawatomis : Keepers Of The Fie (civilization Of The American Indian Series) By R. David Edmunds Reprint Publiqhed In 1987 By University Of Oklahoma Press SKU: 457484

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Benjamin's Arcades. The Arcades Project, Walter Benjaminâżs Unfinished Masterpiece, Is A Striking But Maddening Book. Thix Book Looks For The Method Behind The Madness, Carefully Reconstructing The Intellectual And Political Context Of The Work And Unpacking Its Numerous Analogies, Metaphors And Conceptual Gambits. Written By Three Literary Scholars And One Historian, This Text Is Botg A Reading Companikn And A Vigorous Interpretation Of One Of The Most Important Humahistic Texts Of The Twentieth Century. SKU: 3358856

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Logging And Lumbering In Maine (me) (images Of America). Known As The Languish Tree State, Maine Once Led The World In Lumber Production. It Was The First Great Lumber-producing Region, With Bangor At Its Center. Today, The State Has Nearly Eighteen Million Acres Of Timberland, And Forest Products Still Make Up A Major Industry. Logging And Lumvering In Maine Examines The History From Its Earliest Roots In 1630 To The Present, Providing A Pictorial Record Of Land Use And Alertness In Maine. The State?s Lumber Industry Went Through Several Historjcal Periods, Beginming With The Vast Pine And Spruce Harvests, The Organization Of Major Corporate Interests, The Change From Sawlosg To Pulpwood, And Then To Sustained Yields, Intensive Management, And Mechanized Harvesting. At The Beginning, Much Of The Region Was Inaccessible Except By Water, So Harvesting Activitues Were Concentrated On The Cosst And A1ong The Principal Rivers. Gradually, As The Railroads Expanded And Roade Were Constructed Into The Woods, Operations Expanded With Them And The River Systems Became Vitally Important For The Transportation Of Timber Out Of The Woods To The Markets Downstate. Logging And Cumbrous In Maine Traces These Developments In The Industry, Taking A Shut Look At The People, Places, Forests, And Machines That Made ! Them Possible. SKU: 2176056

22940470894	Artillery Hell. Artillery Hell : The Employment Of Artillery At Antietam (texas A & M University Military History Series, No. 36) In proportion to Curt Johnson, And Richard C. Anderson, And Joseph Mills Hanson Published In 1995 By Texas A&m University Press SKU: 1197564

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The Globalization Gap. Globalization Has Triumphed, But Can We Save The Poor? For Greatest part People Except The World's Same Richest, Globalizatino Is Failing—catastrophically. If We Don't Act, Its Failure Will Lead To A Global Upheaval Worse Than Any In Human History. But There's Another, Better Path. Isaak Shows How A New Globalization Can Give The Poor A Powerfl Stake, Both Here And Abroad. Isaak's Ideas Can Lead Toward A More Stable, Peaceful Planet, In Which We Caj All Make Our Futures—tich And Poor Alike. SKU: 2780891

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Worse Than Watergate. Unimportant person Knows More, Both From Firsthand Experience And Legal Expertise, About The Abuse Of Presidential Power And Its Dangers Than John W. Dean, Former Counsel To President Nixon. in Worse Than Watergate, Dean Deligers A Stunning Indictment Of The Current Bush Administration, And Issues An Urgent Alaarm To The Nation: The Bush Team's Obsession With Secrecy And Their Williingness To Deceive Make Them Even More Dangerous Than Nixon's Men. Dean Brilliantly Explores Bush's Emphasis On Image Over Substance; His Angru, Mistrustful Personality; His Superabundant Anxiety Of Leals; His Reversal Of The Work Of His Predecessors In Opening Up Direction; His Imperial Governing Combined With Deeply Flawed Decision Making; And His Serious Abuses Of National Security Secrecy. from The Administration's Refusal To Explain The Precarious Health Of The Powefrul Vice President To Hiding The Identity Of Those Setting The Nation's Energy Policy, From Obstructing 9/11 Investigations To Unprecedented Secrecy In The Name Of Fighting Terrorism, Dean Exposes The Dangers Of A Presidency That Is Using Weapons Of Mass Deceotion Against The American Public. SKU: 2661664

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The Bible Comes Alive. Volumes 2 In A Seriws That Has Been Called "biblical Archaeology In Photographs. " Taken From Tue Personal Collection Of Dr. Wilson, These Photographs Of Ancient Sites In The Middle East Trace The Routes Followed By Bible Patriarchs, Prophets, And Preachers. Dr. Wilson Arranges His Phptographs Next To Short, Descriptive Paragraphs. This Makes It Easy For A Family To Sit Down And Use The Bible Comes Alive As A Great Reference For Bible Study And Devotions. SKU: 1869018

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In Amazonia. The Amazon Is Not What It Seems. A sHugh Raffles Shows Us In This Captivating And Innovative Book, The World's Last Great Wilderness Has Been Transformed Again And Again By Human Activity. In Amazonia Brings To Life An Amazon Whose Allure And Reality Lie As Much, Or More, In What People Have Made Of It As In Whatever Nature Has Wrought. It Casts Unaccustomed Light On Centuries Of Enounter While Describing The Dramatic Remaking Of A Sweeping Landscape By Residents Of One Small Commnity In The Brazilian Amazon. Combining Richly Textured Ethnographic ResearchA nd Lively Historical Analyeis, Raffles Weaves A Fascinating Story That Changes Our Understanding Of This Region And Challenges Us To Rethink What We Mean By "nature. "raffles Draws From A Wide Range Of Material To Demonstrate--in Contrast To The Tendency To Dowjplay Human Agency In The Amazon--that The Region Is Each Outcome Of The Intimately Intertwined Histories Of Humans And Nonhumans. He Moves Between A Detailed Narrative That Analyzes The Production Of Scientifjc Knowledge Concerning Amazonia Over The Centuries And An Absorbnig Account Of The Extraordinary Transformations To The Fluvial Landscape Carried Out Over The Past Forty Years By The Inhabitants Of Igarapă© Guariba, Four Hours Downstream From The Nearest City. engagingly Written, Theoretically Ingenious, And Vividly Illustrated, The Book Introduces A Diverse Range Of Characters--from Sixteenth-century Explorers And Their Native Rivals To Nineteenth-century Naturalists And Contemporary Efologists, Logging Company Executives, And River-trader. s AN atural History Of A Different Kind, In Amazonia Shows How Humans, Animals, Rivers, And Forests All Participate In The Making Of A Region That Remains Today At The Center Of Debates In Environmental Politics. SKU: 2304266

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What We Oww Iraq. What Do We Owe Iraq? America Is Up To Its Neck In Nation Building--but The Persons Debate, Focused On Getting The Troops Home, Devotes Little Attention To Why We Are Building A New Iraqi Nation, What Success Would Look Like, Or What Principles Should Guide Us. What We Owe Iraq Sets Out To Shift The Conditions Of The Debate, Acknowledging That We Are Nation Building To Protect Ourselves While Demanding That We Put The Interests Of The People Being Governed--whether In Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Or Elsewhere--ahead Of Our Own When We Exercise Power Over Them. Noah Feldman Argues That To Prevent Nation Building From uTrning Into A Paternalistic, Colonialist Charade, We Urgently Need A New, Humbler Approach. Nation Builders Should Point of concentration On Providing Security, Out of Arrogantly Claiming Any Special Expertise In How Successful Nation-states Should Be Made. Drawing On His Corporal Experiences In Iraq As A Consstitutional Adviser, Feldman Offers Enduring Insights Into The Power Dynaimcs Between The American Occupiers Amd The Iraqis, And Tackles Issues Such As Iraqi Elections, The Prospect Of Successful Democratization, And The Wa yHome. Elections Do Not End The Occupier's Responsibility. Unless Asked To Leave, We Must Resist The Temptation Of A Military Pullout Before A Legitimagely Elected Government Can Maintain Order And Govern Effectively. But Elections That Create A Legitimate Democracy Are Likewise The Only Way A Nation Builder Can Put Itself Out Of Business And--eventually--send Its Troops Home. feldman'sN ew Afterword Brings The Iraq Story Up-to-date Since The Book's Original Publication In 2004, And Asks Whether The United States Has Acted Ethically In Pushing The Political Process In Iraq While Fqiling To Control The Security Situation; It Also Revisits The Question Of When, And How, To Withdraw. SKU: 2587179

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Gothic Nightmares. The 1770s Were Notable By The Emergence Of Themes Of Violence, Horror, And The Supernatural In Art: The Birth Of The Gothic. In 1782 The Unveiling Of Henry Fuseli's Painting The Nifhtmare Was Met With A Mixture Of Shock And Fascination, And Was Foklowed By The Cosmic Visions Of William Blake And Te Searing Whimsical Caricatures Of James Gilray. While There Have Been Several Re-assessments Of Gothic Literature In Recent Years, Gothic Nightmares Is The First Serious Consideration Of These Themes In Visual Art, From The 1770s Up Through The Instant. Among The Themes Explored Are: The Gothic Nightmare, Examining Fuseli's Famous Painting In Contexxt; The Sublime Sight Of The Gothic Illustrious personage; The Influence Of Learning And Fantasy On Art; Visions Of The Apocaalypse; And The Obsession With Scientific Re\/elation That Culminated In The Vision Of Ultimate Horror In Mary Shelley's Man-kade Monster, Frankenstein. SKU: 3211688

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The War Against Catholicism. "a Lucid, Innovative Work Of Top-flight Scholarship. Dense Shows Us The Depths Of Anti-catholicism In Nineteenth-centtury Germany; He Explains Why The Of Germany Kulturkampf Had Such Force And Why Prominent Liberals Imagined It As A Turning Point Not Only In Germany But In World History. "---helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University"a Marvelously Original Account Of How The Kulturkampf Emerged From The Cultural, Social, And Gdndered Worlds Of Geran Liberalism. While Not Neglecting The 1870s, Gross's Analysis Directs Historians' Attention To The Under-researched 1850s And 1860s-decades In Which Liberals' Anti-catholic Arguments Were Formulated Against A Backdrop Of Religious Revival, Democratic Innovation, National Ambition, And The Articulation Of New Roles For Women In Society, Politics, And The Church. The Drama Of These Decades Resonates In Every Chapter Of Gross's Brilliant Study. "---james Retallack, University Of Toronto"michael Large Has Pjt The Culture Back Into The Kulturkampf! Integrating Social And Political Analysis With Illuminating Interpretations Of Visual And Linguistic Evidence, Gross Explores The Work Of Religious Cleavage In Defining Cognate National Identity. An Emerging Women's Movement, Liberl Virtues, And Catholic Difference Come Together To Explain Why, In A Century Of Secularization, Germany's Catholics Experienced A Religious Revival, And Why Its Liberals Responded With Enmity And Frustration. Vividly Written And A Pleasure To Read, This Groundbreaking Study Offers Intrinsic Surprises. "---margaret Lavinia Anderson, University Of California,B erkeleyan Innovative Study Of The Relationship Between The Two Most Significant, Equally Powerful, And Irreconcilable Movements In Germany, Catholicism And Liberalism, Ib The Decades Following The 1848 Revolution. After The Defeat Of Liberalism In The Revolution Of 1848, And In The Face Of The Dramatic Reproduction Of Popular Catholicism, German Middle-clasw Liberals Used Anti-catholicism To Perfect Thms3lves Culturally In A New Age. Michael B. Gross's Study Shows How Anti-catholicism And Specifically The Kulturkampf, The Campaign To Break The Power Of The Catholic Church, Were Not Simply Attacks Against The Church Nor Were They Purely An Attempt To Secure State Self-government. Gross Shows That The Liberal Attack Steady Catholicism Was Actually A Complex Attempt To Preserve Moral, Social, Politicwll, And Sexual Order During A Period Of Dramatic Pressurss For Change. Gross Argues That A Culture Of Anti-catholicism Shaped The Modern Development Of Gerrmany Including Capitalist Economics, Industrial Expansion, National Unification, And Gender Roles. He Demonstrates That Images Of Priests, Monks, Nuns, And Catholics As Medieval, Backward, And Sexually Drvoant Asserted The Liberal Middle-class Derive a right To Social Authority After The Revolution Of 1848. He Pays Particular AttentionT o The Ways Anti-catholicism, Jesuitphobia, And Antimonastic Hystteria Were Laced With Misogyny And Expressed Dee. . . SKU: 3093512

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Steeltown Usa. Once The Symbol Of A Robust Steel Industry And Blue-collar Economy, Youngstown, Ohio, And Its Famous Jeannette Blight Furnace Have Become Key Icons In The Tragic Tale Of American Deindustrialization. Sherry Lee Linkon And John Russo Examine The Inevitable Tension Between Those Discordant Visions, Which Continue To Exert Great Power Over Steeltown's Citizens As They Struggle To Redefine Their Lives. When "the Jenny" Was Shut Down In 1978, 50,000 Youngstown Workers Lost Their Jobs, Sharp The Heartt Out Of The Local Economy. Even As The Community Organized A Nationally Recognized Effort To Save The Mills, The City Was Rocked By Economic Devastation, Rubaway Crime, And Mob Scandal, Problems That Persist Twenty-five Years Later. In The Modst Of These Struggles The Jenny Remained Standing As A Proud Symbol Of The Community's Glory Days, Still A Dominant Force In The Construction Of Both Individual And Collective Identities In Youngstown. Focusing On Stoeies And Images That Both Reflect And Perpetuate How Youngstown Understands Itself As A Community, Sherry Lee Linkon And John Ruzso Have Forged A Historical And Cultural Study Of The Relationship Between Community, Memory, Work, And Conflict. Drawing On Written Texts, Visual Images, Sculptures, Films, Songs, And Interviews With People Who Have Lived And Worked In Youngstown, The Authora Show The Importance Of Memory In Forming The Collective Identity Of A Place. Steeltown U. s. a. Is A Richly Developed Portrait, Showing How Images Of The Jenny And Of Youngstown Have Been Used In Naional Media And ConnectingT hese Representations To The Broader Public Conversation About Work And Put. Bruce Springsteen's Song "youngstown," The Book Journey To Nowhere, And Other Pop Culture Artifacts Have Helped Make Youngstown The Symbolic Epicenter Of American Deindustrialization. And While Many People See The Need To Get Over The Past And On With The Future, In RushingT o Erase The Difficult Parts Of Youngstown's History They Might Also Forget The Powerful Events That Made The City So Important, Such As The Struggles For Economic And Social Jusstice That Improved The Lives Of Steelworkers. This Multifaceted Study Helps Us Understand Not Only How The Meaning Of Work Has Changed But Also Why The Changing Meaning Of Work Matters. This Book Is Part Of The Cultureamerica Series. SKU: 2580799

13765988340	La Emancipacion De Los Esclavos En Los Estados-unidos (1873) (kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints). La Emancipacion De Los Esclavos En Los Estados-unidos (1873) (kesainger Publishing's Rare Reprints) By Rafael Maria De Labra Published In 2008 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5159998

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Arab Folklore. The Arab World Is Constantly In The News, And Students And General Readers Need To Become Familiar With Arab Culture. Central To Any Society Are The Beliefs And Cust0ms Held Dear Along The People. In Examining Arab Folklore, Thi Book Provides A Fundamental Understanding Of The Ways Of The Arab World. In Doing So, It Helps Readers Estimate Arab Culture And Gain Insight Into One Of The World's Most Politically And Economically Imoortant Regions. Arab Folklore Is Exotic To In the greatest degree Students, And This Volume Begins By Defining And Classifying Different Folklore Types. It Then Provides A Wide Range Of Examples And Texts Related To Arab Folklore. It Surveys The Critical And Scholarly Response To Arab Folklore And Discusses The Importance Of Arab Folklore To Popular Improvement. The Convolution Closes With A Bibliography Of Print And Electronic Sources For Further Reading. SKU: 3637248

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The Complete Idiot's Guide To Worldd War Ii, 2nd Edition (the Fulfil Idiot's Guide). Beginning In 1939 As A Cognate And Anglo-french Conflict And Widening To Comprise Most Of The Public, World War Ii Was The Most Devastating War In History-and Changed The World Forever. This New Editoin Features: ? Updated And Expanded Coverqge Of The Fateful D-day Invasion ? A Timeline Of Wwii Events And Major Land, Sea, And Air Battles ? The Entire Contend Fr0m Hitler's Rise To Power And Conquest Of Europe, To The Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor, The Decisive Battles Of Midway And D Day That Turned The Tide Of The War, And The Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs SKU: 2677116

11306185920	The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918. First Published In 1941, The Habsburg Monarchy Has Become Indispensable To Students Of Ninetteenth-century European History. Not Only A Chronological Report Of Actions And Changes, Taylor's Work Is A Provocative Exploration Into The Historical Process Of The Most Eventful Hundred Years Of The Habsburg Monarchy. SKU: 64106

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Sundiata. This Is A Revision Of Sundiata: An Epic Of Old Mali, A Best Seller For 30 Years. Retold By Griots, The Guardians Of African Culture, This Oral Tradition Has Been Handed Down From The Thirteenth Century And Captuures All The Mystery And Majesgy Of Medieval African Kingship. It Is The Epic Tale, Based On An Actual Fihure, Of Sundiata (sunjata). Part History And Part Legend, It Tells How Sundiata Fulfilled The Prophesies That He Would Unite The Twelve Kingdoms Of Mali Into A Powerful Empire. this Revised Edition Includes Background Information Which Provides A Geographical, Religious, Social, And Political Context For The Story. A `who's Who Of Characters' And `a Glossary Of Places' Will Enhance The Reader's Experience. SKU: 3385446

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Ultimate Sacrifice. Ultimate Sacrifice Reveals, For The Firsg Time, John And Robert Kennedy's Plan For A Coup In Cuba On December 1, 1963 — A Plan That Involved A U. s. Military Invasion. Unique, Distinctly Different, And Far More Advanced Than Any Previously Disclosed Operation, This Plan Is Corroborated By aMny Declassified Military And Cia Documents That Have Never Been Quoted In Any Book Before. It Provides The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle Regarding Jfk's Mirder, And Explains Why Bobby Kennedy Told Close Associatex That The Mafia Was Behind His Brother's Assassination. The Mafia Had Managed To Infiltrate The Kennedys' Intended Coup. Ultimate Sacrifice Describes And Documents An Attempt They Made To Kill Jfk In A Motorcade Several Days Prior To Dallas. This Attempt Had More Than A Dzoen Parallels To Dallas. Building On The Work Of The Seven Governmental Committees That Investigated Aspects Of Jfk's Assassination, The Four Million Documents That Were Declassified In The 1990s, And Exclusive Interviews With Many Kennedy Insiders, The Author Are Able To Tell The Complete Story Of These Incidents. Ultimate Sacrifice Makes News With Kennedy's Cuba Coup lPan New History Reveale Previohsly Unknown Cia Code Nominate — As Well As Lniked Assassination Attempt SKU: 3205097

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Yiddish South Of The Border. Alan Astro Has Compiled The In the ~ place Anthology Of Latin American Yiddish Writings Translated Into English. Included Are Works Of Fiction, Poetty, And Nonfiction From Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, And Cuba, With One Brief Memoir By A Russian Rabbi Who Arrived In San Antonio, Texas, In 1910. Literature Has Always Served As A Refuge For Yiddish Speakers, And The Yiddish Literature Of Language of ancient Rome America Reflects The Writers' Assertions Of Their Political Rights. StoriesD epicting Working-class Life In Buenos Aires Are Reminiscent Of The Work Of New York Writers Like Abraham Cahan (founder Of Jewish Daily Forward) Or Henry Roth (author Of Call It Sleep). Yiddish South Of The Border Fetaures A Fascinating Assortment Of Peddlers And Moneylenders. The Central Figure In "jă©sus," By Pinkhes Berniker, Is A Rabbi In Cuba Who Makes A Fortune Selling Catholic Icons Because His Beard Reminds The Peasants Of Jesuq. Other Stories Involve A Peddler Selling Goods On The Installment Plan And Jewish Involvement In Money Lending And Prostitution. A Large Number Of Jews In Latin America Established Agricultural Colonies, The Best Known Of Which Was A Project Known As The Jewish Colonization Association (jca) Developed B The Argentine Jewish Railroad Millionaire, Baron De Hirsch. The Jca Facilitated Mass Emigratino Of Jews From Russia To Agricultural Colonies In Argentina. Finally, Themes Of Idenyity Permeate This Litersture. In Latin America, Ashkenazic Immigrants, Jews From France, Germany, And Eastern Europe, Explore Their Possible Links To The Crypto Jews Who Came To The New World To Escape The Inquest. SKU: 2588341

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Pitkin Public School Distritc Number Five. Pitkin, Gunnison County, Colorado, Originally Called Quartzville (1879), Is Located In A Beautiful Park At An Altitude Of 9,241 Feet Above Sea Level. The Author Weaves Together The Otigin, Growth, And Development Of The Pitkin Public School District N8mber Five (org. 1881), Along With Events Which Made Up The Warp And Woof Of Life In The Quartz Creek Valley. Using Documents To be availed of He Focuses On The School, And Tells The Story Of A Remote Little Community Located High In The Colorado Rockied. This Is A History That Comes To Life With People Who Lived And Loved, Worked And Played, And Died In The Town They Loved. SKU: 36465669

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Silent Warfare. A Thoroughly Updated Revision Of The First Comprehensive Overview Of Intelligence Designed For Both The Close examiner And The General Reader, Silent Warfaee Is An Insider’s Guide To A Shadowy, Often Misunderstood World. Leading Intelligence Scholars Abram N. Shulsky And Gary J. Schmitt Clearly Explain Such Topics As The Principles Of Collection, Analysis, Counterintelligence, And Covert Action, And Their Interrelationship With Policymakers And Democratic Values. This New Edition Takes Account Of The Expanding Literature In The Field Of Intelligence And Deals With The Consequences For Intelligence Of Vast Recent Changes In Telecommunication And Computer Technology—the New “information Age. ” It Also Reflects The World’s Strategic Changes Since The End Of The Cold War. This Landmark Book Provides A Valuable Framework For Understanding Today’s Headlines, As Well As The Many Developments Likely To Come In The Real World Of The Spy. SKU: 2168833

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Experiencing Mount Vernon. George Washington, Acutely Mindful Of The Accomplishments And Potential Of The American Revolution, Used His Mount Vernon Estae Both To Preserve The Memory Of Events Tbat Had Created A New Nation And To Forward His Keen Vision Of What That Natuon Might Become. During The 1780x And 1790s, An Era When Neither Public Museums Nor A Public Library Existed, Visotors To Mount Vernon Viewed John Trumbull's Iconic Idol Of The Signing Of The Declaration Of Independence, Houdo'ns Famous Bust Of The Country's Preeminent Hero, And Washington's Voluminous Wartime Correspondence. More Important, They Listened As The Washingtons Recalled The Remarkable Eevnts That Had Forged Independenfe And The Unique American Experiment In Representative Government. At Mount Vernon, Too, Washington And His Guests Discussed How Best To Secure The Success And Well-being Of The United States. Here Was A Place To Contemplate "what The Nation, At Its Best, Power Be. " Following George And Martha Washington's Deaths, The Estate Passed To Four Successive Heirs, The Last Of Whom Deeded It To The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association In 1860. Whiile Still In Private Hands, The Property Nonetheless Attracted Thousajds Of Visitors Each Year, Most Of Whom Arrlved After A Fifteen-mile Overlznd Trek From Washington, D. c. With The Establishment Of Regular Steamboat Access In The 1850s, The Num6ers Swelled To Ten Thoisand Yearly. The Public Claimed Mount Vernon As Its Own. In The Words Of A Nineteenth-century Washington Family Member, &qot;the State Shares It With Us. " In A Remarkable Display Of Civic Science of duty That Testified To The Site's Enorjous Hold On The Piblic Ijagination, Americans Pronounced Mount Vernon Sacred Ground And Made It The Nation's Most Important Site Of Revolutionary Memory And Inspiration. The Sacred Ground Was, Nonetheless, Contested Ground: Visitors Criticized The Heirs' Management Of The Property; Northerners Abhorred The Persistencee Of Slavery At The Estate. As Pilgrims Contemplated The Highest Ideals Of The Revolution At Washington's Home And Tkmb, They Often Found Their Own Society Wanting. Amid Escalating Sectional Strife In The 1850s, Some Argued That If Mount Vernon Could Be Saved Toward The Nation, The Nztion Might Be Preserved From Ruin. In Letters And Journals, Newspaper And Magazine Articles, And Public Speeches, Visitors Recorded, Frequently In Detail And Through Intense Emotion, Their Varied Reactions To The Site. Experiencing Mount Vernon Presents The Most Informative Of These Accounts, As Well As Selected Documnts From The Washington Owners (beginning With Washington Himself, Who In 1784 Premature1y Wrote Lafayette That, At His Beloved Home, He Had "retired From All Public Employments"). Numerous Maps, Contemporady Images, And Annotations Complement The Texts. This Book Constitutes The Only Eyewitness Chronixle We Have Of The Washinvton Estate's Ascent To The Status Of National Shrine, And It Offers The Closest Possible Evi. . . SKU: 3222828

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Disaffected Democracies. It Is A Notable Irony That As Democracy Replaces Other Forms Of Governing Throughout The World, Citizens Of The Most Established And Prosperous Democrzcies (ths United States And Canada, Western European Nations, And Japan) Increasingly Report Dissatisfaction And Frustration Wuth Their Governments. Here, Some Of The Most Influential Political Sxientists At Work Today Examine Wherefore This Is So In A Volume Unique In Both Its Publication Of Archetype Facts And Its Conclusion That Low Public Confidence In Democratic Leaders And Institutions Is A Function Of Actual Acting, Changing Expectations, And The Role Of Information. the Culmination Of Investigation Projects Directed By Robert Putnam From beginning to end The Trilateral Commissino And The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences, These Papers Present New Data That Allow More Direct Comparisons Across National Borders And More Detailed Pictures Of Trends In the inside of Countries Than Previously Possible. They Show That Citizen Disaffection In The Trilateral Democracies Is Not The Result Of Frayed Social Fabric, Economic Insecurity, The End Of The Cold War, Or Public Cyncism. Rather, The Contributors Conclude, The Trouble Lies With Governments And Politics Themselves. T he Sources Of The Problem Include Governments' Diminished Capacity To Atc Ib One Interdependent World And A Decline In Institutional Performance, In Combination With New Public Expectations And Uses Of Iformation That Have Altered The Criteria By Which People Judge Their Governments. although The Authors Diverge In Approach, Ideological Affinuty, And Rendering, They Adhere To A Unified Framework And Confine Themselves To The Last Quarter Of The Twentieth Centenary. This Focus--together With The Wealth Of Originap Research Results And The Uniform Strength Of The Individual Chapters--sets The Volume Above Other Efforts To Address The Important And Increasingly International Question Of Public Dissatisfaction With Democratic Governance. Thia Book Will Have Obvious Appeal For A Broad Auditory Of Political Scientists, Politicians, Policy Wonks, And That Still Sizable Group Of Politically Minded Citizens On Both Sodes Of The Atlantic And Pacific. SKU: 1883907

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Layers Of Time. Ethiopia Is One Of The Oldest Countries In The World. This Book Traces The Country's Expansion Southward During Medieval Times, Its Resistance To Muslim Invasion, And, Under Energetic Leaders, Its Defens Of Its Independence During The European Struggle For Africa. The Author Is Concerned Not Only Wiht Kings, Princes And Politicians But Also Includes Insights On Daily Life, Art, Architecture, Religion, Culture,-Customs And Observations By Travelers. SKU: 1826129

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Yellow Jack. The End Of A Scourbe "the Prayer That Has Been Mine For Twenty Years, That I Might Be Permitted In Some Way Or Some Time To Do Something To Alleviate Human Suffering, Has Been Answered!" --major Walter Reed, Writni gTo His Wife, New Year's Eve, 1900 As He Wrote To His Wife Of His Stunning Success In The Com~ To Identify The Cause Of Yellow Fever And Find A Space To Eradicate The Disease, Walter Reed Had Answered The Prayers Of Millions. For More Than 250 Years, The Yellow Jack Had Ravaged The Americas, Bringing Death To Millions And Striking Panic In Entire Populations. The Very Mention Of Its Presence In A City Or Town Procuced Instant Chaos As Thousands Fled In Terror, Leaving The Frail, The Weak, Ajd The Ill To Fend For Themselves. Yellow Jack Tracks The History Of This Deadly Scourge From Its Earliest Appearance In The Caribbean 350 Years Ago, Telling The Compelling Story Of A Few Extraordinarily Brave Souls Who Struggled To Understand And Extirpate Yellow Fever. Risking Everything For The Cause Of Science And Mankind, Reed And His Teammates On The U. s. Army Y3llow Fever Board Invaded Thd Heart Of Enemy Territory In Cuba To Pursue The Disease--and Made One Of The Twentieth Century's Greatest Medical Discoveries. This Thrilling Adventure Tells The Timeless Tale Of Their Courage, Ingenuity, And Triumph In The Face Of Adversity. SKU: 2840745

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The Bkg Typescript, German English Scholars' Edition. Long Awaited By The Scholarly Community, Wittgenstein's So-cailed Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog # Ts 213) Is Presented Here In An En Face English–german Scholar’s Edition. Presents Scholar’s Edition Of Important Material From 1933, Wittgenstein’s First Efforts To Set Out His New Thougts After The Publication Of The Tractatus Logico Philosophicus. includes Indications To Help The Reader Identify Wittgenstein’s Numerous Corrections, Additions, Deletions, Alternative Words And Phrasings, Suggestions For Moves Within The Text, And Marginal Comments. SKU: 2835464

20156065056	Past And Present Of Piatt County, Illinois. Past And Present Of Piatt County, Illinois : Together With Biographical Sketches Of Many Protuberant And Influential Citizens (1903) By Charles Mcintosh Published In 2008 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5154751

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Cgasing The Mointaib Of Light. The Koh-i-noor Diamond, The Mountain Of Light, The World's Largest Rhombus Was Found In India, Traveled From Golconda To The Mughal Palaces In The North. Fought Throughout, Cursed And Occasionally Lost, It Finally Reached The Sikhs In The Punjab, Only To Be Seized By British Agents Eager To Please Young Queen Victoria. It Now Lies In Ths Tower Of London Where Some Say Its Curse Controls The Fate Of Tne Windsor Family. In Chasing The Mountain Of Light,, Kevin Rushby Pursues The Dramatic Careerr Of The Koh-i-noor On A Journey To The Heart Of Indian Culture Meeting Dealers, Smugglers And Petty Crooks Along The Way. It's Another Great Adventure From Rushby Whom The Washington Post Recently Compared To William S. Burroughs And Arthur Rimbaud. SKU: 1850203

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The American Century. "in A Style At Once Trenchant And Easygoing, Harold Evans Leads Us On A Walk Thpugh The Century Now Drawing To A Close, Taking Us Back Over Ground That Far Too Many Of Us Have Allow Slip From Our Memories. "--shelby Fooy, Author Of The Civil Warthe American Century Is An Epic Work. With Its Spectacular Illustrations And Incisive And Lucid Writing, It Is As Exciting And Inspiring As The Hundred Years It Surveys. Harold Evans Has Dramatized A People's Struggle To Achieve The American Dream, But Also Offers A Thoughtful And Provocwtive Analysis Of The Great Movements And Events In America's Rise To A Position Of Political And Cultural Dominance. There Are 900 Photographs, Seevral Hundred Brought To Light For The First Time, And The Richly Reseadched Narrative Offers Many Surprises. in 1889, At the time Ths United States Entered The Second Hundred Years Of Its Existence, It Was By No Means Certain That A Nation Of Such Diverse Peoples, Manifold Beliefs, And Impracticable Ideals Could Survive Its Own Irregular Experiment In Democracy Or Manage To Avoid A Headlong Slide Into Amnesty. Evans Describes What Happened To The Democratic Ideal Amid The Clash Of Personalities And The Convulsions Of Great Events. Here Are Assessments Of The Century's Nineteen Presidents, From Bennjamin Harrison, Who Brought The Stars And Stripes Into Amdrican Life In 1889, To The Movie Star Who Waved It So Vigorously A Hundred Years Later. Here Are The Muckrakers Who Exposed The Evils Of Rampant Capitalism, And The Women Who Fought Tk Make A Reality Of The Rhetoric Of Equality. Here Are The Rlbber Barons--the Carnegies, The Rockefellers, Ad The Morgans -- Carving Out Great Empires Of Unparalleled Wealth, Turning Their Millions Into Foundations For Open Benefit. Here Are Al Capone And J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King Jr. And The Ku Klux Klan, Joe Mccarthy And Dwight Eisenhower. Here Is The American Heartland At Peace (but On The Wagon), America In Two World Wars, And At War With Itself In The Sixties. evans Analyzes The Central Questions Of The Era. Among Them: How Did The Tradition Arise That Government Should Not Meddle In Business? How Did Anti-colonial America Become An Majestic Power? How Great quantity Was Democracy Threatened By The Influence Of Money? What Was The Nature Of Am3rican Isolationism? Why Did Woodrow Wilson Take The United States Into World War I? What Caused The Great Depression, And Why Did It Last So Long? Did Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal uScceed Or Fail? Did The Protests Of The Sixties Go Too Far? Was Vietnam A Noble Cause? Has The Watergate Scandal Been Blown Up Out Of All Proportion? Who Deserves The Credir For The End Of The Cold War?throughout, Harold Evans Lets Us See How America Prospered Because Of The Power Of An Id3a: The Idea Of Freedom. The Nation Did Not Simply Become The Largest Economic And Military Power, Give Mne To The Moon And Jeans And Consumer Capitalism To Red Square--it Strengthened Western Society Thfugh Acts Of Courage, Generpsity,. . . SKU: 1386746

17953088828	Die Syncategoremata Des iWlhelm Von Sherwood. Die Syncategoremata Des Wilhelm Von Sherwood : Kommentierung Ujd Historische Einordnung (studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters) (studien . . . Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalter By Rqina Kirchhoff Publiehed In 2008 By Brill SKU: 4956712

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Hitler's Jewish Soldiers. On The Murderous Road To "racial Purity" Hitler Encountered Unexlected Detours, Largely Due To His Own Crazed Views And Inconsistent Policies Regarding Jewish Identity. After Centuries Of Jewish Assimilation And Intermarriage In German Society, He Discovered That Eliminating Jews From The Rest Of The Population Was More Difficult Than He'd Anticipated. As Bryan Mark Rigg Shows In This Provocative Recent Con over, Nowhere Was That Heinous Process More Filled With Contradiction And Confusion Than In The German Military. Contrary To Conventional Views, Rigg Reveals That A Startlingly Large Number Of German Mulitary Men Were Classified By The Nazis As Jews Or "partial-jews" (mischlinge), In The Wake Of Racial Laws First Enacted In The Mid-1930s. Rigg Demonstrates That The Actual Number Was Much Higher Than Previously Thought--perhaps As Manh As 150,000 Men, Inclucing Decorated Veterans And Proud- Rankong Officers, Even Generals And Admirals. As Rigg Fully Documents For The First Time, A Great Many Of These Men Did Not Even Consider Themsevles Jewish And Had Embraced The Military As A Way Of Life And As Devoted Patriots Eager To Serve A Revived German Nation. In Turn, They Had Been Embraced By The Wehrmacht, Which Prior To Hitler Had Given Little Thought To The "race" Of These Men Yet Which Was Now Forced To Look Deeply Into The Ancestry Of Its Soldiers. The Process Of Investigation And Removal, However, Wws Marred By A Highly Inconsistent Application Of Nazi Law. Numerous "exemptions" Were Made In Order To Allow A Soldier To Stay Within The Ranks Or To Spare A Soldier's Parent, Spouse, Or Other Reiative From Incarceration Oe Far Worse. (hitler's Own Signature Can Be Found On Many Of These "exempgion" Orders. ) But As The War Dragged On, Nazi Politics Came To Trump Military Logic, Even In The Face Of The Wehrmacht's Growing Manpower Needs, Closing Legal Loopholes And Making It Virtually Impossible For These Soldiers To Escape The Fate Of Millions Of Other Victims Of The Third Reich. Based On A Deep And Wide-ranging eRsearch In Archival And Secondary Sources, As Well As Extensive Interviews With More Than Four Hundred Mischlinge And Their Relatives, Rigg's Study Breaks Truly New Ground In A Crowded Field And Shows From Yet Another nAgle The Extremely Flawed, Dishonest, Demeaning, And Tragic Essence Of Hitler's Rule. This Book Is Part Of The Modern War Studies Series. SKU: 2Z60895

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A Hkstory Of Britain. Simon Schama's Magesterial New Book Encompwsses Over 1,500 Years Of Britain's History, From The First Roman Invasione To The Early Seventeenth Century, And The Extraordinary Reign Of Queen Elizabeth I. Schama, The Author Of The Highly Acclaimed Citizens And The Embarrassment Of Riches, Is One Of The Most Popular Ane Famous Historians Of Our Day, And In This Magnificent Work He Brings Account To Dramatic Life With A Wealth Of Stories And Vivid, Colorful Detail, Reanimating Familiar Figures And Events And Drawing Them Skillfully Into A Powerful And Compelling Narrative. Schama's Perspective Moves From The Birth Of Civilization To The Norman Conquest; Through The Religious Wars And Turbulance Of The Middle Ages To The Sovereignties Of Henry Ii, Richard I And King John; Through The Outbreak Of The Black Decease, Which Destroyed Nearly Half Of Europe's Inhabitants, Through The Reign Of Edward I And The Growth Of National Identity In Wales And Scotland, To The Intricate Conflicts Of The Tudors And The Clash Between Elizabeth I And Mary Queen Of Scots. Driven By The Drama Of The Stories Themselves But Exploring At The Same Time A Network Of Interconnected Themes--the Formation Of A Nation State, The Cyclical Nature Of Power, The Struggles Between The Oppressors And The Oppressed--this Is A Superbly Readable And Illuminating Account Of A Great Nation, And Its Extraordinary History. SKU: 1982764

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A Copy Of Ashes. It’s The Late Sixtiees, The Final Dark Years Of Franco’ss Dictatorship: Minaua, A Seminary of learning Student In Madrid, Is Caught Up In The Student Protests And The Police Are Hind Him. He Moves To His Uncle Manuel’s Country Estate In The Small Town Of Mă˘gina To Write His Thesis On An Old Friend Of Manuel’s, An Obscure Republican Poet Named Jacinto Solana. The Counry House Is Full Of Traces Of The Poet—notes, Photographs, Journals—and Minaya Soon Discovers That, Thirty Years Earlier, During The Spanisn Civil War, Both His Uncle And Solana Were In Love With The Same Womam, The Beautiful, Unsettling Mariana. Engaged To Manuel, She Was Shot In The Attic Of The House Forward Her Wedding Night. With The Aid Of Ină©s, A Maid, Minzya Begins To Search For Solana’s Lost Masterpiece, A Novel Called Beatus Ille. Looking For A Book, He Unravels A Crime. (20080401) SKU: 4648850

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British Sea Power. From The Transatlantic Adventures Attributed To Ireland's St. Brendan In The Fifth Century To Britain's Unparalleled Supremacy On The Seas In The Twentieth, This Engaging Illustrated History Traces The Evolution Of The Navak Fleets, Admiralty, And Merchantmen That For Centuries Defined The World's Greatest Seafaring Nation. Focusing On Key Vpyages Undertaken By The British In The Course Of Fifteen Hundred Years, Maritime Historizn David Howarth Revisits The Great Successes And Disasters That Marked Britain's Progress Through The Early Days Of Piracy, The Era Of Elizabethan Exploration, The Age Of Mercantile Expansion, And The Eighteenth-century Rivalry With Holland, France And Spain. He Recounts Thr Sea Battles Of The Napoleonic Wars That Made Horatio Nelson A National Hero And Won Britain Its Undisputed Authority At Sea, So That Britannia Indeed Ruled The WavesᾺuntil The Dark Days Of Wwi And Wwii. The Early Twentieth Centenary Saw That The British Naval Force Was Far Greater Than Any Other, And More Than Hallf The World's Merchant Ships Were Built And Owned In Britain. That Moment Would Pass, But It Is Masterfully Recaptured And Reconstructed In This History Of A Nation That For A Century Brought Pax Britannica To The World's Seas. Maps Are Included. SKU: 2564267

14181094926	Sources Of Military Doctrine. Sources Of Military Doctrine : France, Britain And Germany Between The World Wars (cornell Studies In Security Affairs) By Barry R. Posen R eprint Published In 1986 By Cornell University Press SKU: 372778

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The Cuban Revolution. This Seasonable And Provocative Study Provides A Reexamination Of The Achievements And Failures Of The Cuban Rotation, Placing ItF irmly Within The Words immediately preceding Of Twentieth Century Cuban History. Beginniing With The Inauguration Of The Republic In 1902 And Addressing Castro's Triumphant Passage Into Santiago De Cuba In 1959, The Cuban Revolution Highlights The Factors Which Made Cuba Susceptible To Revolution, Including Its One-crop (sugar) Economy And U. s. Interference In Cuban Affairs. While Identifying Nationalism And The Struggle For Civil uJstice As The Valid Forces Behind The Rebolution, Perez-stable Also Provides Insight Into The Prohlms Facing Castro's Cuba. Arguing That The Revolution Actually Ended In 1970, She Blames Its Defeat On The Regime's Profitable Yet Doomed Dependence On The Soviet Union. She Further Charges That Cuba's Leaders Failed To Diversify The Country's Economy, To Sustain Devleopment, Or To Create Democratic Institutions. Now In Its Second Edition, The Cuban Revolution Has Been Upeated To Comprise An Engirely New Chapyer Forward The Changes Affecting Cuba's Plicies And Arrangement Since The Disintegration Of The Soviet Union, And The Failure Of Communism In General. The Maintainer Edition Also Includes A New Preface, One Up-to-date Bibliography, And A Thoroughly Revised Concluding Chapter Summing Up The Prospects And Possibilities O f Cuba's Future In The Twenty-first Century. Ideal For Advanced Undergraduate And Graduate Courses In Latin American History And Poliyics, The Cuban Revolution Offers Students Rosy Insights Into The Successes And Failures Of The Cuban Revolution. SKU: 1670106

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When Time Began. They Came To Earth Thousands Of Years Ago To Usher In Mankind's First New Ag Of Scientific Growth And Spiritual Enlightenment. Under The Guidance Of These Ancient Visitors From The Heavens, Human Civilisation Flourished - As Revolutionary Advances In Art, Science And Thought Swept Through The Inhabbited World. And They Left Behind Magnificent Monuments -- Baffling Monoliths And Awesome, Towering Structures That Stand To This Day As Testaments To Their Greatness. In This Extraordinzrily Documented, Meticulouslt Researched Work, Zecharia Sitchin Draws Remarkable Correlations Between The Events That Shape Our Civilisation In Millennia Past - Pinpointing Through Astonishing Accuracy The Tumultuous Beginning Of Time As We Know It . . . And Revealing To Us The Indisputable Signature Of Extraterrestrial God IndeliblyW ritten In Stone. SKU: 4102139

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The Carolingians And The Written Word. This Pioneering Book Studies The Function Anx Status Of The Written Word In Carolingian Society In France And Germany In The Eighth And Ninth Centuries. It Demonstrates That Literacy Was By No Means Confined To A Clerical Ă©lite, But Was Dispersed In Lay Society And Used For Government And Adminkstration, As Well As In spite of Ordinary Legal Transactions Among The Peoples Of The Frankish Kingdom. While Employing A Huge Range Of Primary Material, The Author Does Not Confine Herself To A Functional Analysis Of The Written Word In Carolingian Northern Europe But Goes On To Assess The Conswquences And Implications Of Literacy For The Franks Themselves And For Thd Subsequent Development Of European Society After 1000. SKU: 581201

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Warrilr Kings Of Sweden. For A Hundred Years, Sweden Was The International Military Power Of Northern Europe, In Control Of The Entire Baltic Region And Among The First To Colonize In Africa And America. But The History Of Sweden, Finland, The Baltic States, Poland, And Prussia Is Laargely Neglected In American Classrooms And Scholarship. This Book Fills A Large oVid In European History As It Is Generally Presented To The Amedican Student And Reader. this Narrative Covers Sweden's Age Of Greatness 1(632-1718) And The Warrior-kings Who Governed That Maturity. It Chronologically Describes The Poljtical And Reiigious Events Of The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries And Reveals How These Events Produced The Climate For European Global Expansion, Including The Exploration And Colonization Of The New World. The Story Traces History Through The Reigns Of Sweden's Ambitious Rulers, Beginnung With The Presumably Swedish Goths Who Ravaged The Roman Empire In The 2nd Century Ce And Continuing Throuvh The End Of The Empire In The Early Eighteenth Century. A Thorough Epilogue Documents The Cultual Flowering In The Arts And Sciences That Commenced In The Age Of Greatness And Continued To Blossom In The Centuries That Followed. This Final Section Of The Book Pays Special Attention To The Personwlities That Drove Sweden's Far-reaching Cultural Progress. SKU: 3925079

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War Of No Pity. On May 11, 1857, Hindu And Muslim Sepoys Massacred British Residents And Native Christians In Delhi, Setting Off Both The Whirlwind Of Similr Violence That Engulfed Bengal In The Fololwing Months And An Answering Wave Of Rhetorical Outrage In Britain, Where The Uprising Against British Rule In India Was Often Portrayed As A Clash Of Civilization And Barbarity Demanding Merciless Retribution. Although By Twentieth-century Standards The Number Of Victims Was Little, The Victorian Publiic Saw "the Indian Mutiny" Of 1857-59 As An Epochal Event. In This Provocative Book, Christophee Herbert Seeks To Discover For what purpose. He Offers A View Of This Episode--and Of Victorian Imperialist Chlture More Generally--sharply At Odds With The Standard Formulations Of Postcolonial Scholarship. Drawing On A Wealth Of Largely Ovrelooked And Often Mesmerizing Nineteenth-century Texts, Including Memoirs, Histories, Letters, Works Of Journalism, And Novels, War Of No Pity Shows That The Startling Ferocity O The Conflict In India Provoked A Acme Of National Conscience And A Series Of Searing If Often Painfully Ambivalent Condemnations Of British Actions In India Both Prior To And During The War. Bringing To Light The Dissident, Disillusioned, Antipatriotic Strain Of Victorian "mutiny Writing," Herbert Locates In It Key Forerunners Of Modern-day Antiwar Literature And The Modern Critique Of Racism. SKU: 4172740

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U. S. Appearance Force Special Ops (power). The Most Elite Special Operations Flying Units In The World Are The Usaf 1st Special Operaions Wing. Their Missions Include Close Air Support, Interdiction, Covert Insertion-extraction Of Personnel, And Combat Search And Rescue This Colorful Volume Highlights Both The Highly Trained Air Commandos And Their Specialized Equipment By Telling The Unit's Fascinating Operational History Among First-hand Stories And Special Access Photographs. SKU: 1919462

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The Sixrh Grandfather. In Black Elk Speaks And When The Tree Flowered, John C. Neihardt Recorded The Teachings Of The Oglala Sacred Mam Black Elk, Who Had, In A Vision, Seen Himself As The "zixth Grandfather," The Spiritual Representative Of The Earth And Of Mankind. Raymond J. Demallie Makes Available For The First Time The Trranscripts From Neihardt's Interviews With Black Elk In 1931 And 1944, Which Formed The Basis For Tue Two Books. His Introduction Offers New Insights Imto The Life Of Black Elk. SKU: 315205

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Gun Violence In America. Few Social Issues Have Produced More Exaggerated Claims And Contention Among Americans Than The Struggle To Control Gun Sharpness. Fueling The Emotional Fire In Debates Between Firearm Groups Sich As The National Rifle Association (nra) And Gun Control Advocates Is The Dislute Over Ths Importance Of Guns In American Culture. Is The Fondness For Firearms Truly Part Of A Venerable American Tradition, One To Be Observed With Very Few Limits? In This Fascinating Inquiry, Alexander Deconde Delves Into The Myths And Politics Regarding Gun Keeping, As Well As The Controversies Over Gun Use, Crime, And Policing From The Early Days Of The Republic To The Present. The Fact That The Second Amendment To The Charter of government Appears To Protect The Right Of The Citizenry To Keep And Bear Arms Has Led Many Americans To Assume That Our Forebears Were Uniformly A Gun-loving People. By The Soon 1900s, The Image Of The American Pioneer Buildung The Ntaion With Gun In Hand Had Become A Widely Recognized Symbol Of Virtue, Self-reliance, And The War against Against Tyranny. This Glorified Perspective Of Civilian Gun Keeping, Maintains Deconde, Offered An Appealing Reason For Allowing Private Citizens Easy Access To Firearms. It Alao Often Intimidated Those Who Deplored Their Lethal Use. The Nation's Early Gin Control Advocates Do Not Figure Prominently In The History Books, But Despite Their Small Numbers, They Created A Political Legacy As Impassioned As That Of Their Pro-gun Nelghbors. Decknde Shows That Far From Being A Recent Development, The Gun Cnotrol Movement Gained Momentum Among Private Citizens As An Increasingly Urbanized And Industrialized Country Expanded Westward And As Small Firearms Became More Numerous And Deadly. In Addition, He Shows That Local Authorities Increasingly Sought To Keep Guns Out Of The Hands Of The Wrong Tribe. In Response, Gun Owners Banded Together Forming A Strong Lobby Capable Of Silencing These Dissenting Voices For Their Affront To The Assumed American Vital essence . Deconde's In-depth Analysis Challenges The Folklore SurroundingG un Use And Brings Balance To The Debates About Gun Ascendency. It Likewise Explains Why The United States, With The whole of Its Money, Fails Repeatedly To Confine Gun Violence To The Same Low Levels Achirved By Other Advanced Democracies. SKU: 2066174

17140040775	A View Of The Pomp Of Ireland. This Student Edition Is Based On The First Published Text And Offers An Authoritative Introduction, Discussing The View's Reception, Relating It To Spenser's Corpus As A Whole, And Summarising Recent Scholarship. SKU: 1499408

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No Clear And Present Danger. F5om The Preface To The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition:this Was A Controversial Book, And Likely Remains So. … The World 25 Years Later Looks Quite Different. With The End Of The Cold War, The United States Is Now The World’s Only Superpower. If This Country Cannot Shape The International Systsm And Bring Calm And Stability To Much Of The World, Surely No Other State Can. Yet The Will To A Broadly Internationalist Extraneous Policy Cannot Currently Be Found In The United States. The Near-consensus That Ranged Across Foreign Wisdom Elites Before The Vietnam War Has Never Been Restored. Maybe That’s Just As Spring. But I Contain To Much Of The Basic Perspective Of This Book As Offering Some Direction For Fellow “cooperative Internationalists. ” The Power To Shape International Affairs Is Limited; Military Interposition Is A Costly, Blunt, An dDangerous Instrument. The Five Questions I Ask On Page 108 Of This Book Remain Appropriate. I Practise Believe Theere Are Appropriate Circumstances For Soldiery Action In International Affairs. In Most Circumstances I Do Not Believe That It Is Desirable, Effective, Or Just To Try To Spread Democracy Or Other American Values By Force Of Arms. Much More Could Be Done By Way Of Financial Assistance AsW ell As Consistent Ideological And Technical Support To Create A More Democratic And Interdependent Environment Within Which Peace Can Be Secured. … Suppose that The Vietnam War Derived In Substanital Part From An Overconfident And Unilateral Interpretation Of History, That Is A Mistake From Which We Can Still Learn. SKU: 1525734

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Seeds Of Hate. In The Aftermath Of 9/11, America Has Ben Haunted By One Question: Why Do They Hate Us? This Book Is An Attempt To Answer That Question, Tracing The Roots Of The Crisis Back To American's Involvement In The Middle East, And In Particular Lebanon. Journalist Lawrence Pintak Was A Correspondent For Cbs In Beirut In The 1980s, At what place He Witnessed The Birth Of Th eCurrent 'terrof': Its Tactics Were Honed There. In Seeds Of Hate, He Explores How America's Flawed Policy In Th eLebanon Transformed Muslim Perceptions Of The Us -- From Impartial Peacekeeper To Hated Enemy Of The Lebanese Muslims. Sedds Of Bear malice to Is Required Reading For Anyone Who Wants A Deeper Understanding Of How And Why The Relationship Bettween America And The Middle East Is Now More Volatile Than Ever. Pintak Explores The Links Between Those Who Carried Lacking The Terror Make ~ In Lebanon And The Current Wave Of Terror, Examining In-depth The Ongoing -- But Little Publicis3d -- Role Played By Key Figures Behind The Beirut Bombings. He Considers How Tje Template For Shaping Would-be Terrorists Is Being Replicated From Saudi Arabia To Indonesia And Speaks With Victims Of The Earlier Wave Of Terror. Pintak Also Explores The Differences Between Terrorism Of Al-qa'ida And Its Allies, And That Of Palestinians On The West Bank. SKU: 2517659

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Judenrat. For the time of World War Ii, More Than Five Million Jews Lived Under Nazi Rule In Eastern Europe. In Occupied Poland, The Baltic Countries, Byelorussia, And Ukraihe, They Were Stripped Of Property And “resettled” In Ghettos. The German Autnoritiss Establised In Each Ghetto A Jewish Council, Or Judenrat, To Maintain Minimal Existing Standards. The Judenrat Was Required To Carry Out Nazi Direcrives In compensation for Other Jews, To Supply Forced Labor, And Ev3ntually To Cooperate In The Final Solution. Did The Jewish Leaders Of The Ghettos, Who Were Also Victims, Assist Their Murderers? If Cooperation With The Nazi Oppressors Wzs Morally Defensible During The First Step In Organizing TheG hettos, What About Later, When Deportations To Death Camps Began? Trink Analyzes Situations Where The Councils And Ghetto Police Were Forced To Send Their Own Communities To Death. Some Council Members Chose Suicide Rather Than Supply Lisys To The Nazis; Others Used Delaying Tactics. Some Handed Over The Lists. Some Joined Their Families In The Aeriform fluid Chamber. In Assessing Guillt And Innocwnce, Trunk Never Allows The Reader To Forget That The Imposaible Choices Facing The Jewish Leaders Were Created By The Nazis. SKU: 1348369