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Politics and Government in Israel: The Maturation of a Modern StateThis balanced and comprehensive text explores Israeli government and politics, tracing the history of the state, and the social, religious, economic, and military environments of Israeli politics. Gregory Mahler's concise book provides an invaluable start for readers needing an introduction to Israel today.Author: Gregory...
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Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century AmericaRural cemeteries--named for their expansive, picturesque landscape design rather than location--were established during the middle decades of the nineteenth century in the United States. An instant cultural phenomenon, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the nation's first such burial ground to combine the...
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Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in GuamFrom 1898 until World War II, U.S. imperial expansion brought significant numbers of white American women to Guam, primarily as wives to naval officers stationed on the island. Indigenous CHamoru women engaged with navy wives in a range of settings, and they used their...
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Pitt County, North Carolina Deeds, 1761-1785. (Volume #1)By: Dorothy D. Ellison, Pub. 1968, reprinted 2023, 150 pages, Index soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-133-3. Pitt County was created in 1760 from Beaufort County. It lies in the eastern part of the state. This book covers Deed Books "B - H" which covers the...
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Penda, Mercia's First King: The Last Great Heathen Warlord of Anglo-Saxon EnglandReexamine the life and impact of King Penda, whose villainous portrayal was challenged as he shaped early medieval Britain through cultural pluralism, stability, and the rise of Mercia during a transformative era.Since the Venerable Bede wrote his iconic Ecclesiastic History of England in the...
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Patriot Presidents: From George Washington to John Quincy AdamsA nuanced account of the early leaders who shaped the American presidency The founding fathers of the United States created a unique institution, the presidency, as they were determined to authorize an effective chief executive but wary of monarchy. They endowed this office with...
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Paper Dog: The True Life Story of a Vietnam War DogPaper is a scout dog with the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles". Gravely wounded in a Viet Cong ambush, his leg has been badly shattered by a high caliber bullet. After being carried for 48 hours before receiving treatment, his wound is now badly infected....
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Palm Springs Tiki: Polynesia in the DesertPalm Springs Tiki presents a visual exploration of a mid-century tropical paradise in the California desert.From the 1930s through the 1970s, Palm Springs and other desert communities embraced the mid-century fantasy of a home-grown Polynesian paradise. The concept of the oasis and that of...
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Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security IssueThe nation's top political scientists, historians, and legal scholars propose solutions for democracy's future In recent years, the sight of gun-wielding citizens patrolling ballot boxes and voting sites has become increasingly familiar.. Major news corporations parroting false claims of election fraud, ballot stuffing, and...
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Our National Forests: A Short Popular Account Of The Work Of The United States Forest Service On The National ForestsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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Oregon's Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth CenturyNativism, pseudoscience, and the campaign against the enemy withinIn the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy "others," combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and the...
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OntarioWelcome to Ontario! Come with me, Craig, as I show you around the province where I live. Learn about the provincial flag, bird, and flower. Find out my favorite activities too! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to...
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Off the Hook Too!: Off-Beat Reporter's Tales from Michigan's Upper Peninsula (U.P.)In 1981, L'Anse Sentinel publisher Ed Danner unleashed the madness when he invited a rookie reporter from Chicago's South Side to work for his Upper Michigan weekly newspaper. Nancy Besonen's Off The Hook is a collection of humor columns she successfully slipped by her...
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Now Is the Time to Collect: Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896The rediscovery of a curator's lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum's famed collections "Now" Is the Time to Collect tells the fascinating story of the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History's zoological expedition to...
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Nouvelle-Écosse (Nova Scotia)Welcome to Nova Scotia! Come with me, Kinsley, as I show you around the province where I live. Learn about the provincial flag, animal, and flower. Find out my favorite activities too! Also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions...
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No Place for a Woman: The Spiritual and Political Power Abuse of Women Within CatholicismNo Place for a Woman effectively describes the historical process through which the Catholic hierarchy removed women from influence and left them without any place in Catholic Church governance. This radical book examines the historical formation of Catholic theology from the perspective of the...
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Non-Constituency Members of Parliament: What's Next for the Scheme?Four decades have elapsed since the Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) scheme was introduced in 1984. It has been raised and debated at every general election since -- even as Singapore's political landscape has seen major changes since the scheme was introduced, when the...
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New Zealand Through the Years: UFOs and Aliens in New ZealandMoira McGhee has always looked at the stars and wondered who and what is out there. Moira is active in the area of human rights and animal welfare, and is co-founder and Senior Vice-President of Hearts for Animals. While studying law and counter disaster...
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New England Fairies: A History of the Little People of the Hills and ForestsTales of fairies and bewitching Little People have amazed and horrified New Englanders for over four hundred years. In the nineteenth century, residents of Marblehead, Massachusetts, reported malicious pixies leading them in circles at dusk. In Aroostook County, Maine, elves called lutins exasperated farmers...
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Native American Code Talkers in World Wars I and IINative Americans have fought gallantly in every conflict since the War for Independence, mostly under the stars and stripes, but some under the stars and bars of the Confederacy. That said, the greatest contribution of Native Americans in wartime was their use as code...
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