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The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and PerformanceThe Mexican Transpacific considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the cultural production of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican authors, performers, and visual artists. Despite Japanese Mexicans' unquestionable influence on Mexico's history and culture and the historical studies recently...
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Renoir. 40th Ed.Les tableaux de Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) au charme intemporel n'évoquent qu'amour, bonheur et beauté. Issu de notre édition grand format, qui formait la rétrospective la plus complète jamais consacrée à l'oeuvre du peintre, cet ouvrage analyse de près l'histoire et la passion cachées derrière...
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North American T-6 Harvard/Texan: Aircraft in DetailA close up of one of the most produced Classic Trainer aircraft in the world, including huge chapters on the cockpit and maintenance.Author: Robert Pied, Nicolas DeboeckPublisher: Hmh PublicationsPublished: 06/06/2022Pages: 116Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.40h x 9.40w x 0.40dISBN: 9782931083154This title is only available...
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Sukhoi Su-22 Fitter: Aircraft in DetailA complete photographical portrait of the SU-22 Fitter, the export version of the Russian Su-17; Russia's first swing-wing fighter.Author: Robert Pied, Nicolas DeboeckPublisher: Hmh PublicationsPublished: 05/31/2022Pages: 140Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.43h x 9.47w x 0.36dISBN: 9782931083130This title is only available via back order
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All My Love, Mary: Letters from War-Time SwanseaSwansea, South Wales, was largely destroyed during the bombings of World War II. But life went on as the city filled with British, Canadian, and then American soldiers. Dances were held at Mumbles Pier and the Brangwyn Hall. Friendships and romances began and ended....
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Pawtucket Red Sox: How Rhode Island Lost Its Home TeamThe Pawtucket Red Sox were one of the country's premier AAA baseball teams, and for forty-five years they called Rhode Island home. In February 2015, a group of investors purchased the team from the widow of beloved owner Ben Mondor and longtime executives Mike...
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Terre Haute's Notorious Red Light DistrictThe author of Hidden History of Terre Haute and Wicked Terre Haute explores the home of sin in the Sin City. Home to uproarious saloons, swindling gambling dens, and thriving brothels, Terre Haute's infamous West End was so wild the Chicago Tribunecalled it the...
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Out of Breath: Vulnerability of Air in Contemporary ArtExplores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing, through contemporary art In Out of Breath, Caterina Albano examines the cultural significance of breath and air to a wide array of forces in our midst, including economy, politics, infection, and ecological violence. Through...
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Georgian and Soviet: Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the CaucasusGeorgian and Soviet investigates the constitutive capacity of Soviet nationhood and empire. The Soviet republic of Georgia, located in the mountainous Caucasus region, received the same nation-building template as other national republics of the USSR. Yet Stalin's Georgian heritage, intimate knowledge of Caucasian affairs,...
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Malta's Savior: Operation Pedestal, August 1942Holding the small island of Malta, the British Empire's strategic centerpiece in the Mediterranean Sea, was critical to the Allied cause in World War II. Taking it was essential for Axis victory. German forces laid siege to the island beginning in June 1940--it soon...
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The Vietnam Run: American Merchant Mariners in the Indochina Wars, 1945-1975On the same day the Japanese surrender ended World War II, Vietnamese nationalists declared independence from France. Within weeks, France sought to reestablish colonial rule. American merchant seamen arriving in French ports to ship GIs back to the U.S. were dismayed when French troops...
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U.S. Navy Minecraft: A History and Directory from World War I to TodayIn modern naval warfare, offensive and defensive mine operations and the ships that perform them often take a back seat to the more glamorous carrier strike groups, strategic deterrence patrols and anti-submarine operations. Despite their relatively small size and numbers, minecraft have enormous strategic...
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Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820)A detailed study of John Keats's classic volume of poetry published in 1820 considered in the light of the history of melancholy First, book-length critical study of John Keats's collection of poems, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820) Considers...
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Dynastic Politics in the Age of Diocletian, Ad 284-311In AD 293 the Roman world was plunged into a bold new experiment in government. Four soldiers shared the empire between them: two senior emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, and two junior emperors, Constantius and Galerius. This regime, now known as the Tetrarchy, engaged with...
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The Queen of Sheba's Gift: A History of the True Balsam of MatareaThe balsam of Matarea was a substance famous as a panacea among physicians in the Middle East and Europe during the Antique and Medieval periods. It was used in many aspects of medieval life and is associated with figures such as the Virgin Mary,...
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Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments. TestimoniaCallimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped establish the Library and Museum as a world...
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Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday AnarchyColin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy is the first full account of Ward's life and work. Drawing on unseen archival sources, as well as oral interviews, it excavates the worlds and words of his anarchist thought, illuminating his methods and charting the...
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Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959This volume brings together the writings of Nannie Helen Burroughs, an educator, civil rights activist, and leading voice in the African American community during the first half of the twentieth century.Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) is just one of the many African American intellectuals whose...
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Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin ZooIn 1943, fierce aerial bombardment razed the Berlin zoo and killed most of its animals. But only two months after the war's end, Berliners had already resurrected it, reopening its gates and creating a symbol of endurance in the heart of a shattered city....
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Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in EnglandThe essential annotated edition of Frederick Law Olmsted's first book Before he ever dreamed of becoming a landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted visited southern England and Wales during a month-long walking tour. A gifted writer, he recorded his impressions of the trip in a...
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