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Empire, State & BuildingThis book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externalized material geographies and thermodynamics of building's material basis reveal much about the dynamics and efficacy of how we build. This...
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James Bowie: Texas Fighting ManTexas' most famous fighting man, James (Jim) Bowie, a descendant of the fierce natives of the Scottish Highlands, gets the full treatment in Clifford Hopewell's biography, the first in almost half a century. In addition to hundreds of secondary sources, Hopewell researched all the...
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I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and ReturnA must-read for a new understanding of the Holocaust in Vienna.--Esther Safran Foer, author of I Want You to Know We're Still HereA defiant memoir from contemporary Europe: In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg's great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt...
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Experiences of Art: Reflections on MasterpiecesExperiences of Art: Reflections on Masterpieces is a critique of art history that takes historical inquiry beyond the level of recited facts to new insights drawn from a thematic approach to selected periods in the history of art. The book examines the origins of...
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Memorial Book of the Communities Dobrzyn-Gollob, Poland: Translation of Ayarati; sefer zikaron le-ayarot Dobrzyń-GolubThe Dobrzyn-Golub Yizkor Book evokes both pleasure and pain: pleasure from the nostalgic accounts by the Dobrzyn Jews who emigrated before World War II, and pain from the narratives describing the destruction of all traces of the town's rich Jewish culture. For beginning in...
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Jonava On the Banks of the Vylia: In memory of the destroyed Jewish community of Jonava, LithuaniaThis Yizkor Book is a unique source of information on a once vibrant town, whose Jewish population was destroyed in the Holocaust. Written after World War II by migr s and Holocaust survivors, this Memorial Book contains narratives of the history of the town,...
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Remembering Dvinsk - Daugavpils, Latvia: Memorial Book of DvinskRemembering Dvinsk is a compilation of three sources. First is a reprint of the 1965 book Dvinsk - The Rise and Decline of a Town by Yudel Flior, translated from the Yiddish by Bernard Sachs. Second is the translation of the 1975 class project...
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Ancient Universal Language of Man: Deciphering PetroglyphsOur early explorers quickly discovered they were not the first to conquer the farthest shores of earth. Modern man gazed upon ancient images and monuments of long ago pioneers already decaying from great age. We have all contemplated what secrets petroglyphs kept locked away...
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Symbolism of Petroglyphs and Pictographs Near Mountainair, New Mexico, the Gateway to Ancient CitiesWith no written alphabet, records of the Southwest Native Americans were kept in the form of either petroglyphs or pictographs on rock surfaces. By examining their symbolism, we are able to gain significant insight of their existence, a deeper understanding of their spiritual and...
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Mania: The Story of the Outraged & Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural RevolutionBy the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his...
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Navajo and the Animal PeopleThis text examines the traditional Navajo relationship to the natural world. Specifically, how the tribe once related to the Animal People, and particularly a category of animals, which they collectively referred to as the naatl' eetsoh - the "ones who hunt." These animals, like...
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Lemko Identity and the Orthodox ChurchThe Lemko Region of the Carpathian Mountains of Central Europe has been inhabited by East Slavic people for centuries. For nearly as long, it has been the arena of intense ethnopolitical competition. This collection of sketches illuminates how Lemkos' reaction to competing nationalist pressures...
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Prince and Little Weird Black Boy GodsThis collection of essays, what-ifs and tidbits contains everything writer and critic Scott Woods has publicly written and published about Prince, as well as new material written specifically for this edition. A fun, sometimes biting history with Prince from a super-fan's perspective, Prince and...
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Picturing Harrisonburg: Visions of a Shenandoah Valley City Since 1828Picturing Harrisonburg provides the most vibrant examination available of the history of the Virginia city, once a frontier town founded in the 1730s but now a burgeoning city centrally located in one of America's most beloved, historic, and beautiful regions--the Shenandoah Valley. Taking advantage...
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Doc Shores: An Authorized Reprint of Memoirs of a LawmanThe name Cyrus W. "Doc" Shores may not be found on the list of larger-than-life lawmen whose legends and lore give them top billing in the taming of America's "wild and wooly West;" yet, in the late 1800s, Doc Shores became known to law...
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Blown to Bits in the MineInterspersing tales of death and survival, Eric Twitty tells the story of explosives in the United States mining industry in an interesting and easy-to-read way. This book is as much for the casual observer of western history as it is for explosive experts wanting...
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Basic Half-Track Vehicles M2, M3 Technical ManualPrior to the outbreak of WWII, the U.S. Army Ordnance Department began testing prototype half-track vehicles, including a White Motor Co. design that combined an M3 Scout Car with a White chassis. With armored bodies, an armored radiator shutter and bulletproof glass windscreen, the...
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Reflections on LZ Albany: The Agony of VietnamAuthor: James T. LawrencePublisher: James T. LawrencePublished: 10/29/2013Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41dISBN: 9781937565862
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Unremembered: Tales of the Nearly Famous & the Not Quite ForgottenPeoria Magazines: "Over the last six years, [Zurski has] proven himself to be a remarkable historian, storyteller and writer." Marty Wombacher, Meanwhile, Back In Peoria...: "Ken has an impressive writing style that is equal parts factual reporting and conversational story-telling. When you mix those...
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Iberian Swordplay: Domingo Luis Godinho's Art of Fencing (1599)In 1599, during the period when the Portuguese crown was united to the crowns of Castile and Aragon, a Portuguese master-at-arms called Domingo Luis Godinho wrote a manuscript in Spanish entitled Arte de Esgrima (The Art of Fencing). Although Godinho's life is largely a...
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