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Life Happens: And Other Unavoidable TruthsFrom the 2005 Pulitzer Prize--winning columnist Connie Schultz comes fresh, clever, insightful commentary on life today: love, politics, social issues, family, and much, much more. In the tradition of Anna Quindlen, Molly Ivins, and Erma Bombeck, but with a distinctive voice and sensibility all...
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009New York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she's been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered--all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture. Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter, a lifelong diary enthusiast,...
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No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War IIThe sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one of the worst sea disasters of World War II. It was also the occasion of an astounding feat of heroism--and faith. As water gushed...
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Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of RevolutionAfter emerging victorious from their revolution against the British Empire, many North Americans associated commercial freedom with independence and republicanism. Optimistic about the liberation movements sweeping Latin America, they were particularly eager to disrupt the Portuguese Empire. Anticipating the establishment of a Brazilian republic...
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The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother JosephJoseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, claimed that he had never wanted the overpowering roles thrust upon him by his illustrious younger brother Napoleon. Left to his own devices, he would probably have been a lawyer in his native Corsica, a country gentleman...
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Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century ThoughtThere emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rabbis but of intellectuals and academicians working in secular universities or writing for an audience not defined by any one...
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The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten IndiansRoanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to...
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Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness AccountThe trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961 under a deceptively simple label, criminal case 40/61. Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine and recorded her observations in Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil. Harry Mulisch was also assigned to...
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Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern AmericaModern advertising has changed dramatically since the early twentieth century, but when it comes to food, Katherine Parkin writes, the message has remained consistent. Advertisers have historically promoted food in distinctly gendered terms, returning repeatedly to themes that associated shopping and cooking with women....
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Nordic Religions in the Viking AgeThe popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in history. Imagining Viking conquerors as much more numerous, technologically superior, and somehow inherently more warlike than their neighbors has overshadowed the cooperation...
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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 6: The Twentieth CenturyThe roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic traditions of the Continent. For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued with the belief in the supernatural, yielding...
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Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages"Lyrical in parts, this is a deep and reflective reading of those clusters of contradictory images which attempted to make sense of the exultant and the vulnerable in medieval bodies. Dyan Elliott offers a potent combination of the rigor of textual analysAuthor: Dyan ElliottPublisher:...
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The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni Mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813)The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed the dark ages of Byzantium is the chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d. 817 or 818). In it Theophanes paints a vivid picture of the Empire's struggle in the seventh and eighth...
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Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban NorthStemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested...
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Thunder on Bataan: The First American Tank Battles of World War IIThe American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese attacked the islands hours after the raid on Pearl Harbor. One of the tankmen parked his half-track on a runway and shot down a Japanese Zero that day,...
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Allied Armored Fighting Vehicles: 1:72 ScaleFilled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from the U.S., Britain, Canada, and Russia, including: - M4 Sherman medium tank (U.S.)- T1E3 Aunt Jemima mine exploder (U.S.)- M18 Hellcat tank destroyer (U.S.)- Mk VI Crusader cruiser tank (Britain)- Crocodile flamethrower (Britain)- Ram I cruiser...
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Roots of Strategy: Book 3Von Leeb's Defense, von Freytag-Loringhoven's The Power of Personality in War, and Erfuth's Surprise.Author: Curtis BrownPublisher: Stackpole BooksPublished: 02/01/1991Pages: 560Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 8.23h x 5.33w x 1.42dISBN: 9780811730600This title is not returnable
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Pirates of Virginia: Plunder and High Adventure on the Old Dominion CoastlineHigh adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered loreFeatures such famous characters as Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, Maj. Stede Bonnet, John Paul Jones, and William ClaiborneRecounts stories of the Accomac and Revolutionary war privateersAuthor: Mark P. Donnelly, Daniel DiehlPublisher: TradeselectPublished: 03/01/2012Pages: 170Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.17h...
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Nostalgia: Origins and Ends of an Unenlightened DiseaseHelmut Illbruck traces the concept of nostalgia from the earliest uses of the term in the seventeenth century to today as it evolves with different meanings and intensities in the discourses of medicine, literature, philosophy, and aesthetics. Following nostalgia's troubled relations to the philosophical...
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Catholic Spirituality, Its History and ChallengeIn this book James Bacik provides spiritual seekers with a one-of-a-kind overview of how spirituality and theology nourish each other in the life of the Church. Part One is a fresh and informative look at the influence of theology on spirituality from a historical...
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