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Protocols of the Learned Elders of ZionWhen the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion were first discovered, Freemasons and Zionist Jews everywhere screamed and complained that these 24 Protocols are a hoax, a forgery, even a blood taint against the Jews. But then came the brutal and barbaric Communist...
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Mirabilia descripta: The wonders of the EastMirabilia descripta: The wonders of the EastThe little work here presented was printed in the original Latin at Paris in 1839, under the editorship of M. Coquebert-Montbret, in the Recueil de Voyages et de Mmoires, publi par la Socit de Gographie, vol. iv. I...
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The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part ThirdThe Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Third - Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Ceylon and India; With Descriptions of Borneo, the Philippine Islands and BurmahThis volume completes the series of "The Boy Travellers in the Far East." It attempts...
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Sinhalese Folklore Notes, CeylonSinhalese Folklore Notes, CeylonThe Sinhalese beliefs, customs and stories in the present collection were contributed by the writer to the Indian Antiquary fourteen years ago in a series of articles under the title of Glimpses of Sinhalese Social Life; they are now offered, amplified...
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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 4Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 4 Arrival at Bluff, N. Z.Where the Rabbit Plague BeganThe Natural Enemy of the RabbitDunedinA Lovely TownVisit to Dr. HockinHis MuseumA Liquified CaterpillarThe Unperfected Tape WormThe Public Museum and Picture CHAPTER XXXI. The Express Train"A...
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White as Milk and RiceThe Maria girls from Bastar practise sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules-one may not sleep with a partner more than three times; the Hallaki women from the Konkan coast sing throughout the day-in forests, fields, the market and at protests; the...
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Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban WorldIn Violent Intimacies, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex, gender and...
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The Hammam Through Time and SpaceJulie Peteet offers a fascinating tour through the rich cultural history of hammams, or baths, in the Mediterranean and Middle East. These sacred structures date back to the Bronze and Iron Ages and have evolved through the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic periods. In...
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The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to AgricultureAuthor: Peter BellwoodPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 05/14/2024Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.70w x 1.00dISBN: 9780691258812About the AuthorPeter Bellwood is professor emeritus at the Australian National University. His many books include First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective and First Farmers: The Origins...
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The Dragon and the Rainbow: Man's Oldest StoryModernization and conversion to world religions are threatening the survival of traditional belief systems, leaving behind only mysterious traces of their existence. This book, based upon extensive research conducted over a period of nearly four decades, brings scientific rigor to one of the questions...
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The Afterlife of Race: An Informed Philosophical SearchThe ideology that underlies the concept of race has a long history. For centuries that ideology has spun supernaturalist and scientistic stories about ostensibly natural differences between different groups. The concept of "race" is in scientific decline, but the intertwined ideology and rhetoric behind...
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Nature, Culture, and Inequality: A Comparative and Historical Perspective"The most important economics book of the year―and maybe of the decade." --Paul Krugman, New York Times, on Capital in the Twenty-First Century A bestselling economist's history of inequality and guide to a more just, sustainable world, distilled into an engaging and accessible pocket-sized...
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Lives Guided by Honor: How VMI Shaped the Class of 1968Since 1839, the Virginia Military Institute has sought to produce graduates of honor and integrity, citizen-soldiers, and leaders. Graduates have had extraordinary success in landing jobs throughout the decades, becoming military officers or gaining acceptance to graduate schools.After wondering for decades why her husband...
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Lives Guided by Honor: How VMI Shaped the Class of 1968Since 1839, the Virginia Military Institute has sought to produce graduates of honor and integrity, citizen-soldiers, and leaders. Graduates have had extraordinary success in landing jobs throughout the decades, becoming military officers or gaining acceptance to graduate schools.After wondering for decades why her husband...
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Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism: A SelectionThe Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. Conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983, the first volume of the ongoing lexicon...
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Heart of AsiaAuthor: Nicholas RoerichPublisher: Ancient Wisdom PublicationsPublished: 05/12/2006Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22dISBN: 9780975309353This title is not returnable
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Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and BlackFunk the Clock is about those said to be emblematic of the future yet denied a place in time. Hence, this book is both an invitation and provocation for Black youth to give the finger to the hands of time, while inviting readers to...
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Christ, the Destiny of the Human Person: a Journey into Filial Anthropology : a journey into filial anthropology"The mystery of the human person becomes truly clear only in the mystery of the Incarnate Word." Taken from the Constitution Gaudium et Spes of the Second Vatican Council, this phrase is the foundation of Christian anthropology, an area very often neglected in theological...
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Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese Ngo in MyanmarInternational development programs strive not only to alleviate poverty but to transform people, aid workers and recipients alike. Becoming One grapples with this process by exploring the work of OISCA*, a prominent Japanese NGO in central Myanmar. OISCA's postwar origins at the intersection of...
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Toxic: A Tour of the Ecuadorian AmazonOver the past decade, people have learned about oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon through "Toxic Tours" in which a guide brings participants - students, lawyers, environmental activists, journalists, or foreign tourists - to visit contaminated sites. These toxic tours combine personal experience and...
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