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The Plutarch Project Volume Four (Revised): Demosthenes, Cicero, and DemetriusThis newly revised volume of The Plutarch Project contains the stories of one would-be world ruler, and two orators "who, from small and obscure beginnings, became so great and mighty...contested with kings and tyrants...and at last ended their lives with the liberty of their...
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The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First CenturyNow in a new edition, this clearly written and engrossing book presents a global and environmental narrative of the origins of the modern world since 1400. Robert Marks constructs a story in which Asia, Africa, and the New World play major roles and points...
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The Old Vero Site (8ir009): One Hundred Years Later, the 2014 - 2017 ExcavationsA century ago, the Old Vero Site was brought to prominence by Elias Sellards, who claimed that the human remains discovered there were contemporary with Pleistocene fauna. It was the first serious challenge to the belief, widely accepted until the Folsom discoveries in 1926,...
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The NRO At FiftyThe National Reconnaissance Office is to the US intelligence community as aircraft carriers are to the US Navy. Without the NRO, the payloads that are absolutely crucial to the IC's mission never get there. Without the NRO, the United States is nearly a premodern...
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The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966During the postwar period of 1948-56, over 400,000 Jews from the Middle East and Asia immigrated to the newly established state of Israel. By the end of the 1950s, Mizrahim, also known as Oriental Jewry, represented the ethnic majority of the Israeli Jewish population....
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The Miracles of Exodus: A Scientist's Discovery of the Extraordinary Natural Causes of the Biblical StoriesThe Real Story of the ExodusColin Humphreys, a world-renowned Cambridge University scientist, reveals for the first time the concrete, scientific truth behind the Exodus miracles. The Burning Bush: Caused by a volcanic vent that opened up under the bush. Crossing the Red Sea: The...
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The Mind of Benedict XVI: A Theology of CommunionPope Benedict XVI's legacy is incalculable. His contributions to the Church as cleric and theologian are vast and varied, and his life of faith and theological work are so deeply intertwined that it is impossible to understand Benedict the theologian without understanding Benedict the...
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The Mind-Boggling October 7 Savagery: How Western Minds Were Boggled by Islamic MachinationsThis volume attempts to explain the inexplicable: How on the morning of Oct 7, 2023, 22 quiet and innocent Israeli villages were attacked at dawn and 1,200 of their people were slaughtered while still in bed. The attack was accompanied by thousands of missiles...
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The Mighty Moo: The USS Cowpens and Her Epic World War II Journey from Jinx Ship to the Navy's First Carrier Into Tokyo BayThe Mighty Moo is the tale of how a scrappy little World War II aircraft carrier and its untested crew earned a distinguished combat record and beat incredible odds to earn 12 battle stars in the Pacific. The USS Cowpens and her crew weren't...
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The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st CenturyAs the Commander of U.S. Central Command, General Frank McKenzie oversaw some of the most important -- and controversial operations in modern U.S. military history. He had direct operational responsibility for the strikes on Qassem Soleimani and two successive leaders of ISIS, the many...
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The Little Book of the 1960s: Peace, Love and RevolutionMake love, not war.At the heart of the 1960s was a desire for change, a yearning for a new way of living and a rejection of the old order. From the civil rights movement or the Vietnam War to the Apollo moon landings or...
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The Literary Life of YājñavalkyaSteven E. Lindquist is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Director of Asian Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is the editor of Religion and Identity in South Asia: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle.Author: Steven E....
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The Life of St. Mary of EgyptThis account of the life of St. Mary is the primary source of what we know about her. Allegedly right before her death she recounted her life to St. Zosimas of Palestine, who went on to have his student, Sophronius compose a this volume...
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The Life of CharlemagneOne of the most comprehensive biographies of the famous Frankish leader ever written, drawn from original sources and meticulously researched. Read here of the factors which shaped post-Roman France and Germany, and indeed, most of Western Europe.This highly satisfying work documents all of Charlemagne's...
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The Last Stronghold: The Campaign for Fort FisherThe busy port of Wilmington, North Carolina, was a key city linking the Confederacy to the goods and the weapons merchants of Europe and the world. By late 1864, the port city had become an important target for Federal military leaders. To keep the...
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The Last Battle: Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War IAuthor of The Great War, as well as celebrated accounts of the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, Jutland, and Gallipoli, historian Peter Hart now turns to World War One's final months. Much has been made of-and written about-August 1914. There has been comparatively little...
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The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a CatastropheReportage from the frontline of the crisis in the Middle East from a leading Israeli journalist Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on...
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The Irvines of OrkneyThe earliest recorded Irvine in Orkney was a William de Irwyn in 1369. This book draws on copious contemporary records that survive in Edinburgh, Kirkwall and elsewhere, together with implications of genetic genealogy, to develop fourteen lineages of William's alleged descendants. The author explores...
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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic CityIn the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workplaces of the American city. This process of "Americanization from the bottom up"...
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The Hoover Dam: The Story of Hard Times, Tough People and the Taming of a Wild RiverNow in paperback! They called the river the Red Bull. Desert silt gave the Colorado its distinctive color, but it was its power and unpredictability that made its fierce reputation. Speeding down from the high Rockies, the Colorado would flood without warning, wiping out...
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