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Mad Rulers and Worthy Sons: A Translation and Analysis of the Newly Excavated ZhouxunThis book presents the first study and translation of the ancient text Zhouxun (Instructions of the Zhou). Lost early but mentioned in the history of the Han dynasty, a copy appeared recently and was published as part of the Peking University collection. The work...
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Luncheons on the Grass: Reimagining Manet's Le Déjeuner Sur l'HerbeThirty-five contemporary artists create their own version of Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe. Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. The entry slide in art history lectures about modernism, the work remains among the "most audacious painting[s]...
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Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial CapitalismAuthor: Catherine HallPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/22/2024Pages: 350Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.15lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.75w x 0.79dISBN: 9781009098854
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Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in AmericaRespected journalist Robert MacNeil did not receive a personal response from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he wrote to him in 1942 as an eleven-year-old boy living in Nova Scotia. He did, however, receive a personal letter and a large gift from the American...
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Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin AmericaFrom the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America's recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia's cocaine wars or assess the...
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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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Listening to the Philosophers: Notes on NotesListening to the Philosophers offers the first comprehensive look into how philosophy was taught in antiquity through a stimulating study of lectures by ancient philosophers that were recorded by their students. Raffaella Cribiore shows how the study of notes--whether Philodemus of Gadara's notes of...
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Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the AnimalsA contemporary artist explores relationships among humans and animals, real and mythical German artist Lin May Saeed (b. 1973) grapples with the complex entanglements of humans and animals. Her work centers on the nonhuman animal and revisits, revises, or outright invents stories of animal...
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Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in KentuckyThe Bluegrass region of Kentucky was the only part of the slaveholding South Abraham Lincoln knew intimately. How the cultural environment of Lexington, the home of Lincoln's wife, with its pleasure-loving aristocracy, its distinguished political leaders, and its slave auctions shaped his opinions on...
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Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American SuperpowerA thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history.On June 6, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the thousands of American troops preparing...
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Life Power and How to Use ItElizabeth Towne was one of the most important people in the New Thought movement. In Life Power and How to Use It she goes into great detail on how to use the Laws of Attraction in every day life to improve every facet of...
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LibertyA graphic history of how America's most iconic symbol came to be. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most famous monuments in the world and it is synonymous with the American Dream. Countless emigrees were welcomed by her imposing presence on arrival...
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Let Us Rise: Volume 2In 2023, numerous labour uprisings occurred-and Ireland was not immune to this strike wave. Over the course of the months of September and October, 2023, a series of interviews were conducted with Independent Workers' Union (IWU) members involved in the high-profile Iceland Trade Dispute....
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Lexington, KentuckyLexington's African-American community has survived and flourished despite obstacles that may have proven insurmountable to some.Enriched by diversity and filled with fortitude, the Black community of Lexington has made their mark on history as well as the Bluegrass State's heritage. In Black America: Lexington,...
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Leave While the Party's Good: The Life and Legacy of Baseball Executive Harry DaltonHarry Dalton was a front office executive in Major League Baseball for more than forty years, serving as general manager for the Baltimore Orioles (1966-71), the California Angels (1972-77), and the Milwaukee Brewers (1978-91). He was the principal architect of the Orioles' dynasty and...
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La Visión de Caballo Loco: (Crazy Horse's Vision)La verdadera historia del gran guerrero Sioux que, de joven, desafía la tradición y busca una visión propia con la esperanza de salvar a su pueblo. The true story of the great Sioux warrior who, as a young boy, defies tradition and seeks a...
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KITAB-E-SULAYM BIN QAYS AL-HILALI, Shia Hadith Collection by Sulaym ibn Qays HilaliSulaym ibn Qays Kufi Amari Hilali ra is Tabai' and has seen the lifetime of five Masoom Imams asws ̈ including Imam Ali asws ̈ Imam Hassan asws ̈ Imam Hussain asws ̈Imam Zainul Abadeen asws and Imam Mohammed Baqir asws Sulaym has written...
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Katrina's Secrets: Storms After The StormREVISED EDITION: Gaining a firm grasp on the highly complex, famously fraught aftermath of Hurricane Katrina can seem as tenuous as its victims' shaky grasp on survival. Mayor C. Ray Nagin was there during the city of New Orleans' darkest hours. Charged with assessing...
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Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy 1776-1920The "Jones Act" is the most newsworthy U.S. maritime policy law.Most of the attention is focused on the preservation of U.S. domestic maritime trade. Some is focused on the law as a means for mariners to recover for injuries.But this attention is too narrow....
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