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Pacific Automobilism: Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1970-2015The beginning of the 21st century has seen important shifts in mobility cultures around the world, as the West's media-driven car culture has contrasted with existing local mobilities, from rickshaws in India and minibuses in Africa to cycling in China. In this expansive volume,...
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Africa: A Guide for Teachers and FamiliesAfrica: A Guide for Teachers and Families is a carefully organized resource for teaching children and adolescents about African culture. This book is divided into geographical regions, so each can be highlighted and contrasted. The songs, fairy tales, mythologies, biographies, art, and recipes are...
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A Pair of Aces and a Trey: 1st Lieutenants William P. Erwin, Arthur E. Easterbrook, and Byrne V. Baucom: America's Top Scoring World War I ObservTrained as a pursuit pilot but assigned to an observation squadron, the indefatigable Bill Erwin flew twice as many hours over the front lines as any other pilot in the 1st Aero Squadron. His two primary observers, Byrne Baucom and Arthur Easterbrook, were both...
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Designing Pan-America: U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western HemisphereCoinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America. Late in...
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Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory PalamasSt. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296-1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a twenty-year period. An Athonite monk, abbot, and later Metropolitan...
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The Failure of Our Fathers: Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate AlabamaAn in-depth study of non-elite white families in Alabama--from the state's creation through the end of the Civil War The Failure of Our Fathers: Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama examines the evolving position of non-elite white families in Alabama during one of...
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The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk RoadAn exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade The King's Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as...
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Prologue to Perón: Argentina in Depression and War, 1930-1943Since 1943 the personality and legend of General Juan Domingo Peron have towered over the Argentine Republic. Yet until 1930 Argentina was widely regarded as the best example of democracy and prosperity on a politically turbulent and economically underdeveloped continent. The present collection of...
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Decision-Making for DefenseWhen President Kennedy appointed Robert McNamara Secretary of Defense in January, 1961 and McNamara called on Charles Hitch to join him, a new era of defense policy leadership was clearly at hand. Great problems of organization had emerged along with vast increases in American...
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The Cult of the Revolutionary Tradition: The Blanquists in French Politics, 1864 - 1893This pathbreaking study deals with the thought and activities of the disciples of the renowned revolutionary, Auguste Blanqui, from the later years of the French Second Empire (1860s) through the crisis attending the political campaign of General Boulanger (1880s). It explores the mythological significance...
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Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic RitualFascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is...
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The Ancient Egyptians and the Origin of Civilization2022 Reprint of the 1923 Illustrated Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Dr. Smith deals only with the most ancient, that is, the earliest Egyptians, and he traces their influence not only upon the civilization of...
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For King and Country Book One: The CallingGale Arlington Jr. is going to prove himself and being a soldier was the way to do it. England, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, and Europe is at war.Gale and his friends are inspired to enlist in the army and believe that they'll...
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More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment: A Personal NarrativeA diary of life at the Stanley Internment Camp in Hong Kong in the 1940s. More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment is the wartime journal of Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, former attorney-general of Hong Kong and one of the three...
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Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium: Transcendence beyond MulticulturalismA pioneering and comprehensive study of recent Malaysian cinema. Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium offers a new approach to the study of multiculturalism in cinema by analyzing how a new wave of filmmakers champion cultural diversity using cosmopolitan themes. Adrian Lee offers a...
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Chiang Yee and His Circle: Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1930-1950Tells the story of a Chinese intellectual community in London in the 1930s and '40s. Chiang Yee and His Circle celebrates the life and work of Chiang Yee (1903-1977), a Chinese writer, poet, and painter who made his home in London, England during the...
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Eastern Military ThoughtWar and warfare have been part of human history. Its study is demanding, intellectually and emotionally, but it cannot be ignored. War theory reflects the way societies create notions of their identity, nationality, and territoriality. It appears that the West has looked at the...
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Park, Tenement, Slaughterhouse: Elite Imaginaries of Buenos Aires, 1852-1880An analysis of what the history of epidemic diseases can reveal about urban planning. In the 1860s and 1870s, Buenos Aires was hit by a series of dramatic cholera and yellow fever epidemics that decimated its population and inspired extensive debates on urban space...
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Giovanni Segantini. La Vita --La Natura--Lamorte: Landmarks of Swiss ArtAn insightful new study on the moving genesis of Giovanni Segantini's landmark triptych. Giovanni Segantini's (1858-99) three paintings La Vita--La Natura--La Morte (Becoming--Being--Passing) of 1898-99 at first glance reveal nothing about their equally complex and interesting background. Segantini originally planned them for the 1900...
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Stops Along the WayCharles Ticho-- Czech born and a dual citizen of the United States and Israel-- writes about his life in Europe, Israel and America, as a Holocaust survivor, film & commercial producer/director, world traveler and family historian. This memoir compiles many of his short essays,...
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