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On Rhetoric and Black MusicHow Black musicians and composers used their craft to define and influence public discourse. This groundbreaking analysis examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H....
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Once Upon a Time in Africa: Stories of Wisdom and JoyThis collection of stories from Africa brings us to a place where the elders gather the children around the fire at night and narrate the stories and events that make them a proud and memorable people. The stories--some, myths from the past and others,...
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Olympic Park BombingThis title examines the crimes of Eric Robert Rudolph, the bomber whose attack on the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, gained worldwide attention. Readers will learn about the massive manhunt for Rudolph, his years in hiding, and how he was finally captured. Features...
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Old SouthSheds new light on the people and events that shaped the US south. It deftly shows how the South's diverse people interacted with each other in ways that affect the region and the nation to this day. Each chapter is accompanied by historical documents...
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Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War IINisei Linguists, first published in 2006, is a fascinating, well-documented look at the World War II service performed by second-generation Japanese-Americans in World War II. The men, serving as interpreters and translators for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service, made valuable contributions to the...
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Nature RebornSantmire's much-acclaimed The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology documented the unfortunate legacy of many Christian theological notions in the use, abuse, and destruction of the natural world, along with its positive aspects. This new brief, but penetrating, look at...
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Native American History - North America: Quickstudy Lamninated Reference & Study GuideEssential history of the indigenous people of North America in relation to America. This is not an indigenous peoples history related to their individual tribes. A difficult history to tell for many reasons, at least 800 distinct Native peoples inhabited most parts of North...
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My Town by a River: Vignettes of Chatham, New JerseyChatham, New Jersey is a small town situated on the banks of the Passaic River. The first visitors were the Lenni Lenape Indians who stopped in Chatham on their annual migration from Sussex County to the Atlantic Ocean. They called the river the 'Fishawack"....
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My Palestine: An Impossible ExileA memoir that combines political and economic commentary with personal and national history. Mohammad Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family were forced to evacuate their village together with its entire population, after the Zionist victory that...
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"My Old Carpetbagger": How a Yankee Saved the Capital from Rebel Invaders, Led Virginia Republicans during Reconstruction and Fought GovernmeDuring the Civil War, not all Southemers were secessionists. Not all Yankees who later came south were "carpetbaggers" bent on exploiting their former foes. This book portrays exceptions to both rules - Simon Elliot Chamberlin, a Union cavalry officer who relocated to northern Virginia,...
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Modern Chinese Theologies: Volume 3: Academic and DiasporicIt is well known that the Chinese church (and therefore Chinese theology) has been divided in the People's Republic of China into "registered" and "unregistered" churches, and that while the state-approved church offers theologies that align with the nation's socialist values, the unregistered or...
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Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth CenturyIn Mission Manifest, Matthew Shannon argues that American evangelicals were central to American-Iranian relations during the decades leading up to the 1979 revolution. These Presbyterian missionaries and other Americans with ideals worked with US government officials, nongovernmental organizations, and their Iranian counterparts as cultural...
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M Is for Mayflower: A Massachusetts Alphabet"M is for Mayflower" is a wonderful addition to our series of state alphabet books, as Raven's sparkling verse and illuminating expository text are matched perfectly with Jeannie Brett's bright illustrations.This pictorial celebrates the treasures of the Bay State, and educates as it entertains...
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Marching in Mongomery: A Memoir of the Civil Rights MovementAuthor: John J. HartmanPublisher: IpbooksPublished: 04/16/2024Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31dISBN: 9781956864632
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Malvinas: cinco días decisivosMalvinas: cinco días decisivos no ofrece un relato puramente bélico ni un relato puramente diplomático. Ofrece un relato único y detallado de los pormenores de la negociación para demostrar cuán cerca estuvimos de lograr la paz, mientras presenta simultáneamente las consecuencias y vivencias de...
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Lost Tea Rooms of Downtown Cincinnati: Reflections & RecipesIt was a different time. Ladies wore gloves, hats and nice attire to luncheons at the Woman s Exchange. Shillito s provided a cosmopolitan environment for its patrons, while Mullane s was the perfect place to sip and socialize. The popular Good Morning Show...
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Live Like a Viking: Discovering the Secrets of the VikingsLive Like a Viking is a fascinating and informative journey back in time to find out what it was really like to live in the Viking age. The Vikings have a fearsome reputation as warriors. In reality, they were much more than that. From...
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Light-bearers of Darkness: New editionThis book is an attempt to show, by means of actual investigations, of documentary evidence, and personal knowledge of the inner workings, that this present movement for World Revolution leading to World Domination is but an age-long and culminating, fanatical effort on the part...
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Letter Writing in Greco-Roman AntiquityMaking use of letters--both formal and personal--that have been preserved through the ages, Stanley Stowers analyzes the cultural setting within which Christianity arose.The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New...
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Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and HumanistThe first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti's major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architecture Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissance--a fact...
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