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Experiencing Olmsted: The Enduring Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted's North American Landscapes200 Iconic Landscapes That Define North America Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successor firms that sprung from it, worked through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to shape some of our most beloved green spaces, including...
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SAAB 37 ViggenThe Saab 37 Viggen is a Swedish single-seat, single-engine, short-medium range combat aircraft. Development work on the type was initiated at Saab in 1952 and resulting aircraft performed its first flight on 8 February 1967. Viggen entered service in 21 June 1971. It was...
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DB COOPER and the FBI: A Case Study of America's Only Unsolved SkyjackingWhat's New in the 3rd EditionSpecial 50th Anniversary Issue The 3rd Edition of DB Cooper and the FBI - A Case Study of America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking is an updating of events since August 2016 when the FBI officially closed their investigation.When the Bureau...
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Beacon to the World: A History of Lincoln CenterA comprehensive history of the creation and growth of Lincoln Center, exploring the interconnections between politicians, financiers, and performing artists "Masterful. . . . A powerful work of nonfiction with the drama of a novel."--Jaap van Zweden, Wall Street Journal In this comprehensive history...
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An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. FordFrom the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including George Washington, Herbert Hoover, and Nelson Rockefeller comes this eye-opening life of Gerald R. Ford, whose presidency arguably set the course for post-liberal America and a post-Cold War world.For many Americans, President...
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Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American StateAn exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector. Nonprofits serving a range of municipal and cultural needs are now so ubiquitous in US cities, it can be difficult to envision a time...
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Great Purpose The Life of John W. Nason, Philosopher President and Champion of Liberal Learning (Softcover Deluxe)Author: Bruce William ColwellPublisher: Carleton College PressPublished: 02/15/2023Pages: 576Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.57dISBN: 9798218134846
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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave MarketWinner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of the John Hope Franklin PrizeWinner of the Avery O. Craven Award Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the...
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Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th CenturyA fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from the Great Depression...
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Nuclear Bodies: The Global HibakushaThe Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war "[A] grimly important analysis of the cold war."--Andrew Robinson Nature "Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs's guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any...
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The World in Flames: The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker YockeyFrancis Parker Yockey (1917-1960) was an American political theorist and activist who drew on Oswald Spengler's philosophy of history and culture to argue for a pan-European imperial political order. Under the pen name of Ulick Varange, he published Imperium: The Philosophy of History and...
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Harriet Tubman: A Life in American HistoryHarriet Tubman served a pivotal role in leading slaves to freedom in the decade before the Civil War. This biography offers a demythologized chronicle of her life and work, providing information about her life as a slave, role as conductor on the Underground Railroad,...
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Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American SettlementCulture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties--"a stunned memory preserved in...
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Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the CitySun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet...
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The Italian Invert: A Gay Man's Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola"Each of us has his tastes inscribed in his brain and heart; whether he fulfills his urges with regret or with joy, he must fulfill them. He should let others act according to their own nature. It's fate that creates us and guides us...
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John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band: In Their Own Words & with Contributions from the People Who Were ThereA definitive, in-depth, revelatory exploration of John Lennon's intensely personal first major solo album after the breakup of the Beatles. Described by Lennon as "the best thing I've ever done," and widely regarded as his best solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was released...
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Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal OrderHow the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international order The liberal democratic order that seemed so stable in North America and Western Europe has become precarious. James E. Cronin argues that liberalism has...
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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The Great Truth about the Lost CauseMost Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans--including most history teachers--think the Confederate States seceded for "states' rights." This error persists because most have never read the key documents...
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Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar FictionThe canon of postwar American fiction has changed over the past few decades to include far more writers of color. It would appear that we are making progress--recovering marginalized voices and including those who were for far too long ignored. However, is this celebratory...
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Hollywood and Israel: A HistoryFrom Frank Sinatra's early pro-Zionist rallying to Steven Spielberg's present-day peacemaking, Hollywood has long enjoyed a "special relationship" with Israel. This book offers a groundbreaking account of this relationship, both on and off the screen. Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman investigate the many ways...
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