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The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890A broad range of perspectives from Natives and non-Natives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance ever published. A revitalization movement that swept across Native communities of the West in the late 1880s, the ghost dance took...
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The Killing Ground: A Biography of ThermopylaeAn exploration into why and how Thermopylae is one of the most blood-soaked patches of ground in history - and what its past can tell us about our future. 'Brilliantly demonstrated.' - Tom HollandSince the dawn of the Classical Era up to World War...
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The JFK Assassination ChokeholdsAuthor: James DiEugenio, Paul Bleau, Matt CrumptonPublisher: Camp Street PressPublished: 11/14/2023Pages: 444Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9798989393527This title is not returnable
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The JFK Assassination ChokeholdsAuthor: James DiEugenio, Paul Bleau, Matt CrumptonPublisher: Camp Street PressPublished: 11/14/2023Pages: 444Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9798989393510This title is not returnable
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The Idaho Conversion KitHow to be an Idahoan in "Ten Easy Steps." Or, in one easy step. Get yourself born here. You're home-free if you were smart enough to be born in Idaho. You can slap an Idaho Native bumper sticker on your Prius right now and...
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The History Of Gog And Magog The Champions Of London""The History of Gog and Magog: The Champions of London"" is a book written by John Galt that explores the mythical tale of two giant figures who were believed to have protected the city of London. The book delves into the origins of the...
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The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 Bc-89 Ad: The Struggle of China and a Steppe Empire Told Through Its Key FiguresThe Han-Xiongnu War (133 BC - AD 89) pitted the Han dynasty of China against a confederation of nomadic steppe peoples, the Xiongnu Empire. In campaigns waged on a huge scale by the standards of contemporary Western warfare (perhaps half a million soldiers were...
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The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: The Afghans Who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban"Beautifully researched and deeply moving, [this book] brought me to tears more than once" -- John Simpson, The Guardian "First-class...exhaustively researched and sensitively written" -- The Times The extraordinary true story of the Afghans who risked their lives for us The sudden withdrawal of...
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The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin AmericaA contemporary of Columbus noted "those crazy Spaniards have more regard for a bit of honor than for a thousand lives." This obsession flourished in the New World, where status, privilege, and rank became cornerstones of the colonial social order.Honor had many faces. To...
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The Everlasting ManIn this book G.K. Chesterton explains how religion-a blend of philosophy and mythology-satisfies both the human intellect and the spirit, and sets man starkly apart from any other living creature. Addressing evolution, feminism, and cultural relativism within the context of religion, the book also...
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The Encyclopedia of WarfareFrom the ancient world to the invasion of Ukraine, from the Hundred Years' War to the Six Day War, The Encyclopedia of Warfare presents the reader with more than 5,000 entries--arranged chronologically--on wars, campaigns, empires, rebellions, and counter-insurgencies. The Encyclopedia of Warfare is an...
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The Embedded Portrait: Giotto, Giottino, AngelicoA new study of the early Renaissance portrait In fourteenth-century Italy, ever more women and men--not only clergy but also laity--introduced their own portraits into sacred paintings. Images of modern supplicants, submissive and prayerful, shared space with the holy narratives. The portraits mimicked the...
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The Doctor Was a Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the FrontierNo women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the West, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East...
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The Dispossessed Majority: New EditionThe intent of this book is to supply members of this discomfited and threatened group-here provisionally defined as the American Majority-with a systematic diagnosis of the diseases and debilities that have laid them low and some suggestions for their recovery. So many liberals having...
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The Destruction of the Imperial Army: Volume 2 - The Battles Around MetzVolume Two, The Battles Around Metz, continues the most comprehensive account of the defeat of the French Imperial Army in the last 100 years, presenting previously unpublished source material.The Battles Around Metz, the second in a four volume series, takes a fresh and in...
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The Crooked Timber of Democracy in IsraelAuthor: Dahlia ScheindlinPublisher: de GruyterPublished: 12/04/2023Pages: 277Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58dISBN: 9783111395517
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The Courtship of Miles Standish; With Suggestions for Study and NotesThe book "" The Courtship of Miles Standish; With Suggestions for Study and Notes "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a...
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The Communist Women's Movement, 1920-1922: Proceedings, Resolutions, and ReportsThe Communist Women's Movement (CWM), virtually unknown today, was the world's first truly international revolutionary organisation of women. Formed in 1920, the CWM mapped out a programme for women's emancipation; participated in struggles for women's rights; and worked to advance women's participation in the...
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The Cinema of Wang Bing: Chinese Documentary Between History and LaborAn examination of the films of Chinese documentarian Wang Bing. In The Cinema of Wang Bing, Bruno Lessard examines documentarian Wang Bing's most important films. He focuses on the two obsessions at the heart of Wang's oeuvre--the legacy of Maoist China in the present...
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The Case for Sanctions Against IsraelIn July 2011, Israel passed legislation outlawing the public support of boycott activities against the state, corporations, and settlements, adding a crackdown on free speech to its continuing blockade of Gaza and the expansion of illegal settlements. Nonetheless, the campaign for boycott, divestment, and...
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