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Traditional Navajo Teachings: The Earth Surface People"The Earth Surface People, the final work in this trilogy, provides teachings about Navajo life from cradleboard to grave. Central to all is achieving "Long Life, Happiness" as one moves through various stages of existence. The second half of this book examines thoughts concerning...
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To the Ends of the Earth: How Ancient Conquerors, Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the WorldA sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mythology is full of tales of heroes setting out for the unknown. Such tales reflected and instilled a sense of confidence in the...
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They Taught Me How To Be The Man I Am: Mentors and MenteesAny way you look at it, people mattered hugely in my life! Ordinary relationships that were loving, compassionate and nurturing assured my survival while growing up Black in Jim Crow Deep South. They guided me through difficult coming of age experiences, and prepared me...
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The Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay"I must have presented a strange and humorous sight to him as I carefully approached on the rickety pier, arms slightly extended for balance. Cameras and tape recorders and bags hung from straps around my neck and shoulders, and my right hand tightly gripped...
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The Wanderer: James Butler Hickok and the American WestAuthor: Craig CreasePublisher: Caxton PressPublished: 06/01/2024Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780870046544
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The Uses of Oppression: The Ottoman Empire Through Its Greek Newspapers, 1830-1862During the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a generation of Ottoman Greeks was caught up in radical social and political changes, including the period of reforms known as Tanzimat. The Ottoman Greek press was both a product and an agent of these changes....
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The United States and the Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, PoliticsDuring the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have long described these massacres as genocide, one of Hitler's prime inspirations for the Holocaust, yet the United States did not...
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The Uncommon Life of Danny O'Connell: A Tale of Baseball Cards, Average Players, and the True Value of America's GameIn "The Uncommon Life of Danny O'Connell," the author explores the life of Danny O'Connell, a player often overlooked in the annals of baseball history due to his status as a "common" card in the collecting world. O'Connell's story is much more than his...
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The U-2 Over the Soviet Union: America's Famous Cold War Spy Plane from a Soviet PerspectiveOn 1 May 1960, a traditional military parade was held in Moscow. What stood it out from the previous ones, however, was the number of missiles, and in particular the ground-to-air anti-aircraft variants, that were present.There was perhaps nothing surprising in this dominance of...
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The Two Babylons: Or, the Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod"The Two Babylons: Or, the Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod" is a thought-provoking exploration that unveils intriguing parallels between ancient religious practices and modern-day worship. Within its pages, readers embark on a captivating journey through history, delving deep into the...
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The TrinityThe ground-breaking treatment of the doctrine of the Trinity by one of the most important theologians of the century is here reprinted on the 30th anniversary of its orginal publication. In this treatise, Karl Rahner analyzes the place of the doctrine of the Trinity...
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The Strange Death of American ExceptionalismThere have been numerous books that purport to explain the current "populist" moment, but in The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism, Jack Ross puts both sides of the culture war into historical context. Ross explains both the self-destruction of the Christian right and the...
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The Story of Dinosaurs: A First Book about Prehistoric BeastsThis brilliant book introduces the dinosaurs that once roamed our planet. Using bitesize text and beautifully bright illustrations, this is the perfect book for dinosaur lovers everywhere. The world was once full of magnificent beasts, big and small, who stomped across the land, soared...
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The Stoic Emperor: The Life of Marcus AureliusImmerse yourself in the splendors and tribulations of the Roman Empire at its zenith, as you traverse the intriguing life of one of the most enigmatic rulers in history: Marcus Aurelius, The Stoic Emperor.From the shadows of a tumultuous childhood in Rome's glittering palaces...
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The Spanish Road: Travels Along Florida's Royal Road, El Camino RealThe Mission Road: "And lo A light from Heaven shown down, And I beheld through the briars The Mission Road of the Franciscan friars." Early on the morning, April 6, 2013 while visiting the old Suwannee River crossing at Charles Spring, I saw this...
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The Scott Collection: Minnesota's Black Community in the '50s, '60s, and '70sIn the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, Minneapolis resident Walter R. Scott produced a series of books profiling the African American community of the Twin Cities. The people and stories presented in the three original volumes--Centennial Edition of the Minneapolis Beacon (1956), Minneapolis Negro Profile...
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The Reesor Siding Tragedy: Canada's Bloodiest Labour ConflictNorthern Ontario, January 1963. Weeks of violence and rising tension, mob mentality, and failures in leadership culminated in the Reesor Siding Tragedy: a shooting that took the lives of three strikers from the Spruce Falls Pulp and Paper Company and left eight wounded. In...
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The Prince Niccolò MachiavelliThe Prince is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals. The general theme of The Prince is of accepting that the aims of princes - such as glory and...
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The Pirates' Code: Laws and Life Aboard ShipFall captive to the code--the real-life buccaneer bylaws that shaped every aspect of a pirate's life. Pirates have long captured our imaginations with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches, and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was...
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The Pinos Altos StoryThe Pinos Altos Story, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and...
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