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The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 2: Theosopher & Christian CabalistThis is the 2nd volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage's Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), 'one of the great Hermetic philosophers', whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described...
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The Lithic Imagination from More to MiltonThe Lithic Imagination from More to Milton explores how stones, rocks, and the broadermineral realm play a vital role in early modern England's religious and cultural systems, a role that, in turn, informs the period's poetic and visual imagination. The scale of the human...
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The Life of the Soul: Jewish Perspectives on Reincarnation from the Middle Ages to the Modern PeriodThe Life of the Soul surveys the wide-ranging theories Jewish mystics have offered to the vexing question - what precisely transpires after we die? A common element in their theories is that human life is a part of a larger ecosystem of being which...
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The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became PresidentFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and leading historian Doris Kearns Goodwin comes a definitive middle grade guide to Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson and how they became leaders.Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin...
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The Last Zonian: Here's Where the Story EndsThe Last Zonian, Here's Where the Story Ends, is a compilation of twenty family stories, snippets, of life in the Panama Canal Zone, referred to as, "a slice of paradise." Numerous authors have written books about the Panama Canal Zone and prominent Zonians. The...
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The Land Cruiser Legend: Toyota's Cult Four Wheelers - All Models and Series, from 1951 to the PresentA complete history of these impressive vehicles which includes technical specs of all models and production lines Includes a separate timeline-poster of the history of the Land Cruiser Revised and extended edition Developed in 1951 as Toyota's version of a Jeep-like vehicle, the Land...
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The Judgements Concerning the Permissible and the ProhibitedAuthor: Yahya B. Al-HusseinPublisher: AlnadhiriPublished: 08/25/2024Pages: 682Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.10lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 2.00dISBN: 9781739522872This title is not returnable
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The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and FascismA major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world's most incisive--yet underrecognized--theorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World War II. The Japanese Ideology is his masterpiece, first published in 1935, as Japan and the...
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The Incarcerations: Bk16 and the Search for Democracy in IndiaIndia, the world's largest democracy, is facing its greatest challenge since the end of British colonial rule in 1947.The Incarcerations tells the remarkable and chilling story of the Bhima Koregaon case, in which 16 human rights defenders (the BK-16) -- professors, lawyers, journalists, poets...
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The House of Condulmer: The Rise and Decline of a Venetian Family in the Century of the Black DeathHow a lower patrician Venetian family strove for status and wealth over the course of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries The House of Condulmer tells the story of a lower patrician Venetian family in the wake of the Black Death, as they strove...
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The Heart of a Warrior: The Life of Ernest Leroy WebbAuthor: Robert C. Carroll, James R. Ellis, John H. FaganPublisher: Suncoast Digital Press, Inc.Published: 09/06/2024Pages: 134Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9781964143026
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The Haskins Society Journal 34: Studies in Medieval HistoryEssays illuminating a wide range of topics from Cistercian preachers and the "geography" of purgatory to royal and ecclesiastical justice and power. This volume continues the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages and demonstrates its belief...
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The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property RightsThe Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the colonial era to the current controversies over eminent domain and land use controls. The book emphasizes the interplay of law, ideology, politics, and...
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The Great Genesee Road: Traveling Through Time on New York State's Historic Route 5Today we call most of it New York Route 5. Over the centuries it has been called the Iroquois Trail, Genesee Road, Mohawk and Seneca Turnpike, Buffalo Road. In The Great Genesee Road, author Richard Figiel takes readers on a historical journey tracing the...
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The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-PrussiaWhat food production, presentation, and consumption reveals about the exercise of power in early modern Germany In politics, as with food, presentation is everything. At the court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Brandenburg-Prussia, the two combined in a way that illuminates the social and...
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The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism During the Second World WarFrom our country's most important war historian, a gripping account of the turbulent relationship between Canada and the US during the Second World War. The two nations entered the war amidst rivalry and mutual suspicion, but learned to fight together before emerging triumphant and...
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The Golden BullThe Golden Bull of 1356 (German: Goldene Bulle, Latin: Bulla Aurea) was a decree issued by the Imperial Diet at Nuremberg and Metz (Diet of Metz (1356/57)) headed by the Emperor Charles IV which fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years,...
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The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants 0f 1978In the late 1970s, the San Francisco Bay Area sportswriters labeled the growing group of born-again Christians on the San Francisco Giants the "God Squad." When the God Squadders helped propel the team to a strong 1978 season, challenging the Dodgers and Reds, they...
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The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election - Updated EditionA unique "moneyball" look at the 2012 U.S. presidential contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney "Game changer." We heard it so many times during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. But what actually made a difference in the contest-and what was just hype? In...
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The Frog BookCaldecott Honor-winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page's brilliantly illustrated exploration of the very unique nature of frogs. Now available in paperback.Perfect for fans of The Beetle Book and young readers looking for nonfiction about this perennially fascinating animal.Long legs, sticky tongues, big round...
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