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Owen Sound: The Port CityThe beginning of Owen Sound can be traced to the 1840 historical meeting, in a small forest clearing, between surveyor Charles Rankin and land agent John Telfer. Owen Sound: The Port City begins with the Native Peoples of the area and moves through pioneer...
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Firewater: The Impact of the Whiskey Trade on the Blackfoot Nation"The whiskey brought among us by the Traders is fast killing us off and we are powerless before the evil...we are unable to pitch anywhere that the Trader cannot follow us." Chief Crowfoot Between 1870 and 1875, hundreds of Blackfoot Indians died as a...
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Gandhi: India's Great SoulThis engaging introduction to Gandhi will show you how one person can accomplish big things. This colorful book offers you a window into the world of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the most amazing people of the twentieth century. You will learn about Gandhi's life--from...
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Famous Samurai: The Warring States PeriodThe Warring States period (1467-1568) was the most destructive in Japan's long history of civil strife. It began when the dearly won supremacy of the Ashikaga clan was squandered by a weak and indecisive ruler, allowing the jealous rivalry between local warlords to spiral...
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Government's EndAn earlier edition of this extraordinarily prescient, elegantly written book created a sensation among Washington media insiders when it was published more than five years ago under the title Demosclerosis. In it, Jonathan Rauch, a former correspondent for The Economist and a columnist for...
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The Spirit World2011 Reprint of 1921 edition. Illustrated Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Fully illustrated with dozens of charts and drawings. This book covers all phases of the spirit world; particularly the powers of good and evil; the...
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In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of ArousalIn Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal is a new history of voluntary flagellation in Europe, from its invention in medieval relgious devotion to its use in the modern pornographic imagination. Working with a wide range of religious, literary, and medical...
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Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern EuropeWho are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world without centralized administrations, where names and addresses were constantly changing? In...
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Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFKHumiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate.Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that Robert...
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Letters from the UndergroundIn March, 1974, facing drug charges in a case in which he claims he was innocent, Abbie Hoffman, one of the Chicago Seven, became a fugitive, forced to leave behind Anita, his wife of eight years, and america, their four year old son. During...
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May I Quote You, General Lee? (Volume 2): Observations & Utterances of the South's Great GeneralsThis second volume of words and statements of Robert E. Lee speak of duty and principle, faith and doubt, bravery in the face of certain defeat, hard choices, and the qualities of leadership that made him great. Lee's command was characterized by gallantry and...
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Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity: The First SeriesExplores a new relation between magnetism and electricity. In this title, Faraday shows us his unsuccessful as well as his successful experiments, and his crude ideas as well as his developed ones, and the reader is tempted to believe that, if he had the...
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Cleveland Amusement Park Memories: A Nostalgic Look Back at Euclid Beach Park, Puritas Springs Park, Geauga Lake Park, and Other Classic ParksNortheast Ohioans who grew up visiting amusement parks in the 1940s through 1970s will cherish the memories captured in this book, which includes Euclid Beach Park, Luna Park, Geauga Lake Park, Puritas Springs Park, White City, Memphis Kiddie Park, Geneva-on-the-Lake, and others. Those boisterous,...
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Death Ride at Euclid Beach: And Other True Tales of Crime & Disaster from Cleveland's Past"Has more than its fair share of violence, sex, debauchery and reversals of fortune ... But what emerges between the lines are stories of human suffering, stories of class struggle, stories that speak as much to the criminal mind as to the crime itself."...
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Runes and MagicOriginally published in 1986, based on the author's 1984 doctoral dissertation, this volume has become the leading academic study of the topic of rune-magic. When originally released only 250 copies of this work were printed in a prohibitively expensive edition. This new revised and...
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The Seven Faces of DarknessHere is a book which penetrates to the core of the Typhonian current active in the world today-- and does so by returning to the very fountainheads of Setian practice and philosophy. Never before has anyone made the true Typhonian current more plain and...
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The Rivers Ran EastLong out of print, this is a riveting firsthand account of Leonard Clark s search for the legendary lost Seven Cities of Cibola reputedly home to enormous reserves of gold in the rain forest east of the Peruvian Andes. A former U.S. Army intelligence...
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Japan's Greatest Victory/ Britain's Greatest DefeatThe fall of Singapore was the worst defeat ever suffered by the British Empire; this dramatic account emphasizes the initiative and tactics that enabled 60,000 Japanese to defeat 130,000 British.Author: Masanobu TsujiPublisher: Da Capo PressPublished: 10/22/1997Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.03w x...
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Guide to Kemetic Relationships: Ancient Egyptian Maat Wisdom of Relationships, a Comprehensive Philosophical, Legal and Psychological Manual to ApplyAccording to statistics more than half of marriages fail. Why is there strife between friends, between family members, between parent and child, between communities, between neighborhoods, and between countries? This volume is perhaps the most important book Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) philosophy on the subject...
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The Story of Asar, Aset and Heru: An Ancient Egyptian Legend Storybook and Coloring Book24. THE STORY OF ASAR, ASET AND HERU: An Ancient Egyptian Legend (For Children) Now for the first time, the most ancient myth of Ancient Egypt comes alive for children. Inspired by the books The Asarian Resurrection: The Ancient Egyptian Bible and The Mystical...
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