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The Gospel According to This Moment: The Spiritual Message of Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau is best known as a writer, naturalist, and social critic, but he was also a schoolteacher, surveyor, and pencil-maker. In The Gospel According to This Moment, Unitarian minister Barry M. Andrews reveals how an idiosyncratic and unconventional religious faith was central...
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The Grandest Larceny: The Foundation of IsraelJ.E. Thomas challenges the common assumption that Israel was founded to right a historical wrong.A unique event--the handing over of an entire country by another that did not own it, to a people who simply laid claim to it by virtue of their myths...
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The Geopolitics of Culture: James Billington, the Library of Congress, and the Failed Quest for a New RussiaThrough the lens of James Billington and the institution he led as Librarian of Congress during a key period of US-Russian relations, The Geopolitics of Culture examines culture as a neglected area of US foreign policy. Billington advised presidents and members of Congress and...
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The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New EconomyIn 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to...
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The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of WormsCharles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZS was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 09/03/2018Pages: 138Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30dISBN: 9781722214319This title is not...
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The First EnterprizeAuthor: Deborah SpencerPublisher: Tactical 16Published: 01/10/2023Pages: 384Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19dISBN: 9781943226726This title is not returnable
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The First African American SamuraiAuthor: Tyrone R. Aiken MspmPublisher: Archway PublishingPublished: 05/17/2024Pages: 222Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781665758116
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The First African American SamuraiAuthor: Tyrone R. Aiken MspmPublisher: Archway PublishingPublished: 05/17/2024Pages: 222Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47dISBN: 9781665758093
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The Fight That Saved The Libraries: A True Rhode Island Story"It's great that the story of Linda Kushner, and the community leaders who came together to save Providence's community libraries, is being told. I've witnessed and been a part of many advocacy efforts over the years-but this one stands out to me because of...
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The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the Us-Mexican Border and BeyondArnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning--that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. "It was like a bomb exploded in my life," Arnovis said. The Dispossessed tells...
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The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the Us-Mexican Border and BeyondArnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning--that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. "It was like a bomb exploded in my life," Arnovis said. The Dispossessed tells...
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The Diary of a Young GirlWriting in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a...
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The Dialectical Conflict of Religious and Secular Ideologies in the Middle East: A Philosophical and Historical AnalysisDr. Mamoon Amin Zaki has direct experience with key moments in many Middle Eastern countries. He witnessed the impact that Ataturk has on the monarchical system in Iraq and Turkey and lived through the overwhelming socialist influence of Jamal Abdul Nasser. Furthermore, Zaki was...
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The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat"Brilliant, hardhitting description of modern war on the U.S. Army's premier training ground. A must-read tactical primer for today's warrior."--John C. "Doc" Bahnsen, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.) At the turn of the century a small, humorous book on tactics was published. The Defense of...
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The Decline of the West: Perspectives of World-HistoryIn the second and more controversial, albeit optimistic, volume of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler deals with the world-historical perspectives of his comparative cultural morphology. The periodical calm surrounding the constant and eternally recurring movements, described in the first volume, is over....
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The Decline of the West: Form and ActualityThe first volume of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West is a milestone in historiography. It is not a standard history book. Instead, it tries to explain the mechanisms that make different cultures tick. While classical culture had no concept of the past...
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The Deadline: EssaysFew, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles...
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The Concept of Woman: A Synthesis in One VolumeA comprehensive account of women in Western thought, from ancient Greece, through the Middle Ages, to today In her sweeping, three-volume study, Sister Prudence Allen examined how women and men have been defined in relation to one another scientifically, philosophically, and theologically. Now synthesized...
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The Civic Bargain: How Democracy SurvivesA powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive--if we want it to Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being "tested" or is...
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The Chin Hills: A History of the People, Our Dealings With Them, Their Customs and Manners, and a Gazetteer of Their CountryThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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