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Benjamin Franklin ShawThis book is a biography of Benjamin Franklin Shaw, depicting his life and contributions to American civil society. It documents Shaw's political achievements, including his participation in the US Civil War, his ascent to the US Senate, and his advocacy of labor and workers'...
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Behind BarsAll the bars, taverns, and pubs described in this book are open for business serving alcohol and food on a daily basis. Some have been in operation for 400 years, many for at least 100 years. Most of these places are famous and they...
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Before War: On Marriage, Hierarchy and Our Matriarchal OriginsThe book Before War will change how its readers look at the world - by exposing the female roots of Western civilization. It draws on the evidence from anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, primatology, and the shocking new genetics data, to tell the story of Western...
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Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game"Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey's book proves it, without wasting a word."--Lee Eisenberg, author of The Number In Baseball, one of the great bards of America's Grand...
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Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant WomenThe Number 1 Bestseller 'A captivating account of lives previously ignored' Sunday Independent Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young...
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A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch FamilyA Sometimes Paradise is a poignant personal journey into the rugged beauty and hardscrabble challenges of Wyoming ranch life that shaped Mark Miller as a boy and then as a young man.Against the backdrop of deadly ice storms and punishing droughts in a harsh,...
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A Shot in the Dark: A History of the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare GroupThis book presents the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group (AWG) as an example of successful change by the Army in wartime. It argues that creating the AWG required senior leaders to create a vision differing from the Army's self-conceptualization, change bureaucratic processes to turn...
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A Reprint Of The Country Builder's Assistant, The American Builder's Companion, The Rudiments Of Architecture, The Practical House Carpenter, PracticeThis 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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A Real ChristianA Real Christian: The Life of John Wesley fills a void in available books in Wesleyan studies by providing a brief, solid biography that focuses on Wesley himself. While exploring Wesley's ancestry, birth, death, and every major biographical and theological event between, Collins also...
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Archaeology at Colonial BrunswickIn Archaeology at Colonial Brunswick, Stanley South recounts the decade-long excavation of this important North Carolina colonial port. He provides historical context and detailed interpretation of the many hundreds of objects uncovered. South's narrative guides the reader through a town and a way of...
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Arbiters of Patriotism: Right-Wing Scholars in Imperial JapanIn the 1930s and 1940s Marxist academics and others interested in liberal political reform often faced virulent accusations of treason from nationalist critics. In Arbiters of Patriotism, John Person explores the lives of two of the most notorious right-wing intellectuals responsible for leading such...
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An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War SouthThe Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of...
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An Introduction to the Desert FathersChristian monasticism emerged in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth century AD. This introduction explores its origins and subsequent development and what it aimed to achieve, including the obstacles that it encountered; for the most part making use of the monks' own words as...
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An Illustrated History of Islamic Architecture: An Introduction to the Architectural Wonders of Islam, from Mosques, Tombs and Mausolea to Gateways, PA fascinating survey of the glorious architectural achievements of the Islamic world, including mosques, giblas, madrasas, memorials for the dead, bazaars, buildings, courtyards and fortified walls. Features all the most outstanding examples of Islamic architecture, such as the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem,...
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A New Song We Now Begin: Celebrating the Half Millennium of Lutheran Hymnals 1524-2024We tend to remember hymns one at a time. They color our lives, transmit our theology, and form our faith. We forget that the reason we can do so is because they have been made available throughout the centuries in hymnals. This edited collection...
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Ancien Regime Et RevoluAuthor: Alexis De Tocqueville, A. TocquevillePublisher: Gallimard EducationPublished: 04/01/1985Pages: 378Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 7.22h x 4.36w x 0.68dISBN: 9782070322992This title is only available via back order
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An Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Critical EditionThe first critical, annotated edition of M. K. Gandhi's most famous written work "This pioneering critical edition subtly and invaluably expands our understanding of one of Gandhi's key texts--and our sense of the man himself."--Sunil Khilnani In the mid-1920s, prompted by a "small, still...
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Anatomy of a Genius: Leo Messi's Tactical Evolution at FC BarcelonaAnatomy of a Genius is a tactical breakdown of Lionel Messi's playing career at FC Barcelona. Despite spending his whole career with the club, the Argentine genius had to adapt and improve his game to become the foundation of Barca's modern success. This book...
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America the Beautiful: Revolutionary Readers for America's 250th Level 2Feel your heart warm as your child enjoys reading the lyrics of America the Beautiful set to beautiful, child-appealing pictures. This book is sure to inspire patriotism in children learning to read. America the Beautiful is a level two book in the Revolutionary Readers...
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America's Imagined Revolution: The Historical Novel of ReconstructionAmerica's Imagined Revolution explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution. Reading historical fiction by authors such as George Washington Cable, Albion Tourgée, Charles Chesnutt,...
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