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Rosie's Riveting Recipes: Comfort Foods & Kitchen Wisdom from 1940s AmericaFrom an era when American women pulled up their trousers, slipped on their gloves, and stepped up to the plate comes this intriguingly hip companion to the ultimate 1940s kitchen. More than 200 recipes--from cooking goodies for soldiers to re-creating dazzling libations--and timeless tips...
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Rooftop Societies: The Middle East ParadoxA "rooftop society" is based on socio-cultural and political contradictions, the historical rivalry and antagonism between existing components of society. Apart from antagonism between citizens and the state, political power struggles, the rivalry between modernism and traditional forces; the presence of redundant parallel institutions...
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Roman Empire for Kids: The history from the founding of Ancient Rome to the fall of the Roman EmpireRoman Empire for Kids: The history from the founding of Ancient Rome to the fall of the Roman Empire-----------Do you wish to help your little one understand a bit about the history and are specifically interested in making them understand the Roman Empire?And are...
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Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity Volume 14A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ritual Boundaries, Joseph E. Sanzo transforms our understanding of how early Christians experienced religion in lived practice through the...
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Replacement Marines: The Levy to the Twenty-First Century's War on TerrorIn the annals of history, wars have been recounted by countless historians, but there's a recurring problem that plagues their narratives: readers already know how the story ends, making the events seem inevitable. The true essence of war lies not just in the strategic...
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Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American West"Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism," Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms throughout...
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Raw Deal - The Indians of the Midwest and the Theft of Native LandsRAW DEAL explores the theft of Native lands by squatters, speculators, unfair treaties and blatant swindles, focusing on the Indians of the Midwest and the Great Lakes.Although Indian lands were paid for with hard cash and services provided by the U.S. government, it was...
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of EmpiresNo animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare,...
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Radical Connecticut People's History In The Constitution StateWho really makes history?Radical Connecticut: People's History in the Constitution State tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the...
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Race Life of the Aryan Peoples: An Ethnographic History of the Indo-Europeans - Vol. 1Joseph Pomeroy Widney offers a history of the Aryan race, which when this book was published in 1907 was thought a branch of the Indo-European and Caucasian peoples.The author practiced as a medical doctor, having first gained experience during service in the U.S. Civil...
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Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North AmericaPerceptions of the United States as a nation of immigrants are so commonplace that its history as a nation of emigrants is forgotten. However, once the United States came into existence, its citizens immediately asserted rights to emigrate for political allegiances elsewhere. Quitting the...
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Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North AmericaPerceptions of the United States as a nation of immigrants are so commonplace that its history as a nation of emigrants is forgotten. However, once the United States came into existence, its citizens immediately asserted rights to emigrate for political allegiances elsewhere. Quitting the...
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Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our WorldThe shift from scientific materialism to a multidimensional worldview in harmony with the world's great spiritual traditions - Articulates humanity's critical choice--to be the last decade of an outgoing, obsolete world, or the first of a new and viable one - Presents a new...
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Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early SinologyWith a focus on Robert Morrison, Protestant Missionaries in China evaluates the role of nineteenth-century British missionaries in the early development of the cross-cultural relationship between China and the English-speaking world.As one of the first generation of British Protestant missionaries, Robert Morrison went to...
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Principia EthicaG.E. Moore is often remembered for his exposition of the the 'naturalistic fallacy, ' which he explained in "Principia Ethica" by thrashing the views of Herbert Spencer, in particular. In this book, Moore addresses questions such as "What is 'good'?" and "How can one...
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Pride: A Celebration in QuotesThese thoughtfully selected quotations have been taken from throughout history, and from a variety of voices, celebrating everything the LGBTQIA+ community has achieved. Containing words of courage, hope, and pride, they focus on inclusivity and remind us that love is one of the world's...
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Power of Israel in the United StatesThis book is a chapter-by-chapter analysis and documentation of the power of Israel via the Israeli, Jewish or Pro-Zionist Lobby on US Middle East policy. It raises serious questions as to the primary beneficiary of US policy, and its destructive results for the United...
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Potato to French FryCrisp on the outside and soft on the inside, French fries are a popular comfort food. But how does a lumpy potato become this fried favorite? Each page of this fascinating title includes leveled text that follows the potato's path to becoming French fries....
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Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew's Defiance in a Time of TerrorAn intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the demagogue who becomes the Nazi Führer--Adolf Hitler. In a...
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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 36: Jewish Childhood in Eastern EuropeChanges in childhood and children's roles in society, and in how children participate in determining their own lives, have long been of interest to historians. Recent years have seen the emergence of new perspectives on the study of childhood, both in historical scholarship and...
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