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Partners are FriendsBased on a true story of military service, partnership, and adventure. Illustrated and written by U.S. Marines, this book immerses readers in a snowy city across the world as a U.S. cyber team quickly helps their partners, their friends, protect their computer networks from...
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Participation in Heavenly Worship: From Apocalyptic Mysticism to the Eucharistic SanctusThe idea of participation in heavenly worship is a fascinating perspective on the Christian Eucharistic liturgy. Although somewhat forgotten in modern times, the early church knew it as a central aspect of meaning in interpretations of the Eucharistic rite. Through this rite worshippers could...
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Paramoderne: Anselm Feuerbachs Gastmahl Des Plato Und Die Tragodie Der KunstreligionWo es weder vor noch zuruck geht, hilft nur ein Schritt zur Seite. Die Moderne scheint auch asthetisch abgewirtschaftet zu haben, und doch steht jede Fortschritts- oder Uberwindungshoffnung weiterhin in der Schuld der historischen Avantgarden. Post-, Neo-, selbst Arrieregarde von heute teilen dasselbe Schicksal...
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Panzer IV, Medium Tank: German Army and Waffen-SS Normandy Campaign, Summer 1944When the Allied armies landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944 the backbone of the armored reaction force awaiting them was made up of 758 Pzkpfw IV tanks, a number which represents almost half the fully-tracked vehicles available for the defence of...
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Panta Pei: Change in Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Architecture, Art, and Material CultureThe year 1204, when Byzantium was conquered by the participants of the Fourth Crusade, marks a major and violent change on several levels, including politics and the economy, society and religion, as well as art and culture. The once powerful empire experienced both the...
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Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice MovementSchool choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The rhetoric of school choice, however, resembles that of segregationists following Brown v. Board, who closed public...
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On the Incarnation of Christ: Against the Heretic NestoriusSt John Cassian's little treatise on the Incarnation is of a very different character his better-known works of spirituality, the Institutes and the Collations. Cassian wrote the De Incarnatione in 429, at the request of Leo, Archdeacon of Rome, as part of the build-up...
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On GamblingPascasius Justus Turcq was born in the Flemish town of Eeklo. As a young man, he travelled through Spain before devoting himself to the study of philosophy and medicine in Italy. On gaining his doctorate, he returned north and settled in Bergen-op-Zoom, where he...
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Odyssey of a Seattle Native SonThe autobiography of a local and national leader in education and civil rightsCarver Clark Gayton's story bears witness to Seattle's experience of race and the importance of family, teachers, teamwork, and building bridges in the context of the civil rights movement. It is a...
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Oceans of Fate: Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of AsiaThe remarkable story of how one ship -- doomed by war -- intersected lives and crossed into history. Completed in 1913 for Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Asia plied the oceans for nearly 30 years. Built for long-haul ocean travel during peace-time, she saw...
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O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian CultureThis book, made up of studies of Canadian writers and books, represents perhaps the first attempt on the part of an American critic to deal at the same time with the literatures of both French and English Canada. Among the authors discussed are Morley...
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Novaesium X: Die Augusteisch-Tiberischen Lager Von Novaesium / Die BefundeEnglish summary: The Roman camps of Novaesium, today's Neuss, which are part of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, existed from Augustan times until 275/276. The volume Novaesium X completes the material presentation on the excavations and reconstructs the sequence of the various camps. Numerous...
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Nottingham Medieval Studies 65 (2021): Special Issue: Cistercians and Regular Canons in Medieval Western EuropeAuthor: Paul EvansPublisher: Brepols PublishersPublished: 12/31/2022Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 13.29lbsISBN: 9782503592329This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Norman ConnectionsOn the occasion of a large cultural-historical special exhibition being shown in Mannheim's Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums in 2022/23, two publications provide new perspectives on the diversity of the Norman world. This volume of essays, which will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue, offers the results of...
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No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United StatesThe Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws--its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the outsized influence of the Supreme Court--Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley Law School and one...
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Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New FranceNobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter between Canadian, Indian, and French cultures of war and diplomacy. This narrative highlights the relationship...
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New SudansOver a million southern Sudanese people fled to Sudan's capital Khartoum during the wars and famines of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. This book is an intellectual history of these war-displaced working people's political organising and critical theory during a long conflict. It explores...
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New Hampshire TriviaRebecca "Becky" Rule's New Hampshire Trivia is a fascinating, educational, and entertaining collection of facts and stories that will test your knowledge and spark your curiosity to learn even more about this great state. New Hampshire may be a small state, but it has...
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Nature's Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit HumanityThe 15,000-year story of how grass seduced humanity into being its unwitting labor force--and the science behind it. Domesticated crops were not human creations, and agriculture was not simply invented. As Robert N. Spengler shows, domestication was the result of an evolutionary process in...
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Nashville Metro: The Politics of City-County ConsolidationAs Nashville's governance is under increasing scrutiny by the Tennessee General Assembly, many Nashvillians are struggling to understand what our metropolitan form of government is and why we chose to reorganize our city this way in 1963. Nashville Metro was first published in the...
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