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Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico: Conspiracies and Uprisings, 1795-1873From the emergence of the first sugar plantations up until 1873, when slavery was abolished, the wealth amassed by many landowners in Puerto Rico derived mainly from the exploitation of slaves. But slavery generated its antithesis: disobedience, conspiracies, uprisings, and flight. Slave Revolts in...
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Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris; June 6 - Aug. 5, 1944; RevisedAcclaimed military historian John Keegan's investigation into World War II and the Normandy Invasion The armies of six nations met on the battlefields of Normandy in what was to be the greatest Allied achievement of World War II. With dramatic, driving power, John Keegan...
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Silence Equals Consent - the sin of omission: Speak Now or Forever Lose Your FreedomWHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT? How have godly people been persuaded to let ungodliness reign? President Eisenhower, 1954: "This relationship between a spiritual faith ... and our form of government is ... obvious ... 'Man is endowed by his Creator' ... born in the image...
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Short-hand Improved, Or A New & Practical System Of StenographyLearn the art of shorthand with this practical guide by William Whitehead, designed for students and professionals alike.This 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...
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Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United StatesYou need to work to live. That's the truth for most people, and plenty of bosses have been abusing that truth for centuries.Long before the first labor unions were formed, workers still knew what exploitation looked like. It looked like the enslavement of Black...
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Selections From Homer's Iliad: With an Introduction, Notes, a Short Homeric Grammar and a Vocabulary by Allen Rogers Brenner ..Selections from Homer's Iliad is a classic text of Ancient Greek literature. This edition, with an Introduction, Notes, a Short Homeric Grammar, and a Vocabulary by Allen Rogers Brenner, is an essential resource for any student of Ancient Greek. Brenner's annotations and grammar explanations...
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African SoldierWhen Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of...
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Scott Brown CartoonistScott Brown Cartoonist is about Scott Brown who was a nationally known cartoonist and proprietor of Brown's Drugstore and Soda Shop in Mansfield, Ohio, which served up "the largest, coldest and best chocolate sodas on route 30" along with chuckles, gags, and checkers. Brown's...
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Sabre Jet AceSabre Jet Ace is a story based upon the military records and flying deeds of the world's first triple jet ace-Captain Joseph McConnell, Jr. This is Mac's story. But it is also the story of daring young airmen, fighting their battles high in the...
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Run Baby Run (New Edition): The True Story of a New York Gangster Finding ChristOne of the most influential Christian books of modern times, with over 12 million copies sold worldwide. The book is being re-issued with a compelling foreword by Tim Dilena to emphasize its relevance today. Nicky Cruz's powerful story of redemption, salvation and transformation is...
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Route 66: A Guiding LightNigel, a Kiwi on a three-year assignment at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington, DC, is hell bent on riding a motorcycle along the iconic Route 66. Nigel willingly shares his intent with a few close friends, which generates multiple ideas and personal agendas....
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Roman Verse Satires: Spleen and IdealEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.The Romans claimed to have invented satire--one of the most enduring and certainly one of the most entertaining genres of literature bequeathed to posterity from the ancient world. Modern satire aims...
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Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for AfricaIn the 1880s, Europeans descended on Africa and grabbed vast swaths of the continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Rogue Empires follows a paper trail of questionable contracts to discover the confidence men whose actions touched off the Scramble for...
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Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and TriumphsFrom beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life. Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty...
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Robin UnhoodedTwo great mysteries of English history - who was the real Robin Hood and who killed William II, 'Rufus', in the New Forest, in 1100? ROBIN unHOODed presents new evidence in solving these unanswered questions of our history. Perhaps the most in-depth, innovative study...
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Riotous DeathscapesIn Riotous Deathscapes, Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that he terms Mpondo theory. Focusing on amaMpondo people from rural Mpondoland, in South Africa's Eastern Cape, Canham outlines the methodologies that have...
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Ridykes' Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant VideosThe first exhibition catalogue of the acclaimed queer, feminist curatorial initiative Ridykeulous, marking the occasion of their first institutional presentation in Europe at Nottingham Contemporary. Founded in 2005, Ridykeulous mounts exhibitions and events primarily concerned with queer and feminist art. This publication will be...
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Resisting Oklahoma's Reign of Terror: The Society of Oklahoma Indians and the Fight for Native Rights, 1923-1928The oil and natural gas boom in pre-World War I Oklahoma brought unbelievable wealth to thousands of tribal citizens in the state on whose lands these minerals were discovered. However, as Angie Debo recognizes in her seminal study of the period, And Still the...
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Remembering Crescent: Logging and Life on North Manitou Island 1907 - 1915Forty years after North Manitou Island was acquired by the National Park Service, the site of the village of Crescent is largely hidden in its 15,000-acre wilderness. But the memories have been preserved. In this book, the family of A.J. White, who ran the...
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Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project: Ideology, Politics, and Civil DisobedienceAn in-depth account of the ideology driving Israel's religious Zionist settler movements since the 1970s.Author: Moshe Hellinger, Isaac Hershkowitz, Bernard SusserPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 01/02/2019Pages: 348Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9781438468389About the AuthorMoshe Hellinger is Senior Lecturer...
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