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Black Homeownership on Martha's Vineyard: A HistoryMartha's Vineyard has always been a unique island and vacation destination, made even more diverse with the arrival of Black homeowners in the 19 th century. Early landowners included the formerly enslaved Charles Shearer, who along with his wife Henrietta, founded Shearer Cottage. However,...
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Bizarre Medical Ideas: ... and the Strange Men Who Invented ThemThis book focuses on the individuals who invented specific forms of alternative medicine. Examples are Hahnemann (homeopathy), Still (osteopathy), Schulz (autogenic training). In total, about 40 such personalities are included in the book. They have all led unusual lives, and the book explores their...
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Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive SkyscrapersA "thrilling" (Financial Times) fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires' Row--from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal "Deeply informative, delightfully entertaining, and addictively...
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Beyond Zen: D. T. Suzuki and the Modern Transformation of BuddhismBeyond Zen: D. T. Suzuki and the Modern Transformation of Buddhism is an accessible collection of multidisciplinary essays, which offer a genuinely new appraisal of the great Zen scholar-practitioner, D. T. Suzuki (1870-1966). Suzuki's writings and lectures continue to exert a profound influence on...
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Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of HairdressingFrom the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women's hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America. In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant, but it could also impact...
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Believing Ancient Women: Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and RomeThis volume deploys recent feminist epistemological frameworks to analyze how concepts like knowledge, authority, rationality, objectivity and testimony were constructed in Greece and Rome. The introduction serves as a field guide to feminist epistemological interpretations of classical sources, and the following sixteen chapters treat...
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Beginning Biblical HebrewAchieving the right balance of amount of information, style of presentation, and depth of instruction in first-year grammars is no easy task. But Mark Futato has produced a grammar that, after years of testing in a number of institutions, will please many, with its...
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Beacon HillBeacon Hill, an historic district and one of the oldest neighborhoods in America, welcomed its first resident in the 1620s. In colonial days, the area served as a strategic look-out point; in the early years of the 1800s it quickly developed into a home...
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Baseball: An Astrological SightlineThe Magic of Baseball Made ClearMany of us recognize that ineffable quality within baseball. Movies such as Field of Dreams and Damn Yankees speculate into metaphysical elements of the game. But so far, nothing has been written that makes lucid the spiritual aspect of...
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BacktrackingThis memoir is the quintessential account of Fred Gray-sheepherder, soldier, husband and father, surveyor, and businessman-growing up and living in the Western frontier town of Buffalo, Wyoming, during the century following his birth in 1924. The reader will find him backtracking through his 90-plus-year-life...
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A world divided: superpower relations, 1943-72A world divided: superpower relations, 1943-72 is the period study that investigates the origins of the Cold War, three of the key Cold War Crises and the attempts to ease the tensions of the Cold War. You will study the role key individuals played...
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A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam's Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded AgeCharles Cowlam's career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. His life touched many of the most prominent figures of the era, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant. One...
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A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider WithinThe U.S. Declaration of Independence of 1776 decreed that all men were created equal and were endowed by their Creator with "certain unalienable Rights." Yet, U.S.-born free and enslaved Black people were not recognized as citizens with "equal protections under the law" until the...
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Awesome Battles for Kids: The Colonial Wars"An engaging and enlightening book that takes young readers on a thrilling journey through the conflicts that shaped the colonial era. Young readers will find themselves immersed in the stories of bravery, strategy, and determination." -Booksprout ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Dive into the dramatic clashes of Europe's quest...
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Aunt Charlotte's Stories Of Roman History For The Little OnesThis 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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Army Brat: World War IIThe lives of Army brats have always been a core component of the US military. Scarcely described until now, Army Brat: World War II is an essential account that fills a major gap in history.Author Laura Thurston Gutman lived deeply embedded within the US...
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Arms and the ManArms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the Swiss soldier who begs her to hide him a terrible coward....
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Arizona Politics and Government: The Quest for Autonomy, Democracy, and DevelopmentArizona has become a swing state in recent national elections, the source of controversial policies and policy proposals, and the home of well-known political personalities. In this new edition of Arizona Politics and Government, David R. Berman examines contemporary issues in a broad historical,...
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ArgentinaIn this vibrant and informative book, readers are invited to take a trip to the fascinating country of Argentina! They'll discover all there is to see and do when visiting Argentina today. They'll also learn about the nation's past, its people, and its long...
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ArgentinaIn this vibrant and informative book, readers are invited to take a trip to the fascinating country of Argentina! They'll discover all there is to see and do when visiting Argentina today. They'll also learn about the nation's past, its people, and its long...
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