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Christ the King Lord of History: A Catholic World History from Ancient to Modern TimesHere is a fast paced, highly readable and interesting Catholic world history. It clearly illustrates that Christ is the central figure in all of history. Unabashedly proud of our brilliant Catholic heritage, Dr Carroll examines all historical developments from the point of view of...
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Catholic Apologetics: A Course in Religion - Book IVNo Catholic should pass beyond the age of 16 without being able to answer clearly, both to himself and to others, the challenges of those who do not believe in the existence of God, of Christ or the teachings of the Catholic Church. In...
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Catholic Morality: A Course in Religion - Book IIISuggestions for study. A brief but complete book on traditional Catholic morality. Covers every basic aspect--the purpose of life, free will, the Natural Law, positive divine law, human positive laws, elements of a moral act, virtues, Christian perfections, Evangelical Counsels, nature of sin, kinds...
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The Life and Glories of St. Joseph: Husband of Mary, Foster-Father of Jesus, and Patron of the Universal ChurchNo words of St. Joseph are recorded In Scripture. In fact, little mention is made of him there. Yet, despite these seeming limitations, the Church nonetheless possesses an indescribably rich knowledge of St. Joseph and of his cultus. This book will astound most readers...
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Early Wills of Mecklenburg County, Virginia 1765-1799By: Katherine B. Elliott, Pub. 1963, Reprinted 2017, 222 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-378-X.Mecklenburg County was created in 1765 from Lunenburg County, VA. It did suffer some loss of legal records but did not as the result of the Civil War. This volume contains abstracts...
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Georgia Citizen and Soldiers of the American RevolutionBy: Robert S. Davis, Jr., Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2019, 268 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-169-8.More than 1,700 citizens, 1,000 Patriot soldiers, and 800 Loyalists are included in this volume. Also, records of many Virginians who served in Georgia Continentals; of members of South Carolina Continental...
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The AllagashAuthor: Lew DietzPublisher: Down East BooksPublished: 01/01/1991Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58dISBN: 9780892725151
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Columbus & CortezThe controversy, the conquest, the mission, the vision. Columbus - conquistador or Christ-bearer? Did Christopher Columbus exploit the people of America, or did he evangelize them? What were his true goals, his motives, his reasons for undertaking the dangerous voyage? Cortez - militarist or...
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Hamburger Hill: The Brutal Battle for Dong AP Bia: May 11-20, 1969The battle for Ap Bia Mountain (Hill 937), was one of the fiercest of the entire Vietnam War.Author: Samuel ZaffiriPublisher: Presidio PressPublished: 12/06/1999Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.52h x 5.60w x 0.72dISBN: 9780891417064About the AuthorSamuel Zaffiri is a military historian and a former soldier....
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Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining CompanyThis is the fascinating story of Howard E. Perry and his Terlingua fiefdom on the edge of Big Bend National Park. Ragsdale's Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company is perhaps the best book written on the Big Bend country.--William H. Goetzmann Before Terlingua...
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Torpedoes in the Gulf: Galveston and the U-Boats, 1942-1943 Volume 40At the beginning of America's involvement in World War II, Galveston Island was a recreation center for area servicemen. Every evening throngs of soldiers, sailors, and Marines strolled along the seawall, basking in the warm sun and soft gulf breezes. Red, pink, and white...
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The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915Sarah Carter provides a detailed description of marriage as a diverse social institution in nineteenth-century Western Canada, and the subsequent ascendancy of Christian, lifelong, heterosexual, monogamous marriage as an instrument to implement dominant British-Canadian values. It took work to impose the monogamous model of...
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Guide to Indigenous Rock Carvings of the Northwest Coast: Petroglyphs and Rubbings of the Pacific NorthwestWhat is a petroglyph? Who made them and why? What is rock rubbing? How is it made? In her book, Guide to Indigenous Rock Carvings, Beth Hill examines these questions. She gives a fascinating introduction to the subject of First Peoples Petroglyphs of the...
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From the Tundra to the Trenches"My name is Weetaltuk; Eddy Weetaltuk. My Eskimo tag name is E9-422." So begins From the "Tundra to the Trenches." Weetaltuk means "innocent eyes" in Inuktitut, but to the Canadian government, he was known as E9-422: E for Eskimo, 9 for his community, 422...
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Laws of Early Iceland: Gragas IIThe laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages....
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Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870sIn the 1870s, approximately 18,000 Mennonites migrated from the southern steppes of Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine) to the North American grasslands. They brought with them an array of cultural and institutional features that indicated they were a "transplanted" people. What is less frequently noted,...
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In Order to Live Untroubled: Inuit of the Central Artic 1550 to 1940Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ancient and contemporary Inuit societies, the Inuit world in the crucial period from the...
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If Monet Painted a MonsterEdward Hopper's monster lurks outside the nighthawks' diner. James Whistler's monster rocks in her chair. Monsters invade masterpieces by Dorthea Tanning, Paul Cezanne, M.C. Escher, Jean Michel Basquiat, Giuseppe Archimboldo, Rene Magritte, Henri Rousseau, Franz Kline, Frida Kahlo, Bob Thompson, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Thomas Hart...
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The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld BooksDarnell and Darnell present the first, complete English translation of the ancient Egyptian books of the Netherworld, originally composed during the middle of the second millennium BCE. These texts contain philosophical and theological speculation about the inner workings of the cosmos, particularly the events...
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Intellectual WarfareTestifying that the foundation of modern Western thought, theory, and practice can be traced back to ancient African thought, theory, and practice, this book exposes the African influence on Greek and Roman thought and its influence on the development of modern Western society. It...
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