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Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present DayFrom contraception to cloning and pregnancy to populations, reproduction presents urgent challenges today. This field-defining history synthesizes a vast amount of scholarship to take the long view. Spanning from antiquity to the present day, the book focuses on the Mediterranean, western Europe, North America...
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Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's EyeBarbie Zelizer reveals the unique significance of the photographs taken at the liberation of the concentration camps in Germany after World War II. She shows how the photographs have become the basis of our memory of the Holocaust and how they have affected our...
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Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis." (Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber...
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Race to the Potomac: Lee and Meade After Gettysburg, July 4-14, 1863Details the tense post-Gettysburg pursuit, as Lee and Meade navigate danger and strategy, shaping the course of the Civil War.Even before the guns fell silent at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee was preparing for the arduous task of getting his defeated Confederate army back safely...
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Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold WarInnovative new study mapping African American and Francophone black intellectual collaborations over human rights and citizenship from 1919 to 1963.Author: Sarah C. DunstanPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/15/2022Pages: 330Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74dISBN: 9781108732031
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Question 7An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author's life and family, and the role of fiction in our times By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair...
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Queer Techné: Bodies, Rhetorics, and Desire in the History of ComputingQueer Techné offers an intimate portrait of the practices, embodied knowledge, desires, and friendships that animate the technical innovation of early digital computing. This book explores archival materials from the Manchester University National Archive for the History of Computing, the site of some of...
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Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River: The Global Fight for Indian Independence and CitizenshipOregon is commonly perceived to have little, let alone notable, South Asian history. Yet in the early 1900s Oregon was at the center of two entwined quests for Indian independence and civic belonging that rocked the world. Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River traces...
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Psychedelic Wild Child: Coming of Age in The Source Family Cult{ure}Dawn became a part of a movement destined to change the way people think, act, and interconnect to seek truth, fairness, and cosmic consciousness. While the culture of being a Jew had been grounding in her life, the religion left questions with big blank...
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Protecting My Peace: A Black Woman's Guide to Ancestral Self-Care & HealingA comprehensive guide for black women seeking to prioritize their mental, emotional, and physical health Reclaim your peace. Protecting My Peace: Embracing Inner Beauty and Ancestral Power focuses on transforming self-perception, recreating ancestral traditions, and channeling the spiritual power of the African feminine divine....
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PRISONERS OF JAN SMUTS - Italian Prisoners of War in South Africa in WWIIEqually skilled in a variety of trades other than in the art of love, the Italian prisoners of war (POWs) who were incarcerated in South Africa during the Second World War are a source of great fascination to this day. Who were these men?...
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Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey's Cold WarThe remarkable true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years. John (Jack) Downey, Jr., was a new Yale graduate in the post-World War...
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Printers' Devices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Iconographic Sources and Ideological ContentThis book discusses the printers' devices used in Poland-Lithuania in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The compositions that served to identify the products of individual printers are explored here as previously unacknowledged research material for cultural studies: they allow for the reconstruction of the...
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Prehistoric World: 1,200 Incredible Mammals and Discoveries from the MesozoicPack your bags, time-travelers! Prehistoric World is your ticket to exploring a wild landscape of over 1,200 incredible prehistoric mammals.Did you know that the woolly mammoth's tusks could grow up to a whopping 16 feet long? Or that ancient kangaroos didn't hop? From ferocious...
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Powerful Moments in Sports: The Most Significant Sporting Events in American HistoryThis book features twenty events that had profound social, political, and cultural importance and inspired athletes and spectators alike. It examines how a particular moment in sports history revolutionized a sport, how a contest of speed inspired a nation, or even how a humble...
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Politics of Play: Wargaming with the Us MilitaryA wargaming renaissance has been underway in the US military. Having proven to be the most effective recruitment tool of the 21st century, games have proliferated across all levels of the military's strategic, operational, training, and rehabilitation architecture. From board games to high-tech digital...
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Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of AntiquityA definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-state The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and enduring to 350...
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PoemasSolo hay treinta y cuatro poemas de Nezahualcóyotl que puedan serle atribuidos con certeza: 10 se encuentran en Cantares mexicanos y 24 en Romances de los señores de Nueva España. También se le atribuyen varios poemas recogidos en la Historia chichimeca traducidos por Alva...
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Plumas County: History of the Feather River RegionThe expansive national forests, craggy canyons, sparkling waterways, and downy meadows of Plumas County lie along the union of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountain ranges in northeastern California. Native home to the Maidu tribes and settled by Euro-American gold seekers, Plumas County evolved...
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Playing the Trump Card Again- Is the COVID Jab the realization predecessor of the Mark of the Beast?- Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution the Abomination of Desolution?- Should we fear the coming destruction of Earth by Extraterrestrials?As Donald J. Trump once again throws everything on the table for...
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