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Charity in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions
Julia R. Lieberman, Michal Jan Rozbicki, Thomas Adam
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• Author(s): Julia R. Lieberman | Michal Jan Rozbicki | Thomas Adam • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: World - GeneralThis collection of essays by a team of international scholars addresses the topic of Cha...
View full detailsTokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City
Barbara E. Thornbury, Evelyn Schulz, Jeffrey Angles
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• Author(s): Barbara E. Thornbury | Evelyn Schulz | Jeffrey Angles • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Asia - JapanThis interdisciplinary collection examines Tokyo in the cultural imagination. The contributo...
View full detailsImmaculate Conceptions: The Power of the Religious Imagination in Early Modern Spain
Rosilie Hernández
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• Author(s): Rosilie Hernández • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Europe - Spain & PortugalImmaculate Conceptions examines devotional writings, religious and literary texts, and ...
View full detailsThe Secret Yoga of the Vikings: How Odin Was Lost
Steven a. Key
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• Author(s): Steven a. Key • Publisher: Archway Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Archway Publishing • BISAC: GeneralWith their secretive poetic lore and even more mysterious pantheon of gods led by Odin the All-Father; Thor, the great Hammer-Strik...
View full detailsMapping Landscapes in Transformation: Multidisciplinary Methods for Historical Analysis
Thomas Coomans, Bieke Cattoor, Krista de Jonge
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• Author(s): Thomas Coomans | Bieke Cattoor | Krista de Jonge • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyThe development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other...
View full detailsGaining Competitive Advantage in the Gray Zon: Response Options for Coercive Aggression Below the Threshold of Major War
Lyle J. Morris, Michael J. Mazarr, Jeffrey W. Hornung
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• Author(s): Lyle J. Morris | Michael J. Mazarr | Jeffrey W. Hornung • Publisher: RAND Corporation • Publisher Imprint: RAND Corporation • BISAC: Military - StrategyIn this report, the authors examine how the United States might respond to Russia...
View full detailsBefore Che
Peter M. Rutkoff
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• Author(s): Peter M. Rutkoff • Publisher: Xoxoxpress • Publisher Imprint: Xoxoxpress • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - CubaSet in early 1950s Cuba, this novel explores the earliest days of what became the M-26-7 movement -- the Cuban Revolu...
View full detailsKILLING MAGELLAN in the Philippine Gold Islands The Untold Conspiracy and Beyond
Myrna J. Dela Paz
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• Author(s): Myrna J. Dela Paz • Publisher: Goldphin Media LLC • Publisher Imprint: Goldphin Media LLC • BISAC: ReferenceKilling Magellan presents the first successful united but untold indigenous conspiracy and resistance in the pre-Philippines ...
View full detailsLetters of a Russian Dissident: Ivan Pouschineâ (Tm)S Siberian Exile Correspondence
Anna Pouschine
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• Author(s): Anna Pouschine • Publisher: Academica Press • Publisher Imprint: Academica Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThe Russian nobleman Ivan Ivanovich Pouschine is most recognized for two achievements: his leadership role ...
View full detailsMaking the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order
Hal Brands
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• Author(s): Hal Brands • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises a...
View full detailsEmpire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention
Stephanie Malia Hom
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• Author(s): Stephanie Malia Hom • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyIts brilliant prose makes [Empire's Mobius Strip] easily accessible to anyone interested in today's migrat...
View full detailsEmpire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention
Stephanie Malia Hom
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• Author(s): Stephanie Malia Hom • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyIts brilliant prose makes [Empire's Mobius Strip] easily accessible to anyone interested in today's migrat...
View full detailsBishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul
Gregory I. Halfond
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• Author(s): Gregory I. Halfond • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalFollowing the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the ...
View full detailsThe Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France
Ronen Steinberg
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• Author(s): Ronen Steinberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution st...
View full details¿Por qué Donald Trump?
Milco Baute
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• Author(s): Milco Baute • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GeneralEste libro explica desde un punto de vista neutro, por la perspectiva del filósofo cristiano, profesor y editor cubano americano Milco Baute (quien no es...
View full detailsDie Altieri - Eine roemische Familie: Status und Selbstdarstellung vom 15.-17. Jahrhundert. Eine Nepotengeschichte
Volker Reinhardt, Hohwieler Susanne
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• Author(s): Volker Reinhardt | Hohwieler Susanne • Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P • BISAC: Ancient - RomeDas Schicksal der Altieri Familie im Rom der Fr...
View full detailsDie Ordnung Der Welt in Haus Und Staat: Gesellschaftliche Steuerung Im Westöstlichen Vergleich
Wolf Rainer Wendt
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• Author(s): Wolf Rainer Wendt • Publisher: Springer vs • Publisher Imprint: Springer vs • BISAC: World - GeneralIn der Welt bewähren und wandeln sich Haus und Staat als Basisinstitutionen menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Sie sind auf einer ökotheore...
View full detailsEast-West Exposure 101: Professors Who Brought East Asian Studies to Canada
Kenneth Lan
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• Author(s): Kenneth Lan • Publisher: Xlibris Us • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris Us • BISAC: ReferenceI wrote this book to fulfil my lifelong curiosity. For years, I have been fascinated by the history of my undergraduate major. How did I become a m...
View full detailsEast-West Exposure 101: Professors Who Brought East Asian Studies to Canada
Kenneth Lan
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• Author(s): Kenneth Lan • Publisher: Xlibris Us • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris Us • BISAC: ReferenceI wrote this book to fulfil my lifelong curiosity. For years, I have been fascinated by the history of my undergraduate major. How did I become a m...
View full detailsResistance and Unity: The Chinese Invasion, Makchi Shangri Lhagyal, and A History of Tibet [1947-1959]
Tashi Gelek, Dorjee Damdul, Tashi Dhondup
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• Author(s): Tashi Gelek | Dorjee Damdul | Tashi Dhondup • Publisher: Notion Press Media Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Notion Press Media Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book is an important addition to the history of Tibetan oppositio...
View full detailsThis We'll Defend: A Noncombat Veteran on War and Its Aftermath
Paul Crenshaw
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• Author(s): Paul Crenshaw • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press • BISAC: Military - VeteransIn June 1990, Paul Crenshaw shipped out for basic training for the National Guard. By A...
View full detailsPopular Music and Public Diplomacy: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Mario Dunkel, Sina A. Nitzsche
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• Author(s): Mario Dunkel | Sina A. Nitzsche • Publisher: Transcript Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Transcript Publishing • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralIn the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies...
View full detailsIncidents of Travel in Yucatan Volumes 1 and 2 (Annotated, Illustrated): Vol I and II
John L. Stephens
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• Author(s): John L. Stephens • Publisher: Sastrugi Press LLC • Publisher Imprint: Sastrugi Press LLC • BISAC: Latin America - MexicoWhat does it take to explore the ancient Yucatán?How many diseases can one survive?The definitive edition.- Featu...
View full detailsIncidents of Travel in Yucatan Volumes 1 and 2 (Annotated, Illustrated): Vol I and II
John L. Stephens
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• Author(s): John L. Stephens • Publisher: Sastrugi Press LLC • Publisher Imprint: Sastrugi Press LLC • BISAC: Latin America - MexicoWhat does it take to explore the ancient Yucatan?How many diseases can one survive?The definitive edition.- Featu...
View full detailsPursuing Gold: A Historical & Critical Thinking Curriculum
Cynthia L. Simmons
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• Author(s): Cynthia L. Simmons • Publisher: Elk Lake Publishing Inc • Publisher Imprint: Elk Lake Publishing Inc • BISAC: Study & TeachingDo you know how the Civil War changed money in America? Most people don't. This remarkable curriculum c...
View full detailsThe Making of a Civilian Soldier in the Civil War: The First Diary of Private William J. McLean Along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and the Affair at Ed
Dennis D. Urban
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• Author(s): Dennis D. Urban • Publisher: New Academia Publishing/Vellum • Publisher Imprint: New Academia Publishing/Vellum • BISAC: United States - Civil War
Alexander Dubček: The Symbol of Spring
Veda, Miroslav Londák, Slavomír Michálek
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• Author(s): Veda | Miroslav Londák | Slavomír Michálek • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThe book presents a detailed bi...
View full detailsAn Eerie Silence: An Oral History of Newark Firefighters at the WTC
Neal Stoffers
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• Author(s): Neal Stoffers • Publisher: Lulu Press • Publisher Imprint: Lulu Press • BISAC: GeneralNewark, NJ firefighters describe how they deployed to the World Trade Center the week of September 11, 2001, what they experienced while trying to ...
View full detailsRealities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership: From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel
Elisabeth Krimmer, Patricia Anne Simpson, Elisabeth Krimmer
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• Author(s): Elisabeth Krimmer | Patricia Anne Simpson | Elisabeth Krimmer • Publisher: Camden House (NY) • Publisher Imprint: Camden House (NY) • BISAC: Europe - GermanyThe Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging the...
View full detailsMore Than a Plea for a Declaration of Rights: The Constitutional and Political Thought of George Mason of Virginia
John R. Vile
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• Author(s): John R. Vile • Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • Publisher Imprint: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodGeorge Mason [1725-1792] is remembered as the father of the Bill of Rights and for his unwillingness...
View full detailsMedieval Franciscan Approaches to the Virgin Mary: Mater Misericordiae Sanctissima Et Dolorosa
Steven McMichael, Katie Wrisley Shelby
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• Author(s): Steven McMichael | Katie Wrisley Shelby • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis volume offers a sample of the many ways that medieval Franciscans wrote, represented in art, and preached about the ...
View full detailsDivining with Achi and Tārā
Jan-Ulrich Sobisch
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• Author(s): Jan-Ulrich Sobisch • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralDivining with Achi and Tārā by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch with contributions by Solvej Nielsen offers an introduction to and two detailed case studies of...
View full detailsExcavations at Mendes
Donald Bruce Redford
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• Author(s): Donald Bruce Redford • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe second volume of Excavations at Mendes provides results of archaeological work in the temple area and dromos at the site of Tel er-Rub'a, ...
View full detailsRobert Kilwardby's Science of Logic: A Thirteenth-Century Intensional Logic
Paul Thom
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• Author(s): Paul Thom • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - MedievalPaul Thom's book presents Kilwardby's science of logic as a body of demonstrative knowledge about inferences and their validity, about the semantics of...
View full detailsRemembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England's Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries
Jay Paul Gates, Brian T. O'Camb
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• Author(s): Jay Paul Gates | Brian T. O'Camb • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizi...
View full detailsThe Reformation of Historical Thought
Mark A. Lotito
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• Author(s): Mark A. Lotito • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: HistoriographyIn The Reformation of Historical Thought, Mark Lotito re-examines the development of Western historiography by concentrating on Philipp Melanchthon (...
View full detailsJohn of Moravia Between the Czech Lands and the Patriarchate of Aquileia (Ca. 1345-1394)
Ondřej Schmidt
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• Author(s): Ondřej Schmidt • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: World - GeneralIn this book, Ondřej Schmidt offers a critical biography of John of Moravia, illegitimate son of the Moravian Margrave John Henry from the Luxembour...
View full detailsPursuing Gold: A Historical & Critical Thinking Curriculum
Cynthia L. Simmons
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• Author(s): Cynthia L. Simmons • Publisher: Elk Lake Publishing Inc • Publisher Imprint: Elk Lake Publishing Inc • BISAC: Study & TeachingDo you know how the Civil War changed money in America? Most people don't. This remarkable curriculum c...
View full detailsAtomic Junction
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
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• Author(s): Abena Dove Osseo-Asare • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Africa - GeneralExamining the quest for nuclear power in Africa through the case of Ghana's Atomic Energy Commiss...
View full detailsPeace in the East: An Chunggun's Vision for Asia in the Age of Japanese Imperialism
Yi Tae-Jin, Eugene Y. Park, Kirk W. Larsen
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• Author(s): Yi Tae-Jin | Eugene Y. Park | Kirk W. Larsen • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Asia - JapanThis interdisciplinary collection examines the philosophy, politics, and legacy of An Chunggŭn. The c...
View full detailsAcross the Great Divide: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968-1980
Emily Honig, Xiaojian Zhao
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• Author(s): Emily Honig | Xiaojian Zhao • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThe sent-down youth movement, a Maoist project that relocated urban youth to remote rural area...
View full detailsVirgil's Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance
L. B. T. Houghton
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• Author(s): L. B. T. Houghton • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralVirgil's fourth Eclogue is one of the most quoted, adapted and discussed works of classical literatur...
View full detailsAcross the Great Divide
Emily Honig, Xiaojian Zhao
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• Author(s): Emily Honig | Xiaojian Zhao • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThe sent-down youth movement, a Maoist project that relocated urban youth to remote rural area...
View full detailsAtomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa After Independence
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
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• Author(s): Abena Dove Osseo-Asare • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Africa - GeneralAfter Atomic Junction, along the Haatso-Atomic Road there lies the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission...
View full detailsIslam Beyond Borders
James Piscatori, Amin Saikal
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• Author(s): James Piscatori | Amin Saikal • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralAssuming a central place in Muslim life, the Qur'an speaks of one community of the fa...
View full detailsTrust Among Strangers
Penelope Ismay
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• Author(s): Penelope Ismay • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the internal migration of a growin...
View full detailsSoviet Russians under Nazi Occupation
Johannes Due Enstad
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• Author(s): Johannes Due Enstad • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralIn this compelling account of life and death in a Russian province under Nazi occupation, Jo...
View full detailsThe Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev
Maria Rogacheva
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• Author(s): Maria Rogacheva • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralRogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the po...
View full detailsLearning to Fight
Aimée Fox
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• Author(s): Aimée Fox • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War ILearning, innovation and adaptation are not concepts that we necessarily associate with the ...
View full detailsCaptives of War
Clare Makepeace
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• Author(s): Clare Makepeace • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThis is a pioneering history of the experience of captivity of British pris...
View full detailsThe Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam
Najam Haider
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• Author(s): Najam Haider • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralEngaging with contemporary debates about the sources that shape our understanding of the early Muslim ...
View full detailsThe Plundering of the Vanquished: The Economic Repression During Early Francoism
Julio Prada Rodríguez
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• Author(s): Julio Prada Rodríguez • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: GeneralEconomic repression became a keystone of the social exclusion policie...
View full detailsThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: (Abridged, annotated)
Edward Gibbon, Amn
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• Author(s): Edward Gibbon | Amn • Publisher: Ancient Wisdom Publications • Publisher Imprint: Ancient Wisdom Publications • BISAC: Ancient - RomeAccording to Gibbon, the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the grad...
View full detailsHow They Survived and Why We Lost: Central Intelligence Agency Analysis, 1966: The Vietnamese Communists' Will to Persist
Thomas Fensch
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• Author(s): Thomas Fensch • Publisher: New Century Books • Publisher Imprint: New Century Books • BISAC: Military - Vietnam WarThe Vietnam war began for the United States in 1954; by 1966, the Central Intelligence Agency undertook a major analys...
View full detailsHerbert Grundmann (1902-1970): Essays on Heresy, Inquisition, and Literacy
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
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• Author(s): Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane • Publisher: York Medieval Press • Publisher Imprint: York Medieval Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn the field of medieval religious history, few scholars have matched the originality of the German academic...
View full detailsRwanda Inhumanness
Lewis Sano
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• Author(s): Lewis Sano • Publisher: Xlibris Us • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris Us • BISAC: ReferenceThe author talks about the testimony of two boys who successively lost their parents during the massacres in the Republic Democratic of Congo, DRC (...
View full detailsRwanda Inhumanness
Lewis Sano
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• Author(s): Lewis Sano • Publisher: Xlibris Us • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris Us • BISAC: ReferenceThe author talks about the testimony of two boys who successively lost their parents during the massacres in the Republic Democratic of Congo, DRC (...
View full detailsThe Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phædo
Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Henry Cary
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• Author(s): Plato | Benjamin Jowett | Henry Cary • Publisher: Benediction Books • Publisher Imprint: Benediction Books • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe Trial and Death of Socrates is the ideal compendium for a person wanting to learn more about the ...
View full detailsRoger of Lauria (C.1250-1305): Admiral of Admirals
Charles D. Stanton
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• Author(s): Charles D. Stanton • Publisher: Boydell Press • Publisher Imprint: Boydell Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalJust before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the oc...
View full detailsPolitics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie
John Coffey, Justin Champion, Tim Harris
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• Author(s): John Coffey | Justin Champion | Tim Harris • Publisher: Boydell Press • Publisher Imprint: Boydell Press • BISAC: Modern - 17th CenturyThis volume, a tribute to Mark Goldie, traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican...
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