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Sleuthing The Alamo - Davy Crockett'S Last Stand And Other Mysteries Of The Texas Revolution

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 In an engaging narrative format, Sleuthing the Alamo employs a particular archival 'find' in each chapter to show uow the meaning of the Texas Revolution, and especially the Alamo battle, cannot be understood without examining the construction of the histories and myths about the birth of the Texas Republic.
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Sleuthing The Alamo - Davy Crockett''S Last Stand And Other Mysteries Of The Texas Revolution

by James E. Crisp

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 Employing a particular archival 'find' in each chapter, this work show how the meaning of the Texas Revolution, and especially the Alamo battle, cannot be understood without examining the construction of the histories and myths about the birth of the Texas Republic.
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In Search Of The Promised Land - A Slave Family In The Old South

by John Hope Franklin e Loren Schweninger

17,21€ + 10% CARD

 Presented in a narrative format, this book tells the story of the Thomas-Rapier family of Nashville. It follows Sally Thomas and her sons James, Henry, and John to analyse the complex and ambiguous nature of slavery and freedom in the Old South.
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Wild Men - Ishi And Kroeber In The Wilderness Of Modern America

by Douglas Cazaux Sackman

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man but also for the cultures they represented. Each stood on the brink--one was in danger of losing something vital while the other was in danger of disappearing altogether. Ishi was a survivor, and he viewed the bright lights of the big city with a mixture of awe and bemusement. What surprised everyone is how handily he adapted himself to the modern city while maintaining his sense of self and his culture. Kroeber was professionally trained to document Ishi''s culture and his civilization. What he didn''t count on was how deeply working with the man would lead him to question his own profession and his civilization--how it would rekindle a wildness of his own. Although Ishi''s story has been told before in film and fiction, <em>Wild Men</em> is the first book to focus on the depth of Ishi and Kroeber''s friendship. Exploring what their intertwined stories tell us about Indian survival in modern America and about America''s fascination with the wild, this text is an ideal supplement for courses on Native American history, the U.S. West, and the history of California.
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Gentle Subversive - Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, And The Rise Of The Environmental Movement

by Mark Hamilton Lytle

18,54€ + 10% CARD

 Rachel Carson''s <em>Silent Spring</em> antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In <em>The Gentle Subversive</em>, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact life of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson''s ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision. We follow Carson from her childhood on a farm outside Pittsburgh, where she first developed her love of nature (and where, at age eleven, she published her first piece in a children''s magazine), to her graduate work at Johns Hopkins and her career with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Lytle describes the genesis of her first book, <em>Under a Sea Wind</em>, the incredible success of <em>The Sea Around Us</em> (a New York Times Bestseller for over a year), and her determination to risk her fame in order to write her "poison book": <em>Silent Spring</em>. The author contends that despite Carson''s demure, lady-like demeanor, she was subversive in her thinking and aggressive in her campaign against pesticides. Carson became the spokeswoman for a network of conservationists, scientists, and concerned citizens who had come to fear the mounting dangers of the human assault on nature. What makes this story particularly compelling is that Carson took up this cause at the very moment when she herself faced a losing battle against cancer. Succinct and engaging, <em>The Gentle Subversive</em> is a story of success, celebrity, controversy, and vindication. It will inspire anyone interested in protecting the natural world or in women''s struggle to find a voice in society.
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Escaping Salem - The Other Witch Hunt Of 1692

by Richard Godbeer

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 Tells the story of Kate Branch, a seventeen-year-old afflicted by strange visions and given to blood-chilling wails of pain and fright. Branch accused several women of bewitching her, two of whom were put on trial for witchcraft. This work takes us inside the courtroom - and inside the minds of the surprisingly skeptical Stamford town folk.
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Wild Men - Ishi And Kroeber In The Wilderness Of Modern America

by Douglas Cazaux Sackman

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man but also for the cultures they represented. Each stood on the brink--one was in danger of losing something vital while the other was in danger of disappearing altogether. Ishi was a survivor, and he viewed the bright lights of the big city with a mixture of awe and bemusement. What surprised everyone is how handily he adapted himself to the modern city while maintaining his sense of self and his culture. Kroeber was professionally trained to document Ishi''s culture and his civilization. What he didn''t count on was how deeply working with the man would lead him to question his own profession and his civilization--how it would rekindle a wildness of his own. Although Ishi''s story has been told before in film and fiction, <em>Wild Men</em> is the first book to focus on the depth of Ishi and Kroeber''s friendship. Exploring what their intertwined stories tell us about Indian survival in modern America and about America''s fascination with the wild, this text is an ideal supplement for courses on Native American history, the U.S. West, and the history of California.
ENGLISH

Sleuthing The Alamo - Davy Crockett''S Last Stand And Other Mysteries Of The Texas Revolution

by James E. Crisp

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 Employing a particular archival 'find' in each chapter, this work show how the meaning of the Texas Revolution, and especially the Alamo battle, cannot be understood without examining the construction of the histories and myths about the birth of the Texas Republic.
ENGLISH

Making Of A Confederate - Walter Lenoir''S Civil War

by William L. Barney

17,21€ + 10% CARD

 This book uses the life of one man--Walter Lenoir of North Carolina--to explore the origins of southern white identity and the ambiguities and complexities embedded in that history with devotion to the Confederate cause. Lenoirs intention to divest himself of his inherited slaves changed with the war's outbreak and he joined the Confederate army.
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Gentle Subversive - Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, And The Rise Of The Environmental Movement

by Mark Hamilton Lytle

18,54€ + 10% CARD

 Rachel Carson''s <em>Silent Spring</em> antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In <em>The Gentle Subversive</em>, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact life of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson''s ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision. We follow Carson from her childhood on a farm outside Pittsburgh, where she first developed her love of nature (and where, at age eleven, she published her first piece in a children''s magazine), to her graduate work at Johns Hopkins and her career with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Lytle describes the genesis of her first book, <em>Under a Sea Wind</em>, the incredible success of <em>The Sea Around Us</em> (a New York Times Bestseller for over a year), and her determination to risk her fame in order to write her "poison book": <em>Silent Spring</em>. The author contends that despite Carson''s demure, lady-like demeanor, she was subversive in her thinking and aggressive in her campaign against pesticides. Carson became the spokeswoman for a network of conservationists, scientists, and concerned citizens who had come to fear the mounting dangers of the human assault on nature. What makes this story particularly compelling is that Carson took up this cause at the very moment when she herself faced a losing battle against cancer. Succinct and engaging, <em>The Gentle Subversive</em> is a story of success, celebrity, controversy, and vindication. It will inspire anyone interested in protecting the natural world or in women''s struggle to find a voice in society.
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The Devil Himself - A Tale Of Honor, Insanity, And The Birth Of Modern America

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Spiritual Java

by Beni Johnson, Bill Johnson e Kris Vallotton

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Ankylosing Spondylitis

by Michael H. Weisman

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 Primarily a genetically determined family of diseases, AS typically strikes young people and young families. There is no cure, but medications, physical therapy, and surgery are used to control the disease. This book informs patients and their families about the disease, its outcome and prognosis, treatment concerns, drug side effects, and impact on functional disability.
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Specters Of Democracy - Blackness And The Aesthetics Of Nationalism In The Antebellum U.S

by Ivy G. Wilson

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 Specters of Democracy analyzes how African Americans used art as both a mode of critique and an articulation of democratic representation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Sacred Power, Sacred Space - An Introduction To Christian Architecture And Worship

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 Church buildings have played significant roles in the formation and ongoing development of Christianity. Neither mere witnesses to transformations of religious thought or nor simple backgrounds for religious practice, Kilde identifies church buildings as dynamic participants in religious change and as goldmines of information on Christianity itself.
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Frege On Definitions - A Case Study Of Semantic Content

by John (Professor Of Philosophy, Professor Of Philosophy, University Of Maryland) Horty

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 In this short monograph, John Horty explores the difficulties presented for Gottlob Frege's semantic theory, as well as its modern descendents, by the treatment of defined expressions.
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Wild Men - Ishi And Kroeber In The Wilderness Of Modern America

by Douglas Cazaux (, University Of Puget Sound) Sackman

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A Chronicle Of The Peacocks - Stories Of Partition, Exile And Lost Memories

by Intizar Husain

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 The 15 stories in this volume, introduced by Alok Bhalla, Draw upon the rich narrative traditions of Hindu and Buddhist mythologies and characterize Intizar Husain's unique understanding of Muslim identity in the Indian subcontinent.
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Multiliteracies And Diversity In Education - New Pedagogies For Expanding Landscapes

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 Exploring multimodal communication as literacy education from a research platform, this text combines analyses of the changes to communication and pedagogic practice, with sound research based on activities for multiliteracies classroom projects.
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All The Power In The World

by Peter (, Professor Of Philosophy, New York University) Unger

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 In this book, Unger attacks the commonly held idea that some qualities exist apart from the physical world and are more a matter of our perception, such as colours. Instead Unger argues that these qualities should be reconsidered as fundamentally physical. He then uses this idea to reengage the basic issues of metaphysics.
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Zen Ritual - Studies Of Zen Buddhist Theory In Practice

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Trans-Himalayan Caravans - Merchant Princes And Peasant Traders In Ladakh

by Dr Janet (, Researcher And Freelance Writer) Rizvi

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 Janet Rizvi describes and analyzes the extraordinarily complex pattern of trade upon which the pre-Independence economy of Ladakh depended. The text lays emphasis on the human dimension, showing how trades shaped the lives of men involved in them.

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