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Report copyright infringementby Renée Worringer (Editor)Iranian and Ottoman travelers to Japan in the late nineteenth century found a model to admire--a culture that was beginning to take its place in the modern world without sacrificing its traditional culture. Their admiration was bolstered when Japan sunk the Russian Baltic fleet in 1905. This victory was celebrated across the Middle East, and dispelled the traditional colonial discourse of European supremacy. No longer, Japan had proven, ...
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Report copyright infringementby U S Marine Corps (Author), United States Marine Corps (Author)This doctrinal publication provides a comprehensive overview of the U.S. Marine Corps' approach to expeditionary operations. It outlines the principles, tactics, and strategies employed during missions where rapid deployment, adaptability, and readiness are key. Covering topics like amphibious operations, logistical support, and the integration of joint forces, this publication serves as a critical g...
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Report copyright infringementby Mary Clare Jalonick (Author)The definitive, unbiased account of the twenty-four hours surrounding the historic January 6th attack on the Capitol "A riveting account of one of the most consequential days in modern American history." --Ryan J. Reilly, author of Sedition Hunters The January 6th insurrection was a stunning and unprecedented attack on the center of American government. Unlike previous national traumas that united the country in the face of turmoil,...
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Report copyright infringementby Vernon Lee (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)The Spirit of Rome (1906) is a memoir by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance, The Spirit of Rome is a captivating meditation on the author's experiences in Rome. Raised in the city, she returns as an adult to find it as mysterious and magical as before, a place where any day could offer a chance to lose or discover ones...
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Report copyright infringementby Babak Rahimi (Author)A multisensory approach to the study of Shiʿi Iran that examines how devotional Moharram performances changed over time The mourning traditions of Moharram comprise a body of Shiʿi Muslim devotional performances commemorating the martyrdom of Hosayn ibn ʿAli, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and the Third Imam of the Shiʿi, in 680 CE. These traditional rites are performed during a period of communal mourning when Shiʿis remember Hosayn...
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Report copyright infringementby Midori Ogasawara (Author)In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, in the process creating a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Koseki system, in 1871. A few decades later, when Japan began to extract natural resources from and occupy Northeast China, fingerprint identification was introduced to track the movement of local populations. Taking a historical and sociologi...
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Report copyright infringementby Eva Plach (Author)Relief on the Hoof is about the thousands of horses and cattle that the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) shipped as humanitarian aid in the immediate aftermath of WWII and about the "seagoing cowboys" who cared for the animals during their trans-Atlantic journeys. UNRRA contracted the Church of the Brethren to recruit almost 7,000 men to do this work, and in exchange provided free passage on its ships to the catt...
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Report copyright infringementby Claude Traunecker (Author), David Lorton (Translator)The Gods of Egypt, first published in France in 1992 and now in its third French edition, is a short, elegant, and highly accessible survey of ancient Egyptian religion. The clarity and brevity of Claude Traunecker's book make it especially valuable to readers seeking an authoritative introduction to this complex topic. The Cornell edition, the first English translation, is enhanced by 23 illustrations. Traun...
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Report copyright infringementby Phillip P. Marzluf (Author)Language, Literacy, and Social Change in Mongolia is the first full-length treatment of literacy in Mongolian. Challenging readers' assumptions about Central Asia and Mongolia, this book focuses on Mongolians' experiences with reading and writing throughout the past 100 years. Literacy, as a powerful historical and social variable, shows readers how reading and writing have shaped the lives of Mongolians and, at the same time, how rea...
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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Mulhall (Author), Lewis V. Baldwin (Foreword by)Martin Luther King Jr. is widely viewed as an American civil rights leader who applied principled and situational nonviolence in efforts to eradicate racism, poverty, and violence in the United States in the 1950s and 60s. It is too often forgotten that he was also a self-proclaimed "world citizen" with a global vision, and that he envisioned the advance of globalization long before most of his contemporari...
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Report copyright infringementby Jason Burke (Author)SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE - An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the skies and the streets to hold the world for ransom In the 1970s, an unprecedented wave of international terrorism broke out around the world. More ambitious, networked and far-reaching than ever before, new armed groups terrorized the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage mission...
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Report copyright infringementby Tadeusz Swietochowski (Author), Swietochowski Tadeusz (Author)Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920 describes the rise of national identity among the Azerbaijanis - the Turkic-speaking Muslims of Russia's borderland with Iran - at the opening of the twentieth century. The principal focus is on the period from the Russian Revolution of 1905, when the Azerbaijanis began to articulate their national aspirations, until the establishment of the Soviet Azerbaijani Republic i...
