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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation): Life in Native America - Paperback

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by David Treuer (Author), Sheila Keenan (Adapted by)"Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated--if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today--and the fight to preserve language and traditions"--Author BiographyDavid Treuer i...

30,000 Stitches: The Inspiring Story of the National 9/11 Flag - Hardcover

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by Amanda Davis (Author), Sally Wern Comport (Illustrator)An MASL Dogwood Reader's Award Title Discover the inspiring story of the American flag that flew over Ground Zero, traveled across all fifty states as it was repaired, and returned to New York as a restored symbol of unity. In the days following September 11th, a 30-foot American flag hung torn and tattered at 90 West Street, across from Ground Zero. A few weeks later, the flag was taken down by a construction crew and tucked away in s...

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by Shana Keller (Author), David C. Gardner (Illustrator)Throughout his life, Benjamin Banneker was known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy, just to name a few pursuits. But even when he was born in Maryland in 1731, he was already an extraordinary person for that time period. He was born free at a time in America when most African Americans were slaves. Though he only briefly attended school and was largely self-taught, at a young age Benjamin displayed a keen ap...

Catholic Traditions and Treasures: An Illustrated Encyclopedia - Hardcover

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by Helen Hoffner (Author), Folley (Illustrator)New converts and cradle Catholics alike are often perplexed by the myriad of devotions, traditions, practices, and beliefs that the Catholic Church has accumulated over the past twenty centuries. Why pray to St. Anthony to find something lost? Why keep a St. Christopher medal in your car? Or why bury a statue of St. Joseph -- upside down! -- in your yard when selling your house?In Helen Hoffner's lovingly-illustrated, encyclopedic Catholic Treasu...

The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View - Paperback

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by Ellen Meiksins Wood (Author)An expanded new edition of the classic, pithy account of capitalism's origins--"a must read" for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice) How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe? In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the bi...

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary - Paperback

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by Maoshing Ni (Author)The Neijing is one of the most important classics of Taoism, as well as the highest authority on traditional Chinese medicine. Its authorship is attributed to the great Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor, who reigned during the third millennium BCE. This new translation consists of the eighty-one chapters of the section of the Neijing known as the Suwen, or "Questions of Organic and Fundamental Nature." (The other section, called the Lingshu, is a technical book on acupunct...

Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Vol. III: The 16th Century, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 161) - Hardcover

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by Kenneth M. Setton (Author)The third of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the battle of Lepanto (1566-1571). Contents: Pius III, Julius II, & the Romagna; Venice, the Soldan of Egypt, & the Turks; The League of Cambrai, the Turks & the Gallican Conciliarists; The Council of Pisa-Milan & the Battle of Ravenna, the Fifth Lateran Council & Seli...

Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics: A Source Based Guided Study, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 89, Part 3 - Paperback

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by A. Mark Smith (Author)Contents: (I) Ancient Theories of Visual Perception: The Physics of Vision; The Physiology of Vision; The Psychology of Visual Perception; (II) Optics Proper: Analysis of Direct Vision: The Visual Cone; The Visual Perception of Physical Space; Binocular Vision; (III) Catoptrics: Analysis of Vision by Reflected Rays: The Law of Equal Angles; Multiple Reflections and Multiple Images; The Principles of Image-Location; Image-Formation and Distortion; Visual Effecs from Co...

Fish-Shape Paumanok: Nature and Man on Long Island, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 58 - Paperback

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by Robert Cushman Murphy (Author), Steven C. Englebright (Contribution by)The bittersweet message of this volume is at once Robert Cushman Murphy's celebration of the magnificent environment and history of Long Island that inspired him; a chronicle of man's destructive tendencies as they found focus on this sandy strand; and a gentle warning to change our ways. Although it weaves history and natural history into a time-sequenced story, this is not just a book about the past. Its broad scope s...

Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. II: Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 214) - Paperback

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by Marshall Clagett (Author)The 2nd of 3 vols. by Prof. Marshall Clagett on Ancient Egyptian Science. Contents: Part I: Intro. to Egyptian Calendars; Parker's Account of the Old Lunar Calendar; The Later Lunar Calendar; The Origin of the Civil Calendar; Sothic Dates & the Ebers Calendar; The Night Hours; Decanal Clocks; Transit Decanal Clocks; The Ramesside Star Clock; Outflow Water Clocks; Inflow Water Clocks; Shadow Clocks; Egyptian Sundials; Traces of a 24-hour Day with Equal Hours; As...

Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. III: A Source Book, Ancient Egyptian Mathematics, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 232) - Paperback

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by Marshall Clagett (Author)Continues Clagett's studies of the various aspects of the science of Ancient Egypt. Like its predecessors, it has two main objectives: first to summarize & analyze the principal features of a nascent & yet important part of that science, namely its mathematics, & second to present in English six of the most important mathematical documents on which the preceding analysis was based. Thus we find treated in the first part of the work Egyptian measurement ...

Joseph Hume: The People's M.P., Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 163) - Paperback

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by Paul R. Ziegler (Author), Ronald K. Huch (Author)When Scotsman Joseph Hume died in 1855 his contemporaries assumed he would be remembered as one of the most important politicians of his time. He was a champion of free-trade principles & radical reform. Though Hume never held office, he was in the forefront of nearly every major reform endeavor in the first half of the 19th century. He rose to popularity on the basis of his attack on government spending. Like most other free traders, Hu...

Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism -- A Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B.C., Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 64, Part - Paperback

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by Derek De Solla Price (Author)Contents: Discovery of the Antikythera shipwreck; Discovery of and research on the mechanism fragments, 1902-73; The casing, general construction, and dial work; The arrangement of the plates and components of the mechanism; The door plates and orientation and use of the mechanism; The accuracy of gear teeth numbers; Description of individual gears and gear trains; The inscriptions; The Antikythera mechanism as an historical document; The early history of geari...

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Report copyright infringementby Stuart Chase (Author), Unknown (Author) Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: June 17, 1981

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Report copyright infringementby Doris Goodrich Adams (Author), Unknown (Author)A rewritten and enlarged version of the author's thesis, this study is concerned with Iraq's people--their social characteristics, population structure, and potentialities for population growth; and Iraq's resources--their present state of development, the level of living they provide, their potentialities, and the plans for fulfilling these potentialities.Author Biographyams /f Doris /i Goodrich Numbe...

Charles Beard and the Constitution: A Critical Analysis of an Economic Interpretation of the Constitution

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Eldon Brown (Author), Unknown (Author)In this work, Robert E. Brown applies the fruits of modern historical scholarship toward an understanding of Beard's groundbreaking and controversial work. With a perspective of forty years, Brown attempts to separate the valid from the bogus in this work.Author Biographyown /f Robert /i Eldon Number of Pages: 228 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 26, 1979 ...

The United States and the African Slave Trade: 1619-1862

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Duignan (Author), Clarence Clendenen (Author), Unknown (Author)This work is not intended to be a history of the slave trade, but rather to show that the slave trade was an important economic and cultural factor in the formative days of the U.S.Author Biographyignan /f Peter ndenen /f Clarence Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 24, 1978

A History of Organized Labor in Argentina

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Report copyright infringementby Rodney Wallis (Author), Robert Jackson Alexander (Author)In this the third of a series of studies of the history of organized labor in Latin America and the Caribean, Alexander explores the history of the Argentine labor movement from the mid-19th century onward. Throughout most of the 20th century, Argentina had one of the largest, strongest, and most militant organized labor movements in the Western Hemisphere. While the roots of the labor movement can be tra...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Jackson Alexander (Author)Robert J. Alexander traces organized labor from its origins in colonial Cuba, examining its evolution under the Republic, noting the successive political forces within it and the development of collective bargaining, culminating after 1959 in its transformation into a Stalin-model labor movement. In Castro's Cuba, organized labor has been subordinate to the Party and government and has been converted into a movement to control t...

Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Costeloe (Author)Within a few years of their liberation from Spanish rule in the 1820s, several of the new Spanish American republics floated loans in London's financial market. All the debtor nations, from Mexico to Chile, had defaulted within five years, a situation which resulted in their exclusion from European capital markets for much of the 19th century. Most studies of such debt approach the subject from the debtor's viewpoint, some arguing that ...

Transition to Democracy in Eastern Europe and Russia: Impact on Politics, Economy and Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Wejnert (Editor), Barbara Wejnert (Other)Using examples of democratic changes in former Communist states, Wejnert provides a dual-level conceptual framework that concentrates on objectification of the fundamental and unique roles of various mechanisms and components of transition. The first of these two levels is an integrative framework of the diverse social processes of transition. Here, the essays included examine the effects of global and domestic f...

Bipartisan Strategy: Selling the Marshall Plan

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Report copyright infringementby John Bledsoe Bonds (Author)Bonds closely examines the process of bipartisanship in the creation and passage of the Marshall Plan in 1947-48, as the Truman administration confronted the first Republican Congress since 1929. The significant effect of process on policy and the evolving Cold War is illustrated, offering new insights into that confrontation. Employing extensive archival research, Bonds examines the reciprocal relationship of effect between domestic ...

The Political Economy of Latin America in the Postwar Period

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Randall (Editor)The historic and increasing interdependence of the Latin American and U.S. economies makes an understanding of the political economies of Latin American nations particularly timely and important. After World War II, many nations initially implemented import substituting industrialization policies. Their outcomes, and the shift in policies, are related to the domestic policies and world economic conditions that led to government deficits, i...

Oil and Development in Venezuela During the 20th Century

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge Salazar-Carrillo (Author), Bernadette West (Author)This book advances the theory that a potential leading export sector--in this case, the oil sector--is capable of inducing economic growth even in peripheral countries where the product line is primary in nature. In Venezuela the oil sector has contributed directly and indirectly to the development of the country's overall economy, particularly from 1936 to 1973, when that sector met the criteria of a lea...

The New Imperial Economy: The British Army and the American Frontier, 1764-1768

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Report copyright infringementby Walter S. Jr. Dunn (Author)During the Seven Years War the British economy had expanded rapidly to meet the demands of equipping the army and navy as well as subsidizing Britain's European allies. After the war, the economy was left without sufficient markets to absorb the extra production. This situation led to a persistent drive to open new markets, especially in the American colonies. When the British decided to maintain an army in America after 1764, these t...

Socialism and the Individual: Notes on Joining the Labour Patry

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Report copyright infringementby William Angus Sinclair (Author), Unknown (Author)Author Biographynclair /f William /i Angus Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 01, 1978

The Political Economy of Housing and Urban Development in Africa: Ghana's Experience from Colonial Times to 1998

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Report copyright infringementby Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang (Author)Providing adequate, accessible, and affordable housing is a major problem affecting many African countries. Focusing on the West African country of Ghana, Konadu-Agyemang explores the urban housing question in light of current development theories. He concludes that it would be naive to see Ghana's housing crisis primarily as a result of political instability or economic mismanagement. Instead, the author argues that economic and ...

The War Within World War II: The United States and International Cartels

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Report copyright infringementby Franklin Maddox (Author)This encompassing study traces the issues of international cartels from the early days of World War II through the occupation of Germany and Japan. It focuses attention on the Justice Department's Economic Warfare Section as it utilized its resources in uncovering economic and strategic information that could be used in the war effort, such as the selection of economic bottlenecks for bombing. Maddox examines how cartels such as I. G. Fa...

The Feminization of Development Processes in Africa: Current and Future Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby James Etim (Author), Valentine James (Author)Women have historically provided vision and leadership to African countries and are now being recognized as pivotal to the overall sustainable development of Africa. In many cases, however, this recognition has not resulted in the empowerment of African women, who still face great discrimination. This edited volume explores the contributions women have made to all phases of development--planning, design, construction...

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Report copyright infringementby Hassan N. Diab (Author)Diab examines the social repercussions of Beirut's role as a financial, trade, and banking center in the Middle East during Lebanon's post-independence years (1943-1975). He investigates the development of Beirut and its early financial involvement in the region, particularly through the introduction of the cash crop, silk, to Mount Lebanon. He examines the impact of such involvement on steering the Lebanese social structure and economy t...

The Microcomputer Industry in Brazil: The Case of a Protected High-Technology Industry

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Report copyright infringementby Eduardo Luzio (Author)In 1977 Brazil initiated the market reserve policy to protect and reserve its domestic market for its own computer manufacturing companies. The basic assumptions on which its plans rested were fatally flawed, however, and the experiment failed to a large degree. This work investigates to what extent the policy, so carefully fashioned, fell short of its target and left Brazil with expensive and poorly made products. The author also evaluate...

An Economic Record of Presidential Performance: From Truman to Bush

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Report copyright infringementby Richard J. Carroll (Author)For the first time, trends in 20 major economic and federal budget indicators, most reported since World War II, are presented in a single source. The economic performances under each presidential administration are ranked for each indicator, as well as for their overall performance. The results are often surprising and counter-intuitive, challenging many popular beliefs. This presentation of averages, trends, and illustrations will a...