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The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean - Paperback

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by M. Doreal (Translator), Bart Marshall (Editor)Most ancient spiritual texts are of unknown or uncertain origin, but few are as deeply shrouded in myth, legend and mystery as The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, and the closely associated, and more well-known Emerald Tablet, attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. The Emerald Tablets of Thoth did not surface until 1925, but the Emerald Tablet of Hermes has a rich history weaving through much of antiquity.Scholars speak of the Emerald Table...

Who's Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can You Make a Roux? - Hardcover

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by Marcelle Bienvenu (Author), Randy Krause Schmidt (Photographer), Emeril Lagasse (Foreword by)Marcelle Bienvenu's highly anticipated new release of her timeless classic, Who's Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can You Make A Roux? is a treasure trove of over two hundred recipes, now complete with a foreword by Emeril Lagasse and sumptuous color photography capturing the essence of every season.Praised by The New York Times in 2009 as "having what might be the best-named cookbook in America" ...

Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape - Paperback

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by Richard Manning (Author)"The most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command," begins Richard Manning's vivid, anecdotally driven account of the American plains from native occupation through the unraveling of the American enterprise to today. As he tells the story of this once rich, now mostly empty landscape, Manning also describes a grand vision for ecological restoration, currently being set in motion, that would est...

North to Boston: Life Histories from the Black Great Migration in New England - Hardcover

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by Blake Gumprecht (Author)Between World War II and 1980, tens of thousands of Black people moved to Boston from the South as part of the Great Migration, one of the most consequential mass movements of people in American history. Black migration from the South transformed the city, as it did urban areas across the country. North to Boston is the first book to examine that important subject. Blake Gumprecht traces the history of this migration and explores its impacts in greater depth through...

The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia: A History - Paperback

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by John Binns (Author)Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart. It has the longest archaeological record of any country in the world: indeed, this precipitous mountain land was where the human race began. It is also home to an ancient church with a remarkable legacy. The Church of Ethiopia is the only pre-colonial church in sub-Saharan Africa; today it has a membership of around forty million and is rapidly ...

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by Josh Quick (Author)'More Montana Quick Facts' is a complete 104 page collection of original illustrations telling fantastical but accurate stories about Montana. It's a book filled with fanciful one-sentence facts paired with drawings that will surprise and delight readers of all ages. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.29 x 6.5 x 6.5 IN Publication Date: August 09, 2023

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America - Hardcover

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by Michael Harriot (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. “Michael Harriot has...

The Agony of Displacement: Testimonies of the Survivors from the Genocide in Gaza (English Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Nawal Halawa (Editor in Chief), Hanadi Bader (Illustrator), Ursula DeYoung (Editor)A compilation of accounts by survivors of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, and other events associated with what is commonly referred to as the Nakba. This is a translation of the book that was originally published in Arabic, by Phoenix Publishing and Distribution of Amman, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Nawal Faheem Abed Alrouf Halawa, the author/editor, is a novelist and researc...

From Rails to Trails: The Making of America's Active Transportation Network - Paperback

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by Peter Harnik (Author)If, as Wallace Stegner said, the national park is "the best idea we ever had," the rail-trail is certainly a close runner-up. Part transportation corridor, part park, the rail-trail has revolutionized the way America creates high-quality, car-free pathways for bicyclists, runners, walkers, equestrians, and more. It was only a few decades after railroad barons had run roughshod over America's economy and politics that they began to shed nearly one hundred thousand mile...

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by Sun Tzu (Author) Number of Pages: 112 Publication Date: October 18, 2022

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by Jen Taylor (Illustrator)Good Night, National Parks board book, with interactive slide-action pages and activity prompts, is a clever way to explore 9 different national parks at night.Good Night, National Parks board book takes you and your toddler on an outdoor adventure as the day ends to explore 9 different national parks in the evening. The interactive activity prompts and 9 slide-action pages add to the explorations with little readers watching shooting stars and colorful sunsets, cou...

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Report copyright infringementby Troy Taylor (Author)For nearly two decades, Troy Taylor has been chronicling the haunted history of Illinois, from its ghost-infested houses to its abandoned graveyards and beyond. In this volume of hauntings from the Prairie State, Taylor has recruited the staff of the award-winning Illinois Hauntings Tours to submit stories and accounts of their favorite haunts from every corner of the state, resulting in a collection of tales from Taylor and the motley crew ...

Ulysses S. Grant: Conversations and Unpublished Letters; Volume 1 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby M. J. 1835-1898 Cramer (Author)This incredible collection of conversations and unpublished letters from Ulysses S. Grant sheds new light on the life and legacy of the great American hero. Follow along as Grant discusses everything from military strategy and political maneuvering to family and personal matters in his own words.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

Niagara Falls: The History of North America's Most Famous Waterfalls - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Charles River (Author)*Includes pictures *Includes historic descriptions of Niagara Falls written over the centuries *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elemen...

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by Snorri Sturluson (Author)"The Prose Edda," a timeless compilation of Old Norse tales and poetic theories meticulously crafted by Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. Offering a treasury of myths, legends, and insights into Viking Age beliefs, this cornerstone of Norse literature unveils the rich tapestry of gods, giants, and heroes that populate the ancient Nordic cosmos. From the thunderous exploits of Thor to the cunning wisdom of Odin, each story resonates with the ec...

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by W. E. B. Du Bois (Author)The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W E B. DU BOIS. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African-American in American society. Outside of its notable...

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by Bertha Adele Penny (Author), Constance Taylor (Compiled by)Cruise Alaska aboard the Steamer NorthwesternDiscover what it was like to travel to Alaska in the early 1900s.These are the stories told by America's writers and editors as they visited Alaska's cities, glaciers, mines and farmlands at the end of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909."There is a subtle illusive, intangible something that grips the heart of the visitor to Alaska."The delightful story, told in the voice of turn...

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by Bruce Gordon (Author)A "wonderful...highly comprehensive" (John Barton, author of A History of the Bible) global history of the world's best-known and most influential book For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus's departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and see...

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by Mark of Ephesus (Author), Nico Hatzi (Translator), D. P. Curtin (Translator)This work addresses the Orthodox understanding of posthumous purification, namely the Latin doctrine of Purgatory, responding to claims about the liberation of repentant souls through purifying sufferings and assistance from the living. It affirms the efficacy of prayers and liturgies for the deceased, citing historical teachings that support this practice. However, it refutes the idea of a purifying fire or punish...

Cactus Queen: Minerva Hoyt Establishes Joshua Tree National Park - Hardcover

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by Lori Alexander (Author), Jenn Ely (Illustrator)How did the Joshua Tree National Park in California come to be? Meet Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, an artist, activist, and environmentalist, whose determination saved the desert and helped to create the park, in this STEAM picture book. Long before she became known as the Cactus Queen, Minerva Hamilton Hoyt found solace in the unexpected beauty of the Mojave Desert in California. She loved the jackrabbits and coyotes, the prickly cacti, and especial...

Trail of Tears: A History from Beginning to End - Paperback

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by Hourly History (Author)Discover the remarkable history of the Trail of Tears...In the early 1800s, the Five Civilized Tribes-the Cherokee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Muscogee-Creek, and Choctaw-were living in lands allocated to them by the United States government in present-day Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In general, the Native American people lived in peace with the increasing numbers of white settlers coming to these areas, though there were occasional conflicts as ...

Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State - Paperback

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by Brooks Blevins (Author)What do Scott Joplin, John Grisham, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Maya Angelou, Brooks Robinson, Helen Gurley Brown, Johnny Cash, Alan Ladd, and Sonny Boy Williamson have in common? They're all Arkansans. What do hillbillies, rednecks, slow trains, bare feet, moonshine, and double-wides have in common? For many in America these represent Arkansas more than any Arkansas success stories do. In 1931 H. L. Mencken described AR (not AK, folks) as the "apex of moronia." While, i...

A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins - Hardcover

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by Gareth Harney (Author)Hold the glory--and infamy--of ancient Rome in the palm of your hand in this extraordinary and accessible story of history's greatest superpower, as told through humanity's most universal object: the coin. When Gareth Harney was first handed a Roman coin by his father as a child, he became entranced by its beauty, and its unique ability to connect us with the distant past. He soon learned that the Romans saw coins as far more than just currency--these were metal canva...

The Palestinian Liberation Organisation: People, Power and Politics - Paperback

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by Helena Cobban (Author), Edmund III Burke (Editor), Michael C. Hudson (Editor)This is a comprehensive political analysis of the PLO. A correspondent in Beirut from 1976 to 1981, Helena Cobban has been able to study developments at close quarters and use documentary sources and first-hand recollections which have never been included in previous Western analyses of the movement. The book maintains that one key to understanding the development of the PLO is an examination of the development of...

Inventing God's Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi - Paperback

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by David P. Wright (Author)Most scholars believe that the numerous similarities between the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23-23:19) and Mesopotamian law collections, especially the Laws of Hammurabi, which date to around 1750 BCE, are due to oral tradition that extended from the second to the first millennium. This book offers a fundamentally new understanding of the Covenant Code, arguing that it depends directly and primarily upon the Laws of Hammurabi and that the use of this source text occurr...

Our Lady of Prompt Succor and the Battle of New Orleans - Hardcover

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by Jsb Morse (Author)Step into the rich and miraculous history of New Orleans and discover how a small group of French Ursuline nuns received Divine Assistance through their patroness, Our Lady of Prompt Succor. This engaging children's book highlights the ardent charity of the Ursuline Sisters from their arrival in Louisiana in 1727 and their impact on pivotal moments in the city's history.Remarkably vivid illustrations capture the unwavering faith of the Sisters and the extraordinary events...

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by Hugh Allen (Author)Originally published by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. as a promotional, The Story of the Airship chronicles the history and development of these great "silver cruisers of the sky." Filled with photos and authoritative text, the book springs from an era when dirigibles, balloons andblimps competed against airplanes for public attention. Sadly, incidents such as those that befell the USS Macon, USS Akron and Hindenburg caused the public to lose faith in these craft. Pub...

Rembrandt. the Complete Self-Portraits - Hardcover

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by Marieke de Winkel (Author), Volker Manuth (Author)Few devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's radical contributions to self-portraiture. Challenging the conventions enshrined by his predecessors, Rembrandt transformed the art into a fully realized medium capable of communicating emotional depth rather than favorably immortalizing one's likeness in the finest trappings of luxury. With more than 80 works spanning paintings, etchings, and drawings, the Dutchman's li...

Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright - Paperback

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by Brendan Gill (Author)"Genius, egotist, mythomaniac, sexual rebel, master of media manipulation, the legendary Wright comes alive in all his cantankerous complexity. . . . A delight from cover to cover."--Kirkus Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works-among them Taliesin North, Taliesin West, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax buildings, the Guggenheim Museum--earned him a good measure of his fame, but his flamboyant personal life earne...

The Car Is Architecture - A Visual History of Frank Lloyd Wright's 85 Cars and One Motorcycle - Paperback

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by Richie Herink (Author)Cars were one of Frank Lloyd Wright's great obsessions, along with Architecture and Japanese Prints. The last two have been well documented, but the Cars have not been covered at all ... until this book. This unique visual history of Wright's 85 cars and one motorcycle uses original magazine ads to describe the make and model of each vehicle. They are presented in the order in which they were purchased. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.3 x 11 x 8.5 IN Illustrated: Y...

Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia - Paperback

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by Ben C. McCary (Author)The purpose of this work is to offer a comprehensive summary, prior to the Indians' disappearance, of all manner of life and culture of the Algonquians and of the other tribes known to have inhabited 17th-century Virginia, namely the Iroquois and Sioux. Following his description of the principal tribes within the Powhatan confederation, tribes such as the Nansemond, Pamunkey, Pissaseck, and so on, the author's primary focus thereafter is with the social organization o...

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by Aaron Parrett (Author)When Montana Territory was established in 1864, it was a land of tepees and ramshackle cabins, of lawless vigilantes and miners scraping out meager livings. One hundred and fifty years later, the dramatic changes to the Treasure State are overshadowed only by the startling similarities. On the occasion of Montana's 150th territorial anniversary, and with a perspective born from a lifetime's devotion to the history of his home state, author Aaron Parrett compares where...