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by Nelly Furman (Author)The popularity of Carmen endures across generations and continents, with one of the most frequently performed and instantly recognizable operatic scores of all time and a libretto derived from Prosper Mérimée's novella of the same name, written 30 years prior to the opera's 1875 debut. In Georges Bizet's Carmen--the latest volume in the Oxford Keynotes series--author Nelly Furman explores the evolution of Carmen's story and its meaning, illuminating how the titular her...

Dragon in the Jungle: The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War - Hardcover

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by Xiaobing Li (Author)Western historians have long speculated about Chinese military intervention in the Vietnam War. It was not until recently, however, that newly available international archival materials, as well as documents from China, have indicated the true extent and level of Chinese participation in the conflict of Vietnam. For the first time in the English language, this book offers an overview of the operations and combat experience of more than 430,000 Chinese troops in Indochin...

Anticorruption in History: From Antiquity to the Modern Era - Paperback

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by Ronald Kroeze (Editor), Andr? Vit?ria (Editor), Guy Geltner (Editor)Anticorruption in History is a timely and urgent volume: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem we face as a global society, undermining trust in government and financial institutions, economic efficiency, the principle of equality before the law and human wellbeing in general. Corruption, in short, is a major hurdle on the "path to Denmark" a feted blueprint for stable and successful statebuilding. The resonan...

Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts - Paperback

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by Sarah Dry (Author)When Isaac Newton died in 1727 without a will, he left behind a wealth of papers that, when examined, gave his followers and his family a deep sense of unease. Some of what they contained was wildly heretical and alchemically obsessed, hinting at a Newton altogether stranger and less palatable than the one enshrined in Westminster Abbey as the paragon of English rationality. These manuscripts had the potential to undermine not merely Newton's reputation, but that of the s...

In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture - Paperback

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by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Author)The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that haveburst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as eve...

Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary) - Paperback

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by Terry Alford (Author)In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son of an African king who had saved his life many years earlier. "The Prince," as he had become known to local Natchez, Mississippi residents, had been captured in war when he was 26 years old, sold to slave traders, and shipped to America. Slave though he was, Ibrahima was an educated, aristocratic man, and he ...

Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) - Paperback

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by Julia E. Sweig (Author)Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has curried favor with it. But what do...

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation - Hardcover

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by Colin G. Calloway (Author)George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army, and finally first president of the United States--reflects the narrative of the nation he guided into existence. There is, rightfully, no more chronicled figure. Yet American history has largely forgotten what Washi...

George Washington: A Life in Books - Hardcover

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by Kevin J. Hayes (Author)When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, wer...

Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Compact Edition - Paperback

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by Diogenes Laertius (Author), Pamela Mensch (Translator), James Miller (Editor)Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow. This rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes, that ge...

Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam - Paperback

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by James M. McPherson (Author)The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom, America's most eminent Civil War historian, James M. McPherson, paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events that led up to it, and its aftermath. As McPherson shows, by Septem...

The Gnostic Bible: Revised and Expanded Edition - Paperback

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by Willis Barnstone (Editor), Marvin Meyer (Editor)A collection of Gnostic texts spanning centuries, geographical locations, and cultural traditions--"a wonderful achievement" (Elaine Pagels, author of The Gnostic Gospels) Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE--with earlier antecedents and later flourishings--whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Chr...

Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantine, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade - Paperback

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by Anthony Kaldellis (Author)In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically, demographically, and, in time, intellectually as well. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when p...

Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles: A Guide and Commentary - Paperback

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by Brian Davies (Author)The Summa Contra Gentiles, one of Aquinas's best known works after the Summa Theologiae, is a philosophical and theological synthesis that examines what can be known of God both by reason and by divine revelation. A detailed expository account of and commentary on this famous work, Davies's book aims to help readers think about the value of the Summa Contra Gentiles (SCG) for themselves, relating the contents and teachings found in the SCG to those of other works and o...

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Sandberg (Author)Images of Infamy: Second Edition is a striking and evocative collection of drawings by artist and author Steve Sandberg, capturing the raw emotions and profound impact of one of the most tragic days in modern history. With each carefully crafted illustration, Sandberg conveys the shock, grief, resilience, and unity experienced in the wake of the September 11 attacks.This second edition expands upon the original collection, offering new in...

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Report copyright infringementby Cristina Berna (Author), Eric Thomsen (Author)Los Angeles Fire Department has recently been confronted with enormous challenges and it is natural to be interested in their equipment and their heroic fire fighters.Fire engines are some of the most interesting vehicles of them all!They are beautifully colored, have flashy chrome and have all this interesting equipment.Fire trucks have very flashy lights, strong and varied horns and sirens and some of them still h...

Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s

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Report copyright infringementby Michael O'Hanlon (Editor), Robert L. Welsch (Editor) Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions,...

Feeling Blue: Colour and the Modern British Hospital

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Bates (Author)Feeling blue is the first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals. It examines colour in relation to six key themes - hygiene, emotion, humanisation, homeliness, play, consumerism - which are tied together by the idea of the 'modern' hospital. The book does not simply describe changes to the appearance of hospitals over time, but instead thinks expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt. It uses colour to...

Stuart Masques and the Renaissance Stage. With 197 Illus. --

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Report copyright infringementby Allardyce 1894- Nicoll (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is imp...

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Report copyright infringementby June King McFee (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest William 1884-1969 Watson (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this wo...

Ravenna Mosaics; With an Introduction and Notes - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Bernard S. 1908-1993 Myers (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this wor...

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Report copyright infringementby Denver Art Museum Dept of Indian Art (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, tha...

Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story - Paperback

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by Janet Halfmann (Author), Duane Smith (Illustrator)Editor's Favorites, The Bloomsbury Review Honor Book Award, Society of School Librarians InternationalThe true story of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.Growing up a slave in South Carolina, Robert Smalls always dreamed of the moment freedom would be within his grasp. Now that moment was here. Robert stood proudly at the Planter...

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Report copyright infringementby Vignola (Created by)"The Five Orders of Architecture" by Vignola is a timeless treatise on classical architectural principles. This essential guide, originally published in the Renaissance, meticulously outlines the characteristics and proportions of the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders. Architects, students, and enthusiasts will find detailed illustrations and explanations that demystify the foundations of classical design. Vignola's syst...

Modern Under Pinning; Development, Methods and Typical Examples

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Report copyright infringementby Lazarus White (Author), Edmund Astely Prentis (Author)"Modern Underpinning; Development, Methods and Typical Examples" explores the historical development and practical application of underpinning techniques in early 20th-century construction. Authored by Lazarus White and Edmund Astley Prentis, this book offers a detailed examination of the methods used to stabilize and reinforce building foundations. The text covers various underpinning methodologies, providi...

Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Us Imperial Project in the Philippines

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Report copyright infringementby Diana Jean S. Martinez (Author)During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism, Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial policy. Arguing that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial conquest, Martinez shows how concrete reshaped colonialism as a proje...

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Report copyright infringementby Ermete Pierotti (Author), T. G. (Thomas George) Bonney (Author)Explore the ancient city of Jerusalem through the meticulously detailed lens of Ermete Pierotti's "Jerusalem Explored, Volume II--Plates." This volume offers a visual feast, supplementing Pierotti's comprehensive description of the ancient and modern city. Delve into the rich religious history and archaeology of this pivotal location in the Middle East. Originally published as part of a larger set, ...

The Very Best of the Red Lodge Local Rag

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Report copyright infringementby Gary D. Robson (Author)In 1991, Lou Ward started an alternative newspaper in Red Lodge, Montana called the Red Lodge Local, which changed names several times, finally settling on the Local Rag. The final issue came out in December of 2014. Gary Robson, who has owned the Rag since 2007, has gathered the funniest, the localest, the VERY BEST of the Local Rag for this book. In these 250 full-color pages, he has pulled together features from all six editors, includ...

Making Miami: The Historic Rise of the Magic City

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence R. Samuel (Author)Making Miami takes a deep dive into the history, growth, and development of the city not just in terms of real estate but also a number of other topics, including the expansion of a transportation and infrastructural network; tourism; the natural ecosystem and threats from residential, recreational, and industrial development; and issues of race, class, ethnicity, immigration, and nationality.Author BiographyLawrence R. Samuel holds a...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Joseph 1892-1970 Neutra (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this wo...

The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Kamen (Author)An acclaimed historian of Europe explores one of the world's most iconic buildings and the monarch who created it Few buildings have played so central a role in Spain's history as the monastery-palace of San Lorenzo del Escorial. Colossal in size and imposing--even forbidding--in appearance, the Escorial has invited and defied description for four centuries. Part palace, part monastery, part mausoleum, it has also served as a shrine, a scho...