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  • Beyond Alliances

    The Jewish Role in Reshaping the Racial Landscape of Southern California

    Series series The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
    This volume focuses on the special role that Jews played in reshaping the racial landscape of southern California in the twentieth century. Rather than considering this issue in terms of broad analyses of organizations or communities, each contribution instead approaches it by examining the activity of a single Jewish individual, and how he or she navigated the social terrain of a changing ... Read more

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  • Socialism and Legal History

    The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe

    Series series Routledge Research in Legal History
    This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments.The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was ... Read more

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  • My War at Sea 1914–1916: A Captain's Life with the Royal Navy During the First World War

    This book is based on the wartime recollections of Heathcoat S. Grant, the captain of the HMS Canopus between 1914–1916. It is published in conjunction with the War Letters 1914–1918 series.For the first two years of the war HMS Canopus had as eventful a time as any ship in the Royal Navy, being involved at Coronel, the Battle of the Falklands and the attempt to force the Dardanelles.As captain of ... Read more

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  • On Saying Whatever

    by Ryan Romero ...
    Marinated views in depth of the culture you see but maybe always don't comprehend as much as it would be beneficial to you. ... Read more

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  • THE EFFECTS OF ISLAMIC CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION ON OTHER CIVILIZATIONS

    by Mücahit Yaz ...
    Islamic culture and civilization has affected civilization and societies in a wide geography in the world, including Europe and Africa. When we look at the world in the first age as a historical process they have been effective in Greek and then Roman civilization. Between the 4th and the 9th centuries, as a result of the mass human movement that we know as the Migration of Tribes and changed the ... Read more

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  • In the Fullness of Time: A History of the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Toronto

    by David Greig ...
    The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Toronto, has long been known as a leading anglo-catholic parish in the Anglican Church of Canada, especially for its rich and influential liturgical and musical traditions. David Greig's history places the well known achievements in the broader context of a living Christian community responding in the fullness of time, both to its developing understanding of the ... Read more

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  • Ancient India

    A Glimpse of Indias' Glorious Ancient Past

    Ancient India is a comprehensive work that captures the historical strides from neolithic and chalcolithic times to Harappan civilization, Vedic times.This book is the comparative study of Ancient India from 2500 BC - 500 AD.This book is very informative and is must read for Students. Students and those interested in knowing about India's past do get to learn about varied cultures, lifestyle, and ... Read more

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  • Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America

    Series Book 82 - Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzesthe role of Ibero-American mediators in theinstitutionalization of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in thefirst half of the 20th century by means of two institutionalnetworks: ... Read more

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  • Suzanne Malkovich and the Three Slippery Monkeys

    by Malachi Booth ...
    Once upon a time there was a smart girl called Suzanne Malkovich. She was on the way to see her Stanley Sweet, when she decided to take a short cut through Penrose Woods.It wasn't long before Suzanne got lost. She looked around, but all she could see were trees. Nervously, she felt into her bag for her favourite toy, George, but George was nowhere to be found! Suzanne began to panic. She felt sure ... Read more

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  • Mobiliser la Langue Française

    Articles et éditoriaux de la Grande Guerre

    by Paul Fournet ...
    Il y a trois façons de comprendre le devoir du journaliste en temps de guerre, et même en d'autres temps. Le premier consiste à écrire tous les matins que les Français sont un peuple de saints et de héros, ergo ils seront vainqueurs ! Cette façon est pratiquée, dans les journaux à fort tirage, par des académiciens, car il faut de l'éloquence. Le seul danger est la monotonie. La seconde façon est ... Read more

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  • Women Workers And Technological Change In Europe In The Nineteenth And twentieth century

    From the traditional stereotyped viewpoint, femininity and technology clash. This negative association between women and technology is one of the features of the sex-typing of jobs. Men are seen as technically competent and creative; women are seen as incompetent, suited only to work with machines that have been made and maintained by men. Men identify themselves with technology, and technology is ... Read more

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  • Modernizing Composition

    Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka

    by Garrett Field ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of ... Read more

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  • Washington Remembers WWII

    Washington Remembers World War II features a dozen gripping personal stories from the global conflict that changed who we are. The book is a tribute to the veterans and citizens who lived through horrors most of us cannot imagine and to the Rosie the riveters on the homefront who helped win the war. Six-thousand Washingtonians gave their lives to defeat tyranny. They're more than names on a wall. ... Read more

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  • Russia’s Cultural Statecraft

    This book focusses on Russia’s cultural statecraft in dealing with a number of institutional cultural domains such as education, museums and monuments, high arts and sport. It analyses to what extent Russia’s cultural activities abroad have been used for foreign policy purposes, and perceived as having a political dimension.Building on the concept of cultural statecraft, the authors present a ... Read more

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  • A New Forest Childhood 1903-1916

    The memoirs of Thomas Gilbert Scott growing up in Sway in the New Forest before the Great War. This ebook version does not contain the photographs, family tree or map of the print edtion. ... Read more

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  • La Science

    Ce livre est à propos de la science. Dans ce livre, vous trouvez un resumé à propos de la science avant l'humanité, la science et l'humanité, les scientifiques les plus importants et la science aujourd'hui. ... Read more

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  • Who's Your Paddy?

    Racial Expectations and the Struggle for Irish American Identity

    Series Book 20 - Nation of Nations
    After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St. Patrick’s Day? Who’s Your Paddy traces the evolution of “Irish” as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day. Exploring how the Irish have been and continue to be socialized around race, Jennifer Nugent Duffy argues that Irish identity ... Read more

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  • Storyteller Walkabout Workbook

    Series series Walkabout
    Anyone who is interested in learning about the art of storytelling without any of the usual 'talk down' found in the books of 'self-styled gurus' should get this ebook. I have not seen a simpler writing style than this. The step-by-step methods are something a newbie can follow quite easily even if he has no previous experience with storytelling. On the surface it teaches you how to write your own ... Read more

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  • Surfer Girl

    by Debora Lucken ...
    We are at the beginning of the 60's. The Beach Boys are going strong and love is in the air. The two main character of this flash story will quickly take you into their world and leave you thinking about the deepest of loves. This story was selected to be read in the live show for the Juke Box Story competition.   ... Read more

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  • The Family Budgeters: An Account of the Family Budgeting Movement in New Zealand, 1960—1978

    by Dave Mullan ...
    In 2015 the New Zealand Federation of Family Budgeting Services is a massive organisation that assists families with their household budgeting. The national Government provides substantial financial assistance to enable competent people to handle initial interviews and manage the hundreds of volunteers in about 170 affiliated groups throughout the country.But financial support from state funds was ... Read more

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  • In Their Surroundings

    Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe

    From the second half of the nineteenth century through to World War II, Eastern Europe, especially the territories that formerly made up the Pale of Settlement in the Tsarist Empire, witnessed a Jewish cultural flowering that went hand-in-hand with a multifaceted literary productivity in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages. Accompanied and sometimes directly affected by the dramatic political ... Read more

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  • American Dolorologies

    Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics

    by Simon Strick ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    American Dolorologies presents a theoretically sophisticated intervention into contemporary equations of subjectivity with trauma. Simon Strick argues against a universalism of pain and instead foregrounds the intimate relations of bodily affect with racial and gender politics. In concise and original readings of medical debates, abolitionist photography, Enlightenment philosophy, and contemporary ... Read more

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  • Georgia's Planting Prelate

    by Hubert Owens ...
    Series Book 24 - Georgia Open History Library
    Georgia’s Planting Prelate consists of notes on the life of the Reverend Stephen Elliott, a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the mid-1800s and the only presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America. These notes are accompanied by the full text of the bishop’s address on horticulture given in 1851 in Macon, which displays his remarkable ... Read more

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  • The United States of America Founding Documents

    Containing the complete and unabridged text of the original documents which founded the United States of America. 1776: Declaration of Independence Sent to leaders around the world by the thirteen original American Colonies, to proclaim their dissolution from King George III of England, and to make the United States of America her own sovereign nation. 1777: Articles of Confederation and Perpetual ... Read more

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