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Book Fatal Embrace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Braverman
  • Publisher : BookPros, LLC
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0984076077
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Fatal Embrace written by Mark Braverman and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fatal Embrace, Braverman provocatively argues that Jewish exclusivism is being enacted in the colonial, expansionist nature of the State of Israel. He also contends that the attempts by Christians to atone for anti-Semitism have resulted in the suppression of honest interfaith dialogue on the issue, blocking progress toward a just peace. This book is a call to action directed at Christians and other Americans.

Book The Fatal Shore

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  • Author : Robert Hughes
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2012-01-11
  • ISBN : 0307815609
  • Pages : 754 pages

Download or read book The Fatal Shore written by Robert Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. "One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the settling of Australia. Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the history of the country we thought we knew.

Book Albion s Fatal Tree

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  • Author : Douglas Hay
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN : 9780140551303
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Albion s Fatal Tree written by Douglas Hay and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In this new edition of a classic collection of essays, renowned social historians from Britain and America examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society, while a criminal law of unexampled savagery struggled to maintain stability. Douglas Hay deals with the legal system that maintained the propertied classes, and in another essay shows it in brutal action against poachers; John G. Rule and Cal Winslow tell of smugglers and wreckers, showing how these activities formed a natural part of the life of traditional communities. Together with Peter Linebaugh s piece on the riots against the surgeons at Tyburn, and E. P. Thompson s illuminating work on anonymous threatening letters, these essays form a powerful contribution to the study of social tensions at a transformative and vibrant stage in English history. This new edition includes a new introduction by Winslow, Hay and Linebaugh, reflecting on the turning point in the social history of crime that the book represents

Book The Lands of Silence

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  • Author : Sir Clements Robert Markham
  • Publisher : Cambridge : The University Press
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 622 pages

Download or read book The Lands of Silence written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by Cambridge : The University Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lands of Silence, A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration by Clements Robert Markham, first published in 1921, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Book Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands

Download or read book Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Londoner s Walk to the Land s End

Download or read book A Londoner s Walk to the Land s End written by Walter White and published by London : Chapman and Hall. This book was released on 1855 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China

Download or read book The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China written by Sun Tzu and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written between 500 BCE and 700 CE, these seven texts have inspired generals for millennia, both in China and the wider world. Featuring Sun Tzu's The Art of War, this new translation brings to light the military masterpieces of ancient China. These seven texts display an understanding of strategy and warfare still relevant more than 2,000 years after they were originally written. Together, they present a uniquely eastern tradition of warfare that emphasizes speed, stealth, and cunning. This collection includes: • The Art of War • Wuzi • Wei Liaozi • Taigong's Six Secret Teachings • The Methods of the Sima • Questions and Replies Between Emperor Taizong of Tang and General Li Jing.

Book The Wounded Land

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  • Author : Stephen Donaldson
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2013-10-03
  • ISBN : 147320254X
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book The Wounded Land written by Stephen Donaldson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Covenant returns unwillingly to a Land ravaged by four thousand years of Lord Foul's pestilence. Under the evil Sunbane, the people of the Land submit to cruel sacrifices; the rulers of Revelstone are corrupt, the fields and forests laid waste; the healing Earth-power impotent. Accompanied by a woman from his own world, Covenant begins a new quest to save the Land from the forces that have all but destroyed it.

Book The Lands of Scott

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  • Author : James Frothingham Hunnewell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1871
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 564 pages

Download or read book The Lands of Scott written by James Frothingham Hunnewell and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon

Download or read book Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon written by Donald E. Pease and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost voices. Engaging New Historicist, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, and other literary practices, this volume marks important shifts in the organizing principles and self-understanding of the field of American Studies. Originally published as a special issue of boundary 2, the essays gathered here discuss writers as diverse as Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Emerson, Melville, W. D. Howells, Henry James, W. E. B. DuBois, and Mark Twain, plus the historical figure John Brown. Two major sections devoted to the theory of romance and to cultural-historical analyses emphasize the political perspective of "New Americanist" literary and cultural study. Contributors. William E. Cain, Wai-chee Dimock, Howard Horwitz, Gregory S. Jay, Steven Mailloux, John McWilliams, Susan Mizruchi, Donald E. Pease, Ivy Schweitzer, Priscilla Wald, Michael Warner, Robert Weimann

Book The Pictorial History of England  a History of the People as Well as of the Kingdom

Download or read book The Pictorial History of England a History of the People as Well as of the Kingdom written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pictorial History of England

Download or read book The Pictorial History of England written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The God of All Flesh

Download or read book The God of All Flesh written by Walter Brueggeman and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical faith is passionately and relentlessly material in its emphasis. This claim is rooted in the conviction that the creator God loves the creation and summons creation to be in sync with the will of the creator God. This collection of essays is focussed on the bodily life of the world as it ordered in all of its problematic political and economic forms. The phrase of the title 'all flesh' in the flood narrative of Genesis 9 refers to all living creatures who are in covenant with God - human beings, animals, birds, and fish - as recipients of God's grace, as dependent upon God's generosity, and as destined for praise and obedience to God. The insistence on the materiality of life as the subject of the Bible means that the difficult issues of economics and the demanding questions of politics are front and centre in the text. So the Pentateuch pivots around the Exodus narrative and the emancipation from an unbearable context of abusive labour practices. In a similar manner, the prophets endlessly address such questions of social policy and the wisdom teachers reflect on how to manage the material things of life and social relationships for the well-being of the community. This emphasis, pervasive in these essays, is a powerfulalternative and a strong resistance against all of the contemporary efforts to transcend (escape!) the material into some form of the 'spiritual'. All around us are efforts to find an easier, more harmonious faith. This may be evoked simply because of a desire to shield economic, political advantage from the inescapable critique of biblical faith. Such a temptation is a serious misreading of the Bible and a critical misjudgment about the nature of human existence. Thus the Bible addressed the most urgent issues of our day, and refuses the 'religious temptation' that avoids lived reality where the power of God is a work.

Book The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution

Download or read book The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution written by Samuel K. Fisher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did an unlikely group of peoples--Irish-speaking Catholics, Scottish Highlanders, and American Indians--play an even unlikelier role in the origins of the American Revolution? Drawing on little-used sources in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution places these typically marginalized peoples in Ireland, Scotland, and North America at the center of a larger drama of imperial reform and revolution. Gaelic and Indian peoples experiencing colonization in the eighteenth-century British empire fought back by building relationships with the king and imperial officials. In doing so, they created a more inclusive empire and triggered conflict between the imperial state and formerly privileged provincial Britons: Irish Protestants, Scottish whigs, and American colonists. The American Revolution was only one aspect of this larger conflict between inclusive empire and the exclusionary patriots within the British empire. In fact, Britons had argued about these questions since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when revolutionaries had dethroned James II as they accused him of plotting to employ savage Gaelic and Indian enemies in a tyrranical plot against liberty. This was the same argument the American revolutionaries--and their sympathizers in England, Scotland, and Ireland--used against George III. Ironically, however, it was Gaelic and Indian peoples, not kings, who had pushed the empire in inclusive directions. In doing so they pushed the American patriots towards revolution. This novel account argues that Americans' racial dilemmas were not new nor distinctively American but instead the awkward legacies of a more complex imperial history. By showcasing how Gaelic and Indian peoples challenged the British empire--and in the process convinced American colonists to leave it--Samuel K. Fisher offers a new way of understanding the American Revolution and its relevance for our own times.

Book The Fatal Environment

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Slotkin
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780806130309
  • Pages : 660 pages

Download or read book The Fatal Environment written by Richard Slotkin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the subjugation of Native Americans on the American frontier, and explains how it was used to justify American territorial expansion.

Book Engineering Geology for Tomorrow s Cities

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  • Author : International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment. International Congress
  • Publisher : Geological Society of London
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781862392908
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Engineering Geology for Tomorrow s Cities written by International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment. International Congress and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2009 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summing up knowledge and understanding of engineering geology as is applies to the urban environment at the start of the 21st century, this volume demonstrates that: working standards are becoming internationalised; risk assessment is driving decision-making; geo-environmental change is becoming better understood; greater use of underground space is being made; and IT advances are improving subsurface visualization. --