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Studies on East Asian religions volume Volume 3
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Series
Studia osteoarchaeologica volume 4
Publisher
Cuvillier Verlag
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Author
Language
English
Description
"An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called 'anti-racist' movement is driving us-ironically-toward a new kind of racism. As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents-who lived through segregation. The...
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Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Trapped! The American colonies are gripped by the Revolutionary War, and you have been cornered by the British. From cat-and-mouse battlefield confrontations to crowded prison ships, you'll do anything to stay out of their clutches. Will you help the Continental Army escape from Long Island? Or will you brave icy waters to swim from a floating prison? Every decision can be the difference between life and death! An interactive Revolutionary War adventure...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The tools of our information age-from search engines to data mining to smart appliances-grew directly out of conflicts from World War I to the present day. Explore how today's Information Society reflects a worldview shaped by a century of war"--
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons--or try to become a Central Asian North Korea? This book takes us inside Kazakhstan's extraordinary and little-known...
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Publisher
Sedona Historical Society
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Captivating historic photos of classic movies made in Sedona with current color images of the red rock locations that were made famous in film; plus stories from behind the scenes of these 'Then and Now' Sedona movies and their locations."--
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time. War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization--sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly, having grown so large, and embedded in so many industries, it was akin to a modern-day Standard Oil. Unlike Rockefeller's empire, however, Bezos's company had grown voraciously without much scrutiny. In fact, for over twenty years, Amazon had emerged as a Wall Street darling and its "customer obsession" approach made it indelibly attractive to consumers across the globe....
Series
European expansion and indigenous response volume Volume 33
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the Caribbean and the unexpectedly chaotic flows of the North Atlantic, Waters of the World is a tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but underappreciated idea: that the Earth has a global climate system made up of interconnected parts, constantly changing on all scales of both time and space. A prerequisite for the discovery of global warming and climate change,...