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The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the transition from monarchy to independent republics through democratic movements a genealogy that assumes hostility to Catholicism. By centering the story on Spanish and Latin American actors, Pamela Voekel argues that at the heart of this nineteenth-century transformation in Spanish America was a transatlantic Catholic civil war. Voekel demonstrates Reform...
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"From Pass to Pass: A Tale of Adventure from Wyoming to India" is a historical novel about the life of young Millie Jenkins who works alongside her parents and four older brothers on a Pass Creek cattle ranch in northern Wyoming. It is time for twenty-year-old Millie to be married. Her parents, Tom and Trixie Jenkins, are hopeful she won't become just another rancher's wife. There is Zeke, the handsome cowboy, who works on a neighboring ranch. He...
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In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept.
The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation-from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign-is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often invoked to explain and justify the liberal politics and world view of...
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Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling realization. He knows who the shooter is. In fact, the man-a prisoner out on parole-had called him only days before. By helping his former...
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The Genealogy of Morals is a philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1887. In this book, Nietzsche explores the origins and development of moral concepts and values in Western civilization. He argues that traditional morality, which he refers to as "slave morality," has its roots in the resentment and weakness of the oppressed classes, while a "master morality" based on strength and power was present in earlier cultures.
Nietzsche...
66) Genealogy Tracing Your Roots a Comprehensive Guide to Family History Research Uncovering Your Ancest
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Genealogy Tracing Your Roots
A Comprehensive Guide to Family History Research
Uncovering Your Ancestry, Building Your Family Tree and Preserving Your Heritage
Genealogy studies family history, involves researching and documenting one's ancestors.
Family history research, a subset of genealogy, gathers information on one's family's life, events, and experiences.
It also involves finding and using genealogical data to write your family history.
This...
67) Girl among crows
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"When two boys vanish from her hometown, Daphne Gauge notices uncanny parallels to her brother's disappearance 30 years earlier. Symbols of an ancient Norse god. Rumors of a promise to reward the town's faithful with wealth and power, for a price. She warns her husband that another sacrifice is imminent, but just like last time, no one believes her. This leaves her with a desperate choice: investigate with limited resources, or give in to the FBI's...
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An in-depth look at the unique actions of the newly formed state of West Virginia during the Civil War
While the taking of hostages by both the Union and the Confederacy was common during the Civil War, it was unique for an individual state government to engage in this practice. The Governor's Pawns examines the history that led to the taking of political prisoners in western Virginia, the implementation of a hostage law by Virginia's pro-Union government...
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Grasshopper Dreams is a collection of poetry for our times--times of change, uncertainty, and social confusion. It explores what confronts and eludes us. It takes on the unchanging uniqueness of the Deep South, family dramas, social tides, and our wandering spirituality. It is composed of equal parts contentment, humor, and confounding confusion. Grasshopper Dreams is inspired by historical artifacts, societal struggles, spirituality, genealogy, and...
70) Greek History and Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Major Events, People, Myths, Gods, and Godde
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Two manuscripts in one book:
History of Greece: An Enthralling Overview of Greek History
Greek Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Greek Myths, Gods, and Goddesses
This concise overview covers Greece's Stone Age and Bronze Age civilizations, its archaic and classical eras, its centuries under Roman rule, and the fascinating Byzantine Empire. It travels through Greece's period under the Turkish Ottoman Empire, then its emancipation and formation...
71) A Happy Color
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A HAPPY COLOR is a story about a lonely elderly man and a young school boy who both seem to have lost their direction in life. The "generation gap" seems not to make any difference in their friendship. Color plays an important part in this story as they discover through kindness and curiosity how life can perhaps become enjoyable and meaningful once again.
I have always loved writing and learning about words. At age five I wrote my very first poem...
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Why write your own story? It's a scary thought: What if you died before you told your life's story, and your busybody sister-in-law decided to write it for you? Yes, she's diligent, but she never really liked you, and she surely doesn't know you as well as you know yourself. No one can tell your life's story as clearly or as accurately as you can! Now's the time, before it's too late.
In only 30 short minutes a day, you can begin to tell your own...
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Ballantine Books
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[2023]
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First edition.
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xiv, 270 pages ; 25 cm
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"The amateur DNA sleuth who solved one of the most infamous cold cases in American history--the Golden State Killer crime spree--tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have forever changed criminal investigations. In the span of just a few years, Barbara Rae-Venter went from researching her family history as a retiree to finding a serial killer who had baffled law enforcement for decades. I Know Who You Are...
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In capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. Indifference and Repetition examines how modern philosophy, largely coextensive with a particular boost in capitalism's development, registers the reductive and regressive tendencies produced by capitalism's effect on individuals and society.
Ruda examines a problem that has invisibly been shaping the history of modern, especially...
76) Inheritance
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2023.
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"Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts--a tale of tragedies, loves found and lost, and a family haunted for generations. 1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him... Graphic designer Sonya...
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In the context of current knowledge situation, when every discipline has something to contribute to interdisciplinarity, it seems quite apposite and opportune that philosophy should reinforce and reassert its traditionally cherished role of integrating human knowledge. The Book at hand is an attempt to that end. It is set to take the readers on an enthralling journey across disciplinary boundaries and inspire them to reach a comprehensive conceptual...
78) Is Time Travel Possible? Time Travel Twins. How to Time Travel. The Return of James Maxwell's Equ
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"What time is it?""And what time is it through the human interstellar portal?"Amy and Fin know all about weird dreams...They get them all the time...What they don't know is that everyday life is about to change for them inextricably, and in so many ways...Ways that they could never have imagined?For one thing, they don't have the faintest idea about the human interstellar portal or their special genealogy and secret hidden powers.And for another,...
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What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in France and the United States. Working between comparative literature, the history of science, and urban studies, Brehm builds a bridge between visual culture and sound studies.
Kaleidophonic Modernity...
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DCI Jonah Sheens volume 5
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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406 pages ; 21 cm
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"When the police found the first body, left on a bonfire in the fields, they worried it had the hallmarks of a serial killer. Now, as they find the second, they know for sure. Panic about the "bonfire killer" quickly spreads through the sedate, suburban area of Southampton. Women are urged not to travel alone at night, and constant vigilance is encouraged among the local residents. But single mom Aisling Cooley has a lot to distract her: two beloved...
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