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A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Eur...

Aron Rodrigue

A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe

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Autobiographical texts are rare in the Sephardi world. Gabriel Ari�s writings provide a special perspective on the political, economic, and cultural changes undergone by the Eastern Sephardi community in the decades before its dissolution, in regions where it had been constituted since the expulsion from Spain in 1492. His history is a fascinating memoir of the Sephardi and Levantine bourgeoisie of the time. For his entire life, Ari�teacher, historian, community leader, and...

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Aron Rodrigue

All Russia Is Burning!

Cathy A. Frierson

All Russia Is Burning!

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Cathy A. Frierson

And the View from the Shore

Stephen H. Sumida

And the View from the Shore

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This groundbreaking study of a little-explored branch of American literature both chronicles and reinterprets the variety of patterns found within Hawaii�s pastoral and heroic literary traditions, and is unprecedented in its scope and theme. As a literary history, it covers two centuries of Hawaii�s culture since the arrival of Captain James Cookin 1778. Its approach is multicultural, representing the spectrum of native Hawaiian, colonial, tourist, and polyethnic local...

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Stephen H. Sumida

Answering Chief Seattle

Albert Furtwangler

Answering Chief Seattle

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Over the years, Chief Seattle's famous speech has been embellished, popularized, and carved into many a monument, but its origins have remained inadequately explained. Understood as a symbolic encounter between indigenous America, represented by Chief Seattle, and industrialized or imperialist America, represented by Isaac L Stevens, the first governor of Washington Territory, it was first published in a Seattle newspaper in 1887 by a pioneer who claimed he had heard Seattle (or Sealth)...

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Albert Furtwangler

Chang'an 26 BCE

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Chang'an 26 BCE

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Change within Tradition among Jewis...

Rachel Simon

Change within Tradition among Jewish Women in Libya

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In the first major study of women in an Arab country�s Jewish community, Rachel Simon examines the changing status of Jewish women in Libya from the second half of the nineteenth century until 1967, when most Jews left the country. Simon shows how social, economic, and political changes in Libyan society as a whole affected its Jewish minority and analyzes the developments in women�s social position, family life, work, education, and participation in public life.Jews lived...

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Rachel Simon

China Watcher

Richard Baum

China Watcher

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This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People�s Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author�s UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s through globalization. Anecdotes from Baum�s professional life illustrate the alternately peculiar, frustrating, fascinating, and risky activity of China watching...

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Richard Baum

Dagny

Mary Kay Norseng

Dagny

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Mary Kay Norseng

Empire Maker

Kenneth N. Owens

Empire Maker

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A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russia’s highly profitable sea otter business. With the title of chief manager, he strengthened his leadership role after the formation of the Russian American Company in 1799. An adventuresome, dynamic, and charismatic leader, he proved to be something of a commercial genius in Alaska, making huge profits for...

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Kenneth N. Owens

Heroes, Hacks, and Fools

Ted Van Dyk

Heroes, Hacks, and Fools

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Ted Van Dyk, a shrewd veteran of countless national political and policy fights, casts fresh light on many of the leading personalities and watershed events of American politics since JFK. He was a Pentagon intelligence analyst during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and an aide to Jean Monnet and other leaders of the European movement before serving at the Johnson White House as Vice President Humphrey’s senior advisor and alter ego. He was involved in that administration’s Great Society triumphs and...

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Ted Van Dyk

Hiking Washington's History

Judy Bentley

Hiking Washington's History

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Hiking Washington�s History reveals the stories embedded in Washington�s landscape. This trail guide narrates forty historic trails, ranging from short day hikes to three- or four-day backpacking trips over mountain passes. Every region in the state is included, from the northwesternmost tip of the continental United States at Cape Flattery to the remote Blue Mountains in the southeast. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of the region�s history followed by...

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Judy Bentley

How Many Machine Guns Does It Take...

Victoria Johnson

How Many Machine Guns Does It Take to Cook One Meal?

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Victoria Johnson

I'm No Hero

Henry Friedman

I'm No Hero

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Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived. When the Nazis overran their home town near the Polish-Ukrainian border, the Friedman family was saved by Ukrainian Christians who had worked at their farm. Henry, his mother, his younger brother, and a young schoolteacher�who had been hired by his father when Jews were forbidden to attend school�were hidden in a...

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Henry Friedman

Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Pla...

James D. Keyser

Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau

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From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders display carved and painted designs created by ancient artists who inhabited this area, the Columbia Plateau, as long as seven thousand years ago.Expressing a vital social and spiritual dimension in the lives of these hunter-gathers, rock art captivates us with its evocative power and mystery. At once an irreplaceable yet...

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James D. Keyser

Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenme...

Brian J. Horowitz

Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia

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The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia (OPE) was a philanthropic organization, the oldest Jewish organization in Russia. Founded by a few wealthy Jews in St. Petersburg who wanted to improve opportunities for Jewish people in Russia by increasing their access to education and modern values, OPE was secular and nonprofit. The group emphasized the importance of the unity of Jewish culture to help Jews integrate themselves into Russian society by opening,...

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Brian J. Horowitz

Narwhals

Todd McLeish

Narwhals

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Among all the large whales on Earth, the most unusual and least studied is the narwhal, the northernmost whale on the planet and the one most threatened by global warming. Narwhals thrive in the fjords and inlets of northern Canada and Greenland. These elusive whales, whose long tusks were the stuff of medieval European myths and Inuit legends, are uniquely adapted to the Arctic ecosystem and are able to dive below thick sheets of ice to depths of up to 1,500 meters in search of their...

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Todd McLeish

National Park, City Playground

Theodore R. Catton

National Park, City Playground

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Theodore R. Catton

Over the Lip of the World

Colleen J. McElroy

Over the Lip of the World

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Gifted travel writer, poet, professor of English, and insightful observer of human nature, Colleen McElroy journeyed to Madagascar to undertake a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths. In Over the Lip of the World she depicts with equal verve the various storytelling traditions of the island and her own adventures in trying to find and record them.McElroy�s tale of an African American woman�s travels among the people of Madagascar is told...

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Colleen J. McElroy

Penguins

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Penguins

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Penguins, among the most delightful creatures in the world, are also among the most vulnerable. The fragile status of most penguin populations today mirrors the troubled condition of the southern oceans, as well as larger marine conservation problems: climate change, pollution, and fisheries mismanagement. This timely book presents the most current knowledge on each of the eighteen penguin species-from the majestic emperor penguins of the Antarctic to the tiny blue penguins of New Zealand and...

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Plains Indian Rock Art

James D. Keyser

Plains Indian Rock Art

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The Plains region that stretches from northern Colorado to southern Alberta and from the Rockies to the western Dakotas is the land of the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet, the Crow and the Sioux. Its rolling grasslands and river valleys have nurtured human cultures for thousands of years. On cave walls, glacial boulders, and riverside cliffs, native people recorded their ceremonies, vision quests, battles, and daily activities in the petroglyphs and pictographs they incised, pecked, or painted onto...

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James D. Keyser

Repairing the American Metropolis

Douglas S. Kelbaugh

Repairing the American Metropolis

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Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design , first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan and design the built environment.This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers...

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Douglas S. Kelbaugh

Resuscitate!

Mickey S. Eisenberg, M.D.

Resuscitate!

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Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death among adults, yet it need not be fatal. Though survival in most communities is very poor, a few communities achieve rates as high as 50%. Why are some communities so successful in snatching life from the jaws of death? Resuscitate! describes the steps any EMS system can take to improve cardiac arrest survival. It is written for the medical directors, administrative directors, fire chiefs, dispatch directors, and program supervisor who direct...

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Mickey S. Eisenberg, M.D.

Seeing Culture Everywhere

P�l Ny�ri

Seeing Culture Everywhere

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P�l Ny�ri

Seeking Salaam

Sandra M. Chait

Seeking Salaam

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Prolonged violence in the Horn of Africa, the northeastern corner of the continent, has led growing numbers of Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis to flee to the United States. Despite the enmity created by centuries of conflict, they often find themselves living as neighbors in their adopted cities, with their children as class-mates in school. In many ways, they are successfully navigating life in their new home; however, they continue to struggle to bridge old ethnic divisions and find salaam,...

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Sandra M. Chait

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