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A Darkly Lit City Street

By: Ariel Briton

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In a darkly lit city street, in the shadows of an old burnt out car stands a figure of a man. A tall, broad, man with piercing eyes and a disturbed soul! He seems unaware that sirens are ringing out and people are running away for what appears to be their lives. What, can he be thinking? Why is he so still, while everyone else is so panic! These city streets are not unknown for crime. Since the Mayor took control things around here have been a little sinister. What with the Afghanistani's the heroin trade and the Third Way political machine ritualistically mutilating in Machiavellian tradition. Society as we know it is on the brinkers of either collapse or revolution! That man stays in your mind for some reason I have yet to understand. I had to follow him just out of curiosity, then I noticed why he had the charisma I needed to get us out of here!

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166

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iUniverse

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059540295X

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9780595402953

The Age of Napoleon

The Story of Civilization, Volume XI

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

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The Age of Napoleon

The Story of Civilization, Volume XI

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

The Story of Civilization, Volume XI: A history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815. This is the eleventh and final volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

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1063

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Simon and Schuster

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1451647689

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9781451647686

The Age of Voltaire

The Story of Civilization, Volume IX

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

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The Age of Voltaire

The Story of Civilization, Volume IX

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

The Story of Civilization, Volume IX: A history of civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with special emphasis on the conflict between religion and philosophy. This is the ninth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

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1028

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Simon and Schuster

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1451647662

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9781451647662

Rousseau and Revolution

The Story of Civilization, Volume X

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

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Rousseau and Revolution

The Story of Civilization, Volume X

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

The Story of Civilization, Volume X: winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the rest of Europe from 1715 to 1789.

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1323

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Simon and Schuster

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1451647670

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9781451647679

The Age of Reason Begins

A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

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The Age of Reason Begins

A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

If there is a linchpin to understanding modern European history, it lies in the period of religious strife & scientific progress between the 1550s & 1650s. In The Age of Reason Begins, Will & Ariel Durant bring together a fascinating network of stories in their discussion of the bumpy road toward the Enlightenment. This is the age of great monarchs & greater artists: on the one hand, Elizabeth the First of England, Philip II of Spain & Henry IV of France; on the other, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Montaigne & Rembrandt. It also encompasses the heyday of Bacon, Galileo, Giordano Bruno & Descartes--the fathers of modern science & philosophy. But it is equally an age of extreme violence, a moment in which all Europe was embroiled in the horrible Thirty Years' War--in some respects, the real First World War. Whatever the case, this is a chapter in cultural history one can't set aside. "Mr & Mrs Durant are admirably lucid...This is a book that can be commended very warmly."--The New York Times.

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768

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Simon and Schuster

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0671013203

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9780671013202

My Father's Paradise

A Son's Search for His Family's Past

By: Ariel Sabar

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My Father's Paradise

A Son's Search for His Family's Past

By: Ariel Sabar

In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born. Yona's son Ariel grew up in Los Angeles, where Yona had become an esteemed professor, dedicating his career to preserving his people’s traditions. Ariel wanted nothing to do with his father’s strange immigrant heritage—until he had a son of his own. Ariel Sabar brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, discovering his family’s place in the sweeping saga of Middle-Eastern history. This powerful book is an improbable story of tolerance and hope set in what today is the very center of the world’s attention.

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364

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Algonquin Books

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1565129962

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9781565129962

Victorian Fashion Accessories

By: Ariel Beaujot

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Victorian Fashion Accessories

By: Ariel Beaujot

In Victorian England, women's accessories were always much more than incidental finishing touches to their elaborate dress. Accessories helped women to fashion their identities.Victorian Fashion Accessories explores how women's use of gloves, parasols, fans and vanity sets revealed their class, gender and colonial aspirations. The colour and fit of a pair of gloves could help a middle-class woman indicate her class aspirations.The sun filtering through a rose-colored parasol would provide a woman of a certain age with the glow of youth. The use of a fan was a socially acceptable means of attracting interest and flirting.Even the choice of vanity set on a woman's bedroom dresser reflected her complicity with colonial expansion. By paying attention to the particular details of women's accessories we discover the beliefs embedded in these artefacts and enhance our understanding of the culture at large. Beaujot's engaging prose illuminates the complex identities of the women who used accessories in the Victorian culture that created and consumed them. Victorian Fashion Accessories is essential reading for students and scholars of, history, gender studies, cultural studies, material culture and fashion studies, as well as anyone interested in the history of dress.

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227

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Berg

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0857853201

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9780857853202

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A Darkly Lit City Street

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Rousseau and Revolution

The Age of Reason Begins

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My Father's Paradise

My Father's Paradise

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