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Hell On A Hill Top

America's Last Major Battle In Vietnam

By: Benjamin L. Harrison

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Hell On A Hill Top

America's Last Major Battle In Vietnam

By: Benjamin L. Harrison

HELL ON A HILL TOP-for four months in 1970, Hell raged on the hill tops of Ripcord, 805, 902 and 1000, all just east of the A Shau Valley. HELL ON A HILL TOP Instead of backing away from the fight, the North Vietnamese mortar, recoilless rifle, heavy machine gun, sapper and regular infantry attacks increased. The last offensive around Ripcord was starting to look like the last stand. Unwilling to keep American soldiers at high risk at this stage of the war; Ripcord was evacuated on 23 July. The battle went unnoticed for 30 years until Keith Nolan's book, RIPCORD, was published. As powerful and gripping as was the story of great leadership and courageous fighting by our soldiers, the magnitude of the enemy force still remained unknown. The author, the 3rd Brigade commander during the siege and evacuation, made trips to Vietnam in 2001 and 2004 and interviewed the 324B Division Commander whose first-ever division sole mission, was to destroy Firebase Ripcord. The full story is now told.

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iUniverse

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0595327303

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9780595327300

The Dark Side of Politics

Essays on the Unpleasant Realities of Political Life

By: Benjamin Ginsberg

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The Dark Side of Politics

Essays on the Unpleasant Realities of Political Life

By: Benjamin Ginsberg

This series of scholarly chapters explores the unpleasant realities of modern politics – and American politics in particular – by examining how self- interest, war, violence, deception and institutional failure continue to characterize the political landscape. Author Benjamin Ginsberg argues that the political world in which we like to think we live – the world of civic engagement, representative government and principled political discourse – is fleeting and fragile, resting uneasily upon the foundation of a harsh and dark reality. Making a fundamental contribution to our understandings of politics, this book is an important read for students and scholars of American Politics and Government.

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Taylor & Francis

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100382577X

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9781003825777

The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Mark Skousen,Benjamin Franklin

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The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Mark Skousen,Benjamin Franklin

A lifelong scholar of Benjamin Franklin's life completes the unfinished "Autobiography" with information on Franklin's attitudes about such topics as the Constitutional Convention, slavery, and Thomas Jefferson.

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Regnery Publishing

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0895260336

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9780895260338

CCTV and Policing

Public Area Surveillance and Police Practices in Britain

By: Benjamin Jervis Goold

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CCTV and Policing

Public Area Surveillance and Police Practices in Britain

By: Benjamin Jervis Goold

This text presents a comprehensive assessment of the impact of CCTV on the police in Britain. The volume examines how the police in Britain first became involved in public area surveillance and how they have since attempted to use CCTV technology to prevent, respond to, and investigate crime.

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OUP Oxford

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0199265143

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9780199265145

Religion and Poverty

Global Humanities. Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies 02/2015

By: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi,Waleed Chellan,Logan Cochrane,Divya Kannan,Alvin Lim,Atara Moscovich,Sabine Müller,Jeremiah Unterman

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Religion and Poverty

Global Humanities. Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies 02/2015

By: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi,Waleed Chellan,Logan Cochrane,Divya Kannan,Alvin Lim,Atara Moscovich,Sabine Müller,Jeremiah Unterman

Nowadays religions are especially important for those who are living in countries of the formerly so-called 'Third World'. The miseries of life seem to be so hard that just an afterlife in a transcendent paradise is promising relief. Consequently, there seems to be a close connection between religion and poverty, especially in the 21st century, when the hope for a better afterlife has become a driving force of the poor population of the world. However, what could be interpreted as a proof of the Marxist doctrine of religion as opium of the people, for sure deserves a more multiperspectival approach, which would not just cover the recent years of human history, but past centuries as well as the different religions around the globe. Therefore the second issue of Global Humanities traces the interrelationship between religion and poverty not only from a historical, but also from a sociological, religious and artistic perspective.

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155

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Neofelis Verlag

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3943414949

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9783943414943

Listening for Utopia in Ernst Bloch's Musical Philosophy

By: Benjamin M. Korstvedt

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Listening for Utopia in Ernst Bloch's Musical Philosophy

By: Benjamin M. Korstvedt

Korstvedt explains key concepts from Bloch's musical philosophy, making his complex ideas accessible for modern musical scholars.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521896150

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9780521896153

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

By: Benjamin Franklin,Ellen R. Cohn

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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

By: Benjamin Franklin,Ellen R. Cohn

After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin’s official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. Great Britain refused to negotiate a commercial agreement, and Congress failed to act on the draft treaties of commerce with Denmark and Portugal that Franklin had sent them the previous summer. In the six months after the peace was settled, Franklin’s sole diplomatic achievement was a draft consular convention with France. With his welcome leisure time, however, Franklin eagerly followed scientific developments (witnessing the first balloon ascensions in Paris), advised the French government on schemes for civic improvement, and wrote three of his most remarkable pieces about what it meant to be American.

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Yale University Press

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0300203748

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9780300203745

Titan Shattered

By: James Dixon,Lee Maughan,Benjamin Richardson,Justin Henry

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Titan Shattered

By: James Dixon,Lee Maughan,Benjamin Richardson,Justin Henry

The highly anticipated sequel to best-selling Titan Sinking After enduring a turbulent year in 1995, Vince McMahon was looking to rebuild his sinking empire in 1996. He had high hopes for a new World Wrestling Federation flag bearer, Shawn Michaels - the man he was looking to as the leader of the WWF's 'New Generation'. With Michaels supported by a strong cast of established characters, some old faces, and an influx of new blood, McMahon fully expected the WWF to dominate rivals WCW in the burgeoning Monday Night War. It did not work out that way. Titan Shattered tells the behind-the-scenes story of the WWF's tribulations in 1996. It was a year where paranoia threatened to destroy the WWF, where decades-old industry traditions were broken, and where Vince McMahon fully abandoned his wrestling principles in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

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Lulu.com

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1326355813

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9781326355814

A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou

Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites

By: Benjamin Hebblethwaite

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A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou

Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites

By: Benjamin Hebblethwaite

Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, and culture in Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda while scrutinizing the role of Europeans in fomenting tensions. The political, military, and slave trading histories of the kingdoms in the Bight of Benin reveal the circumstances of enslavement, including the geographies, ethnicities, languages, and cultures of enslavers and enslaved. The study of the spirits, rituals, structure, and music of the region’s religions sheds light on important sources for Haitian Vodou. Having royal, public, and private expressions, Vodun spirit-based traditions served as cultural systems that supported or contested power and enslavement. At once suppliers and victims of the European slave trade, the people of Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda deeply shaped the emergence of Haiti’s creolized culture. The Haitian chapters focus on Vodou’s Rada Rite (from Allada) and Gede Rite (from Abomey) through the songs of Rasin Figuier’s Vodou Lakay and Rasin Bwa Kayiman’s Guede, legendary rasin compact discs released on Jean Altidor’s Miami label, Mass Konpa Records. All the Vodou songs on the discs are analyzed with a method dubbed “Vodou hermeneutics” that harnesses history, religious studies, linguistics, literary criticism, and ethnomusicology in order to advance a scholarly approach to Vodou songs.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496835646

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9781496835642

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

1706-1757

By: Benjamin Franklin

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

1706-1757

By: Benjamin Franklin

Originally written as a guide for his son, Benjamin Franklin discusses his life, accomplishments, and ideas.

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Regnery Publishing

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1596980303

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Octopus's Garden

How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California

By: Benjamin T. Jenkins

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Octopus's Garden

How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California

By: Benjamin T. Jenkins

As Southern California recovered from the collapse of the cattle industry in the 1860s, the arrival of railroads—attacked by newspapers as the greedy “octopus”—and the expansion of citrus agriculture transformed the struggling region into a vast, idealized, and prosperous garden. New groves of the latest citrus varieties and new towns like Riverside quickly grew directly along the tracks of transcontinental railroads. The influx of capital, industrial technology, and workers, especially people of color, energized Southern California and tied it more closely to the economy and culture of the United States than ever before. Benjamin Jenkins’s Octopus’s Garden argues that citrus agriculture and railroads together shaped the economy, landscape, labor systems, and popular image of Southern California. Orange and lemon growing boomed in the 1870s and 1880s while railroads linked the region to markets across North America and ended centuries of geographic isolation for the West Coast. Railroads competed over the shipment of citrus fruits from multiple counties engulfed by the orange empire, resulting in an extensive rail network that generated lucrative returns for grove owners and railroad businessmen in Southern California from the 1890s to the 1950s. While investment from white Americans, particularly wealthy New Englanders, formed the financial backbone of the Octopus’s Garden, citrus and railroads would not have thrived in Southern California without the labor of people of color. Many workers of color took advantage of the commercial developments offered by railroads and citrus to economically advance their families and communities; however, these people also suffered greatly under the constant realities of bodily harm, low wages, and political and social exclusion. Promoters of the railroads and citrus cooperatives touted California as paradise for white Americans and minimized the roles of non-white laborers by stereotyping them in advertisements and publications. These practices fostered conceptions of California’s racial hierarchy by praising privileged whites and maligning the workers who made them prosper. The Octopus’s Garden continues to shape Southern Californians’ understanding of their past. In bringing together multiple storylines, Jenkins provides a complex and fresh perspective on the impact of citrus agriculturalists and railroad companies in Southern Californian history.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700634711

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9780700634712

Thinking Theologically about the Divine Ideas

Reexamining the Summa of Thomas Aquinas

By: Benjamin R. DeSpain

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Thinking Theologically about the Divine Ideas

Reexamining the Summa of Thomas Aquinas

By: Benjamin R. DeSpain

Thinking Theologically contains new insights into the place of the divine ideas in the pedagogical design of Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae. It subsequently challenges the false dichotomy between philosophy and theology in the interpretation of Aquinas’s engagement with the doctrine.

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BRILL

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9004511512

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9789004511514

The Value of Violence

By: Benjamin Ginsberg

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The Value of Violence

By: Benjamin Ginsberg

This provocative thesis calls violence the driving force not just of war, but of politics and even social stability. Though violence is commonly deplored, political scientist Ginsberg argues that in many ways it is indispensable, unavoidable, and valuable. Ginsberg sees violence manifested in society in many ways. "Law-preserving violence" (using Walter Benjamin's phrase) is the chief means by which society preserves social order. Behind the security of a stable society are the blunt instruments of the police, prisons, and the power of the bureaucratic state to coerce and manipulate. Ginsberg also discusses violence as a tool of social change, whether used in outright revolution or as a means of reform in public protests or the threat of insurrection. He notes that even groups committed to nonviolent tactics rely on the violent reactions of their opponents to achieve their ends. And to avoid the threat of unrest, modern states resort to social welfare systems (a prudent use of the carrot instead of the stick). Emphasizing the unavoidability of violence to create major change, Ginsberg points out that few today would trade our current situation for the alternative had our forefathers not resorted to the violence of the American Revolution and the Civil War.

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Prometheus Books

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1616148322

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9781616148324

Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity

By: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

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Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity

By: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Is religion to blame for deadly conflicts? Should religious behaviour be credited more often for acts of charity and altruism? In what ways are religious and ‘spiritual’ ideas, practices and identities surviving and changing as religion loses its political power in those parts of the world which are experiencing increasing secularization? Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the psychology of religion and social identity, Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary review of a century of research into the origins and consequences of religious belief systems and religious behaviour. The book employs a unique theoretical framework that combines the ‘new’ cognitive-evolutionary psychology of religion, examining the origins of religious ideas, with the ‘old’ psychology of religiosity, which looks at correlates and consequences. It examines a wide range of psychological variables and their relationship with religiosity. It is also provides fresh insights into classical topics in the psychology of religion, such as religious conversion, the relevance of Freud’s ideas about religion and religiosity, the meaning of secularization, and the crucial role women play in religion. The book concludes with the author’s reflections on the future for the psychology of religion as a field. Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity will be invaluable for academic researchers in psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and history worldwide. It will also be of great interest to advanced undergraduate students and graduate students across the social sciences.

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Routledge

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1317610377

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9781317610373

Hiking Massachusetts

A Guide to the State's Greatest Hiking Adventures

By: Benjamin Ames

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Hiking Massachusetts

A Guide to the State's Greatest Hiking Adventures

By: Benjamin Ames

Lace up your boots and sample 50 of the finest trails Massachusetts has to offer. This hiker's paradise offers not only mountaintop vistas but also historic landmarks and pristine seashore. Hike along cranberry bogs in Massasoit State Park, trace the edge of a cliff overlooking the Merrimack River in Maudslay State Park, follow the Appalachian Trail over Becket and Walling Mountains in October Mountain State Forest, or walk the state from Rhode Island to New Hampshire on the Midstate Trail. Veteran hiker and outdoor writer Ben Ames will introduce you to these trails and more. Use this guide for: detailed route maps for each trail; accurate route profiles showing the ups and downs of each hike; tips on equipment, trip planning, and hiking with dogs and children; accurate directions, difficulty ratings, trail contacts, and more.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493011154

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9781493011155

Remembering Paul

Ancient and Modern Contests Over the Image of the Apostle

By: Benjamin L. White

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Remembering Paul

Ancient and Modern Contests Over the Image of the Apostle

By: Benjamin L. White

Who was Paul of Tarsus? Radical visionary of a new age? Gender-liberating progressive? Great defender of orthodoxy? In Remembering Paul, Benjamin L. White offers a critique of early Christian claims about the "real" Paul in the second century C.E.--a period in which apostolic memory was highly contested--and sets these ancient contests alongside their modern counterpart: attempts to rescue the "historical" Paul from his "canonical" entrapments. White charts the rise and fall of various narratives about Paul and argues that Christians of the second century had no access to the "real" Paul. Through the selection, combination, and interpretation of pieces of a diverse earlier layer of the Pauline tradition, Christians defended images of the Apostle that were important for forming collective identity.

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Oxford University Press

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0190669578

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9780190669577

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Hell On A Hill Top

Hell On A Hill Top

The Dark Side of Politics

The Dark Side of Politics

The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

CCTV and Policing

CCTV and Policing

Religion and Poverty

Religion and Poverty

Listening for Utopia in Ernst Bloch's Musical Philosophy

Listening for Utopia in Ernst Bloch's Musical Philosophy

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

Titan Shattered

Titan Shattered

A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou

A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Octopus's Garden

Octopus's Garden

Thinking Theologically about the Divine Ideas

Thinking Theologically about the Divine Ideas

The Value of Violence

The Value of Violence

Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity

Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity

Hiking Massachusetts

Hiking Massachusetts

Remembering Paul

Remembering Paul

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