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Mexican Revolution: The Constitutionalist Years

By: Charles C. Cumberland

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Mexican Revolution: The Constitutionalist Years

By: Charles C. Cumberland

“The seven years with which this book concerns itself . . . must be thoroughly examined if one is to have a grasp of modern Mexican history.” —Military History of Texas and the Southwest The years 1913-1920 were the most critical years of the Mexican Revolution. This study of the period, a sequel to the author’s Mexican Revolution: Genesis under Madero, traces Mexico’s course through the anguish of civil war to the establishment of a tenuous new government, the codification of revolutionary aspirations in a remarkable constitution, and the emergence of an activist leadership determined to propel Mexico into the select company of developed nations. The narrative begins with Huerta’s overthrow of Madero in 1913 and the rise of Carranza’s Constitutionalist counterchallenge. It concludes with a summary of Carranza’s stormy term as constitutional president climaxed by his ouster and overthrow in a revolt spearheaded by Alvaro Obregón. Basing his study on a wide range of Mexican and US primary sources as well as pertinent secondary studies, Cumberland brings a mature and sophisticated analysis to his material; the result is a major contribution to the understanding of one of the twentieth century’s most significant revolutionary movements.

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University of Texas Press

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0292789637

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The Crying of the Wind

By: Charles Gidley Wheeler

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The Crying of the Wind

By: Charles Gidley Wheeler

What need have you to dread the monstrous crying of wind?' -W.B. Yeats Buenos Aires, 1939: Anna McGeoch arrives in Argentina from Scotland to join her brother and his wife and work on a Christian mission among the Matacos Indians. But within hours of her arrival she learns that her brother has been killed. Anna stays on in Buenos Aires and is welcomed into the glamorous lifestyle of the Hurlingham Club's polo-playing community. When she marries Tito Cadoret, a life of wealth and happiness seems to lie ahead. But, unknown to Anna, Cadoret is already in thrall to a corrupt and powerful lawyer, and as the years pass, he and his family are drawn ever deeper into a dark world of murder, blackmail, and the 'Dirty War'. When, in 1982, the British Task Force sails for the Falklands, Anna's daughter Nikki sails with it as a naval nurse aboard a hospital ship. After the battles are over, she tends the wounds of British and Argentine sailors and soldiers, and sees at first hand the tragedy and futility of armed conflict. As in the case of so many women down the centuries, Anna and Nikki suffer much in order to keep the family together, and the price they pay for personal freedom is high.

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iUniverse

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0595366384

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9780595366385

Triple Systems

By: Charles J. Colbourn,Alexander Rosa

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Triple Systems

By: Charles J. Colbourn,Alexander Rosa

Among the simplest combinatorial designs, triple systems have diverse applications in coding theory, cryptography, computer science, and statistics. This book provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of this rich area of mathematics.

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Oxford University Press

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0198535767

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9780198535768

Alarums & Excursions

Our Theatres in the Nineties

By: Charles Marowitz

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Alarums & Excursions

Our Theatres in the Nineties

By: Charles Marowitz

(Applause Books). Charles Marowitz casts a critical eye upon the highpoints of the last theatrical decade, in preparation for a new millennium. In a series of reviews, think-pieces, essays and commentaries culled from publications as varied as The London Times and Theatre Week magazine, Marowitz examines the work of such major playwrights as Mamet, Stoppard, Shepard, Neil Simon, Beckett, Gurney, Pinter, Kushner, Baitz, Shanley, Williams and McNalley. Marowitz dramatically captures the anger, anxiety, spectacle, and questionable "correctness" that characterized the past decade.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557832617

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The Theatre of Howard Barker

By: Charles Lamb

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The Theatre of Howard Barker

By: Charles Lamb

First published in 1997 as Howard Barker's theatre of seduction. This second, fully revised, edition includes a new interview with Barker, a revised introduction, an updated bibliography and a full production chronology.

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Psychology Press

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041531531X

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Recasting Bourgeois Europe

Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I

By: Charles S. Maier

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Recasting Bourgeois Europe

Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I

By: Charles S. Maier

Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization. Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, Maier provides a comparative history of three European nations and argues that they did not simply return to a prewar status quo, but achieved a new balance of state authority and interest group representation. While most previous accounts presented the decade as a prelude to the Depression and dictatorships, Maier suggests that the stabilization of the 1920s, vulnerable as it was, foreshadowed the more enduring political stability achieved after World War II. The immense and ambitious scope of this book, its ability to follow diverse histories in detail, and its effort to explain stabilization—and not just revolution or breakdown—have made it a classic of European history.

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Princeton University Press

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1400873703

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9781400873708

Just in Time

Conspiracy Theories: the Tales of the Untold Underground Movement

By: Atiku Charles,Isaac Idro

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Just in Time

Conspiracy Theories: the Tales of the Untold Underground Movement

By: Atiku Charles,Isaac Idro

Just in Time is a fiction about social milieu that involves criminality, familial dysfunctions resulting in adulthood substance abuse, prostitution and other antisocial behaviors. Also, it is a narrative of how remnants of fallen regimes from Middle Eastern countries with their accomplices and secret agents survive by launching silent blitz of assassin quad that indulged in provoking various social echelons to out maneuvering their adversaries and Government authorities in a typical under world environment of intrigue and greed. The book narratives have touched on a panorama of Islamic movements that has used unstable governments of the Middle East countries in attempts to install the Caliphates.

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Trafford Publishing

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1698712952

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Bad Time Stories

Government-Union Conflicts and the Rhetoric of Legitimation Strategies

By: Yonatan Reshef,Charles Keim

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Bad Time Stories

Government-Union Conflicts and the Rhetoric of Legitimation Strategies

By: Yonatan Reshef,Charles Keim

In Bad Time Stories, Yonatan Reshef and Charles Keim analyse the language of both parties in order to identify the legitimation strategies at work during government-union conflict. The authors use evidence drawn from newspapers, speeches, parliamentary transcripts, and legal statements in presenting a new framework for understanding the discursive strategies employed by governments and unions in labour disputes.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442648821

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The Complete Dambusters

The 133 Men Who Flew on the Dams Raid

By: Charles Foster

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The Complete Dambusters

The 133 Men Who Flew on the Dams Raid

By: Charles Foster

On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster aircraft from the RAF's 617 Squadron set off to attack the great dams in the industrial heart of Germany. Flying at a height of 60ft, they dropped a series of bombs which bounced across the water and destroyed two of their targets, thereby creating a legend. The one-off operation combined an audacious method of attack, technically brilliant flying and visually spectacular results. But while the story of Operation Chastise is well known, most of the 133 'Dambusters' who took part in the Dams Raid have until now been just names on a list. They came from all parts of the UK and the Commonwealth and beyond, and each of them was someone's son or brother, someone's husband or father. This is the first book to present their individual stories and celebrate their skill, heroism and, for many, sacrifice.

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The History Press

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0750988487

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9780750988483

The Sepsidae (Diptera) of Europe [electronic resource]

By: Adrian Charles Pont,Rudolf Meier

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The Sepsidae (Diptera) of Europe [electronic resource]

By: Adrian Charles Pont,Rudolf Meier

This volume deals with the European species of the family Sepsidae, a small family of acalyptrate flies. The taxonomy, biology and faunistics of all the European species are revised with emphasis on the Fennoscandian species. Nine genera and 44 species are dealt with, along with one new species.

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BRILL

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9004124772

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9789004124776

Putting Popular Music in Its Place

By: Charles Hamm

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Putting Popular Music in Its Place

By: Charles Hamm

Essays on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with politics and ideology.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521028612

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9780521028615

Operations of the Allied Army Under the Duke of Brunswick

1757 - 1766

By: Charles Hotham-Thompson

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Operations of the Allied Army Under the Duke of Brunswick

1757 - 1766

By: Charles Hotham-Thompson

This work was originally published in 1764 and its author was a British officer who served with the Duke of Brunswick against the French as they moved north from the Rhine to push into Hanover. It is a detailed account of all operations, actions, and maneuvers. Seven battles are covered in detail and supported by maps. The original work has been modified to make following it on modern maps by correcting the spellings of German city names to their modern spellings, or, when they have been absorbed into larger cities that has been annotated. In addition, biographies of several of the Duke of Brunswick’s staff officers have been added. In the original form the author was anonymous, but he has been identified and his biography also included.

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Winged Hussar Publishing

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1945430664

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Jews and Jazz

Improvising Ethnicity

By: Charles B Hersch

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Jews and Jazz

Improvising Ethnicity

By: Charles B Hersch

Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity explores the meaning of Jewish involvement in the world of American jazz. It focuses on the ways prominent jazz musicians like Stan Getz, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, and Red Rodney have engaged with jazz in order to explore and construct ethnic identities. The author looks at Jewish identity through jazz in the context of the surrounding American culture, believing that American Jews have used jazz to construct three kinds of identities: to become more American, to emphasize their minority outsider status, and to become more Jewish. From the beginning, Jewish musicians have used jazz for all three of these purposes, but the emphasis has shifted over time. In the 1920s and 1930s, when Jews were seen as foreign, Jews used jazz to make a more inclusive America, for themselves and for blacks, establishing their American identity. Beginning in the 1940s, as Jews became more accepted into the mainstream, they used jazz to "re-minoritize" and avoid over-assimilation through identification with African Americans. Finally, starting in the 1960s as ethnic assertion became more predominant in America, Jews have used jazz to explore and advance their identities as Jews in a multicultural society.

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Routledge

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131727038X

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Designing for Print

An In-Depth Guide to Planning, Creating, and Producing Successful Design Projects

By: Charles Conover

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Designing for Print

An In-Depth Guide to Planning, Creating, and Producing Successful Design Projects

By: Charles Conover

This book is a single-source guide to planning, designing and printing successful projects using the Adobe Creative Suite. Packed with real-world design exercises, this revised edition is fully updated to align with CS. Dozens of sidebars and step-by-step descriptions walk readers through the design process in the same order actual projects are implemented Content progresses from planning through execution

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470905972

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9780470905975

Sounds, Screens, Speakers

An Introduction to Music and Media

By: Charles Fairchild

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Sounds, Screens, Speakers

An Introduction to Music and Media

By: Charles Fairchild

Sounds, Screens, Speakers provides a broadly comprehensive survey of the emerging field of music and media. Music has been present at the advent of nearly every new media form since the turn of the 20th century. Whether we look at the start of sound recording, film, television or the Internet, music has been a crucial participant in the social changes brought about by these new tools for making and listening to music. This book examines such changes starting in the late 19th century to the present. From the introduction of the microphone all the way through to music in reality television, the purpose of each section is not simply to move chronologically towards the present, but to focus especially on the tangible social relationships created through specific forms of mediation. With readings at the end of most chapters, key questions to facilitate additional discovery and research, and direction to additional readings and resources on popular websites and news sources, this text serves as the ideal introduction to popular music and media.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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150133624X

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9781501336249

Excursions in World Music, Sixth Edition

By: Bruno Nettl,Thomas Turino,Isabel Wong,Charles Capwell,Philip Bolman,Byron Dueck,Timmothy Rommen

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Excursions in World Music, Sixth Edition

By: Bruno Nettl,Thomas Turino,Isabel Wong,Charles Capwell,Philip Bolman,Byron Dueck,Timmothy Rommen

Explore the relationship between music and society around the world This comprehensive introductory text creates a panoramic experience for beginner students by exposing them to the many musical cultures around the globe. Each chapter opens with a musical encounter in which the author introduces a key musical culture. Through these experiences, students are introduced to key musical styles, musical instruments, and performance practices. Students are taught how to actively listen to key musical examples through detailed listening guides. The role of music in society is emphasized through chapters that focus on key world cultural groups.

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Routledge

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1317350294

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Struggling to Define a Nation

American Music and the Twentieth Century

By: Charles Hiroshi Garrett

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Struggling to Define a Nation

American Music and the Twentieth Century

By: Charles Hiroshi Garrett

Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.

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Univ of California Press

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0520254864

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Tex McCrary

Wars-Women-Politics, An Adventurous Life Across The American Century

By: Charles J. Kelly

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Tex McCrary

Wars-Women-Politics, An Adventurous Life Across The American Century

By: Charles J. Kelly

At last someone has discovered one of the most fascinating lives of the 20th century. As a crusading journalist, John Reagan 'Tex' McCrary led the way from newspapering into radio and television. As a handsome adventurer, this well-connected Yalie romanced some of the world's most talented (and richest) women, winding up a globe-girdling love affair by marrying Jinx Falkenburg, then America's top model and later his partner on the air. As a brave Army Air Corps colonel in World War II, he took the first group of reporters into devastated Hiroshima, and was instrumental in the creation of an independent U.S. Air Force. As a political activist, he was a powerful influence in pulling General Eisenhower back from Paris to wrench the Republican presidential nomination from the hard right—even though his advocacy cost him his network job. As a pioneer publicist, Tex brought a social conscience to the builder of Levittown and sent a kid he was mentoring (me) to Moscow to set up the historic 'kitchen debate' between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon. I could never get him to write his memoirs before he died; the active octogenarian stubbornly said 'I won't live my life with eyes on the rear-view mirror.' But Chuck Kelly, his longtime friend, interviewed him skillfully and often, and now we have an adventurer's eye-view of McCrary's little-known role in tempestuous times.—William Safire

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University Press of America

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0761844562

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9780761844563

Catch Them Being Good

Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls

By: Tony Dicicco,Colleen Hacker,Charles Salzberg

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Catch Them Being Good

Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls

By: Tony Dicicco,Colleen Hacker,Charles Salzberg

This guide to coaching female athletes of all ages shows how to build a team and provides invaluable advice on the differences between coaching males and females. The authors include exercises that foster teamwork and develop essential skills. They also answer parents' most common questions, such as how to tell if the coach is doing a good job and what to do if a child wants to quit. Filled with stories about the Olympic and World Cup championship teams, this useful handbook is infused throughout with DiCicco's philosophy that at every level playing soccer (or any sport) is about "playing hard, playing fair, playing to win, and having fun.

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110116607X

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