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The Ordeal of Power

A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower Years

By: Emmet John Hughes

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The Ordeal of Power

A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower Years

By: Emmet John Hughes

Hughes was an aide and speechwriter for Eisenhower. This book is a scathing review that questioned Eisenhower's political smarts and depicted Eisenhower as being ill-suited for the White House.

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0689705239

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The Ordeal of Power

A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower Years

By: Emmet John Hughes

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The Ordeal of Power

A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower Years

By: Emmet John Hughes

Hughes was an aide and speechwriter for Eisenhower. This book is a scathing review that questioned Eisenhower's political smarts and depicted Eisenhower as being ill-suited for the White House.

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The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-famine Ireland, 1750-1850

By: Emmet J. Larkin

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The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-famine Ireland, 1750-1850

By: Emmet J. Larkin

In this new volume, noted Irish historian Emmet Larkin turns hisattention to the pastoral challenges the Roman Catholic Church faced inministering to an exploding population of Irish Catholics in the yearsbefore the Great Famine of 1847. The extraordinary increase in thepopulation of Ireland from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenthcentury combined with a lack of financial resources available to thechurch as well as a shortage of clergy and sacred space proved to becrucial for adopting new methods of ministering to the Irish Catholiccommunity. How the Irish Church attempted to respond to these variouschallenges, and how it was thus uniquely shaped by them, is thecentral theme of this study.

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332

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CUA Press

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0813214572

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9780813214573

Killing from the Inside Out

Moral Injury and Just War

By: Robert Emmet Meagher

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Killing from the Inside Out

Moral Injury and Just War

By: Robert Emmet Meagher

Armies know all about killing. It is what they do, and ours does it more effectively than most. We are painfully coming to realize, however, that we are also especially good at killing our own "from the inside out," silently, invisibly. In every major war since Korea, more of our veterans have taken their lives than have lost them in combat. The latest research, rooted in veteran testimony, reveals that the most severe and intractable PTSD--fraught with shame, despair, and suicide--stems from "moral injury." But how can there be rampant moral injury in what our military, our government, our churches, and most everyone else call just wars? At the root of our incomprehension lies just war theory--developed, expanded, and updated across the centuries to accommodate the evolution of warfare, its weaponry, its scale, and its victims. Any serious critique of war, as well any true attempt to understand the profound, invisible wounds it inflicts, will be undermined from the outset by the unthinking and all-but-universal acceptance of just war doctrine. Killing from the Inside Out radically questions that theory, examines its legacy, and challenges us to look beyond it, beyond just war.

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184

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1630874523

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9781630874520

Broadway, the Golden Years

Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer-Directors, 1940 to the Present

By: Robert Emmet Long

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Broadway, the Golden Years

Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer-Directors, 1940 to the Present

By: Robert Emmet Long

Broadway, the Golden Years, is a wonderfully readable group portrait of the great Broadway choreographers from the mid-20th century to our own time: Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Tommy Tune, Graciela Daniele, and Susan Stroman. The hits generated by two generations of choreographer-directors define the Broadway stage: Oklahoma!; On the Town; West Side Story; Hello, Dolly!; Fiddler on the Roof; A Chorus Line; Dancin'; Dream Girls; The Producers; and many more

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324

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A&C Black

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0826414621

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9780826414625

The Apaches

Eagles of the Southwest

By: Donald Emmet Worcester

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The Apaches

Eagles of the Southwest

By: Donald Emmet Worcester

With attention to the nineteenth century, the history and the culture of the Apaches since the era of the Spanish Conquest are surveyed

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806123974

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9780806123974

The Genesis of Israel and Egypt

A Velikovskian View of the Early Civilizations, Ages in Alignment Series

By: Emmet Sweeney

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The Genesis of Israel and Egypt

A Velikovskian View of the Early Civilizations, Ages in Alignment Series

By: Emmet Sweeney

The Genesis of Israel and Egypt" examines the earliest phase of historical consciousness in the ancient Near East, looking in particular at the mysterious origins of Egypt's civilization and its links with Mesopotamia and the early Hebrews. The book takes a radically alternative view of the rise of high civilization in the Near East and the forces which propelled it. The author, Emmet Sweeney, finds that the early civilizations developed amidst a background of massive and repeated natural catastrophes, events which had a profound effect upon the ancient peoples and left its mark upon their myths, legends, customs and religions. Ideas found in all corners of the globe, concepts such as dragon-worship, pyramid-building, and human sacrifice, are shown by Sweeney to have a common origin in the cataclysmic events of the period termed the "eruptive age" by legendary English explorer Percy Fawcett. Terrified and traumatized by the forces of nature, people all over the world began to keep an obsessive watch on the heavens and to offer blood sacrifices to the angry sky gods. These events, which are fundamental to any understanding of the first literate cultures, have nonetheless been completely effaced from the history books and an official "history" of mankind, which is little more than an elaborate fiction, now graces the bookshelves of the world's great libraries. Starting with clues unearthed by history sleuth Immanuel Velikovsky and others, Emmet Sweeney takes the investigation further. While the Near Eastern civilizations are generally considered to have taken shape around 3300 BC — about 2,000 years before those of China and the New World — Ages in Alignment demonstrates that they had no 2,000-year head start. All the ancient civilizations arose simultaneously around 1300 BC, in the wake of a terrible natural catastrophe recalled in legend as the Flood or Deluge. Sweeney points out that the presently accepted chronology of Egypt is not based on science but on venerated literary tradition. This chronology had already been established, in its present form, by the third century BC when Jewish historians (utilizing the “History of Egypt” by the Hellenistic author Manetho) sought to “tie in” Egypt’s history with that of the Bible. Apparent gaps and weird repetitions resulted. Improbable feats like the construction of major cut-stone engineering projects before the advent of steel tools or Pythagorean geometry point to the weaknesses of the traditional view. Taking a more rigorous approach and pointing to solid evidence, Emmet Sweeney shows where names overlap, and where one and the same group is mistaken for different peoples in different times. Volume 1, The Genesis of Israel and Egypt, looks at the archaeological evidence for the Flood, evidence now misinterpreted and ignored. This volume examines the rise of the first literate cultures in the wake of the catastrophe, and goes on to trace the story of the great migration which led groups of early Mesopotamians westward toward Egypt, where they helped to establish Egyptian civilization. This migration, recalled in the biblical story of Abraham, provides the first link between Egyptian and Hebrew histories. The next link comes a few generations later with Imhotep, the great seer who solved the crisis of a seven-year famine by interpreting pharaoh Djoser’s dream. Imhotep is shown to be the same person as Joseph, son of Jacob.

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Algora Publishing

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1628945087

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9781628945089

This Borrowed Earth

Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World

By: Robert Emmet Hernan

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This Borrowed Earth

Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World

By: Robert Emmet Hernan

Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the strikingly poignant accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Minamata and others. And with these, the extraordinary and inspirational stories of the countless men and women who fought bravely to protect the communities and environments at risk.

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250

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St. Martin's Press

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0230105270

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9780230105270

So Fine a Prospect

Historic New England Gardens

By: Alan Emmet

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So Fine a Prospect

Historic New England Gardens

By: Alan Emmet

Join Alan Emmet on a tour of gardens that graced New England from just after the American Revolution into the 20th century. A Martha Stewart Decorative Arts Gift Book Choice for 1996.

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UPNE

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0874517745

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9780874517743

Book's by Emmet John Hughes

The Ordeal of Power

The Ordeal of Power

The Ordeal of Power

The Ordeal of Power

The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-famine Ireland, 1750-1850

The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-famine Ireland, 1750-1850

Killing from the Inside Out

Killing from the Inside Out

Broadway, the Golden Years

Broadway, the Golden Years

The Apaches

The Apaches

The Genesis of Israel and Egypt

The Genesis of Israel and Egypt

This Borrowed Earth

This Borrowed Earth

So Fine a Prospect

So Fine a Prospect

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