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The Armada

By: Garrett Mattingly

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The Armada

By: Garrett Mattingly

Chronicles events surrounding the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada and explains its effects on European history.

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0618565914

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The Armada

By: Prof. Garrett Mattingly

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WINNER OF THE SPECIAL CITATION FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE COMMITTEE In 1588, the English fleet defeated the mighty Spanish Armada in the sea battle that author Garrett Mattingly refers to as “the focus of the first great international crisis in modern history.” Winner of 1960 Pulitzer Prize and a model history as important to the scholar as it is engrossing for the general reader, Mattingly’s 1959 book The Armada is the definitive story of that battle and its meaning. “There is no other historian in the English speaking world who could give us a bird’s-eye view of the scene from so many aspects. With his linguistic gifts and cultural sensibilities, Mattingly tells the story not merely from the English or Spanish viewpoints as hitherto; he follows all the contributory streams that ran toward the decisive events in the English Channel in that historic twelve-month...The Armada is a work of art as well as of scholarship...It is so skillfully constructed, it reads like a novel—but an accomplished novel, by one of the best writers.”—New York Times “In a splendidly entertaining book Professor Mattingly, calling up the resources of a lifetime of scholarship,...presents the true story in the framework of European history and, by a masterly arrangement of his chapters, brings out with clarity the interweaving of diplomacy, strategy, and politics.”—Saturday Review

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787206238

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Renaissance Diplomacy

By: Garrett Mattingly

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Renaissance Diplomacy

By: Garrett Mattingly

Modern diplomacy began in the fifteenth century when the Italian city-states established resident embassies at the courts of their neighbors. By the sixteenth century, the forms and techniques of the new continuing diplomacy had spread northward to be further developed by the emerging European powers. “The new Italian institution of permanent diplomacy was drawn into the service of the rising nation-states. and served, like the standing army of which it was the counterpart, at once to nourish their growth and foster their idolatry. It still serves them and must go on doing so as long as nation-states survive.” Garrett Mattingly, author of Catherine of Aragon and The Armada, here tells the story of Western diplomacy in its formative period and explains the evolution of the diplomat’s function. His able and lively discussion also forms, in effect, a history of Western Europe from an entirely fresh point of view. “Garrett Mattingly develops his theme with historical skill, a sense of the relevance of his subject to modern problems, and a literary grace all too rare in works of serious scholarship.”-New York Herald Tribune “An important book...carefully and elegantly written.”-Times Literary Supplement “Presents the many facets of a highly complex subject in a way which is as readable as it is scholarly.”-American Historical Review “A remarkable book: bold, scholarly and original, it will appeal equally to the expert and to the historically-minded general reader.”-New Statesman and Nation

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1787205142

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9781787205147

Catherine of Aragon

By: Prof. Garrett Mattingly

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Catherine of Aragon

By: Prof. Garrett Mattingly

First published in 1941, eminent European historian Garrett Mattingly’s Catherine of Aragon was the first real biography of the youngest daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella who married Henry VIII. She loved England and England loved her from the day she landed—an outwardly brave, inwardly scared fifteen-year-old—to the day of her death. Henry loved her longer and more loyally than he ever loved anyone else, lived in wedded peace with her for eighteen years, and in uneasy friendship for four more after he had started proceedings for divorce. She loved Henry better than anyone else ever did, and found in her love the courage to oppose him more unflinchingly than anyone else ever dared to do. The clash of their formidable wills changed the course of history. This vivid, dramatic biography, with its smallest detail resting solidly on painstaking research, discloses a new English heroine and presents the whole epoch of Henry VIII in a new light, startlingly revealing and utterly convincing.

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178720622X

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Renaissance Diplomacy

By: Garrett Mattingly

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The Armada

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Chronicles events surrounding the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada and explains its effects on European history.

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Spy Tango

By: Garrett Hutson

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Spy Tango

By: Garrett Hutson

Argentina, 1940 - where lovers dance the tango, and spies do a more dangerous dance... After disobeying orders from the Chief Special Agent, State Department counterintelligence agent Martin Schuller has been exiled to the American Embassy in Argentina, where he has to work with his FBI nemesis, Reginald Sloan. But if you're going to be sent into exile in 1940, Buenos Aires is a pretty good place to land. When Martin discovers a Nazi smuggling operation sneaking war materiel from Argentine mines to the Third Reich, in violation of the Americas Security Zone, he gets back to pursing Nazi spies. As the world teeters on the brink of Nazi domination, stopping the smugglers takes on new urgency. Can he help save the world without getting caught in dangerous local entanglements?

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Warfleigh Publishing

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0998281395

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The Lure of the Arena

Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games

By: Garrett G. Fagan

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The Lure of the Arena

Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games

By: Garrett G. Fagan

Were the Romans who watched brutal gladiatorial games all that different from us? This book argues they were not.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521196167

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9780521196161

Cycling

By: Greg Garrett

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Cycling

By: Greg Garrett

Brad Cannon, a restless and indifferent author with a penchant for bikeriding, women, and Texas cooking, finds his carefully constructed life unraveling when he becomes involved with three different women.

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Kensington Books

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0758205317

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9780758205315

Beyond Concepts

Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information

By: Ruth Garrett Millikan

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Beyond Concepts

Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information

By: Ruth Garrett Millikan

Ruth Garrett Millikan presents a highly original account of cognition - of how we get to grips with the world in thought. The question at the heart of her book is Kant's 'How is knowledge possible?', but answered from a contemporary naturalist standpoint. The starting assumption is that we are evolved creatures that use cognition as a guide in dealing with the natural world, and that the natural world is roughly as natural science has tried to describe it. Very unlike Kant, then, we must begin with ontology, with a rough understanding of what the world is like prior to cognition, only later developing theories about the nature of cognition within that world and how it manages to reflect the rest of nature. And in trying to get from ontology to cognition we must traverse another non-Kantian domain: questions about the transmission of information both through natural signs and through purposeful signs including, especially, language. Millikan makes a number of innovations. Central to the book is her introduction of the ideas of unitrackers and unicepts, whose job is to recognize the same again as manifested through the jargon of experience. She offers a direct reference theory for common nouns and other extensional terms; a naturalist sketch of conceptual development; a theory of natural information and of language function that shows how properly functioning language carries natural information; a novel description of the semantics/pragmatics distinction; a discussion of perception as translation from natural informational signs; new descriptions of indexicals, demonstratives and intensional contexts; and a new analysis of the reference of incomplete descriptions.

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Oxford University Press

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0198717199

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9780198717195

Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs

By: John Hilber,Tremper Longman III,Duane Garrett

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Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs

By: John Hilber,Tremper Longman III,Duane Garrett

Many today find the Old Testament a closed book. The cultural issues seem insurmountable and we are easily baffled by that which seems obscure. Furthermore, without knowledge of the ancient culture we can easily impose our own culture on the text, potentially distorting it. This series invites you to enter the Old Testament with a company of guides, experts that will give new insights into these cherished writings. Features include • Over 2000 photographs, drawings, maps, diagrams and charts provide a visual feast that breathes fresh life into the text. • Passage-by-passage commentary presents archaeological findings, historical explanations, geographic insights, notes on manners and customs, and more. • Analysis into the literature of the ancient Near East will open your eyes to new depths of understanding both familiar and unfamiliar passages. • Written by an international team of 30 specialists, all top scholars in background studies.

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Zondervan Academic

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031052766X

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9780310527664

The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World

By: Werner Riess,Garrett G. Fagan

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The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World

By: Werner Riess,Garrett G. Fagan

What soldiers do on the battlefield or boxers do in the ring would be treated as criminal acts if carried out in an everyday setting. Perpetrators of violence in the classical world knew this and chose their venues and targets with care: killing Julius Caesar at a meeting of the Senate was deliberate. That location asserted Senatorial superiority over a perceived tyrant, and so proclaimed the pure republican principles of the assassins. The contributors to The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World take on a task not yet addressed in classical scholarship: they examine how topography shaped the perception and interpretation of violence in Greek and Roman antiquity. After an introduction explaining the “spatial turn” in the theoretical study of violence, “paired” chapters review political assassination, the battlefield, violence against women and slaves, and violence at Greek and Roman dinner parties. No other book either adopts the spatial theoretical framework or pairs the examination of different classes of violence in classical antiquity in this way. Both undergraduate and graduate students of classics, history, and political science will benefit from the collection, as will specialists in those disciplines. The papers are original and stimulating, and they are accessible to the educated general reader with some grounding in classical history.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472121839

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9780472121830

The Only Plane in the Sky

An Oral History of 9/11

By: Garrett M. Graff

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The Only Plane in the Sky

An Oral History of 9/11

By: Garrett M. Graff

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” —Jon Meacham “Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken.” —The Wall Street Journal “Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat…There’s been a lot written about 9/11, but nothing like this. I urge you to read it.” —Katie Couric The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001—a panoramic narrative woven from voices on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma. Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower to The 9/11 Commission Report. But one perspective has been missing up to this point—a 360-degree account of the day told through firsthand. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was lived—in the words of those who lived it. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, he paints the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet. Beginning in the predawn hours of airports in the Northeast, we meet the ticket agents who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights, and the flight attendants inside the hijacked planes. In New York, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable horror at the Twin Towers. From a secret bunker under the White House, officials watch for incoming planes on radar. Aboard unarmed fighter jets in the air, pilots make a pact to fly into a hijacked airliner if necessary to bring it down. In the skies above Pennsylvania, civilians aboard United 93 make the ultimate sacrifice in their place. Then, as the day moves forward and flights are grounded nationwide, Air Force One circles the country alone, its passengers isolated and afraid. More than simply a collection of eyewitness testimonies, The Only Plane in the Sky is the historic narrative of how ordinary people grappled with extraordinary events in real time: the father and son caught on different ends of the impact zone; the firefighter searching for his wife who works at the World Trade Center; the operator of in-flight telephone calls who promises to share a passenger’s last words with his family; the beloved FDNY chaplain who bravely performs last rites for the dying, losing his own life when the Towers collapse; and the generals at the Pentagon who break down and weep when they are barred from trying to rescue their colleagues. At once a powerful tribute to the courage of everyday Americans and an essential addition to the literature of 9/11, The Only Plane in the Sky weaves together the unforgettable personal experiences of the men and women who found themselves caught at the center of an unprecedented human drama. The result is a unique, profound, and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501182226

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9781501182228

Shadows of Empire

The Indian Nobility of Cusco, 1750-1825

By: David T. Garrett

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Shadows of Empire

The Indian Nobility of Cusco, 1750-1825

By: David T. Garrett

This book traces the history of the late colonial Andean elite and their privilege and authority.

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Cambridge University Press

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052184634X

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9780521846349

Defying Gravity

Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling

By: Garrett Soden

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Defying Gravity

Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling

By: Garrett Soden

Riveting....A must-read history of daredevilry and gravity sports."--San Francisco Chronicle

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039332656X

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9780393326567

The Flat Earth Trilogy Book of Secrets II

By: Gregory Lessing Garrett

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The Flat Earth Trilogy Book of Secrets II

By: Gregory Lessing Garrett

Evidently, NASA can see though millions of layers of stars and galaxies to get thousands of crystal-clear shots of galaxies millions of light years away, but they cannot take even ONE simple photo of Earth from the Moon's distance that is not CGI fakery? NASA is merely a film production company with a huge budget and huge real rocket props. We have ALL been indoctrinated by occult high masters at NASA to the tune of 53 million dollars a day coming out of OUR Pay Checks to pay for their fake CGI rubbish. When we stop and slow down and really, really let it sink in, the most accurate map of the Earth used by the United Nations is The Flat Earth Map? They even outline the map with wheat stalks to symbolize Antarctica. This is the groundbreaking story of The Flat Earth cover-up: The Who, How, and Why they did it story.

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Lulu.com

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0359581684

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9780359581689

Who's Afraid of Women's Studies?

Feminisms in Everyday Life

By: Mary Frances Rogers,C. D. Garrett

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Who's Afraid of Women's Studies?

Feminisms in Everyday Life

By: Mary Frances Rogers,C. D. Garrett

A highly accessible overview of the central themes of women's studies, suitable for introductory reading in undergraduate courses or for a more general audience's introduction to the meaning of feminism and its relevance as a progressive force in society. The authors tackle six broad topics that dominate the field and are key to understanding women's experiences and prospects: women's bodies, anger & desires, sexuality, internal backlash, feminist methods, & identity politics. The authors consider why there is a resistance to the development of American feminism and women's studies in the academy, with their continuing representation of marginalized, excluded, and silenced voices.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759101744

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9780759101746

The Defeat of the Spanish Armada

By: Garrett Mattingly

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The Defeat of the Spanish Armada

By: Garrett Mattingly

In putting the naval campaign of 1588 back into the context of the first great international crisis of modern history, this title builds up, like the movements of a symphony, a broad picture of how events of the time affected men's actions, plans and hopes.

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Penguin UK

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0140077642

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