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Warrior Kings of Sweden

The Rise of an Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Gary Dean Peterson

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Warrior Kings of Sweden

The Rise of an Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Gary Dean Peterson

For a hundred years, Sweden was the international military power of Northern Europe, in control of the entire Baltic region and among the first to colonize in Africa and America. But the history of Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, and Prussia is largely neglected in American classrooms and scholarship. This book fills a large void in European history as it is generally presented to the American student and reader. This narrative covers Sweden's Age of Greatness (1632-1718) and the warrior-kings who governed that age. It chronologically describes the political and religious events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and reveals how these events produced the climate for European global expansion, including the exploration and colonization of the New World. The story traces history through the reigns of Sweden's ambitious rulers, beginning with the presumably Swedish Goths who ravaged the Roman Empire in the 2nd century CE and continuing through the end of the empire in the early eighteenth century. A thorough epilogue documents the cultural flowering in the arts and sciences that commenced in the Age of Greatness and continued to blossom in the centuries that followed. This final section of the book pays special attention to the personalities that drove Sweden's far-reaching cultural progress.

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McFarland

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1476604118

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Vikings and Goths

A History of Ancient and Medieval Sweden

By: Gary Dean Peterson

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Vikings and Goths

A History of Ancient and Medieval Sweden

By: Gary Dean Peterson

The Vikings descended upon Europe at the close of the 8th century, invading the continent's western seas and river systems, trading, raiding and spreading terror. In the north, they settled Iceland and Greenland and reached North America. In the east, Swedish Varangians established a river road to the Orient. With the collapse of the Viking commercial empire, Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries struggled to survive, their hardships exacerbated by internal strife, foreign domination and the Black Death. This book details the development of Scandinavia--Sweden in particular--from the end of the Ice Age, through a series of prehistoric cultures, the Bronze and Iron ages, to the Viking period and late Middle Ages. Recent research suggests a Swedish origin of the Goths, who helped dismember the Roman Empire, and evidence of Swedish participation in the western Viking expeditions. Special attention is given to Eastern Europe, where Sweden dominated commerce through the conquest of trade towns and the river systems of Russia.

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McFarland

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1476624348

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9781476624341

Gowen Field

By: Yancy Mailes,Gary Keith

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Gowen Field

By: Yancy Mailes,Gary Keith

Gowen Field, located south of Boise's air terminal, is home to Idaho's adjutant general, the state's Army and Air National Guard, and to U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps reserve units in the Boise area. Named in honor of Lt. Paul R. Gowen, a Caldwell native who died in an aircraft crash in 1938, Gowen Field was opened in the spring of 1941. Throughout World War II, the Army Air Forces used the field to train B-17 and B-24 aircrews for duty in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. Following World War II, the field was offered to the state of Idaho for use by the Air National Guard. Since that time, the Idaho Air Guard has operated numerous aircraft, including, but not limited to, the F-51, F-86, F-102, RF-4C, and the F-4G. Today the Idaho Air Guard operates the A-10 and C-130.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738548235

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9780738548234

Vikings and Goths

A History of Ancient and Medieval Sweden

By: Gary Dean Peterson

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A History of Ancient and Medieval Sweden

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One Bubble off Plumb

Sutton, Unedited

By: Gary Sutton

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One Bubble off Plumb

Sutton, Unedited

By: Gary Sutton

Sex, God, politics and other trivia, like science and business, get skewered in this selection of Gary Suttons published rants. But somehow this curmudgeon dotes on relatives. One column helped a judge decide to overturn a jury verdict. Another caused a CIA operative to show up on his doorstep. Death threats and nasty letters to editors followed several pieces. Whether in the NY Times or Math World, The Wall Street Journal or the La Jolla Light, Suttons thoughts always seem to provoke. Funny, Outrageous. Never even close to conventional.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462832547

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The Harder They Fall

Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery

By: Gary Stromberg,Jane Merrill

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The Harder They Fall

Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery

By: Gary Stromberg,Jane Merrill

Updated with photos and new interviews. The heady, drug-induced decades of the sixties and seventies provide the backdrop for this all-star account of addiction and recovery. Among the celebrities interviewed by Gary Stromberg for The Harder They Fall are comedian Richard Lewis; musicians Alice Cooper, Grace Slick, Dr. John, and Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night); actors Malcolm McDowell and Mariette Hartley; Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright; writer Anne Lamott; and athletes Doc Ellis and Gerry Cooney. The good news? All are recovering and leading lives of extraordinary accomplishment. "My own disease would like to tell you that my 'isms' are now my 'wasims.' But as this book reads, it's an ongoing process that leads to the sweetest spirituality. My hat's off and great kudos to those who share their story like it is for those of us who still need to hear it." -Steven Tyler - Aerosmith "Read this book! Here are the real winners in life. The best and the brightest with devastating illnesses, living clean, sober, confident, happy lives. If you want to know about alcoholism and addiction and how to get "weller than well," read this book." Capt. Ronald E. Smith - Chairman of the Dept. of Psychiatry, National Naval Medical Center and for twelve years the Psychiatric Consultant to the U S Congress "Here are the stories of twenty-one celebrities who had everything until their abusive chemicals showed them that, at the bottom, they had nothing at all. These pioneers in the modern drug abuse epidemic eventually each found their way into recovery, even redemption. These inspiring stories tell of the joy of finding a way of being that is more precious than fame and fortune." Robert L. DuPont, M.D. - White House Drug Czar for President Nixon and Ford (1973 to 1977), author of The Selfish Brain

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Hazelden Publishing

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1592859763

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9781592859764

The Nickel and Dime Decade

American Popular Culture During the 1930s

By: Gary D. Best

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The Nickel and Dime Decade

American Popular Culture During the 1930s

By: Gary D. Best

This study shows that, despite numerous surface similarities, the popular culture of the 1930s was different from that of the 1920s in a variety of ways, and not only because of the Great Depression. It was a period of quiet desperation and shifting values, one in which nickels and dimes replaced dollars as the currency of popular culture, and in which the emphasis was on finding methods to occupy idle time and idle minds. Popular culture during the 1930s is important for understanding not only how Americans coped, but why they did so with such good humor and so little of the discontent visible elsewhere in the world. An appreciation of popular culture during the 1930s is essential to understanding other aspects of the decade.

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Praeger

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027594395X

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9780275943950

Diabetes

A Guide to Living Well, Updated and Revised 3rd Edition

By: Ernest Lowe,Gary Arsham

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Diabetes

A Guide to Living Well, Updated and Revised 3rd Edition

By: Ernest Lowe,Gary Arsham

Diabetes A Guide to Living Well The most comprehensive guide to living with diabetes is now completely revised and updated. "Helpful, current, and up-to-date with good information." —The Diabetes Educator This extensively revised edition of Diabetes: A Guide to Living Well incorporates the latest diabetes research, emphasizing the current focus on preventive measures supported by the results of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial. It will help you design a program of individualized self-care that fits your lifestyle and avoid the major complications of diabetes. This no-nonsense guide explains how to overcome resistance and negative beliefs—and offers concrete strategies for dealing with stress, emotional reactions, and difficult-to-change eating and activity habits. Diabetes: A Guide to Living Well includes updated nutrition advice that reflects the research and guidelines from the American Diabetes Association, information on new medications, and expanded discussion on insulin pump therapy. For the first time, the book also includes information specifically for people with Type 2 diabetes. "A useful and valuable addition to the library of anyone dealing with diabetes." —Journal of Nutrition Education

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Wiley

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0471346772

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9780471346777

Heart and Soul

Awakening Your Passion to Serve

By: Gary Morsch,Dean Nelson

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Heart and Soul

Awakening Your Passion to Serve

By: Gary Morsch,Dean Nelson

The founder of the international relief agency, Heart to Heart International, relates how his medical mission work began and how everyone can help others in need.

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Beacon Hill Press

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0834116812

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