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The History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58: Vol 3

By: Sir John Kaye,Colonel Malleson

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The History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58: Vol 3

By: Sir John Kaye,Colonel Malleson

Volume III of VI Best edition of the standard work (with analytical index in Vol. VI) Contemporary review from the Athenaeum: "It only be remarked that Colonel Malleson wields his pen with so much skill that while giving a realistic account of all important operations, passing over no really noteworthy act of talent or heroism, and acutely criticising everything which demands criticism, he abstains from overlaying his narrative with details which would have increased the bulk of his book beyond all reason. Another characteristic of Colonel Malleson is that he never hesitates to condemn conduct of which he disapproves or to draw attention to errors which he conceives were committed, whatever the rank or position of those who are the objects of his criticism. The result is that many of the actors in the drama will find their laurels somewhat injured, while others, who from official prejudice have not yet received full credit for their exploits, obtain from the author due praise for their services. The rewards given for the Mutiny were liberal, but it is distressing to find that some of them were undeserved, while on the other hand, many able and gallant men have received no recognition at all ... There are many highly-placed officials whose fame is sadly tarnished by the frank, truthful criticisms of the fearless, uncompromising author of the book before us.

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1781510075

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Street of the Seven Angels

By: John Howard Griffin

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Street of the Seven Angels

By: John Howard Griffin

A social satire set in Paris, this previously unpublished novel is based in part on the U.S. Supreme Court's censorship trial regarding the author's first novel.

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Wings Press

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160940114X

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9781609401146

Natural Resources in Afghanistan

Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict

By: John F. Shroder

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Natural Resources in Afghanistan

Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict

By: John F. Shroder

Natural Resources in Afghanistan: Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict details Afghanistan's physical geography — namely climate, soils, vegetation, water, hazards, and basic geologic background and terrain landforms — together with details of its rich natural resources, ethnic problems, and relevant past histories. The book couples these details with the challenges of environmental degradation and new environmental management and protection, all of which are considered finally in both pessimistic and optimistic modes. The reader comes away with a nuanced understanding of the issues that are likely to have great affect for this pivotal region of the world for decades to come. With an estimated $1-3 trillion dollars of ore in the ground, and multiple cross-reinforcing cancellations of big Asian power machinations (China, India, Iran, Pakistan), Afghanistan has an opportunity to gain more economic independence. At the same time, however, historic forces of negativity also pull it back toward the chaos and uncertainty that has defined the country and constrained its economic progress for decades. - Authored by the world's foremost expert on the geology and geomorphology of Afghanistan and its lucrative natural resources - Aids in the understanding of the physical environment, natural hazards, climate-change situations, and natural resources in one of the most geographically diverse and dangerous terrains in the world - Provides new concepts of resource-corridor development in a country with no indigenous expertise of its resources

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Elsevier

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0128005459

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9780128005453

The Visual Arts and Christianity in America

From the Colonial Period to the Present

By: John Dillenberger

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The Visual Arts and Christianity in America

From the Colonial Period to the Present

By: John Dillenberger

How has religion affected the creation and patronage of American art? This is the question explored in 'The Visual Arts and Christianity in America', the most comprehensive treatment of this subject to date. With its 184 illustrations, the volume is a visual and textual survey of both the religious paintings, statuary, and architecture produced in America since colonial times and the attitudes toward such art expressed by the artists, the clergy, and the religious press. By means of a multifaceted approach that includes investigation of biographical, journalistic, art historical, as well as religious literature, a broad range of art objects and buildings are carefully placed in their social and intellectual context. Part One presents the colonial backdrop, both English and Spanish, against which and out of which the ensuing developments in American art and religious life took shape. Part Two treats nineteenth-century views of art and architecture, focusing on the views held by the clergy and conveyed in religious journals as well as the religious views of the artists and architects themselves. In Part Three, devoted to art in private and public life, major issues emerge that will remain as such into the twentieth century: the relation between nature and history, the place of art in civil religion, and the presence or absence of explicit biblical themes. The fourth and entirely new portion of the book, devoted to the twentieth century, examines the continuities and discontinuities in style and content between nineteenth- and twentieth-century art in relation to spiritual and religious perceptions.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1592448593

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A Great and Noble Scheme

The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

By: John Mack Faragher

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A Great and Noble Scheme

The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

By: John Mack Faragher

Drawing on original primary research, Faragher follows specific Acadian families through the anguish of their removal and brings to light a tragic chapter in the settlement of America.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393051358

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9780393051353

The Second Mystery Megapack

25 Modern & Classic Mystery Stories

By: Ron Goulart,Mack Reynolds,Arlette Lees,John Gregory Betancourt,Jean Lorrah,Michael Hemmingson,Ray Cummings,John L French

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The Second Mystery Megapack

25 Modern & Classic Mystery Stories

By: Ron Goulart,Mack Reynolds,Arlette Lees,John Gregory Betancourt,Jean Lorrah,Michael Hemmingson,Ray Cummings,John L French

The Second Mystery Megapack selects 25 more tantalizing mystery tales, by modern and classic authors. Included are: FUNNY STUFF, by Ron Goulart PIT ON THE ROAD TO HELL, by John Gregory Betancourt WHAT IS COURAGE? by Mack Reynolds JUST THE FACTS, by Meg Opperman TEN GRAINS OF SAND, by Christopher B. Booth MORE ALLISONS THAN I KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH, by Michael Hemmingson REFLECTION OF A DREAM, by Jean Lorrah GRIM REAPER'S HANDICAP, by Fergus Truslow CASH, by Arlette Lees SEAS OF MISUNDERSTANDING, by Ray Cummings HOCUS POCUS HOMICIDE, by Gene D. Robinson THE RIGHT BETRAYAL, by John L. French JEAN MONETTE, by Eugene Francois Vidocq THE SENDING OF DANA DA, by Rudyard Kipling PHANTOM GETAWAY, by Leon Mearson THE MURDER OF SILAS CORD, by Harold F. Sorensen A BOTTOMLESS GRAVE, by Ambrose Bierce DEAD WOMAN, by Dr. David H. Keller HOOK, LINE, AND SUCKER! by Robert Turner THE JUDGMENT OF THE GODS, by Robert Reginald WILL FOR A KILL, by Emil Petaja DYING FOR A CLUE, by C.A. Freeburn BODYGUARD, by James C. Glass THE MASKED ALIBI, by John Gregory DR. WATSON'S WEDDING PRESENT, by J. Alston Cooper If you enjoy this volume, check out other entries (including literature, mysteries, westerns, science fiction, ghost stories, and much more) in this best-selling series. Search on "Wildside Press Megapack" in your favorite ebook store to see the complete list. (Sort by date to see the most recent additions.)

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479408891

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9781479408894

Text and Image

A Critical Introduction to the Visual/Verbal Divide

By: John Bateman

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Text and Image

A Critical Introduction to the Visual/Verbal Divide

By: John Bateman

Text and image are used together in an increasingly flexible fashion and many disciplines and areas of study are now attempting to understand how these combinations work.This introductory textbook explores and analyses the various approaches to multimodality and offers a broad, interdisciplinary survey of all aspects of the text-image relation. It leads students into detailed discussion concerning a number of approaches that are used. It also brings out their strengths and weaknesses using illustrative example analyses and raises explicit research questions to reinforce learning. Throughout the book, John Bateman looks at a wide range of perspectives: socio-semiotics, visual communication, psycholinguistic approaches to discourse, rhetorical approaches to advertising and visual persuasion, and cognitive metaphor theory. Applications of the styles of analyses presented are discussed for a variety of materials, including advertisements, picture books, comics and textbooks. Requiring no prior knowledge of the area, this is an accessible text for all students studying text and image or multimodality within English Language and Linguistics, Media and Communication Studies, Visual and Design Studies.

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Routledge

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1317683021

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Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8

By: John Kaye,George Bruce Malleson

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Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8

By: John Kaye,George Bruce Malleson

Kaye and Malleson's comprehensive first-hand History is a lucid and interesting account covering the Indian Mutiny's causes and events.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108023274

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9781108023276

Dime Novel Desperadoes

The Notorious Maxwell Brothers

By: John Hallwas

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Dime Novel Desperadoes

The Notorious Maxwell Brothers

By: John Hallwas

The exhilarating true tale of two major American desperadoes who once captivated the nation

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University of Illinois Press

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0252078047

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9780252078040

Foundations of Religious Literacy

By: John Apczynski

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Foundations of Religious Literacy

By: John Apczynski

Originally published by the College Theology Society in 1982, this collection of essays addresses issues of religious literacy. The explorations forming the unifying motif here focus on where religious classics can be found today, how they are encountered, and how their meaning is properly grasped and expressed. These concerns are vital to those engaged professionally in the transmission, assimilation and creative development of our cultural heritage. Co-published with the College Theology Society.

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University Press of America

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0819156175

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Icons of Invention [2 volumes]

The Makers of the Modern World from Gutenberg to Gates [2 volumes]

By: John W. Klooster

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Icons of Invention [2 volumes]

The Makers of the Modern World from Gutenberg to Gates [2 volumes]

By: John W. Klooster

These two volumes provide in-depth coverage of 24 of history's most important inventors and their inventions. Who invented the sewing machine, the telephone, the internal combustion engine? Who pioneered vaccination? Who gave the world television, nylon, the nuclear reactor? The answers to some of these questions are straightforward, the answers to others much less so. All of them are explored in the fascinating Icons of Invention: The Makers of the Modern World from Gutenberg to Gates. This in-depth resource tells the stories of 24 of the most influential and well-known inventions of the modern age—and of the individuals most responsible for their development. Presented in chronological order, the entries provide background on the lives and work of inventors such as Thomas Edison, Alexander Fleming, and Tim Berners-Lee. At the same time, the set profiles their competitors and details the sometimes-controversial, often-mistake-plagued routes almost all of them took to their most famous creations.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313347441

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9780313347443

The Smith College Museum of Art

European and American Painting and Sculpture, 1760-1960

By: Smith College. Museum of Art,John Davis,Jaroslaw Leshko

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The Smith College Museum of Art

European and American Painting and Sculpture, 1760-1960

By: Smith College. Museum of Art,John Davis,Jaroslaw Leshko

Smith College art professors Davis and Leshko showcase 100 paintings and sculptures from their institution's vaunted collection, encompassing Americans from Gilbert Stuart to Louise Nevelson and Europeans from Corot to Henry Moore. In the introduction, how and why Smith became steward of such a fine body of work is ascribed to the school's high-minded mission and its generous alumni donors. The rest of the book is divided into two sections, one American and the other European. Each individual full-color reproduction is accompanied by an informative one-page essay and a brief reading list. During several years of renovations at Smith, the items featured in this book are traveling to diverse sites, which should increase the book's appeal. 118 colour & 1 b/w illustrations

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Hudson Hills

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1555951945

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9781555951948

Monet

Nature Into Art

By: John House

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Monet

Nature Into Art

By: John House

In this beautifully illustrated book, John House discusses the career and painting techniques of one of the greatest Impressionist painters, providing the fullest account ever written of Monet’s working practices and the ways in which they evolved. In so doing House throws much new light on issues central to the understanding of French Impressionist painting as a whole.

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Yale University Press

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0300043619

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9780300043617

19th-century America: Paintings and Sculpture

An Exhibition in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 16 Through September 7, 1970

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),John K. Howat,Natalie Spassky

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19th-century America: Paintings and Sculpture

An Exhibition in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 16 Through September 7, 1970

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),John K. Howat,Natalie Spassky

Chiefly illustrated catalog of an exhibition held in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 16 through September 7, 1970.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870990063

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9780870990069

Cézanne and America

Dealers, Collectors, Artists, and Critics, 1891-1921

By: John Rewald

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Cézanne and America

Dealers, Collectors, Artists, and Critics, 1891-1921

By: John Rewald

The classic work by internationally acclaimed Cézanne scholar John Rewald In Cézanne and America, John Rewald presents a full account of how Paul Cézanne’s reputation and influence became established in America between 1891 and 1921, and of how some of the world’s largest collections of his works were formed in the United States. This is the fascinating story of enthusiastic young American artists who took up Cézanne’s cause after they discovered him in Paris. It is also the story of the discerning early American collectors of his work—Leo and Gertrude Stein, the Havemeyers, and John Quinn, among others—many of whom made their first purchases from Cézanne’s wily dealer Ambroise Vollard in Paris, or from the dealer Alfred Stieglitz in New York, and of the beginning of the famous collection of Dr. Albert C. Barnes. Each chapter is illustrated not only with Cézanne’s works but also with portraits of collectors and critics and with previously unpublished pages from diaries, dealers’ ledgers, and Cézanne’s own correspondence.

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Princeton University Press

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0691252270

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9780691252278

Sargent's Venice

By: Warren Adelson,John Singer Sargent,William H. Gerdts,Richard Ormond,Elaine Kilmurray,Rosella Mamoli Zorzi

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Sargent's Venice

By: Warren Adelson,John Singer Sargent,William H. Gerdts,Richard Ormond,Elaine Kilmurray,Rosella Mamoli Zorzi

Den amerikanske kunstner John Singer Sargents (1856-1925) skildringer af Venedig.

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Yale University Press

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0300117175

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9780300117172

Afghanistan

The Perfect Failure

By: John L. Cook

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Afghanistan

The Perfect Failure

By: John L. Cook

LONG BOOK DESCRIPTION: Unparalleled access to all levels of the Afghan government and coalition forces is the result of John Cook's tenure in Afghanistan. Over the past four and a half years, he has developed an intimate and alarming insight into what has become a hand-wringing quagmire of politically correct, socially and culturally sensitive policies and programs that continue to be implemented, and that can only result in catastrophic failure for the United States, the coalition and the average Afghan. Mr. Cook offers unprecedented insight as he digs deep to rip away at the misguided and destructive policies, including the infamous "Rules of Engagement" that doom our soldiers for the sake of political correctness and cultural sensitivity. This raw and disturbing account covers the truths regarding the appalling and cruel treatment of women, the squandering of foreign aid by, and corruption of, the "Karzai-centric" government that includes the betrayal of its own people. He presents eye-opening insight into the tribal structure that has traditionally guided the Afghan mindset and, despite efforts to "westernize", will not go away. He details the inexplicable and infuriating policies regarding failures associated with poppy eradication, and it is the poppies that are the fuel for terrorist activities. He further provides explanations for the Taliban's continuing control and the problems associated with our "well-intentioned" but misguided counterinsurgency strategies against the Taliban and al Qaeda - strategies that fail our mission and our soldiers. In this reasoned, forceful and intellectually honest treatise, he also courageously dissects the disturbing role of Islam and forces the reader to come face to face with the reality that Islam, not the Taliban, is the real enemy in Afghanistan. After reading Afghanistan: The Perfect Failure, we can only conclude we must no longer turn a blind eye to what is happening in Afghanistan. Mr. Cook's dissection is powerful and provocative. The American public deserves more than the thin veil of reporting that has been done on the subjects in this expose. Due to his longevity in this war torn country and high- level access, few, if any, have had the opportunity to gain the inside and knowledge afforded John Cook; none have had the courage to publicly reveal the shameful truth.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479720704

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9781479720705

Champions Of Charity

War And The Rise Of The Red Cross

By: John Hutchinson

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Champions Of Charity

War And The Rise Of The Red Cross

By: John Hutchinson

This book introduces the first champions of the cause of charity toward the sick and wounded: the Genevan philanthropists and physicians. It focuses on the international Red Cross movement from the first Geneva conference in 1863 until the Tenth Conference in 1921.

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Routledge

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0429970323

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9780429970320

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