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The Evolution of Middle Eastern Landscapes

An Outline to A.D. 1840

By: John Malcolm Wagstaff

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The Evolution of Middle Eastern Landscapes

An Outline to A.D. 1840

By: John Malcolm Wagstaff

This book provides a background to the modern geography of the Middle East by tracing the evolution of humanized managed landscapes from the domestication of cereals through to the initiation of the great transformations of the region in the mid-nineteenth century. By examining the natural potential of the region in terms of climate, natural vegetation and physical conditions, and charting the emergence of basic long-lasting traditional economies based on this environment, the author shows how the environment stimulated traditional life styles, which in turn perpetuated and molded the region.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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038920577X

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9780389205777

A Greek Army on the March

Soldiers and Survival in Xenophon's Anabasis

By: John W. I. Lee

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A Greek Army on the March

Soldiers and Survival in Xenophon's Anabasis

By: John W. I. Lee

Professor Lee provides a social and cultural history of the Cyreans, the mercenaries of Xenophon's Anabasis. While they have often been portrayed as a single abstract political community, this book reveals that life in the army was mostly shaped by a set of smaller social communities: the formal unit organisation of the lochos ('company'), and the informal comradeship of the suskenia ('mess group'). It includes full treatment of the environmental conditions of the march, ethnic and socio-economic relations amongst the soldiers, equipment and transport, marching and camp behaviour, eating and drinking, sanitation and medical care, and many other topics. It also accords detailed attention to the non-combatants accompanying the soldiers. It uses ancient literary and archaeological evidence, ancient and modern comparative material, and perspectives from military sociology and modern war studies. This book is essential reading for anyone working on ancient Greek warfare or on Xenophon's Anabasis.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139468138

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A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece

The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century

By: Fariba Zarinebaf,John Bennet,Jack L. Davis

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A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece

The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century

By: Fariba Zarinebaf,John Bennet,Jack L. Davis

This book offers an innovative collaborative approach to the study of a particular region of the Ottoman empire, the southwestern Peloponnese (or Morea), Greece.

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348

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ASCSA

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0876615345

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9780876615348

Chronic Poverty in Asia

Causes, Consequences and Policies

By: John Malcolm Dowling,Chin-Fang Yap

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Chronic Poverty in Asia

Causes, Consequences and Policies

By: John Malcolm Dowling,Chin-Fang Yap

Focuses on rural poverty and those countries in Asia with the largest number of chronically poor, including the two emerging superpowers of China and India, other countries of South Asia and the Mekong region as well as Indonesia and Philippines in Southeast Asia.

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593

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World Scientific

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9812838872

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9789812838872

Entering the New Theological Space

Blurred Encounters of Faith, Politics and Community

By: John Reader

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Entering the New Theological Space

Blurred Encounters of Faith, Politics and Community

By: John Reader

This book presents theological reflections on the changing nature of church mission and Christian identity within a theology of 'blurred encounter' - a physical, social, political and spiritual space where once solid hierarchies and patterns are giving way to more fluid and in many ways unsettling exchanges. The issues raised and dynamics explored apply to all socially-produced space, thus tending to 'blur' that most fundamental of theological categories - namely urban vs. rural theology. Engaging in a sharper way with some of the helpful but inevitably broad-brush conclusions raised by recent church-based reports (Mission-shaped Church, Faithful Cities), the authors examine some of the practical and theological implications of this research for the issue of effective management and therefore church leadership generally. Speaking to practitioners in the field of practical theology as well as those engaged in theological and ministerial training, key voices encompass dimensions of power and conflict, and identify some of the present and future opportunities and challenges to church/faith-based engagement and leadership arising from blurred encounters. Contributors - practitioners and theorists - cover a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary professional contexts and academic/denominational interests. Contributors include: John Atherton, John Reader, Helen Cameron, Martyn Percy, Malcolm Brown, Karen Lord, Clare McBeath and Margaret Goodall.

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278

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Routledge

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1317142748

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9781317142744

Everything Is Connected

Art and Conspiracy

By: Douglas Eklund,Ian Alteveer,Meredith A. Brown,John Miller,Kathryn Olmsted,Beth Saunders,Jonathan Lethem

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Everything Is Connected

Art and Conspiracy

By: Douglas Eklund,Ian Alteveer,Meredith A. Brown,John Miller,Kathryn Olmsted,Beth Saunders,Jonathan Lethem

Since the mid-twentieth century, conspiracy has pervaded our collective worldview, shaped by events such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and 9/11. Everything Is Connected examines how artists from the 1960s to the present have explored both the covert operations of power and the mutual suspicion between governments and their citizens. Featured are works by some thirty artists—including Sarah Charlesworth, Emory Douglas, Hans Haacke, Rachel Harrison, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Mark Lombardi, Cady Noland, Trevor Paglen, Raymond Pettibon, Jim Shaw, and Sue Williams—in media ranging from painting, drawing, and photography to video and installation art. Whether they uncover webs of deceit hidden in the public record or dive headlong into paranoid fever dreams, these artists use their work to take a powerful and proactive stance against the political corruption, consumerism, bureaucracy, and media manipulation that are hallmarks of contemporary life. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

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198

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588396592

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9781588396594

Classic Movies The Best and the Worst Pictures to see! Films to avoid!

By: John Howard Reid

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Classic Movies The Best and the Worst Pictures to see! Films to avoid!

By: John Howard Reid

Gathered in this large volume paperback are some of Hollywood's best loved and most famous movies. In addition to the many film classics, however, the author has included a number of equally entertaining films that deserve to be better known. Many of these movies are now available on DVD. Full credits and detailed reviews are provided for over a hundred of these classic films. Over two hundred more movies are represented by short reviews. Many of the reviews contain DVD details. Of course, not all classic movies have surfaced on DVD to date, but they are being issued at the rate of around forty a month! If you love classic movies, this book will provide an invaluable guide to some of the enjoyable films that are now available (and also, of course, some of the disappointing films that you might wisely avoid).

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268

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Lulu.com

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1312962380

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9781312962385

Big Screen Bible Lore

By: John Howard Reid

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Big Screen Bible Lore

By: John Howard Reid

Hollywood has had an off and on romance with the Bible -- thanks largely to Cecil B. DeMille whose ground-breaking silent picture "The King of Kings" has rarely been equalled for its faithfulness and fidelity, and certainly not in its dreadful re-make by producer Sam Bronston and director Nicholas Ray. This book examines both the hits and misses in the Bible stakes, as well as many other movies in which religion plays a major role, such as "The Garden of Allah", "Samson and Delilah", "The Silence of Dean Maitland", "Stars in My Crown", "Mary of Scotland" and "The Ten Commandments".

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176

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Lulu.com

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1304300307

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9781304300300

77 Movies That Just Missed Awards or Audience Applause

By: John Howard Reid

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77 Movies That Just Missed Awards or Audience Applause

By: John Howard Reid

Movies detailed in this book include both films that are well-known and those that are somewhat obscure, although nearly all are now available on DVD. Titles include The Bat Whispers, The Bishop Misbehaves, Black Midnight, Caesar and Cleopatra, Chisum, City Beneath the Sea, Comedy of Terrors, Corsair, The Count of Monte Cristo, Cromwell, The Egyptian, The Glass Web, How To Marry a Millionaire, The Jack-Knife Man, Key to the City, Kiss Me Deadly, Ladies Love Danger, Midnight, Our Hospitality, The Road to Reno, So This Is New York, Stella Dallas, Stormy Weather, The Thirteenth Guest, Tickle Me, Titanic, Tower of London, Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, The Valley of Decision, Viva Zapata!, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man.

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173

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1312136006

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9781312136007

Success in the Cinema MoneyMaking Movies

By: John Howard Reid

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Success in the Cinema MoneyMaking Movies

By: John Howard Reid

Basically, there are three measures of success in the cinema. First off are pictures like "The Crowd" and "Applause" that achieve rave reviews and even go on to win awards, but don't recover their negative costs. Then there are the movies the critics hate, but the public enjoys. All three versions of "Back Street", for instance. Finally come the pictures everyone loves, like "From Here To Eternity" or "Sunset Boulevard". In the annals of success in Hollywood's Golden Age, one name stands out above all others: Cecil B. DeMille. His famous pictures reviewed here include both versions of "The Buccaneer", "The Crusades", "Sign of the Cross", "The Story of Dr Wassell" and "Union Pacific". But the book also notes a DeMille "B" movie that tied up a fair amount of money but proved so unpopular it was released in some territories as a support. The book also covers some of Hollywood's other disastrous failures, including the M-G-M movie that cost over $4 million to make and returned virtually nothing.

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1847280889

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9781847280886

Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century

By: Peter Barberis,John McHugh,Mike Tyldesley

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Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century

By: Peter Barberis,John McHugh,Mike Tyldesley

This major, authoritative reference work embraces the spectrum of organized political activity in the British Isles. It includes over 2,500 organizations in 1,700 separate entries. Arrangement is in 20 main subject sections, covering the three main p

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A&C Black

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0826458149

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9780826458148

Lygia Pape

A Multitude of Forms

By: Iria Candela,Glória Ferreira,Sérgio B. Martins,John Rajchman

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Lygia Pape

A Multitude of Forms

By: Iria Candela,Glória Ferreira,Sérgio B. Martins,John Rajchman

Lygia Pape (1927–2004) was one of the most acclaimed and influential Brazilian artists of the twentieth century. As a prominent member of a generation of artists, architects, and designers who embraced the optimistic and constructive spirit of postwar Brazil, she is particularly known for her participation in the experimental art movement Neoconcretism, which sought to rework the legacy of European avant-garde abstraction to suit a new cultural context. Beyond the specific aims of Neoconcretism, however, Pape engaged with a wide range of media painting, drawing, poetry, graphic design and photography, film and performance—constantly experimenting in a quest to confront the canonical and discover unexplored territories in modern art. Following a coup d’etat in 1964, when the establishment of an authoritarian regime shattered dreams of shared prosperity in Brazil, Pape continued to pursue her art against difficult odds. The streets of Rio de Janeiro became her ultimate source of inspiration, as she created participatory works that questioned the space between artist and viewer and the social context of art itself. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} This beautifully illustrated publication accompanies the first major exhibition in the United States devoted to the work of Lygia Pape. Featuring essays by art historians in both North and South America, as well as two previously untranslated interviews with the artist and an illustrated chronology, Lygia Pape is a testament to the artist’s lasting importance to the modern art and culture of Latin America and to her position as a major figure of the international avant-garde.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588396169

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9781588396167

Uniform Numbers of the NFL

All-Time Rosters, Facts and Figures

By: John Maxymuk

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Uniform Numbers of the NFL

All-Time Rosters, Facts and Figures

By: John Maxymuk

Football is a game of numbers--fourth and inches, the three-man rush, a two point conversion, first down. Even with the obvious numbers in the statistics, rules and game situations, the players' uniform numbers themselves have become part of professional football and its lore. NFL players, like modern-day gladiators, are fitted head-to-toe in protective gear, obscuring even their faces from their most loyal fans. They have become largely identifiable through their uniform numbers. You cannot conjure up Larry Csonka without seeing the number 39 crashing through the line of scrimmage, or recall Lawrence Taylor without imagining the fear his 56 inspired in opposing quarterbacks. This comprehensive reference work lists all 32 current franchises of the NFL and includes brief team histories, statistics and interesting facts. Each chapter ends with an all-time numerical roster listing the numbers 1 through 99 (in some cases beginning with 00) and everyone, from Hall-of-Famer to replacement player, who has ever worn the corresponding number for that club. Four appendices are included.

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McFarland

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1476603987

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The Evolution of Middle Eastern Landscapes

The Evolution of Middle Eastern Landscapes

A Greek Army on the March

A Greek Army on the March

A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece

A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece

Chronic Poverty in Asia

Chronic Poverty in Asia

Entering the New Theological Space

Entering the New Theological Space

Everything Is Connected

Everything Is Connected

Classic Movies The Best and the Worst Pictures to see! Films to avoid!

Classic Movies The Best and the Worst Pictures to see! Films to avoid!

Big Screen Bible Lore

Big Screen Bible Lore

77 Movies That Just Missed Awards or Audience Applause

77 Movies That Just Missed Awards or Audience Applause

Success in the Cinema MoneyMaking Movies

Success in the Cinema MoneyMaking Movies

Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Lygia Pape

Lygia Pape

Uniform Numbers of the NFL

Uniform Numbers of the NFL

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