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King Arthur Super Pack

By: Mark Twain

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The King Arthur Super Pack is the most complete collection of Arthurian literature ever assembled. There are more than two thousand pages of amazing literature here. There are more than a dozen major works included in this collection, as well as a number of works of interest to Arthurian fans. Journey back in time to the days of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, when magic and chivalry ruled the land. Included in this omnibus edition are: 'Le Morte D'Arthur' by Sir Thomas Malory; 'Idylls of the King' by Lord Alfred Tennyson; 'A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court' by Mark Twain; 'Erec et Enide' by Chrétien de Troyes; 'The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights' by Sir James Knowles; 'Stories of King Arthur's Knights: Told to the Children' by Mary MacGregor; 'Stories of King Arthur and His Knights' by U. Waldo Cutler; 'King Arthur's Knights: The Tales Re-Told for Boys & Girls' by Henry Gilbert; 'Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion' by Beatrice Clay; 'King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table' by Rupert S. Holland; 'The Marvellous History of King Arthur in Avalon' by Geoffrey of Monmouth; 'Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairy Tale' by Charlton Miner Lewis; 'Merlin's Youth' by George Parker Bidder; 'Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys' translated by Jessie L. Weston; 'Merlin the Enchanter' by Thomas Wentworth Higginson; 'King Arthur at Avalon' by Thomas Wentworth Higginson; 'Sir Lancelot of the Lake' by Thomas Wentworth Higginson; 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' translated by Jessie Weston; 'The Story of the Champions of the Round Table' by Howard Pyle; 'A Knyght Ther Was' by Robert F. Young; 'The Egyptian Maid or The Romance of the Water-Lily' by William Wordsworth; 'Merlin and Vivien' by Lord Alfred Tennyson; 'Merlin's Song' by Ralph Waldo Emerson; 'Gawain and the Lady of Avalon' by George Augustus Simcox; and 'The Marriage of Sir Gawaine' by Bishop Thomas Percy.

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Simon and Schuster

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168146523X

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Norman Rule in Normandy, 911-1144

By: Mark S. Hagger

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Norman Rule in Normandy, 911-1144

By: Mark S. Hagger

In around 911, the Viking adventurer Rollo was granted the city of Rouen and its surrounding district by the Frankish King Charles the Simple. Two further grants of territory followed in 924 and 933. But while Frankish kings might grant this land to Rollo and his son, William Longsword, these two Norman dukes and their successors had to fight and negotiate with rival lords, hostile neighbours, kings, and popes in order to establish and maintain their authority over it. This book explores the geographical and political development of what would become the duchy of Normandy, and the relations between the dukes and these rivals for their lands and their subjects' fidelity. It looks, too, at the administrative machinery the dukes built to support their regime, from their toll-collectors and vicomtes (an official similar to the English sheriff) to the political theatre of their courts and the buildings in which they were staged. At the heart of this exercise are the narratives that purport to tell us about what the dukes did, and the surviving body of the dukes' diplomas. Neither can be taken at face value, and both tell us as much about the concerns and criticisms of the dukes' subjects as they do about the strength of the dukes' authority. The diplomas, in particular, because most of them were not written by scribes attached to the dukes' households but rather by their beneficiaries, can be used to recover something of how the dukes' subjects saw their rulers, as well as something of what they wanted or needed from them. Ducal power was the result of a dialogue, and this volume enables both sides to speak. Mark Hagger is a senior lecturer in medieval history at Bangor University.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783272147

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Rough Tactics

Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932

By: Mark A. Johnson

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Rough Tactics

Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932

By: Mark A. Johnson

In Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932, author Mark A. Johnson examines three notable cases of Black participation in the spectacles of politics: the 1885–1898 local-option prohibition contests of Atlanta and Macon, Georgia; the United Confederate Veterans conflict with the Musicians’ Union prior to the 1903 UCV Reunion in New Orleans; and the 1909 Memphis mayoral election featuring Edward Hull Crump and W. C. Handy. Through these case studies, Johnson explains how white politicians and Black performers wielded and manipulated racist stereotypes and Lost Cause mythology to achieve their respective goals. Ultimately, Johnson portrays the vibrant, exuberant political culture of the New South and the roles played by both Black and white southerners. During the nadir of race relations in the United States South from 1877 to 1932, African Americans faced segregation, disfranchisement, and lynching. Among many forms of resistance, African Americans used their musical and theatrical talents to challenge white supremacy, attain economic opportunity, and transcend segregation. In Rough Tactics, Johnson argues that African Americans, especially performers, retooled negative stereotypes and segregation laws to their advantage. From 1877 to 1932, African Americans spoke at public rallies, generated enthusiasm with music, linked party politics to the memory of the Civil War, honored favorable candidates, and openly humiliated their opposition.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496832841

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Rebel Life (2nd ed.)

The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy

By: Mark Leier

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Rebel Life (2nd ed.)

The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy

By: Mark Leier

Extensively revised throughout and including a brand-new chapter, Rebel Life chronicles the life of labour organizer, revolutionary, anarchist and labour spy Robert Gosden. This new edition includes new information about Gosden’s career that has come to light since the first edition was published in 1999. Canada’s west coast was rife with upheaval in the second and third decades of the twentieth century. At the centre of the turmoil is Robert Gosden, migrant labourer turned radical activist–turned police spy. In 1913, he publicly recommends assassinating Premier Richard McBride to resolve the miners’ strike. By 1919, he is urging Prime Minister Robert Borden to “disappear” key labour radicals to quelch rising discontent. What happened? Rebel Life plumbs the enigma that was Gosden, but is much more: it is an introduction to BC labour history. With its archival photograph and sidebars rich with historical arcana, and a chapter outlining the research that unearthed Gosden’s story, Rebel Life is a rich resource for instructors, students, and trade unionists, and an ideal introduction to the historian’s craft.

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New Star Books

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155420058X

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Weird U.S.

The Oddyssey Continues : Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

By: Mark Sceurman,Mark Moran,Matthew Lake

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The Oddyssey Continues : Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

By: Mark Sceurman,Mark Moran,Matthew Lake

Explores ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in the United States.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402745443

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Guardians of the Holy Grail

By: Mark Amaru Pinkham

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Guardians of the Holy Grail

By: Mark Amaru Pinkham

Presenting the ancient Holy Grail lineage from Asia and how the Knights Templar were initiated into it, this book reveals how ancient Asian wisdom became the foundation for the Holy Grail legend.

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Adventures Unlimited Press

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1931882282

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The Truth Behind the Christ Myth

The Redemption of the Peacock Angel

By: Mark Amaru Pinkham

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The Truth Behind the Christ Myth

The Redemption of the Peacock Angel

By: Mark Amaru Pinkham

Return of the Serpents of Wisdom and Conversations With the Goddess author Pinkham tells us the Truth Behind the Christ Myth and presents radically new information regarding Jesus Christ and his ancient legend, includes: The legend of Jesus Christ is based on a much earlier Son of God myth from India, the legend of Murrugan, the Peacock Angel; The symbol of the Catholic Church is Murrugan's symbol, the peacock, a bird native to south-east Asia; Murrugan evolved into the Persian Mithras, and Mithras evolved into Jesus Christ Saint Paul came from Tarsus, the centre of Mithras worship in Asia Minor. He amalgamated the legend of the Persian Son of God onto Jesus' life story; The Three Wise Men were Magi priests from Persia who believed that Jesus was an incarnation of Mithras; While in India, Saint Thomas became a peacock before he died and merged with Murrugan, the Peacock Angel; The Emperor Constantine, the first 'Christian' Emperor of the Roman Empire, was a lifelong devotee of Mithras. He was baptised Christian on his deathbed; The myth of the One and Only Son of God originated with Murrugan and Mithras.

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1931882029

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The Rough Guide to Poland

By: Mark Salter,Jonathan Bousfield

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The Rough Guide to Poland

By: Mark Salter,Jonathan Bousfield

Up-to-the-minute accounts of all the sights from the fast-changing cities of Warsaw and Krakow to the laid back lakeside resort of Mazuria. Critical reviews of restaurants, bars and accommodation in every price range. Extensive coverage of the countryside from Slow'inski National Park's sand dunes to the alpine Tatra mountains, with practical advice on how to explore them.

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Rough Guides

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1858288495

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Organisational Change and Retail Finance

An Ethnographic Perspective

By: Richard Harper,David Randall,Mark Rouncefield

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Organisational Change and Retail Finance

An Ethnographic Perspective

By: Richard Harper,David Randall,Mark Rouncefield

Financial organizations, like many others, are undergoing radical change. This is affecting both their organizational processes and the technology that supports those processes. This book reports on the use of sociological ethnography in helping guide these changes, both in terms of helping better understanding and redraw work processes and through providing more accurate and flexible understanding of the role technology plays. It places the reported research in context by contrasting it with those approaches more commonly associated with change, including business process engineering, participative design and soft systems methodologies. The book explains what are the benefits of ethnography, as well as the potential it has in helping achieve more desirable change in any and all organizations, financial services included. The book will be of interest to all international researchers concerned with organizational and technological change, as well as managers of organisational development. It will also interest advanced students in sociology, anthropology, management science and organizational studies The authors have published widely in the various disciplines associated with organizational life and technology design, and have built a considerable reputation for bringing new sociological insights into the organizational change literature

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1134632002

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Dawn of the Disciples - Part One of the Arlanian Trilogy

By: Mark O'Doherty

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Dawn of the Disciples - Part One of the Arlanian Trilogy

By: Mark O'Doherty

The Hungry Tide' (2004) by Amitav Ghosh Set in the Sundarbans, this novel is about an unlikely trio who travel up river together to find the rare Irrawaddy Dolphin. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is precarious: attacks by deadly tigers are common, and the threat of eviction and consequent social unrest is ever present. Without warning, at any time, tidal floods rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake. In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people from different worlds collide. The novel also explores topics such as humanism and environmentalism, especially when they come into conflict. The novel won the 2004 Crossword Book Prize. Saswat S. Das discussed the book as exploring themes of "home" and "homelessness" in a 2006 article in Indian Literature. The Morichjhanpi massacre of 1978-79, when the government of West Bengal forcibly evicted thousands of Bengali refugees who had settled on the island, forms a background for some parts of the novel. Indeed, my dear friend, the Goddess Kali - who holds sway over both Humanity and the Environment in India - found this novel to be very entertaining and factual about India: ) Especially the methods to harmonize Humanism and Environmentalism were described very accurately - so that People, Dolphins, Crocodiles, and man-eating Tigers can live in Peace and Harmony with each other: ) On that note, we would like to remind all People in India, that Human Evolution is a constant in the Universe. Just like imperialism had to make way for Liberty and Social Justice, so will inequality and classism make way for Equality, Equity, Prosperity and Human Rights in India. We would like to remind all People in the International Community, that the importance of belonging to Humankind takes precedence over all the marks of distinction that may separate one person from another. The thing that matters most is not that we have any particular cultural or national identity, or that we abide by any particular religion or philosophical conviction, but that we share with all People the highest values of Humanity: Love, Cooperation and Compassion. Love and Light, Mark - BTB-Global Peacebuilding / विष्णु - दुर्गा - कृष्ण PS: The combination of grace, strength, agility and enormous power has earned the Irrawaddy Dolphin her pride of place as the national animal of India: )

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1312172967

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Waning of the Green

Catholics, the Irish, and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922

By: Mark George McGowan

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Waning of the Green

Catholics, the Irish, and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922

By: Mark George McGowan

McGowan traces the evolution of the Catholic community from an isolated religious and Irish ethnic subculture in the late nineteenth century into an integrated segment of English Canadian society by the early twentieth century. English-speaking Catholics moved into all neighbourhoods of the city and socialized with and married non-Catholics. They even embraced their own brand of imperialism: by 1914 thousands of them had enlisted to fight for God and the British Empire. McGowan's detailed and lively portrait will be of great interest to students and scholars of religious history, Irish studies, ethnic history, and Canadian history.

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0773517898

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9780773517899

Counterfeiting Labor's Voice

William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics

By: Mark A. Lause

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Counterfeiting Labor's Voice

William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics

By: Mark A. Lause

Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lause’s biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics. An astroturfing trailblazer and master of dirty tricks, Carsey fit perfectly into a Democratic Party that based much of its post-Civil War revival on shattering third parties and gathering up the pieces. Lause provides an in-depth look at Carsey’s tactics and successes against the backdrop of enormous changes in political life. As Carsey used a carefully crafted public persona to burrow into unsuspecting organizations, the forces he represented worked to create a political system that turned voters into disengaged civic consumers and cemented America’s ever-fractious two-party system.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252056663

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9780252056666

Freemasonry

Rituals, Symbols & History of the Secret Society

By: Mark Stavish

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Freemasonry

Rituals, Symbols & History of the Secret Society

By: Mark Stavish

An exploration of Freemasonry and its history, philosophy, symbols and practices.

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0738711489

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The Complete American Constitutionalism

By: Mark A. Graber,Howard Gillman

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The Complete American Constitutionalism

By: Mark A. Graber,Howard Gillman

The Complete American Constitutionalism is designed to be the comprehensive treatment and source for debates on the American constitutional experience. It provides the analysis, resources, and materials both domestic and foreign readers must understand with regards to the practice of constitutionalism in the United States. This first volume of a projected eight volume set is entitled: Introduction and The Colonial Era. Here the authors provide the building blocks for constitutional analysis with an in-depth exploration of the constitutional conflicts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that formed the overall American constitutional experience. This is the first collection of materials that focuses on the crucial constitutional documents and debates that structured American constitutional understandings at the time of the American Revolution. It details the roots of the common law rights that Americans demanded be respected and the different interpretations of the English constitutional experience that increasingly divided Members of Parliament from American Revolutionaries.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190237627

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A Secret Society History of the Civil War

By: Mark A. Lause

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A Secret Society History of the Civil War

By: Mark A. Lause

This unique history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the groundwork for Freemasonry in the United States, Mark A. Lause analyzes how the Old World's traditions influenced various underground groups and movements in America, particularly George Lippard's Brotherhood of the Union, an American attempt to replicate the political secret societies that influenced the European revolutions of 1848. Lause traces the Brotherhood's various manifestations, the most conspicuous being the Knights of the Golden Circle (out of which developed the Ku Klux Klan), and the Confederate secret groups through which John Wilkes Booth and others attempted to undermine the Union. Lause profiles the key leaders of these organizations, with special focus on George Lippard, Hugh Forbes, and George Washington Lafayette Bickley. Antebellum secret societies ranged politically from those with progressive or even revolutionary agendas to those that pursued conservative or oppressive goals. This book shows how, in the years leading up to the Civil War, these clandestine organizations exacerbated existing sectional tensions in the United States. Lause's research indicates that the pervasive influence of secret societies may have played a part in key events such as the Freesoil movement, the beginning of the Republican party, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Lincoln's election, and the Southern secession process of 1860-1861. This exceptional study encompasses both white and African American secret society involvement, revealing the black fraternal experience in antebellum America as well as the clandestine operations that provided assistance to escaped slaves via the Underground Railroad. Unraveling these pervasive and extensive networks of power and influence, A Secret Society History of the Civil War demonstrates that antebellum secret societies played a greater role in affecting Civil War-era politics than has been previously acknowledged.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252093593

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The Nation's Capital Brewmaster

Christian Heurich and His Brewery, 1842-1956

By: Mark Elliott Benbow

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The Nation's Capital Brewmaster

Christian Heurich and His Brewery, 1842-1956

By: Mark Elliott Benbow

Christian Heurich (1842-1945) was not only Washington D.C.'s most successful brewer, he was the world's oldest, with 90 years' experience. He walked across central Europe learning his craft, survived a shipboard cholera epidemic, recovered from malaria and worked as a roustabout on a Caribbean banana boat--all by age 30. Heurich lived most of his life in Washington, becoming its largest private landowner and opening the city's largest brewery. He won a "beer war" against his rivals and his beers won medals at World's Fairs. He was trapped in Europe while on vacation at the start of both World Wars, once sleeping through an air raid, and was accused of being a German spy plotting to assassinate Woodrow Wilson. A notably odd episode: when they began to tear down his old brewery to build the Kennedy Center, the wrecking ball bounced off the walls. Drawing on family papers and photos, the author chronicles Heurich's life and the evolving beer industry before and after Prohibition.

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147666501X

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King Arthur Super Pack

King Arthur Super Pack

Norman Rule in Normandy, 911-1144

Norman Rule in Normandy, 911-1144

Rough Tactics

Rough Tactics

Rebel Life (2nd ed.)

Rebel Life (2nd ed.)

Weird U.S.

Weird U.S.

Guardians of the Holy Grail

Guardians of the Holy Grail

The Truth Behind the Christ Myth

The Truth Behind the Christ Myth

The Rough Guide to Poland

The Rough Guide to Poland

Organisational Change and Retail Finance

Organisational Change and Retail Finance

Dawn of the Disciples - Part One of the Arlanian Trilogy

Dawn of the Disciples - Part One of the Arlanian Trilogy

Waning of the Green

Waning of the Green

Counterfeiting Labor's Voice

Counterfeiting Labor's Voice

Freemasonry

Freemasonry

The Complete American Constitutionalism

The Complete American Constitutionalism

A Secret Society History of the Civil War

A Secret Society History of the Civil War

The Nation's Capital Brewmaster

The Nation's Capital Brewmaster

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