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The Civil War Generation

By: Norman K. Risjord

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Americans in the middle decades of the nineteenth century were a people with boundless energy capable of heroic deeds, monumental achievements, and tragic errors. In The Civil War Generation, his newest volume in The Representative Americans series, noted scholar Norman K. Risjord uses biographical sketches to create a composite portrait of the United States during and immediately after the Civil War. Risjord begins his study with Stephen A. Douglas and Frederick Douglass, who provide two different viewpoints on the events leading to the conflict, while Harriet Tubman represents a form of social activism during the same years. Profiles of Stonewall Jackson and William Tecumseh Sherman, as well as infantryman James Anderson, give the reader an insightful view of the men fighting the war. Risjord then leads the reader inside both the Northern and Southern governments as well as the Reconstruction Era through the eyes of people such as William H. Seward and Thaddeus Stevens. Looking at the postwar period, Risjord examines the social and economic changes the conflict wrought, describing the lives of Clara Barton and Cornelius Vanderbilt. As the nation's eyes turned westward, the tragic tale of Crazy Horse unfolds, as well as the chronicle of two of the first scientists to explore the new land. Masterfully written and eminently readable, The Civil War Generation brings to life one of our nation's most turbulent decades and will be of great value to students of the Civil War.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742521699

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9780742521698

The Naked and the Dead

50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

By: Norman Mailer

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The Naked and the Dead

50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

By: Norman Mailer

Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer. Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.

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738

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Henry Holt and Company

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146685488X

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9781466854888

Haunted America

By: Michael Norman,Beth Scott

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Haunted America

By: Michael Norman,Beth Scott

Contains over seventy tales of ghostly hauntings from each of the fifty United States and Canada.

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420

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Macmillan

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0765319675

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9780765319678

Historic Haunted America

By: Michael Norman,Beth Scott

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Historic Haunted America

By: Michael Norman,Beth Scott

A coast-to-coast tour of places that eyewitnesses claim have been, and may still be, haunted, from the former Peoria State Hospital in Illinois to San Diego's historic Whaley House Museum.

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452

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Macmillan

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0765319705

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9780765319708

Forgotten Wars

Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia

By: Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper

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Forgotten Wars

Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia

By: Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper

This is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people.

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Harvard University Press

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0674021533

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9780674021532

Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae)

By: Matthew J. Yoder,Alejandro A. Valerio,Andrew Polaszek,Simon van Noort,Lubomír Masner,Norman F. Johnson

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Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae)

By: Matthew J. Yoder,Alejandro A. Valerio,Andrew Polaszek,Simon van Noort,Lubomír Masner,Norman F. Johnson

Parasitic wasps of the genus Scelio (Hymenoptera: Platygastri-dae) attack and destroy the eggs of short-horned grasshoppers (Acrididae). Included among these hosts are some of the most destructive of all insects, the plague locusts. As a result, species of Scelio are potential allies in the biological control of these pests. This paper is the first comprehensive examination of the species of Scelio of the Afrotropical region in over 50 years. A total of 62 species were found, 77% of which are new to science. Descriptions and keys for identification are provided, and each species is extensively illustrated. This work is a product of the Platygastroidea Planetary Biodiversity Program and was conducted using biodiversity informatics tools and applications developed as part of that project.

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194

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PenSoft Publishers LTD

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9546427179

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9789546427175

Norman Hall's Asvab Preparation Book

Everything You Need to Know Thoroughly Covered in One Book - Five ASVAB Practice Tests - Answer Keys - Tips to Boost Scores - Military Enlistment Information - Study Aids

By: Norman Hall

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Norman Hall's Asvab Preparation Book

Everything You Need to Know Thoroughly Covered in One Book - Five ASVAB Practice Tests - Answer Keys - Tips to Boost Scores - Military Enlistment Information - Study Aids

By: Norman Hall

Everything you need to know thoroughly covered in one book: five ASVAB practice tests; answer keys; tips to boost scores; military enlistment information; study aids.

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512

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Simon and Schuster

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1440569754

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9781440569753

War Made Invisible

How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine

By: Norman Solomon

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War Made Invisible

How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine

By: Norman Solomon

An unflinching exposé of the hidden costs of American war-making written with “an immense and rare humanity” (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analysts “[War Made Invisible is] an antidote to twenty years of U.S. media malpractice and should be required reading for journalists and all those who long to live in peace.”—Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual state of war that is almost entirely invisible to the American public. War Made Invisible, by the journalist and political analyst Norman Solomon, exposes how this happened, and what its consequences are, from military and civilian casualties to drained resources at home. From Iraq through Afghanistan and Syria and on to little-known deployments in a range of countries around the globe, the United States has been at perpetual war for at least the past two decades. Yet many of these forays remain off the radar of average Americans. Compliant journalists add to the smokescreen by providing narrow coverage of military engagements and by repeating the military’s talking points. Meanwhile, the increased use of high technology, air power, and remote drones has put distance between soldiers and the civilians who die. Back at home, Solomon argues, the cloak of invisibility masks massive Pentagon budgets that receive bipartisan approval even as policy makers struggle to fund the domestic agenda. Necessary, timely, and unflinching, War Made Invisible is an eloquent moral call for counting the true costs of war.

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125

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The New Press

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1620978059

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9781620978054

Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe

The Salvation Army and African Liberation, 1891-1991

By: Norman H Murdoch

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Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe

The Salvation Army and African Liberation, 1891-1991

By: Norman H Murdoch

Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe' takes a hard look at the history of the Salvation Army in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe and its long history with both the government and the rest of the church. Norman H. Murdoch examines in-depth the parallels between the events of the First Chimurenga, an uprising against European occupation in 1896-97, and the Second Chimurenga in the 1970s, the civil war that led to majority rule. At the time of the first, the Salvation Army was barely established in the country; by the second, it was fully entrenched in the ruling class. Murdoch explores the collaboration of this Christian mission with the institutions of white rule and the painful process of disentanglement necessary by the late twentieth century. Stories of martyrdom and colonial mythology are set in the carefully researched context of ecumenical relations and the Salvation Army's largely unknown and seldom accessible internal politics.

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240

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Lutterworth Press

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0718844319

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9780718844318

Norman Van Aken's Feast of Sunlight

200 Inspired Recipes from the Master of New World Cuisine

By: Norman Van Aken

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Norman Van Aken's Feast of Sunlight

200 Inspired Recipes from the Master of New World Cuisine

By: Norman Van Aken

200 make-at-home masterpiece dishes from the virtuoso of new world cuisine, Norman Van Aken.

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Harvard Common Press

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1558321365

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9781558321366

Ton-Up Lancs

A Photographic History of the Thirty-Five RAF Lancasters that Each Completed One Hundred Sorties

By: Norman Franks

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Ton-Up Lancs

A Photographic History of the Thirty-Five RAF Lancasters that Each Completed One Hundred Sorties

By: Norman Franks

An updated and expanded photographic history of the famed military aircraft—and the men who flew them. Aviation historian Norman Franks updates his classic book, The Lancaster, with new information and photos. The Avro Lancaster was a four-engine heavy bomber that played a crucial role in World War II, and this illustrated volume records the history of thirty-five of them, supported by stories from aircrew members. The most famous of the bombers is “Queenie” (W5868), the only one of these Lancasters that survives, now in the Bomber Command Hall at the Royal Air Force Museum in London. Ton-Up Lancs delves into some of the controversies surrounding Queenie and other Lancasters, and also includes detailed listings of each raid these thirty-five Lancasters flew during from 1942 through 1945, together with the names of the pilot and crew that took them on sorties all over Hitler’s Third Reich and Northern Italy, on support missions before and after D-Day in June 1944, and attacks on V1 rocket launch sites situated in Northern France. The book also offers a view from one of the Lancaster’s former skippers on what it was like to fly a bomber tour of operations in Bomber Command.

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Grub Street Publishers

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1908117478

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9781908117472

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The Civil War Generation

The Civil War Generation

The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead

Haunted America

Haunted America

Historic Haunted America

Historic Haunted America

Forgotten Wars

Forgotten Wars

Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae)

Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae)

Norman Hall's Asvab Preparation Book

Norman Hall's Asvab Preparation Book

War Made Invisible

War Made Invisible

Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe

Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe

Norman Van Aken's Feast of Sunlight

Norman Van Aken's Feast of Sunlight

Ton-Up Lancs

Ton-Up Lancs

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