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The Master Game

Unmasking the Secret Rulers of the World

By: Graham Hancock,Robert Bauval

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The Master Game

Unmasking the Secret Rulers of the World

By: Graham Hancock,Robert Bauval

Exposes the secret world order's true purpose and how it has affected the United States.

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Red Wheel Weiser

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193470864X

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9781934708644

The 50 Most Dynamic Duos in Sports History

Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey

By: Robert W. Cohen

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The 50 Most Dynamic Duos in Sports History

Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey

By: Robert W. Cohen

Who comprised the most productive pairs in the history of professional team sports? Joe Montana and Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers? Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls? What about the prolific hockey tandem of Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier? And that all-time great New York Yankees twosome of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig certainly can't be excluded. Using various selection criteria--including longevity, level of statistical compilation, impact on one's team, and overall place in history--The 50 Most Dynamic Duos in Sports History attempts to ascertain which twosome truly established itself as the most dominant tandem in the history of the four major professional team sports: baseball, basketball, football, and hockey. Arranged and ranked by sport, this work takes an in-depth look at the careers of these men, including statistics, quotes from opposing players and former teammates, and career highlights. Finally, all 50 duos are placed in an overall ranking. Covering every decade since the 1890s, this book will find widespread appeal among sports fans of all generations. And with photographs of many of the tandems, The 50 Most Dynamic Duos in Sports History is a wonderful addition to any sports historian's collection.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810885565

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9780810885561

Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia

Abandoning Babylon

By: Nathaniel Robert Walker

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Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia

Abandoning Babylon

By: Nathaniel Robert Walker

The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century, especially English-speaking countires. The separation of different aspects of life, such as living and working, and the diffusion of the population in far-flung garden homes have necessitated the enormous consumption of natural lands and the constant use of mechanized transportation. Why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find 'the best of the city and the country' in the flowery suburbs? Looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, but a missing piece in the story is found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries -- such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H.G. Wells -- are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As different as their futuristic visions could be, however, most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.

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Oxford University Press

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0192605879

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9780192605870

Two Pioneers

How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball - and America

By: Robert C. Cottrell

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Two Pioneers

How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball - and America

By: Robert C. Cottrell

As the first great Jewish player in the major leagues and the first African American to play major-league baseball during the twentieth century, respectively, Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson are forever linked because of the barriers they encountered, the discrimination they endured, the athletic gifts they exhibited, and especially the courage and dignity they displayed. Both suffered ridicule and abuse as they participated in the national pastime. Nevertheless, each excelled. Greenberg became one of the preeminent sluggers of the 1930s and 1940s who took a break from baseball to serve in the war. Robinson, from the mid-1940s into the following decade, helped bring back speed and a thinking man’s approach to the game, both of which had largely been discarded for a generation. Two Pioneers presents these remarkable players’ experiences while competing in a nation that was deeply divided on social issues such as anti-Semitism and racism. Both men earned nearly as much attention off the field as they did on it. Greenberg called into question the idea of a "master race” as Adolf Hitler rose to power and gained supporters all over the world. Likewise, Robinson contested racial notions regarding the supposed inferiority of people of African ancestry, even though segregationists proved determined to maintain social barriers separating blacks and whites. It is only fitting that when Robinson finally crossed baseball’s color line, Greenberg was one of the first players to welcome him publicly. Robert Cottrell’s well-researched work shows how two baseball superstars became important figures in the civil rights crusade to ensure that all Americans, no matter their religion or race, are given equal opportunity.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597978434

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9781597978439

The Vatican Heresy

Bernini and the Building of the Hermetic Temple of the Sun

By: Robert Bauval,Chiara Hohenzollern

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The Vatican Heresy

Bernini and the Building of the Hermetic Temple of the Sun

By: Robert Bauval,Chiara Hohenzollern

Reveals how the largest Sun Temple in the world, built according to Hermetic principles, is located at one of Christianity’s holiest sites: the Vatican • Shows how famous Renaissance philosophers and scientists called for a Hermetic reformation of Christianity by building a magical Temple of the Sun in Rome • Explains how the Vatican architect Bernini designed St. Peter’s Square to reflect heliocentric and Hermetic principles • Reveals how the design was masterminded by Bernini, Jesuit scholars, the mystical Queen Christine of Sweden, and several popes In 16th century Italy, in the midst of the Renaissance, two powerful movements took hold. The first, the Hermetic Movement, was inspired by an ancient set of books housed in the library of Cosimo de’ Medici and written by the Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus. The movement expounded the return of the “true religion of the world” based on a form of natural magic that could draw down the powers of the heavens and incorporate them into statues and physical structures. The other movement, the Heliocentric Movement launched by Copernicus, was a direct challenge to the Vatican’s biblical interpretation of a geocentric world system. Declared a heresy by the Pope, those who promoted it risked the full force of the Inquisition. Exploring the meeting point of these two movements, authors Robert Bauval and Chiara Hohenzollern reveal how the most outspoken and famous philosophers, alchemists, and scientists of the Renaissance, such as Giordano Bruno and Marsilio Ficino, called for a Hermetic reformation of the Christian religion by building a magical utopic city, an architectural version of the heliocentric system. Using contemporary documents and the latest cutting-edge theses, the authors show that this Temple of the Sun was built in Rome, directly in front of the Vatican’s Basilica of St. Peter. They explain how the Vatican architect Bernini designed St. Peter’s Square to reflect the esoteric principles of the Hermetica and how the square is a detailed representation of the heliocentric system. Revealing the magical architectural plan masterminded by the Renaissance’s greatest minds, including Bernini, Jesuit scholars, Queen Christine of Sweden, and several popes, the authors expose the ultimate heresy of all time blessed by the Vatican itself.

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Simon and Schuster

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1591437563

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9781591437567

Clear as Mud

Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans

By: Robert B. Olshansky,Laurie Johnson

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Clear as Mud

Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans

By: Robert B. Olshansky,Laurie Johnson

Planning the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has been among the greatest urban planning challenges of our time. Since 2005, Robert B. Olshansky and Laurie A. Johnson, urban planners who specialize in disaster planning and recovery, have been working to understand, in real time, the difficult planning decisions in this unusual situation. As both observers of and participants in the difficult process of creating the Unified New Orleans Plan, Olshansky and Johnson bring unparalleled detail and insight to this complex story. The recovery process has been slow and frustrating, in part because New Orleans was so unprepared for the physical challenges of such a disaster, but also because it lacked sufficient planning mechanisms to manage community reconstruction in a viable way. New Orleans has had to rebuild its buildings and institutions, but it has also had to create a community planning structure that is seen as both equitable and effective, while also addressing the concerns and demands of state, federal, nonprofit, and private-sector stakeholders. In documenting how this unprecedented process occurred, Olshansky and Johnson spent years on the ground in New Orleans, interviewing leaders and citizens and abetting the design and execution of the Unified New Orleans Plan. Their insights will help cities across the globe recognize the challenges of rebuilding and recovering after disaster strikes.

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Routledge

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1351177990

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Growing Old in a Better World

Age and Ageing in the Utopian Imagination

By: Robert Troschitz

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Growing Old in a Better World

Age and Ageing in the Utopian Imagination

By: Robert Troschitz

As utopias question social ills and express human wants and unfulfilled dreams, they offer insights into the problems, desires and ideals of a certain time. This book uses this lens to examine cultural representations of ageing and old age in utopian writings from the Renaissance till today. The individual chapters offer detailed analyses and interpretations of numerous utopias from Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) to contemporary science fiction. Through close readings, the book explores age-related fears and ideals and investigates how perceptions of ageing and the life course as well as attitudes towards older people have developed over the centuries. Covering a large time span and a broad range of different utopias, the book identifies long-term developments and also puts certain dreams such as that of ever-lasting youth into a wider perspective. It thus enriches both our understanding of the cultural history of ageing and the history of utopian thought. The book will appeal to scholars and students from the fields of cultural gerontology and utopian studies, as well as literary studies and cultural history more generally.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040123600

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9781040123607

100 Hits of Classical Music

By: Robert Ginalski

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100 Hits of Classical Music

By: Robert Ginalski

Do you know the stories behind how the greatest hits of classical music were created? Robert Ginalski discovers the secrets behind world-famous melodies. Even if you're not a classical music lover, you will get carried away by stories that break with the perceived stereotypes of classical music. The reader-friendly style, anecdotes and references to popular culture will rekindle the charm of the classics for you. Bach, Prokofiev, Mozart and Tchaikovsky are all given the author's special attention. By the end of the book you will realise that classical music is much more than what your music teacher told you in school. Better known for his work as a translator, "100 Hits of Classical Music" is Robert Ginalski's debut as an author. Ginalski perfected his craft as a writer by translating the works of Frederick Forsyth and Alistair MacLean.

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Lindhardt og Ringhof

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8726455625

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9788726455625

Only the Ball was White

A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams

By: Robert Peterson

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Only the Ball was White

A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams

By: Robert Peterson

Tells the forgotten story of Black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line.

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0195076370

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9780195076370

Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections

Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns

By: Robert Appelbaum

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Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections

Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns

By: Robert Appelbaum

We didn’t always eat the way we do today, or think and feel about eating as we now do. But we can trace the roots of our own eating culture back to the culinary world of early modern Europe, which invented cutlery, haute cuisine, the weight-loss diet, and much else besides. Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup tells the story of how early modern Europeans put food into words and words into food, and created an experience all their own. Named after characters in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, this lively study draws on sources ranging from cookbooks to comic novels, and examines both the highest ideals of culinary culture and its most grotesque, ridiculous and pathetic expressions. Robert Appelbaum paints a vivid picture of a world in which food was many things—from a symbol of prestige and sociability to a cause for religious and economic struggle—but always represented the primacy of materiality in life. Peppered with illustrations and a handful of recipes, Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup will appeal to anyone interested in early modern literature or the history of food.

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399

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University of Chicago Press

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0226021289

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9780226021287

Practical Leadership Strategies

Lessons from the World of Professional Baseball

By: Robert Palestini

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Practical Leadership Strategies

Lessons from the World of Professional Baseball

By: Robert Palestini

This book details characteristics and behaviors manifested by effective leaders and discussion of how their behavior was informed by leadership theory. Robert Palestini describes the leadership practice of professional baseball coaches as a way to illustrate situational leadership theory, offering the reader examples of leadership behavior in the four leadership frames suggested by Bolman and Deal's situational leadership theory. This book demonstrates how someone can become a very effective leader in both his personal and professional life.

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R&L Education

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1607090279

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9781607090274

A History of the Senses

From Antiquity to Cyberspace

By: Robert Jütte

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A History of the Senses

From Antiquity to Cyberspace

By: Robert Jütte

Jutte charts the development of our attitudes and relationships to our senses from antiquity through to the 20th century, creating a tapestry of different traditions, images, metaphors, and ideas that have survived through time.

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Polity

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074562958X

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9780745629582

The Excellencies of Robert Boyle

The Excellency of Theology and The Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis

By: Robert Boyle

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The Excellencies of Robert Boyle

The Excellency of Theology and The Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis

By: Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle, one of the most important intellectuals of the seventeenth century, was a gifted experimenter, an exceptionally able philosopher, and a dedicated Christian. In Boyle’s two Excellencies, The Excellency of Theology Compared with Natural Philosophy and About The Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis, he explains and justifies his new philosophy of science while reconciling it with Christian theology. These pioneering works of early science and theology are now available in a modernized and accessible new edition. This Broadview edition brings spelling and punctuation into line with current conventions and includes notes and references to set the works in their historical and philosophical context. The appendices include works by Boyle’s predecessors in the philosophy of science, other philosophical writings by Boyle, and an appendix of the other figures mentioned in the texts.

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Broadview Press

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1551114666

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9781551114668

Science, Pseudo-Science and Society

By: Marsha Hanen,Margaret Osler,Robert Weyant

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Science, Pseudo-Science and Society

By: Marsha Hanen,Margaret Osler,Robert Weyant

This volume collects the papers presented at a conference on “Science, Pseudo–science and Society,” sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities and held at the University of Calgary, May 10–12, 1979. More than many such collections, this one preserves some trace of the intellectual excitement which surrounded this gathering of scholars. A primary inspiration for the symposium on “Science, Pseudoscience, and Society” was a growing awareness of the crucial role the study of pseudo–science plays in the areas of contemporary scholarship which are concerned with the nature of science and its relationship to broader social issues. This volume is organized around three major questions concerning the relationships among science, pseudo–science, and society. The papers in the first section address the question of whether it is possible to draw a sharp demarcation between science and pseudo–science and what the criteria of that demarcation might be. The papers in the second section, recognizing the historical importance of various of the pseudo–sciences, consider their impact—positive or negative—on the development of the sciences themselves. The papers in the third section deal with the question of the relationship between the sciences and pseudo–sciences, on the one hand, and social factors on the other.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889207933

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9780889207936

Memoirs

By: Robert Lowell

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Memoirs

By: Robert Lowell

A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell’s lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems Life Studies, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. Memoirs also includes intense depictions of Lowell’s mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell’s reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs demonstrates Lowell’s expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell’s achievement. Includes black-and-white photographs

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374712182

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9780374712181

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The Master Game

The Master Game

The 50 Most Dynamic Duos in Sports History

The 50 Most Dynamic Duos in Sports History

Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia

Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia

Two Pioneers

Two Pioneers

The Vatican Heresy

The Vatican Heresy

Clear as Mud

Clear as Mud

Growing Old in a Better World

Growing Old in a Better World

100 Hits of Classical Music

100 Hits of Classical Music

Only the Ball was White

Only the Ball was White

Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections

Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections

Practical Leadership Strategies

Practical Leadership Strategies

A History of the Senses

A History of the Senses

The Excellencies of Robert Boyle

The Excellencies of Robert Boyle

Science, Pseudo-Science and Society

Science, Pseudo-Science and Society

Memoirs

Memoirs

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