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High Performance

The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950-2000

By: Robert C. Post

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High Performance

The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950-2000

By: Robert C. Post

Providing a firsthand history of the sport, this book takes a detailed look at all aspects of drag racing: the sport, the business, and tracks the innovations that permitted racers to disprove the "laws of physics". 147 halftones.

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460

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JHU Press

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0801866642

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9780801866647

Islam and Science

The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi

By: Robert Morrison

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Islam and Science

The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi

By: Robert Morrison

In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization. Nisaburi did not consider himself a scientist alone, being commissioned by his patrons to work in a variety of fields. Islam and Science examines in detail the relationship between the metaphysics of Nisaburi's science, and statements he made in his Qur'an commentary and in other non-scientific writings. Sources suggest that Nisaburi was inspired to begin his scientific career by the inclusion of basic science in a religious (madrasa) education. By mid-career, he had found methodological similarities between theoretical astronomy and Islamic jurisprudence. Morrison concludes that while Nisaburi believed science could give one a taste of God's knowledge, he realised that the study of science and natural philosophy alone could not lead him to a spiritual union with God. Only Sufi practice and Sufi theory could accomplish that. Morrison's work is remarkable in synthesizing the history of Islamic science with other areas of Islamic studies. It will be of interest to students and scholars of religion and the history of science, as well as readers with a more general interest in Middle Eastern studies. Winner of the Iranian World Prize for Book of the Year in Islamics Studies 2009

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350

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Routledge

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1135981132

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9781135981136

Struggle for Kenya

The Loss and Reassertion of Imperial Initiative, 1912-1923

By: Robert M. Maxon

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Struggle for Kenya

The Loss and Reassertion of Imperial Initiative, 1912-1923

By: Robert M. Maxon

This book details the evolution of British policy toward Kenya from 1912 to 1923.

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362

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838634869

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9780838634868

Black Heart

Gore-Browne and the Politics of Multiracial Zambia

By: Robert I. Rotberg

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Black Heart

Gore-Browne and the Politics of Multiracial Zambia

By: Robert I. Rotberg

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

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380

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University of California Press

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0520367936

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9780520367937

A Long Way to Paradise

A New History of British Columbia Politics

By: Robert A.J. McDonald

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A Long Way to Paradise

A New History of British Columbia Politics

By: Robert A.J. McDonald

The political landscape of British Columbia has been characterized by divisiveness since Confederation. But why and how did it become Canada’s most fractious province? A Long Way to Paradise traces the evolution of political ideas in the province from 1871 to 1972, exploring British Columbia’s journey to socio-political maturity. Robert McDonald explains its classic left-right divide as a product of “common sense” liberalism that also shaped how British Columbians met the demands and challenges of a modernizing world. This lively, richly detailed overview provides fresh insight into the fascinating story of provincial politics in Canada’s lotus land.

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428

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UBC Press

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0774864745

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9780774864749

Britain and the Arab Middle East

World War I and its Aftermath

By: Robert H. Lieshout

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Britain and the Arab Middle East

World War I and its Aftermath

By: Robert H. Lieshout

The profound effects of the British Empire's actions in the Arab World during the First World War can be seen echoing through the history of the 20th century. The uprising sparked by the Husayn-McMahon correspondence and led by 'Lawrence of Arabia'; the Sykes-Picot agreement which undermined that rebellion; and memoranda such as the Balfour Declaration all have shaped the Middle East into forms which would have been unrecognizable to the diplomats of the 19th century. Undertaken during the First 'World' War, these actions were not part of a coordinated British strategy, but in fact directed by several overlapping and competing departments, some imperfectly referred to as the 'Arab Bureau'. The British and the Middle East is unique in its comprehensive treatment of how and why the British generals and diplomats acted as they did. By taking as his starting point the voluminous, contradictory and revealing records of the policy-makers in the British government, Robert H. Lieshout shows convincingly that many concerned with foreign policy making were quite oblivious to the history and complexities of the Islamic World.Covering the full sweep of British involvement in Arabia, Lieshout makes a lasting contribution to our understanding of the period in which the British Empire changed the world, and shows how shallow and confused the understanding of those that shaped the future of the Middle East really was.

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454

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857729330

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9780857729330

Gouyd

By: John Robert Cole

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Gouyd

By: John Robert Cole

The author uses his family history talents to trace the elusive Gouyd surname from early New York State to present. Filled with newspaper clippings and unique family photographs from the 1800s onward, it's a source for anyone researching the Gouyd name.

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373

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Lulu.com

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1312797843

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9781312797840

A Newsman Remembered

Ralph Burdette Jordan and His Times 1896-1953

By: Robert Smith Jordan

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A Newsman Remembered

Ralph Burdette Jordan and His Times 1896-1953

By: Robert Smith Jordan

A Newsman Remembered is not just the story of the life of Ralph Burdette Jordan (RBJ or Jock) who was a remarkable newspaperman/motion picture publicist/war correspondent. It is also a glimpse into an era of American social and political history that is now, unfortunately, largely forgotten if not discarded. The compelling personalities with whom he engaged Aimee Semple McPherson, William Randolph Hearst, Louis B. Mayer, General Douglas MacArthur are but fading memories which this book briefly restores. The first half of the 20th century began as an era of optimism that encompassed a belief that working hard along with seizing the main chance would produce social, professional and financial success. Ralph Jordan certainly exuded that optimism in everything that he encountered in his short life. Along with his contemporaries, moving into the great (largely ill-defined) middle class was his overarching goal. Within this goal, family life was an important ingredient for him - marriage in his day was still a partnership with clearly defined marital roles and expectations. Ralph and Marys marriage reflected that domestic configuration. Religious faith if not always observed to the letter also formed an important part of their family life. It could not be otherwise for them and those other largely third-generation descendants of Mormon pioneers (and their non-Mormon contemporaries) with whom they associated. These so-called Mormon second- and third-generation diasporans were willing even eager to leave behind them the remoteness of what was then described as Zion, to seek more promising futures elsewhere, retaining as best they could their unique heritage. Thus, Ralph Jordans story is indeed a life and times story worth telling!

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218

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iUniverse

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1450289576

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9781450289573

Black Nationalism in the New World

Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience

By: Robert Carr

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Black Nationalism in the New World

Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience

By: Robert Carr

From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism in the United States and the Caribbean. Bringing to bear a comparative, diasporic perspective, Robert Carr examines the complex roles race, gender, sexuality, and history have played in the formation of black national identities in the U. S. and Caribbean—particularly in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana—over the past two centuries. He shows how nationalism begins as an impulse emanating "upwards" from the bottom of the social and economic spectrum and discusses the implications of this phenomenon for understanding democracy and nationalism. Black Nationalism in the New World combines geography, political economy, and subaltern studies in readings of noncanonical literary works, which in turn illuminate debates over African-American and West Indian culture, identity, and politics. In addition to Martin Delany’s Blake, or the Huts of America, Carr focuses on Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces; Crown Jewel, R. A. C. de Boissière’s novel of the Trinidadian revolt against British rule; Wilson Harris’s Guyana Quartet; the writings of the Oakland Black Panthers—particularly Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver; the gay novella Just Being Guys Together; and Lionheart Gal, a collection of patois testimonials assembled by Sistren, a radical Jamaican women’s theater group active in the ‘80s. With its comparative approach, broad historical sweep, and use of texts not well known in the United States, Black Nationalism in the New World extends the work of such theorists as Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, and Nell Irwin Painter. It will be necessary reading for those interested in African American studies, Caribbean studies, cultural studies, women’s studies, and American studies.

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385

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Duke University Press

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0822383888

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9780822383888

The Kingdom Series Books 1 and 2: The Lion Wakes, The Lion At Bay

By: Robert Low

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The Kingdom Series Books 1 and 2: The Lion Wakes, The Lion At Bay

By: Robert Low

A NATION WILL FIGHT FOR ITS FREEDOM. The first two books in Robert Low’s trilogy on the making of Scotland.

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HarperCollins UK

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0007524269

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9780007524266

Book's by Robert Ormsby

High Performance

High Performance

Islam and Science

Islam and Science

Struggle for Kenya

Struggle for Kenya

Black Heart

Black Heart

A Long Way to Paradise

A Long Way to Paradise

Britain and the Arab Middle East

Britain and the Arab Middle East

Gouyd

Gouyd

A Newsman Remembered

A Newsman Remembered

Black Nationalism in the New World

Black Nationalism in the New World

The Kingdom Series Books 1 and 2: The Lion Wakes, The Lion At Bay

The Kingdom Series Books 1 and 2: The Lion Wakes, The Lion At Bay

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