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Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods

William Niven's Life of Discovery and Revolution in Mexico and the American Southwest

By: Robert Sigfrid Wicks,Roland H. Harrison

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Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods

William Niven's Life of Discovery and Revolution in Mexico and the American Southwest

By: Robert Sigfrid Wicks,Roland H. Harrison

Niven was planning a book about his experiences, but never completed it owing to ill health. The result of twenty years' research, Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods offers a well-illustrated and vivid first-hand account through Wicks and Harrison's selection of photographs and stories from Niven's own extensive writings and those of people with whom he worked."--BOOK JACKET.

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348

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Texas Tech University Press

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089672414X

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9780896724143

Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia

The Development of Indigenous Monetary Systems to AD 1400

By: Robert S. Wicks

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Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia

The Development of Indigenous Monetary Systems to AD 1400

By: Robert S. Wicks

This substantial work explores the impact of monetization in premodern Southeast Asia from the third century BCE to the rise of Maleka in the early fifteenth century. The author explores why concepts of money developed unevenly throughout the region. He considers trade policies, price controls, exchange ratios, monopolies, variant standards of value, and the administrative structures required to support such a complex economic innovation.

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371

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Cornell University Press

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1501719475

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9781501719479

Jewish Given Names and Family Names

A New Bibliography

By: Robert Singerman

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Jewish Given Names and Family Names

A New Bibliography

By: Robert Singerman

Presents over 3,000 bibliographic entries on the history and lore of Jewish family names and given names in all parts of the world from Biblical times to the present day. This work replaces the compiler's out-of-print JEWISH AND HEBREW ONOMASTICS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (1977)

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260

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BRILL

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9004121897

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9789004121898

Henry Miller

A Life

By: Robert Ferguson

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Henry Miller

A Life

By: Robert Ferguson

Bohemian, egoist and prophet of sensualism, Henry Miller remains to many writers and readers a literary lion. Born in Brooklyn in 1891, son of a tailor of German extraction, Miller would embrace a freewheeling existence that carried him through umpteen jobs and sexual encounters, providing rich source material for the novels he would write. Greenwich Village and Paris in the 1920s offered rich pickings, as did Miller's ten-year affair with Anais Nin. But he was 69 before Tropic of Cancer was legally published in the US and made him famous, almost 30 years from its composition and long after his peers had devoured it in contraband French editions. Robert Ferguson reveals Miller as a amalgam of vulnerability and insouciance, who endured thirty years of official opprobrium but won the respect of Orwell, T.S. Eliot and Lawrence Durrell, and readers by the thousand. 'This impressive biography [is] good, dirty fun.' Observer 'Engaging and perceptive.' Economist 'Lively and entertaining.' J.G. Ballard

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402

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Faber & Faber

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0571294847

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9780571294848

Nietzsche

A Beginner's Guide

By: Robert Wicks

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Nietzsche

A Beginner's Guide

By: Robert Wicks

Discover the truth about the much-misunderstood thinker Often quoted yet highly divisive, Nietzsche remains an enigma long after his death. This clear primer moves deftly through the controversy to examine the philosopher's work in the context of his tumultuous childhood and Christian upbringing. Discussing his infamous declaration that God is dead, his posthumous association with Nazism, and his criticisms of conventional morality, this book is the ideal introduction to the much debated thinker and his extensive legacy.

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228

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Simon and Schuster

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1780741707

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9781780741703

The Wehrmacht Retreats

Fighting a Lost War, 1943

By: Robert M. Citino

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The Wehrmacht Retreats

Fighting a Lost War, 1943

By: Robert M. Citino

Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare. In his new study, prizewinning author Robert Citino chronicles this weakening Wehrmacht, now fighting desperately on the defensive but still remarkably dangerous and lethal. Drawing on his impeccable command of German-language sources, Citino offers fresh, vivid, and detailed treatments of key campaigns during this fateful year: the Allied landings in North Africa, General von Manstein's great counterstroke in front of Kharkov, the German attack at Kasserine Pass, the titanic engagement of tanks and men at Kursk, the Soviet counteroffensives at Orel and Belgorod, and the Allied landings in Sicily and Italy. Through these events, he reveals how a military establishment historically configured for violent aggression reacted when the tables were turned; how German commanders viewed their newest enemy, the U.S. Army, after brutal fighting against the British and Soviets; and why, despite their superiority in materiel and manpower, the Allies were unable to turn 1943 into a much more decisive year. Applying the keen operational analysis for which he is so highly regarded, Citino contends that virtually every flawed German decision-to defend Tunis, to attack at Kursk and then call off the offensive, to abandon Sicily, to defend Italy high up the boot and then down much closer to the toe-had strong supporters among the army's officer corps. He looks at all of these engagements from the perspective of each combatant nation and also establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt the synergistic interplay between the fronts. Ultimately, Citino produces a grim portrait of the German officer corps, dispelling the longstanding tendency to blame every bad decision on Hitler. Filled with telling vignettes and sharp portraits and copiously documented, The Wehrmacht Retreats is a dramatic and fast-paced narrative that will engage military historians and general readers alike.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700623434

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9780700623433

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Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods

Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods

Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia

Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia

Jewish Given Names and Family Names

Jewish Given Names and Family Names

Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Nietzsche

Nietzsche

The Wehrmacht Retreats

The Wehrmacht Retreats

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