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"In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school lessons, her writing instructor, Tetsuko, encourages Ichi...
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The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers.
Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and lived a unique lifestyle. They practiced a whole new way of thinking about and doing religion that would have been seen as bizarre and dangerous when compared to Roman religion and most other religions...
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This long out-of-print and hard-to-find classic tells the story of the Texas invasion of New Mexico during the American Civil War. In early 1862, Confederate General Henry Hopkins Sibley marched thirty-four hundred coarse Texas farmboys, cowhands, and frontiersmen into New Mexico and up the Rio Grande Valley. Although seriously bloodied, they repulsed Union troops at the Battle of Valverde. As the poorly supplied Texans pushed northward, New Mexicans...
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In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction, which is customarily said to have begun in 1865 with the end of the war, and to have come to a close when the "corrupt bargain" of 1877 put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House in exchange for the fall of the last southern Reconstruction state governments. Sinha’s startlingly...
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We trace one family, generation by generation, throughout the one thousand years of the second millennium. The trilogy sets the family within its social environment, describing its migration from the continent, and across England, Scotland, and Ireland to settle in the New World. From that we get a vivid picture of what affected, motivated, worried, and encouraged this Saxon family and how they coped. Since the migration of this family was typical...
6) 1964
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Step back in time to 1964, a year of cultural upheaval and political transformation. From the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the United States to the global phenomenon of Beatlemania, this was the year that gave us bold fashion, unforgettable music and social change that continues to shape society across the world today.
While Britain's new Labour government promised the 'white heat of technology', on the world stage 1964 saw the escalation...
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"In 2005, a group of construction workers in Jerusalem made an incredible discovery. Underneath the parking lot they were digging up lay an ancient city that was built in the tenth century! Three years later, gold coins from an even earlier century were found at the site. The city of Jerusalem is like a layer cake of history--more than five thousand years of complicated history--all of which author Ellen Morgan explains clearly and objectively in...
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To a lawyer, injustice is the unfair conduct of a trial. This book looks into several notorious cases of supposed injustice, Socrates, Joan of Arc, Charles I, Admiral Byng, Lord Haw-Haw, and the Nuremberg Trials. It looks for answers to the legal question 'was the trial fair?', and the humane question 'was the accused guilty or innocent?'.
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About the Author G. Darrell Russell Jr. is a retired judge of the District Court of Maryland. He now practices law at a reduced pace in a small firm in eastern Baltimore County. He lives in Towson, Maryland. Three of his four adult children are nearby. His fourth child, Maureen, resides in Birmingham, Alabama, where she runs marathons like her dad. She obtained her graduate degree from South Alabama. Her brother Brendan also went to Alabama at the...
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Excerpt: "On the last morning of Queen Anne's life, a man, deep in thought, was slowly crossing Smithfield. The eyes of a clergyman passing in a carriage were bent upon him. The carriage stopped, the wayfarer looked up, and the two men knew each other. The one on foot was the dissenting preacher, whom Queen Anne used to call 'bold Bradbury.' The other was Bishop Burnet. 'On what were you so deeply thinking?' asked the bishop. 'On the men who died...
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Orphans of the Holocaust tells the remarkable true story of Ottó Komoly, a Hungarian-Jewish engineer and Zionist leader who helped save thousands of Jewish lives during the Holocaust. As head of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee, Komoly worked tirelessly to assist Polish and Slovakian Jews to escape and hide in Hungary. After German troops entered Hungary in March 1944, Komoly helped organize 'Department A' of the International Red Cross in Budapest....
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Contains stories of such notable men as Daniel Boone, Rogers Clark, and Henry Clay. The history of Kentucky is full of incidents of adventure and heroism connected with the careers of the explorers, the settlers, and the founders of the State. Besides telling of such incidents, the book shows the part played by Kentucky in national affairs.
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Después del rotundo éxito de su primer libro con Intermedio, Hermanos de sangre, Antonio Sánchez regresa a la arena del conflicto armado -tema que es su especialidad- con Historias de un país herido, una serie de crónicas que reconstruyen escenas de momentos claves en la evolución de las luchas por el control, la tenencia de la tierra y la hegemonía del poder en regiones como Antioquia, el Magdalena Medio, Córdoba y Urabá, en donde un proyecto...
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About the Author Douglas K. Sanders is a writer on history of Florida and Indiana.
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The Pilgrim Fathers of New England: A History is a historical work by W. Carlos Martyn, first published in 1910. The book explores the history of the Pilgrims, a group of English Separatists who fled religious persecution in England and established the Plymouth Colony in North America in 1620. The Pilgrims are best known for their role in the first Thanksgiving celebration with the Native Americans. Martyn's work delves into the religious and political...
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This book is about Newfoundland and Labrador's response following 9/11. For the first time, Mac Moss tells the stories of people across the entire province-from Stephenville to Gander, to Goose Bay and St. John's-who pitched in and helped approximately 13,000 stranded passengers in 2001 after terrorist attacks in the United States changed the world forever. He has interviewed municipal and service organization leaders of that time, former airport...
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