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Taylor Trade Publishing The Bully Pulpit
Book SynopsisPresident Theodore Roosevelt left his mark on every facet of American life, including, quite colorfully, its language. Here, in a single volume, are not only his best Teddyismshyphenated America, muckraker, the square deal, the lunatic fringe, good to the last drop, and many othersand lost words, but also the best of Roosevelt''s most memorable quotations, which serve to illuminate every area of our culture: Americans; boxing; citizenship; conservation; courage; death; democracy; extremists; family values; football; government; heroism; history; hunting; leadership; liberty; patriotism; power; religion; war and peace; winning; women''s rights; and much more.
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GLOBAL PUBLISHER SERVICES JOHN F KENNEDY
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and
Book SynopsisFrantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much about how Fanon's thought developed, showing that, for him, psychiatry was part of a much wider socio-political struggle. His political, revolutionary and literary lives should not then be separated from the psychiatric practice and writings that shaped his thinking about oppression, alienation and the search for freedom.Table of ContentsPlates Illustrations Frantz Fanon: Works Cited General Introduction, by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young Fanon: A Revolutionary Psychiatrist, by Jean Khalfa 1. Mental alterations, character modifications, psychic disorders and intellectual deficit in spinocerebellar heredodegeneration: A case of Friedreich’s ataxia with delusions of possession 2. Letter to Maurice Despinoy 3. Trait d’Union 4. On some cases treated with the Bini method 5. Indications of electroconvulsive therapy within institutional therapies 6. On an attempt to rehabilitate a patient suffering from morpheic epilepsy and serious character disorders 7. Note on sleep therapy techniques using conditioning and electroencephalographic monitoring 8. Our Journal 9. Letter to Maurice Despinoy 10. Social therapy in a ward of Muslim men: Methodological difficulties 11. Daily life in the douars 12. Introduction to sexuality disorders among North Africans 385 13. Currents aspects of mental care in Algeria 14. Ethnopsychiatric considerations 15. Conducts of confession in North Africa (1) 16. Conducts of confession in North Africa (2) 17. Letter to Maurice Despinoy 18. Maghrebi Muslims and their attitude to madness 19. TAT in Muslim women: Sociology of perception and imagination 20. Letter to the Resident Minister 21. The phenomenon of agitation in the psychiatric milieu:General considerations, psychopathological meaning 22. Biological study of the action of lithium citrate on bouts of mania 23. On a case of torsion spasm 24. First tests using injectable meprobamate for hypochondriac states 25. Day hospitalization in psychiatry: Value and limits 26. Day hospitalization in psychiatry: Value and limits. Part two: – doctrinal considerations 27. The meeting between society and psychiatry Frantz Fanon’s Library and Life Franz Fanon’s Library Key dates of Fanon’s chronology Index
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University Press of Colorado Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire
Book SynopsisDrawing from the perspectives of the history of religions, anthropology, and urban ecology, this work explores the nature of the complex symbolic form of Quetzalcoatl in the organisation, legitimation, and subversion of a large segment of the Mexican urban tradition.Table of Contents; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mosaics and Centers; 1; The Sources: From Storybook to Encylopedia; 2; Quetzalcoatl and the Foundation of Tollan; 3; Other Tollans; 4; The Return of Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire; 5; When Strangers Come to Town: The Return of Queztalcoatl and Millennial Discourse; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;
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Master Books Adams Synchronological Chart of History Teachers
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Armies of Celtic Europe 700 BC to AD 106:
Book SynopsisAlthough comprised of many distinct tribes and groupings, the Celts shared a distinctive culture that dominated much of Europe for centuries. They enjoyed a formidable reputation as fierce and brave warriors, skilled horsemen and fine metalworkers. In 390 BC an alliance of Celtic tribes defeated a Roman army at the River Allia and went on to sack Rome and thenceforth the Romans lived under their threat. In the early third century BC a Celtic army swept into Macedonia and Greece, won a major victory at Thermopylai and ransacked the sacred sanctuary at Delphi. Such was their warlike prowess that, when not fighting their own wars, they were sought after as mercenaries by many armies, serving as far afield as southern Egypt. When the Romans invaded Gaul (France and Belgium) and the British Isles, Celtic armies resisted them fiercely. Gabriele Esposito studies this fascinating warrior culture, their armies, strategy, tactics and equipment (they invented the horned saddle and chainmail, and British armies were the last in Europe to use chariots on the battlefield). Dozens of colour photographs of reenactors help bring these magnificent warriors back to life.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hitlers Eastern Legions 194245
Book SynopsisThis illustrated study details the organization, battle orders, combat history, uniforms, and insignia of the World War II units recruited by Nazi Germany from ethnic minorities in the USSR.Between 194145, the Germans recruited around 175,000 men from a number of minorities in the USSR, distinguishing between Turkomans (predominantly Muslims) and Caucasians (predominantly Orthodox Christians). Of these, many formed rear-area auxiliary units, but at least 55,000 were combat troops. The first recruits formed two battalions in the 444th Security Division raised as early as November 1941; during 194243 seven legions were formed, each of several battalions, eventually totaling some 53 battalions (equivalent to about 6 full divisions). However, with one exception (162nd Turkoman Division), they were not deployed as whole formations; after training in Poland, individual battalions were posted to fill out German regiments in the front lines, at first in Army Group South but lTable of ContentsIntroduction German Intelligence in the Caucasus The Eastern Legions: Overview Uniforms & Insignia: Overview The Eastern Legions: Profiles Campaign Deployments Crimean Tatar Forces Kalmyk Forces Select Bibliography Charts Index
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Museum of New Mexico Press Santa Fe Indian Market
Book SynopsisEach August, one hundred thousand people attend Indian Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the nation''s largest and most anticipated Native arts event. One thousand artists, representing 160 tribes, nations, and villages from the United States and Canada, proudly display and sell their works of art, ranging from pottery and basketry to contemporary paintings and sculptures. The history of Indian Market as related in this new publication is the story of Indian cultural arts in the twentieth century beginning with Edgar L. Hewett and the founding of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe in 1909. At the turn of the last century, the notion of Indian art as art in its own right and not ethnography was a foreign concept. With the arrival of the railroad and tourism in New Mexico, two thousand years of utilitarian Pueblo pottery tradition gave way to a curio trade intended for visitors to the area. The curators and archaeologists at the Museum of New Mexico began to collect prehistoric and hist
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Cornell University Press Russian Hajj
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia''s mass hajj traffic, seeing it as not only a liability but also an opportunity. To support the hajj as a matter of state surveillance and control was controversial, given the preeminent position of the Orthodox Church. But nor could the hajj be ignored, or banned, due to Russia''s policy of toleration of Islam. As a cross-border, migratory phenomenon, the hajj stoked officials'' fears of infectious disease, Islamic revolt, and interethnic conflict, but Eileen Kane innovatively argues that it also generated new thinking within the government about the utility of the empire''s Muslims and their global networks.Open Access editTrade ReviewThis is an impressively researched book, and many of the arguments are compelling. [Russian Hajj] makes an important contribution to debates around the reaches and limits of imperial rule in practice. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online *Eileen Kane’s account of the Russian Hajj taps into a fascinating story that Daniel Brower had once called 'a blind spot in studies of Russian colonial rule' (Daniel Brower, 'Russian Roads to Mecca,' Slavic Review 55(3) (1996): 568)... Kane does an excellent job providing evidence to support her account of the Russian Hajj as one of 'toleration' and 'sponsorship' in line with the past two decades’ 'imperial turn' in historiography. * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *[F]ascinating details of the organizational efforts behind Russia's sponsorship of the hajj are examined in this concise and informative volume on an often-overlooked chapter in Russian history. * AramcoWorld *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Russia as a Crossroads of the Global Hajj1. Imperialism through Islamic Networks2. Mapping the Hajj, Integrating Muslims3. Forging a Russian Hajj Route4. The Hajj and Religious Politics after 19055. The Hajj and Socialist RevolutionConclusion: Russian Hajj in the Twenty-First Century
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Saqi Books Dubrovnik
Book SynopsisSince emerging as a settlement in the seventh century, Dubrovnik held a significant position beyond what could have been expected of this tiny city-state. This is a comprehensive history of Dubrovnik's progress over centuries of European development, encompassing arts, architecture, social and economic changes and the traumas of war and politics.Trade Review*'Detailed, scholarly and eminently readable, Dubrovnik is a triumph of book production. This is a splendid volume.' Literary Review 'There are few introductions to the city's past available to general readers ... Harris's splendid study meets this need admirably.' TLS 'Learned, fluently written and lavishly illustrated.' The Sunday Telegraph 'A fascinating and scholarly account.' The Daily Telegraph 'A triumph to set beside those of the great journalists.' Michael Foot, Tribune 'Harris offers up an intense look at a curious world. Truly fascinating.' Good Book Guide 'Unravelling the complex history of Dubrovnik takes skills of a high order, and Robin Harris has these.' Professor Norman Stone 'Splendid ... the book about Dubrovnik we have all been waiting for.' Dr Noel Malcolm, author of Bosnia: A Short History and Kosovo: A Short History 'Robin Harris has written a splendid and discerning history of Croatia's Adriatic pearl.' Professor Ivo Banac, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsILLUSTRATIONS 1. Bull of Pope Benedict VIII in favour of Archbishop Vitalis, the oldest original document in the Dubrovnik archives and the first confirmation of the Ragusan archbishopric (1022) 2. Trade agreement between Dubrovnik and Pisa (1169) 3. Charter in favour of Dubrovnik granted by Ban Kulin of Bosnia (1189) 4. Charter in favour of Dubrovnik's autonomy granted by King Louis I of Hungary (1358) 5. Charter in favour of Dubrovnik granted by the Bosnian King Tvrtko I (1367) 6. Privilege granted by the Council of Basel for Dubrovnik to trade with the Muslim Levant (1433) 7. Ferman addressed to Dubrovnik by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II seeking the Republic's cooperation against his fugitive brother Dem (1482) 8. An Example of Dubrovnik's Code, employed in secret diplomatic transactions (1679) 9. Illuminated opening page of the register of the Confraternity of St. Anthony (Antunini) (about 1445, possibly by Lovro Dobricevic) 10 and 11. Illuminated opening pages of the register of the Confraternity of St. Lazarus (Lazarini) (1531, possibly by Pietro di Giovanni) 12.Charter in favour of Dubrovnik granted by the Sultan of Morocco (1780) 13. The Rector's Palace 14. Atrium of the Rector's Palace 15. The Sponza Palace (or Dogana) 16. Atrium of the Sponza Palace 17. The Cathedral 18. The Dubrovnik Franciscans' Cloister 19. Depiction of Dubrovnik inserted into the Liber Viridis (Laws of Dubrovnik 1358-1460: the picture itself is later) 20. Petar Sorkocevic's Villa on Lapad 21. Paolo Veneziano's painted crucifix (1340s) 22. Matko Juncic: Blessed Virgin with Saints (1452) 23. Lovro Dobricevic: The Baptism of Christ (1448) 24. Mihajlo Hamzic: The Baptism of Christ (1508) 25. Detail of Lovro Dobricevic's Virgin and Child (1465) 26. Detail of Lovro Dobricevic's Virgin and Child, St. Anthony of Padua (1465) 27. Detail of Lovro Dobricevic's Virgin and Child, St. Julian the Hospitaller (1465) 28. Vicko Lovrin: St. Michael and other Saints (1509) 29. Detail of Nikola BoA idarevic's Blessed Virgin with Saints, St. Blaise and St. Paul (early sixteenth century) 30. Detail of Nikola BoA idarevic's Sacra Conversazione, St. Julian the Hospitaller and St. James (1513) 31. Nikola BoA idarevic: The Annunciation (1513) 32. Detail of Nikola BoA idarevic's Sacra Conversazione (1517) 33. Nikola BoA idarevic: Blessed Virgin with Saints (1517) 34. Detail of Nikola BoA idarevic's Blessed Virgin with Saints, St. Martin and the beggar (1517) 35. Detail of Mihajlo Hamzic (and Pietro di Giovanni): St. Nicholas and other Saints, showing St. John the Baptist, St. Stephen and St. Nicholas (1512) 36. Detail of Frano Matijin's Virgin and Child (1534) 37. Votive painting of Ragusan ketch (1779) 38. Votive Painting of Ragusan brigantine (nineteenth century) 39. Detail of Nikola BoA idarevic's Annunciation (1513): the donor Marko Kolendic's ship at anchor in Lopud harbour 40. The Coat of Arms of the Ragusan Republic 41.The Minceta Tower 42. The Principal Fortifications of Dubrovnik 43. Detail of Statue of St. Blaise, showing Dubrovnik (probably mid-fifteenth century) 44. Depiction of Dubrovnik in Konrad von Grunemberg's account of his pilgrimage (1486) 45. Detail of Nikola BoA idarevic's Blessed Virgin with Saints, showing Dubrovnik (early sixteenth century) 46. Painting of Dubrovnik by Giovanni Batista Fabri (1736), showing the city and its suburbs as they were before the Great Earthquake of 1667 47. Engraving depicting the Great Earthquake of 1667 48. Reliquary of (the head of) St. Blaise (XI-XII century) 49. Statue of St. Blaise (probably mid-fifteenth century) 50. Lorenzo Vitelleschi's depiction of Veliki Ston (1827) 51. Ruined Zvekovica, in Konavle (February 1992) 52. Burning house in Dubrovnik's Aeiroka ulica (6 December 1991) Sources Dubrovnik State Archive - plates 1-12, 19, 40 Dominican Friary, Dubrovnik - plates 21, 23, 29-32, 35, 39, 45 Church of St. Blaise, Dubrovnik - plates 43, 49 Lopud Parish Museum - plate 22 Dubrovnik City Museum - plates 24, 46 Church of Our Lady at Dance, Dubrovnik - plates 25-27, 33-34 Franciscan Church, Cavtat - plate 28 Church of St. Stephen at Sustjepan, Dubrovnik - plate 36 Church of Our Lady of Mercy, Dubrovnik - plates 37-38 Dubrovnik Cathedral Treasury - plate 48 Plate 52, photograph taken by the late Miro Kerner, is reproduced by kind permission of his family
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