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Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative approach to world history. Edited by Edmund Burke III and Robert Mankin, Islam and World History explores the complexity of Hodgson's thought, the daring...
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Today, America's most dangerous enemies are not the terrorists or those wanting to kill us. They are the unseen evil forces that have been slowly depleting us of morality, decency and value in God. Evil has taken a seat not only in our movies, media, music and schools, but in our White House. The Evilution of America has been eroding what our Forefathers fought and suffered to create and is turning the United States into a country void of everything...
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Hemos escuchado, a los estadistas mundiales, hablar de como se cuentan los grandes acontecimientos; el desarrollo de un pais, una plaga, una enfermedad, etc. No se alarme, el sufrimiento del pueblo de Cuba se cuenta en numeros de muertos; por mas de 65 anos. Este pequeno pais es una isla, situada en el caribe, su poblacion ha sido sometida, a la mas terrible de las torturas, solo comparable al exterminio de la poblacion camboyana, por el regimen comunista...
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Money is so vital to us it is almost impossible to imagine a way of life that doesn't include it, yet for most of human history there was no such thing as money and even when it appeared, it rarely crossed the paths of ordinary people. Bartering surpluses can only get a society so far; if it is to become complex, productive and diverse it needs to take the next step and choose an item - perhaps fish-hooks, perhaps flint - to use as a 'medium of exchange'...
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Reefer Madness, a classic in the annals of hemp literature, is the popular social history of marijuana use in America. Beginning with the hemp farming of George Washington, author Larry "Ratso" Sloman traces the fascinating story of our nation's love-hate relationship with the resilient weed we know as marijuana.
Herein we find antiheroes such as Allen Ginsberg, Robert Mitchum (the first Hollywood actor busted for pot), Louis Armstrong (who smoked...
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Découvrez et redécouvrez l'héritage intellectuel de John Milton avec cette compilation associant son traité politique révolutionnaire, 'Le Pacte des Rois et des Magistrats', à des analyses contemporaines. Écrit pendant la guerre civile anglaise de 1649, le traité défend le droit du peuple à résister à la tyrannie. Les analyses actuelles explorent la pertinence de ses idées dans le contexte moderne, examinant leur impact sur la démocratie,...
7) Resistance as Idea and Action: The Epic Struggle Against Oppression and Tyranny Throughout History
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"Resistance As Idea And Action: The Epic Struggle Against Oppression and Tyranny Throughout History" is a profound exploration of the relentless human spirit in the face of oppression and occupation. This meticulously researched book delves into the myriad forms of resistance throughout history, from individual acts of defiance to large-scale revolts. A serious and thought-provoking tone illuminates the bravery and determination of those who have...
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Renowned historian William H. McNeil provides a brilliant narrative chronology of the development of Western civilization, representing its socio-political as well as cultural aspects. This sixth edition includes new material for the twentieth-century period and completely revised bibliographies. An invaluable tool for the study of Western civilization, the Handbook is an essential complement to readings in primary and secondary sources such as those...
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Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have written repressive, exclusionary, and incomplete accounts.
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In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe seven hundred years later during the 1230s when church councils and public authorities began to impose a body of ethical obligations on those who practiced law. James Brundage's The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession traces the history...
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"This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies."-Choice
"Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediate, and spirits become flesh and blood in the 'fusion' with human existence. . . . An excellent demonstration of the benefits of a new genre of ethnographic writing. It expands our understanding of the...
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Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations-from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini.
From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife offers a wealth of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating room.
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In fin-de-siècle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional marriages, and some took up the professions of medicine and law, journalism and teaching. All of them challenged traditional notions of womanhood by living...
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The purpose of compiling this book, "The Life Miracles Of The Prophet," is to elucidate the profound miracles and signs that attest to the extraordinary capabilities bestowed upon the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ by Allah. It is not intended for those who deny his prophetic status or seek to cast doubt on his miraculous deeds. We meticulously present these miracles, relying on meticulously studied accounts with authentic chains of transmission. The content...
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On February 28, 1993, the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) launched the largest assault in its history against a small religious community in central Texas. One hundred agents armed with automatic and semi automatic weapons invaded the compound, purportedly to execute a single search and arrest warrant. The raid went badly; four agents were killed, and by the end of the day the settlement was surrounded by armored tanks...
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Il y a d'abord une évidence: les services que les prisons sont censées rendre ne compenseront jamais les torts qu'elles causent. Depuis les années 1960, ce constat d'un immense gâchis a amené un vaste mouvement à œuvrer à l'abolitionnisme pénal: en finir avec toutes les prisons, mais aussi avec les autres institutions qui forment le système pénal, comme la police et les tribunaux. Ce projet politique poursuit ainsi un objectif ambitieux...
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priv·i·lege
A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.
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This book is not designed to make the reader comfortable, it is not designed to convince the reader of anything, it is designed to help the reader understand diversity, equity, and inclusion issues from the perspective of people of color. It is meant to make readers uncomfortable, to question their beliefs, and examine...
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We take reputations for granted. Believing in the bad and the good natures of our notorious or illustrious forebears is part of our shared national heritage. Yet we are largely ignorant of how such reputations came to be, who was instrumental in creating them, and why. Even less have we considered how villains, just as much as heroes, have helped our society define its values.
Presenting essays on America's most reviled traitor, its worst president,...
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How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another?
In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture...
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