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By Margaret DiCanio PhD
Memory Fragments from the Armenian Genocide: A Mosaic of a Shared Heritage brings together thirty profiles of North Americans of Armenian descent. All exemplify the philosophy that “doing well is doing good,” a credo handed down to them by family members who lost everything when they fled from the Turkish massacres. Family stories of how survivors escaped, survived, and made new lives are filtered through the memories of succeeding generations. The profiles reflect how the actions of the survivors shaped the lives of succeeding generations. Armenian immigrants feared their heritage might be lost in North America. Their fears proved to be unfounded. Children and grandchildren retain the culture passed on to them. At the same time, they hold dear the values of the New World that enabled their families to live free of political repression. While details of their daily lives differ, most of those profiled share a reverence for education. In the New World, they flourish as intellectuals, artists, teachers, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, thereby filling leadership roles decimated by Turks early in their campaign to wipe out the Armenians. By making the most of their talents, they do homage to those who sacrificed so much.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Betty Bolte
Did you know that girls and young women made a difference in America’s history? During the 1800s, many girls helped America grow bigger and better, yet are missing from many history books. Virginia Reed, at 12, survived the trek to California with the Donner Party. Joanna Troutman, at 17, created the first Texas flag. Belle Boyd risked her life to spy for the Rebels during the Civil War. Grace Bedell wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln that changed the way he faced the nation. Kate Shelley, at 15, crawled across a high trestle in a ferocious thunderstorm to stop the next train from falling through a washed-out bridge. A young teacher, Minnie Freeman led her 17 students to safety through the blinding snow of the Blizzard of 1888. These are just a few of the 19 inspiring true stories of 19th century American girls who touched the hearts of their hometowns. You can remember them today by visiting their historical markers, monuments, exhibits, and parks, or by reading their poems, and singing their songs.
FORMAT: Softcover
By S A M Adshead
In all traditional societies, Adshead says, salt was a key commodity, intimately related to politics, fiscal policy, and economic structure. In The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, Adshead studies the modernization process in China by examining the development of the salt administration—an institution that is not only characteristic of many societies generally but is also peculiarly Chinese in its sophistication and historical antecedents. The author also analyzes the respective roles of Chinese and foreigners as co-modernizers, noting the advantages and difficulties this cooperation involved. The central figure of the era was Sir Richard Dane, founder of the foreign gabelle and chief inspector of the salt administration, 1913–1918, whose role in the introduction of modern administrative methods to China entitles him to a place among the leading figures of European imperialism in China. Adshead gives equal attention, however, to Dane's Chinese rivals and colleagues as well as to the emergence of modern administrative concepts from Chinese expertise. He shows how a convergence of European and Chinese ideas and close collaboration between European and Chinese administrators produced a thorough reconstruction of a long-established institution.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Harvard University Press, Jerome B. Grieder
Hu Shih (1891-1962), a leading Chinese educator and scholar who received much of his education in the United States, was an important advocate of liberal political and social views in China during the 1920s and 1930s. A self-proclaimed disciple of John Dewey, under whom he had studied at Columbia, Hu was a tireless critic of intellectual dogmatism and a persistent advocate of "evolutionary" and pragmatic reform. Ultimately his position proved vulnerable to attacks from both the conservative traditionalist and the radical revolutionary extremes. In this elegantly written intellectual biography, Jerome B. Grieder examines the development and expression of Hu Shih's ideas against the background of a deepening revolutionary crisis in China.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Harvard University Press, Ivan Parker Hall
On February 11, 1889, as all Tokyo prepared to celebrate the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution, an assassin's blade brought to an end the life of Mori Arinori, Japanese minister of education. Mori had been a symbol to Japanese and Westerners alike of his country's rapid, yet often painful, strides toward modernization. He was a maverick among the modernizing leaders of Meiji Japan as evidenced by even a few of his many pioneering accomplishments: as first diplomatic envoy to America, as founder of Japan's first modern philosophical society and her first comercial college, as the first to marry in the Western fashion, and as the first education minister under the new cabinet system.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Rich Anders
The Presidency of John F. Kennedy was shot. Its impact was immense. President Kennedy ended the Cuban Missile Crises peacefully and prevented a nuclear war. He saved life on this planet from extinction. For this he paid with his own life. The public's fascination with John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy family in general goes far beyond well-deserved appreciation for his heroic deed. The legend of Camelot was invoked but it falls far short of the importance of the Kennedy Saga. This book unveils the secrets surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the true importance of the Kennedy Clan.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Wayne Neely
In October 1866, a powerful Category 4 hurricane struck the Bahamian Islands. With winds well over 140 miles per hour and even higher gusts that toppled trees, sank ships, peeled away rooftops, and destroyed vital infrastructures, the massive storm battered the islands with great ferocity. When the seas finally calmed and the winds died down, the massive storm had killed more than 387 people in the Bahamas alone and left a massive trail of destruction. Author Wayne Neely, a leading authority on Bahamian and Caribbean hurricanes, shares an engaging account of how the hurricane of 1866 not only devastated the islands, but also altered the course of Bahamian history forever. While demonstrating how the hurricane significantly impacted the wrecking and salvaging industry, Neely also educates others about the complex set of weather conditions that contribute to hurricanes. He includes fascinating stories of survival and heroism as the storm’s victims struggled to move forward in the midst of tragedy. Hurricanes are no novelty to the Bahamas, but all who were lucky enough to live through the howling winds and the terror of a sky filled with flying debris surely never forgot The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1866.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Wayne Neely
In October 1866, a powerful Category 4 hurricane struck the Bahamian Islands. With winds well over 140 miles per hour and even higher gusts that toppled trees, sank ships, peeled away rooftops, and destroyed vital infrastructures, the massive storm battered the islands with great ferocity. When the seas finally calmed and the winds died down, the massive storm had killed more than 387 people in the Bahamas alone and left a massive trail of destruction. Author Wayne Neely, a leading authority on Bahamian and Caribbean hurricanes, shares an engaging account of how the hurricane of 1866 not only devastated the islands, but also altered the course of Bahamian history forever. While demonstrating how the hurricane significantly impacted the wrecking and salvaging industry, Neely also educates others about the complex set of weather conditions that contribute to hurricanes. He includes fascinating stories of survival and heroism as the storm’s victims struggled to move forward in the midst of tragedy. Hurricanes are no novelty to the Bahamas, but all who were lucky enough to live through the howling winds and the terror of a sky filled with flying debris surely never forgot The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1866.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Wayne Neely
In October 1866, a powerful Category 4 hurricane struck the Bahamian Islands. With winds well over 140 miles per hour and even higher gusts that toppled trees, sank ships, peeled away rooftops, and destroyed vital infrastructures, the massive storm battered the islands with great ferocity. When the seas finally calmed and the winds died down, the massive storm had killed more than 387 people in the Bahamas alone and left a massive trail of destruction. Author Wayne Neely, a leading authority on Bahamian and Caribbean hurricanes, shares an engaging account of how the hurricane of 1866 not only devastated the islands, but also altered the course of Bahamian history forever. While demonstrating how the hurricane significantly impacted the wrecking and salvaging industry, Neely also educates others about the complex set of weather conditions that contribute to hurricanes. He includes fascinating stories of survival and heroism as the storm’s victims struggled to move forward in the midst of tragedy. Hurricanes are no novelty to the Bahamas, but all who were lucky enough to live through the howling winds and the terror of a sky filled with flying debris surely never forgot The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1866.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Earl A. Reitan
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND is a an inter-disciplinary survey of English culture of the period. It deals with major developments in history, literature, theatre, architecture, art, and music with attention to the economic and social foundations. Philosophy and religion are also included. The book provides a broad background for students and general readers with an interest in eighteenth-century culture or in one or more of the specific disciplines with which the book deals.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Earl A. Reitan
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND is a an inter-disciplinary survey of English culture of the period. It deals with major developments in history, literature, theatre, architecture, art, and music with attention to the economic and social foundations. Philosophy and religion are also included. The book provides a broad background for students and general readers with an interest in eighteenth-century culture or in one or more of the specific disciplines with which the book deals.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Mark Damohn
Innovating and challenging. A bold new look at the Carter Administration and its impact on NASA and space policy. Explains how Carter saved the Space Shuttle. A "must have" for anyone interested in Jimmy Carter, NASA, and domestic politics of the 1970s.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Errol Nelson
Janus: The double-faced Roman God of gates and doors, beginnings and endings, is an appropriate representation for a book about Empire. The Inevitable Decline and Fall of Empire is an analysis of 'the system,' its origins in biology, its evolution to Empire and its inevitable destination in a civilization of humanity. Over the past 8000 years Empire has nurtured and evolved hierarchical legal, business and religious systems that originate in our sentient selfish instincts and are maintained through privilege, power and authority usurped by a few, and it is sustained through two myths: group sovereignty and spiritual dependency. Humanity is at the threshold of a transition to a more inclusive era of civilization based more on our instincts for cooperation and coexistence. The transition will be contentious and destructive to cultures and the corporate government, business, legal and religious systems they have established and perpetuated. The irony is that 'the system' will go through the transition anyway, even over the vehement resistance and objections of those that presently benefit and profit from the perquisites of Empire. And, to speed up the process, the author has proposed a remedy — a new Magna Carta — and issues the following disclaimer: WARNING - Contents of this book may be hazardous to your sentient preconceived notions. www.secondmagnacarta.com
FORMAT: Softcover
By Errol Nelson
Janus: The double-faced Roman God of gates and doors, beginnings and endings, is an appropriate representation for a book about Empire. The Inevitable Decline and Fall of Empire is an analysis of 'the system,' its origins in biology, its evolution to Empire and its inevitable destination in a civilization of humanity. Over the past 8000 years Empire has nurtured and evolved hierarchical legal, business and religious systems that originate in our sentient selfish instincts and are maintained through privilege, power and authority usurped by a few, and it is sustained through two myths: group sovereignty and spiritual dependency. Humanity is at the threshold of a transition to a more inclusive era of civilization based more on our instincts for cooperation and coexistence. The transition will be contentious and destructive to cultures and the corporate government, business, legal and religious systems they have established and perpetuated. The irony is that 'the system' will go through the transition anyway, even over the vehement resistance and objections of those that presently benefit and profit from the perquisites of Empire. And, to speed up the process, the author has proposed a remedy — a new Magna Carta — and issues the following disclaimer: WARNING - Contents of this book may be hazardous to your sentient preconceived notions. www.secondmagnacarta.com
FORMAT: E-Book
By Rita Stark
Lucretia Borgia, Pope Alexander VI's daughter, became famous in history as the infamous Countess of Pesaro and Duchess of Ferrara, who hosted parties to poison her father's and her brother Cesare's enemies. On the contrary, they used her to cover their own crimes and to bring allies to the Church through her marriages. Even history can be falsified when brought down to the level of Court's gossip or Vatican's intrigues.
FORMAT: Softcover
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