Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes: The Archaeology of Public Buildings (New Studies in Archaeology)

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In this innovative volume, Jerry D. Moore discusses public architecture in the context of the cultural, political and religious life of the pre-hispanic Andes. Archaeologists have invested enormous effort in excavating and documenting prehistoric buildings, but analytical approaches to architecture remain as yet undeveloped. Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes uses new analytical methods to approach architecture and its relationship to Andean society, exploring three themes in particular: the architecture of monuments, the architecture of ritual, and the architecture of social control. It provides both a methodology for the study of public architecture and an example of how that methodology can be applied. Jerry D. Moore’s clear and richly illustrated discussion represents an original perspective on architecture and its role in ritual, ideology, and power in the ancient world.

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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 3341 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Biographers should avoid imposing their own sensibilities into the memoirs of their subjects. Narrative arrangement of the mixture of facts revealed by biographees introduces a different perspective of their stories. The belief that biographers must delve into the very hearts of biographees is a mistake because man can never fathom the hearts of other men. It is only by observing their behavior that biographers are given clues of what lies behind their subjects.

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Title: Ghostly doubles: biographer and biographee.
Author: Carol Gelderman
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: v54 Issue: n3 Page: p328(8)

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Biographees

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An index to the biographees in 19th century California county histories (Gale genealogy and local history series ; v. 7)

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An index to the biographees in 19th century California county histories (Gale genealogy and local history series ; v. 7)
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Official Nikon F and Nikkormat Manual
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The second volume in the celebrated anthology series features more big names, and sixteen more pages than Volume One, including John Cassaday's complete Lobster Johnson serial.

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I would just like to read other readers reviews.......2000-01-24

I would just like to read other readers reviews. I have read and translated in Russian the "Effective Loan Management" by Ed Morsman which I found excellent, and I am also would like to do the same with this book.

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This title examines the work of US universities to facilitate the transfer of research to the commercial sector during the 80s and 90s. Exploring the division of expert labor in technology transfer between inventors and entrepreneurs, it is based on research conducted in the early 1990s at the University of Washington office of Technology Transfer.

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In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power.

Taking a broad view of politics, Simon looks at laborers as they engaged in political activity in many venues—at the polling station, on front porches, and on the shop floor—and examines their political involvement at the local, state, and national levels. He describes the campaign styles and rhetoric of such politicians as Coleman Blease and Olin Johnston (himself a former millhand), who eagerly sought the workers' votes. He draws a detailed picture of mill workers casting ballots, carrying placards, marching on the state capital, writing to lawmakers, and picketing factories. These millhands' politics reflected their public and private thoughts about whiteness and blackness, war and the New Deal, democracy and justice, gender and sexuality, class relations and consumption.

Ultimately, the people depicted here are neither romanticized nor dismissed as the stereotypically racist and uneducated "rednecks" found in many accounts of southern politics. Southern workers understood the political and social forces that shaped their lives, argues Simon, and they developed complex political strategies to deal with those forces.

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A really good book.......2003-03-23

I wanted to read this book, which actually covers the subject from 1910 to 1948, rather than as the title listed here indicates (1920-1948) because I wanted to know more about the flamboyant and racist Coleman Blease who in the early part of this century was such a prominent figure in South Carolina's politics. This book does tell a lot about Blease and his connection with the mill workers of South Carolina, but I found even more interesting the account of the career of Olin D. Johnston. Those who only watched his career in the U.S. Senate, once he finally got there, on his third attempt, in 1945, may not (as I did not) realize the extraordinary positions he took while Governor from 1935 to 1939--he took over the highway department by force, defying a Supreme Court ruling--and that he ran in 1938 against Cotton Ed Smith on a platform of 100% support for FDR. The racist climate of South Carolina got to him, however, and not till he became more anti-Negro was he finally elected. The book also relates the fascinating account of Peter Richard Moody, a student at Wofford College, and the poem he wrote in 1936 which led the Legislature to order a mental examination of Moody, and the funny account of the result of the mental exam. The book traces the efforts and hopes of the disadvantaged millhands, and amply justifies the title of the work. Anyone interested in Southern politics should read this enlightening and well-researched book. The bibliography alone runs 30 pages, and I found the book unique in its subject. A minor note: a footnote on page 291 says poet Moody became a professor at the U.S. Military Academy, whereas it appears that actually he was at the Air Force Academy.

This is a wonderful book........1999-09-30

Fabric of Defeat's title sounds like a downer, but this is an wonderful book that is fun to read. Simon does a particularly good job of talking about race in an industry that was "lily white," as the saying goes. He manages to discuss racist white workers without either apologizing for them or indicting them. Rather he gives texture to their racial ideas, explaining how views of race and class changed in relation to each other as the New Deal broadened the political vision of South Carolina's millworkers. This is a book I would certainly assign to undergraduates.

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Great Escape, Back To A Great Time

i want to see the movie

"You don't have to be a New Yorker to enjoy this book....

Richard Dunne authors a classic

Wonderful reading. The writer did an excellent job of taking you back to those hot summer nights of your youth.

Summer at Sea Shell Harbor
Richard Dunne
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Great Escape, Back To A Great Time.......2007-08-01

As a child of the 50's and 60's, I grew up just outside of Queens NY. My parents found a truly magical hamlet on the east end of Long Island, near Sag Harbor and we spent 14 summers there - encompassing some of the best times of my life.

Imagine my surprise when I picked up Summer At Sea Shell Harbor and started to read about my boyhood summers. I was transported back in time - to malt shakes at the malt shack; hanging out at night by the 'general store' or "The Sugar Shack"; convertible cruising; spending the days at the beach or one of our speed boats; and discovering new girls from other than my home town and trying to learn how to deal with them. I literally could not put the book down until the end. This book truly captured the emotions and feelings of those times.

But you don't have to have lived the story to enjoy it. This is a great read for anyone of any age. While depicting a magical time, there is a plot and character development and relationships that literally draw you from one chapter to the next.

I truly hope that someone has the sense to make a movie from this great book. I think it would be a huge success if true to the book.

i want to see the movie.......2006-05-30

This would be fantastic as a film. When will Hollywood realize we baby-boomers are movie watchers? What a great film it would make.

"You don't have to be a New Yorker to enjoy this book...........2005-09-19

You don't have to have grown up in New York or spent summers in the Hamptons to remember the experiences and feelings that come back so vividly reading "Summer in Sea Shell Harbor". Wherever your're from, growing up takes you on an emotional roller coaster that drags you on at around age 13 or 14 and drops you off sometime later, maybe 19 or 20, somewhat beat-up and bruised, but relieved to still be standing. Whatever else adolescence is, it is a time of intense feelings and fragile egos; friends are at the center of our lives; good times and bad times; trying to sort through it all and figure things out. Richard Dunne has done a great job nudging our memories, taking us along with these very real characters who are a lot like our friends growing up; and their predicaments are similar to ones we can recall. A great read on a universal theme and one that we don't really ever forget. A book for all ages! An excellent, enjoyable read.

Richard Dunne authors a classic.......2005-09-09

"Summer at Sea Shell Harbor" deserves a place on every bookshelf in America. The first, and most important reason for purposes of this review, is that it's a great read. Richard Dunne's beautiful story, set in the summer of 1959, is as much an ode to teenage angst and coming-of-age as it is a revealing look at how our country's own innocence has disappeared over the years.

The novel's strength lies in Dunne's portrayal of late 1950's America in an honest way, through the eyes of seventeen year-old Richie Donnelly, without the pretense that today's youth is somehow living in a bleaker, more paranoid world (the truth may be that today's youth ARE living in a bleaker, more paranoid world, but Dunne shrewdly lets the story progress without so much as a hint that he's seen America unfold over the last half-century). This approach is what makes the story great for all ages. Whereas a film like "Stand By Me," which also captures the spirit of that era, relied on an adult narrator to tell its story in flashback - thereby attaching a certain level of nostalgia to its main character during the film - that is not the approach here. We are treated to a story set in the summer of '59 that effectively captures the period without asking the reader to remember it (which is perfect for me since I wasn't born until '67), and it succeeds wonderfully in educating and enlightening us along the way.

The characters are strong and well-developed, and the story itself engaging and entertaining. I can't remember reading a book that so often made me long for the days of my own youth and at the same time allowed me a deeper appreciation for the youth of my parents. I enjoyed it despite not being from Brooklyn or Long Island and despite being too young to appreciate the nuances of the time. I even bought a copy for my Mom.

Personally, I think with the right people involved this would make an outstanding film.

Wonderful reading. The writer did an excellent job of taking you back to those hot summer nights of your youth........2005-09-04

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was a fast and easy read. The writing reminded me of my teenage (other) life. Memories of summer vacations in The Hamptons, partying with friends and young love. Great!

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The first Afghan War of 1838-1842 witnessed one of the greatest defeats ever inflicted upon the British by an Asian enemy. This was the retreat from Kabul. On 6 January 1842, a force that with its followers numbered some 16,000 marched from Kabul under an illusory safe conduct; one week later Surgeon William Brydon rode alone into Jellalabad - apart from the few prisoners, the only British survivor. The rest, men, women, and children, lay dead along the ninety mile route, some killed by the ruthless Afghan enemy, the rest frozen to death in the snow. Of all the participants in the tragedy none has told the story better than Florentia, Lady Sale. Almost the archetype of the 'General's Lady', she was the wife of the doughty second-in-command at Kabul, Sir Robert Sale. Her journal begins in September 1841 when the whole position of the British, and the butterfly social existence they led in the Kabul cantonments, was menaced both by Afghan intrigue and by the incompetence of their own command. The journal ends a year later with the romantically appropriate rescue of Florentia by her own husband from nine months' captivity in Afghan hands. In the intervening period she had undergone the dangers of siege, the shame of capitulation and the horror of retreat; had witnessed battle, murder, and sudden death, had been exposed to freezing cold and burning heat, had endured the discomforts of vermin-infested lodgings and the terror of incessant earthquakes. All that humanity and nature could do to molest her was recorded with a laconic imperturbability and an occasional flash of sardonic humour.

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Read this if you think the U. S. forces based in Afghanistan are guaranteed a victory due to superior weaponry.......2006-12-21

In 1838, the British forces in India invaded Afghanistan. They had little trouble in moving into the country, easily occupying Kabul, the capitol. It was an ill-starred adventure, approximately four years later; that same army began a withdrawal to India. In January of 1842, a doctor named William Brydon rode into Jellalabad, the lone survivor of the retreating army. Until the Japanese defeated British forces in Singapore in World War II, it was the greatest defeat British military forces had every suffered.
This adventure was also a harbinger of future events. In 1979, the armed forces of the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and enjoyed initial successes. However, in 1989, the Soviet Union announced that all their forces had withdrawn, a humiliating defeat for an army many had once considered unbeatable on the ground.
This book is an account of the difficulties the British forces had in their 1838 occupation of the country. What is unusual about this diary is that it was not written by a military man, but by a woman of the aristocracy. She was Lady Florentia Sale the wife of Sir Robert Sale, the second-in-command of British forces in Kabul. In their arrogance the British forces believed that they were invincible, so many women, children and servants accompanied the British troops in the campaign.
That arrogance was of course part of their undoing, Lade Sale writes very matter-of-factly about watching men being killed by bullets and by being cut to pieces. With no shelter, people regularly were prey to the elements; she talks routinely about feet blackened from frostbite. Through it all, she still maintains her tone as a member of the British upper crust, even when things were very bleak.
She paints the Afghans as devious, dirty and bloodthirsty, who could not be trusted to keep their word. However, she does admit on many occasions that the irregular tribesman often fought better than the British regulars, showing more daring and spirit than the hapless and doomed army.
There are many lessons in this book, especially when viewed through the history of the country since the British debacle. Afghanistan is a harsh and backward country, with tribal loyalties dominant over a sense of national pride. Moving military force into the country is relatively easy. However, staying there and winning over the long term is something that no foreign power has ever achieved. The recent resurgence in the activity of the Taliban should be cause for deep concern, as history is on the side of the rebels and not on the forces led by the United States.

READ IT BEFORE YOU ARE DEPLOYED.......2004-08-16

I am surprised that I should be the first to review a book written in the 1840s that contains so much relevance for today. This is a story of one of the greatest epic expeditions ever to be completely annihilated at the hands of Afghan tribesman.

The first Afghan expedition has always held a certain romance for me... it is the ultimate failure. But that romance is tempered by the fact that the British Military incompetence (on this expedition at least) was more than profoundly flawed. They did almost everything wrong; split their forces and their command, cut deals with tribesmen who consisently either would not, or could not hold up their end of the bargain. Sited their encampment all wrong, and then, in the middle of winter, instead of sallying into the Forts of Kabul and wintering in the fortifications, they decided to take 5000 soldiers and 12,000 camp follower over the pass, in the middle of the Afghan winter -- back to Jalallabad and British India!

Of course they were slaughtered to a single man -- the sole survivor of almost 20,000 human beings --- Dr. Brydon, who wanders in, more dead than alive into the Jalalabad fort and safety.

Mrs. Sale describes the suffering of this force. The abandonment of the women and children, the wounded and weak. The absolute moral depravity the fugitives sank to... but she also describes the glory as well. Who can forget the glorious last stand of the 44th Essex Regt. at Gandamak -- where a force of 50 soldiers made a hopeless last stand on the top of a small hill, rallying to protect the camp followers in their midst. Then fighting, half frozen with rifle butts and bayonets as they were slaughtered and cut to pieces by the Afghan tulwars.

Mrs. Sale, the wife of an officer who eventually returned in the relief force 9 months later, was held captive by the wiley, yet probably largely sincere, partriot Ahkbar Khan -- the usurper of the throne (at least usurper of the British sponsored king. Khan was the son of the previous king the British deposed).

It is all here: treachery, confusion, glory. But it is of course a lesson how NOT TO RUN a military operation. The basic nature of the scene is haunting --- the long military expedition to Kabul that stays a long time, brings and old king back to power (like today), then leaves and eventually nothing changes. It also shows you the fortitude of the simple Afghan soldier, their motivation, their unflinching support when they give their word, and their inability to unite, to always be divided along tribal lines... much like today. Mrs. Sale even concedes that although Ahkbar Khan may have wanted to protect the British fugitives, with his small force he would not risk outright war with local chiefs and the Ghzailes.

The action is fast and furious. Cavalry actions, large and small units actions with musket, sword and cannon. The book may not be so suitable for someone who knows nothing about British India or the foreign policy of Britain in India at the time. In addition the prevelance of India words for just about everything (as the British used to use back then) is confusing for people nowadays (how many non-Pashtu speakers know that a "Chupao" is a night attack?), but there is a marvellous glossary in the back for reference.

Mrs. Sale also writes well from a military angle and knows what is going on at all times, the tactics and is able to judge the effectiveness of each strategy the British use to survive... For all those NATO soldiers to be deployed in Afghanistan, read it before you are deployed.

Post-Cold War state disintegration: the failure of international conflict resolution in Afghanistan. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First ... from: Journal of International Affairs

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Post-Cold War state disintegration: the failure of international conflict resolution in Afghanistan. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First ... from: Journal of International Affairs
Barnett R. Rubin
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This digital document is an article from Journal of International Affairs, published by Columbia University School of International Public Affairs on January 1, 1993. The length of the article is 8821 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: International conflict resolution has failed in Afghanistan, where civil war continues in spite of the establishment of an interim government in Apr 1992. International weapons sales and the artificial creation of national boundaries have contributed to ethnic conflict, and the national government has disintegrated following the withdrawal of foreign support. UN efforts to create an interim government were almost successful but then suddenly failed. Further warfare and negotiations are likely before an effective power-sharing system is created.

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Title: Post-Cold War state disintegration: the failure of international conflict resolution in Afghanistan. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
Author: Barnett R. Rubin
Publication: Journal of International Affairs (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1993
Publisher: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
Volume: 46 Issue: n2 Page: 469-492

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The defence of Kahun: A forgotten episode fo the first Afghan war : being a narrative compiled from a journal kept during the seige, and from original letters

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The defence of Kahun: A forgotten episode fo the first Afghan war : being a narrative compiled from a journal kept during the seige, and from original letters
Charles Reynolds Williams
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A Journal of the First Afghan War
Florentia Sale
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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A large-format, magnificently illustrated nature book devoted to the black-and-white birds that fly in water and walk like people. With vivid photographs, Art Wolfe portrays penguins, auks, and puffins in their native habitats. William Ashworth's enlightening text points out the similarities and differences between penguins and auks. Full-color photographs.

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Great Pictures - Especially of the Leopard Seal.......1999-08-13

Great Coffee Table Book especially for those who love the elusive Leopard Seal.

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