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Sleeping Giant: An Illustrated History of Southern California's Inland Empire
Rob Leicester Wagner Manufacturer: Stephens Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1932173072 |
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Sleeping Giant is a thoughtful and robust narrative of the Inland Empire's transition from a wild desert wilderness held togther by nothing more than sagebrush and adobes to the vibrant economic and industrial engine that it is today.The book is a reservoir of stories of the early years and include the more than a history of the waning days of the Wild West. It traces the monumental transformation of the region in its passage through times of pioneer settlement, the dawn of an agrarian age, and the development of railroads and industry. Sleeping Giant also recounts the social and economic revolution of a century. Early-day architecture of both commercial buildings and homes is examined.
Lavishly illustrated with vintage photographs, concludes with a chapter that heralds an ever-promising future for the people of the Inland Empire, who are so proud of their rich and colorful past.
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Southern California History.......2007-01-08
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Definitely a beautiful book!.......2004-03-10
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Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Bacterial Spores (F E M S Symposium)
G. J. Dring Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0122220803 |
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Great Lakes Guidebook: Lake Superior and Western Lake Michigan
George Cantor Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0472196529 |
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The Tudors: Life in Tudor Times: For Special Needs
Marge Roberts Manufacturer: Prim-Ed Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1864003510 |
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Ion Channel Factsbook I: Extracellular Ligand-Gated Channels (Factsbook)
Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0121844501 |
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How do you keep track of basic information on the proteins you work with? Where do you find details of their physicochemical properties, sequence information, gene organization? Are you tired of scanning review articles, primary papers and databases to locate that elusive fact?
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Ion Channel Factsbook I: Extracellular Ligand-Gated Channels
Edward C. Conley Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OHDG5A |
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EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN GAS REACTIONS
Sir Harry and Gowenlock, B. G. Melville Manufacturer: MacMillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0333047362 |
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Catalytic combustion of volatile organic compounds [An article from: Journal of Hazardous Materials]
K. Everaert , and J. Baeyens Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR13AW |
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Hazardous Materials, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Experimental Methods in Gas Reactions
A. Farkas Manufacturer: Macmilliam and Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NWTUIS |
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Experimental methods in gas reactions,
A Farkas Manufacturer: Macmillan and Co., Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006AORT4 |
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Industrial Mathematics: Case Studies in the Diffusion of Heat and Matter (Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series)
Glenn R. Fulford , and Philip Broadbridge Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521001811 |
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The focus in this text is on mathematical modelling stimulated by contemporary industrial problems involving heat conduction and mass diffusion. These include continuous metal casting, laser drilling, spontaneous combustion of industrial waste, water filtration and crop irrigation. The industrial problems prove to be an excellent setting for the introduction and reinforcement of modelling skills, equation solving techniques, qualitative understanding of partial differential equations and their dynamical properties. Mathematical topics include setting up partial differential equations and boundary conditions, dimensional analysis, scaling, perturbation expansions, boundary valuer problems, Fourier series, symmetry reductions, Stefan problems and bifurcations.
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Rigadoon
Louis-Ferdinand Celine Manufacturer: Dalkey Archive Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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last & most compassionate novel, tr Ralph ManheimCustomer Reviews:
Horrifying.......2001-04-08
In the meantime, read Rigadoon. It is not in a class with Journey to the End of Night or Death on the Installment Plan, since its focus is narrower. Celine's racism is more clearly in evidence, and even admirers will find the first thirty pages or so very trying. Celine was not a collaborator, at least not in a legal sense, but on hearing him rave about race suicide or hurling abuse at the resistance, who understandably hated him, one thinks that he should have been grateful he wasn't shot. After that, we get to the novel proper, which is a lightly fictionalized version of the last months of the war. Time, and much else is rather hallucinatory. At one point, Celine says it is May, at another point he is told about Rommel's funeral, which would have been eight months or so earlier. Rigadoon consists of his nightmarish account of Celine's ultimately successful attempt to flee, with his wife and cat, from Germany into Denmark as the war ends. As he is doing so Germany is being systematically pounded into rubble and Celine provides some horrifying passages about painfully slow trains that could be doused at any minute with phosphorous. At one point Celine suffers from a concussion. Along the way Celine and his party meet 17 mentally retarded children, and despite much abuse of these pathetic children, Celine manages to see them safely into Denmark. It is rather revealing though that he never mentions that the Nazis tried to slaughter precisely these children. Through it all we see the trademark Celine style, the famously obscene vernacular, the pages dotted with ellipses, a style which looks so easy, and yet Celine worked so hard on. Obviously, this is a novel which should be better known.
Great Book.......1999-08-16
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Rigadoon (Review Copy)
Louis-Ferd. CELINE Manufacturer: Delacorte ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HX83YA |
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Rigadoon
Kurt). CELINE (VONNEGUT Manufacturer: Penguin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000ILF1LY |
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The newest method for learners on the German Flute as improved by the Greatest Masters of the Age wirh A Collection of the finest Minuets, Rigadoons, and Opera Airs extant. (Documenta musicologica)
Manufacturer: Bärenreiter Limited. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000FPG3VA |
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Rigadoon,: A book of poems,
Jeannette Derby Manufacturer: Moss and Kamin, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00087M3WS |
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Rigadoon.
LOUIS-FERDINAND; VONNEGUT JR., KURT (NEW INTRODUCTION). CELINE Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OJ1QEG |
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Sgt. York: His Life, Legend & Legacy : The Remarkable Untold Story of Sergeant Alvin C. York
John Perry Manufacturer: B&H Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0805460748 |
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Heroism goes beyond the Battlefield.......2007-08-13
An American Hero the likes of whom will never see again.......2007-04-24
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Everyone wanted a piece of him.......2005-03-08
Boring!.......2002-01-10
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Sgt. York His Life, Legend & Legacy The Remarkable Untold Story of Sergeant Alvin C. York
John Perry Manufacturer: Broadman & Holman ProductGroup: Book Binding: Leather Bound ASIN: B000N5TGRA |
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The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions
James Turner Johnson Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0271016337 |
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In this book James Turner Johnson explores the cultural traditions of the Christian West and Islam, in an effort to encourage a constructive dialogue on the nature of war for religion. No other issue highlights the difference between these two cultures more clearly or with more relevance for their interrelations throughout history and in the contemporary world.In the West, war for religion is most often dismissed as a relic of the past, belonging to a time less rational and less civilized than our own. From this perspective, Muslims who advocate holy war are seen as religious fanatics who are supporting criminal and terrorist activity. By contrast, war for religion has an honored place in the Islamic world, associated with a perennial religious requirement: striving in the path of faith by heart, tongue, and hands. This striving is designated by the now familiar term jihad. In fact, striving by the sword is the "lesser" jihad, and many Muslims themselves are troubled by reductionistic appeals to jihad to justify terrorism, revolution, and anti-western activity. According to Johnson, for there to be any dialogue between Islam and the West we must understand that in the West religion and politics are placed in separate spheres, while normative Islam regards religion as properly integral to the political order. From this perspective religious concerns should have a place in statecraft, including the use of military force.
Three questions form the heart of Johnson's inquiry: Is there a legitimate justification for war for religion? What authority is required? What is the proper conduct in such wars? In each case, he asks the question by comparing religious wars with other kinds of wars. The picture that emerges is of war for religion not as an expression of fanatical excess but as a controlled, purposeful activity. With an eye to the present day, Johnson examines cases in history where distinctive models of war for religion were implemented by rulers. This in turn sets the stage for critical judgment on contemporary appeals to the idea of jihad in relation to political aims.
Well known for his work on peace and just war, Johnson draws upon a wide base of historical and comparative scholarship. While the book is anchored primarily on the past, on the roots and historical development of the two traditions, his aim throughout is to shed light on contemporary attitudes, ideals, and behaviors, especially as they bear on real problems that affect relations between Western and Islamic cultures in the world today.
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Garbled but useful reading.......2002-04-05
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The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions
James Turner Johnson Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQK5LO |
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Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age
R. Stephen Humphreys Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0520246918 |
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R. Steven Humphreys reveals the rich complexity of the Middle East--a region that stretches from Egypt to Afghanistan--in Between Memory and Desire, a set of ten "interlocking essays" that take on everything from economic growth and nationalist movements to Islamic human rights philosophy. Humphreys has a very clear and concise writing style that makes easily comprehensible an enormous amount of historical and cultural data with which most Western readers will be largely unfamiliar. He demolishes many of the mythic images that Americans have built up around the region and its people, like the "madman" dictator: "When we look beyond the façade of theater and posturing," Humphreys writes, "we will almost always discern a hard-headed politician who knows perfectly well how to set his goals and to craft strategies for achieving them.... The problem for us is not that the goals of Middle Eastern leaders are impenetrable; most of the time they are quite transparent. The problem is simply that these goals are not the ones that we want them to have."The latter half of the book contains several excellent chapters on Islam--particularly on the concept of jihad and on the role of women in Islamic culture--that reveal the religion's diversity. It is a cliché, of course, to say that after reading a certain book you will never be able to think of its subject in quite the same way again, but it is also the truth concerning Between Memory and Desire and the Middle East. This book is strongly recommended to anybody who wants to know more about the region and its history than can be fit into a 30-second sound bite on the evening news.
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Middle Easterners today struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involves fierce, sometimes violent debates over the role of religion in public life. In this post-9/11 updated edition R. Stephen Humphreys presents a thoughtful analysis of Islam's place in today's Middle East and integrates the medieval and modern history of the region to show how the sacred and secular are tightly interwoven in its political and intellectual life.Download Description
Middle Easterners today are caught between memories of the past and frustrated hopes for the future. They struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involves fierce, sometimes violent debates over the role of religion in public life. R. Stephen Humphreys's new book presents a much-needed and thoughtful analysis of Islam's place in today's Middle East. In clear, accessible language, he integrates the medieval and modern history of the region to show how the sacred and secular are tightly interwoven in its political and intellectual life. Humphreys discusses the conflicts over power and resources that engage Middle Eastern politicians and looks at the major ideologies that have shaped these conflicts. He focuses on the impact of Islam on public life and examines Muslim ways of thinking about the "secular" versus the "religious." What values does Islam put into play? What challenges does it pose to "ordinary" politics? What resources does it bring to the struggle for social justice? Humphreys recognizes the Western tendency to dismiss Middle Eastern politics as an incoherent tale of violence and fanaticism, and his book is especially valuable for its analysis of the deeper issues behind the headlines. These issues include the region's apparent inability to evolve democratic institutions, conflicts rooted in the peace settlements after World War I, and the unresolved debates over which cultural and moral values should drive Middle Eastern policy. Between Memory and Desire reminds us that Middle Easterners remember the past in specific ways: the shame of the colonial era; the disappointments since independence; and the glory of the Middle Ages, when Muslim achievements were respected throughout the world. Even if these memories are only partially true, in defining the past, they also define what the future ought to be.Customer Reviews:
Excellent.......2002-10-14
So much of the Middle East today is the result of recent history, and it's important to understand that history for any kind of modern understanding. This is one of the best books out there for gaining understanding of that history.
Between Memory and Desire.......2001-08-06
Middle East Quarterly, December 1999
the middle east revisited.......2001-02-11
A definite read for all those interested in the middle east
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Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age. (Book Reviews).(Review): An article from: Middle East Policy
Guilain P. Denoeux Manufacturer: Middle East Policy Council ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008IEWDK Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Middle East Policy, published by Middle East Policy Council on March 1, 2001. The length of the article is 2668 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.
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Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age.(Review) (book review): An article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
Elton L. Daniel Manufacturer: Association of Arab-American University Graduates and Institute of Arab Studies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008JBD22 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), published by Association of Arab-American University Graduates and Institute of Arab Studies on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1126 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.
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Between Memory and Desire: the Middle East in a Troubled Age.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Martin Bunton Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008JB6KQ Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 834 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.
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BETWEEN MEMORY AND DESIRE: THE MIDDLE EAST IN A TROUBLED AGE.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Daniel Pipes Manufacturer: Institute on Religion and Public Life ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00099JIE6 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by Institute on Religion and Public Life on December 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1450 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.
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Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series)
Mary Sojourner Manufacturer: University of Nevada Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0874175844 |
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Deeply passionate and personal reflections about damage, loss, and renewalof the earth and of the writer herself.When upstate New Yorker Mary Sojourner reluctantly agreed to visit the Grand Canyon of Arizona nearly two decades ago, she little suspected that she was about to lose her heart to the daunting, gut-wrenching beauty of the Southwest, or that she would shortly find there a home, a passion for the land, and a cause in protecting it. Since then, she has become acclaimed as an environmental writer and respected as a grass-roots activist protesting the heedless development of the Southwest's increasingly precious and embattled open spaces.
The essays collected in Bonelight reflect Sojourner's southwestern journey from greenhorn to old-timer, from tourist to committed defender of the land and the human communities that share it. She writes of exploring the deserts, forests, canyons, mountains, and river rapids of the Southwest, and of her passionate love for this austere and ravishing landscape; of family, friends, and lovers, a woman's wary passage into middle age, the discovery of peace and balance in the execution of mundane chores and in the close observation of natural surroundings; of the ways that development is destroying the Southwest's fragile beauty, and of the greed and spiritual emptiness that motivate much of this development. There is humor here, and adventure, and the intense intimacy of a writer who dares confront the world around her with bold candor and a lover's tender gaze. Mary Sojourner's Southwest is a world that, through these graceful and engaging essays, we can all shareand fall in love with.
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Harsh and heartbreaking.......2007-06-26
A sheer delight to read.......2002-12-14
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