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Augustus: Godfather of Europe
Richard Holland Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0750929111 |
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This is the dramatic story of the provincial outsider who came to found Europe. Richard Holland brings out to the full the extraordinary, complex nature of the young and inexperienced tyro who has remained elusive.Customer Reviews:
Is it History or Story?.......2005-08-05
brilliant and provocative.......2004-10-10
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Great Black Jockeys
Edward Hotaling Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0761514376 Release Date: 1999-01-27 |
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The most engrossing sports stories have a way of sneaking up on you. They explore issues much broader than competition, who won, and who lost; they are sports stories because they take place on the fields of play, but the light they shed illuminates much more than the athletic arena. On one level, The Great Black Jockeys is certainly about sports--indeed, racing was America's first national sport. But it's also about much more than that. It's an absorbing history, at times tragic, at times inspiring, of a nation in transition and the complex interrelationship between sports, society, attitudes, and race.The overriding tragedy here is that this particular story essentially ends just after the turn of the 20th century. Before that, black riders dominated the game. In slave days, race riding could be a route to freedom. It was certainly a route to fame and a share of fortune. Whether a match race for bragging rights in the field, or a leg of the prestigious Triple Crown, black riders had at least a fair shake. Isaac Murphy, whose winning percentages have never been matched, won a trio of Kentucky Derbies. Jimmy Winkfield won back-to-back Runs for the Roses in 1901 and 1902. Yet, no black rider has piloted a winner in a major American stakes race since 1909. What happened?
By introducing us to a forgotten chapter in sports history and a host of deserving athletic legends sadly overlooked by time, Hotaling explores what did happen, and why a sport that witnessed blacks and whites competing as equals for so long at the highest levels suddenly locked the starting gate. The story Hotaling tells is as fascinating as it is painful, a story of opportunity unsaddled by prejudice and fear, and never significantly remounted again. "This is not black history," he makes clear. "It is not white history. It is American history." And like so much of American history, it's more complex than black and white. --Jeff Silverman
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More than a century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, black athletes were dominating America's first national sport. The sport was horse racing, and the greatest jockeys of all were slaves and the sons of slaves. Cheered by thousands of Americans in the North and South, they rode to victory in all of the major stakes, including the very first Kentucky Derby. Although their glory days ranged from the early 1700s to the turn of the 20th century, the memory of these great black jockeys was erased from history. Who were these athletes and why have their names vanished without a trace?Customer Reviews:
Compelling history of the roots of the modern American athle.......2004-01-09
Telling Another Untold Story.......2002-11-05
The author seamlessly intertwines American History, African American History, and the history of horse racing in America. So the book keeps your interest. He also balances historical facts, with the colorful characters\stories surrounding horseracing, while elevating Black jockies to their noble place in the "sport of kings".
This book is worth the price. A great read!!
Explores a long negleted area of African-American history........1999-03-06
I would recommend this well written book to anyone with an interest in American history
A must-read for the true Horse Player.......1999-03-05
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THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH: Delilah and the Space-Rigger; Space Jockey; The Long Watch; Gentlemen Be Seated; The Black Pits of Luna; It's Great to Be Back; We Also Walk Dogs; Ordeal in Space; Logic of Empire
Robert A. Heinlein Manufacturer: Baen Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OA2E5A |
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Great Black Jockeys the Lives & Times
Edward Hotaling Manufacturer: RANDOM HOUSE @ TRADE ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000SHBRHU |
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I Can Draw Spaceships, Aliens, and Robots (I Can Draw)
Manufacturer: Little Simon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0689817207 |
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I Can Draw Aliens, Spaceships and Robots.......2000-05-31
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Aliens, Robots, and Spaceships
Jeff Rovin Manufacturer: Facts on File ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0816031134 |
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lacks focus, but otherwise lives up to its predecessors.......1999-05-17
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Aliens, Robots, and Spaceships.
Jeff. Rovin Manufacturer: NY Facts on File, Inc. 1995. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000J5G5LE |
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Echo No. 3 with Cassette(s)
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0571505856 |
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The Offbeat King's Indian: Lesser Known Tries to Counter This Most Popular of Defences
Krzysztof Panczyk , and Jacek Ilczuk Manufacturer: Everyman Chess ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1857443616 |
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Getting Yours: The Complete Guide to Government Money, Third Edition (Getting Yours, 3rd ed)
Matthew Lesko Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0140467602 |
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Getting Yours: The Complete Guide to Govt. Money.......2003-06-03
Getting yours.......2002-03-08
keep your money.......1999-10-17
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The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram
Thomas Blass Manufacturer: Perseus Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0738203998 Release Date: 2004-03-16 |
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The sole and definitive biography of one of the 20th century's most influential and controversial psychologists.The creator of the famous "Obedience Experiments," carried out at Yale in the 1960s, and originator of the "six degrees of separation" concept, Stanley Milgram was one of the most innovative scientists of our time. In this sparkling biography--the first in-depth portrait of Milgram--Thomas Blass captures the colorful personality and pioneering work of a social psychologist who profoundly altered the way we think about human nature.
Born in the Bronx in 1933, Stanley Milgram was the son of Eastern European Jews, and his powerful Obedience Experiments had obvious intellectual roots in the Holocaust. The experiments, which confirmed that "normal" people would readily inflict pain on innocent victims at the behest of an authority figure, generated a firestorm of public interest and outrage-proving, as they did, that moral beliefs were far more malleable than previously thought. But Milgram also explored other aspects of social psychology, from information overload to television violence to the notion that we live in a small world. Although he died suddenly at the height of his career, his work continues to shape the way we live and think today. Blass offers a brilliant portrait of an eccentric visionary scientist who revealed the hidden workings of our very social world.
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One of My Favorite Researchers.......2006-04-10
To shock or not to shock.......2006-03-03
When in doubt, experiment!.......2005-03-26
A fascinating book about a fascinating man. .......2004-11-24
Dr. Blass's book a blast.......2004-11-16
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Confederate Raider in the North Pacific: The Saga of the C.S.S. Shenandoah, 1864-65 (Washington State University Press Reprint)
Murray Cromwell Morgan Manufacturer: Washington State University ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0874221234 |
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Freud and the Non-European
Edward W. Said , Christopher Bollas , and Jacqueline Rose Manufacturer: Verso ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1844675114 |
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Banned by the Freud Institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture became Edward Said's final book.Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in Freud's work and its important influence on his own.
He proposes that Freud's assumption that Moses was an Egyptian undermines any simple ascription of a pure identity, and further that identity itself cannot be thought or worked through without the recognition of the limits inherent in it. Said suggests that such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity might, if embodied in political reality, have formed, or might still form, the basis for a new understanding between Jews and Palestinians. Instead, Israel's relentless march towards an exclusively Jewish state denies any sense of a more complex, inclusive past.
"Quite differently from the spirit of Freud's deliberately provocative reminders that Judaism's founder was a non-Jew, and that Judaism begins in the realm of Egyptian, non-Jewish monotheism, Israeli legislation countervenes, represses, and even cancels Freud's carefully maintained opening out of Jewish identity toward its non-Jewish background."
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Said on Freud: duet of Masters.......2004-06-16
With FREUD AND THE NON-EUROPEAN, the Master Edward Said does not reopen the can of worms Freud opened with his reminder that the foundation of Judaism is in ancient Egyptian monotheism (in polytheistic disguise), and as such ancient Egyptian culture. He reveals the fact that it has never been closed, as he goes down but one road of the book's unrefuted implications to courageously confront the possibilities of embracing it for the political future of the Semitic people of the Middle East--Israeli and Palestinian. If the Israeli and the Palestinian are one people after all, why exactly are the fighting? How does this color the meaning of an Israeli sate that excludes them? And what does it do to the soul of both sides in the process, when Cain is essentially fighting Abel, writ large?
MOSES AND MONOTHEISM only begins to upset the foundations of Western political thought here, as Said only hints at but does not go into deeply, away from his central thesis. The fact is, Freud, with this work, opened the floodgates that separate religious and cultural history from anthropology; Judaism/Jewish history from Egyptology; and traditional anthropology from its more heterodox twin and the heretical historians of science. There are innumerable volumes of work from unsung scientists and historians, linguists and anthropologists, proving Freud's thesis in a hundred different ways both more succinctly and more academically than he did, decades and centuries before he ever seriously thought of the social implications of the subject matter. The 19th century Godfrey Higgins' ANACALYPSIS; Gerald Massey's ANCIENT EGYPT THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD and A BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS; dozens of others in and out of the four hundred year old scientific/historical discipline known as Metrology.... These works flow not from Freud, but into the world for many, inronically, through him. They flow through the intellectual heart of Freud's Achilles-like dip into the true river of intellectual invulnerability on this topic into the work of the often maligned but essentially unrefuted C.A. Diop, like THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION; the maverick genius anthropologist from London Chris Knight, author of the amazing BLOOD RELATIONS, MENSTRUATION AND THE ORIGINS OF CULTURE; and every unearthing of sacred texts and their actual implications and contextual significance, from E.A. Wallis Budge's translation of the misnamed Egyptian BOOK OF THE DEAD and the PYRAMID TEXTS (see DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGION AND THOUGHT IN ANCIENT EGYPT, James Henry Breasted). Straight through to the NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY's refutation of the overwhelming majority of orthodox Christian tradition and historical perspective. Indeed, with the re-establishment of Ancient Egypt being essentially an African society in modern cultural thought (which is, lest we forget, in northeast Africa; not unlike the Ancient Sudan [with even older pyramids], the Dogon or ancient Ethiopia), the very concepts of *race* when referring to Semitic people becomes such a firestorm that politics as it currently exists in the region can only inevitably be understood when taking it into PSYCHOLOGICAL if not socio-economic context.
The natives had been restless on the other side of the intellectual/cultural fence long before Freud acknowledged their existence. Freud simply made the avoidance of such such an issue of integrity for the modern Western intellectual that it cannot be ignored, without the selling of the Western soul.
Edward Said was never known for ignoring anything of substance in modern culture or intellectual life. And with friends like Noam Chomsky, who excoriates the hypocrisy of modern intelligentsia with reckless abandon before eating breakfast in the morning, he does not let you down here. Whether or not you hold on to preconceived notions about the current conflict in the Middle East among Palestinians, Israelis and the rest of the world, this book, and Freud's MOSES AND MONOTHEISM will wash away your rationalizations for doing so like moss on a dry rock on the beach hit by high tide. Said tells us unquestionably, as he had done all his life, that there are some things that must be discussed and debated, if language is to have any vaule at all, and our way of life is to make any sense. And he does so, as is his nature, with elegance, lucidity and unparalleled brilliance. This is Said's intellectual Satyagraha; he is a Gandhi for our modern minds.
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Edward W. Said. Freud and the Non-European.(Book Review): An article from: World Literature Today
David S. Gross Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00084BJIK Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 497 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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Planet in Peril: Essays in Environmental Ethics
Manufacturer: Harcourt ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0030739039 |
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Planet in Peril Essays in Environmental Ethics
Dale Westphal Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N7KHWG |
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Planet In Peril: Essays In Environmental Ethics
Fred Westphal Dale Westphal Manufacturer: Harcourt ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OEK4LC |
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