Louis XIV King of France and Navarre

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A brilliant and entertaining description of the apogee of the age of absolute monarchy ruled by divine right, the rise of mercantilism, centralized bureaucracy and france's military might during the life of the "Sun King," written by the great novelist best known by his Hornblower series.

Secret Memoirs of Henri Iv., King of France and Navarre

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Secret Memoirs of Henri Iv., King of France and Navarre
Court Historian of Louis XIV
Manufacturer: University Press of the Pacific
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Sid Steiner is a fourth-generation legend rodeo star in one of the fastest growing sports in the country; his autobiography covers his family history as well as his life from popular son of a star to becoming the 2002 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo Champion.

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In addition to the real White House where America's first family lives and works, there is Hollywood's White House. For many Americans, the chief executives of this imaginary 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue are more vivid and memorable than their real-life counterparts.

The popularity of film and television portrayals of the presidency poses challenges for teachers and historians. What does the language used by The West Wing's President Bartlet reveal about his civic character and about the political views of his creator Aaron Sorkin? Were John and Abigail Adams the political equals sketched in The Adams Chronicles, or did the PBS series more accurately reflect the influence of the women's movement of the 1970s? Has Saturday Night Live given us license to laugh at our leaders? What message is Hollywood trying to convey in Independence Day and Air Force One? While these films entertain, do they also instruct?

The contributors to Hollywood's White House examine the historical accuracy of these presidential depictions, illuminate their influence, and uncover how they reflect the concerns of their times and the social and political visions of the filmmakers. The volume, which includes a comprehensive filmography and a bibliography, is ideal for historians and film enthusiasts.

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An American Mirror.......2003-12-18

Films in one way or another are a mirror for their culture in which they're made. They show who we are, who we want to be, what we're afraid we are. We do the same thing with our citizen kings: the presidents of the United States. This superb book looks at how Hollywood has looked at our presidents and thus how Hollywood has looked at us. Anyone interested in film or history will find this a fascinating look at America.

Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History.(Book Review): An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly

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Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History.(Book Review): An article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Hunter Bacot
Manufacturer: Center for the Study of the Presidency
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Lighten up! :P

Spoof based on Greyhawk Ruins

Rubbish for the humour-challenged

Castle Greyhawk (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Module WG7)
Mike Breault
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Lighten up! :P.......2000-10-21

This is definately NOT your average adventure. It's fun and exciting. You can't predict what's coming next because it is all so off the wall. It's a welcome change to all the adventures where you are out to save the world and battling dragons and other monsters. This is a light-hearted adventure with fun in mind. I have NEVER had so much fun gaming as had with this adventure, and I have never laughed so hard in my life.

This has been the best adventure I have ever seen. I am still in the middle of it, and will be quite sad when it's over. I only wish there were more like it.

Spoof based on Greyhawk Ruins.......2000-07-13

AVOID THIS PRODUCT

I accidentally got this adventure thinking it was WGR1 Greyhawk Ruins. What a surprise. The whole adventure is one bad joke after another. AND I DO MEAN BAD. I can't believe even TSR would publish such a piece of worthless trash!

Well if you get a chance WGR1 Greyhawk Ruins is a pretty cool module, but extremely hard.

Rubbish for the humour-challenged.......1998-11-02

This is simply a huge dungeon with so-called "hilarious" levels in it. Have fun fighting Col. Sanders, one-horned ducks, Dr Who and other "hilarious" stuff. I have no idea why T$R published this.

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Skill Building for Self-Directed Team Members: A Complete Course
Ann Harper , and Bob Harper
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"IT'S AS IF WE'VE BECOME AMERICA'S GRANDMAS."

That's how Sadie Delany described the outpouring of affection and admiration that followed the success of Having Our Say, the best-selling memoir she and her sister published in 1993. Now they offer their fans a treasury of grandmotherly good sense: memorable aphorisms, engaging anecdotes, rules for
managing money, practical advice on staying active in old age, and some favorite recipes, too. It's a book filled with the secrets of living well, from two women who did it for more than a century.

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I can't go any higher than 5 Stars???.......2007-05-21

What an experience reading about these two delightful sisters who were winners in every area of life...Back when Black people weren't accepted by most white people the one sister became a dentist of all things...Here she was Negro, a woman on top of it and going against all odds she didn't let that stop her! During the depression years they made candy and sold it at dept. stores. and survived without any kind of welfare. Never had a phone in their house. "if people wanted to talk with us they could come see us" was their motto..

The time they moved the refrigerator downstairs from an upper floor because the man they had hired kept putting them off day after day....and they were near 100 yrs old! Forget the exact age but they never let anything stop them if they needed to do it.

They did their yoga exercises and shows pictures of them. Also some simple recipes they used over the years. They never bought detergent or dishwashing liquid...made their own and the recipe is included. They even include a recipe for Rose Wine and their hot yeast rolls. The candy recipe is included also.

This book is my all-time favorite and I have ended up buying it 3 times since I am in the health care business and work with seniors and try to encourage and give them the joy and hope of this wonderful book.

The Delaney sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom

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pleasantly surprised in CA.......2005-01-12

I came across this book at a library book sale. It really wasn't anything I would normally read but the price was right and I was so pleasantly suprised at the book. I've recommented it to family, friends and my grown kids. I'm now checking out other books written about them.

Wisdom Pays.......2001-10-31

There's nothing quite like wisdom from someone who's older and has gone through a lot. Readers will delight in the nuggets here, as well as the humor that goes along with them.

Everyday Book of Wisdom.......2001-05-25

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! The title is very fitting for this little book of wisdom. These ladies are living a full life and have alot of experiences to share that are common to all peoples of all walks of life. I continually found myself reading this book out loud to whoever was around. It is funny, contemplative, and inspiring. It's one you'll want to share with friends and family.

A book you can read over and over........2000-03-16

I only wish that I could have met these 2 special women. They had such wit and wisdom. I recommended their books to a friend who passed it on to her sister, mother, nephew and so on. Well worth buying.

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Sarah Delany , A. Elizabeth Delany , and Amy Hill Hearth
Manufacturer: Audio Renaissance
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The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom

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The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom
Sarah & A. Elizabeth (With Amy Hill Hearth Delany
Manufacturer: New York: Kodansha International LTd, 1994
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Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom
Amy Hill Delany Sisters / Hearth
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Sarah and Elizabeth Delany
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BOOK OF EVERYDAY WISDOM
DELANY SISTERS & AMY HILL HEARTH
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In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and at home across three political regimes, Elizabeth Heineman traces the transitions from early National Socialism through the war and on to the consolidation of democracy in the West and communism in the East.
Based on thorough and extensive research in German national and regional archives as well as the archives of the U.S. occupying forces, this pathbreaking book argues that marital status can define women's position and experience as surely as race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. Heineman finds that, while the war made the experience of single women a dramatic one, state activity was equally important. As a result, West German women continued to be defined in large part by their marital status. In contrast, by the time of reunification marital status had become far less significant in the lives of East German women.
In one broad, comprehensive sweep, Elizabeth Heineman compares prewar and postwar, East and West, lived experience and public policy. Her sharp analytical insights will enrich our understanding of the history of women in modern Germany and the role of marital status in twentieth-century life worldwide.

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A generation of difference in German women........1999-04-21

Elizabeth Heineman's first book improves on her earlier articles describing the hurdles overcoming political resistance to legal acceptance of women and their children. Professor Heineman challenges the assumption that the development of women "standing alone" in the East paralleled their development in the West. Her analysis goes beyond the battle for recognition of their social/sexual lives in the era of the "surplus women" (There were nearly seven million more women than men in Germany in 1946), and considers the effect on marriage of German reunification in 1990. Although married women in both Germanies, within the traditional locus for sexual expression, had eaiser availability to creature comforts, such as homes and apartments, the Christian coalition in power in the West made special efforts to defend the traditional nuclear family. Thus, women in the East grew up believing that women must integrate motherhood with their careers, but in the West the two livestyles were viewed as mutually exclusive. Heineman suggests that the generation of separation has created fundamental difference where sameness is expected, and that the equality created in the East may now be superimposed on the West.

What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Jennifer V. Evans
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
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Title: What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany.(Review) (book review)
Author: Jennifer V. Evans
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Two weeks after the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, the town of Lewistown, Montana, held a patriotic parade. Less than a year later, a mob of 500 Lewistown residents burned German textbooks in Main Street while singing The Star Spangled Banner. In LewistownÂ's nationalistic fervor, a man was accused of being pro-German because he didnÂ't buy Liberty Bonds; he was subsequently found guilty of sedition. MontanaÂ's former congressman Tom Stout was quoted in the townÂ's newspaper, The Democrat-News, Â“With our sacred honor and our liberties at stake, there can be but two classes of American citizens, patriots and traitors!Â”

Darkest Before Dawn takes to task MontanaÂ's 1918 sedition law that shut down freedom of speech. The sedition law carried fines of up to $20,000 and imprisonment for as many as twenty years. It became a model for the federal sedition act passed in 1918. Clemens Work explores the assault on civil rights during times of war when dissent is perceived as unpatriotic. The themes of this cautionary tale clearly resonate in the events of the early twenty-first century.

Â“This is history at its exciting, human best. Clemens Work tells the little-known story of how Americans were punished for what they said during World War I: imprisoned, brutalized, lynched. It is a crucial part of the American struggle for freedom of speech.Â”Â—Anthony Lewis, columnist for the New York Times and author of GideonÂ's Trumpet and Make No Law

Â“Clem Work has written a colorful and engaging account of a rough-and-tumble era when exercising your right of free speech could get you tossed into jail, or worse. WorkÂ's description of the frenzied and often irrational reaction to dissent during wartime is truly timeless, disturbingly reminiscent of our own world, post-9/11/01. This book reminds us just how fragile AmericansÂ' allegiance to the First Amendment can be.Â”Â—Jane E. Kirtley, Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota

Â“Work offers a new way of thinking about a broader topicÂ—seditionÂ—and one in which new insights are provided. That, in my mind, is the essence of scholarship.Â”--Charles N. Davis, executive director of The National Freedom of Information Center at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and associate professor of journalism

"Darkest Before Dawn makes an important contribution to the literature of the history of free speech in America. No future study of sedition laws could hope to be complete without drawing on this well researched and well written work. Clem Work has made his mark--and what a marvelous mark it is!"--Ronald K. L. Collins, scholar, The First Amendment Center

Book Details Montana's Attack on Dissent in World War I Era (article by Charles S. Johnson, chief of the Lee Newspapers State Bureau in Helena, Montana):

"As U.S. troops fight in Iraq, Montanans heatedly debate whether we should be engaged in that war. This robust discussion is exactly as it should be in a country that has enshrined the right to free speech in its Constitution's Bill of Rights.

"But the ability to comment candidly, in speech and writing, on this country's policies should never be taken for granted. Clemens P. Work's excellent new book, Darkest before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West, describes in absorbing detail one of the darkest eras in Montana history in which dissenting voices were stifled.

"During World War I, some Montanans opposing U.S. involvement in the war and those immigrants expressing pro-German, anti-American sentiments in beer halls found themselves arrested. Seventy-four Montanans Â— all but one of them men-were convicted of sedition. Forty of these men and the one lone woman served sentences of up to 20 years at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge and faced fines of up to $20,000.

"Montana's frightening Sedition Act, enacted by a special legislative session and becoming law Feb. 22, 1918, became a model for the Federal Sedition Act, which was enacted May 16, 1918. The language defining sedition in the federal law is identical to the Montana law except for three words.

"It is a shameful, frightening yet fascinating story. Yet it's one many Montanans know nothing about. It should be taught in our schools at all levels so we donÂ't repeat the mistakes of our past.

"The book, published this fall, is a well-written, fully documented history of the period. It sets the stage for what happened here, describes the terrifying events and puts the Montana era in a national context. Work, director of graduate studies at the University of Montana School of Journalism, weaves a compelling story about what led to the dissenting voices.

"Western Montana's two major industries then were mining and timber, which faced an insurgent labor movement upset over unsafe working conditions and low wages. The radical labor group, the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, helped stir the pot. Miners walked off the job at the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.'s Speculator Mine in 1917 after a fire killed 168 workers and exposed dangerous, illegal working conditions.

"The powerful Anaconda Copper Mining Co. dominated Montana economically and politically as few corporations ever have nationally. Its copper was a critical product in the war effort. The Company had the ears, if not the souls, of most of the state's leading politicians. It also either owned, or had in its pocket, most of Montana's major daily newspapers.

"The United States entered the war in 1917. By no means did all Montanans embrace the idea. Many German immigrants saw no reason for the United States to fight against their homeland, nor did all Irish immigrants support this country bailing out Great Britain.

"Dissent was not tolerated in Montana as a wave of super-patriotism spread. Besides passing the Sedition Act, a special legislative session emboldened the Montana Council of Defense, previously a minor group urging people to grow gardens and buy bonds. The Legislature granted the council the extraordinary power to pass virtual statewide laws.

"The council soon banned German books and forbade the use of the German language here, even in the pulpit, driving Mennonites into Canada. The council encouraged neighbor spying on neighbor, with the full encouragement of spineless politicians, with a few exceptions such as U.S. Attorney and later Sen. Burton K. Wheeler and U.S. District Judge George M. Bourquin.

"The Montana press followed the council in lockstep, with a few courageous exceptions such as William F. Dunn, fiery editor of the Butte Bulletin, a labor paper.

Work said most sedition convictions in Montana were based on "offhand outburst, often in saloons," usually by blue-collar workers, many of them immigrants, often using foul language.

"As part of his research, Work created the Montana Sedition Project (Web site: http://www.seditionproject.net/), and, with students' help, has tracked down relatives of some of those convicted and seeks to learn more about others. As Work wrote on the Web site, 'Those caught in Montana's sedition net were hardly heroes, but they should not have been scapegoats either.'

"Among those reading Work's book with keen interest is Gov. Brian Schweitzer, whose grandparents were German-Russian farmers who immigrated to Montana nearly a century ago.

"'What made this country great is the melting pot because we accept a lot of different nationalities,' Schweitzer said. 'They came here because they wanted to be here. Most were like my grandparents. They came here because they had nowhere else to go.'"Asked if he might issue posthumous pardons to some Montanans convicted of sedition nearly 90 years ago, Schweitzer said he hadn't thought of it. Then he said, 'Why not? I will look into pardons. This was a time of some pretty mass hysteria. Why not clear the names of some of the people?'"

For more information go to www.seditionproject.net/

TodayÂ's threats against freedom of speech echo the hysteria of World War I, when Americans went to prison for dissent. This cautionary tale focuses on events in Montana and the West that led to the suspension of this crucial right.

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