Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478217Description: Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years. Scientists have long believed that the "great leap forward" that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago marked end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this original account of our evolutionary history, top scholars Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending reject this conventional wisdom and reveal that the human species has undergone a storm of genetic change much more recently. Human evolution in fact accelerated after civilization arose, they contend, and these ongoing changes have played a pivotal role in human history. Ranging across subjects as diverse as human domestication, Neanderthal hybridization, and IQ tests, Cochran and Harpending's analysis demonstrates convincingly that human genetics have changed and can continue to change much more rapidly than scientists have previously believed.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478217http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495963Description: "From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas. As Charles Mann shows, this global ecological tumult--the "Columbian Exchange"--underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest generation of research by scientists, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Manila and Mexico City-- where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted--the center of the world. In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495963http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507082Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507082http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495964Description: Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? If not, how and why has 2012 millenarianism gained such popular appeal? In this deeply knowledgeable book, two leading historians of the Maya answer these questions in a succinct, readable, and accessible style. Matthew Restall and Amara Solari introduce, explain, and ultimately demystify the 2012 phenomenon.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495964http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478243Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478243http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476385Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476385http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476384Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476384http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476383Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476383http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476382Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476382http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476381Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476381http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477090Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477090http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478215Description: "The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941-1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human history. It was arguably the single most decisive factor of the war and shaped the postwar world as we know it. ...Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the war, in which the fragile alliance between the two dictators [Hitler and Stalin] was unceremoniously broken, and examines its far-reaching consequences, arguing that the cost of victory was too much for the Soviet Union to bear." -- P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478215http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493453Description: "Selections from the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, 2nd edition, stress Africa's interrelatedness to other regions and cultures--from the earliest trade routes, the arrival of Christianity and Islam, and the ramifications of colonialism, to contemporary issues, such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic and apartheid, that thwart Africa's efforts to establish unity."--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493453http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503875Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503875http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495947Description: Collects accounts of the events and aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495947http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488068Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488068http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476380Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476380http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478242Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478242http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478657Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478657http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479098Description: "A riveting adventure of how America was invented. 'America the story of us' focuses on the people, ideas and events that built our nation, covering 400 years of American history in the most extensive and in-depth television series ever produced by History. Sharing their thoughts on the building of America, and what it means to be an American, are a world-class group of individuals including Tom Brokaw, Michael Douglas, Meryl Streep, Buzz Aldrin, Colin Powell, Donald Trump, John Legend, Melissa Etheridge, Brian Williams and more"--Container.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479098http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478658Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478658http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479097Description: "Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging decades of received wisdom, T.H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans-- most of them members of farm families living in small communities-- were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority. This is the compelling story of our national political origins that most Americans do not know. It is a story of rumor, charity, vengeance, and restraint. American insurgents, American patriots reminds us that revolutions are violent events. They provoke passion and rage, a willingness to use violence to achieve political ends, a deep sense of betrayal, and a strong religious conviction that God expects an oppressed people to defend their rights. The American Revolution was no exception."--Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479097http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490378Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490378http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496649Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496649http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488067Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488067http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478241Description: This book is the first history in forty years of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The author, who has been member of the commission for more than twenty years and chairperson for more than a decade, describes its founding in 1957 by President Eisenhower in response to the burgeoning civil rights protest. She makes clear that, from the outset, the commission was designed to be an independent bipartisan federal agency, beholden to no government body, with full subpoena power, free to decide what to investigate and report on. We see how reluctant witnesses overcame fear of reprisal, courageously coming forward with their testimony; how various hearings and reports were instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; how Congress added the overseeing of discriminating practices with regard to sex, age, and disability to the commission's jurisdiction, which helped in the passage of the Age Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. We see how each president dealt with the commission; how Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush fired commissioners over policy disagreements; and how, under pressure from Bush, commissioners began to downplay the need to remedy discrimination. Finally, the author makes an impassioned and convincing argument for a reconfigured commission, fully independent, and with an expanded mandate that would allow it to oversee the preservation of all human rights.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478241http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478214Description: On February 12, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. Each would see his life's work inspire a stark change in mankind's understanding of itself. In this bicentennial twin portrait, Adam Gopnik shows how these two giants, who never met, altered the way we think about death and time--about the very nature of earthly existence.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478214http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493454Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493454http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488064Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488064http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488061Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488061http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477089Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477089http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479067Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479067http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476379Description: "Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. They regard Roman commoners as a parasitic mob, a rabble interested only in bread and circuses. They cast Caesar, who took up the popular cause, as a despot and demagogue, and treat his murder as the outcome of a personal feud or constitutional struggle, devoid of social content. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, the author Michael Parenti subjects these assertions of "gentlemen historians" to a bracing critique, and presents us with a compelling story of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth. Parenti shows that Caesar was only the last in a line of reformers, dating back across the better part of a century, who were murdered by opulent conservatives. Caesar's assassination set in motion a protracted civil war, the demise of a five-hundred-year republic, and the emergence of an absolutist rule that would prevail over Western Europe for centuries to come." "Parenti reconstructs the social and political context of Caesar's murder, offering fascinating details about Roman society. In these pages we encounter money-driven elections, the struggle for economic democracy, the use of religious augury as an instrument of social control, the sexual abuse of slaves, and the political use of homophobic attacks. Here is a story of empire and corruption, patriarchs and subordinated women, self-enriching capitalists and plundered provinces, slumlords and urban rioters, death squads and political witch-hunts."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476379http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493467Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493467http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478240Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478240http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476416Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476416http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476378Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476378http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476377Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476377http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496789Description: "If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war," Churchill said in the summer of 194o. He was right. The Battle of Britain was a crucial turning point in the history of the Second World War, and now, acclaimed British historian James Holland has written the definitive account of this battle based on extensive new research from around the world, including thousands of new interviews with people on both sides of the fighting. --http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496789http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479066Description: "The name Waterloo has become synonymous with final, crushing defeat. Now this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British military historian making his major American debut. Revealing how and why Napoleon fell in Belgium in June 1815, The Battle of Waterloo definitively clears away the fog that has, over time, obscured the truth." "With fresh details and interpretations, Jeremy Black places Waterloo within the context of the warfare of the period, showing that Napoleon's modern army was beaten by Britain and Prussia with techniques as old as those of antiquity, including close-quarter combat. Here are the fateful early stages, from Napoleon's strategy of surprise attack - perhaps spoiled by the defection of one of his own commanders - to his younger brother's wasteful efforts assaulting the farm called Hougoumont. And here is the endgame, including Commander Michel Ney's botched cavalry charge against the Anglo-Dutch line and the solid British resistance against a series of French cavalry strikes, with Napoleon "repeating defeat and reinforcing failure."" "More than a guide to an armed conflict, The Battle of Waterloo is a portrait of the men who fought it: Napoleon, the bold emperor who had bullied other rulers and worn down his own army with too many wars, and the steadfast Duke of Wellington, who used superior firepower and a flexible generalship in his march to victory."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479066http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493244Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493244http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508292Description: Recounts the author's adventures discovering the tomb of Egypt's famous female pharaoh, Hatshepsut, in the Valley of the Kings and discusses his experiences becoming an archaeologist and dealing with eccentric colleagues.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508292http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478213Description: "In this book, Sarah Tarlow provides an innovative archaeology of bereavement, mortality and memory in the early modern and modern period. She draws on literary and historical sources as well as on material evidence to examine the evolution of attitudes towards death and commemoration over four centuries."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478213http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491144Description: Based on a new documents and interviews, this work is a look at the Berlin Crisis of 1961, with powerful applications for the present. In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called it "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War, and more perilous. For the first time in history, American and Soviet fighting men and tanks stood arrayed against each other, only yards apart. One mistake, one overzealous commander, and the trip wire would be sprung for a war that would go nuclear in a heartbeat. On one side was a young, untested U.S. president still reeling from the Bay of Pigs disaster. On the other, a Soviet premier hemmed in by the Chinese, the East Germans, and hard liners in his own government. Neither really understood the other, both tried cynically to manipulate events. And so, week by week, the dangers grew.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491144http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476376Description: Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476376http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507086Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507086http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488058Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488058http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488052Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488052http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488055Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488055http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488049Description: "Explores the symbolic significance of the human head in cultural, political, economic, and religious ritual across the world"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488049http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496754Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496754http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477857Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477857http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490377Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490377http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495948Description: Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Regardless of how much progress has been made in eliminating outright racism from American life, Black Like Me endures as a great human and humanitarian document. In our era, when "international" terrorism is most often defined in terms of a single ethnic designation and a single religion, we need to be reminded that America has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. As John Lennon wrote, "Living is easy with eyes closed." Black Like Me is the story of a man who opened his eyes, and helped an entire nation to do likewise.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495948http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478655Description: They were Army soldiers. Just a few years earlier, some had been slaves. Several thousand African Americans served as soldiers in the Indian Wars and in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War in the latter part of the nineteenth century. They were known as buffalo soldiers, believed to have been named by Indians who had seen a similarity between the coarse hair and dark skin of the soldiers and the coats of the buffalo. Twenty-three of these men won the nation's highest award for personal bravery, the Medal of Honor. Black Valor brings the lives of these soldiers into sharp focus.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478655http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479096Description: "In this fine collection of rare documentary sources, many of them previously unpublished, African-American women in their rich diversity speak of themselves, their lives, their ambitions, their struggles. Theirs are stores of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too often, violence. In the spirit of the slave mother who counseled her daughter, "Fight, and if you can't fight, kick; if you can't kick, then bite, " black women resisted sexual abuse and economic oppression, cared for black children and neighbors, and organized for survival and political power. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past" -- from book cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479096http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478656Description: "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Manhunt" returns to the Civil War era to tell the epic story of the search for Jefferson Davis and the eventful funeral procession for assassinated president Abraham Lincoln.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478656http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493456Description: Profiles the South American general and revolutionary who helped liberate several South American countries from Spanish domination.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493456http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503122Description: "A study of United States-Bolivian in the post-World War II era. Explores attempts by Bolivian revolutionary leaders to both secure United States assistance and to obtain time and space to develop their policies and plans"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503122http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478654Description: "Between April, 1956, and April, 1961, the friendly relationship between the United States and Cuba collapsed. This text recounts how Cuba became increasingly nationalistic, defensive and militarized under the Provisional Government instituted in 1959. Cuba came to anticipate a covert invasion from the United States and began to condemn American customs and values"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478654http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478211Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478211http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478210Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478210http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478653Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478653http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477088Description: "Illustrated in color throughout, The California Missions: History, Art, and Preservation combines engaging text with historical paintings, archival photographs, and recent photography to create a vivid chronicle of these iconic institutions. The narrative recounts their founding and early history, surveys mission art and architecture, and examines their role in shaping the history and culture of California. A final chapter discusses recent advances in preserving the mission heritage for future generations. The second part of the book provides concise historical profiles for each of the twenty-one missions."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477088http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478652Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478652http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493206Description: This narrative biography tells the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into Empress of Russia by sheer determination. Possessing a brilliant mind and an insatiable curiosity as a young woman, she devoured the works of Enlightenment philosophers and, when she reached the throne, attempted to use their principles to guide her rule of the vast and backward Russian empire. She knew or corresponded with the preeminent historical figures of her time: Voltaire, Diderot, Frederick the Great, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, Marie Antoinette, and, surprisingly, the American naval hero, John Paul Jones. Reaching the throne fired by Enlightenment philosophy and determined to become the embodiment of the "benevolent despot" idealized by Montesquieu, she found herself always contending with the deeply ingrained realities of Russian life, including serfdom. She persevered, and for thirty-four years the government, foreign policy, cultural development, and welfare of the Russian people were in her hands. She dealt with domestic rebellion, foreign wars, and the tidal wave of political change and violence churned up by the French Revolution that swept across Europe. Her reputation depended entirely on the perspective of the speaker. She was praised by Voltaire as the equal of the greatest of classical philosophers; she was condemned by her enemies, mostly foreign, as "the Messalina of the north." Catherine's family, friends, ministers, generals, lovers, and enemies, all are here, vividly described. These included her ambitious, perpetually scheming mother; her weak, bullying husband, Peter (who left her lying untouched beside him for nine years after their marriage); her unhappy son and heir, Paul; her beloved grandchildren; and her "favorites", the parade of young men from whom she sought companionship and the recapture of youth as well as sex. Here, too, is the giant figure of Gregory Potemkin, her most significant lover and possible husband, with whom she shared a passionate correspondence of love and separation, followed by seventeen years of unparalleled mutual achievement.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493206http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456598Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456598http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490376Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490376http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478209Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478209http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493457Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493457http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479065Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479065http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493256Description: A compilation of talks on civil rights in American history from National Public Radio, featuring personal recollections along with historical accounts with segments of "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition," "Weekend Edition Saturday," Weekend Edition Sunday," "Talk of the Nation," "News & Notes," and "Tell Me More."http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493256http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491143Description: A year-by-year chronicle of the Civil War, highlighting major political, social, and military events, and looking at the causes and consequences of the conflict.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491143http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477856Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477856http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496760Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496760http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478012Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478012http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488009Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488009http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488008Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488008http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496761Description: Covers important Cold War events, from 1945 through the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496761http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478651Description: This biography by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author recounts the last decade of Theodore Roosevelt's amazing life.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478651http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477065Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477065http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477087Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477087http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491142Description: Laying the chronological and critical foundations for the volume, David L. Anderson opens with an essay on the Vietnam War's major moments and enduring relevance. Mark Philip Bradely follows with a reexamination of Vietnamese revolutionary nationalism and the Vietnam-led war against French colonialism. Richard H. Immerman revisits Eisenhower's and Kennedy's efforts at nation building in South Vietnam, and Gary R. Hess reviews America's military commitment under Kennedy and Johnson. Lloyd C. Gardner investigates the motivations behind Johnson's escalation of force, and Robert J. McMahon focuses on the pivotal period before and after the Tet Offensive. Jeffrey P. Kimball then makes sense of Nixon's paradoxical decision to end U.S. intervention while pursuing a destructive air war.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491142http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477086Description: Discusses the power wielded by the Comanches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the southern Great Plains, the Southwest, and northern Mexico, covering their military ability, political dominance, and commercial and cultural influence as they resisted European colonization until their defeat in 1875.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477086http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478239Description: From the Publisher: This groundbreaking book illuminates the lives of some 1,300 kings, queens, princes, and princesses of ancient Egypt, unraveling family relationships and exploring the parts they played in politics, cultural life, and religion. The authors begin with a basic summary of the structure of the pharaonic state, including the nature of ancient Egyptian kingship itself, and then introduce key members of the royal family. This is followed by a chronological survey of the royal family from c. 3100 BC to the last Cleopatra. For each dynasty, or significant part of a dynasty, the authors provide an historical overview of the period, a summary listing of the kings, and a discussion of their families' relationships. This superb biographical history of ancient Egypt is handsomely illustrated with hundreds of photographs, line drawings, and genealogical trees.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478239http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493245Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493245http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491124Description: What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam's argument with the West.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491124http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480394Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480394http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479064Description: "Cuba Since the Fifties" provides a much-needed account of the Cuban Revolution and Cuba's history over its fifty years of existence since 1959. Antoni Kapcia unravels the complexities of the sometimes perplexing, and often misunderstood process of continual change, and explains the Revolution's remarkable survival after the deep and potentially terminal crisis brought about by the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989-91. This book looks at the process of social revolution and the benefits and disadvantages that accrued as a result; the evolution of, and consensus about, ideology, and Castro's elevation to national leader; popular participation in the Revolution; the Revolution's changing international profile and relations; the politics of defence and dissent; and finally the crisis post-1990 which generated the mechanisms of survival and adaptation in the face of America's trade embargo.The book is aimed at the wide readership following modern and contemporary world politics, modern political history, Latin American and developing world history and politics, and radical politics.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479064http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477855Description: A groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times. Over recent decades, Pulitzer-winning historian John W. Dower has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. Here he examines the cultures of war revealed by four powerful events--Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and the invasion of Iraq in the name of a war on terror. The list of issues examined and themes explored is wide-ranging: failures of intelligence and imagination, wars of choice and "strategic imbecilities," faith-based secular thinking as well as more overtly holy wars, the targeting of noncombatants, and the almost irresistible logic--and allure--of mass destruction. Dower also sets the U.S. occupations of Japan and Iraq side by side in strikingly original ways. He offers comparative insights into individual and institutional behavior and pathologies that transcend "cultures" in the more traditional sense, and that ultimately go beyond war-making alone.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477855http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477085Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477085http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479063Description: A diverse group of academics, activists, officials and rebels contribute chapters about different aspects of conflict in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. These chapters discuss the origins and evolution of the conflict, the various ways in which the conflict has been understood and misperceived (both locally and internationally), the profoundly gendered nature of the conflict, the status of those involved with regard to the Sudanese and international law, and the ongoing struggle for peace in the region. A substantial appendix reproduces UN, ICC, and (many for the first time in English translation) Arabic-language documents to trace the history of the conflict. The book also includes a chronology of major events in Sudan.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479063http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496651Description: Details the most famous aspects of Jamaica, the music and its culture, as well as the Island's history, including the slave trade operated by Britain. Since independence in 1962, Jamaica has acquired a twin image as a resort-style travel Eden and as a new kind of Hell, presided over by drug lords. In seeking to answer the question of what lies between, the author talked with Jamaicans who are trying to make a difference: writers, priests, and musicians.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496651http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478208Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478208http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478237Description: In the pre-dawn darkness of April 30, 1943, the body of a Royal Marine Major washed ashore on the south-western coast of Spain, part of an incredible plot to mislead the German High Command about the Allies' impending Mediterranean invasion. What made this ruse unique--and macabre--was that the "Major" was actually a deceased Welsh laborer, who drifted lifelessly ashore carrying false documents indicating that the Allies were set to launch an attack on Greece, rather than Sicily. In this accurate and in-depth retelling of the story behind the operation, Denis Smyth draws on a vast collection of previously unavailable documentary sources to expertly bring all phases of "Mincemeat" to life. He reveals how the architects of the plan navigated a maze of medical, technical, and logistical issues to deceive the enemy at the highest strategic levels. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478237http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508298Description: Looks at the history of the United States during the period before, during, and after the Revolutionary War, especially focusing on the circumstances in colonial life that led Americans to fight for their independence from Britain.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508298http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493246Description: A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493246http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478236Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478236http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475096Description: A dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounts the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States--Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others--groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture. Now, Ronald Takaki has revised his landmark work and made it even more relevant and important. Among the new additions to the book are: the role of black soldiers in preserving the Union; the history of Chinese Americans from 1900-1941; an investigation into the hot-button issue of "illegal" immigrants from Mexico; and a look at the sudden visibility of Muslim refugees from Afghanistan. This new edition grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475096http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477854Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477854http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488046Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488046http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478235Description: "Drawing on memoirs, archives, and interviews, Davis and Trani trace American prejudice toward Russia and China by focusing on the views of influential writers and politicians over the course of the twentieth century, showing where American images originated and how they evolved"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478235http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479277Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479277http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493458Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493458http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493247Description: Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew. Belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief, Eisenhower ground down Joseph McCarthy, stimulated the economy to lift it from recession, and turned an $8 billion deficit in 1953 into a $500 million surplus in 1960. The President Eisenhower of popular imagination is a benign figure, armed with a putter, a winning smile, and little else. The Eisenhower of veteran journalist Jim Newton's rendering is shrewd, sentimental, and tempestuous. Admired as a general, he was a champion of peace. In Korea and Vietnam, in Quemoy and Berlin, his generals urged him to wage nuclear war. Time and again he considered the idea and rejected it. And it was Eisenhower who appointed the liberal justices Earl Warren and William Brennan and who then called in the military to enforce desegregation in the schools.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493247http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478650Description: Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478650http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477084Description: "Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires' processes of colonisation, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas."--Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477084http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493249Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493249http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488007Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488007http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475727Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475727http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480395Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480395http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476375Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476375http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478011Description: "Every Man in This Village Is a Liar" is LA Times reporter Megan K. Stack's riveting account of what she saw in the combat zones of the Middle East, in war-torn Afghanistan and Pakistan, and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and her slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of freedom and democracy.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478011http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491446Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491446http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495951Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495951http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478234Description: In a landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Foner gives us a life of Lincoln as it intertwined with slavery, the defining issue of the time and the tragic hallmark of American history. The author demonstrates how Lincoln navigated a dynamic political landscape deftly, moving in measured steps, often on a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party, and that Lincoln's greatness lay in his capacity for moral and political growth.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478234http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495962Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495962http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488006Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488006http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493250Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493250http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478649Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478649http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491138Description: Using primary source materials from three individuals around whom the narrative revolves, best-selling author Blum tells a story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491138http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491133Description: Forced Marriage brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law to provide a compelling alternative perspective to the problem of forced marriage. The volume examines advances in theoretical debates, analyses existing research and presents new evidence that challenges the cultural essentialism that often characterises efforts to explain, and even justify, this violation of women's rights. By locating forced marriage within broader debates on violence against women, social justice and human rights, the authors offer an intersectional perspective that can be used to inform both theory and practice, making this unique book essential reading for practitioners and students alike.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491133http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476374Description: For all of fur's contentious position in American culture today, historian Eric Jay Dolin shows its centrality in our nation's ever-surprising history. He argues that the trade in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous frontier where global powers battled for control. From the seventeenth century right on up to the Gilded Age, the developed world's appetite for fur made the new continent, with its wealth of fur-bearing wildlife, a seemingly inexhaustible resource. The result was a major boost in the evolution of the colonies into a powerful new player on the world stage. Dolin sheds insight on the ways the fur trade created international tensions--in New England, the Great Lakes, and in the expanding West. Fur traders were often the first white men to map major rivers, forests, and mountains, then soon pushed Native Americans off their lands as John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company attempted to monopolize the West.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476374http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477853Description: Analyzes the reign of Charles II during the first decade of the Restoration, assessing influences ranging from plague and court licentiousness to intolerance and war, in an account that describes the king's daring secret deal with his cousin, Louis XIV.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477853http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493460Description: Gandhi has inspired civil rights and liberation movements the world over. Yet he was also a man of many contradictions. His resistance to racism strikes a thoroughly modern note, but his vision of India was that of an almost medieval society. Adams delineates Gandhi's incredible drive, including his relentless reinvention of his own persona.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493460http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507217Description: A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507217http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493461Description: With a careful blend of concision and detail, the text traces German history from Roman times to the present, placing particular emphasis on the past three centuries. Balanced and clearly written, the book guides readers expertly through the complex tangle of Germany's past. The author provides a mix of narrative history and historiography, tracing the influential individuals and broad social currents, myths and legends, and political and cultural elements that have shaped the country. In addition, the book brings the story fully to the present with a chapter on the past twenty years that explores the nation's reunification and its struggles with history and memory. Illustrated with photos, artwork, and maps, the book also includes text boxes to allow readers to pause and consider key concepts in greater detail. Each chapter offers a list of further suggested readings, with a mixture of classic and recent scholarship, to provide a range of coverage of important issues.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493461http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478712Description: "In God vs. Darwin, Mano Singham dissects the legal battle between evolution and creationism in the classroom beginning with the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925 and ending with an intelligent design trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, in 2005. A publicity stunt, the Scopes Monkey trial had less to do with legal precedence than with generating tourism dollars for a rural Tennessee town. But the trial did successfully spark a debate that has lasted more than 80 years and simply will not be quelled despite a succession of seemingly definitive court decisions. In the greatest demonstration of survival, opposition to the teaching of evolution has itself evolved. Attempts to completely eliminate the teaching of evolution from public schools have given way to the recognition that evolution is here to stay, that explicitly religious ideas will never be allowed in public schools, and that the best that can be hoped for is to chip away at the credibility of the theory of evolution." "Dr. Singham answers complex questions: Why is there such intense antagonism to the teaching of evolution in the United States? What have the courts said about the various attempts to oppose it? Sprinkled with interesting tidbits about Charles Darwin and the major players of the evolution vs. creationism debate, readers will find that God vs. Darwin is charming in its embrace of the strong passions aroused from the topic of teaching evolution in schools."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478712http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478711Description: Explores the religious practices and traditions of ancient Middle Eastern cultures, discussing pyramids, tombs, and Egyptian temples, and describing the gods, rulers, beliefs about afterlife, and worship rituals of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syria-Palestine.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478711http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477083Description: In the tradition of "Black Hawk Down," The Good Soldiers takes an unforgettable look at the heroes and the ruined soldiers fighting in the Iraq War.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477083http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479278Description: Illustrates the transformation of American and Canadian cities in the last century with photographs and descriptions of the important structures present during each shot.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479278http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477082Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477082http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478207Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478207http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478648Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478648http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488045Description: In order to provide archaeologists and their students with a reliable understanding of these disciplines, this volume draws contributions from practitioners from around the world to offer a solid foundation in both the practical and ethical components of forensic work.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488045http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479062Description: In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than five hundred "Free Negros" in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of ¹1,000 (about $200,000 in today's dollars), possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slaveowner himself, Jeremiah was falsely accused by whites--who resented his success as a Charleston harbor pilot--of sowing insurrection among slaves at the behest of the British. Though a free man, Jeremiah was tried in a slave court and sentenced to death. J. William Harris tells Jeremiah's story in full for the first time, illuminating the contradiction between a nation that would be born in a struggle for freedom and yet deny it to others.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479062http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493252Description: Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of Black America, Harlem's twentieth century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in its history. In this work the author, a historian presents a chronicle of this remarkable place. From Henry Hudson's first contact with native Harlemites, through Harlem's years as a colonial outpost on the edge of the known world, he traces the neighborhood's story, marshaling a wealth of detail and a host of figures from George Washington to Langston Hughes. Harlem was an agricultural center under British rule and the site of a key early battle in the Revolutionary War. Later, wealthy elites including Alexander Hamilton built great estates there for entertainment and respite from the epidemics ravaging downtown. In the nineteenth century, transportation urbanized Harlem and brought waves of immigrants from Germany, Italy, Ireland, and elsewhere. Harlem's mix of cultures, extraordinary wealth and extreme poverty was electrifying and explosive. This work is the history of the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, beginning with Hudson's first experiences in the area, through its early growth as a Dutch village and colonial agricultural center, to its transformation into a modern neighborhood.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493252http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496764Description: Overview: The legendary Moses of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman was a fiery and tenacious abolitionist who organized and led African American military operations deep in the Confederacy. Harriet Tubman: A Biography relates the life story of this extraordinary woman, standing as a testament to her tenacity, drive, intelligence, and courage. In telling the remarkable story of Tubman's life, the biography examines her early years as Araminta Ross (her birth name), her escape from slavery, her activities as an Underground Railroad conductor, her involvement in the Civil War, and her role as a champion of women's rights. The book places its heroine in the broad context of her time and the movements in which she was involved, and the narrative shifts between the contextual and the personal to give the reader a strong understanding of Tubman as a woman who was shaped by, and helped to shape, the time in which she lived.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496764http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495952Description: "Yoani Sanchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about what it means to live under the Castro regime in Cuba: the difficulty of shopping and chronic hunger; the art of repairing ancient appliances; the struggle for real news and the burdens of reading the party newspaper; the fear of admission to hospitals that lack the supplies for basic sterilization; and a life structured by a propaganda machine that pushes deep into the media, the public square, and the schools. Each sensitive dispatch is a brutal and honest depiction of Cuban life today. For these simple acts of truth telling--which are published online at Generation Y, and collected here in English for the first time--Sanchez is treated as a domestic radical: she is summoned by the police; her friends are threatened; she was recently kidnapped and beaten. The state newspaper has gone so far to call her "a spy in the pay of capitalism." Her ultimate concern, however, is for her friends in prison, and for the many who have fled, and for all those who have ceased to believe in the future of Cuba. Here the situation is elegantly expressed from the perspective of important and compelling new voice, one that has already found a worldwide audience online"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495952http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478647Description: April, 1967: a prison escape. James Earl Ray, nondescript thief and con man, drifts through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he is galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. February, 1968: a Memphis garbage strike. Martin Luther King joins the sanitation workers' cause, but their march turns violent. King vows to return to Memphis in April. Historian Sides follows Ray and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the drifter catches up with his prey. Against the backdrop of the resulting nationwide riots and the pathos of King's funeral, Sides gives us a cross-cut narrative of the assassin's flight and the 65-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England--a massive manhunt ironically led by Hoover's FBI. Drawing on previously unpublished material, this nonfiction thriller illuminates how history is so often a matter of the petty bringing down the great.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478647http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478206Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478206http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507224Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507224http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476373Description: Intellectual historian Georg G. Iggers examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. He faces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476373http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478233Description: From the Publisher: Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition and war of independence.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478233http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479060Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479060http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493463Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493463http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478232Description: From the Publisher: Burma has lived under military rule for nearly half a century. The results of its 1990 elections were never recognized by the ruling junta and Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement, was denied her victory. She has been under house arrest ever since. Now an economic satellite and political dependent of the People's Republic of China, Burma is at a crossroads. Will it become another North Korea, will it succumb to China's political embrace or will the people prevail? Michael Charney's book-the first general history of modern Burma in over five decades-traces the highs and lows of Burma's history from its pre-colonial past to the "Saffron Revolution" of 2007. By exploring key themes such as the political division between lowland and highland Burma and monastic opposition to state control, the author explains the forces that have made the country what it is today.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478232http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479059Description: From the Publisher: In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavi's and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic. In the intervening years, the country has experienced a bitter war with Iraq, the transformation of society under the clergy and, more recently, the expansion of the state and the struggle for power between the old elites, the intelligentsia and the commercial middle class. The author is a compassionate expositor. While he adroitly negotiates the twists and turns of the country's regional and international politics, at the heart of his book are the people of Iran. It is to them and their resilience that this book is dedicated, as Iran emerges at the beginning of the twenty-first century as one of the most powerful states in the Middle East.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479059http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478646Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478646http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503887Description: One cannot understand Latin America without understanding the history of the Catholic Church in the region. Catholicism has been predominant in Latin Americ and it has played a definitive role in its development. It helped to spur the conquest of the New World with its emphasis on missions to the indigenous peoples, controlled many aspects of the colonial economy, and played key roles in the struggles for Independence. The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America offers a concise yet far-reaching synthesis of this institution's role from the earliest contact between the Spanish and native tribes until the modern day, the first such historical overview available in English. --http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503887http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478205Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478205http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477852Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477852http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478204Description: Ukraine's struggle for a national identity plagued this former Soviet Union state long before the Cold War shook the world. Its central location between Eastern Europe and Western Asia invited many different cultures to settle the land, ultimately populating a powerful early medieval society known as Kievan Rus. However, readers will learn how Kievan Rus's Golden Age quickly crumbled with decades of Mongol invasions, Polish-Lithuanian occupation, and Russian empirical ruling. Explore how Ukraine flirted with independence in the early 20th century, only to be quickly taken over by harsh Soviet rule in 1922. Despite its independence from the USSR in 1991, devastating consequences of the socialist rule have allowed the world to witness Ukraine's ceaseless efforts to attain a stable government, struggling through the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, rigged elections, and the Orange Revolution. --from publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478204http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488005Description: "First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Paul Robert Magocsi examines recent developments in the country's history and uses new scholarship in order to expand our conception of the Ukrainian historical narrative.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488005http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496659Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496659http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479057Description: Documents the historical, political, social, cultural, and military context of the Holocaust, discussing the persecution of the Jews, Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, and Polish citizens.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479057http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496660Description: "A myth-shattering view of the medieval Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations, which preceded-and enabled-the European Renaissance. The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance. Inspired by the Koranic injunction to study closely all of God's works, rulers throughout the Islamic world funded armies of scholars who gathered and translated Persian, Sanskrit, and Greek texts. From the ninth through the fourteenth centuries, these scholars built upon those foundations a scientific revolution that bridged the one-thousand-year gap between the ancient Greeks and the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science were actually the result of Arab ingenuity: Astronomers laid the foundations for the heliocentric model of the solar system long before Copernicus; physicians accurately described blood circulation and the inner workings of the eye ages before Europeans solved those mysteries; physicists made discoveries that laid the foundation for Newton's theories of optics. But the most significant legacy of Middle Eastern science was its evidence-based approach-the lack of which kept Europeans in the dark throughout the Dark Ages. The father of this experimental approach to science-what we call the scientific method-was an Iraqi physicist who applied it centuries before Europeans first dabbled in it. Al-Khalili details not only how discoveries like these were made, but also how they changed European minds and how they were ultimately obscured by later Western versions of the same principles. With transporting detail, Al-Khalili places the reader in the intellectual and cultural hothouses of the Arab Enlightenment: the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, one of the world's greatest academies, the holy city of Isfahan, the melting pots of Damascus and Cairo, and the embattled Islamic outposts of Spain. Al-Khalili tackles two tantalizing questions: Why did the Arab world enter its own Dark Age after such a dazzling enlightenment? And how much did Arabic learning contribute to making the Western world as we know it? Given his singular combination of expertise in both the Western and Middle Eastern scientific traditions, Al-Khalili is uniquely qualified to solve those riddles"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496660http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488044Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488044http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478231Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478231http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488043Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488043http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477954Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477954http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496766Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496766http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479058Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479058http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496661Description: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment--and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496661http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476372Description: "The Irish, as Carmel McCaffrey and Leo Eaton show in In Search of Ancient Ireland, are not Celtic in an archaeological sense. And there were plenty of bishops in Ireland before a British missionary called Patrick arrived." "Most of what we think of as Irish is a product of the nineteenth century. Many times in the past five thousand years Ireland has stood at the heart of European culture. In the middle of the eighth century B.C. it may have been the wealthiest place in Europe." "Ms. McCaffrey and Mr. Eaton trace the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatheres appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age - to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought the country under control of the English crown for the first time." "The authors visited monasteries and ring forts, climbed mountains and delved deep into sacred caves, and were accompanied on this journey through the historical landscape by many of Ireland's best-known scholars, historians, archaeologists, poets, and storytellers." "Ireland's ancient past is still filled with many mysteries. But because of a cascade of new archaeological discoveries and new techniques for interpreting them, the truth about this past is coming into sharper focus. This book is replete with new information, some of it at odds with what many Irish descendants believe about their ancestral home."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476372http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478203Description: The distinguished scholar examines the origins and history of African-American ancestry as he profiles nineteen noted African Americans and illuminates their individual family sagas throughout U.S. history.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478203http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475097Description: (Publisher-supplied data) Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim when it was first published in 1995. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the roughest ghetto neighborhoods--East Harlem. This new edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem in the seven years since the first edition. In a new epilogue Bourgois brings up to date the stories of the people--Primo, Caesat, Luis, Tony, Candy--who readers come to know in this remarkable window onto the world of the inner city drug trade. Philippe Bourgois is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has conducted fieldwork in Central America on ethnicity and social unrest and is the author of Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). He is writing a book on homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475097http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493251Description: The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493251http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491132Description: Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of history, French exposes the cultural foundations of India's political, economic and social complexities. He reveals how a nation identified with some of the most wretched poverty on earth has simultaneously developed an envied culture of entrepreneurship. Even more remarkably, he shows how, despite the ancient and persistent traditions of caste, as well as a mind-boggling number of ethnicities and languages, India has nevertheless managed to cohere, evolving into the world's largest democracy, largely fulfilling Jawaharlal Nehru's dream of a secular liberal order.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491132http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503888Description: "Vast and varied, India is a country of contrasts. On the one hand, one out of three of the world's malnourished children lives in India. On the other hand, a McKinsey Global Inc. report suggests that if India continues its recent growth, it will be the fifth largest consumer economy in the world by 2025. With more than a billion citizens - almost 18 percent ofthe world's population - India is a reflection of over 5,000 years of interaction and exchange across a wide spectrum of cultures and civilizations. India Today: an encyclopedia of life in the republic describes the growth and development of the nation since it achieved independence from the British Raj in 1947. The two-volume work presents an analytical review of India's transition from fledgling state to the world's largest democracy and potential economic superpower. Providing current data and perspective backed by historical context as appropriate, the encyclopedia brings together the latest scholarship on India's diverse cultures, societies, religions, political cultures, and social and economic challenges. It covers such issues as foreign relations, security, and economic and political developments, helping readers understand India's people and appreciate the nation's importance as a political power and economic force, both regionally and globally."--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503888http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496662Description: This work is a contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them. Have you ever sat down for an intimate conversation with a Lakota, Pawnee, Navajo, Yakama, Hopi, or Tonawanda Seneca, among members of other tribal nations, and listened to them talk about their lives and what it is like to be a Native American in the United States today? In this book the author takes readers on a journey across America, east to west, north to south, and around again. Young and old, women and men, speak with candor, insight, and (unknown to many non-Natives) humor about being a Native American in the twenty-first century. Many also express their thoughts about the sometimes staggeringly ignorant, if often well-meaning, non-Natives they encounter, some who do not realize Native Americans still exist, much less that they speak English, have cell phones, use the Internet, and might attend both powwows and power lunches. This book is a contribution to the literature about descendants of the original Americans that makes every reader rethink the past, and present, of the United States.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496662http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478010Description: In this vivid, sweeping history of the industrial revolution, Gavin Weightman shows how, in less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood, powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478010http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507090Description: A high octane narrative of physical and mental toughness, giving unprecedented insight to the inner workings of the training and secret missions of the world's most respected and feared combat unit--Seal Team Six, the elite warriors who took down Osama bin Laden.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507090http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478230Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478230http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478009Description: "In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists, and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the past 150 years." "Using a wide range of evidence from a variety of very different societies, this book challenges the idea that there is any one correct way to raise children, or that parents across the globe have the same goals in raising their children, or the same attitudes toward them. Drawing on the rich history of anthropological literature, Montgomery uses key topics to illustrate important issues in the anthropological study of children and childhood. This volume provides a fresh investigation into the diversity of beliefs about childhood as well as the variety of children's daily lives, looking at issues such as how parents elsewhere raise their children, what they understand as abusive, how children become adults, and what both adults and children see as their respective roles and responsibilities."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478009http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476371Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476371http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503890Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503890http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507091Description: Traces the life of Britain's former Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge to Edward Heath for leadership of the Conservative party and her eventual removal from power.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507091http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478202Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478202http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478229Description: Jane Addams (1860-1935) was one of the leading figures of the Progressive era. This "pragmatic visionary," as Knight calls her, is best known as the creator of Hull House, a model settlement house offering training, shelter, and culture for Chicago's poor. Addams also involved herself in a long list of Progressive campaigns. Her rhetorical skills as both speaker and writer made her internationally recognized as a supporter of civil rights, woman suffrage, and labor reform.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478229http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496768Description: Traces the evolution of the belief that Jerusalem is the center of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religious worlds and argues that this fixation is a main cause of the modern-day Israeli-Palestinian conflict.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496768http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488004Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488004http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478228Description: An examination of Carter's presidency and his emergence as an important voice for international diplomacy and negotiation.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478228http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477081Description: Drawing on both new and neglected evidence, this book reconstructs Old John Brown's aborted "war" to free the 3.8 million slaves in the American South before the Civil War. It critiques misleading sources that either exalt Brown's "heroism" and noble purpose or condemn his "monomania" and "lawlessness". McGlone explains the sources of his obsession with slavery and his notorious crime at Pottawatomie Creek in "Bleeding Kansas" as well as how the Harpers Ferry raid figured into Brown's larger vision and why he was captured in the federal armory there. John Brown's War Against Slavery chronicles how this aged American apostle of violence in behalf of the "downtrodden," this abolitionist "fanatic" and "terroriser," ultimately rescued his cause by going to the gallows with resolution and outward calm. By embracing martyrdom, John Brown helped to spread panic in the South and persuaded northern sympathizers that failure can be noble and political violence "righteous."http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477081http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491131Description: "This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American life and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation's feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. It is a book that does for America's inner frontier what Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage did for its western one. No American folk hero--not Davy Crockett, not even Daniel Boone--is better known than Johnny Appleseed, and none has become more trapped in his own legends. The fact is, John Chapman--the historical Johnny Appleseed--might well be the best-known figure from our national past about whom most people know almost nothing real at all. One early historian called Chapman "the oddest character in all our history," and not without cause. Chapman was an animal whisperer, a vegetarian in a raw country where it was far easier to kill game than grow a crop, a pacifist in a place ruled by gun, knife, and fist. Some settlers considered Chapman a New World saint. Others thought he had been kicked in the head by a horse. And yet he was welcomed almost everywhere, and stories about him floated from cabin to cabin, village to village, just as he did. As eccentric as he was, John Chapman was also very much a man of his times: a land speculator and pioneer nurseryman with an uncanny sense for where settlement was moving next, and an evangelist for the Church of the New Jerusalem on a frontier alive with religious fervor. His story is equally America's story at the birth of the nation. In this tale of the wilderness and its taming, author Howard Means explores how our national past gets mythologized and hired out. Mostly, though, this is the story of two men, one real and one invented; of the times they lived through, the ties that link them, and the gulf that separates them; of the uses to which both have been put; and of what that tells us about ourselves, then and now"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491131http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476975Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476975http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477080Description: "Killing for Coal offers a bold and original perspective on the Ludlow Massacre and the Great Coalfield War. In a sweeping story that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews examines the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers' strikes over the course of nearly half a century."--Back cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477080http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478008Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478008http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478007Description: "While deeply erudite on the myriad factors that have shaped the history of Israel, 'The Land of Blood and Honey' also offers a lively examination of the Israeli people themselves. The author deftly considers their rich social, cultural, and religious traditions, as well as the dynamic tensions between the traditional and modern, Orthodox and secular, and even between the sexes" --Cover, p. 2.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478007http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479056Description: The epic story of James Monroe-- the last of America's Founding Fathers -- who transformed a small, fragile nation beset by enemies into a glorious and powerful empire stretching "from sea to shining sea."http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479056http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477952Description: "This book tells the story of human evolution, the epic of Homo sapiens and its colorful precursors and relatives. The story begins in Africa, six to seven million years ago, and encompasses twenty-two known human species, of which Homo sapiens is the sole survivor. Illustrated with spectacular, three-dimensional scientific reconstructions portrayed in their natural habitat - the result of creative collaboration between physical anthropologist G.J. Sawyer of the American Museum of Natural History and paleoartist Viktor Deak, in consultation with experts from around the world - the book is both a guide to extinct human species and an astonishing hominid family photo album."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477952http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478227Description: Recounts the story of the men who ventured deep into the Amazon to find and protect the last Brazilian Indian and explains how businesspersons, politicians, territorial farmers, and the Indian himself marred an effort to save the Indian.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478227http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503892Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503892http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479055Description: This clearly written and comprehensive text examines the uprising of politically and economically marginalized groups in Latin American societies. Specialists in a broad range of disciplines present original research from a variety of case studies in a student-friendly format. Section introductions help students contextualize the essays, highlighting social movement origins, strategies, and outcomes. Thematic sections address historical context, political economy, community-building and consciousness, ethnicity and race, gender, movement strategies, and transnational organizing, making this book useful to anyone studying the wide range of social movements in Latin America.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479055http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479054Description: Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism, from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking and widespread resurgence in the present day. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479054http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478645Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478645http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488042Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488042http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493253Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493253http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493254Description: "Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous and obscure. Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration; from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop on to the Joshua generation. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single "Black Experience." Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493254http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477079Description: "I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves ... are, and henceforward shall be free ..." No other words in American history changed the lives of so many Americans as this declaration from Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Born in the struggle of Lincoln's determination to set slavery on the path to destruction, it has remained a document of struggle. What were Lincoln's real intentions? Prizewinning Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo presents, for the first time, a full scale study of Lincoln's greatest state paper. Using unpublished letters and documents, little-known accounts from Civil War-era newspapers, and Congressional memoirs and correspondence, Guelzo tells the story of the complicated web of statesmen, judges, slaves, and soldiers who accompanied, and obstructed, Abraham Lincoln on the path to the Proclamation. The crisis of a White House at war, of plots in Congress and mutiny in the Army, of one man's will to turn the nation's face toward freedom--all these passionate events come alive in a powerful narrative of Lincoln's, and the Civil War's, greatest moment.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477079http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477078Description: Abraham Lincoln now occupies an unparalleled place in American history, but when he was first elected president, literary ability was the last thing the public expected from the folksy, self-educated "rail-splitter." Yet the forceful qualities of Lincoln's writing eventually surprised his supporters and confounded his many critics. In this study, Lincoln scholar Wilson tells how Lincoln developed his writing skills, how they served him for a time as a hidden presidential asset, how it gradually became clear that he possessed a formidable literary talent, and how writing came to play an increasingly important role in his presidency. "By the time he came to write the Second Inaugural Address..., he was quite consciously in the business of interpreting the war and its deeper meaning, not just for his contemporaries but for what he elsewhere called the 'vast future.' "--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477078http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478201Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478201http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478643Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478643http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496666Description: At the end of World War II, long before an Allied victory was assured and before the scope of the atrocities orchestrated by Hitler would come into focus or even assume the name of the Holocaust, Allied forces had begun to prepare for its aftermath. Taking cues from the end of the First World War, planners had begun the futile task of preparing themselves for a civilian health crisis that, due in large part to advances in medical science, would never come. The problem that emerged was not widespread disease among Europe's population, as anticipated, but massive displacement among those who had been uprooted from home and country during the war. Displaced Persons, as the refugees would come to be known, were not comprised entirely of Jews. Millions of Latvians, Poles, Ukrainians, and Yugoslavs, in addition to several hundred thousand Germans, were situated in a limbo long overlooked by historians. While many were speedily repatriated, millions of refugees refused to return to countries that were forever changed by the war, a crisis that would take years to resolve and would become the defining legacy of World War II. Indeed many of the postwar questions that haunted the Allied planners still confront us today: How can humanitarian aid be made to work? What levels of immigration can our societies absorb? How can an occupying power restore prosperity to a defeated enemy? Including new documentation in the form of journals, oral histories, and essays by actual DPs unearthed during his research for this illuminating and radical reassessment of history, the author brings to light the extraordinary stories and myriad versions of the war experienced by the refugees and the new United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration that would undertake the responsibility of binding the wounds of an entire continent. Remarkably relevant to conflicts that continue to plague peacekeeping efforts, this work tells the epic story of how millions redefined the notion of home amid painstaking recovery. It is a reassessment of World War II's legacy that evaluates the unique challenges of reconstructing an entire continent of Holocaust survivors and starving refugees, in an account that draws on memoirs, essays, and oral histories to discuss lesser known aspects of the massive postwar relief efforts.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496666http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493255Description: New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the U.S. government's responses.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493255http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493464Description: Examines the life of the Florentine intellectual, his relationships with contemporaries ranging from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to Cesare Borgia and Pope Alexander VI, his philosophies about power, and the legacy of The Prince.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493464http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495954Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495954http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478200Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478200http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479053Description: Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and, since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. These epic migrations have made and remade African American life. This new account evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America. Historian Ira Berlin finds a dynamic of change in which eras of deep rootedness alternate with eras of massive movement, tradition giving way to innovation. The culture of black America is constantly evolving, affected by (and affecting) places as far away from one another as Biloxi, Chicago, Kingston, and Lagos.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479053http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489298Description: This biography of Malcolm X draws on new research to trace his life from his troubled youth through his involvement in the Nation of Islam, his activism in the world of Black Nationalism, and his assassination. Years in the making, it is a definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figures in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around the world. Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the Autobiography of Malcolm X, this work unfolds a story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his assassination. This work captures the story of one of the most singular forces for social change, a man who constantly strove, in the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489298http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476370Description: Traces the decisive military confrontation between Greek and Persian forces that led to an unexpected victory for the Greeks and the establishment of Greek cultural practices that became the basis for much of Western civilization.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476370http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478006Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478006http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496772Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496772http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478199Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478199http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479052Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479052http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478005Description: The authors survey migration in Irish history over four centuries and examine the relationship between its immigrants (including return migrants), internal migrants and emigrants.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478005http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492570Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492570http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476365Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476365http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478226Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478226http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477070Description: "Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain, particularly the anxieties and dislocations spurred by the American Revolution"--P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477070http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475095Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475095http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478642Description: During the American Civil War, Washington, D.C. was the most heavily fortified city in North America. To protect Washington with all it contained and symbolized, the Army constructed a shield of fortifications: 68 enclosed earthen forts, 93 supplemental batteries, miles of military roads, and support structures for commissary, quartermaster, engineer, and civilian labor force, some of which still exist today. Revised in style, format, and content, the new edition of Mr. Lincoln's Forts is the premier historical reference and tour guide to the Civil War defenses of Washington, D.C.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478642http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478198Description: Fully updated to include the many changes that have occurred in the last decade, this second edition provides a basic guide to all aspects of museum work and staff experience from museum organization, through collections management and conservation, to audience development and education.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478198http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488041Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488041http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488040Description: "The museum profession began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With the development of institutions displaying natural science, history, and art were the debates over the role of these museums in society. This essential anthology collects 52 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from this formative period, written by the many of the American and European founders of the field. Genoways and Andrei contextualize these pieces with a series of introductions that show how the museum field developed within the social environment of the era. For those interested in museum history and philosophy or cultural history, this is an indispensable resource."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488040http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478225Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478225http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475094Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475094http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480218Description: "Nigeria, the United States' most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the recent vacuum in government authority, the upcoming 2011 elections, and escalating violence in the Delta and the North may finally provide the impetus that pushes it into the abyss of state failure." "John Campbell explores Nigeria's post-colonial history and presents a nuanced explanation of the events and conditions that have carried this complex, dynamic, and very troubled giant to the edge. Central to his analysis are the oil wealth, endemic corruption, and elite competition that have undermined Nigeria's nascent democratic institutions and alienated an increasingly impoverished population. State failure would damage the interests of the United States, but it is not inevitable. Campbell suggests concrete policy options that would allow the United States to help Nigeria avoid state failure and promote political, social, and economic development."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480218http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488231Description: "The obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 brought the world to a stand still. This unimaginable shock confirmed to the world that the race to develop a working atomic weapon during World War II had been won by the American-led international effort. Horrific and controversial even today, these first uses of the atomic bomb had intense ramifications not only on the continued development of the bomb, but also on politics and popular culture. As well as the technological development, historian James Delgado also examines how the US Army Air Force had to develop the capacity to deliver the weapons, and examines the sites where development and testing took place, in order to give a comprehensive history of the dawning of the nuclear age."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488231http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491130Description: "In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences for the global balance of power in the 21st century. Since no other country can claim a more powerful link to its ancient past and classical principles, any attempt to understand China's future world role must begin with an appreciation of its long history. For centuries, China rarely encountered other societies of comparable size and sophistication; it was the "Middle Kingdom," treating the peoples on its periphery as vassal states. At the same time, Chinese statesmen-facing threats of invasion from without, and the contests of competing factions within-developed a canon of strategic thought that prized the virtues of subtlety, patience, and indirection over feats of martial prowess. In 'On China', Kissinger examines key episodes in Chinese foreign policy from the classical era to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the decades since the rise of Mao Zedong. He illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, Richard Nixon's historic trip to Beijing, and three crises in the Taiwan Straits. Drawing on his extensive personal experience with four generations of Chinese leaders, he brings to life towering figures such as Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping, revealing how their different visions have shaped China's modern destiny. With his singular vantage on U.S.-China relations, Kissinger traces the evolution of this fraught but crucial relationship over the past 60 years, following its dramatic course from estrangement to strategic partnership to economic interdependence, and toward an uncertain future. With a final chapter on the emerging superpower's 21st-century world role, 'On China' provides an intimate historical perspective on Chinese foreign affairs from one of the premier statesmen of the 20th century"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491130http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477069Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477069http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493257Description: Overview: In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community formation, and a would-be force in state and national politics. But the hooded bubble burst at mid-decade, and the social movement that had attracted several million members and additional millions of sympathizers collapsed into insignificance. Since the 1990s, intensive community-based historical studies have reinterpreted the 1920s Klan. Rather than the violent, racist extremists of popular lore and current observation, 1920s Klansmen appear in these works as more mainstream figures. Sharing a restrictive American identity with most native-born white Protestants after World War I, hooded knights pursued fraternal fellowship, community activism, local reforms, and paid close attention to public education, law enforcement (especially Prohibition), and moral/sexual orthodoxy. No recent general history of the 1920s Klan movement reflects these new perspectives on the Klan. One Hundred Percent American incorporates them while also highlighting the racial and religious intolerance, violent outbursts, and political ambition that aroused widespread opposition to the Invisible Empire. Balanced and comprehensive, One Hundred Percent American explains the Klan's appeal, its limitations, and the reasons for its rapid decline in a society confronting the reality of cultural and religious pluralism.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493257http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478224Description: From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478224http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476369Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476369http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478004Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478004http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493258Description: Available biographies depict Osama bin Laden as a historical figure, the mastermind behind 9/11, but no longer relevant to the world it created. In this book, Scheuer, the first head of the CIA's bin Laden Unit, provides a closely reasoned portrait of bin Laden.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493258http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477077Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477077http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477068Description: Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477068http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496776Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496776http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493466Description: Offers an account of the U.S. airmen's roles in the air battles that took place over the Pacific Ocean during World War II.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493466http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495958Description: In this profound and sophisticated analysis of Pakistan's history and its social, religious and political structures, Lieven argues strongly against U.S. actions that would risk destroying that state in the illusory search for victory in Afghanistan.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495958http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488038Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488038http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493260Description: Historian Thomas S. Kidd shows how the fiery Patrick Henry cherished a vision of America as a virtuous republic with a clearly circumscribed central government. These ideals brought him into bitter conflict with other Founders and were crystallized in his vociferous opposition to the U.S. Constitution.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493260http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476368Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476368http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478223Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478223http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488232Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488232http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479050Description: Peter the Great was a giant in every way: in physical stature, willpower, enthusiasm, energy, libertinism, and refusal to accept old conventions, he stood head and shoulders above his contemporaries. He grew up in an atmosphere of fear, suspicion, and violent court rivalries. As a product of the system, Peter was, of necessity, ruthless and tyrannical, but what earned him his place in history was tearing his country from its traditional, oriental customs and beliefs and integrating it into the life of Europe. He removed the privileges of the medieval aristocracy, brought the church under state control, and ordered his courtiers and officials to adopt Western dress. He used the latest scientific and technological advances to build a modern army and navy, which he used to destroy the Swedish Empire and make Russia (with its brand-new capital, St. Petersburg) master of the Baltic. By the end of his remarkable reign, Russia was profoundly changed--and so was Europe.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479050http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496779Description: Plagues in World History provides a comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has had upon human history but also the many ways in which people have been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural attitudes toward them. The author argues that the ability of humans to alter disease, even without the modern wonders of antibiotic drugs and other medical treatments, is an even more crucial lesson to learn now that AIDS, swine flu, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and other seemingly incurable illnesses have raged worldwide. Aberth's comparative analysis of how different societies have responded in the past to disease illuminates what cultural approaches have been and may continue to be most effective in combating the plagues of today. --From publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496779http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477851Description: [This book] tells the ... story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond.-Dust jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477851http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489881Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489881http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477076Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477076http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496670Description: Chronicles how America's Progressive Era war on smallpox sparked one of the twentieth century's leading civil liberties battles, describing the views and tactics of anti-vaccine advocates who feared an increasingly large government.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496670http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477067Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477067http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477850Description: An expert contemporary analysis of Vladimir Putin, his policies, and his key role in shaping a resurgent Russia's new role in world affairs.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477850http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456005Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456005http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478222Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478222http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477075Description: This is a book about two towering figures in our nation's history. It is a moving story about an improbable friendship, and an important story about an equally improbable alliance. [In the book, the author] has written a ... narrative history. He brings these two iconic figures to life and sheds new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.-Dust jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477075http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496671Description: Aspecies nearing extinction, a tribe losing the last traces of an accumulation of centuries of knowledge, a tract of forest virtually untouched since prehistoric times facing the first incursions of humans--how can we begin to assess the cost of the increasing disappearance of so much of our natural and cultural legacy? While these losses occasionally garner headlines, the pressures on earth's remaining wildlands and tribal peoples are unremitting and mounting. --http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496671http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493261Description: A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of her reign.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493261http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488037Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488037http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491129Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491129http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508288Description: Overview: Throughout the twentieth century, Michigan became home to nearly every political movement in America that emerged from the grassroots. Citizens organized on behalf of concerns on the "left," on the "right," and in the "middle of the road." Right in Michigan's Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia is about the people who supported movements that others, then and later, would denounce as disgraceful-members of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, the followers of Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s, anti-Communists and the John Birch Society in the post-World War II era, and the members of the Michigan Militia who first appeared in the 1990s. The book explores the complex historical circumstances in Michigan that prompted the emergence of these organizations and led everyday men and women to head off, despite ridicule or condemnation, with plans unsanctioned and tactics unorthodox, variously brandishing weapons of intimidation, discrimination, fear mongering, and terror. Drawing heavily on primary sources, including the organizations' files and interviews with some of their leaders and surviving members, JoEllen Vinyard provides a far more complete portrait of these well-known extremist groups than has ever been available.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508288http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478003Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478003http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478641Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478641http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488003Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488003http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477074Description: "From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration." -- Publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477074http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476367Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476367http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488036Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488036http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477066Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477066http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478640Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478640http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477849Description: As editor of "Seeing Further," Bryson has rounded up an extraordinary roster of scientists who write and writers who know science in order to celebrate 350 years of the Royal Society, Britain's scientific national academy. The contributors include Margaret Atwood, Steve Jones, Richard Dawkins, James Gleick, Richard Holmes, and Neal Stephenson, among many others, on subjects ranging from metaphysics to nuclear physics, from the threatened endtimes of flu and climate change to our evolving ideas about the nature of time itself, from the hidden mathematics that rule the universe to the cosmological principle that guides "Star Trek."http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477849http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478197Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478197http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477073Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477073http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479049Description: Predawn, April 30, 1871, a party of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indians gathered outside an Apache camp in the Arizona borderlands. At first light they struck, murdering nearly 150 Apaches, mostly women and children, in their sleep. In its day, the atrocity, known as the Camp Grant Massacre, generated unparalleled national attention--federal investigations, heated debate in the press, and a tense criminal trial. This was the era of the United States' "peace policy" toward Indians, and the Apaches had been living on a would-be reservation, under the supposed protection of the U.S. Army. President Grant decried the act as "purely murder," but American settlers countered that the distant U.S. government had failed to protect them from Apache attacks. The massacre has since largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, newspaper reports, and participants' accounts, author Karl Jacoby brings this horrific incident and tumultuous era to life.--From publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479049http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478639Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478639http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456587Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456587http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488035Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488035http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477848Description: A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these "debts," prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries, and farm plantations. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Armies of "free" black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced through beatings and physical torture to do the bidding of white masters for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477848http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478002Description: A history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. William Beik conveys the distinctiveness of early modern society and identifies the cultural practices that defined the lives of people at all levels of society.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478002http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488034Description: "Social bioarchaeology introduces the exciting and growing biosocial approach in archaeology that challenges the traditional methods of analyzing and interpreting human skeletal remains. Agarwal, Glencross, and the experts assembled in this volume outline the essential components of this research, focusing on the dynamic interactions between humans and their larger social, cultural, and physical environments, and how these analyses increase our understanding of human adaptation. The authors draw upon studies from the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East examining the central themes, theoretical issues, and methodological innovations in the field. Each chapter offers significant new research that integrates elements from biological, behavioural, ecological and social research. This new volume will be a valuable resource for archaeologists, biological anthropologists, paleopathologists, and all researchers with an interest in understanding our social and biological adaptations in a constantly changing global environment"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488034http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478196Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478196http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488033Description: From the Publisher: Soil Analysis in Forensic Taphonomy: Chemical and Biological Effects of Buried Human Remains is the first book to focus on the impact of soil and its components on the postmortem fate of human remains. International in scope, the chapters deal with both inorganic and organic chemistry, and also biological soil components, including invertebrate activity, fungi, and microbes. The chapters address rates and processes of decomposition, time of death estimates, and methodologies for measuring and analyzing processes. It provides methods for characterizing and fingerprinting soils and offers an introduction to the nature, distribution, and origin of soil materials in forensic comparison of soils. It also includes a chapter on the decomposition of hair.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488033http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479048Description: This definitive biography of aviation legend Amelia Earhart delivers a brilliantly researched report on Earhart's life--from her tomboy childhood and early fascination with flying to her consuming quest for aviation fame.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479048http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490932Description: "An excellent, balanced discussion of important controversies."--Juan Linz, author of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490932http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478221Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478221http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478195Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478195http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477072Description: A collection of photographs taken by Mike Torrey during the June and December solstices at Machu Picchu.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477072http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478638Description: "Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, a forthcoming referendum on independence for Southern Sudan threatens to split the country violently apart. In this fascinating and immensely readable book, the Africa editor of the Economist gives an absorbing account of Sudan's descent into failure and what some have called genocide. Drawing on interviews with many of the main players, Richard Cockett explains how and why Sudan has disintegrated, looking in particular at the country's complex relationship with the wider world. He shows how the United States and Britain were initially complicit in Darfur -- but also how a broad coalition of human-rights activists, right-wing Christians, and opponents of slavery succeeded in bringing the issues to prominence in the United States and creating an impetus for change at the highest level." -- Publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478638http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490931Description: In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. In this work he has crafted both a work of history and a story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius, a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions. The copying and translation of this ancient book, the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age, fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490931http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=362128Description: Andrew Hoskins provides a fascinating critical account of the unique relationship between the media and conflict. He reveals the influence the media has on the public's perception of war, from the televised "losing" of the Vietnam War, to the satellite-driven footage from the Gulf in 1991, and finally to the 24-hour coverage by journalists of the recent Iraq War--publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=362128http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478194Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478194http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478193Description: The terra cotta army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological discoveries ever made. Over eight thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the mausoleum of the first emperor of China--and each figure is individually carved, perhaps representing real members of the emperor's army. Weaving together history and a first-hand account of his experience in China, John Man tells the fascinating story of how and why these astonishing figures were created in the third century BC. In doing so, he gives a vivid account of early China and the formation of its unique culture.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478193http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478220Description: From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478220http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493263Description: The author, known for his landmark work in American journalism and for his other books, The Greatest Generation, and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America's greatness. "What happened to the America I thought I knew?" he writes. "Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or have we allowed ourselves to be so divided that we are easy prey for hijackers who could steer us onto a path to a crash landing? I do have some thoughts, original and inspired by others, for our journey into the heart of a new century." Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, he weaves together stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American Dream. Inviting us to foster a rebirth of family, community, and civic engagement as profound as the one that won World War II, built our postwar prosperity, and ushered in the Civil Rights era, he traces the changes in modern life, in values, education, public service, housing, the Internet, and more, that have transformed our society in the decades since the age of thrift in which he was raised. Offering ideas from Americans who are change agents in their communities, he gives us a book that is a vision of hopefulness in an age of diminished expectations.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493263http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479061Description: "To Hell on a Fast Horse" re-creates the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West's most iconic outlaw. It is also the first dual biography of the Kid and Garrett, each a larger-than-life figure who would not have become legendary without the other.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479061http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493264Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493264http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478001Description: Here, travel writer Ian Frazier trains his eye for detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region, which takes up one-seventh of the land on earth. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the forty-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. The book brims with Mongols, half-crazed Orthodox archpriests, fur seekers, ambassadors of the czar bound for Peking, tea caravans, German scientists, American prospectors, intrepid English nurses, and prisoners and exiles of every kind. More than just a historical travelogue, this is also an account of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, and a personal reflection on the all-around amazingness of Russia, a country that still somehow manages to be funny.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478001http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493470Description: Traces the author's recreation of Hiram Bingham III's discovery of the ancient citadel, Machu Picchu, in the Andes Mountains of Peru, describing his struggles with rudimentary survival tools and his experiences at the sides of local guides.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493470http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476386Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476386http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478637Description: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478637http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489635Description: George L. Aiken's 1852 dramatization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's cabin. Issued for the 2011 Harriet Beecher Stowe bicentennial, this updated DVD puts the novel and play of Uncle Tom's Cabin into its proper literary, theatrical and societal contexts. Teachers, students, American history buffs and church study groups alike will benefit from this comprehensive program, containing two different staged versions of the play and a 138 page PDF source book of reviews, articles and original source materials. - Publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489635http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493265Description: Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the unconquered, the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus. Journalist Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon's uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest's secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with one such tribe of seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows. On assignment for National Geographic, Wallace joins Brazilian explorer Sydney Possuelo at the head of a 34-man team that ventures deep into the unknown in search of the tribe. Possuelo's mission is to protect the Arrow People, but the information he needs in order to do so can only be gleaned by entering a world of permanent twilight beneath the forest canopy.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493265http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496673Description: Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War, by its division, its bloodshed, and its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as the author shows in this revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment. In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries, and documents, he demonstrates that what motivated the North to go to war and persist in an increasingly bloody effort was primarily preservation of the Union. Devotion to the Union bonded nineteenth-century Americans in the North and West against a slaveholding aristocracy in the South and a Europe that seemed destined for oligarchy. Northerners believed they were fighting to save the republic, and with it the world's best hope for democracy. Once we understand the centrality of union, we can in turn appreciate the force that made northern victory possible: the citizen-soldier. The author reveals how the massive volunteer army of the North fought to confirm American exceptionalism by salvaging the Union. Contemporary concerns have distorted the reality of nineteenth-century Americans, who embraced emancipation primarily to punish secessionists and remove slavery as a future threat to union goals that emerged in the process of war. As the book recovers why and how the Civil War was fought, we gain a more honest understanding of why and how it was won.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496673http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478192Description: Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A century ago, in the era of Jim Crow, Booker T. Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. In this compelling biography, Norrell reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. He urged black people to acquire economic independence and to develop the moral character that would ultimately gain them full citizenship. Although widely accepted as the most realistic way to integrate blacks into American life during his time, Washingtonrsquo;s strategy has been disparaged since the 1960s. The first full-length biography of Booker T. in a generation, Up from History recreates the broad contexts in which Washington worked: He struggled against white bigots who hated his economic ambitions for blacks, African-American intellectuals like W.E.B. Du Bois who resented his huge influence, and such inconstant allies as Theodore Roosevelt. Norrell details the positive power of Washingtonrsquo;s vision, one that invoked hope and optimism to overcome past exploitation and present discrimination. Indeed, his ideas have since inspired peoples across the Third World that there are many ways to struggle for equality and justice. Up from History reinstates this extraordinary historical figure to the pantheon of black leaders, illuminating not only his mission and achievement but also, poignantly, the man himself.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478192http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478636Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478636http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476366Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476366http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477071Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477071http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456424Description: Richard Haass--a member of the National Security Council staff for the first President Bush and the director of policy planning in the State Department for Bush II--contrasts the decisions that shaped the conduct of the two Iraq wars and makes a crucial distinction between the 1991 and 2003 conflicts, while offering an examination of the means and ends of U.S. foreign policy: how it should be made, what it should seek to accomplish, and how it should be pursued.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456424http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478635Description: Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478635http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478219Description: In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478219http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478218Description: In "Washington : a Life" celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478218http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478191Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478191http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478000Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478000http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477945Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477945http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495960Description: Traces the history of the online organization WikiLeaks, which released thousands of previously secret or classified documents from numerous government agencies, and examines its impact on world politics and freedom of information.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495960http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479046Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479046http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477999Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477999http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476175Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476175http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478634Description: "Explains the history of the American labor movement from its earliest origins through 19th-century industrialization, the growth of the labor movement, the current declining influence of labor, and efforts to revitalize American unions. Features include a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478634http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496675Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496675http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508321Description: In this book the author presents a history of the role of British citizens in the American Civil War that offers insight into the interdependencies of both nations and how the Union worked to block diplomatic relations between England and the Confederacy. Even before the first rumblings of secession shook the halls of Congress, British involvement in the coming schism was inevitable. Britain was dependent on the South for cotton, and in turn the Confederacy relied almost exclusively on Britain for guns, bullets, and ships. The Union sought to block any diplomacy between the two and consistently teetered on the brink of war with Britain. For four years the complex web of relationships between the countries led to defeats and victories both minute and history making. In this book the author examines the fraught relations from multiple angles while she introduces characters both humble and grand, bringing them to life over the course of this narrative. Between 1861 and 1865, thousands of British citizens volunteered for service on both sides of the Civil War. From the first cannon blasts on Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox, they served as officers and infantrymen, sailors and nurses, blockade runners and spies. Through personal letters, diaries, and journals, the author has woven together their experiences to form a view of the war on the front lines, in the prison camps, and in the great cities of both the Union and the Confederacy. Through the eyes of these brave volunteers we see the details of the struggle for life and the great and powerful forces that threatened to demolish a nation. In the drawing rooms of London and the offices of Washington, on muddy fields and aboard packed ships, the author reveals the decisions made, the beliefs held and contested, and the personal triumphs and sacrifices that ultimately led to the reunification of America.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508321http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488032Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=488032