Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://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=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=504629Description: The author recounts the first 500 days after 9/11, laying bare the harrowing decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the eighteen months that changed the world forever. "500 Days" also includes reported details about warrantless wiretapping, the anthrax attacks and investigations, and conflicts between Washington and London.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504629http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496749Description: In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continents, they created, in the Americas, the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced labor in human history. Three centuries later these same intercontinental actions produced a movement that successfully challenged the institution at the peak of its dynamism. Within another century a new surge of European expansion constructed Old World empires under the banner of antislavery. However, twentieth-century Europe itself was inundated by a new system of slavery, larger and more deadly than its earlier system of New World slavery. This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496749http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507083Description: "Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. The presence of these early New World people was established by distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative. They counter traditional -- and often subjective -- approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness by applying rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Presenting archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago."-- Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507083http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496750Description: This work traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. The author introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He shows how governing these peoples was relatively easy when power was concentrated in a small dynastic elite, but how this delicate political order broke down in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when Afghanistan's rulers mobilized rural militias to expel first the British and later the Soviets. Armed insurgency proved remarkably successful against the foreign occupiers, but it also undermined the Afghan government's authority and rendered the country ever more difficult to govern as time passed. He describes how Afghanistan's armed factions plunged the country into a civil war, giving rise to clerical rule by the Taliban and Afghanistan's isolation from the world. He examines why the American invasion in the wake of September 11 toppled the Taliban so quickly, and how this easy victory lulled the United States into falsely believing that a viable state could be built just as easily. This book helps the reader understand how a land conquered and ruled by foreign dynasties for more than a thousand years became the "graveyard of empires" for the British and Soviets, and what the United States must do to avoid a similar fate.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496750http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507203Description: While the modern nation can trace its origins back to 1747, the history of Afghanistan is far more ancient. It has long been an ancient focal point of the Silk Road and human migration connecting the Central Asian steppe and China with Iran and the Indian subcontinent. While many native people such as the Kushans, Samanids, Saffarids and Mughals have founded their empires here, the country has also been the target of numerous invasions. Its combination of geography and mix of peoples explains why Afghanistan is one of the most culturally rich and diverse places on Earth. Rich in local precious metals and minerals, it has a long history of producing high-quality arts and crafts. This book features views of the country's landscape, important monuments, and a range of ancient and modern objects. It places this rich and ancient seam of creativity in its broad historical context and offers a full appreciation of this remarkable country.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507203http://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=507084Description: This almanac is devoted to illustrating and demystifying the moving, difficult, and often lost history of black life in America. A legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph spanning more than 400 years is presented through a mix of biographies (including 500 influential figures), little-known or misunderstood historical facts, enlightening essays on significant legislation and movements, and 150 rare photographs and illustrations. Covering events surrounding the civil rights movement; African American literature, art, and music; religion within the black community; and advances in science and medicine, this reference connects history to the issues currently facing the African American community and provides a range of information on society and culture.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507084http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496648Description: From the Publisher: The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees--a third of Rwanda's population--fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of a number of allied African countries, overthrew him. But as Prunier shows, the collapse of the Mobutu regime and the ascension of the corrupt and erratic Laurent-Desire Kabila created a power vacuum that drew Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and other African nations into an extended and chaotic war. The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in an intractable and bloody conflict after 1998, a devastating war that only wound down following the assassination of Kabila in 2001. Prunier not only captures all this in his riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. Here then is a gripping eyewitness account of the bloodiest upheaval of recent times, a book of passionate and unblinking intensity that is our best record to date of one of the great tragedies of the post-Cold War era.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496648http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504630Description: A brutally honest expos, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have focused primarily on Nelson Mandela's transcendent story. But Douglas Foster, a leading South Africa authority with early, unprecedented access to President Zuma and to the next generation in the Mandela family, traces the nation's entire post-apartheid arc, from its celebrated beginnings under "Madiba" to Thabo Mbeki's tumultuous rule to the ferocious battle between Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Foster tells this story not only from the point of view of the emerging black elite but also, drawing on hundreds of rare interviews over a six-year period, from the perspectives of ordinary citizens, including an HIV-infected teenager living outside Johannesburg and a homeless orphan in Cape Town. This is the long-awaited, revisionist account of a country whose recent history has been not just neglected but largely ignored by the West.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504630http://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=496751Description: "Alaska's story is usually confined to regional history books, and in many American history texts, the state simply disappears after the Klondike gold rush. Willis's book marks the first comprehensive examination of Alaskan development schemes from 1890 to the present, connecting these plans to the changing priorities of American culture and politics. She examines competing definitions of Alaska--from a 'Last Frontier' meant to be exploited to a 'Last Wilderness' to be protected at all costs--and explains how the contemporary Alaskan landscape is a result of this ongoing struggle to define this mythic state's place in the American West. Willis focuses on five historic battles between environmentalists and developers: the Alaska Native reindeer herding industry, the New Deal homesteader program in the Matanuska Colony, the construction of the Alaska Highway, the political dispute over the Rampart Dam, and the ongoing struggles over the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. She presents these case histories in clear language that will engage general readers while using new historical analysis that will appeal to scholars of environmental history and the American West. The result is an effective introduction to the historical origins of current political conflicts in Alaska. Transcending the typical regional histories of the state, Willis's study shows how Alaska development schemes have affected the history of American development more broadly, with conclusions that will be useful to anyone interested in environment and development issues in America or the circumpolar North--including a consideration of Alaska as the new frontier in global climate change. By showing why Alaska continues to resonate in the American imagination, Willis's book situates the forty-ninth state within the environmental movement, within the definition of the American West, and within American culture as a whole"--P. [2-3] of dust jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496751http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457063Description: Analyzes many puzzling aspects of the Civil War, from its mismatched sides to the absence of decisive outcomes for dozens of skirmishes, and offers insight into the war's psychology, ideology, and economics while discussing the pivotal roles of leadership and geography.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457063http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504631Description: Contains a collection of historical documents that have shaped the United States into the nation it is today.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504631http://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=496752Description: At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 key events-some known and some forgotten- that shaped colonial and revolutionary America, from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496752http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504632Description: On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port, but were captured by the U.S. Navy. Their legal battle for freedom made its way to the Supreme Court, where they were freed and eventually returned to Africa. The rebellion became one of the best-known events in the history of American slavery, celebrated in films and books--all reflecting the elite perspective of the judges, politicians, and abolitionists involved. In this highly original account, using newly discovered evidence, Marcus Rediker reclaims the rebellion for its true proponents: the African rebels who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of self-emancipated Africans steered their own course to freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This book honors their achievement.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504632http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492563Description: A portrait of the first woman archaeologist to work in Polynesia documents Routledge's experiences on Easter Island, beginning with the launch of the 1913 Mana Expedition and continuing with her emersion into local customs and beliefs and battle with schizophrenia.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492563http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496753Description: The contribution of the ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizable without the formative influence of ancient Greek models. This introduction to ancient Greece takes the city as its starting point, revealing just how central the polis ("city-state" or "citizen-state") was to Hellenistic cultural achievements. In particular, the author uses the history of eleven major Greek cities, out of more than a thousand, to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek history from the first documented use of the Greek language around 1400 BCE, through the glories of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, to the foundation of the Byzantine empire in around CE 330. The book spans a long time period, ranging from the first examples of ancient Greek language from Cnossus in Crete around 1400 BC to the establishment of Constantinople (today's Istanbul) in 324 AD on the site of the Greek city of Byzantion. He highlights the role of such renowned cities as Athens (birthplace of democracy) and Sparta, but he also examines Argos, Thebes, Syracuse in Sicily, and Alexandria in Egypt, as well as lesser known locales such as Miletus (home of the West's first intellectual, Thales) and Massalia (Marseilles today), where the Greeks introduced the wine grape to the French. The author uses these cities to illuminate major themes, from economics, religion, and social relations, to gender and sexuality, slavery and freedom, and politics. And throughout, the book explores how these eleven cities differed both from each other and from modern society. An innovative approach to ancient Greece and its legacy, both in terms of the time span covered and in its unique city-by-city organization, this volume provides a concise introduction to the history and culture of this civilization.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496753http://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=495842Description: A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495842http://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=496787Description: "In this one-of-a-kind atlas, [General Stonewall] Jackson's map and dozens more - both archival and newly created - trace the battles, political turmoil, and defining themes of the nation's most pivotal conflict."-inside jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496787http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496650Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496650http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496788Description: Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. This atlas deals with 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps that explore details of the African slave traffic to the New World.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496788http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504633Description: Based on hundreds of interviews and documents, this book chronicles the life of Barack Obama and the forces that shaped him, from early childhood through his adult years, as he became the first black president of the United States. In it the author reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland in Africa and a white woman born in Texas. He charts the fortunes of the two disparate families, polar opposites in every way, which produced these two extraordinary individuals, who met briefly in Hawaii, never cohabited, and married only to legitimize the child born of that union. At the heart of Obama's psyche and his political beliefs, and therefore his presidency, is his lifelong struggle to understand the extreme duality of his identity.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504633http://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=493455Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493455http://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=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=507205Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507205http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499128Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499128http://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=496755Description: "In this work, surveying 300 years and two nations, Sarah Gwyneth Ross demonstrates how the expanding ranks of learned women in the Renaissance era presented the first significant challenge to the traditional definition of "woman" in the West."--Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496755http://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=496756Description: In this book, the author, a transportation journalist, celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious pioneers who developed the railways that would dominate the globe. She reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world, linking cities that had hitherto been isolated, stimulating both economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, she describes the vision and determination of the pioneers who developed railways that would one day span continents, as well as the labour of the navvies who built this global network. She shows how cultures were enriched, and destroyed, by the unrelenting construction and how they had a vital role in civil conflict, as well as in two world wars. Indeed, the global expansion of the railways was key to the spread of modernity and the making of the modern world.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496756http://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=496757Description: "Who owns the past? Scientists are reconstructing human prehistory with ever more refined techniques at a time when Indigenous people are demanding ownership of it, and when many archaeologists are challenging the primacy of scientific evidence. 'The bone readers' examines the most controversial issues in Australian pre-history. With a razor sharp eye and a fine sense of irony, the authors explain which hypotheses don't have legs and expose the implications for the politics of the present. They examine the facts and myths about first human arrival in Australia and later waves of arrivals, the implications of the discovery of Homo floresiensis (hobbits), sensitivities around the demise of megafauna, rock art dating, and what DNA tells us about ownership of human remains. Findings in Australia have implications for the history of the human species throughout the world, and they show how they can throw light on human lineages and animal extinctions elsewhere. Throughout they explain the complexities of scientific techniques for the general reader. This book sets the record straight for readers puzzled by the myriad claims and counterclaims. Not shy of controversy, it is bound to stir debate."--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496757http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492689Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492689http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493459Description: A chronicle of Washington's last fifteen years reviews his accomplishments and explains how he gained strong political influence.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493459http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478212Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478212http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492694Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492694http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495949Description: Originally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural "fallout" in America during the early years of the atomic age. The book is based on a wide range of sources, including cartoons, opinion polls, radio programs, movies, literature, song lyrics, slang, and interviews with leading opinion-makers of the time. Through these materials, Boyer shows the surprising and profoundly disturbing ways in which the bomb quickly and totally penetrated the fabric of American life, from the chillingly prophetic forecasts of observers like Lewis Mumford to the Hollywood starlet who launched her career as the "anatomic bomb." In a new preface, Boyer discusses recent changes in nuclear politics and attitudes toward the nuclear age.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495949http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496758Description: "Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy in a series of specially commissioned essays by prominent scholars from a range of disciplines. As a result, this is an unusually rich analysis of this important African American leader, orator, and cultural icon."--P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496758http://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=490376Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490376http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507088Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507088http://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=496759Description: From the Publisher: Two famous, firsthand accounts of the holy war in the Middle Ages. Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a Western perspective. Villehardouin's Conquest of Constantinople, distinguished by its simplicity and lucidity, recounts the controversial Fourth Crusade, which descended into an all-out attack on the Eastern Christians of Byzantium. In Life of Saint Louis, Joinville draws on his close attachment to King Louis IX of France to recall his campaigning in the Holy Land. Together these narratives comprise a fascinating window on events that, for all their remoteness, offer startling similarities to our own age.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496759http://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=507212Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507212http://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=495950Description: "Carl von Clausewitz's On War, first published in Germany after the Napoleonic Wars, is perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written. It has influenced generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars, and is still required reading at military academies to this day." "But On War, which was never finished and was published posthumously, is obscure and contradictory. What Clausewitz declares in book 1, he discounts in book 8. The language is often confusing and the relevance is not always clear. For a book that has truly changed the world, On War is extremely perplexing for the general reader to approach, to reconcile with itself, and to place in context.".http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495950http://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=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=493245Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493245http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491141Description: Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. It draws on his personal archive of never before seen materials to offer unique access to the private world of an incomparable world leader. Journals kept on the run during the anti apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and draft letters written in Robben Island and other South African prisons during his twenty-seven years of incarceration; notebooks from the postapartheid transition; private recorded conversations; speeches and correspondence written during his presidency, a historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation is brought together into this narrative. An intimate journey from Mandela's first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, this biography illuminates a heroic life forged on the front lines of the struggle for freedom and justice. It allows, for the first time, insight into the human side of the icon.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491141http://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=491140Description: "This volume collects leading scholarship on one of the most important archaeological complexes in the ancient Maya world. The authors - internationally renowned experts who participated in the Copan Acropolis Archaeological Project - address enduring themes in Maya archaeology, such as symbolism and its use in elite legitimation strategies, demographics and ancient political economy, and the relationship between water management and social structure. In addition to site-specific breakthroughs involving dynastic sequences, epigraphy, and chronologies, these essays explore questions of broad interest to archaeologists and other anthropologists, including state formation, architecture and space, and the relationship between history and archaeology as well as among archaeology, epigraphy, and iconography. Synthesizing the new findings in the context of the long history of Maya archaeology, the volume takes stock of the field and suggests future directions for research."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491140http://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=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=496652Description: Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archaeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, The Edge of the Woods explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the geographic expression of Iroquois social, political, and economic priorities. By reconstructing the late precolonial Iroquois settlement landscape and the paths of human mobility that constructed and sustained it, Jon Parmenter challenges the persistent association between Iroquois "locality" and Iroquois "culture," and more fully maps the extended terrain of physical presence and social activity that Iroquois people inhabited. Studying patterns of movement through and between the multiple localities in Iroquois space, the book offers a new understanding of Iroquois peoplehood during this period. According to Parmenter, Iroquois identities adapted, and even strengthened, as the very shape of Iroquois homelands changed dramatically during the seventeenth century. In assessing the ways the Iroquois engaged the pressures and opportunities presented by the development of European settler colonies on the periphery of their homelands, The Edge of the Woods relates the Iroquois experience to larger critical conversations about the impact of colonialism on human cultures, polities, and economies---a discourse from which Native Americans are often excluded as agents of change. Recognizing that North American settler colonialism has not only invaded and conquered territorial space but also colonized indigenous epistemological spaces, Parmenter tells the story of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Iroquois history from the "inside out." To accomplish this, Parmenter compares multiple European accounts of the Iroquois during this period and draws on the physical evidence of the archaeological record through the lens of Iroquois oral traditions. In so doing, the book aims to render articulate some of the many silences of the Iroquois past.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496652http://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=496653Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496653http://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=493248Description: Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II, who has led her country and Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the last sixty years with unparalleled composure, intelligence, and grace.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493248http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492567Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492567http://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=496654Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496654http://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=495962Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495962http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496762Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496762http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491139Description: From the Publisher: Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. This expanded and updated fourth edition includes Laura Bush's tenure, Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, and an in-depth look at Michelle Obama, one of the most charismatic and appealing First Ladies in recent history. Covering all forty-one women from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama and including the daughters, daughters-in-law, and sisters of presidents who sometimes served as First Ladies, Caroli explores each woman's background, marriage, and accomplishments and failures in office. This remarkably diverse lot included Abigail Adams, whose "remember the ladies" became a twentieth-century feminist refrain; Jane Pierce, who prayed her husband would lose the election; Helen Taft, who insisted on living in the White House, although her husband would have preferred a judgeship; Eleanor Roosevelt, who epitomized the politically involved First Lady; and Pat Nixon, who perfected what some have called "the robot image." They ranged in age from early 20s to late 60s; some received superb educations for their time, while others had little or no schooling. Including the courageous and adventurous, the emotionally unstable, the ambitious, and the reserved, these women often did not fit the traditional expectations of a presidential helpmate. Here then is an engaging portrait of how each First Lady changed the role and how the role changed in response to American culture. These women left remarkably complete records, and their stories offer us a window through which to view not only this particular sorority of women, but also American women in general.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491139http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496763Description: From the Publisher: More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. David J. Meltzer pulls together the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics, skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to trace the breakthroughs that have revolutionized our understanding in recent years. Among many other topics, he explores disputes over the hemisphere's oldest and most controversial sites and considers how the first Americans coped with changing global climates. He also confronts some radical claims: that the Americas were colonized from Europe or that a crashing comet obliterated the Pleistocene megafauna. Full of entertaining descriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how science is illuminating our past.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496763http://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=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=496655Description: From the author of "The Man Who Made Lists" comes an absorbing biography of Noah Webster, whose name is synonymous with the dictionary he created, but whose life story is not nearly so ubiquitous.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496655http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504634Description: One of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of England. The first in an extraordinary six-volume history, "Foundation" takes the reader from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504634http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489880Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489880http://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=498987Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498987http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493462Description: Established as America's first foreign naval base following the Spanish-American War, Guantâanamo is now more often thought of as our Devil's Island. This book takes readers beyond the orange-jumpsuited detainees of today's headlines to provide the first comprehensive history of Guantâanamo from its origins to the present. Occupying 45 square miles of land and sea, Guantâanamo has for more than a century symbolized the imperial impulse within U.S. foreign policy, and its occupation is decried by Cuba as a violation of international law--even though a treaty legally grants the U.S. a lease in perpetuity. Stephen Schwab now describes the base's role in American, Caribbean, and global history, explaining how it came to be, why it's still there, and how it continues to serve a variety of purposes.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493462http://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=495953Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495953http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507223Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507223http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507225Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507225http://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=496765Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496765http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496657Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496657http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496658Description: The Philippines is a country in its adolescence, struggling by fits and starts to emerge from a rich, troubled and multilayered past. From its first settlement through the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century to the subsequent American occupation and beyond, this work recasts various Philippine narratives, familiar and unfamiliar, with an eye for the layers of colonial and post colonial history that have created this diverse and fascinating population. The narrative moves from a pre Hispanic Philippines in the 16th century through the Spanish American War, the nation's tumultuous relationship with the United States, and General MacArthur's controlling presence during WWII, up to its independence in 1946 and subsequent years of Islamic insurgency. The author creates a portrait that provides the reader valuable insights into the heart and soul of the modern Filipino, laying bare the multicultural, multiracial society of modern times.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496658http://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=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=489884Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489884http://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=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=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=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=496663Description: "Relationships with indigenous peoples has become a key issue in the practice of archaeology worldwide: Collaborative projects, or projects directed and conducted by indigenous peoples themselves, have become a standard feature of the archaeological landscape, community concerns are routinely addressed, oral histories incorporated into research. This reader of original and reprinted articlesûmany by indigenous authorsûis designed to display the array of writings on this subject from around the globe, many difficult to access in standard academic settings. Cases range from Australia to Arctic Russia, from Africa to North America. Editorial introductions to each section serve to contextualize these works in the intersection of archaeology and indigenous studies. An ideal course text in both subjects." "Margaret M. Bruchac, of Abenaki descent, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Connecticut." "Siobhan M. Hart is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University." "H. Martin Wobst is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst"--Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496663http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492569Description: Infibulation is the most extreme form of female circumcision. It plays an important role in the Islamic societies of northeastern Africa. Until now, the social significance and function of this practice has been poorly understood. This has been no less true of Western commentators who have condemned the practice than of relevant governments that have attempted to curb it. In Infibulation, Esther K. Hicks analyzes female circumcision as a cultural trait embedded in a historically traditional milieu and shows why it cannot be treated in isolation as a single issue destined for elimination. In its brief history it has been recognized as a pioneering piece of research with enormous consequences.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492569http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503889Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503889http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496552Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496552http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489883Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489883http://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=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=507092Description: In celebration of the Girl Scouts' centennial, this biography is a salute to its maverick founder. Born at the start of the Civil War, Juliette Gordon Low grew up in Georgia, where she struggled to reconcile being a good Southern belle with her desire to run barefoot through the fields. Deafened by an accident, "Daisy" married a dashing British aristocrat and moved to England. But she was ultimately betrayed by her husband and dissatisfied by the aimlessness of privileged life. Her search for a greater purpose ended when she met Robert Baden-Powell, war hero, adventurer, and founder of the Boy Scouts. Captivated with his program, Daisy aimed to instill the same useful skills and moral values in young girls, with an emphasis on fun. She imported the Boy Scouts' sister organization, the Girl Guides, to Savannah in 1912. Rechristened the Girl Scouts, it grew rapidly because of her unquenchable determination and energetic, charismatic leadership. In this biography, the author paints a dynamic portrait of an intriguing woman and a true pioneer whose work touched the lives of millions of girls and women around the world.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507092http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496664Description: Investigates the enigmatic Native American figure, assessing critical battles attributed to his leadership within the context of the Great Sioux Wars, exploring the relationships between the Lakota Sioux and other tribes, and analyzing the subjugation of North Plains Native Americans.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496664http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496665Description: The author explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. His book explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country. It is a history of one of the most puzzling eras in American history when the Constitution was amended to restrict human behaviour. In the 19th century, the U.S. was notably liquor-soaked. By 1917, some people were prepared to translate their concerns into legislative action. An intriguing look at what life under prohibition was like, what it did to the country, and how it reflected such issues as xenophobia, urban/rural tension, and the role of women in society.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496665http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=129444Description: Details the first fifty-eight years of a man whose ambitions and serious flaws made him one of the world's most powerful leaders, placing Churchill's prewar career against the backdrop of the collapse of the British Empire.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=129444http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496770Description: The bestselling author of "Mayflower" sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American West, reminding readers that the Battle of the Little Bighorn was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496770http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507093Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507093http://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=496771Description: "In Lincoln's Way, historian Richard Striner tells the story of America's rise to global power and the presidential leaders who envisioned it and made it happen. From Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt within the Republican Party, the legacy was passed along to Franklin Delano Roosevelt--the Democratic Roosevelt--who bequeathed it to Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy."--Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496771http://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=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=495955Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495955http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507094Description: This is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. Suddenly the boy who had stood in the shadows was a public figure, and his popularity soared. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see the progressive leader of their dreams, even as he seized control of media, sent political rivals and critics into exile or to the grave, and smashed the country's fragile electoral system, concentrating power in the hands of his cronies. As a journalist living in Moscow, Masha Gessen experienced this history firsthand, and she has drawn on sources no other writer has tapped.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507094http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496667Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496667http://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=454214Description: The dramatic story of the methamphetamine epidemic of the 1980s as it sweeps the American heartland--a moving, very human account of one community's attempt to battle its way to a brighter future. Crystal meth is widely considered the world's most dangerous drug, but especially so in the small towns of the American heartland. Journalist Reding tells the story of Oelwein, Iowa (pop. 6,159), which, like thousands of other small towns, has been left in the dust by the consolidation of the agricultural industry, a depressed local economy, and an out-migration of people. As if this weren't enough, an incredibly cheap, longlasting, and highly addictive drug has rolled into town. Over a period of four years, journalist Nick Reding brings us into the heart of Oelwein, tracing the connections between the lives touched by the drug and the global forces that set the stage for the epidemic.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454214http://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=495956Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495956http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496773Description: Muslims are neither new nor foreign to the United States. They have been a vital presence in North America since the 16th century. This book unearths their history, documenting the lives of African, Middle Eastern, South Asian, European, black, white, Hispanic and other Americans who have been followers of Islam. The book begins with the tale of Job Ben Solomon, a 18th century African American Muslim slave, and goes on to chart the stories of sodbusters in North Dakota, African American converts to Islam in the 1920s, Muslim barkeepers in Toledo, the post-1965 wave of professional immigrants from Asia and Africa, and Muslim Americans after 9/11. The book reveals the richness of Sunni, Shi'a, Sufi and other forms of Islamic theology, ethics, and rituals in the United States by illustrating the way Islamic faith has been imagined and practiced in the everyday lives of individuals. It recovers the place of Muslims in the larger American story, too. Showing how Muslim American men and women participated in each era of U.S. history, the book explores how they have both shaped and have been shaped by larger historical trends such as the abolition movement, Gilded Age immigration, the Great Migration of African Americans, urbanization, religious revivalism, the feminist movement, and the current war on terror. It also shows how, from the very beginning of American history, Muslim Americans have been at once a part of their local communities, their nation, and the worldwide community of Muslims. A first single author history of Muslims in America from colonial times to the present, this book fills a huge gap and provides invaluable background on one of the most poorly understood groups in the United States.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496773http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493499Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493499http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492571Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492571http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489882Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489882http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493262Description: Presents a comprehensive history of World War II from the invasion of Poland in 1939 to Germany's surrender in 1945; and focuses on the roles that each nation played in defeating Nazi Germany.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493262http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496774Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496774http://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=508286Description: Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. Wasserstein shows how the harsh realities of the age devastated the lives of communities and individuals. By 1939, the Jews faced an existential crisis that was as much the result of internal decay as of external attack.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508286http://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=495957Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495957http://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=496775Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496775http://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=496669Description: A series of penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World, written by a team of leading international contributors.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496669http://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=493259Description: Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493259http://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=492696Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492696http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496777Description: "Sunday, 15 June 1952. Having spent four years clearing a secret passage inside Palenque's Temple of the Inscriptions, Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz gazed into a vaulted chamber. There, beneath a gigantic carved stone block, he would make a spectacular discovery: the intact burial of King Pakal, complete with jade jewelry and an exquisite burial mask." "Pakal was the most prominent among a long line of monarchs who held sway at Palenque from AD 300 to 800, deep in the mountains of southeastern Mexico. This 'queen of Maya cities' fell into ruin and was abandoned when Maya civilization suffered a mysterious collapse over a millennium ago." "Through the eyes of David Stuart and George Stuart, we travel with pioneer artists and archaeologists from the 18th century on as they rediscovered Palenque and attempted to document the city's graceful and ornate palaces, temples, bas-reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions." "Today Palenque, proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a place of new reverence and relevance for millions of modern Maya, New Age spiritualists, and all those fascinated by the history of the Maya. For them and for the host of visitors to Mexico, this is the perfect guide."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496777http://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=496778Description: "Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of Peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination among American Indians today. The Peyote Road examines the history of the NAC, including its legal struggles to defend the controversial use of Peyote.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496778http://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=507228Description: "Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination--but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court's landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly details the origins, litigation, opinions, and aftermath of this notorious case"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507228http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496780Description: "A fresh and engaging account of America's history from European contact to the election of Barack Obama. Bruce Kuklick's straightforward yet authoritative narrative, provides a clear and concise way through the complexities of American history without oversimplifying or assuming prior knowledge. The book places politics in the context of religious culture and tries to account for the assertive expansion at the heart of the development of the U.S. Supported by wide-ranging examples, extracts from primary sources, maps, photos and illustrations, this compelling yet balanced account of America's political, cultural and religious history will be core reading for undergraduate students of American history"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496780http://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=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=490933Description: Presents the professional and private lives of Marie and Pierre Curie, examining their personal struggles, the advancements they made in the world of science, and the issue of radiation in the modern world.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490933http://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=453565Description: A video history of Penn State University shows agricultural and technical/enineering education as supportive of the country's needs throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries particularly. Uses many archive images and motion pictures from the Penn State University Archives Special Collections Library, Centre County Historical Society at the Centre Furnace Mansion, and the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration to weave together stories of significant persons and societal influences in Penn State's history . Features unique Penn State stories, such as a large student-run dance marathon to raise money for pediatric cancer , the founding of the Hershey S. Milton Medical School, and Joe Paterno's successful Nittany Lions football program.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=453565http://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=491129Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491129http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495959Description: The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. The author shows that women played a vital role throughout the struggle: we see women boycotting British goods in the years before independence, writing propaganda that radicalized their neighbors, raising funds for the army, and helping finance the fledgling government. We see how they managed farms, plantations, and businesses while their men went into battle, and how they served as nurses and cooks in the army camps; risked their lives carrying intelligence, participating in reconnaissance missions, or seeking personal freedom from slavery; served as spies, saboteurs, and warriors; and lived with the daily knowledge that their husbands could be hanged as traitors if the revolution did not succeed.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495959http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489297Description: This study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. The authors followed a social network of heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling and day labour.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489297http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496781Description: In this magnificent history, Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power, to reveal Ancient Egypt in all its complexity--from the brutality and repression that lay behind the appearance of its unchanging monarchy to its extraordinary architectural and cultural achievements.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496781http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508313Description: This work is a biographical history of the Romans who conquered and dominated Britain, based on the latest archaeological evidence and original source material. Here are the stories of the people who built and ruled Roman Britain, from the eagle bearer who leaped off Caesar's ship into the waves at Walmer in 55 B.C. to the last cavalry units to withdraw from the island under their dragon standards in the early fifth century A.D. Through the lives of its generals, governors, and emperors and those they sought to rule, this book explores the narrative of Britannia as an integral and often troublesome part of Rome's empire, a hard won province whose mineral wealth and agricultural prosperity made it crucial to the stability of the West. But Britannia did not exist in a vacuum, and the authors set it in an international context to give an account of the pressures and events that had a profound impact on its people and its history. The authors discuss the lives and actions of the Roman occupiers against the backdrop of an evolving landscape, where Iron Age shrines were replaced by marble temples and industrial scale factories and granaries sprang up across the countryside. The cast of characters features men and women both noble and venal, courageous and craven, from Caesar, Agricola, and Boudica to Carausius, Magnentius, and Valentinus.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508313http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504638Description: "In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation."--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504638http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507229Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507229http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496672Description: "In 2010, Santa Fe officially turns 400 - four centuries of a rich and contentious history of Indian, Spanish, and American interactions. Pueblo Indians settled along the banks of the Rio Santa Fe as long ago as the sixth century C.E. By 1610, Spanish colonists had established the town as a distant outpost in Spain's expanding empire. Drawing on recent archaeological discoveries and historical research, this updated edition of a classic history details the town's founding, its survival through revolt and reconquest, its turbulent politics, its lively trade with Mexico and the United States, and the lives of its most important citizens, from the governors Peralta, Vargas, and Armijo to the madam doña Tules.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496672http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499671Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499671http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496782Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496782http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491128Description: Sarah Milledge Nelson's bold thesis is that the development of states in East Asia - China, Japan, Korea - was an outgrowth of the leadership in smaller communities guided by shamans.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491128http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504325Description: "The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred over the last 100 years or more, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the decades with this dynamic force in their midst, and what these terms were, is the story at the heart of this text. Masses of Europeans have been enthralled by the real or imaginary prospects coming out of the USA. Important minorities were at times deeply upset by them. Sometime the roles were reversed or shaken up. But no-one could be indifferent for long. Inspiration, provocation, myth, menace, model: all these categories and many more have been deployed to try to cope with the Americans. Attitudes and stereotypes have emerged, intellectual resources have been mobilised, positions and policies developed: all trying to explain and deal with the kind of radiant supremacy the Americans built in the course of the twentieth century. David Ellwood combines political, economic, and cultural themes, suggesting that American mass culture is a distinctively incisive form of American power over time. The book is structured in three parts; a separation based on the proposition that America's influence as a decisive force for or against innovation was present most conspicuously after Europe's three greatest military-political conflicts of the contemporary era: the Great War, World War II, and the Cold War. It concludes with the emotional upsurge in Europe which greeted the arrival of Obama on the world scene, suggesting that in spite of all the disappointments and frictions of the years, the US still retained its privileged place as a source of inspiration for the future across the Western world."--Publisher's websitehttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504325http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492572Description: "Book-length monograph on the Rastafari uses both historical and participant observation ethnographic methods. Contains chapters on history of the movement, its adaptation to the urban area of Kingston, relationships with the Jamaican State, growth of Rastafari in the US, symbolism, problems with the law, and status of the social movement - or its evolution from charisma to institution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492572http://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=496783Description: This volume of selected oral histories features the voices of Americans who lived through some of the most critical events shaping the nation's history since the Civil War. This first-of-a-kind compilation allows students, scholars, and other readers to explore the connections and disconnections between individual stories and broader historical themes by understanding how history plays out in individual lives. Comprised of oral history interviews drawn from some of the country's major collections, Speaking History presents a remarkable array of diverse American voices. Included here are fascinating, often moving accounts of everything from slavery to protest movements, world wars to work and leisure, forming a detailed mosaic of American life in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Supplemented with valuable historical context, this book demonstrates how oral history interviews can bring the past to life by linking individual experiences to larger historical narratives.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496783http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492573Description: "Steel and Steelworkers is an account of the forces that shaped Pittsburgh, big business, and labor through the city's rapid industrialization in the mid-nineteenth century, its lengthy era of industrial "maturity," its precipitous deindustrialization toward the end of the twentieth century, and its reinvention from "hell with the lid off" to America's most livable (post-industrial) city. Hinshaw examined a wide variety of company, union, and government documents, oral histories, and newspapers to reconstruct the steel industry and the efforts of labor, business, and government to refashion it.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492573http://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=504637Description: In this biography the author draws upon archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished transcripts of Jefferson presidential papers to give readers a view of Jefferson the politician and the President, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity, and the genius of the new nation, lay in the possibility of progress. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously, catapulting him into becoming the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504637http://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=493264Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493264http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492699Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492699http://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=507098Description: Presents a portrait of King Tutankhamen, a fascinating and misunderstood ruler, shedding new light on his importance, his enduring power, and the archaeological discovery that earned him a place in the popular imagination.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507098http://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=504639Description: "The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America's smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps' uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power. Along with unapologetic self-promotion, a strong sense of identity has enabled the Corps to exert a powerful influence on American politics and culture. Aaron O'Connell focuses on the period from World War II to Vietnam, when the Marine Corps transformed itself from America's least respected to its most elite armed force."--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504639http://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=360976Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=360976http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496784Description: The Vietnam war continues to be the focus of intense controversy. While most people, liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, historians, pundits, and citizens alike, agree that the United States did not win the war, a vocal minority argue the opposite or debate why victory never came, attributing the quagmire to everything from domestic politics to the press. The military never lost a battle; how then did it not win the war? Stepping back from this overheated fray and drawing upon several decades of research the author takes a fresh look at both the war and the debates about it to produce a reassessment of one of our nation's most tragic episodes. He weaves together multiple perspectives across an epic-sized canvas where domestic politics, ideologies, nations, and militaries all collide. He patiently pieces back together the events and moments, from the end of World War II until our dispiriting departure from Vietnam in 1975, that reveal a war that now appears to have been truly unwinnable due to opportunities lost, missed, ignored, or refused. He shows how, from the Truman through the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations, American leaders consistently ignored or misunderstood the realities in Southeast Asia and passed up every opportunity to avoid war in the first place or avoid becoming ever more mired in it after it began. Highlighting especially Eisenhower's seminal and long-lasting influence on our Vietnam policy, he demonstrates how and why our range of choices narrowed with each passing year, while our decision making continued to be distorted by Cold War politics and fundamental misperceptions about the culture, psychology, goals, and abilities of both our enemies and our allies in Vietnam.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496784http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496785Description: "In this book a retired US Army colonel and military historian takes a fresh look at Dwight D. Eisenhower's lasting military legacy, in light of his evolving approach to the concept of unified command. Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores his efforts to implement a unified command in the US military. This key concept eventually led to the current organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, almost three decades after Eisenhower's presidency, played a major role in defense reorganization under the Goldwater-Nichols Act. In the new century, Eisenhower's approach continues to animate reform discussion at the highest level of government in terms of the interagency process."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496785http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492575Description: Publisher Fact Sheethttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492575http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496674Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496674http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492576Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492576http://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=492577Description: Women in the Mexica world; the dilemma: eternal goddesses or mortal women? -- Women in new Spain; the end of one world and the shaping of another -- Mexican.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492577http://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=495961Description: World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi blitzkriegs. The scale of devastation was unlike anything the world had seen before: Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, and four empires were destroyed. Even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. An overwhelming disaster from which the world is still recovering, World War One can seem baffling in its complexity. But now Norman Stone has composed a succinct history of the conflict. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495961http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=321641Description: Traces Johnson's life from his Texas childhood through his rise to political power and his successful 1948 senatorial campaign and eventual presidency.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=321641