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War, Revolution and Society In the Rio De La Plata, 1808-1810 Thomas Kinder's Narrative of a Journey to Madeira, Montevideo And Buenos Aires

Newitt Malyn

ISBN: PB: 9781904955696, Signal Books, January 2010
256 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm, 30 black&white illus.

For sale in CIS only! The year 2010 witnessed the official celebration of the bicentenary of the revolutions in the Rio de la Plata. This book contains the narrative that Thomas Kinder wrote of his voyage to that region in 1808-10 and of his stay in...

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Jewish Studies

Becoming American Jews Temple Israel of Boston

Dwyer-Ryan Meaghan, Porter Susan L., Fagin Davis Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9781584657903, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2009
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From its beginning in 1854 as a traditional German shul to its current status as the largest Reform synagogue in New England, Temple Israel has been an important force in Boston and American Jewish life. The congregation's ongoing efforts to adapt to...

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Week the World Heard Gallaudet

Gannon Jack R.

ISBN: PB: 9781563684142, Gallaudet University Press, January 2009
176 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, photos

In 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs, "The Week the World Heard Gallaudet" depicts, day by day, the "Deaf President Now!" Revolution at Gallaudet University as it unfolded March 6-13, 1988. Author Jack Gannon interviewed such main charac...

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Fair Chance in the Race of Life The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History

Greenwald Brian H., Vickrey Van Cleve John

ISBN: PB: 9781563683954, Gallaudet University Press, December 2008
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 17 photos

Despite its prominence as a world cultural center and a locus of research on deaf culture, history, education, and language for more than 150 years, Gallaudet University has only infrequently been the focal point of historical study. Eminent historia...

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Guerrilla Movements in Latin America

Gott Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781905422593, ISBN: HB: 9781905422586, Seagull Books, May 2008
632 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 40 halftones

Che Guevara's death began a legend and closed an era. Based directly on the documents produced by the guerrillas themselves, this is the first comprehensive history of that era. In theory, immense disparity in local wealth combined with the heavy h...

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Architecture

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Sprawl A Compact History

Bruegmann Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...

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Looking for Los Angeles Architecture, Film, Photography and the Urban Landscape

Salas Charles G., Roth Michael S.

ISBN: PB: 9780892366163, Getty Publications, March 2006
344 pp., 25.5x17.8 cm, 24 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Often referred to as the city of the future, Los Angeles is known for its sprawl, its constant change, and its special relationship to the film industry. The twelve contributors to "Looking for Los Angeles" focus on dramatic shifts in the urban lands...

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Jewish Studies

America

Observing America's Jews

Sklare Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9781584655640, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2006
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Collected essays by a preeminent authority on American Jewish history.

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History of Inclusion in the United States

Osgood Robert L.

ISBN: HB: 9781563683183, Gallaudet University Press, May 2005
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As a significant term, inclusion came into use relatively recently in the long history of special education in the United States. Since the 1800s, when children with disabilities first were segregated for instruction in public schools, professionals...

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Jewish Studies

American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise

Reinharz Shulamit, Raider Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9781584654391, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2004
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Despite a historical record that shows sustained involvement of American Jewish women with early Zionism and Palestine, this topic has received scant scholarly attention. A major contribution to Zionist history, women's history, and American history,...

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