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  • av Sheldon Anderson
    696,-

  • av Norman Gerald Barrier
    672,-

    Although the issues and details relate to one region, the shifting rationale for interfering with printed opinion and the mechanisms developed for exercising control have universal implication. Research in this subject by the author led to a vast extent of banned works by the British in India.

  • av Peter Campbell
    549,-

  • - The Search for Ultimacy from Ancient Societies to Postmodernity
    av Glenn Hughes
    452,-

    This text is an analysis of what philosopher Eric Voegelin described as ""the decisive problem of philosophy"": the dilemma of the discovery of transcendent meaning and the impact of this discovery on human self-understanding.

  • - The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II
    av Dennis R. Okerstrom
    580,99

    Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II by Dennis R. Okerstrom is a thoroughly researched narrative of the Allied joint project to invade Burma by air. Beginning with its inception at the Quebec Conference of 1943 and continuing through Operation Thursday until the death of the brilliant British General Orde Wingate in March 1944, less than a month after the successful invasion of Burma, Project 9 details all aspects of this covert mission, including the selection of the American airmen, the procurement of the aircraft, the joint training with British troops, and the dangerous night-time assault behind Japanese lines by glider.

  • av Allen D. Carden
    475,-

    With a history dating back to 1820, The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shape-note tune books. It helped teach midwesterners to read music using shaped notes, a system of musical notation that grew out of the singing school movement in eighteenth-century New England.

  • - A Slave Narrative
    av Mildred D. Johnson
    463,-

    This is an account of the years 1820 to 1865 in the life of Malindy, a freeborn Cherokee who was unlawfully enslaved as a child by a Franklin County, Missouri, farmer. Married to a freedman, Malindy gave birth to five children in slavery - creating a family she would fight her whole life to keep together.

  • - Later Middle Ages
    av Eric Voegelin
    848,-

    In this, his third volume on the history of political ideas, Vogelin continues his exploration of political thought, illuminating the great figures of the high Middle Ages and particulary focusing on the ""civilizational schism"" which resulted in the disappearance of the ""sacrum imperium"".

  • - Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon
     
    513,-

    An analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. It explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors and the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles.

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