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Conflicts and controversies at home and abroad have led Americans to focus on Islam more than ever before. In addition, more and more of their neighbors, colleagues, and friends are Muslims. While much has been written about contemporary American Islam and pioneering studies have appeared on Muslim slaves in the antebellum period, comparatively little is known about Islam in Victorian America. This biography of Alexander Russell Webb, one of the earliest American Muslims to achieve public renown, seeks to fill this gap.
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A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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Healing America: The Life of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the Issues that Shape Our Times
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When Bill Frist was elected to the United States Senate, he quickly became the poster-boy for compassionate conservative values. An enigma in D.C. politics, Frist is admired across party lines and has steadily risen in Senate leadership. In 2002, he was unanimously elected the United States Senate Majority Leader-a position of unique honor. From this seat, where he counsels the President and makes major decisions affecting Americans, he frequently turns to his faith when grappling with issues like bioterrorism, AIDS, and abortion rights. In this biography of the Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist will discuss issues that are close to his heart and his desk in Washington. His sometimes controversial position… More >>
Healing America: The Life of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the Issues that Shape Our Times
Guardian of America: The Life of James Martin Gillis, CSP
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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A biography of James Martin Gillis, C.S.P. (1876-1957), preacher, editor, and opinion-shaper, who was one of the best known Catholic priests in America in the mid-twentieth century…. More >>
Guardian of America: The Life of James Martin Gillis, CSP
LIFE Hidden America
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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In Hidden America, LIFE’s editors explain the subtleties of our countrys history–and of its present day–with stunning, often beautiful and constantly surprising photography as well as evocative text. America is filled with tantalizing riddles both natural and unnatural, and LIFE’s editors solve those that can be solved in this fascinating–and beautiful–illustrated tour of our sometimes odd country.
Among the destinations visited are:
Mystery Hill, New HampshireThe chamber in Washington D.C. holding the Constitution The Anasazi ruinsThe Great Serpent Mound in OhioThe summit of Mount McKinleyThe ship graveyard off the Florida Keys
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Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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Teens in Latin America and the Caribbean generally face a difficult path to adulthood. Latin America and the Caribbean are important regions to the United States, since large numbers of Americans can trace their roots there. This book allows U.S. teens to understand the unique challenges and opportunities of teens in 15 Latin American or Caribbean countries. Photos complement the text…. More >>
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Cesare Pavese and America: Life, Love, and Literature
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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When he committed suicide at age forty-one, Cesare Pavese (1908 1950) was one of Italy s best-known writers. A poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator, he had been profoundly influenced in his early years by American literature. But later he grew disaffected with American culture, coming to see it as materialistic and shallow. This book, the first full-length English-language study of Pavese in twenty years, examines his life and the evolution of his views of America through a chronological reading of his works. As an adolescent and young man, Pavese immersed himself in American literature, especially that of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1930, at the height of Italian Fascism s popul… More >>
Cesare Pavese and America: Life, Love, and Literature
Newswire Photo S Holland America Life Boat Drill – stripping the boats
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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This is a museum-quality, reproduction print on premium, acid-free, semi gloss paper with archival/UV resistant inks.The print is framed with a single ivory matte under acrylic glass, and shipped insured, ready to hang and enjoy.Date: n/aTopics: HISTORY OF THE OLD AMERICANA PHOTOSThis image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection which represents one of America’s earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the woman suffrage campaign, conventions and public celebrations. The photographs Bain produced and gathered for distribution through his news service were worldwide in their coverage, but… More >>
Newswire Photo S Holland America Life Boat Drill – stripping the boats
Time: The Making of America: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of a Nation
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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Join the editors of TIME to walk with legends and re-live the incredible story of America’s birth. Here is history as only TIME can tell it, as such fascinating, complex characters as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and George Washington transform a handful of remote British colonies into a new nation, conceived in liberty. Here is the wise, eccentric Benjamin Franklin – half statesman, half scientist. Here is the bitter rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which ended in a duel to the death. Here are the incredible journeys of Lewis and Clark, guided through the wilderness and across the Rockies by the Native American woman, Sacajawea. Here are the true stories behind such legendary figures as Paul … More >>
Time: The Making of America: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of a Nation
Foxhunting in England, Ireland, and North America: A Life in Hunt Service
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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This is a wonderful and revealing autobiography of an English country childhood, the decision to enter hunt service, and the author’s experiences as he worked his way through an intensely hierarchical apprenticeship system that has changes little over the centuries. In England, in the 1960s, in the lowly position of second whipper-in at age 16, Robards learned about the hunt from celebrated huntsmen of the modern era. He ultimately achieved the ambition of all who enter hunt service-he became huntsman of a world-class pack of foxhounds in County Limerick, Ireland. “Foxhunting in England, Ireland, and North America” is packed with well-known hunting personalities, vivid hunting memories, and genuine hunting savv… More >>
Foxhunting in England, Ireland, and North America: A Life in Hunt Service
Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care. Based on interviews with 120 uninsured men and women and dozens of medical providers, policymakers, and advocates from around the nation, this book takes a fresh look at one of the most important social issues facing the United States today. A new afterword updates the stories of many of the people who are so memorably presented here…. More >>
Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity