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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
An indispensable reference on concentration camps, death camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and military prisons offering broad historical coverage as well as detailed analysis of the nature of captivity in modern conflict.
• Maintains a modern focus while providing broad historical context
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by Hon. Sir John William Fortescue
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life’s work “The History of the British Army”,
According to Professor Brian Bond, the work was “the product of indefatigable research in original documents,...
Freemasons, World Order, and Mind Wars
The Great Reality of Memphis-Misraim Masonry
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Many have speculated on the role played by Freemasons in launching the French and American Revolutions, and in today's Bohemian Grove and other secretive forums where world events seem to be shaped.This book presents the history of Freemasonry in a philosophically rigorous and eloquent way and proposes...
Fulda Gap
Battlefield of the Cold War Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
This edited collection examines the role of the Fulda Gap—located at the border between East and West Germany—in Cold War politics and military strategy. The contributors analyze the strategic deliberations of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the balance of forces, the role of the local peace movement,...
The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti
An Edition and English Translation of His Dialogue on Mechanics, 1576
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Mechanics has long been recognized as the pivotal science in the decline of Aristotelian natural philosophy and the rise of the new, mathematical physics of the Scientific Revolution. Less well known, however, is the earlier transformation of mechanics from a practical art into a theoretical and mathematical...
A Year in White
Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period. During this time, these novices—called iyawo—endure a host of prohibitions, including most notably wearing...
by Randall S. Geller
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This study examines the attitudes and policies on all sides of the majority/minority divide in Israel during the state’s formative decade, and how the social, political, and strategic decisions made vis-à-vis the non-Jewish populations then continue to impact this unique Middle Eastern state today....
Lent, Holy Week, Easter and the Great Fifty Days
A Ceremonial Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1996
This long-awaited companion volume to Howard E. Galley's classic The Ceremonies of the Eucharist provides clergy, liturgical assistants, and altar guild members with clear, step-by-step guidance for the liturgies of Lent and Easter. In addition to background material for the traditions and theology...
The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe," he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and...
by John Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A thrilling story of the Cold War, told by a former navy secretary on the basis of recently declassified documents.
When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe, and...
Holocaust!
The Shocking Story of the Boston Cocoanut Grove Fire
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
First published in November 1959, this is the bestselling account of the fire at The Cocoanut Grove, a premier nightclub during the post-Prohibition 1930s and 1940s in Boston, Massachusetts, on the night of November 28, 1942.
It was the scene of the deadliest nightclub fire in history, killing...
by M. Bom
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing questions of gender into the history of the military orders.
by W. L. Wilmshurst
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This most interesting and illuminative work is worthy a place on every Mason's bookshelf. '' It seems taken for granted," says the author, "that reception into the Order will automatically be accompanied by an ability to appreciate forthwith and at its full value all that one there finds....
by Kevin Secours, Brett Jacques, Scott Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Russia is rich in martial traditions deriving from a highly diverse population. Sambo—developed by the Soviet Red Army—became the most recognize martial art associated with Russia mainly because of its presence in international competitions. Another style to become recognized for its great practicality...