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The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Order Sons of Italy in America was chartered in 1914 and is one of the oldest lodges in the United States. The lodge recently celebrated its centennial with a long list of events that extolled the preservation and promotion of Italian heritage and culture that has endured...

Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles,...

To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads readers on a perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and political instability that have been the logical outcome of generations of rapacious multinational corporate activity,...

Slices of life beyond the tourist's view. By turns funny, tough, and somber, the twenty-one helpings of New York attitude in Fresh Slices reveal neighborhoods both rich and poor, where oldtimers desperately protect their secrets and brand new arrivals indulge dangerous appetites. There is as much...

A Treasury of Letters from the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. Selections from Igros Kodesh. Every day, the postman would deliver several postal sacks of mail to “770.” From year to year, the content of these sacks increased. And as the communications revolution brought...

A Treasury of Letters from the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. Selections from Igros Kodesh. Every day, the postman would deliver several postal sacks of mail to “770.” From year to year, the content of these sacks increased. And as the communications revolution brought...

A Treasury of Letters from the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. Selections from Igros Kodesh. Every day, the postman would deliver several postal sacks of mail to “770.” From year to year, the content of these sacks increased. And as the communications revolution brought...

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction | Summary and Key Takeaways in 20 minutes or less.Do you want to better predict your future? Do you want to know if buying a stock, or launching a new business or product would be successful?Inside this summary of Superforecasting you...

America’s nuclear energy industry is in decline. Low natural gas prices, financing hurdles, failure to find a permanent repository for high-level nuclear waste, reactions to the Fukushima accident in Japan, and other factors are hastening the day when existing U.S. reactors become uneconomic. The...

In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context...

Sports Team Security examines the security needs for sports teams and events of all sizes. This groundbreaking book provides a fundamental model for sports team security that can be applied almost universally, from youth sports to the Super Bowl and World Cup. The book develops, compares, and...

‘We have to be careful, we can’t trust anyone. But, in the dark, your thoughts are your own.’ Crossing military borders and class divides, P’yongyang tells the epic love story of two North Korean childhood sweethearts spanning three decades. Chi Soo and Eun Mi dare to dream of...

The rare earths play a unique role in science. These seventeen related elements afford a panoply of subtle variations deriving from the systematic development of their electronic configurations, allowing a test of theory with excellent resolution. In contrast they find widespread use in even the most...

Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP: The Next Internet explains why the Internet Protocol (IP) has become the protocol of choice for smart object networks. IP has successfully demonstrated the ability to interconnect billions of digital systems on the global Internet and in private IP networks....