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|  | A History of Islamic Societies by Ira M. Lapidus
Description not available.An accessible worldwide history of Muslim societies provides updated coverage of each country and region, in a volume that discusses their origins and evolution while offering insight into historical processes that shaped contemporary Islam and surveying its growing influence. Simultaneous. (Social Science) AUTHOR: Ira M. Lapidus
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Homage to Chiapas by Bill Weinberg
The new Zapatistas in Chiapas have served as a catalyst for revolutionary indigenous movements across Mexico, pioneering a new model of resistance and posing a powerful threat to the stability of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). HOMAGE TO CHIAPAS vividly depicts the grassroots struggles for land and local autonomy now underway in an economically strategic nation of nearly 100 million people. Weinberg analyzes NAFTA's impact on Mexico's campesinos with on-the-spot reportage from Tabasco, where fishermen blockade state owned oil wells to protest local pollution, from Central Mexico where plans for a giant computer complex and golf course spark an Indian uprising, as well as from Chiapas where he interviews Subcommander Marcos. He also examines Mexico's growing militarization in the name of the War on Drugs and reviews the Zapatistas' challenge to their supporters to carry the struggle throughout Mexico and beyond its borders. AUTHOR: Bill Weinberg
PUBLISHER: Verso
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | To Every Thing a Season by Bruce Kuklick
An exceptionally valuable contribution to the new genre of serious and adult baseball history. . . . As for those who say how important is a ball park really, I'd say this. In a way the Coliseum was a ball park. Look at how much it tells us about Imperial Rome. --Roger Kahn Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies. AUTHOR: Bruce Kuklick
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Great American Handbook by Cheri Sicard
Description not available.A thought-provoking handbook for readers who want to help their country offers 101 specific suggestions and information on the diverse ways Americans in show their support, become involved, and celebrate their heritage, offering advice on everything from how to start a petition and help the FBI fight crime to find volunteering opportunities and learn proper flag etiquette. Original. AUTHOR: Cheri Sicard
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Where She Came From
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Epstein tells the story of her Jewish family in Czechoslovakia, from the days of her great-grandmother who falls in love with a Christian but is pressured to marry a Jewish peddler, to her own liberation from Bergen-Belsen in 1945.
CATEGORY: History
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 | One Nation by Life Magazine Staff
The events of September 11, 2001--the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon--and the nation`s response are covered in photographs and text by the staff of Life magazine. AUTHOR: Life Magazine Staff
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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