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Product Description: A young man dedicated to a 'cause' who will stop at nothing to set his country free from foreign rule.

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Highly respected for its quality scholarship and its focused, straightforward approach, Sociology: The Core covers the core sociological concepts with a brief, accessible presentation and at a very affordable price. As in previous editions, the functionalist, conflict, and interactionist perspectives are applied throughout the book, allowing students to develop a solid understanding of the major sociological perspectives and their applications to the topics covered. Completely updated, Sociology: The Core makes sociology come alive as a vital and exciting field, relates principles to real-world circumstances, and attunes students to the dynamic processes of our rapidly changing contemporary society. .

Product Description: Attention is given to the way in which Methodist scholars and ministers, ranging from A.S. Peake to Leslie Weatherhead and Donald Soper to Kenneth Greet, have sought to relate questions of war and peace to broader considerations of Christian faith and practice...read more

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Product Description: Beyond Tobacco Road, a novel of the Deep South, chronicles the Andersons of Montgomery, Alabama from 1970 until the late l990s. The Andersons are an old southern family with ties to aristocracy, debutante balls, bachelor clubs, and a gallant, if defeated, past...read more

Product Description: Coastal environments are arguably the most important and intensely used of all areas settled by humans. The coastline changes, not only over the centuries or decades but in a matter of hours and minutes. This rapid development applies both to the form of the coastline and to coastal processes...read more

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Product Description: This lavishly illustrated book catalogues for the first time more than 300 snuff bottles that make up one of the most impressive collections of snuff bottles in the United States. Imperial enamels, superb porcelains and glass, stunning agates and jades, as well as rare organic bottles abound...read more

Product Description: 14 photos and illustrations 5 original maps 6 x 9 Topics explored include: The Grattan Massacre, Experiences of future Civil War officers on the Plains, early battles with the Cheyennes and Comanches, conflicts on the Oregon and California Trails, forts of the West, and more...read more

Product Description: Chuck Anderson, born to wealth and privilege in the Cradle of the Confederacy, is a border line alcoholic, who is ruled by his domineering mother, Leona, a recovering alcoholic herself. Zola Murray, also known as Zenith, is the daughter of Chuck's grandmother's maid...read more

Product Description: This collection of works explores the sources of conflict and change which affect professional occupations, the responses of these occupations to such forces and the possible or likely outcomes of these actions and reactions for the character of British management. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Features 300 radiological images with 107 questions and answers, to assist the candidate preparing for the MRCP Part 2 exam. This book covers the commonly used imaging techniques - chest X-rays, gastrointestinal barium studies, ERCP, abdominal X-rays, intravenous urography and MRI - and which are included in the exam.

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This collection of essays offers recent research on aspects of the Hundred Years War. It opens with a general review of battle tactics, concentrating on the great English victories which, for many, epitomize the period. Other essays draw upon archival sources to consider armies and warfare, showing the values as well as the problems presented by such materials. Archival and architectural history together inform accounts of and aspects of fortifications and warfare. A final group of papers studies surviving artifacts - weapons, ships and monuments. (view table of contents)

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