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Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton
Michael Schumacher Manufacturer: Citadel ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0806524669 |
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Okay.......2007-01-10
enjoyable reading about the guitarist/singer.......2007-01-03
Insightful.......2006-07-06
Very Comprehensive.......2001-09-09
The only slight drawback in this book is the fact that the author discounts the There's One In Every Crowd CD. Truthfully, I find it an underatted gem. Otherwise, Michael Schumacher does an excellent job.
GREAT. NEUTRAL STORY TELLING OF ERIC'S LIFE.......2001-08-16
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Crossroads The Life and Music of Eric Clapton
Manufacturer: Hyperion ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I78840 |
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The Time of Troubles: A Historical Study of the Internal Crisis and Social Struggle in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Muscovy
S. F. Platonov Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0700600620 |
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Sergei Feodorovich Platonov's Time of Troubles is a classic study of the years 1598-1613, a turbulent and decisive period in Russian history. Available for the first time in English, this work will be a valuable tool for students of the medieval as well as modern periods.Platonov, himself a tragic victim of the regimentation imposed on Soviet cultural life in the 1920s, was born in 1860 and attained immense public and professional recognition in Russia as a leading historian. In his work he synthesized,, to a high degree, two major traditions of Russian historiography: the St. Petersburg "school," which emphasized the collection and rigorous use of primary sources, and the Moscow "school" with its socioeconomic and geopolitical approaches. Time of Troubles represents the finished product of a lifetime spent in research, writing, and teaching. In broad terms it treats nearly a century and a half of Russian history (1500-1648); in detail it scrutinizes developments in the Muscovite State from 1598 to 1613. Some of the major issues covered in this volume are: the growing consolidation of Muscovite absolutism and the formation of a national state; the expansion of Muscovy to the west and southeast; the demise of the boyar class and the rise of the service-gentry; the emergence of serfdom as the social basis of Muscovite society; the cataclysmic end of one dynasty, the House of Rurik, and the beginnings of another, the House of Romanov. For Platanov--who devoted most of his career as a scholar to the study of these dramatic years--the epoch marked nothing less than the great divide between medieval Muscovy and modern Russia, witnessing the downfall of an essentially patrimonial regime and its replacement, after fierce struggles, by a more modern state founded on a new constellation of social groups.
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An essential work for history lovers.......2002-05-25
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Bloody Marsh: A Seventeenth-Century Village in Crisis
Peter Warner Manufacturer: Windgather Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0953863018 |
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`It is a riveting tale; and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The strong personalities and the passionate sense both of self-righteousness and of injustice burn brightly throughout.' (Professor John Morrill, University of Cambridge)In April 1644, with the English Civil War at its height, a man walked into the coastal town of Walberswick in Suffolk, got into a fight with some locals, and was killed. The local Justice of the Peace, Robert Brooke, exacted swift retribution, and the three perpetrators were hanged. Thereafter, the event became known as `The Battle of Bloody Marsh'.
Why did this `battle' happen, and what does it tell us about what life was really like in an English rural community in the seventeenth century: Peter Warner draws upon an extraordinarily rich set of primary sources to reconstruct the causes and consequences of this violent episode. He unravels a tale of crisis in a social landscape - a story of rising poverty, enclosure, accusations of rape, and the brutal confrontation of the landed and the dispossessed.
Like Le Roi Ladurie's Montaillou and Gough's History of Myddle, the story of Bloody Marsh explores in microcosm great historical events, and show how they transformed the lives of real people. Nick Catling's black and white photographs also show how the story is grounded in a beautiful, living landscape: a real place where the visitor can sense in an almost visceral way the presence of the past.
Peter Warner is Dean of Homerton College, Cambridge, where he teaches archaeology. Nick Catling is a professional photographer and runs a gallery in Southwold, Suffolk.
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The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: New Perspectives on the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain (Past and Present Publications)
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521416248 |
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This is a collection of recent revisionist essays by Spanish historians on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile. The major areas of current historiographical interest and debate are covered: demography, agriculture, pastoralism, the Indies trade, industrial decline, de-urbanization, taxation and the fiscal system, re-segneurialization, and the politics of redistribution. Developments in Castile are also related to the issue of the general crisis of the European economy in the seventeenth century.
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Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China: Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yu's World
Chun-shu Chang , and Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 047208528X |
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General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0710205457 |
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One of the fiercest and most wide-ranging debates in historical circles during the last decade has concerned the theory that, throughout Europe, the seventeenth century was a period of crisis so significant and intense that it could be labeled a "General Crisis".
This updated volume takes the still acrimonious debate up to today. Geoffrey Parker and Lesley Smith have collected ten important subsequent essays concerning the social, economic and political crises which affected Europe and Asia in the mid-seventeenth century. This edition of The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century contains fresh research, new perspectives and completely updated bibliographies and index.
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Crisis or not?.......2005-03-30
This book is a group of essays.......2000-05-19
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The Dignity of Legislation (The Seeley Lectures)
Jeremy Waldron Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521658837 |
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In a lucid, concise volume, Jeremy Waldron defends the role of legislation, presenting it as an important mode of governance. Aristotle, Locke and Kant emerge as proponents of the dignity of legislation. Waldron's arguments are of obvious importance and topicality, especially in countries that are considering the introduction of a Bill of Rights. The Dignity of Legislation is original in conception, trenchantly argued and very clearly presented, and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and thinkers.
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Dying Right: The Death with Dignity Movement
Daniel Hillard Manufacturer: TAYLOR & FRANCIS/ ROUTLEDGE ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415927994 |
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Dying Right is the first work to provide a comprehensive and first-hand account of the Death with Dignity movement in the US and around the world. The book also provides an in-depth look at Oregon, the first place to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Engaging the question of how to balance a patient's sense about the right way to die, a physician's role as a healer, and the state's interest in preventing killing, Dying Right captures the ethical, legal, moral, and medical complexities involved in this ongoing debate.
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Compassion in Dying: Stories of Dignity and Choice
Manufacturer: NewSage Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Facing death with help.......2004-03-09
Marvelous, beautiful, thoughtful and sensitive.......2003-11-14
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Against the Peace and Dignity of the State: North Carolina Laws Regarding Slaves, Free Persons of Color, and Indians
William L. Byrd Manufacturer: Heritage Books, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0788424807 |
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The evolution of North Carolina's Slave Codes begins in 1669, and for the most part, ends in 1862. Nestled within those years, was an ever growing number of new laws enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly; the purpose of which was to control the great numbers of not-always-docile slaves in the Colony of North Carolina, and later, the State of North Carolina. There were insurrections, uprisings, and runaways; all of which were crushed in the end. Some slaves were treated fairly, and others were treated brutally. Slavery in the South was a perfect example of man's inhumanity to man. The North Carolina Slave Codes speak for themselves. Read this book and weep. A Chronology of Laws and a full-name plus subject index augment this valuable work.
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Death With Dignity: A New Law Permitting Physician Aid-In-Dying
J.D. Robert L. Risley Manufacturer: The Hemlock Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0960603085 |
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European Labour Law and Social Policy, Cases and Materials: Dignity, Equality and Security at Work (European Labour Law and Social Policy)
Alan C. Neal Manufacturer: Kluwer Law International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9041119175 |
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Euthanasia: Death with Dignity and the Law
Hazel Biggs Manufacturer: Hart Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1841130915 |
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Many advocates of euthanasia consider the criminal law to be an inappropriate medium to adjudicate the profound ethical and humanitarian dilemmas associated with end of life decisions. 'Euthanasia, Death with Dignity and the Law' examines the legal response to euthanasia and end of life decisions and considers whether legal reform is an appropriate response to calls for euthanasia to be more readily available as a mechanism for providing death with dignity.
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Natural Death With Dignity: Protecting Your Right to Refuse Medical Treatment
Lee R. Kerr , and Delneta J. Kerr Manufacturer: Kerr Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0962823708 |
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The Right to Die With Dignity, Illinois Edition: The Living Will, the Power of Attorney for Healthcare, and the Healthcare Surrogate Act
Robert S. Hunter Manufacturer: Justice Publications, Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1884177050 |
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To Live And Die With Dignity: A Guide To Living Wills
Samuel L. Pelusa Manufacturer: Vista Publishing (NJ) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1880254018 |
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John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence (Pioneers of Conservation)
John Muir Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1559636416 |
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"àa rich and fitting tribute." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"With previously unpublished journal entries and letters, this volume captures the original mountain man's final trek." -OUTSIDE
"I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist and environmental figure was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for nearly a century. Until now. Here edited and published for the first time, John Muir's travel journals from 1911-12, along with his associated correspondence, finally allow us to read in his own words the remarkable story of John Muir's last great journey.
Leaving from Brooklyn, New York, in August 1911, John Muir, at the age of seventy-three and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. The 1911-12 journals and correspondence reproduced in this volume allow us to travel with him up the great Amazon, into the jungles of southern Brazil, to snowline in the Andes, through southern and central Africa to the headwaters of the Nile, and across six oceans and seas in order to reach the rare forests he had so long wished to study. Although this epic journey has received almost no attention from the many commentators on Muir's work, Muir himself considered it among the most important of his life and the fulfillment of a decades-long dream.
John Muir's Last Journey provides a rare glimpse of a Muir whose interests as a naturalist, traveler, and conservationist extended well beyond the mountains of California. It also helps us to see John Muir as a different kind of hero, one whose endurance and intellectual curiosity carried him into far fields of adventure even as he aged, and as a private person and family man with genuine affections, ambitions, and fears, not just an iconic representative of American wilderness.
With an introduction that sets Muir's trip in the context of his life and work, along with chapter introductions and a wealth of explanatory notes, the book adds important dimensions to our appreciation of one of America's greatest environmentalists. John Muir's Last Journey will be must reading for students and scholars of environmental history, American literature, natural history, and related fields, as well as for naturalists and armchair travelers everywhere.
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Good.....but.......2006-11-03
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John Muir's Last Journey South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence
John Muir Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 1559636408 |
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"I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist and environmental figure was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for nearly a century. Until now. Here edited and published for the first time, Muir's travel journals from 1911-12, along with his associated correspondence, finally allow us to read in his own words the remarkable story of John Muir's last great journey.
Leaving from Brooklyn, New York, in August 1911, Muir, at the age of seventy-three and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. The 1911-12 journals and correspondence reproduced in this volume allow us to travel with him up the great Amazon, into the jungles of southern Brazil, to snowline in the Andes, through southern and central Africa to the headwaters of the Nile, and across six oceans and seas in order to reach the rare forests he had so long wished to study. Although this epic journey has received almost no attention from the many commentators on Muir's work, Muir himself considered it among the most important of his life and the fulfillment of a decades-long dream.
John Muir's Last Journey provides a rare glimpse of a Muir whose interests as a naturalist, traveler, and conservationist extended well beyond the mountains of California. It also helps us to see Muir as a different kind of hero, one whose endurance and intellectual curiosity carried him into far fields of adventure even as he aged, and as a private person and family man with genuine affections, ambitions, and fears, not just an iconic representative of American wilderness.
With an introduction that sets Muir's trip in the context of his life and work, along with chapter introductions and a wealth of explanatory notes, the book adds important dimensions to our appreciation of one of America's greatest environmentalists. John Muir's Last Journey will be must reading for students and scholars of environmental history, American literature, natural history, and related fields, as well as for naturalists and armchair travelers everywhere.
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In August 1911, at the age of 73, John Muir embarked on an eight-month journey to South America and Africa to realize a lifelong dream. He was insistent on traveling alone, and concerned friends and family tried in vain to talk him out of going. Others hoped he would forget the notion altogether. "Have I forgotten the Amazon, Earth's greatest river?" he wrote to a concerned friend. "Never, never, never. It has been burning in me half a century, and will burn forever." Indeed, as early as the 1860s Muir had begun planning a trip to South America, and he could wait no longer.Arriving in South America via the Caribbean, he went a thousand miles up the Amazon, explored the Atlantic coast, and ventured into the Chilean Andes. He then sailed east and explored the jungles, forests, and plains of south and central Africa and the headwaters of the Nile at Lake Victoria before sailing back to New York via the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and the North Atlantic--a 40,000-mile journey in all.
Though best known for his conservation efforts in California and his creation of the Sierra Club, Muir considered his final journey the most rewarding, writing while in Africa in 1912 that "on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life." These letters and journal entries further prove that his interests as a naturalist and conservationist extended to the entire world; he calls a section of the Amazon the "most interesting forest I have seen in my whole life" and refers to an experience with rare baobab trees in Africa as "one of the greatest of the great tree days of my lucky life."
These writings, published for the first time here, also reveal a different side of Muir, one that editor Michael P. Branch believes is essential to achieving "a full understanding of his accomplishments as a person, writer, and naturalist." Branch explains that Muir's allegiance was not to California or even America, but to Earth, and his view of the planet as a single organism only strengthened as he matured: "The more I see of our goodly Godly star the more plainly comes to sight and mind the truth that it is all one like a face, every feature radiating beauty on the others," he wrote to a friend in 1911. Even in the twilight of his life, Muir never lost his spirit of adventure or sense of wonder for the natural world. --Shawn Carkonen
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