http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=440 Copyright © 2010 Lybrary.comAdventure devotees will love this one as the author creates a host of ruthless, ambitious Characters. Who, for both good and evil reasons are all intent on possessing the legendry 'Columbus and Tucker Crosses'. Originally discovered by Columbus on his epic voyage of discovery and mysteriously spirited away amidst a background of deceit and intrigue, the hunt is on for these two ancient legendary religious icons. The priceless value and power which these crosses allegedly posses is the theme and lure of for this action packed thriller, which carries you through a host of different historical times, facts and places, which the author skilfully and gradually brings together via a roller coaster ride of complex and exciting escapades transporting you from Europe to the Caribbean in this nail biting story.http://www.lybrary.com/chasing-columbus-p-79593.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/chasing-columbus-p-79593.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT In 1957, Sheila Cloney, Protestant wife of a Catholic farmer, fled from her home near the Wexford village of Fethard-on-Sea with her young daughters after refusing to bow to the demands of the local Catholic clergy to educate them as Catholics. In response, the priests launched a boycott of Fethard's Protestant shopkeepers and farmers. Tim Fanning tells the story of one of the ugliest sectarian episodes to occur in the Republic and examines how the Catholic Church's Ne Temere decree on mixed marriages resulted in one small rural community tearing itself apart.http://www.lybrary.com/fethardonsea-boycott-ireland-1957-catholic-church-small-village-mixed-marriage-p-78727.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/fethardonsea-boycott-ireland-1957-catholic-church-small-village-mixed-marriage-p-78727.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT The development of the Western United States was an exciting and adventurous time in history. In Rocky Mountain Tales, author Arlene Pervin brings that history to life through this collection of eclectic stories.<p>These stories tell of adventurers and entrepreneurs, hard-drinking men and gamblers, of fishing, cougars, and high-diving elk. "Bacon and Civilization" recounts a 1901 newspaper article that touted the role bacon played in society as the primary agent in the development of the country. "Camel Not" narrates the link between camels and tells the tale of these beasts in the Kootenay region; it reveals why the match between the camel and the environment was not to be. "The Mountain-Climbing Girl" relates the life of Mary Schaffer Warren who allowed her love of the West and her adventurous spirit of exploration to discover the jewels of mountain life.<p>Rocky Mountain Tales reveals what life was like in the West through humor, political satire, and commentary via the writing of early newspapermen who lived and wrote of their time and place and dared to cross the line, in words, and in their vision for the West.http://www.lybrary.com/rocky-mountain-tales-wisdom-wild-west-p-78667.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/rocky-mountain-tales-wisdom-wild-west-p-78667.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT America has recently re-awakened to the idea that real change is possible. Yet this present moment is just a point on a journey that extends over a century of activism and struggleâ€Â"one that has been kept alive by a powerful American tradition of inspiring radical alternatives to the status quo. Protest Nation is a guide through the speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos that form the backbone of this tradition-a much more accessible trade edition of The Radical Reader, which was published for the academy. Here are the wordsâ€Â"from socialists, feminists, union organizers, civil-rights workers, gay and lesbian activists, and environmentalistsâ€Â"that have served as beacons for millions. Their radical arguments and ideas are links in a chain reaching from the present back through decades of radical thinking and movement-building. Brief introductory essays by the editors provide a rich biographical and historical context for each selection included. Protest Nation presents the most significant and brilliant examples of radical writing, in a concise volume geared for anyone interested in reconnecting with the deep currents of American radical thinking. These range from a fiery speech by Eugene Debs, the great socialist orator; to the original Black Panther Party Platform; to Peter Singer's astonishing treatise on animal liberation, among manhttp://www.lybrary.com/protest-nation-words-that-inspired-century-american-radicalism-p-78405.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/protest-nation-words-that-inspired-century-american-radicalism-p-78405.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/popular-medicine-hysterical-disease-social-controversy-shakespeares-england-p-77270.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/popular-medicine-hysterical-disease-social-controversy-shakespeares-england-p-77270.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as the guardian of a new and peaceful global order, offering instead a strikingly original interpretation of the UN's ideological roots, early history, and changing role in world affairs. Mazower brings the founding of the UN brilliantly to life. He shows how the UN's creators envisioned a world organization that would protect the interests of empire, yet how this imperial vision was decisively reshaped by the postwar reaffirmation of national sovereignty and the unanticipated rise of India and other former colonial powers. This is a story told through the clash of personalities, such as South African statesman Jan Smuts, who saw in the UN a means to protect the old imperial and racial order; Raphael Lemkin and Joseph Schechtman, Jewish intellectuals at odds over how the UN should combat genocide and other atrocities; and Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, who helped transform the UN from an instrument of empire into a forum for ending it. A much-needed historical reappraisal of the early development of this vital world institution, No Enchanted Palace reveals how the UN outgrew its origins and has exhibited an extraordinary flexibility that has enabled it to endure to the present day.http://www.lybrary.com/enchanted-palace-empire-ideological-origins-united-nations-p-76746.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/enchanted-palace-empire-ideological-origins-united-nations-p-76746.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/commonwealth-english-reformation-protestantism-politics-religious-change-gloucester-vale-14831560-p-76257.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/commonwealth-english-reformation-protestantism-politics-religious-change-gloucester-vale-14831560-p-76257.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT When Lieutenant Matt Gallagher began his blog with the aim of keeping his family and friends apprised of his experiences, he didn't anticipate that it would resonate far beyond his intended audience. His subjects ranged from mission details to immortality, grim stories about Bon Jovi cassettes mistaken for IEDs, and the daily experiences of the Gravediggers-the code name for members of Gallagher's platoon. When the blog was shut down in June 2008 by the U.S. Army, there were more than twenty-five congressional inquiries regarding the matter as well as reports through the military grapevine that many high-ranking officials and officers at the Pentagon were disappointed that the blog had been ordered closed. Based on Gallagher's extraordinarily popular blog, Kaboom is "at turns hilarious, maddening, and terrifying," providing "raw and insightful snapshots of a conflict many Americans have lost interest in" (Washington Post). Like Anthony Swofford's Jarhead, Gallagher's Kaboom resonates with stoic detachment and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand.http://www.lybrary.com/kaboom-embracing-suck-savage-little-p-75935.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/kaboom-embracing-suck-savage-little-p-75935.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT William Rosen, the author of the award-winning history <i>Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe</i>,<i> </i>was an editor and publisher at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and the Free Press for nearly twenty-five years. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.<p>http://www.lybrary.com/most-powerful-idea-world-story-steam-industry-invention-p-75146.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/most-powerful-idea-world-story-steam-industry-invention-p-75146.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/narrating-marriage-eighteenthcentury-england-france-p-74342.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/narrating-marriage-eighteenthcentury-england-france-p-74342.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT A revealing new look at the groundbreaking form of contraception that enabled women to control their lives and transform the worldhttp://www.lybrary.com/america-pill-history-promise-peril-liberation-p-74130.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/america-pill-history-promise-peril-liberation-p-74130.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China's Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period in France. Richard Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution, and motivated by utopian hopes, incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life. Wolin's riveting narrative reveals that Maoism's allure among France's best and brightest actually had little to do with a real understanding of Chinese politics. Instead, it paradoxically served as a vehicle for an emancipatory transformation of French society. French student leftists took up the trope of "cultural revolution," applying it to their criticisms of everyday life. Wolin examines how Maoism captured the imaginations of France's leading cultural figures, influencing Sartre's "perfect Maoist moment"; Foucault's conception of power; Sollers's chic, leftist intellectual journal Tel Quel; as well as Kristeva's book on Chinese women--which included a vigorous defense of foot-binding. Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in Francehttp://www.lybrary.com/wind-from-east-french-intellectuals-cultural-revolution-legacy-1960s-p-74060.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/wind-from-east-french-intellectuals-cultural-revolution-legacy-1960s-p-74060.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/cooperative-movement-communities-britain-19141960-minding-their-business-p-73141.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/cooperative-movement-communities-britain-19141960-minding-their-business-p-73141.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT In the early hours of New Year's 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict that continues to this day. A foreign correspondent in Moscow at the time, Ã...sne Seierstad traveled regularly to Chechnya to report on the war, describing its affects on those trying to live their daily lives amidst violence. In the following decade, Seierstad became an internationally renowned reporter and author, traveling to the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other war-torn regions. But she never lost sight of this conflict that had initially inspired her career. Over the course of a decade, she watched as Russia ruthlessly suppressed an Islamic rebellion in two bloody wars and as Chechnya evolved into one of the flashpoints in a world now focused on the threat of international terrorism. In 2006, Seierstad finally returned to Chechnya, traveling in secret and under the constant threat of danger. In a broken and devastated society she lived with orphans, the wounded, the lost. And she lived with the children of Grozny, those who will shape the country's future. She asks the question: What happens to a child who grows up surrounded by war and accustomed to violence? A compelling, intimate, and often heartbreaking portrait of Chechnya today, The Angel of Grozny is a vivid account of a land's violent history and its ongoing battle for freedomhttp://www.lybrary.com/angel-grozny-orphans-forgotten-p-73135.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/angel-grozny-orphans-forgotten-p-73135.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/reforming-scottish-parish-reformation-fife-15601640-p-73128.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/reforming-scottish-parish-reformation-fife-15601640-p-73128.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/british-warfare-power-international-system-18561956-essays-honour-david-french-p-73125.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/british-warfare-power-international-system-18561956-essays-honour-david-french-p-73125.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT <b>Gary J. Bass</b> is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of <i>Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals</i>. A former reporter for <i>The Economist,</i> he has written oftenhttp://www.lybrary.com/freedoms-battle-p-69426.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/freedoms-battle-p-69426.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT Kenneth Burke has been widely praised as one of the sharpest readers of Shakespeare, Freud, and Marx, among others. He was also well known for turning his many book reviews into essays and excursions of his own, in the interest of tracking down the implications of terminologies and concepts, all the while grappling with some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. EQUIPMENT FOR LIVING: THE LITERARY REVIEWS OF KENNETH BURKE collects the bulk of his literary reviews, many of them reprinted here for the first time and positioning them as scholarship in their own right. In over 150 reviews, Burke explores poetic, fictional, and critical works to discern the nature of aesthetics, rhetoric, communication, literary theory, sociology, and literature as equipment for living. Along the way, he encounters some of the finest literary and critical minds of his day, including writers such as William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Jackson, Henry Miller, and Marianne Moore; and critics and philosophers such as John Dewey, J. L. Austin, Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Wilson, I. A. Richards, Denis Donoghue, Wayne Booth, Harold Bloom, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Alfred North Whitehead. This collection organizes reviews across the wide range of fields that Burke engages, including literature, literary criticism, history, politics, philosophy, sociology, and biography. NATHANIEL A. RIVERS (PhD, Purdue University) is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University. RYAN P. WEBER, (PhD, Purdue University) is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Altoona. Together, they received the Emergent Scholar Award from the Kenneth Burke Society in 2005.http://www.lybrary.com/equipment-living-literary-reviews-kenneth-burke-p-68239.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/equipment-living-literary-reviews-kenneth-burke-p-68239.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/church-music-protestantism-postreformation-england-discourses-sites-identities-p-68034.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/church-music-protestantism-postreformation-england-discourses-sites-identities-p-68034.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/state-financial-systems-europe-p-67884.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/state-financial-systems-europe-p-67884.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT