Encyclopedia Britannica, Editors of, and Appleton, John (Subject edited by):The Arabs: People and Power
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Bloomsbury Academic. Very Good. 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d). Paperback. 2013. Third edition. 304 pages. <br>Offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary introduct ion to professional wr… Mehr…
Bloomsbury Academic. Very Good. 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d). Paperback. 2013. Third edition. 304 pages. <br>Offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary introduct ion to professional writing for different media, synthesising met hods and ideas developed in linguistics, journalism, public relat ions and marketing. This third edition contains new material on p ublic relations writing and social media, as well as additional m aterial on digital sources. ., Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, 3, Mount Pleasant, S.C.: Corinthian. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. First Thus. Softcover. 1929175132 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; Promotional material from publisher laid in.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall ., Corinthian, 2001, 4, North Dakota: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 2005. E4 - A hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Gordon Kahl and the Posse Comitatus Murder in the Heartland. New Foreword by Mike Jacobs. 9.25"x6.25", 249 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. North Dakota looked like a Norman Rockwell canvas. Its people, largely untroubled by such big-city problems as pollution and crime, prided themselves on their church-going values and small-town friendliness. Their grain elevators groaned with bumper crops. On Sunday, February 13, 1983, blue skies and bright sunlight bathed a peaceful land. The Hearland, however, was not as it seemed. "Something terrible, and terribly important, was taking place," writes Pulitzer Prize Nominee journalist James Corcoran. There was fear and hatred in the land, and it was about to erupt in violence. It happened on a country road near Medina, North Dakota, when Gordon Kahl, federal tax protester and Posse Comitatus member, shot it out with federal marshals attempting to arrest him for violating terms of his probation. Kahl and his son killed two marshals on the road, after which Kahl became a notorious and elusive fugitive. Like a bandit hero, the income-tax evader and cold-blooded murderer was celebrated in legend and ballad. Even after federal authorities tracked him to a farmhouse in Arkansas and hilled him, many of Kahl's admirers refused to admit he was dead; some still do not. James Corcoran has native knowledge of North Dakota and intimate knowledge of the Gordon Kahl case, having covered it for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. Since first publication of his book in 1990, no other chronicler has produced such a compelling narrative of the events, or such an insightful analysis of them, as he. Bitter Harvest is an American tragedy treating a time of national discontent. More particularly, its republication by the Institute for Regional Studies reminds us it is a story of the northern plains, a story upon which we must reflect.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 2005, 3, New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. Reprint. Minor general wear. 2003 Trade Paperback. 445, [3] pp. "Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Mornings on Horseback is about the world of the young Theodore Roosevelt. It is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household (and rarefied social world) in which he was raised. His father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, 'Greatheart,' a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. His mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and celebrated beauty, but also considerably more, which the book makes clear as never before. There are sisters Anna and Corinne, brother Elliott (who becomes the father of Eleanor Roosevelt), and the lovely, tragic Alice Lee, Teddy Roosevelt's first love. And while such disparate figures as Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. John Jacob Astor, and Senator Roscoe Conkling play a part, it is this diverse and intensely human assemblage of Roosevelts, all brought to vivid life, which gives the book its remarkable power. The book spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when little 'Teedie' is ten, to 1886 when, as a hardened 'real life cowboy,' he returns from the West to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit. The story does for Teddy Roosevelt what Sunrise at Campobello did for FDR -- reveals the inner man through his battle against dreadful odds. Like David McCullough's The Great Bridge, also set in New York, this is at once an enthralling story, with all the elements of a great novel, and a penetrating character study. It is brilliant social history and a work of important scholarship, which does away with several old myths and breaks entirely new ground. For the first time, for example, Roosevelt's asthma is examined closely, drawing on information gleaned from private Roosevelt family papers and in light of present-day knowledge of the disease and its psychosomatic aspects. At heart it is a book about life intensely lived... about family love and family loyalty... about courtship and childbirth and death, fathers and sons... about winter on the Nile in the grand manner and Harvard College... about gutter politics in washrooms and the tumultuous Republican Convention of 1884... about grizzly bears, grief and courage, and 'blessed' mornings on horseback at Oyster Bay or beneath the limitless skies of the Badlands. 'Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough,' Roosevelt once wrote. It is the key to his life and to much that is so memorable in this magnificent book., Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2003, 4, A Bantam / Britannica Book., 1978. First edition. . Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor cover soiling; interior clean.. 1 268 p. Mass-market PB, glossy illustrated cover: yellow desert sands, yellow sky, orange sun artwork. Illustrated throughout with B&W photos and maps. Index. Audience: General/trade. Subtitle: 'An introduction to a fascinating people--their history, their culture, and their extraordinary leap from poverty to power in a single generation. ', A Bantam / Britannica Book., 1978, 3<
