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For whom the bell tolls / by Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961,author.; Hemingway, Seán A.,editor,writer of introduction.;
Includes bibliographical references.In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.
Subjects: War fiction.; Classics; Literary; Americans;
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Near abroad : Putin, the West, and the contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus / by Toal, Gerard,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Vladimir Putin's intervention into the Georgia/South Ossetia conflict in summer 2008 was quickly recognized by Western critics as an attempt by Russia to increase its presence and power in the "near abroad", or the independent states of the former Soviet Union that Russia still regards as its wards. Though the global economic recession that began in 2008 moved the incident to the back of the world's mind, Russia surged to the forefront again six years later when they invaded the heavily Russian Crimea in Ukraine and annexed it. In contrast to the earlier Georgia episode, this new conflict has generated a crisis of global proportions, forcing European countries to rethink their relationship with Russia and their reliance on it for energy supplies, as Russia was now squeezing natural gas from what is technically Ukraine. In Near Abroad, the eminent political geographer Gerard Toal analyzes Russia's recent offensive actions in the near abroad, focusing in particular on the ways in which both the West and Russia have relied on Cold War-era rhetorical and emotional tropes that distort as much as they clarify. In response to Russian aggression, US critics quickly turned to tried-and-true concepts like "spheres of influence" to condemn the Kremlin. Russia in turn has brought back its long tradition of criticizing western liberalism and degeneracy to grandly rationalize its behavior in what are essentially local border skirmishes. It is this tendency to resort to the frames of earlier eras that has led the conflicts to "jump scales," moving from the regional to the global level in short order. The ambiguities and contradictions that result when nations marshal traditional geopolitical arguments-rooted in geography, territory, and old understandings of distance-further contributes to the escalation of these conflicts. Indeed, Russia's belligerence toward Georgia stemmed from concern about its possible entry into NATO, an organization of states thousands of miles away. American hawks also strained credulity by portraying Georgia as a nearby ally in need of assistance. Similarly, the threat of NATO to the Ukraine looms large in the Kremlin's thinking, and many Ukrainians themselves self-identify with the West despite their location in Eastern Europe."--
Subjects: Geopolitics; Geopolitics; Geopolitics; South Ossetia War, 2008.;
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The mighty Thor : an origin story / by Thomas, Rich.; Storybook Art Group.;
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Subjects: Thor (Norse deity); Superheroes; Gods; Conduct of life;
© 2013, c2012., Spotlight,
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One tiny bubble : the story of our last universal common ancestor / by Krossing, Karen,1965-; Lo, Dawn,1992-;
Includes bibliographical references.LSC
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Life;
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Scooby-Doo. [videorecording] : original movie / by Adams, Jeremy(Screenwriter),screenwriter.; Atoms, Maxwell,1974-film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Brandt, Spike,film producer.; Krieg, Jim,film producer.; Lewis, Colin Abv,film producer.; Sotta, Christina,film director.; Zwyer, Mel,1977-film director.; Hanna-Barbera Productions,presenter.; Warner Bros. Animation,presenter.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Voices: Frank Welker, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard, Kate Micucci.Scooby-Doo and the gang journey back in time to help King Arthur save his throne from an evil sorceress. While there, Shaggy unwittingly pulls out Excalibur from a nearby stone to cut a block of cheese and now no one is sure who the rightful ruler is! The legendary wizard, Merlin, appears and explains that the throne of Camelot must be determined through Trial By Combat! Our heroes pull out all the stops to try and win the tournament, break the witch's hold on King Arthur, and find a way back to the present in this legendary story of Scooby-Doo in King Arthur's Court!Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Animated films.; Scooby-Doo (Fictitious character); Merlin (Legendary character); Camelot (Legendary place);
For private home use only.
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Pagan Christmas : the plants, spirits, and rituals at the origins of Yuletide / by Rätsch, Christian,1957-; Müller-Ebeling, Claudia.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-203) and index.LSC
Subjects: Christmas.; Plants; Christmas;
© c2006., Inner Traditions,
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Beasts : what animals can teach us about the origins of good and evil / by Masson, J. Moussaieff(Jeffrey Moussaieff),1941-;
Includes bibliographical references and index."There are two supreme predators on the planet with the most complex brains in nature: humans and orcas. In the twentieth century alone, one of these animals killed 200 million members of its own species, the other has killed none. Jeffrey Masson's fascinating new book begins here: There is something different about us. In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed that animals can teach us much about our own emotions--love (dogs), contentment (cats), grief (elephants), among others. But animals have much to teach us about negative emotions such as anger and aggression as well, and in unexpected ways. In Beasts he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" is mostly a matter of projection. We link the basest human behavior to animals, to "beasts" ("he behaved no better than a beast"), and claim the high ground for our species. We are least human, we think, when we succumb to our primitive, animal ancestry. Nothing could be further from the truth. Animals, at least predators, kill to survive, but there is nothing in the annals of animal aggression remotely equivalent to the violence of mankind. Our burden is that humans, and in particular humans in our modern industrialized world, are the most violent animals to our own kind in existence, or possibly ever in existence on earth. We lack what all other animals have: a check on the aggression that would destroy the species rather than serve it. It is here, Masson says, that animals have something to teach us about our own history. In Beasts, he strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, offering a powerful and compelling look at our uniquely human propensity toward aggression"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Animal behavior.; Animal psychology.; Cruelty; Emotions in animals.; Violence;
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Creative family home : imaginative and original spaces for modern living / by Gibson, Ashlyn,author.; Whiting, Rachel,photographer (expression);
Subjects: Domestic space.; Interior decoration.; Room layout (Dwellings);
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Cave of bones : a true story of discovery, adventure, and human origins / by Berger, Lee R.,author.; Hawks, John(John David),author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index."This thrilling book takes the reader into South African caves to discover fossil remains that reframe the human family tree"--
Subjects: Homo naledi.; Human beings; Human remains (Archaeology);
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The book of Irish names : the origins and meanings of over 150 names for children / by Zaczek, Iain;
Subjects: Names, Personal;
© 2000., McArthur,
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