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Focusing on the Chiricahua Apache, led by such famous warriors as Cochise Mangas Coloradas, Victorio, Nana and Geronimo, this book explains how their upbringing, training and culture equipped them uniquely for survival in the harsh environment of New Mexico and Arizona, and enabled them to fight off their Mexican and American enemies for so long.

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Sure to appeal to all those interested in the military history of the American Frontier, this book explores the clashes between the Apache and U.S. cavalry over forty-five years of conflict.

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An exploration of how universities in South Africa are struggling to transform themselves into more inclusive and equitable institutions. It includes case studies of South African tertiary institutions and the experiences of black South African students enrolled at them.

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This text seeks to demonstrate the continuing influence of Newtonian scientific paradigms in 20th-century philosophic, ethical, economic and social habits of thought.

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Apocalyptic themes have formed a significant part of the Jewish and Christian religions. The pervasiveness of such themes in art, literature and history informs this collection of essays, moving from the study of biblical apocalyptic to its role in wider culture.

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Oegema works with the hypothesis that apocalypticism was a major current and mindset from the beginning of the Second Temple period, through Enochic literature, the Qumran Scrolls and the New Testament into Late Antiquity, shaping many inner-Jewish traditions and those emerging from Early Judaism. This book offers an examination of Apocalypticism.

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Addresses the colourful and diverse history of Shi' Islam in both premodern and contemporary times. Focusing on the importance of apocalypticism in the development of modern Shi'i theology, this book shows how an immersion in messianic ideas has shaped the conservative character of much Shi'i thinking.

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"An innovative look at the relevance of DeLillo's work to contemporary literature and thought through the lens of "last things," like death, mourning, and the decline of the American empire"--

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"An innovative look at the relevance of DeLillo's work to contemporary literature and thought through the lens of "last things," like death, mourning, and the decline of the American empire"--

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Virtually all scholars agree that apocalyptic and millenarianism formed at least part of the matrix of the culture in first-century Jewish Palestine, but there is a sharp disagreement concerning the extent to which Jesus shared apocalyptic and millenarian beliefs.

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This is the story of the men and women who helped land a man on the moon. They include Julian Scheer, a NASA publicist who successfully argued for the inclusion of a television camera on Apollo 11; Sonny Morea, designer of the Lunar Rover; Hugh Brown, one of the few African Americans who worked on Apollo; and more.

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The study of diverse yet comparable regions uncovers structural similarities that override the defective culture theory of developing regions as well as the belief that they are unique ecological phenomena.

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In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty. The following year he signed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, creating a state-federal partnership to improve the region's economic prospects. Nearly half a century later, what are the results Appalachian Legacy provides the answers.

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One of the greatest internal migrations in American history has been the movement of the people of Appalachia to a variety of rural and urban destinations all over the country - wherever economic opportunity beckoned, from the industrial Midwest to the timber empires of the Pacific Northwest.

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