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In this book, refugees and abductees recount their escapes from the wars in Darfur and South Sudan, from political and religious persecution, and from abduction by militias. In their own words, they recount life before their displacement and the reasons for their flight.

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In this book, refugees and abductees recount their escapes from the wars in Darfur and South Sudan, from political and religious persecution, and from abduction by militias. In their own words, they recount life before their displacement and the reasons for their flight.

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This work reveals the story of women's lives in Wales during the 20th century. The areas of women's lives explored include: education; health; home life; leisure; politics; and waged work. The regional variations and differing linguistic and cultural traditions are also investigated.

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This book argues that there is a great deal more to our clothing than the communication of social messages. It concludes that human dress is as much about the being of the wearer as it is about the communication of social indicators. Michael Carter is based at the University of Sydney.

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When Barack Obama became president, many Americans embraced him as a transformational leader who would fundamentally change the politics and policy of the country. This book shows that the president's frustrations were predictable and the inevitable result of misunderstanding the nature of presidential power.

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Many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo the Masonic lodge of the University of Oxford. Illustrated with archival material, portraits and Masonic treasures, this history documents the remarkable numbers of Oxford freemasons with distinguished careers in government, law, the army and the Church.

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During a few months in 1980, 125,000 Cubans entered the U.S. as part of a massive migration known as the Mariel boatlift. Drawing from first-person stories of Cuban Americans as well as government documents and cultural texts from both the U.S. and Cuba, Susana Pea reveals how a historical event shaped the formation of an entire ethnic and sexual landscape.

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L.A.'s modernist Googie design prime met head-on with surf, tiki, and rock 'n' roll culture in a nautical-based theme park.

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The most important untold story of aviation history.

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A history of the gun, from cannons to laser beams.

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The 18th century was the high noon of the gentry's influence and power, and this study is the first to investigate the fortunes and character of the ruling class of this particular isolated corner of Britain during their golden age.

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This book traces the remarkable and sometimes hazardous rise of a Welsh family of the Anglo-Welsh borderland, from relatively humble origins to becoming key players in the politics of thirteenth and fourteenth century Wales, as well as prominent advisers, diplomats and administrators for the English kings of the fourteenth century.

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This book brings together the major writings of David Sellar (19412019) on the genealogies (pedigrees) claimed by some of the major clans of medieval Highland and Island Scotland, especially the descendants of their twelfth-century king Somerled. It is an invaluable resource for students, genealogists and historians of medieval Scottish history.

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The long-buried story of a Chicagoan's struggle for justice after four of his children perished in a tragic fire.

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