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Exploring the places where the rural and urban intersect, where many of the worlds people live.

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In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Using documentary records, memoirs from all sides, this title recreates the battle day by day, hour by hour.

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The Sengoku The Jidai, 'Age of Warring States', is the age of the samurai - the military aristocracy of Japan. This title examines the complicated nature of family and clan that governed the initial organization of the armies, how this changed and how battlefield tactics developed over a series of encounters such as Nagashino and Sekigahara.

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San Francisco-United Nations Partnership since the founding of the Organization in 1945. A compilation from a research conducted by Hossein Kamali, former board member of the UNA of San Francisco( UNA-SF). The book contains reflections on the United Nations history, and its ties to San Francisco.

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The background to this conflict, covered here, lay in the Cuban insurrection of 1895-1898 and its suppression by Cuba's Spanish overlords. Following the destruction of the USS Maine in Havana harbour, the US declared war on Spain, sending some 17,000 men to invade Cuba.

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The Sassanians ruled the last great imperial Empire of Persia before the Arab conquests of the 7th century. Rome's only equal in the classical world, the Sassanian Empire had an enormous impact on the development of architecture, mythology, arts, music, military tactics and technology.

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Saudi Arabia is one of the only countries in the Arab world that has not experienced a serious internal political crisis as a result of the region's unrest. This title states that, while the Arab Awakening has caused tensions in Saudi-American relations, the two countries do not face a crisis, as many analysts argue.

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"A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States"--

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An urgent and incisive argument on how public universities can be salvaged.

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Italy's most successful wartime bomber, the S.79 saw combat with the Regia Aeronautica in France, Yugoslavia, Greece, North Africa, East Africa and in the Mediterranean. Initially developed as a transport, the aircraft evolved into a dedicated medium bomber during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. This title covers the history of S.79.

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A guide togive newcomers the confidence to begin their own oral history projects.

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A guide togive newcomers the confidence to begin their own oral history projects.

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The SBD Dauntless of 1942 was a revolutionary all-metal stressed-skin design with an airframe strength that made it ideal for dive-bombing. It proved its worth in the Battle of Midway, sinking four Japanese carriers. This book examines the aircraft's record and includes interviews with crews.

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A strategically important natural harbor in the Orkney Islands, Scapa Flow served as Britain's main fleet anchorage during World Wars I and II. In 1914 and again in 1939, the British began building a comprehensive defensive network by fortifying the entrances to Scapa Flow, and then extended these defenses to cover most of Orkney.

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Poet Kevin Coval offers both tragedy and comedy in this stirring exposition on the Jewish American cultural experience.

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From the California recall circus, in which Gary Coleman, Larry Flynt, and Arianna Huffington vied with over 100 other candidates to replace a supposedly inept governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger emerged triumphant.