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G. E. M. de Ste. Croix
Origins of the Peloponnesian War
In this provocative and wide-ranging examination of the causes of the Peloponnesian war, first published in 1972, Geoffrey de Ste Croix argued against most previous historiography (which tended to blame Athens), that the Spartans and their allies must bear the immediate and ultimate responsibility f...
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Mark Wilson Jones
Origins of Classical Architecture: Temples, Orders, and Gifts to the Gods in Ancient Greece
The Greek architectural orders―Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian―lie at the heart of the classical traditions of building, and yet satisfying accounts for their origins have proved elusive. In contrast with conventional theories that would see the orders originating over the course of a long evolutio...
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Cate Tiernan
Origins (Sweep, No. 11)
Morgan learns about her roots as a witch and the origins of a particularly evil spell when she reads the manuscript her boyfriend found in Canada, a book by her ancestor, Rose MacEwan, a seventeenth-century Scottish witch. Reissue. Cate Tiernan lives in Durham, North Carolina....
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Richard Stone
Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy, The: Nishida Kitaro and the Meiji Period (Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies)
Nishida Kitaro is widely considered as the first original philosopher in modern Japan. Addressing this claim, Richard Stone critically examines Nishida’s relation to his contemporary philosophers in the Meiji era (1868-1912), highlighting the continuity, difference and relationships between them....
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HodwitZ
Origins of the Criminal Justice System
The Origins of the Criminal Justice System: Historical Explorations by the Justice-Involved provides an introduction to the historical roots of modern-day Western systems of justice. The text addresses different aspects of criminal justice, including chapters on police, courts, corrections, and tre...
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Roger Lowenstein
Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing
With his singular gift for turning complex financial events into eminently readable stories, Roger Lowenstein lays bare the labyrinthine events of the manic and tumultuous 1990s. In an enthralling narrative, he ties together all of the characters of the dot-com bubble and offers a unique portrait of...
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Joseph M. Williams
Origins of the English Language
From Simon & Schuster, Origins of the English Language is Joseph M. Williams' exploration of social and linguistic history. In this book, author Joseph Williams presents a unique social and linguistic history as he explains the ways in which culture, education, class, and race affect language us...
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Igor Karnovsky
Origins and the Book of Forms: A Journey Through Time, Ideas, and Light
Five modern children are unexpectedly drawn into the world of ancient philosophers, astronomers, and geometers of Ancient Greece. To find their way home, they must gather the scattered fragments of the Book of Forms – a mysterious source of knowledge hidden across cities, centuries, and minds. Fro...
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Michael Jakobson
Origins Of The Gulag: The Soviet Prison Camp System, 1917-1934
A vast network of prison camps was an essential part of the Stalinist system. Conditions in the camps were brutal, life expectancy short. At their peak, they housed millions, and hardly an individual in the Soviet Union remained untouched by their tentacles. Michael Jakobson's is the first study to ...
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Steve MacCoubrey
Origins of the McCoubrey Surname
A great reference guide to the McCoubrey family genealogy. Beginning in the 17th century, it traces the origins of the McCoubrey name from the Lowlands of Scotland to Northern Ireland....
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M. R. Pritchard
Origins (The Phoenix Project)
Book 5 in The Phoenix Project SeriesMy name is Catalina Somers and it has been twelve months, two weeks, four days and nine hours since my mother went missing. The Hanford Sovereign want to know where she is. Burton Crane wants to know where she is. Even though we don't know anything, the questionin...
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Rodney McWilliams
Origins: Triskellion Saga Prequel Book One
Long before Angela, Velis created Daxxe, a champion among his kind. His task was protecting the new realm of Earth with the other gargoyles; hers was protecting him. Broken magic took its toll on Talamhan, ripping it asunder with unforeseen results, forming a new frontier and a dangerous, lifeless v...
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Adrian David Nelson
Origins of Consciousness: How the Search to Understand the Nature of Consciousness is Leading to a New View of Reality
In recent years science and philosophy have seen a resurgence of open-mindedness toward deeper views of consciousness. This book explores ideas and evidence now changing the way scientists and philosophers approach the place of consciousness in the universe. From the frontiers of modern physics and ...
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Anne M. Nicotera
Origins, Traditions, and Trends of Organizational Communication
The second edition of Origins, Traditions, and Trends of Organizational Communication provides an updated overview of organizational communication, assessing the field to date and demonstrating a communicational approach to the study of organization. Tracing the field’s history and development t...
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Giovanni Padrone
ORIGINS - In search of ancient Dog Breeds: FIRST VOLUME From Prehistory to Ancient Greece
At the end of the last glacial period, about 15.000 years ago, in the territories now occupied by Bonn, in Northern Germany, a group of humans began to select puppies from a family of dogs. Probably this cubs have a certain docility and attractiveness toward their human companions, but the reason wh...
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Deborah B. Haarsma
Origins: A Reformed Look at Creation, Design, and Evolution
Two physicists present a solid Reformed perspective on how to evaluate the competing ways in which Christians understand the origins and history of the universe. This book shows how to honor both the word of God and God's world in coming to a responsible understanding of how God created the universe...
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Molly Blaeser
Origins: The Snook Sagas: Book One
What if an unlikely friendship could actually be something beyond your wildest dreams? It's How to Train Your Dragon meets Eragon in this fantasy adventure for teens and young adults! A new journey unfolds in this realm of action and adventure. A place where dragons once flew, and elves safeguar...
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Eric Partridge
Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
This etymological dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections between words derived by a variety of routes from originally common stock. As well as giving the answers to questions about the derivation...
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Donald
Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition
This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and...
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D.L. Golden
Origins (Dreamcatcher)
An unfamiliar world where literary works have taken on the guise of powerful spell books known as tomes. This is the world in which Sai, a seventeen-year-old boy, awakens with no memory of where he is or how he got there. When he gains the power of the tome known as “Origins,” he finds himself o...
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