Origins

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Zara S. Steiner
Britain and the Origins of the First World War: Second Edition
How and why did Britain become involved in the First World War? Taking into account the scholarship of the last twenty-five years, this second edition of Zara S. Steiner's classic study, thoroughly revised with Keith Neilson, explores a subject which is as highly contentious as ever. While retainin...
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Louis Richards
111 Idioms and Phrases and Their Fascinating Origins
Hold your horses! Don’t judge this book by its cover! Most likely, you've used idioms or phrases like these without considering their origins. However, if you take a moment to learn about them, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the fascinating and bizarre beginnings of these enjoyable expressio...
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Beatrice F. Buck
The Origins and History of Halloween: From Ancient Celtic Rituals to Modern-Day Celebrations of Costumes, Pumpkins, and Traditions
This book presents the complete story of Halloween from its ancient beginnings to modern-day celebrations. It traces the origins in the Celtic festival of Samhain , when communities marked the end of the harvest and honored spirits, and explains how rituals, offerings, and seasonal observances sh...
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Fidelis in litteris
Dogs Word Search Puzzles: Large Print Edition: 120 Dog-Themed Puzzles with Over 2800 Words to Find. Fascinating Facts, Learn About the Origins of ...
There is no comparison to the loyalty of a dog, nor to the love and heart-melting relationship that sharing time with them generates. Em-bark yourself into this word search puzzle filled with curiosities and facts about dogs, their breed origins, different expressions used to refer to dogs, as well ...
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Prof George E. E. Mendenhall
The Tenth Generation: The Origins of the Biblical Tradition
"...an exceptionally important book. Anyone stimulated by Mendenhall's earlier treatment of the origins of Israel and her settlement in Palestine and conversant with his views in the years since has eagerly awaited this fuller presentation... Everyone who struggles to grasp the Old Testament must co...
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Shreve
Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism (Volume 5) (New Directions in Native American Studies Series)
During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian t...
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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
The Origins and Legal Doctrine of the Law Court of Counter-Suit (Fori reconventionis)
In 1846, a young Karl Heinrich Ulrichs—later celebrated as a pioneering advocate for sexual emancipation—submitted his Göttingen dissertation, The Origins and Legal Doctrine of the Law Court of Counter-Suit (Fori reconventionis). Long before his radical writings on human rights, Ulrichs immerse...
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C.V. Jackson
Star Legacy Origins
A girl made of stardust. A city full of danger. And a superhero legacy she never asked for. In the not-so-distant future, working as a superhero in Glimmer City is as common as being a barista. The goal of a superhero is simple: to protect the city’s citizens from natural disasters and worse, the ...
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Andrew Louth
The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys
Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology. Andrew Louth aims to redress the balance. Recognizing that the intellectual form of this tradition was decisively influenced by Platonic ideas of t...
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Zahid Ameer
The Hadean Eon: Earth's Fiery Origins and the Birth of a Planet
Discover the untold story of Earth's earliest chapter in The Hadean Eon: Earth's Fiery Origins and the Birth of a Planet . This comprehensive book dives deep into the violent, molten beginnings of our planet, exploring key events from Earth's formation 4.6 billion years ago to the emergence of its ...
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Beyond Pages
Behind the Bar: 101 FUN Facts Every Bartender Should Know: Quirky Insights, Mixology Marvels, Spirits Trivia, Legendary Origins, and Unexpected ...
Step behind the bar and journey into a world brimming with more than just spirits and cocktails. "Behind the Bar: 101 FUN Facts Every Bartender Should Know" takes you on a whirlwind adventure through the most intriguing, humorous, and downright astonishing facts that every bartender — aspiring or ...
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Haim Ofek
Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution
This book spans two million years of human evolution and explores the impact of economics on human evolution and natural history. The theory of evolution by natural selection has always relied in part on progress in areas of science outside of biology. By applying economic principles at the borderli...
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M. Mustafa al-Azami
On Schachts Origins Of Muhammadan Jurisprudence
This in-depth study presents a detailed analysis and critique of the classic Western work on the origins of Islamic law, Schacht's Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. Azami's work examines the sources used by Schacht to develop his thesis on the relation of Islamic law to the Qur'an, and exposes fu...
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Andrew R. Ruis
Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
In Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat , historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it was (and, to some extent, has continued to be) so difficult to establish meal programs that satisfy the often competing interests of children, parents, schools, heal...
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Robert Spencer
Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam's Obscure Origins
Are jihadists dying for a fiction? Everything you thought you knew about Islam is about to change. Did Muhammad exist? It is a question that few have thought—or dared—to ask. Virtually everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, takes for granted that the prophet of Islam lived and led in seventh-cen...
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Lauros G. McConachie
Congressional Committees (Classic Reprint): A Study of the Origins and Development of Our National and Local Legislative Methods
How Congress got its committees—and why they matter This historical study traces the origins and development of standing and select committees that shape national and local lawmaking. It explains how British parliamentary practice, colonial roots, and early American experiments with inquiry and ...
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Giulio Pianesi
Japanese Myths and Sacred Legends: Ancient Stories of Gods, Spirits, and the Origins of Japanese Culture
Behind every Japanese myth lies a sacred truth about nature, humanity, and the invisible world. Japanese Myths and Sacred Legends opens the door to an ancient universe where gods, spirits, and the origins of Japanese culture are deeply intertwined. Long before modern Japan, these stories explaine...
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Steff V Scott
From Ishtar to Eostre: Reframing the Near Eastern Origins of an Anglo Saxon Goddess
From Ishtar to Eostre: Third Expanded Edition For over three millennia, the worship of the Near Eastern goddess Astarte, queen of love, war, fertility, and the stars, stretched across continents, empires, and civilizations. From her earliest Semitic inscriptions in ancient Mesopotamia (c.2600 BCE), ...
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Leonard D Katz
Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
Includes four principal papers and a total of 43 peer commentaries on the evolutionary origins of morality. "A fascinating set of essays." -- "Human Nature Review" "Provides a wonderfully rich range of viewpoints from a variety of fields." -- "Journal of Moral Education" "Psychologists will f...
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James Milo Minnich
The North Korean People's Army: Origins and Current Tactics
For more than fifty years, the combined armed forces of the United States and the Republic of Korea have faced down the North Korean People's Army (NKPA) along the world's most militarized stretch of land known as the demilitarized zone. Despite the prolonged standoff, much remains unknown about the...
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