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  • De Havilland and Hatfield

    1910-1935

    by John Clifford ...
    The de Havilland Aircraft Co, already an international business, opened an aerodrome in 1930 on farmland which it acquired to the west of Hatfield. But significant events had already brought aircraft over the town, often de Havillands, for the past twenty years.The company’s School of Flying was the first operation to take up residence. Flying clubs moved in and recreational facilities were ... Read more

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  • Balanchine's Apprentice

    From Hollywood to New York and Back

    by John Clifford ...
    A talented young dancer and his brilliant teacherIn this long-awaited memoir, dancer and choreographer John Clifford offers a highly personal look inside the day-to-day operations of the New York City Ballet and its creative mastermind, George Balanchine. Balanchine’s Apprentice is the story of Clifford—an exceptionally talented artist—and the guiding inspiration for his life’s work in dance ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    Balanchine’s Apprentice

    From Hollywood to New York and Back

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    A talented young dancer and his brilliant teacherIn this long-awaited memoir, dancer and choreographer John Clifford offers a highly personal look inside the day-to-day operations of the New York City Ballet and its creative mastermind, George Balanchine. Balanchine’s Apprentice is the story of Clifford—an exceptionally talented artist—and the guiding inspiration for his life’s work in dance ... Read more

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  • Theravada Traditions

    Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka

    Theravada Traditions offers a unique comparative approach to understanding Buddhism: it examines popular rituals of central importance in the predominantly Theravada Buddhist cultures of Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Instead of focusing on how religious ideas have impacted the ideals of government or ethical practice, author John Holt tries to ascertain how important changes, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Lydia Hosto Niebuhr

    The Buried History of an Evangelical Matriarch

    This biography is about an immigrant's daughter who remained in the shadows of her father, husband, sons, and daughter. But it is also about the theological tradition--German Evangelical Pietism--that shaped her and that she helped to shape. That tradition is also hidden--or buried--for its tendency to embarrass modern sensitivities. As such it remains deeply misunderstood. Grounded in the history ... Read more

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  • Financing the 1996 Election

    First Published in 1999. The 1996 elections revealed that unmistakeable, dramatic changes have occurred in the way federal campaigns are paid for. Through soft money donations, issue advocacy campaigns and other stratagems, parties and candidates have been able to circumvent the regulations put in place after the Watergate scandal. Despite rhetorical condemnations, there is every reason to expect ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The World's Great Sermons

    Volume VIII—Talmage to Knox Little

    Series Book 8 - The World's Great Sermons
    Collections of sermons by noted preachers of different periods are not an altogether uncommon contribution to literature. Italy, Germany, Holland, France, Great Britain and the United States have in this way furnished copious illustrations of the gifts of their illustrious preachers. Such treasures are found in the Latin and even in the Greek Church. Protestant communions especially, in line with ... Read more

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  • Operation Jihadi Bride

    My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story

    Soldier Magazine's Book of the MonthFascinating... Incredibly dangerous. The TimesGripping. Adrenalin fuelled true-life account with all the makings of a military thriller. The action unfolds like a Le Carre novel. Soldier Magazine/h2> 'If there are young women with children trapped in that hell and we can get them out, don't we have a duty to do so?' Hearing te... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Philosophy of Walking

    by Frederic Gros ...
    Translated by John Howe ...
    This “passionate affirmation of the simple life, and joy in simple things” explores how walking influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and Jack Kerouac to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer).In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Citizen Soldiers

    The Plattsburg Training Camp Movement, 1913-1920

    The Citizen Soldiers explores the military reform movement that took its name from the famous Business Men's Military Training Camps at Plattsburg, New York. It also illuminates the story of two exceptional men: General Leonard Wood, the rambunctious and controversial former Rough Rider who galvanized the Plattsburg Idea with his magnetic personality; and Grenville Clark, a young Wall Street ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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    Operation Jihadi Bride

    My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story

    Unabridged

    8 hours 34 min

    Soldier Magazine's Book of the MonthFascinating... Incredibly dangerous. The TimesGripping. Adrenalin fuelled true-life account with all the makings of a military thriller. The action unfolds like a Le Carre novel. Soldier Magazine/h2> Jihad isn't a war. It's an objective. An aberration. If there are young women with children, lost boys... If they are trapped in that hell and we can get ... Read more

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  • The Gods, the State, and the Individual

    Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome

    Translated by Clifford Ando ...
    Series series Empire and After
    Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not ... Read more

    $46.79 USD