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Most people who have any familiarity of BTW have heard the oversimplified stereotype that he was supposedly an "Uncle Tom", etc. This shows the fallacy of that thinking. Here, BTW tells off the Governor of South Carolina in 1895 for cutting off funds for Black schools "if you think education is expensive-try ignorance!" and socks it to the Louisiana Legislature for allowing Blacks to be lynched "I heard a boy say "today I have seen a man hanged and I shall soon see one burned. Before I hear such a remark from one of my sons I would rather see him in his grave." read it, and you'll be surprised.

Edited by Amihai Mazara (Professor of Archaeology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Studies In The Archaeology Of The Iron Age In Israel And Jordan is an impressive compendium of scholarly, academic analysis. This scholarly text is divided into three parts: Settlement Patterns and Landscape Archaeology; Temples, Cult and Iconography; and Aspects of Material Culture. Occasional black-and-white illustrations and photographs of artifacts dot the serious, thoughtful, and heavily researched text. The contributors surveying spatial archaeology and settlement patterns include Adam Zertal (Samaria), Avi Ofer (Judah), Gunnar Lehmann (the Akko Plain), and Shimon Gibson (the Hill country). Religion and iconography are surveyed by Avraham Brian and Ze'ev Herzog (temples at Dan and Arad), Raz Kletter and Kay Prag (clay figurines and other cult objects), Tallay Ornan (seals and pendants portraying Ishtar), and Norma Franklin (iconography of the wall relief in Room V at Sargon's Palace in Khorsabad), Amihai Mazar (Iron Age II Beth Shean), Margreet Steiner (urban development in Jerusalem during Iron Age II), Piotr Beinkowski and Leonie Sedman (Busayra, the capital of Edom). Studies In The Archaeology Of The Iron Age In Israel And Jordan is a core addition for any academic and archaeological reference collection devoted to ancient history in the Middle East.

I work as a surgeon for the Red Cross, and my team was sent to Congo and stationed their to help locals. I figure our native interpreter would be no good (which turned out to be true) so i decided i should study Swahili. I bought this book on amazon, and a few others and this is the best book out their for Swahili, as is any other Foreign Institute Service book, i not only learned to speak swahili but i learned to think in swahili, and in my opinion i became almost fluent within 3 weeks, and was able to communicate very with the native Congo people. Please buy this book if your want to lean Swahili

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Founded in 1960, the Tamarind Institute has had a major influence on art-making in this century, placing American lithographers at the forefront of printmaking efforts. This documents the Institute's achievements, following the artists and participants who've worked there for years and offering black and white and color reproductions of their works throughout. An excellent history.

Chris Goscha's unique skills in the Thai, Khmer and Vietnamese languages have allowed him to dig deeply into the efforts of Vietnamese revolutionaries to exploit their neighbors. Readers of this fascinating history of Vietnamese networks in Thailand will also want to study Goscha's earlier work "Falling Out of Touch" which documents the troubled history of the Vietnamese communists and their Cambodian offspring. Goscha provides insights unavailable elsewhere.

This book covers everything an engineer could ever need with regard to wood construction. From glulams to ply-wood this book has it all. This is the only reference necessary in order to design wood trusses and glulam arches. I found the book extremely useful in figuring various structural factors unique to wood construction(eg. checking and moisture content). This is the best resource for the structural, civil or mechanical engineer interested in timber construction.

Great summary of the steps and impact of TPM on production operations. Made simple so that operators (and engineers) can understand it.