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Do you have much in common with kids from long ago Sure their clothes and homes looked different They ate different food and might not have ever gone to school But they also made artjust like you They helped their families with choresjust like you They played with friends and siblings and they explored the world around them Archaeologists know about the lives of children from the past because of what they left behind toys tools clothes and more So get ready to travel back in time and check out the lives of kidsfrom European cave kids twenty thousand years ago to American Indian kids one thousand years ago
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Reflex Lens 250mm f56A masterfully recreated mirror lens inspired by the classic lenses of the past Capture breathtaking images with the NiSi 250mm f56 Reflex Lens featuring unique donutshaped bokeh and stunning painterly effects for true artistic photographyExperience the elegance and precision of the NiSi 250mm f56 Reflex Lens a masterfully recreated mirror lens inspired by lenses of the past Designed for photographers who crave distinctive bokeh effects and a painterly oil paintinglike feel this manual focus lens offers exceptional quality and unique artistic capabilitiesWith a fullframe focal length of 250mm and a fixed aperture of f56 this lens is perfect for capturing mesmerizing backgrounds and creating a strong sense of compression in your images The advanced optical design incorporates 6 elements in 3 groups including a 48layer dielectric high reflection coating and ultralow reflection coating ensuring superior image quality with reduced chromatic aberration and vivid colorsKey highlights include a minimum focusing distance of 2 meters a 270 Degree focus rotation for precise manual focusing and compatibility with 62mm filtersEmbrace the beauty of the shallow depth of field clear doughnutshaped bokeh and the unique doubleline effect that adds a charming artistic touch to your photos Whether youre capturing portraits nature or cinematic videos the NiSi 250mm f56 Reflex Lens will elevate your photography to new artistic heights
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Reflex Lens 250mm f56A masterfully recreated mirror lens inspired by the classic lenses of the past Capture breathtaking images with the NiSi 250mm f56 Reflex Lens featuring unique donutshaped bokeh and stunning painterly effects for true artistic photographyExperience the elegance and precision of the NiSi 250mm f56 Reflex Lens a masterfully recreated mirror lens inspired by lenses of the past Designed for photographers who crave distinctive bokeh effects and a painterly oil paintinglike feel this manual focus lens offers exceptional quality and unique artistic capabilitiesWith a fullframe focal length of 250mm and a fixed aperture of f56 this lens is perfect for capturing mesmerizing backgrounds and creating a strong sense of compression in your images The advanced optical design incorporates 6 elements in 3 groups including a 48layer dielectric high reflection coating and ultralow reflection coating ensuring superior image quality with reduced chromatic aberration and vivid colorsKey highlights include a minimum focusing distance of 2 meters a 270 Degree focus rotation for precise manual focusing and compatibility with 62mm filtersEmbrace the beauty of the shallow depth of field clear doughnutshaped bokeh and the unique doubleline effect that adds a charming artistic touch to your photos Whether youre capturing portraits nature or cinematic videos the NiSi 250mm f56 Reflex Lens will elevate your photography to new artistic heights
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Prisoner of Her Past Format sold at 20.23 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Until February 15 2001 Howard Reichs mother Sonia had managed to keep almost everything about her experience of the Holocaust from her son That night she packed some clothes and fled her house in Skokie Illinois convinced that someone was trying to kill her This was the first indication that she was suffering from lateonset post traumatic stress disorder a littleknown condition that can emerge decades after the initial trauma For Howard it was also the opening of a window onto his mothers pastnbsp InnbspPrisoner of Her Past Howard Reich has written a moving memoir about growing up as the child of Holocaust survivors and finding refuge from silence and fear in the world of jazz It is only when Sonias memories overwhelm her and Howard begins to piece together her story that he comes to understand how his parents lives shaped his own The paperback edition includes an epilogue by the author that relates developments since the publication of the cloth edition
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Featuring a streamlined singlevolume format Womens America Refocusing the Past is more teachable accessible and affordable than ever before The ninth edition incorporates insights from new coeditor Karissa Haugeberg and appears at a time of anxiety about the meaning of equality in the twentyfirst century Some of the inequalities with which women have long struggled have been eliminated while others have emerged or reemerged Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment Womens America is an indispensable text for the study of US womens history
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Constructing the American Past A sold at 74.8 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Now published by Oxford University Press Constructing the American Past A Source Book of a Peoples History Eighth Edition presents an innovative combination of case studies and primary source documents that allow students to discover analyze and construct history from the actors perspectiveBeginning with Christopher Columbus and his interaction with the Spanish crown in 1492 and ending in the Reconstruction era United States Constructing the American Past provides eyewitness accounts of historical events legal documents that helped shape the lives of citizens and excerpts from diaries that show history through an intimate perspective The authors expand upon past scholarship and include new material regarding gender race and immigration in order to provide a more complete picture of the past
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on The Past s Threshold Format sold at 25.68 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Siegfried Kracauer was a leading intellectual figure of the Weimar Republic and one of the foremost representatives of critical theory Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory his influence is felt in the work of many of the periods preeminent thinkers including his friends the critic Walter Benjamin and Theodor W Adorno who once claimed he owed more to Kracauer than any other contemporary This volume brings together for the first time all of Kracauers essays on photography that he wrote between 1927 and 1933 as a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung as well as an essay that appeared in the Magazine of Art after his exile in America where he would spend the last twentyfive years of his life The texts show Kracauer as a pioneering thinker of the photographic medium in addition to the important historian and theorist of film that he is acknowledged to have been His writings here build a cohesive theory on the affinities between photography memory and history With a foreword by Philippe Despoix offering insights into Kracauers theories and the historical context and a Curriculum vitae in pictures photographs from the Kracauer estate annotated by Maria Zinfertnbspnbspnbspnbsp
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Channeling the Past Format Paperback sold for 27.99 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
After the turmoil of the Great Depression and World War II Americans looked to the nations more distant past for lessons to inform its uncertain future By applying recent and emerging techniques in mass communicationincluding radio and television programs and commercial book clubsAmerican elites working in media commerce and government used history to confer authority on their respective messagesnbspnbsp nbspWith insight and wit Erik Christiansen uncovers in Channeling the Past the ways that powerful corporations rewrote history to strengthen the postwar corporate state while progressives communists and other leftists vied to make their own versions of the past more popular Christiansen looks closely at several notable initiativesCBSs flashback You Are There program the Smithsonian Museum of American History constructed in the late 1950s the Cavalcade of America program sponsored by the Du Pont Company the History Book Club and the Freedom Train a museum on rails that traveled the country from 1947 to 1949 exhibiting historic documents and flags including original copies of the US Constitution and the Magna Cartanbspnbsp nbspIt is often said that history is written by the victors but Christiansen offers a more nuanced perspective history is constantly remade to suit the objectives of those with the resources to do it He provides dramatic evidence of sophisticated calculations that influenced both public opinion and historical memory and shows that Americans relationships with the past changed as a result
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Chinese Civil Justice Past and, priced at 89.62 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
The culmination of twenty years of research this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C C Huangs pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present Huang shows how at the level of ideology and theory traditional Chinese law has been rejected time and again in the past century by Chinas own lawmakers first in the late Qing and the republic then in the revolutionary and Maoist periods of the Peoples Republic and finally again in the current reform era Considering legal theory alone modern Chinese law can only be Western law and past Chinese lawtraditional or Maoistcan have no role under the leaderships current preoccupations with modernization and marketizationBut what has actually happened historically at the level of judicial practice and the daily lives of common people In exploring this central question Huang draws on a rich array of court records and field interviews to illustrate the surprising strength of traditional Chinese civil justice Albeit much altered its legacy can be traced in informal and semiformal community justice eg societal and cadres mediation as well as in multiple spheres of courtadministered formal civil justice including property rights inheritance and oldage maintenance and debt obligations He also identifies the influence of Maoist justice especially its divorce and civil court mediation practices Finally despite the reform eras massive importation of Western laws legal reasoning employed in judicial practice has shown remarkable continuity with major implications for Chinas future legal system
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Arrernte Present Past Format Paperback, priced at 38.85 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers pastoralists missionaries and laborers invaded their land During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity and the earliest accounts of their lives beliefs and traditions were a seminal influence on European notions of the primitive The first study to address the Arrerntes contemporary situation Arrernte Present Arrernte Past also documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced over the past hundred yearsEmploying ethnographic and archival research Diane AustinBroos traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of huntergatherers to members of the Hermannsburg Mission community to their present marginalized position in the modern Australian economy While she concludes that these wrenching structural shifts led to the violence that now marks Arrernte communities she also brings to light the powerful acts of imagination that have sustained a continuing sense of Arrernte identity
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Seeking Our Past Format Paperback sold for 145.95 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Seeking Our Past An Introduction to North American Archaeology offers an uptodate and engaging introduction to North Americas past that also illustrates contemporary archaeological practice The authors include examples from both North American prehistory and historydrawn from academic archaeology and Cultural Resource Management CRMin order to provide a broad overview of how the continent was settled what archaeologists have learned about life across the North American culture areas and how current archaeologists research our past Chapters are enhanced by case studies written especially for this book by the original researchers Through these case studies readers gain familiarity with particular projects and insight into what archaeologists actually do In addition the authors cover such important ethical issues as respecting and working with descendant populations and the need for archaeological stewardship They also provide valuable information about contemporary practice and careers in archaeologyNew to this Edition Expanded discussion of Paleoindian adaptations A completely new chapter 13 that covers North American historical archaeology thematically New and streamlined case studies Revised and updated Issues and Debates and Clues to the Past feature boxes and Faces in Archaeology profiles New feature boxes Anthropological Themes which remind students of the broad anthropological research questions listed in Chapter 2 and show where to look for relevant discussions in each chapter
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Discover information, advice, and prices for The Hour Past Midnight Format sold for 24.74 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Salma is a major Indian political leader who in 2003 faced obscenity charges and violent threats for her collection of erotic poetry Undeterred shes back with a beautiful evocative and poetic novelnow available for the first time in EnglishThe Hour Past Midnight is a rare glimpse into the lives of Muslim women in traditionalist South Indian families Salma gives us Rabia who is caught sneaking off to see a movie with friends and is beaten into submission by her mother Zohra There is Firdaus a beautiful girl of marriageable age who on her wedding night turns to the wealthy groom selected for her and says Im not going to live with you dont touch me Salma weaves together the stories of Rabia Zohra and Firdaus who all live in a world dominated by men achingly portraying their rebellions compromises friendships falling apart and coming back together In this lyrical and powerful novel we get an honestsometimes uplifting sometimes heartbreakingaccount of the lives of Muslim women in rural Tamil Nadu
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Fresno s Architectural Past Format sold at 21.73 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
The exuberant personalities of 22 landmark buildings in downtown Fresno are captured in watercolor portraits and brief explanations of each structures significance in this architectural survey Covering wellknown properties in all stages of repair this collection includes images of the Hotel Californian the Liberty Theater the Meux Home the Pacific Southwest Building the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot and Warnors Theater Including a glossary of architectural terms and a bibliography this nostalgic look at the historic past and current rebirth of central Fresno pays stirring homage to the areas unique architectural heritage
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African Pasts Presents and Futures Generational Shifts in African Womens Literature Film and Internet Discourse by Touria Khannous provides a history of African womens cultural production as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated postcolonial studies in general and African and gender studies in particular It examines some of the more overarching questions that are prevalent in the works of African women authors who position themselves within the contexts of Islam feminism nationalism modernity and global and postcolonial politics thus engaging in the construction of sociopolitical platforms for reform in their home countries The book explores different aspects of womens agency at the political cultural social religious and aesthetic level and highlights their civil society activism and push for legal reform It also traces their opinions on a range of social and political questions and underscores fundamental shifts in their positions and concerns through the different generations
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Win or lose What matter We fight for freedom of spirit Thus writes Ienaga Saburo preeminent Japanese historian and courageous plaintiff in three lawsuits 1965D1997 against the government seeking to end Ministry of Education OcertificationO of textbooks which even today constrains discussion of Japans actions in China and elsewhere in the Pacific The cases arose specifically from government censorship of Ienagas forthright textbook accounts of the Pacific War and of such controversial events as the Nanjing massacre The questions he has forced into the public arena are central both to the nature of Japanese democracy and to issues of war and memory They have shaped Japanese politics and frictions with its Asian neighbors and with the United States for half a century Spanning Japans watershed twentieth century this compelling autobiography traces Ienagas childhood education wartime experience academic career and the two major battles that occupied his later years One was the fight against the relocation of Tokyo University of Education to a new Oresearch cityO outside Tokyo the other was the fight against OcertificationO Neither battle ended in victory for Ienaga but as he eloquently expresses in the short poem above defeat did not make them any less worth fighting Minear provides a masterly introduction of the man and his times and brings the story to the present with excerpts from Ienagas court testimony and recent interviews Illustrated with photos and textbook extracts this volume brings to life the experience and intellectual odyssey of one of the leading shapers of contemporary Japan It will be widely read and used by Japan specialists as well as all scholars and general readers concerned with issues of academic freedom and war and peace
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Find tips, reviews, and features on A Pima Past Format Paperback sold for 21.7 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
In simple unaffected prose Mrs Shaw constructs a moving saga of Native Americans caught between their tribal past and a Europeanized present Some of the most interesting passages deal with the wrenching realities of Indian life on the reservation in the years around the turn of the century when the Indian male as a warrior found himself bereft of his very reason for being and forced to endeavor to become a farmerJournal of Arizona History A most interesting book Shaws account of how the Pima Indians lived their family structure how they reared their children courtship and marriage how they treated their elders their religious practices before the coming of a Christian missionary in 1870 and their accommodation with death are related in language that can be easily understood by the layman and yet provide information which can be used by the sociologist and anthropologistJournal of the West The current trend in books written by American Indians is to idealize the Indian past while condemning white culture This volume is a notable exception because its author is old enough to remember the past and because she has been successful in adapting those elements of white culture which she found useful without sacrificing this essential heritage The style is simple and straightforward that of a good storyteller which reaches all adult levelsChoice Simple and charming reminiscences of the old Pima ways at the turn of the century when they still prevailed and of the changes which recent decades have brought about in the lives of the desert peopleBooks of the Southwest Throughout Shaws account a special kind of humor sensitivity and pride is revealed when discussing her peoples and her own personal experiencesThe Masterkey nbsp
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on An Infamous Past Format Hardcover sold at 27.06 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
A writer who does stupid things in his youth is like a woman with a shameful pastnever forgiven never forgotten E M Cioran the renowned RomanianFrench nihilist philosopher and literary figure knew this better than anyone Alongside Heidegger Sartre Paul de Mann and others Cioran was one of the great scholars of the twentieth century to be seduced by totalitarianism he experienced a most disturbing intellectual and moral drama More than any other study of Cioran Marta Petreus intensive investigation of his life and work confronts the central problem of his biography his relationship with political extremism The scene of Ciorans excesses is Romania and Europe in the 1930s and 1940s a time of xenophobia antiSemitism racism Nazism and Stalinism In an incendiary book published in the midthirties Cioran openly praised Hitler and Lenin and compared the leader of the fanatical Romanian Iron Guard to Jesus himself This book The Transfiguration of Romania is the focal element of Ms Petreus analysis which she carries on to Ciorans posthumously published Notebooks characterized by the regret and remorse of his twilight years In straightforward and lucid prose grounded in a wealth of documentary evidence she provides the entire history of a painful individual and collective drama For many of Ciorans yearnings would later be realized in Ceausescus dictatorship of Romaniato the regret of the Romanian people Norman Maneas Foreword reminds us of Ciorans stature in Western intellectual circles and explains the critical importance of An Infamous Past
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Recounts the experiences of abandoned orphaned or homeless children from city orphanages in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who were sent out by the trainload to find families that would adopt them or take them as workers
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Telling Children about the Past sold at 64.32 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
This book brings together archeologists historians psychologists and educators from different countries and academic traditions to address the many ways that we tell children about the distant past Knowing the past is fundamentally important for human societies as well as for individual development The authors expose many unquestioned assumptions and preformed images in narratives of the past that are routinely presented to children The contributors both examine the ways in which children come to grips with the past and critically assess the many ways in which contemporary societies and an increasing number of commercial agents construct and use the past
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