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  Women in the Ancient World: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  From the unification of the Two Lands around 3100 B.C. to the death of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., more than 3,000 years elapsed, and across that immense span the Egyptians wrote, painted, carved, and buried more about themselves than any other early people. A great deal of what they left behind concerns women. Wives appear beside their husbands on tomb walls. Mothers receive offerings from their sons. Daughters inherit estates. Queens rule. Widows go to court. Goddesses preside over the dead. The Egyptian woman is, by the standards of the ancient world, unusually visible, and the modern reader who looks for her finds a great deal to see. What that record shows has surprised observers for thousands of years, including some of the ancient writers themselves.  
  	That a woman should stand at the very beginning of written literature is one of the more striking facts about ancient Mesopotamia, because the same civilization that produced the first named author also produced, more than 1,000 years later, a body of law that required respectable women to veil their faces in the street and ordered a slave woman’s ears cut off if she dared to do the same. Between Enheduanna and the veil lies the whole difficult history of women in Mesopotamia, a history not of steady freedom or steady oppression but of long, uneven change. 
  	Roman wives appeared wholly dependent on the surface. They lived in their husbands’ houses, bore children, and the tombstones erected for them usually praised their chastity, piety, and skill at spinning wool. However, Roman women were also public figures in ways the wives of other ancient Mediterranean cultures were not. They walked the streets of her city without a veil, went to the dinner parties hosted by the men, and could own property in their own name. Roman women could divorce their husbands as easily as they could divorce their wives, and at some points in Rome’s vast history, women ran estates worth more than the GDP of some small modern countries.

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  Ely Samuel Parker and Stand...

  Editors Charles River

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  One of the best known of the six nations is the Seneca, and arguably the most famous Seneca chief was Ely Samuel Parker. Over the course of his life, he was a Seneca chief, a civil engineer, a close friend and adjutant to General Ulysses S. Grant, an advocate for the Indian peoples, and the first Native American Commissioner of the Department of Indian Affairs. His marriage to a much younger socialite scandalized Washington, and he made a fortune on Wall Street and lost it all. He ended his life in genteel poverty, working for nearly 20 years in an obscure position for the New York City Police Department. Parker was a largely self-taught engineer, who worked on various canal projects, and was hired by the Department of the Treasury to supervise the construction of several buildings in Galena, Illinois, where he met a shy salesclerk named Ulysses S. Grant. At the age of 18, he dined with President Polk, later talked with President Lincoln, and had the commanding general of the U.S. Army as the best man at his wedding.  
  Stand Watie’s life connects the traditional Cherokee homeland in Tennessee and Georgia, the fight within the tribe over leaving for the West or staying on their homeland and trying to resist, and the Trail of Tears. At the same time, his life also includes the ongoing split between mixed-blood and full-blood Cherokee in the Cherokee Nation, and the chaos of Indian Territory during the Civil War. Like the country as a whole, the Cherokee Nation was split over the question of slavery, and with an estimated 100 slaves owned, Watie was the biggest native slaveholder in the region. At the start of the war, Watie was commissioned as a colonel in Confederate service and later as a brigadier general. His 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles Regiment fought more engagements than any other Confederate unit west of the Mississippi River. As a result, Watie is perhaps the most famous figure of a widely overlooked aspect of the Civil War.

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  Under the Rainbow - Inside John...

  Shane Kenny

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  The 'Rainbow Government', that was how the media described the Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left coalition government that John Bruton led from late 1994 to June 1997, arguably the most left wing government in the history of the state.
  In Under the Rainbow, Shane Kenny uses his unique perspective as government press secretary to deliver the ultimate insider account of this crucial juncture in Irish politics; a period which contained critical breakthroughs in the Northern Ireland peace process, the most high profile murder in the history of the state (Veronica Guerin), the establishment of the 'payments to politicians' tribunal, which finally exposed the sources of Charles Haughey's wealth, and a divorce referendum which heralded the dawn of a changing Ireland.
  With anecdotes and quotations from the author's own notes and tapes from the time, Under the Rainbow is a singular chronicle of political and economic achievement, aligned with professional and personal tragedy – a captivating mix of the atmosphere and facts of government life.

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  Bhaktivedanta Swami

  Sripad Jagannatha Das

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  A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the twentieth century and the founder of the worldwide Hare Krishna movement. Scholar, author, translator, and missionary, he carried the ancient teachings of Gaudiya Vaishnavism from India to the West and inspired a global spiritual revival that continues to affect millions of people today. 
   
  Born Abhay Charan De in Calcutta in 1896, Prabhupada grew up during a period of profound political and cultural change in India. In 1922 he met his spiritual master, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, who urged him to spread the teachings of Krishna consciousness in the English-speaking world. After decades of preparation, study, and writing, he journeyed alone to the United States in 1965 at the age of sixty-nine, arriving with little money but a clear spiritual mission. 
   
  This biography traces Prabhupada's remarkable journey from colonial India to global spiritual leadership. Drawing upon letters, lectures, memoirs, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, it explores his life, teachings, struggles, achievements, and enduring legacy. Few spiritual leaders have so successfully carried an ancient tradition across cultural boundaries, making Bhaktivedanta Swami one of the most significant religious figures of the modern era.

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  Underground PRINCIPIA An - About...

  Margaret A. Harrell

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  Sir Isaac Newton famously complained about “action at a distance.” How was it possible, he wrote, that gravity, or attraction, operated between objects without physical contact? Well, jump to the twenty-first century, and we have a lot more to say about that. Readers will enjoy a brilliant, outrageous, playful exploration of quantum physics in everyday life, from a secret interplay of TV plots with us, in electricity, to other speculations, founded in the author’s decades of initiations as well as being an original thinker and a scholar. 
  As in Einstein’s “Credo,” the author exemplifies: “The most beautiful and deepest experience [one] can have is the sense of the mysterious.” 
  Even more amazing is that you include the most subtle levels of existence that play a role in these processes. An Underground PRINCIPIA connects life purpose, spirituality, depth psychology, and quantum physics into one all-encompassing movement.

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  The Victor Hugo Collection

  Victor Hugo

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  "To Love Another Person is to See the Face of God."
  
  Victor Hugo was more than a writer; he was a national conscience. A titan of the Romantic movement, Hugo possessed the unique ability to capture the grandeur of Gothic architecture and the grit of the Parisian barricades in a single breath. This comprehensive collection celebrates his life's work, tracing his journey from a young poetic prodigy to the world-renowned advocate for the "miserable" and the oppressed.
  
  A Visionary of the Human Spirit: Hugo's work is defined by its sheer scale and moral gravity. He masterfully explored the struggle between law and grace, the beauty found in the grotesque, and the eternal resilience of the human heart against social tyranny. His narratives are famous for their "encyclopedic realism," blending high-stakes drama with profound meditations on history, architecture, and philosophy. Whether he is championing the rights of the poor or exploring the dark depths of obsession and redemption, Hugo remains the definitive voice of humanitarian literature and epic storytelling.
  
  Victor Hugo's influence remains a cornerstone of modern culture, inspiring some of the world's most famous stage and screen adaptations. His prose is a masterclass in passion and lyrical power. This volume is an essential addition to any library of world classics, historical epics, and socially conscious fiction.
  
  Join the revolution of the heart. Buy "The Victor Hugo Collection" today and experience the power of a literary legend.

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