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  Kushan Empire The: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  Long before it was known as Afghanistan, and even longer before it acquired its current reputation, Afghanistan’s modern borders were fairly congruent with the ancient country known as Bactria. Bactria was the seat of several different kingdoms during the course of many centuries, but none were as successful as the Kushan Empire, the dominant political entity in Central Asia from the early 2nd century BCE until the early 3rd century CE, during which time the Kushan rulers played a major role in the first iteration of the trade networks known collectively as the Silk Road. The Kushans began as nomadic steppe warriors who eventually grew tired of constantly migrating and subsequently put their skills and experience to use by conquering Bactria and creating a kingdom that was stronger economically than it was militarily. Taking advantage of their location on the Silk Road trade routes, the Kushan kings charged fees and tolls for goods passing through their empire and developed over-land and sea routes that brought goods from China to Rome and vice versa. But silk, textiles, gold, silver, and other commodities were not the only things that entered the Kushan Empire from the East and West; the Kushan Empire was a focal point for the spread of ideas, diplomats, and diseases. Although the Romans and the Chinese never had direct contact, they both had diplomatic relations with the Kushan kings, who proved to be outstanding diplomats. The Kushan Empire eventually became a transit point of people and ideas, where enormous wealth was exchanged alongside early forms of monotheism, such as Zoroastrianism and Buddhism. The Kushan kings recognized these cultural benefits and so practiced a policy of patronizing different religious philosophies and maintaining peaceful relations with other powers along the Silk Roads to keep the flow of goods moving. 

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  Rise of Durham’s Black Wall...

  Charles River Editors

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  In the wake of the Civil War, African Americans attained freedom from chattel slavery, but continued to suffer discrimination both legal in the form of Jim Crow laws and de facto in the continued perception among the vast majority of white Americans that African Americans were at the very least inferior and at the most a constant dangerous presence in their communities who must be carefully controlled.  
  Durham, North Carolina’s "Black Wall Street" exemplifies the flourishing of Black enterprise under the constraints of Jim Crow segregation. Parrish Street became a central hub for African American businesses and financial institutions in the early 20th century. The district achieved national recognition from leaders such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, who regarded it as a model of Black achievement. Washington noted Durham’s relatively progressive racial climate, while Du Bois emphasized the city’s organized Black community and the extensive network of Black-owned businesses that enabled residents to fulfil nearly all their needs within their own community.  
  The origins of Black Wall Street can be traced to Durham’s transformation into an industrial center after the Civil War. Once a modest railroad stop, Durham rapidly became known as the tobacco capital of the world, primarily due to the Duke family’s business activities. The growth of the tobacco and textile industries attracted both Black and white workers, coinciding with a period of significant racial and economic challenges for African Americans. Despite segregation and disenfranchisement, Durham’s expanding economy created rare opportunities for Black entrepreneurship and enabled a degree of coexistence between influential white industrialists and an emerging Black middle class.

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  The Popcorn Principles - A...

  John Gaspard

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  Take your novel to the next level.  
  Unlock the power of the silver screen with The Popcorn Principles, a guide to fiction and novel writing. 
  It will help you: 
  • Craft unforgettable characters 
  • Write compelling scenes 
  • Hide exposition 
  • Structure powerful endings 
  With this book (and the movies it draws on), you'll learn the tools and techniques used by screenwriters, which you can apply to your own writing. 
  Craft your next novel and become a better writer with The Popcorn Principles. (Popcorn not included.) 
  Includes interviews and tips from Roger Corman, Jon Favreau, Steven Soderbergh, George Romero, Bob Odenkirk, Stuart Gordon, Miranda July, Academy-Award winner Kenneth Lonergan, editor Carol Littleton ("The Big Chill"), Dan O'Bannon ("Alien"), Tom DiCillo ("Living in Oblivion), Academy-Award nominees Whit Stillman ("Metropolitan") and Dan Futterman ("Capote"), and Alex Cox ("Repo Man").

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  China's 2030 Blueprint: How...

  Orson Merrick

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  China's 2030 Blueprint: How Beijing Plans to Overtake America 
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  Our guide stands out through its thorough coverage, ensuring you're well-equipped for the global landscape of 2030. Topics are explored in detail rather than just touched upon. 
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  What Do Meteorologists Do?

  Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo...

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  With these great, factual songs, any young meteorologist will soon learn much about temperature, clouds, storms, tornadoes and hurricanes, seasons, tools to predict the weather, water cycle, warm and cold fronts and more!
  Track List:When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Meteorologist What Does A Meteorologist Do? The Weather's Always ChangingTools To Predict The Weather What Is Wind?It's Called The Water Cycle Tornadoes And Hurricanes I See An Elephant In The Sky What Is Thunder And Lightning? There Are Four Seasons  Spring And Summer Fall And Winter

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  The Politics of Maps -...

  Izhak Schnell, Christine...

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  Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material, in-depth interviews, and ethnographies, The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine. Chapters chart the cartographic history of the region, from the introduction of Western scientific and legal paradigms that seemingly legitimized and depoliticized new land regimes to the rise of new mapping technologies and software that expanded access to cartography into the public sphere. Maps produced by various sectors like the "peace camps" or the Jewish community enhanced national belonging, while others, like that of the Green Line, served largely to divide. 
   
   
   
  The stories of Israel's many boundaries reveal that there is no absolute, technocratic solution to boundary-making. As boundaries continue to be controversial and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains intractable and unresolved, The Politics of Maps uses nationally-based cartographic discourses to provide insight into the complexity, fissures, and frictions within internal political debates, illuminating the persistent power of the nation-state as a framework for forging identities, citizens, and alliances.

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