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  A Rare Recording of Allen...

  Allen Ginsberg

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  Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997), born in Newark NJ, was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, and hostility to bureaucracy. "America" is a poem by Ginsberg written in 1956. 

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  Viracocha: The History and...

  Editors Charles River

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  Although the Inca’s oral traditions suggested that the history of the region began with their empire, the various gods and the religious ceremonies of the peoples that inhabited the Inca’s lands before their arrival were assimilated into the Inca Empire and were incorporated into Inca religion. However, under Inca rule, all those gods were to be subordinate to those gods of the Incas themselves, so as to ensure that imperial authority was clear and without dispute among all quarters of the empire.  
  	Viracocha was the primary god in the Inca pantheon as the origin and creator of all things. His son, the god Inti, or the Sun, was married to Mama Quilla, the Moon, who was also created by Viracocha. According to one myth, Inti was the father of Manco Cápac, the founder of the Inca ruling dynasty, but it was believed by some that Viracocha himself fathered Manco Cápac. In practice, the Inca centered their religious worship on Inti, and this god's High Priest was the second most important person in Inca society. The god Inti was honored at an annual celebration held each June, and the Inti Raymi festival included sacrifices, feasts and sexual abstinence. This cosmology was imposed throughout the empire, and temples to the Sun were constructed and staffed by religious officials who were allotted farmland called “lands of the Sun.” Other local cults were provided with produce from these lands as well.  
  	The main temple of Inca religion was the Coricancha or Sun Temple in Cuzco, in which was kept the great golden disk of the Sun. The disk was appropriated by the Spanish in 1571 and sent off to the Pope. While it has disappeared, perhaps lost somewhere during the tortuous route to Spain, it remains alive in the fabulous world of adventure story writers, New Age mystics and manufacturers of souvenirs. It became a major element in the iconography of the 19th century independence movement in South America.

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  Spanish Verb Conjugation And...

  Authentic Language Books

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  Spanish Verb Conjugations and Tenses Practice Volume II 
  If you are looking to learn Spanish in a fast, simple way without entering a classroom then you have chosen the perfect book. Spanish Verb Conjugations and Tenses Practice a comprehensive and simple program for learning Spanish Verb Conjugation With Step By Step Spanish Conversations Quick And Easy In Your Car Lesson By Lesson to have native-level fluency and grammar in no time. 
  Learning Spanish can be a daunting experience. Most people start learning a new language in formal classes or try by using learning apps to learn how to speak in Spanish without any positive results. 
  Through this book you will learn Spanish Verb Conjugations And Tenses through lessons that will help you develop your vocabulary and teach you how to have flawless grammar. In these book’s lessons you will learn basic conjugations and how to use verbs in different and useful sentences. 
  Inside You Will FindHow to Conjugate regular verbs in the past tense in every termination in quick and easy lessons for perfect grammarHow to Conjugate high frequency irregular verbs in the past tense in every terminationTo understand and learn how to make sentences and develop useful vocabularyLearn quick Spanish understand vocabulary and interactions and learn correct pronunciation through this simple audio lessons 
  Get this book NOW, embrace these simple, yet effective language lessons that will have you speaking Spanish like a native in no time!

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  Voices of History Israel: The...

  Meshulam Riklis, Wladka Meed,...

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  In this important documentation, learn about the Holocaust through personal accounts and see firsthand the impact that it had on the history of the State of Israel. Never before released audio programs!Throughout the 1970's Dr. Samuel J. Citron took it upon himself to interview leading authorities on special topics in contemporary Jewish history, mostly relating to the State of Israel.Over the course of ten years of painstaking work, he completed the immense task of pulling together personal accounts of many of the more significant events of the last hundred years.The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by local collaborators.This Collection from The Voices of History: Israel includes these recordings:Seder at Cassino (Italy): Meshulam RiklisThe Warsaw Ghetto Revolt: Wladka MeedAfter Liberation: Rabbi Judah NadichThe Eichmann Trial: Gideon HausnerThe Rescue of Danish Jewry - Part I Henrik Kraft, Chief Rabbi Bent Melchior, Ambassador Ebe Munk, Prof.Ole SecherThe Rescue of Danish Jewry - Part II

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  Free Voice The: On Democracy...

  Ravish Kumar

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  'The National Project for Instilling Fear in the people has reached completion. Before the promised highways and jobs, everybody has been unfailingly given one thing—fear. For every individual, fear is now the daily bread. We are all experiencing fear; it comes to us in many different forms—from the moment we step out of our homes, with so many warnings ringing in our ears... It is only the lapdog media which is safe in India today. Jump into and snuggle down in the lap of authority and nobody will dare say anything to you.' In this book, Ravish Kumar examines why debate and dialogue have given way to hate and intolerance in India, how elected representatives, the media and other institutions are failing us and looks at ways to repair the damage to our democracy. ©Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd.

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  Wars that Forged Imperial Japan...

  Editors Charles River

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  Completing the Meiji Restoration that heralded the dawn of a new era for both Japan and Asia, the island nation found itself thrust into the modern world, a world of industry and conquest. Flexing its new muscles, the burgeoning power soon came to blows with the regional power that for centuries dominated the area politically and culturally: China. In its first modern war, the modernized Japanese empire went to war against the dominant power in the region, and though interested Western powers favored China, Japan won the day, claiming Korea as their conquest and permanently upsetting the balance of power in the region. The conflict paved the way for the future Empire of Japan and the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. 
  Though both nations modernized, and China far outweighed Japan in terms of men and materiel potential, the island nation handily won its first modern war. The conflict resulted in Japan’s short-term gains in the wake of victory, and the long term disaster for both sides’ new roles in Asia, for with the end of Chinese dominance in East Asia came a new era for the region as a whole, an era whose consequences and horrors would not be fully realized for several more decades. 
  In 1937, the Empire of Japan once more went to war with China, a nation broken into petty warlord fiefdoms and wracked by civil war. The most modern Asian nation enacted a brutal campaign over the fragmented realms that made up China, committing atrocities just as horrendous as their Axis ally in Europe. Despite this, the sheer size of China, coupled with Japan’s overextension, allowed the larger, less developed nation to endure.

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