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  The Thirty Years War - 1618-1648

  History Nerds, Andrew McDermott

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  A continent divided. A war that reshaped the world.The Thirty Years War (1618–1648) began as a bitter religious conflict within the fractured Holy Roman Empire—but it would erupt into one of the most devastating and transformative wars in European history. What started as a clash between Protestant and Catholic states soon spiralled into a brutal struggle for power, drawing in the great kingdoms of Europe and leaving millions dead.In this gripping and accessible account, The Thirty Years’ War brings to life the key figures, battles, and turning points that defined a generation. From the Defenestration of Prague to the rise of generals like Wallenstein and Gustavus Adolphus, the book explores how ambition, faith, and political intrigue collided on a catastrophic scale.Beyond the battlefield, this book uncovers the human cost of the war—the famine, disease, and suffering endured by ordinary people—and examines how the conflict ultimately gave birth to a new political order in Europe through the Peace of Westphalia.Perfect for readers of history, military strategy, and European politics, this compelling narrative offers both a clear introduction for newcomers and fresh insights for seasoned enthusiasts.Discover the war that changed Europe forever.

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  Finishing Nature - A History of...

  Richard White

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  Behind the headline catastrophes of wildfires and floods lies California’s history of bending nature to human purpose. 
  The immense waters of Tulare Lake were repurposed long ago for irrigation of industrial farms, leaving a dry expanse. But wet years conjure the ghost of the lake, and recent atmospheric rivers have flooded nearly 100,000 acres of rich farmland. The Eaton fire, the Oroville Dam failure, depleted aquifers, land subsidence, megadroughts that bring contaminated wells—all are legacies of California’s attempts to reengineer nature. With global warming, the state’s immense infrastructure, built across centuries to remedy its natural deficiencies and dangers, has itself become a threat. 
   
  Finishing nature was originally a Jeffersonian idea of improvement adopted by a California horticulturists. But with industrial growth, improvement became control as the attempt to reorganize nature exploded in scale and ambition. From a leading historian, Finishing Nature is a story of hubris, Gilded Age corruption, good intentions gone awry, and a California that has become the victim of its own success.

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  The Brothers Grimm - A Biography

  Ann Schmiesing

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  The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm 
   
  More than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some 170 languages—more than any other German book—and the Brothers Grimm are among the top dozen most translated authors in the world. In addition to collecting tales, the Grimms were mythographers, linguists, librarians, civil servants, and above all the closest of brothers, but until now, the full story of their lifelong endeavor to preserve and articulate a German cultural identity has not been well known. 
   
  Drawing on deep archival research and decades of scholarship, Ann Schmiesing tells the affecting story of how the Grimms’ ambitious projects gave the brothers a sense of self-preservation through the atrocities of the Napoleonic Wars and a series of personal losses. They produced a vast corpus of work on mythology and medieval literature, embarked on a monumental German dictionary project, and broke scholarly ground with Jacob’s linguistic discovery known as Grimm’s Law. Setting their story against a rich historical backdrop, Schmiesing offers a fresh consideration of the profound and yet complicated legacy of the Brothers Grimm. 
   
  Ann Schmiesing is professor of German and Scandinavian studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. She lives in Longmont, CO.

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  Handsome Lake: The Life and...

  Editors Charles River

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  The name "Iroquois", like many Native American tribal names, is not a name the people knew themselves by, but a word applied to them by their enemies the Huron, who called them “Iroquo” (rattlesnake) as an insult. The French later added the suffix “ois.” Moreover, the Iroquois are not even a single tribe but a confederation of several different tribal nations that include the Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk, Cayuga and the Tuscarora, who didn’t become part of the union until the early 1700’s. The name Haudenosaunee (pronounced “ho-den-oh-SHO-nee”) is the name the people use for themselves, which translates as “the People of the Longhouse.” They are also commonly known as the Six Nations. 
  	Despite their own cultural differences, the nations that comprised the Iroquois Confederacy established their political dominance across much of America’s East Coast and Midwest through conquest, and it is that aspect which has perhaps best endured among Americans in terms of the Iroquois’ legacy. European settlers who came into contact with the Mohawks in the Northeast certainly learned to respect their combat skills, to the point that there were literally bounties on the Mohawks’ heads, with scalps fetching money for colonists who succeeded in slaying them and carrying away the “battle prize”. 
  	Handsome Lake (1735-1815) lived through the confederacy’s most turbulent time. His long life started when the Iroquois were powerful and widely feared and respected by all the tribal peoples in the region, and also by the French and the British. He lived through wars, some victories and some defeats, as well as the disunity and the collapse of traditional ways. Handsome Lake experienced his visions late in his life, at a time when the Six Nations, and his own life, were at their nadir.

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  A Rare Recording of Robert...

  Robert Baden-Powell

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  In these two rare recordings of Robert Baden-Powell, founder and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association and founder of the Girl Guides, he extols the virtues of the Scout movement and that Scout duties are working for God and the King, helping other people, and keeping Scout law. 
  A Listen & Live audio production.

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  Evocation - Evoke The Power of...

  Maria D'Andrea

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  TOP RATED PSYCHIC REVEALS HOW TO EVOKE THE MOST POWERFUL OF POSITIVE SPIRITS AND COMPEL THEM TO DO YOUR BIDDING! 
  HUNGARIAN BORN MARIA D'ANDREA SAYS YOU CAN GAIN RICHES, HONOR AND TRANQUILITY WITH THE USE OF VARIOUS PENTACLES, ALL OF WHICH ARE FULLY ILLUSTRATED IN THIS UNIQUE STUDY GUIDE. 
  If you are considering an occult approach to life's difficulties, this easy to read, step-by-step tutorial will teach you how to summon deities, angels, archangels, or any sort of inter-dimensional being, as well as the protocols for conversing with whatever entity arrives at your command. Maria's methods give you 100 percent control of the situation as you delve into what the sages of old have termed "ceremonial magick." 
  However, not only does Maria teach how to bring spirits into your presence, she also teaches proper cleansing and banishing techniques to help the student in the aftermath of the spirits' visit. You cannot be taken over or "possessed" if you follow Maria's instructions to the letter. 
  Indeed! If you approach contacting the various benevolent spirits who await your summoning with the proper caution and respect for ritual, you may get the kind of personal help you've needed for years but could never find elsewhere in the "real" world. What mortals cannot do for themselves, spirits will do for them. Maria's "Evocation" is here to aid in your contact and dealings with the "Other Side." 
  Spells you will find in this book include: 
  •Summon the Archangel Metetron to connect to the divine for information or healing. 
  •Gain riches, honor and tranquility by the skillful use of various pentacles, all of which are fully illustrated in the book. 
  •Use the pentacles of Venus to draw romance into your life or to safeguard and jump-start love relationships you’re in already.

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