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Who was Hammurapi, and what role did his famous "law code" serve in ancient Babylonian society? Who was the mysterious Merodach-baladan, and why did the appearance of his emissaries in Jerusalem so upset Isaiah? Who was Nebuchadnezzar II, and why did he tear down the Solomonic temple and drag the people of God into exile? In short, who were the Babylonians? This engaging and informative introduction to the best of current scholarship on the Ba...

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Frances Meade lived in Saudi Arabia from 1965 to 1998. She and her husband and two daughters exchanged their desert life in Arizona for another desert land when they had the opportunity to transplant themselves to Arabia for an eighteen month adventure that was to last thirty-three years. This was not the Arabia of the oil companies with their replicated American communities complete with theaters and restaurants nor the high tech country of t...

The text of Take Off Your Shoes should be of great interest to everyone who is spiritually inclined. The book clearly shows the importance of the fundamental morality in each religion and, using quotations from each religion, outlines a commonality of values that all the major religions share.The text is also a rich source (one author/professor calls it a

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O'Connor offers new approaches to teaching poetry in middle and high school with more than 25 writing activities that can constitute an entire course or work as individual lessons. John S. O'Connor offers exciting new approaches to teaching poetry in middle school and high school classrooms with more than 25 high-interest activities designed to sharpen students' writing and self-understanding and heighten their awareness of the world around ...

Six short stories crafted for individual entertainment or stir a discussion group. Explore a love story set in Saudi Arabia, bear witness to small town prejudice, politics and power, join a sniper team in Korea and enter the decision making as to who is to live, who is to die. Unforgettable characters emerge to greet the readers imagination in circumstances that challenge value sets. Whaley, author of Someone's Son, Someone's Brother, boils up...

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The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most important events that have occurred at any locality in the United States.

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This book provides a review of the literature on home care, describes working programs around the world, reviews treatment plans for different disorders with case illustrations, and offers guidelines to case workers.

Long-distance relationships have become a popular area of study, although limited work has been published. In response to this state of scholarship, Laura Stafford summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types, relating them to theory.

Food is an important and endlessly fascinating lens for social and cultural analysis -not only for anthropologists, but also for scholars of history, literature, cultural studies, political economy, and public policy. The subject is a central idiom for understanding cultural practices and for teaching about culture on many levels. The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating is a collection of readings that uses the study of food as a vehicle for ...

This book brings to light the diversity of Amazonian societies and contributes to the extension of anthropological work beyond its traditional limits.

Jacqueline d'Angleterre heard the summer storm rumbling over the hot roofs of London, felt the soft silk sheets caress her naked body, and thought of Armand in the next room...' Bur Armand is forbidden flesh, and a lot more is denied her: her royal blood, her religion, and her mother country, France. The trouble is that her family are Hugenots, devout French Protestants driven into exile following Louis XIV's cruel revocation of the religiou...

The book was written as a companion volume for the author's most recent work, Bayonets and Bougainvilleas. In this volume the author presents the verbatim text of two major source documents for that work, his father's ORAL HISTORY and his mother's TRAVEL JOURNAL, with his own added commentary. The HISTORY is the text of General Blake's official interview with Marine Corps historian Benis Frank covering the General's Marine Corps career 1917-19...

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