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Equality with a Vengeance: Men's Rights Groups, Battered Women, and ... - Molly Dragiewicz - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=OHr7yWfEjQYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Molly+Dragiewicz:+''Equality+with+a+Vengeance&hl=de&sa=X&ei=
This book investigates efforts by fathers' rights groups to undermine battered women's shelters and services, in the context of the backlash against feminism. Dragiewicz examines the lawsuit Booth v. Hvass, in which fathers' rights groups attempted to use…
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The Story of Modern Skiing - John Fry - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=FOhrjSuy6rsC&pg=PA20
This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of a ski culture and every aspect of the…
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Pietro Mascagni and His Operas - Alan Mallach - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=kUCtUcFvr0IC&pg=PA95
Just twenty-six when the electrifying premiere of his Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome catapulted the impoverished musician into sudden fame and fortune, Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) went on to write fifteen more operas, including L'Amico…
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The Vermont Encyclopedia - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=uTBCXqOou0YC&pg=PA170
When outsiders think of Vermont, they conjure up images of pumpkin picking against a backdrop of stunning fall foliage, skiing the Green Mountains in wintertime, harvesting maple syrup in mud season, and canoeing on Lake Champlain in the summer. Ethan…
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National Symbols, Fractured Identities: Contesting the National Narrative - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=CLVaSxt-sV0C&pg=PA72&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
National symbols—flags, national anthems, monuments, currencies, capital structures, cultural icons, and public holidays, to name a few—are tricky cultural signposts, for they preserve not only the “victorious” definitions promoted by the nation but also…
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Inspired Innovations: A Celebration of Shaker Ingenuity - M. Stephen Miller - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=3DI_xYBqKbwC&pg=PA184&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Since the late eighteenth century, Shakers have exerted an influence on our nation wholly disproportionate to the size of their communities. Their approach has helped shape everything from craftsmanship and ingenuity to concepts of communal living and work…
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Global Pirates: Fraud in the Offshore Insurance Industry - Robert Tillman - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Rf_mHK98RNwC&pg=PA105&dq=%22Dominion+of+Melchizedek%22#v=onepage
In 1990, a congressional subcommittee warned of "financial knaves and buccaneers" in the insurance industry-unlicensed and largely unregulated companies that operate out of countries like Antigua and the Cayman Islands and sell hundreds of millions of…
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Stars of David: Rock'n'roll's Jewish Stories - Scott R. Benarde - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=XI4-VnSrEcAC&pg=PA296&dq=ofra+haza&hl=de&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=ofra%20haza&f=false
What Grammy-award winning band's Jewish members recite kiddush before their Friday night concerts? What member of a world-famous band blows the shofar at his synagogue on the High Holy Days? What famous rock musician packed his menorah as well as his drum…
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The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions - Christian Wiese - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=91jcZim00f8C&pg=PA1&dq=Jakob+Horowitz+Krefeld&hl=de&sa=X&ei=w67iVIvAIomsU6yrguAE&ved=0CDAQ6AEwA
Hans Jonas (1903–1993) is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Born in a German Jewish community in the Rhineland, Jonas’s mentors included Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Rudolf Bultmann. The committed Zionist fled Germany in…
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The Vermont Encyclopedia - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=uTBCXqOou0YC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=Joseph+Fay+Vermont&source=bl&ots=ALPJ5nhuXY&sig=MrU8PifCPhcg
When outsiders think of Vermont, they conjure up images of pumpkin picking against a backdrop of stunning fall foliage, skiing the Green Mountains in wintertime, harvesting maple syrup in mud season, and canoeing on Lake Champlain in the summer. Ethan…