Trouble In The West

Author : Stephen Ruzicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199908776

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Trouble in the West provides the first full and continuous account of the Persian-Egyptian War, a conflict that continued for nearly the two-hundred-year duration of the Persian Empire. Despite its status as the largest of all ancient Persian military enterprises--including any aimed at Greece--this conflict has never been reconstructed in any detailed and comprehensive way. Thus, Trouble in the West adds tremendously to our understanding of Persian imperial affairs. At the same time, it dramatically revises our understanding of eastern Mediterranean and Aegean affairs by linking Persian dealings with Greeks and other peoples in the west to Persia's fundamental, ongoing Egyptian concerns. In this study, Stephen Ruzicka argues that Persia's Egyptian problem and, conversely, Egypt's Persian problem, were much more important in the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean worlds than our conventional Greek-centered perspective and sources have allowed us to see. In looking at this conflict as one stage in an enduring east-west conflict between successive Near Eastern imperial powers and Egypt--one which stretched across nearly the whole of ancient history--it represents an important turning point: by pulling in remote western states and peoples, who subsequently became masters of Egypt, western opposition to Near Eastern power was sustained right up to the 7th century Arab conquests. For classicists and historians of the ancient Near East, Trouble in the West will serve as a valuable, and long-overdue, resource.

Author : Tracey West
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338800876

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Prepare for Trouble (Pokémon Classic Chapter Book #12) by Tracey West Pdf

Catch this action-packed adventure about Ash, Pikachu, and their friends! This chapter book features classic characters featured on Netflix and in Pokémon Go! Jessie, James, and Meowth are on a mission: to be the world's greatest Pokémon thieves. And they are prepared to fight! Pokémon of the world, beware! Team Rocket is extending their reach to the stars above. This chapter book is based on a thrilling storyline from the top-rated animated series now on Netflix. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.

Author : J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439128107

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Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas Pdf

Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.

Author : Amy Kaler
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442663367

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Baby Trouble in the Last Best West by Amy Kaler Pdf

Reproduction is the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn’t conform to the norm. Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women’s childbearing became understood as a social problem in early twentieth-century Alberta. Kaler utilizes censuses, newspaper reports, social work case files, and personal letters to illuminate the ordeals that women, men, and babies were subjected to as Albertans debated childbearing. Through the lens of reproduction, Kaler offers a vivid and engaging analysis of how colonialism, racism, nationalism, medicalization, and evolving gender politics contributed to Alberta’s imaginative economy of reproduction. Kaler investigates five different episodes of "baby trouble": the emergence of obstetrics as a political issue, the drive for eugenic sterilization, unmarried childbearing and "rescue homes" for unmarried mothers, state-sponsored allowances for single mothers, and high infant mortality. Baby Trouble in the Last Best West will transport the reader to the turmoil of Alberta’s early years while examining the complexity of settler society-building and gender struggles.

Author : Osita Agbu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9782869781931

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West Africa's Trouble Spots and the Imperative for Peace-Building by Osita Agbu Pdf

This monograph highlights the necessity for taking preventive measures in the form of peace-building as a sustainable and long-term solution to conflicts in West Africa, with a special focus on the Mano River Union countries. Apart from the Mano River Union countries, efforts at resolving other conflicts in say, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, C'te d'Ivoire and Nigeria, have suffered from a lack of attention on the post-conflict imperatives of building peace in order to ensure that sustainable peace is achieved. Given the often intractable and inter-related nature of conflicts in this region, it argues for the need to revisit the existing mechanisms of conflict resolution in the sub-region with a view to canvassing a stronger case for stakeholders towards adopting the peace-building strategy as a more practical and sustainable way of avoiding wars in the sub-region. Peace-building in consonance with its infrastructure is a more sustainable approach to ensuring regional peace and stability and, therefore, ensuring development for the peoples of West Africa. Dr Osita Agbu is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos. His areas of specialization include Peace and Conflict studies, Governance and Democratization and Technology and Development. He was until recently, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan.

Author : Ernest Haycox
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066380137

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Trouble Shooter (Musaicum Vintage Western) by Ernest Haycox Pdf

The novel Trouble Shooter was the basis for the movie Union Pacific (1939), directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea Plot: Frank Peace is a hired gunman and security guard working for the Union Pacific Railroad company known for his temper and severe ways of dealing with those who try to interfere with railway and its progress. His reputation and his deeds have earned him a lot of enemies and one of them in particular, Al Brett, is determined to kill him. Brett announces to Peace the time and the place of when and where he plans to do it which brings his tension to another level. Together with this "small" problem, Peace faces a difficult challenge to choose between two women with affections towards him, fearing the disappointment of each.

Author : Stephen Ruzicka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:851342493

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Trouble in the West by Stephen Ruzicka Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:794549291

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Trouble in the West by Anonim Pdf

Trouble in the West provides the first full and continuous account of the Persian-Egyptian War, a conflict that continued for nearly the two-hundred-year duration of the Persian Empire. Despite its status as the largest of all ancient Persian military enterprises- including any aimed at Greece- this conflict has never been reconstructed in any detailed and comprehensive way. Thus, Trouble in the West adds tremendously to our understanding of Persian imperial affairs. At the same time, it dramatically revises our understanding of eastern Mediterranean and Aegean affairs by linking Persian dealings with Greeks and other peoples in the west to Persia's fundamental, ongoing Egyptian concerns. In this study, Stephen Ruzicka argues that Persia's Egyptian problem and, conversely, Egypt's Persian problem, were much more important in the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean worlds than our conventional Greek-centered perspective and sources have allowed us to see. In looking at this conflict as one stage in an enduring east-west conflict between successive Near Eastern imperial powers and Egypt-one which stretched across nearly the whole of ancient history-it represents an important turning point: by pulling in remote western states and peoples, who subsequently became masters of Egypt, western opposition to Near Eastern power was sustained right up to the 7th century Arab conquests. For classicists and historians of the ancient Near East, Trouble in the West will serve as a valuable, and long-overdue, resource.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545005620

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Grovyle Trouble by Anonim Pdf

Where could the lost Pokémon be? Battling, of course! Ash finds Grovyle facing off against a territorial Tropius. But the battle is more than Grovyle can take. Luckily, the local Pokémon Center has a Meganium whose healing powers help revive the injured Pokémon. Grovyle takes a liking to Meganium, but this Pokémon only has eyes for the very Tropius that injured Grovyle to begin with! It's tough to be the odd one out, but Grovyle has a plan....

Author : Matthias Zimmer
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0888643055

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Germany: Phoenix in Trouble? by Matthias Zimmer Pdf

As Germany - only recently united - approaches the twenty-first century, it is faced with a variety of political, economic and social problems that will put the country to the test.

Author : Steven P. Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136681356

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Trouble in the Middle by Steven P. Feldman Pdf

This book will help readers better understand the ethical and cultural assumptions that both American and Chinese business cultures bring to business relationships in China. It analyzes the relationships developed between the two cultures, areas where they conflict, and how these conflicts are (or are not) resolved. These relationships are investigated in three stages. The author: describes and interprets American business experience in China describes and interprets Chinese business experience in China, including interaction with Americans compares these two business cultures as they are experienced in China to investigate the relationships between them, centering the cultural analysis on ethical issues. Feldman's thorough research gets to the crux of how American and Chinese executives perceive the ethical and cultural aspects of doing business. The result is a book that will prove helpful to all those looking to expertly navigate Chinese-American business relationships.

Author : Steven P. Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136681288

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Trouble in the Middle by Steven P. Feldman Pdf

This book will help readers better understand the ethical and cultural assumptions that both American and Chinese business cultures bring to business relationships in China. It analyzes the relationships developed between the two cultures, areas where they conflict, and how these conflicts are (or are not) resolved. These relationships are investigated in three stages. The author: describes and interprets American business experience in China describes and interprets Chinese business experience in China, including interaction with Americans compares these two business cultures as they are experienced in China to investigate the relationships between them, centering the cultural analysis on ethical issues. Feldman's thorough research gets to the crux of how American and Chinese executives perceive the ethical and cultural aspects of doing business. The result is a book that will prove helpful to all those looking to expertly navigate Chinese-American business relationships.

Author : F. Allan Hanson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791470180

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The Trouble with Culture by F. Allan Hanson Pdf

How the computer revolution can ease polarization and help calm the culture wars.

Author : Daniel Mathews
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781640094666

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Trees in Trouble by Daniel Mathews Pdf

A troubling story of the devastating and compounding effects of climate change in the Western and Rocky Mountain states, told through in–depth reportage and conversations with ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, burn boss, activists, and more. Climate change manifests in many ways across North America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathews tells the urgent story of this loss, accompanying burn crews and forest ecologists as they study the myriad risk factors and refine techniques for saving this important, limited resource. Mathews transports the reader from the exquisitely aromatic haze of ponderosa and Jeffrey pine groves to the fantastic gnarls and whorls of five–thousand–year–old bristlecone pines, from genetic test nurseries where white pine seedlings are deliberately infected with their mortal enemy to the hottest megafire sites and neighborhoods leveled by fire tornadoes or ember blizzards. Scrupulously researched, Trees in Trouble not only explores the devastating ripple effects of climate change, but also introduces us to the people devoting their lives to saving our forests. Mathews also offers hope: a new approach to managing western pine forests is underway. Trees in Trouble explores how we might succeed in sustaining our forests through the challenging transition to a new environment.

Author : Elizabeth Ann West
Publisher : Elizabeth Ann West
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Trouble With Horses by Elizabeth Ann West Pdf

When a riderless horse interrupts Elizabeth Bennet's daily walk, she is inspired to begin the search herself. Finding a gentleman in the ravine of a creek bed, she scares off snakes and raises the alarm to end up with the man situated at Longbourn for his recovery. Enamored with his dark curls and handsome face, her life appears to be following the fairy tale story line of a novel, that is until the proud, disdainful Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley wakes up. A sweetheart romantic novella, The Trouble With Horses is meant to be a light read for those irreparably addicted to all things Austen. The writing style does not attempt to mimic the incomparable Jane, and the author hopes you enjoy the fun, humorous story as you would an afternoon tea.