The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships, Hardcover - Ronald a. Smith

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American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. But we've heard that complaint for the past 150 years, as critics have denounced the poo...

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For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. How else to explain its having taken two such diffe...

DescriptionJohn Andr was head of the British Army's Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimatel...

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A fully updated new edition of Ronald Hutton's classic work on the history of modern pagan witchcraft.Illustrations: Black and white images

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DescriptionThough few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811-65), this nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key events of h...

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Reducere. Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in e...

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A fully updated new edition of Ronald Hutton's classic history of modern pagan witchcraft, published to mark the twentieth anniversary of this land...

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DescriptionA collector's edition of the classic, illustrated, and comprehensive history of magic and the occult - Written by renowned Surrealist an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alfred RosenbergAlfred Rosenberg was one of the principal ideologues of the Nazi Party and editor of the Nazi paper V lkisc...

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Reducere. Widely regarded as the second most-important book to come out of National Socialist Germany (after Mein Kampf), Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the ...

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"An indispensable source work for anyone interested in this very important development of religious ideas."--Marija Gimbutas. Ranges from the Paleo...