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Years before the rise of Donald Trump, this acclaimed international thriller predicted the future. A billionaire businessman is on a glide path to the White House. When an award-winning investigative reporter and former Moscow correspondent gets a call from a friend in Russia, he returns to his old stomping ground in a high-stakes bid to uncover the truth about the Republican candidate's secret ties to the Kremlinand discovers bizarre intervention by President Vladimir Putin and a US spy agency's covert effort to alter the presidential race.
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This volume was first published by Interdisciplinary Press in 2012. The Gothic lives! From The Castle of Otranto to today’s Let Me In, the Gothic continues to be part of popular consciousness. Yet, even as it has adapted to fit changing times and technologies, it has retained both its essence and its hold on our imagination. What defines the Gothic? What are its parameters? This collection of essays, the work of scholars who met at the first-ever global conference on the Gothic, looks at the Gothic today—in print and other media including cinema, in music, in fashion, and in the popular culture of countries around the world. This volume of essays is another step in the process of understanding a genre that stretches the boundaries of definition and continues to make its way, adapting and changing along the way, into new aspects of modern culture.
Geoarchaeological studies can significantly enhance interpretations of human prehistory by allowing archaeologists to decipher from sediments and soils the effects of earth processes on the evidence of human activity. While a number of previous books have provided broad geographic and temporal treatments of geoarchaeology, this new volume presents a single author's view intended for North American archaeologists. Waters deals with those aspects of geoarchaeologyÑstratigraphy, site formation processes, and landscape reconstructionÑmost fundamental to archaeology, and he focuses on the late Quaternary of North America, permitting in-depth discussions of the concepts directly applicable to th...
General description of the collection: The Curtis J. Banker Papers include his completed Korean War Veterans Survey Questionnaire, personnel documents, a propaganda leaflet, certificate, and postcards. He says his United States (U.S.) Army training was the best available, but some of the equipment and clothing were inadequate. He says the M-39 Armored Personnel Carriers were bad on ice in Korea. He lists World War II (WWII) weapons and tanks, such as the M-4 and M26 tanks his company used, and says they worked well though obsolete. He says the military leaders were well-trained and Officer Candidate School (OCS) graduate seemed to be the best. He mentions that World War II (WWII) veterans we...