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  • Religion and the New Immigrants

    How Faith Communities Form Our Newest Citizens

    by Michael W. Foley, Dean R. Hoge ...
    The explosive growth of the immigrant population since the 1960s has raised concerns about its impact on public life, but only recently have scholars begun to ask how religion affects the immigrant experience in our society. In Religion and the New Immigrants, Michael W. Foley and Dean R. Hoge assess the role of local worship communities in promoting civic engagement among recent immigrants to the ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • State, Capital, And Rural Society

    Anthropological Perspectives On Political Economy In Mexico And The Andes

    by Ben Orlove, Michael W Foley, Thomas F Love ...
    This volume represents recent anthropological research on the political economy of Latin America. Dependency theories, modes of production analysis, and theories of the state all attempt to conceptualize the interrelations among "class," "interest," and, at some level, "power." All three, that is, focus on classical questions of political economy. The studies presented in this volume both draw on ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Death and Dying

    A Reader

    by Paul B. Bascom, David DeGrazia, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Kathleen Foley, Herbert Hendin, Michael Panicola, Stephen G. Post, Susan W. Tolle, Upper House of the States General: The Netherlands, Charles von Gunten ...
    Series series Readings in Bioethics
    Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies, is covered regularly in the media, and affects people everyday around the globe. In response ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Russian Civil War

    Red Terror, White Terror, 1917–1922

    by Michael Foley ...
    Series series History of Terror
    This historical study examines how the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War influenced events on the world stage in the Great War and beyond.The Russian Revolution of 1917 is remembered as the catalyst for a bloody conflict between the Communist Red Army and the anti-Communist White Army. But in reality, the conflict was far more complex and multifaceted, involving forces from outside Russia ... Read more

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  • Pioneers of Aerial Combat

    Air Battles of the First World War

    by Michael Foley ...
    When the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the early years of the twentieth century it sparked the imagination of those who wanted to fly, both in their country and around the world. In Britain, however, the spark wasn't strong enough to light a fire and it was in other parts of Europe, notably France, where flight began to develop seriously.Early pioneers of flight faced a high level of ... Read more

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  • Rise of the Tank

    Armoured Vehicles and Their Use in the First World War

    by Michael Foley ...
    Rise of the Tank will be concentrated on the period of the development of the tank and its use in the First World War. This will appeal to those interested in new developments in war and those interested in the First World War generally. The book will be especially relevant due to the forthcoming centenary of the beginning of the war and for this reason it will be easy to promote the book as there ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Farming for the Long Haul

    Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness

    by Michael Foley ...
    It’s all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today’s most sophisticated batteries, suggesting that transportation is equally imperiled. And there’s another, even more dire limitation that is looming: at current rates of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Bloodied Field

    Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920

    by Michael Foley ...
    On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiancé to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across the city fourteen men lay dead in their beds after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Trucks of ... Read more

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  • Front-line Essex

    by Michael Foley ...
    Before the First World War, Essex was a very different county from that which we know today. The economy was largely based on agriculture, and the people rarely travelled beyond its borders, or even out of their towns or villages. The war opened up a whole new world for the people of Essex. Men from the county enlisted in Kitchener's Army and travelled abroad, and many troops came into the camps ... Read more

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  • London Under Attack

    From Caesar to Hitler

    by Michael Foley ...
    London has been under attack for literally centuries. London Under Attack charts the military history of the capital from Roman times until the Second World War. Throughout this period London was at the centre of hostilities, not always instigated by foreign enemies, but more often from its own inhabitants or those from other parts of Britain. As well as the terrible Blitz on London during the ... Read more

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  • Britain's Railways in the Second World War

    by Michael Foley ...
    A fascinating account of the British Railways system's vital role in the defense of the country and support of the Allied forces during WWII.The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. The 'Big Four' companies put aside differences and worked together for the war effort. The logistics of transporting troops during the evacuation of Dunkirk and the ... Read more

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  • Front-Line Thames

    by Michael Foley ...
    The Thames has been the highway into London since early times. Iron Age forts once guarded its banks and then Roman legionaries took over. Every age since has added to the defences lining the river. The river was also used as the site of mills to produce gunpowder and test weapons, industries too dangerous to be based close to London. The river also betrayed the site of London to enemy airships ... Read more

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