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Celebrations!: A Personal Memoir Commemorating America’s Bicentennial Era: 1971-1991
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Elin’s Amerika (rev., 3rd ed.)
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Hobie Cawood served as superintendent of Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia during the greatest public celebrations of U.S. history ever undertaken. For 20 years he was the steward of the historic buildings & grounds that mark the birthplace of our most cherished founding documents, the Declaration of Independence & the U.S. Constitution. During Cawood’s tenure the nation and the world beat a path to his door. He hosted presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, foreign dignitaries, heads of state, & thousands of Americans & visitors from other countries who came to the place where the U.S. was born. He has written a personal memoir of those years in which he recounts the major celebrations he planned or took part in. This wonderful book is a record of Cawood’s years as one of the most visible Park Service employees in the entire system. Photos.
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Award-winning children’s author Marguerite de Angeli tells the story of Elin, a young girl who has come to live in the New Sweden Colony. She helps us envision how these many different peoples -- Swedes, Finns, Lenape, Minquas (Susquehannock), Dutch and British related to one another. Elin’s search for friendship, love of family, and anticipation of celebrations seem familiar. Her isolation from other children, lack of basic things, and the daily routine of chores may seem quite unfamiliar. New Sweden was established in 1638, under the guidance of Peter Minuit, when Swedish colonists were sent to the New World to claim lands in the area around the Delaware River in southeastern PA and south NJ. For ages 8-12. Illustrations.
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Reverend Thomas Purcell, O.S.A.: A Life Devoted to Japan and Its People: A Book to Honor Villanova’s Augustinian Missionary Friar
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Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography
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This book is a translation of the original Japanese version, ”Purcell Shimpu no Magic” (”Magic of Father Purcell”), by Bunryo Okamoto, which was published in 1993; additional information has been added. In 1952 Rev. Thomas Purcell, O.S.A. (1913-2004), together with Fathers George Krupa and Edward Robinson, departed for Japan to establish the first Catholic mission in Nagasaki, 315 years after Catholics had been banned from Japan. The parish, entitled “Our Mother of Consolation,” was in the atom-bombed area of Shiroyama, where they also opened the first parochial school in Japan. Rev. Purcell served that community as Prior and Pastor until 1963. He then served at St. Monica parish in the port area of Nagoya City from 1963 to 1979. He established this parish, which included some 83 families who came there from Nagasaki. From 1980 to 1988, Rev. Purcell served as Prior and Pastor at the St. Augustine parish in Tokyo. In 1988, he returned to Shiroyama, Nagasaki, as assistant pastor in Our Mother of Consolation parish, until his health began to deteriorate. On November 27, 2004, Rev. Purcell passed away, while he was a resident of St. Francis Nursing Home in Nagasaki. This book includes: an overview of the history of Christianity in Japan; background information on St. Augustine and The Augustinians; the history of Rev. Purcell’s life in Japan; remembrances of Rev. Purcell; reflections on Rev. Purcell, his funeral, and beatification; and three letters written by Rev. Purcell. Photographs.
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A dazzling look at six decades of paintings by one of America’s favorite artists. This comprehensive survey reproduces 133 tempera, drybrush, and watercolor paintings and five pencil sketches. But what makes this book truly extraordinary are Wyeth’s comments about each painting -- an “autobiography” told through conversations with Hoving -- that offer fascinating insights into Wyeth’s life and artistic choices. Based upon a retrospective exhibition sponsored by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, this book includes many seminal paintings from both his Chadds Ford and Maine work as well as recent work and some rarely seen images. A beautifully printed, elegantly designed book. 133 color and 5 black and white illus.
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All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
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Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
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Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894) was a British artist and naturalist who significantly changed the way society thought about the world and its pre-human inhabitants. As one of the most versatile and prolific natural history artists of the Victorian age, Hawkins played a central role in the popularization of 19th century science. His knowledge of comparative anatomy and versatility at painting enabled him to create beautiful and scientifically accurate illustrations of fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and fossils for such important figures as Richard Owen, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Henry Huxley early in his career. Hawkins went on to make the first life-sized reconstructions of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures anywhere in the world. Through a series of public displays in Great Britain and the U.S., Hawkins almost single-handedly ignited a popular interest in dinosaurs that continues to the present day. This is the first full-length biography of Waterhouse Hawkins. It is based on years of meticulous research in libraries, archives and museums in England and the U.S., including family papers, letters, sketch books and private records never available to scholars before. Includes a detailed time-line of Hawkins’ professional career. Illus.
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Lester W. Grau (ed) (tr). To capture the lessons their tactical leaders learned in Afghanistan & to explain the change in tactics that followed, the Frunze Military Academy in Russia compiled this book for their command & general staff combat arms officers. The lessons are valuable not just for Russian officers, but for the tactical training of platoon, company & battalion leaders of any nation likely to engage in conflicts involving civil war, guerrilla forces & rough terrain. This is a book dealing with the starkest features of the unforgiving landscape of tactical combat: casualties & death, adaptation, & survival. Provides an intimate look at the boring but brutal business of counterinsurgency. Maps.
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