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A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America

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The relationship between American Indians and Europeans on America's frontiers is typically characterized as a series of cultural conflicts and misunderstandings based on a vast gulf of difference. Nancy Shoemaker turns this notion on its head, showing that Indians and Europeans shared common beliefs about their most fundamental realities--government, record-keeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body. Focusing on eastern North American up through the end of the Seven Years War, Shoemaker closely reads incidents, letters, and recorded speeches from the Iroquois and Creek confederacies, the Cherokee nation, and other Native groups alongside British, French, and Spanish sources, paying particular attention to the language used in cross-cultural conversation. Paradoxically, the more American Indians and Europeans came to know each other, the more they came to see each other as different. By the end of the 18th century, Shoemaker argues, they abandoned an initial willingness to recognize in each other a common humanity and instead developed new ideas rooted in the conviction that, by custom and perhaps even by nature, Native Americans and Europeans were peoples fundamentally at odds. In her analysis, Shoemaker reveals the 18th-century roots of enduring stereotypes Indians developed about Europeans, as well as stereotypes Europeans created about Indians. This powerful and eloquent interpretation questions long-standing assumptions, revealing the strange likenesses among the inhabitants of colonial North America.


John Paul II in the Holy Land: Christian and Jewish Perspectives

Addressing the doubts and suspicions among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim residents of the Middle East aroused by a visit by Pope John Paul II in March 2000, this account documents the Pope's itinerary and records the speeches that the Pope gave at each stop along his journey. John Paul II in the Holy Land: Christian and Jewish Perspectives
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Louis Kahn: Essential Texts by Louis Kahn, ISBN 0393731138

A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings. THIS UNIQUE ANTHOLOGY draws from Louis Kahn's speeches, essays, and interviews--some never previously published--to capture the evolution and central tenets of the influential American architect's thinking, from his early work of the 1940s to his death in 1974. Professor Twombly's introduction and headnotes offer incisive commentary on the texts. Louis Kahn: Essential Texts by Louis Kahn, ISBN 0393731138
EPA Speeches > Louis Kahn: Essential Texts by Louis Kahn, ISBN 0393731138

John Paul II in the Holy Land: Christian and Jewish Perspectives

Addressing the doubts and suspicions among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim residents of the Middle East aroused by a visit by Pope John Paul II in March 2000, this account documents the Pope's itinerary and records the speeches that the Pope gave at each stop along his journey. John Paul II in the Holy Land: Christian and Jewish Perspectives
EPA Speeches > John Paul II in the Holy Land: Christian and Jewish Perspectives

Louis Kahn: Essential Texts by Louis Kahn, ISBN 0393731138

A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings. THIS UNIQUE ANTHOLOGY draws from Louis Kahn's speeches, essays, and interviews--some never previously published--to capture the evolution and central tenets of the influential American architect's thinking, from his early work of the 1940s to his death in 1974. Professor Twombly's introduction and headnotes offer incisive commentary on the texts. Louis Kahn: Essential Texts by Louis Kahn, ISBN 0393731138
EPA Speeches > Louis Kahn: Essential Texts by Louis Kahn, ISBN 0393731138

Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur by Janet C. Lowe, ISBN 0471293539

"Our slogan from the very beginning was 'a computer on every desk and in every home.'"

"For me to become gun-shy might require surgery."

An icon more powerful than anything on a Windows screen, Bill Gates today stands atop his fabled Microsoft fortress staring down competitors' threats and injunctions from an annoyed U.S. Justice Department. The kind of success Gates has created rarely escapes criticism. And Bill is getting more than his share.

The story of how this Harvard dropout created the operating system that would become the worldwide standard for millions of computers is legendary. And equally legendary has been the take-no-prisoners tactics of his corporate colossus, Microsoft. We've witnessed Gates's transformation from a geeky wunderkind into a business titan.

Whether admired or detested, glorified or vilified, Gates is a household name and a worldwide curiosity. Bill Gates Speaks discloses what Bill Gates has to say on everything from financing a start-up to running...

Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur by Janet C. Lowe, ISBN 0471293539
EPA Speeches > Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur by Janet C. Lowe, ISBN 0471293539

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