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Speak truth to power : a Quaker search for an alternative to violence : a study of international conflict
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Remarks on the Obligation of Speaking Truth and some Kindred Subjects
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A collection of approximately 6000 items from 1815 to 1936, the collection consists of Francis Lieber's correspondence, notes and other manuscripts and published materials accumulated in the preparation of his works during his political and academic career. The collection contains articles, essays, remarks, correspondence, volumes, commonplace books, research files, printed material, and ephemera. The manuscript material often contains various drafts, with supporting research and subject files; the correspondence contains personal and family letters and a large amount of professional correspondence. Correspondents include, among others, his wife Matilda (Mathilde) Lieber, other Lieber family members, Samuel Austin Allibone, Edward Bates, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Simon Greenleaf, Henry Wager Halleck, George Stillman Hillard, ⁹douard Laboulaye, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier, Charles Sumner, Martin Russell Thayer, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Subjects in the collection include political science and theory; constitutional history; political economy; international law; philosophy and history of civilization; penology, including Lieber's association with the prison reform movement; education, particularly college and university administration; United States and European politics; antebellum debates and campaigns; slavery and abolitionism; politics of the Civil War, including problems of the citizenship of African-Americans, immigrants, and former Confederates; constitutional powers of the President and Congress; Republican Party, especially its radical wing; military aspects of the Civil War as reflected in Lieber's correspondence with Halleck; reconstruction, including plans for codification of international law; and Lieber's service with the United States-Mexican Claims Commission.
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The hammer and the horn
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The hammer and the horn is a fantasy novel (Book 1 of the Vidar Trilogy) set after Ragnarok, the Norse end of the world. It follows Vidar, one of Odin's surviving sons, as he leaves his legacy of violence on Earth to prevent further destruction. He is eventually forced back into action to save both worlds from a returning ancient evil.
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Desert steel
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"The boss assigned Jim Lineer and Tracy Thomason to throw a railroad spur across the desert into the New Mexico coal fields. That was back in the days when the rails crawled wherever there was a chance of favorable traffic-which meant that often the toughest problems faced by railroad engineers were posed by nature. Top problem of them all was water. It was water that figured principally in the differences between Lineer, who knew railroading and knew the desert, and Thomason, who talked fast and easy and was engaged to the boss' daughter. Lineer wanted to bring water the hard, and sure, way-from the mountains. Thomason thought wells could be drilled, and Thomason got the nod. Lineer went along, doing the best he could to get the line built. But things began to go wrong - with the water, with the way things were between Lineer and Barbara and Thomason. And there was also the simmering feud between the Wares and the Nyes, who dominated the country through which the road must pass. War was inevitable, and when it came nobody was suprised - except the losers"--Preliminary page [1].
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The Planetary Society, International Human Moon to Mars Studies
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This collection consists of material created by and related to The Planetary Society since its beginning in 1980 and up to 2016. It contains Board of Directors correspondence, memorandums, and meeting minutes; material related to public relations, events, fundraising and membership; copies of The Planetary Report (not a complete set); NASA photo files; material related to the Solar Sail and the Mars Rover program; NASA and space exploration in general; Apollo reports; the Hubble Telescope; and US and Russian cooperation in space (including Planetary Society staff's trips to Russia). The collection also contains photographs and negatives; video cassette tapes and film; clippings; T-shirts, posters, badges, stickers, memorabilia; artwork; and miscellaneous material. There is material both about and by: Carl Sagan (including his 265-page curriculum vitae), Bruce Murray, Louis Friedman, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Buzz Aldrin. There is artwork by space artists Ron Miller, Michael W. Carroll and Mark Paternostro among others.
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Kaei nananen raikō Amerikasen fukushō Ahatamusuzō
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Water color portrait depicts Captain Henry A. Adams, as seen by a Japanese artist, during Perry's second visit to Japan in 1854. It was at this time that Adams was actively engaged in negotiating the Treaty of Kanagawa. The text alongside the portrait states that Adams had arrived with about 700 people, and describes the Americans as having "yellowish faces, round eyes and bulbous noses."
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Scientifically Speaking
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The collection deals primarily with the professional activities of Olin C. Wilson, who was most active from the mid-1930s into the 1980s. Wilson corresponded frequently with astronomers from a variety of universities in the United States and abroad, and the collection is representative of the deeply international and collaborative nature of astronomical and astrophysical research in the second half of the twentieth century. It also contains valuable and insightful material related to the schism between Mount Wilson and CalTech in the 1970s and 1980s, and the near-demise of Mount Wilson during that decade.
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