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A List of Books That Might Be Reviewed
(ordered by year of publication and by title)
(last updated January 25, 2023)
Books published in 2022
The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexican History. Susan D. Gillespie. University of Arizona Press, 2022. ISBN: 9780816534784.
Calculating Brilliance: An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich'en Itza. Gerardo Aldana. University of Arizona Press, 2022. ISBN: 9780816542208.
Imagined Geographies: The Maritime Silk Roads in World History, 100-1800. Geoffrey C. Gunn. Hong Kong University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9789888528653. [already claimed!]
The Inca: Lost Civilizations. Kevin Lane. University of Chicago Press, March 2022. ISBN: 9781789145465.
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present. Johanna Drucker. University of Chicago Press, May 2022. ISBN: 9780226815817. [already claimed!]
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements. Karen Kampwirth. University of Arizona Press, 2022. ISBN: 9780816542796.
Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. Andrew Simon. Stanford University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9781503631441.
The Other Faces of the Empire: Ordinary Lives Against Social Order and Hierarchy. Edited by Firat Yasa, Translated by Esra Tasdelen. University of Chicago Press, May 2022. ISBN: 9786057685681.
The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools: Unpacking Eurocentrism, Imperialism, and Nationalism in the Curriculum, 1920-2021. Stephen Jackson. Routledge, 2022. ebook ISBN 9781003323785.
Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body after the Genome. Sarah Abel. University of North Carolina Press, January 2022. ISBN: 9781469665146.
Teaching Difficult Histories in Difficult Times: Stories of Practice. Teachers College Press, Columbia University. 2022. ISBN: 9780807766446. [already claimed!]
Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India's Professional Elite. Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen. Princeton University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780691213606
Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post Cold-War Southeast Asia. Salvador Santino F. Reglime Junior. Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 2021. 9780472129508.
The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army by Raymond A. Callahan and Daniel Marston (Kansas University Press, 2021). ISBN: 9780700630417. [claimed]
Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880-1940 by Peter Zarrow (SUNY Press, 2021). ISBN: 9781438482835. [already claimed!]
America in the Mind of the French Left, 1848–1871 by Tom Sancton (LSU Press, 2021). ISBN 9780807174302. [already claimed!]
Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture. Anthony J. Barbieri-Low. University of Washington Press, July 2021. ISBN: 9780295748894. [already claimed!]
Approaching Recent World History Through Film: Context, Analysis, and Research. Scott C.M. Bailey. Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 9780367280895 [already claimed!]
Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century. Yunxiang Gao. University of North Carolina Press, September 2021. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6460-6
Atlantic Passages: Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization by Robert Murray (University of Florida Press, 2021). ISBN: 9780813066752. [already claimed!]
Balkan Legacies: The Long Shadow of Conflict and Ideological Experiment in Southeastern Europe. Edited by Balazs Apor and John Paul Newman. Purdue University Press, June 2021. ISBN: 9781612496405 (hardcover)
Beholding Disability in Renaissance England. Allison P. Hobgood. University of Michigan Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-472-13236-2. [already claimed!]
Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age. Camilla Russell. Harvard University Press, December 2021. ISBN: 9780674261129
A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa by Leslie Anne Hadfield (University of Wisconsin Press, May 2021). ISBN: 9780299331207. [already claimed!]
Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation. Mona El-Ghobashy. Stanford University Press, July 2021. ISBN: 9781503601765 (hardcover).
Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire. Richard E. Antaramian. Stanford University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781503611627
Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825. Edited by Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara Vicuna Guengerich. University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-8061-6862-3
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present by Adeeb Khalid, (Princeton University Press, June 2021). [already claimed]
City and Country: the Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems. Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson. Washington, D.C: Lexington Books, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-7936-4432-9
The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Scene by Theodora K. Dragostinova (Cornell University Press, May 2021) ISBN: 9781501755552. [already claimed!] [N.B., The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license (the "Open Access Version"): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.%5D
Coming Home to a Foreign Country: Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843-1938 by Soon Keong Ong (Cornell University Press, August 2021) ISBN: 9781501756184. [already claimed!]
Consuming Ivory: Mercantile Legacies of East Africa & New England by Alexandra Celia Kelly (University of Washington Press, May 2021) ISBN: 9780295748771. [already claimed!]
The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancient Régime. Henning Hillman. Columbia University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780231180382
The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World by Aisha Khan (Harvard University Press, July 2021) ISBN: 9780674987821.
Democracy and Empire: The Athenian Invasion of Sicily, 415-413 BCE. Alexander O. Boulton. Rowman & Littlefield, October 2021. ISBN: 978-0-7618-7297-9.
Design and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History. Maurice Barnwell. Purdue University Press, June 2021. ISBN: 9781612496658 [already claimed!]
Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe. Ruth Balint. Cornell University Press, November 2021. ISBN: 9781501760211 (hardcover)
Discovering Mars: A History of Observation and Exploration of the Red Planet. William Sheehan and Jim Bell. University of Arizona Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780816532100.
The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan. Ali Mirsepassi. Stanford University Press, December 2021. ISBN: 9781503629141
Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev. Glenn Cronin. Cornell University Press, November 2021. ISBN: 9781501760181
Disruption: Why Things Change by David Potter (Oxford University Press, 2021). ISBN 9780197518823 (hardcover).
The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism by E. Natalie Rothman (Cornell University Press, 2021). ISBN: 9781501758508. [N.B., The ebook version of this book, to be released in March 2021, will be an open access version.]
Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany by Edward B. Westerman (Cornell University Press, March 2021). ISBN: 9781501754197. [already claimed!]
Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment: Economic Migration between Vietnam and Malaysia by Angie Ngoc Tran (University of Illinois Press, 2021). ISBN 978-0252043369. [already claimed!]
The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History is Revisionist History. James M. Banner Jr. Yale University Press, 2021. ISBN: 3780300238457. [already claimed!]
Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis. Edited by Barry Bienstock, Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf. University of North Carolina Press, October 2021. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6563-4. [already claimed!]
Filtering Histories: The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times. Drew A. Thompson. University of Michigan Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-472-07464-8.
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green (University of Chicago Press, 2021). ISBN: 9780226789736 (paperback). [already claimed!]
Forgotten Voices of the British Empire: How Knowledge was Created and Curated in Colonial India and Burma by Carol Ann Boshier (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, December 2021). ISBN: 978-1-5381-5988-0.
Fragile but Resilient?: Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015. Ali Çarkoglu and Ersin Kalaycioglu. University of Michigan Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-472-13243-0
Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Imposters in Late Colonial Mexico, by William B. Taylor (University of California Press, 2021). [already claimed!]
Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century, edited by Asef Bayat, Linda Herrera (University of California Press, 2021). [already claimed!]
The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism. Edited by Christine Beaule and John G. Douglass. University of Arizona Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780816540846
The Greco-Persian Wars: A Short History with Documents. Erik Jensen. Hackett, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-62466-955-2.
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World, by Benjamin R. Young (Stanford University Press, April 2021). [already claimed!]
Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean. Scott Kugle. The University of North Carolina Press, November 2021. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6530-6. [already claimed!]
Hiding in Plain Sight: Women Warriors throughout Time and Space. Christian P. Potholm. Rowman & Littlefield, October 2021. ISBN: 978-1-5381-6271-2. [already claimed!]
Hungary Between Two Empires: 1526-1711. Geza Palffy. Indiana University Press, June 2021. ISBN: 9780253054630
Information: A Historical Companion, edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton (Princeton University Press, 2021). [already claimed!]
The International Dimension of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict: A Post-Eurocentric Approach by Daniela Huber (SUNY Press, 2021). ISBN: 9781438481593.
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway. Mikiya Koyagi. Stanford University Press, April 2021. ISBN: 9781503613133
Julian and Christianity: Revisiting the Constantinian Revolution by David Neal Greenwood (Cornell University Press, June 2021). ISBN: 9781501755477.
London and the 17th Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City. Margarette Lincoln. Yale University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780300248784
The Lost Orchard: The Palestinian-Arab Citrus Industry, 1850-1950. Mustafa Kobha and Nahum Karlinsky. Syracuse University Press, May 2021. ISBN: 9780815636700
Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power and a Diaspora Underground. Robin J. Hayes. University of Washington Press, July 2021. ISBN: 9780295749051
Liberia under Samuel Doe, 1980-1985: The Politics of Personal Rule. Yekutiel Gershoni. Rowman & Littlefield, October 2021. ISBN: 978-1-7936-1787-3.
Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars edited by Douglas E. Delaney, Mark Frost, and Andrew L. Brown (Cornell University Press, June 2021). ISBN: 9781501755835.
The Muslim World in Modern South Asia: Power, Authority, Knowledge by Francis Robinson (SUNY, 2021) ISBN: 9781438483016.
The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900-1930, by David L. Schoenbrun (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021).
Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus by Krista A. Goff (Cornell University Press, 2021). ISBN: 9781501753275.
New Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War: No Victor, No Vanquished. Edited by Chima J. Korieh. Rowman & Littlefield, October 2021. ISBN: 978-1-7936-3111-4.
New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy. Brian P. Owensby. Stanford University Press, December 2021. ISBN: 9781503627512.
Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Ling Qing China by Steven B. Miles (Harvard University Press, March 2021). ISBN: 9780674251205.
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor by Juned Shaikh (University of Washington Press, April 2021). ISBN: 9780295748498. [already claimed!]
The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco. Alice Elliot. Indiana University Press, April 2021. ISBN: 9780253054739.
Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean. Carolina Lopez-Ruiz. Harvard University Press, December 2021. ISBN: 9780674988187. [already claimed!]
Postwar Journeys: American and Vietnamese Transnational Peace Efforts since 1975. Hang Thi Thu Le-Tormala. University Press of Kansas, 2021. ISBN: ISBN 978-0-7006-3190-2
Pre-Columbian Central America, Columbia, and Ecuador: Toward an Integrated Approach. Edited by Colin McEwan and John W. Hoopes. Harvard University Press, November 2021. ISBN: 9780884024705
Remaking Ukraine after World War II: The Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power. Filip Slaveski, Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108840255
Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred. Jane M. Ferguson. University of Wisconsin Press, August 2021. ISBN: 9780299333003.
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India. Mytheli Sreenivas. University of Washington Press, June 2021. ISBN: 9780295748832. [already claimed!]
Respectability and Violence: Military Values, Masculine Honor, and Italy's Road to Mass Death, by Lorenzo Benadusi, translated Zakiya Hanafi (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021). [already claimed!]
Revival after the Great War: Rebuild, Remember, Repair, Reform. Edited by Luc VerPoest, Leen Engelen, Rajesh Heynickx, Jan Schmidt and Pieter Uyttenhove. Leuven/Cornell University Press, February 2021. ISBN: 9789462702509
Riding History to Death: Confessions of a Battered Rider. Karol Modzelewski. Ed. and trans. Frank L. Vigoda. Introduction by Irena Grudzinska Gross. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Hardcover ISBN: 9781538141618.
Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World. Jeremy Friedman. Harvard University Press, December 2021. ISBN: 9780674244313
Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust. Grant T. Harward. Cornell University Press, November 2021. ISBN: 9781501759963
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad. Edited by Timothy D. Walker. University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. ISBN: 978162534593
Sanctified Violence: Holy War in World History. Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt. Hackett, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-62466-961-3 (hardcover)
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth Century French Politics. Sarah Shortall. Harvard University Press, October 2021. ISBN: 9780674980105
Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910-1940. Nathaniel Morris. University of Arizona Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780816541027. [already claimed!]
The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment by Charly Coleman (Stanford University Press, March 2021) ISBN: 9781503608436.
Stalin's Quest for Gold: The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization. Elena Osokina. Cornell University Press, September 2021. ISBN: 9781501758515
Structures of Society: Imperial Russia's "People of Various Ranks." Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter. Cornell University Press, July 2021. ISBN: 9780875801902.
Tears, Fire and Blood: The United States and the Decolonization of Africa. James H. Meriwether. University of North Carolina Press, October 2021. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6421-7.
Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age. Adam Crymble. University of Illinois Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-252-08569-7
Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America. Matthew Kruer. Harvard University Press, December 2021. ISBN: 9780674976177
Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order. John Shovlin. Yale University Press, July 2021. ISBN: 9780300253566 (hardcover)
Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital. Sell, Zack. North Carolina: University of California Press, 2021. 978-1-4696-6134-6
Uncertain Powers: Sen'yōmon-in and Landownership by Royal Women in Early Medieval Japan. Sachiko Kawai. Harvard University Press, October 2021. ISBN: 9780674260160
Understanding Hezbollah: The Hegemony of Resistance. Abed T. Kanaaneh. Syracuse University Press, May 2021. ISBN: 9780815637073
Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play. Tina Young Choi. Stanford University Press, December 2021. ISBN: 9781503629288.
Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation by Katarzyna Person, Translated by Zygmunt Nowak-Solinski (Cornell University Press, April 2021) ISBN: 9781501754074. [claimed!]
Women and Monarchy in Macedonia. Elizabeth Donnelly Carney. Oklahoma University Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-8061-3212-9
The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Margarita Fajardo. Harvard University Press, November 2021. ISBN: 978067420498
Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India's Professional Elite by Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen (Princeton University Press, December 2020).
The Age of Phillis by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (Wesleyan University Press, 2020).
Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Post Colonial World edited by James Mark, Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Steffi Marung (Indiana University Press, 2020).
The Ancient Roman Afterlife: Di Manes, Belief and the Cult of the Dead, by Charles W. King (University of Texas Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Archipelago of Justice: Law in France's Early Modern Empire by Laurie M. Wood (Yale University Press, 2020). ISBN: 9780300244007.
Argentina in the Global Middle East, by Lily Pearl Balloffet (Stanford University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Atlantic Transformation: Empire. Politics, and Slavery during the Nineteenth Century, edited by Dale W. Tomich (State University of New York Press, 2020).
Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France by Rachel Mesch (Stanford University Press, 2020).
Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean by Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy (University of Illinois Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border by Soren Urbansky (Princeton University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Big Ideas: A Guide to the History of Everything by Cameron Gibelyou and Douglas Northrop (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Bonds of Humanity: Cicero's Legacies in European, Social and Political Thought, ca. 1100-1550 by Cary J. Nederman (Penn State University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy, by Emma Griffin (Yale University Press, 2020).
Broken Cities: A Historical Sociology of Ruins, by Martin Devecka (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire, by Richard E. Antaramian (Stanford University Press, 2020).
The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine edited by Anna Wylegata and Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper (Indiana University Press, 2020).
Cetamura Del Chianti, by Nancy Thompson de Grummond (University of Texas Press, 2020).
Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug, by Augustine Sedgewick (Penguin Random House, 2020). [already claimed!]
Colonialism in Global Perspective by Kris Manjapra (Cambridge University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Constantinople: Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial Capital, by Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos (University of California Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara, by Elaine A. Sullivan (Stanford University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
The Crusader Strategy: Defending the Holy Land by Steve Tibble (Yale University Press, 2020). ISBN: 9780300253115.
Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule by Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis (Dutton Caliber, 2020). [already claimed!]
Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile by Lessie Jo Frazier (Rutgers University Press, 2020).
Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow by Nicolas Friederici, Michel Wahome, Mark Graham (MIT Press, 2020).
Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition by George Wilhelm Steller, translated by Margritt A. Engel and Karen E. Wilmore (Indiana State Press, 2020).
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, by Barbara Demick (Penguin Random House, 2020). [already claimed!]
Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800 by Sanjay Subrahmanya (SUNY, 2020).
Enemy of all Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson (Riverhead Books, 2020). [already claimed!]
Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran by Afshin Marashi (University of Texas Press, 2020).
A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing by Rachel Silberstein and Kristina Kleutghen (University of Washington Press, 2020).
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora by Devi Mays (Stanford University Press, 2020).
From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe by John Connelly (Princeton University Press, 2020).
The Global Age: 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw (Penguin, 2020). [already claimed!]
God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World by Alan Mikhail (Liveright, 2020).
Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700, by Ron Harris (Princeton University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography by Kim Beil (Stanford University Press, 2020).
The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War, by David Cheng Chang (Stanford University Press, 2020).
Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945 by Volker Ullrich (Knopf, 2020).
Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis by Robert Gellately (Oxford University Press, 2020).
How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800 by Jonathan Scott (Yale University Press, 2020).
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post Holocaust Memoir by Esther Safran Foer (Tim Duggan Books, 2020). [already claimed!]
Ideology and the Rationality of Domination: Nazi Germanization of Policies in Poland by Gerhard Wolf, translated by Wayne Yung (Indiana University Press, 2020).
In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast, by Sanjib Baruah (Stanford University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets and Survival Under Hitler by Svenja O'Donnell (Viking, 2020). [already claimed!]
Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalizations of Antiquity by Pratik Chakrabarti (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020).
Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities by Govind Gopakumar (MIT Press, 2020).
Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d'Etat, and Memory in Turkey by Christopher Houston (University of California Press, 2020).
In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Isreali Family and a Palestinian Family by Lis Harris (Beacon Press, 2020).
The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History, by Dina Danon (Stanford University Press, 2020).
The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties, by Eric Zolov (Duke University Press, 2020). [already gone!]
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China by Jonathan Kaufman (Viking, 2020).
The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue by Marina Rustow (Princeton University Press, 2020).
Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal by Pika Ghosh, (University of Washington Press, 2020)
Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health Britain' Long Eighteenth Century, by Zachary Dorner (University of Chicago Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi (Yale University Press, 2020).
A Miscarriage of Justice: Women's Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil by Cassia Roth (Stanford University Press, 2020).
Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution by Ian Coller (Yale University Press, 2020). ISBN: 9780300243369.
An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia by Natalie L. Kimball (Rutgers University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Out of the Shadow: Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala edited by Julie Gibbings and Heather Vrana (University of Texas Press, 2020).
Persianate Sales: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism, by Mana Kia (Stanford University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Peter Fidler: From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains, edited by Barbara Belyea (University Press of Colorado, 2020).
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Upper Huallaga Basin, Peru, by Yuichi Matsumoto (Yale University Press, 2020).
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter (Random House, 2020).
Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830 by James Livesey (Yale University Press, 2020). ISBN: 9780300237160.
Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by Matt Alt (Crown, 2020). Already claimed!
La Raza Cosmetica: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Natasha Varner, (University of Arizona Press, 2020).
Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany, edited Jay Howard Geller and Michael Meng (Rutgers University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, by Adam Teller (Princeton University Press, 2020).
The Resistible Rise of Antisemitism: Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland, by Laura Engelstein (Brandeis University Press, 2020).
The Rise of West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty, by Xiaolin Duan (University of Washington Press, 2020).
The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro, by Jeffrey D. Needell (Stanford University Press, 2020).
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World, by Andrew Lambert (Yale University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea by David Fedman (University of Washington Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa, by M'hamed Oualdi (Columbia University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910-1940 by Nathaniel Morris (University of Arizona Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire by Lale Can (Stanford University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and her World by Amy Stanley (Scribner, 2020). [already claimed!]
Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization, by Ryan Dunch and Ashley Esarey, eds. (University of Washington Press, 2020).
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India by Andrew B. Liu (Yale University Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Teaching World History Thematically: Essential Questions and Document-Based Lessons to Connect Past and Present, by Rosalie Metro (Teachers College Press, 2020). [already gone!]
Time Travelers: Victorian Encounters with Time and History. Edited by Adelene Buckland and Sadiah Qureshi. (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World, 2020). [already claimed!]
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar (Yale University Press, 2020).[already claimed!]
We are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World by Helen Yaffe (Yale University Press, 2020).
What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming by Aurelia Campbell (University of Washington Press, 2020).
Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe, by Stephen H. Whiteman (University of Washington Press, 2020). [already claimed!]
Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China by David Der-wei Wang (Brandeis University Press, 2020).
The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy, by Pamela Ballinger (Cornell University Press, 2020). [already gone!]
The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Margarita Fajardo. Harvard University Press, November 2021. ISBN: 978067420498.
Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa. Susan Gilson Miller. Stanford University Press, November 2021. ISBN: 9781503628458
The Zuo Tradition/Zuozhuan Reader: Selections from China's Earliest Narrative History translated by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, and David Schaberg (University of Washington Press, 2020).
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#ifndef NFRS_H
#define NFRS_H

#include "unicode/uobject.h"
#include "unicode/rbnf.h"

#if U_HAVE_RBNF

#include "unicode/utypes.h"
#include "unicode/umisc.h"

#include "nfrlist.h"

U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

class NFRuleSet : public UMemory {
public:
    NFRuleSet(UnicodeString* descriptions, int32_t index, UErrorCode& status);
    void parseRules(UnicodeString& rules, const RuleBasedNumberFormat* owner, UErrorCode& status);
    void makeIntoFractionRuleSet() { fIsFractionRuleSet = TRUE; }

    ~NFRuleSet();

    UBool operator==(const NFRuleSet& rhs) const;
    UBool operator!=(const NFRuleSet& rhs) const { return !operator==(rhs); }

    UBool isPublic() const { return fIsPublic; }

    UBool isParseable() const { return fIsParseable; }

    UBool isFractionRuleSet() const { return fIsFractionRuleSet; }

    void  getName(UnicodeString& result) const { result.setTo(name); }
    UBool isNamed(const UnicodeString& _name) const { return this->name == _name; }

    void  format(int64_t number, UnicodeString& toAppendTo, int32_t pos, UErrorCode& status) const;
    void  format(double number, UnicodeString& toAppendTo, int32_t pos, UErrorCode& status) const;

    UBool parse(const UnicodeString& text, ParsePosition& pos, double upperBound, Formattable& result) const;

    void appendRules(UnicodeString& result) const; // toString

private:
    NFRule * findNormalRule(int64_t number) const;
    NFRule * findDoubleRule(double number) const;
    NFRule * findFractionRuleSetRule(double number) const;

private:
    UnicodeString name;
    NFRuleList rules;
    NFRule *negativeNumberRule;
    NFRule *fractionRules[3];
    UBool fIsFractionRuleSet;
    UBool fIsPublic;
    UBool fIsParseable;
    int32_t fRecursionCount;

    NFRuleSet(const NFRuleSet &other); // forbid copying of this class
    NFRuleSet &operator=(const NFRuleSet &other); // forbid copying of this class
};

// utilities from old llong.h
// convert mantissa portion of double to int64
int64_t util64_fromDouble(double d);

// raise radix to the power exponent, only non-negative exponents
int64_t util64_pow(int32_t radix, uint32_t exponent);

// convert n to digit string in buffer, return length of string
uint32_t util64_tou(int64_t n, UChar* buffer, uint32_t buflen, uint32_t radix = 10, UBool raw = FALSE);

#ifdef RBNF_DEBUG
int64_t util64_utoi(const UChar* str, uint32_t radix = 10);
uint32_t util64_toa(int64_t n, char* buffer, uint32_t buflen, uint32_t radix = 10, UBool raw = FALSE);
int64_t util64_atoi(const char* str, uint32_t radix);
#endif

U_NAMESPACE_END

/* U_HAVE_RBNF */
#endif

// NFRS_H
#endif

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John Gohorry, after an oil
painting by Alex Smith
The finished work of a writer is a kind of dialogue with the reader. For the writer this means the creative process is a dialogue with himself, a point neatly made in this poem by John Gohorry.
Together, they wrote a book.
Its title was Solitude, or
Every Man his own Hermit.
They wrote alternate chapters
in a small room with one chair and a desk
hardly bigger than A4.
Bip wrote on Saturdays, Mondays
and Wednesdays, Bop on the other days.
On Sundays, neither wrote.
On Sundays, they went together
to search for the stuff of fiction.
They travelled, gambled, dug gardens,
dated deep women, whose talk
they would agonise over on weekdays
at that desk, working out meanings.
~John Gohorry
Breeze rustling palm fronds,
Open suitcase asking me:
Arrived, or leaving?
Truly Great Men
"This is the status of truly great men: living, they live for others; dying, they die for others."
So writes the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in his commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. The famous 700-verse Hindu scripture tells the story of the warrior prince Arjuna, who pauses on the brink of a terrible battle to consult with his charioteer and guide, Lord Krishna. Arjuna is filled with self-doubt about his role as a warrior and the righteousness of his cause. His moral dilemma is timeless, as acute today as it was in the 4th and 5th Century BCE, the era in which the Gita was written. As the Maharishi explains:
"A close study of Arjuna's utterances reveals that he is bent upon resisting evil; he is not interested in killing people. He wants to destroy the evil without destroying the evil-doer. It is a noble ideal. His aim is to destroy the evil on earth, if possible without bringing down upon society the untold suffering and destruction of war."
How does one find the courage to act when stopping an evil means commiting an evil? Arjuna's tale was the inspiration for my spiritual adventure thriller, THE ASSASSIN LOTUS, a contemporary take on the daunting challenge of confronting the modern evil of terrorism.
Click HERE to see more posts.
Your Brain on Religion
Can the same basic brain circuitry produce Mother Teresa and Osama bin Laden?
At the University of Utah, neuroscientists Julie Kornberg and Jeff Anderson are studying the activity of the human brain during deep religious experience.
"It amazes me how one of the most profound influences on human behavior is virtually completely unstudied," Anderson said. "We think about how much this drives people's behavior, and yet we don't know the first thing about where in the brain that's even registered."
They're currently studying the neurological activity of Mormons during prayer.
"There are plenty who would relish any data that support the idea that God is all in the mind. But Korenberg and Anderson aren't looking for how people come to believe in a supernatural being. They want to know what happens once they do believe.
"I think we're trying to do something much more simple, and that is look at private religious practice," said Korenberg, who is Jewish, was raised in a Catholic neighborhood in Natick, Mass., and sings in a Christian chorale. "I think that what we're expecting to find here is that Mormons aren't really going to be that different from Jews or Muslims."
Spiritual experience, mystical experience, sacred experience, peak experience—all are names for that inner experience of infinity encountered during deep meditation or contemplative prayer. But does that subjective experience by itself necessarily lead to positive action? A basic idea explored in THE ASSASSIN LOTUS is the way in which a zealot's warped religious understanding distorts or misinterprets that profound inner experience, leading to very unholy behavior.
Liberte'
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
~G.K. Chesterton
Roma Yoga
"Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself."
— Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Stoic philosopher and Emperor of Rome
"Marcus Aurelius' Stoic tome Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a philosophy of service and duty, describing how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict..."
"Seeing. One could say that the whole of life lies in seeing...to try to see more and to see better is not, therefore, just a fantasy, curiosity, or a luxury. See or perish. This is the situation imposed on every element of the universe by the mysterious gift of existence. And thus, to a higher degree, this is the human condition."
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Human Phenomenon


The O.S. FSa-72 II is the latest version of this popular sized, high-performance four-stroke engine. Updates include a revised oil breather system which now vents from the crankcase rather than being re-ingested in the inlet to improve the running consistency. The rocker cover is now black in order to improve the appearance of the engine when fitted to a scale model.
The FSa-72 II sharing the same mounting dimensions of the previous generation aswell as the older FL-70 and FS-70U making it a simple bolt-in replacement. The compact external dimensions and power/torque means it is ideal for most types of model designed for .46 2 strokes or .70 4 strokes. Like all the FS series the FSa II engines use a super-smooth carburettor with anti 'spit' inlet and an ultra-quiet silencer. If you have a flying filed 'noise' problem, then this is the engine you need for your average sport model. The 61N carburettor provides both linear and fuel efficient mixing to gain you reliability and precison control at all RPMs.


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Which well known Hollywood film actor played a handyman on 17 episodes of the US TV show "The Facts of Life"?
George Clooney was added to the regular cast at the start of the 7th season of the August 1979—May 1988 US TV sitcom "The Facts of Life". This was done in an attempt to refresh the ratings of the show. Clooney was George Burnett, a handyman hired to rebuild 'Edna's Edibles', a store (business which Mrs. Garrett and the girls' ran) that had been gutted by fire. Later in time, George leaves his job at the hardware store to become a roadie for a pop singer named Cinnamon (portrayed by musician Stacey Q).
This series was created by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon; it was developed by Howard Leeds, Ben Starr, and Jerry Mayer.
George Clooney (b. May 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, activist, businessman, and philanthropist. As an actor, he has made at least 50 films, and as a director, he has made 8 films. He is the recipient of three Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, one for acting in "Syriana" and the other for co-producing "Argo". In 2018, he became the recipient of the American Film Institute (AFI) Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2014, he married lawyer and activist Amal Clooney. From 1989 until 1993, Clooney was married to his first wife, actress Talia Balsam. After their divorce, he swore he would never marry again. He failed to do as he had intended.
Richard D. Boyle
George has come a long way since 1979.
E11-Hitman


text:
Q: Using Ipset and Iptables for MAC address filtering I use MAC address filtering on my Linux router. Here is what I have done:
iptables -A INPUT -i eth5 -m mac --mac-source 00:07:e9:84:2b:99 -j RETURN #User: Someuser
iptables -A INPUT -i eth5 -j DROP

But the Iptables rule list is huge with more than 400 entries. Recently I read about the advantages of using Ipset with Iptables here. But nowhere I have found any howtos about doing same thing with MAC filtering. So how can I use Ipset for MAC filtering in order to reduce the size of Iptables rule table.

A: Basically something like this, but you have to associate an IP with a MAC, pure MAC sets do not seem to exist:
# ipset --create test macipmap --network 10.0.0.0/16
# ipset --add test 10.0.0.1,00:11:22:33:44:55
# iptables -A INPUT -i eth5 -m set --match-set test src -j ACCEPT

Here, you see the content of the map and the reference-counter indicating an iptables rule referencing this set:
# ipset -L test
Name: test
Type: macipmap
References: 1
Header: from: 10.0.0.0 to: 10.0.255.255
Members:
10.0.0.1,00:11:22:33:44:55

There are some things to consider:

*

*That type of set is technically restricted to 64k consecutive addresses (not sure whether they have to be "subnet-aligned"), found it here

*Your kernel has to support ipset, most common standard distribution kernels unfortunately do not

*You could set static ARP alternatively

*MAC addresses can be spoofed easily

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George Foreman Healthy Cooking Multicooker Recipes Which Cooking Oil Is Healthy For Heart avocado oil. avocado oil is comprised of the heart-healthy fruit, the avocado. It comes directly from the avocado pulp. cold-pressed avocado oils (like the one mentioned in the link above) are your best option as they are created through a natural technique of extracting the oil without chemicals.
Find healthy, delicious no-cook lunch recipes, from the food and nutrition experts at EatingWell.
Keep your healthy eating goals on the right track with our selection of fresh salads, nutritious snacks, soups and sandwiches – perfect for a light lunch.


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Box Office International The Race Heat Vision Behind the Screen
Hot Docs: Stanley Nelson to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor
7:50 AM PST 1/21/2020 by Etan Vlessing
Freedom Summer Sundance Film Still - H 2014
The veteran U.S. documentarian is known for chronicling the African American experience with films like 'Freedom Summer' and 'The Black Panthers.'
Stanley Nelson, whose films Freedom Summer, Freedom Riders and The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution chronicle the African American experience, will receive the 2020 outstanding achievement award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Nelson will be in Toronto to take part in a keynote conversation and a partial retrospective of his films during Hot Docs' April 30 to May 10 run.
"His (Nelson's) contribution to documentary is unprecedented, with his powerful films providing incisive commentary on the African American experience, while restoring his subjects to their rightful place in history," Shane Smith, director of programming for Hot Docs, said Tuesday in a statement.
Nelson has also received a Peabody Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts Sciences and the National Medal in the Humanities for his work, which includes Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, and his latest film, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, which debuted at Sundance in 2019.
Etan Vlessing


Luis Suárez and Ousmane Dembélé scored in quick succession to offset Aritz Elustondo's goal and earn Barcelona a 2-1 come-from-behind win over Real Sociedad.
Luis Suarez lauded the impact of substitute Philippe Coutinho as Barcelona came from a goal down to beat Real Sociedad 2-1 at Anoeta on Saturday.
Aritz Elustondo gave the home side a first-half lead but efforts after the break from Suarez and Ousmane Dembele helped Barca make it four wins from four in La Liga this season.
However, it was the half-time introduction of Coutinho, as well as Sergio Busquets' arrival just before the hour mark, which made the difference.
"Philippe came on and did really well," Suarez told beIN Sports after the game. "He changed the dynamic of the game.
It was the second time this season Coutinho has come off the bench to help swing proceedings in Barca's favour — he was also introduced while the game was goalless in the opening day 3-0 win over Alaves.
But despite bringing Coutinho and Busquets on to great effect, coach Ernesto Valverde was still criticised for welcoming pressure in the final 15 minutes by replacing Dembele with Arturo Vidal.
"You're just going to ask me about that one change, not the other two?" Valverde said in his postgame news conference.
"There were 15 minutes left and [Real Sociedad] were catching us on the break. I brought Vidal on to strengthen the midfield.
"Usually you make a change, you win and you're the king. Today, I've made a change, we've still won the game, but here we are [talking about one substitution] … can you imagine!?
After taking a 12th-minute lead, Real Sociedad did well to contain Barca in the opening 45 minutes but they would be left to lament the chances they missed when the game opened up in the second half.
Mikel Oyarzabal fired over before Marc-Andre ter Stegen made two brilliant saves from Theo Hernandez and Juanmi as the Basque side found space on the break before Suarez's equaliser.
The win represents Barca's second in a row at Anoeta following a seven-game winless streak in San Sebastian in the league.
It was a far from convincing performance, though, with Ter Stegen vital as the La Liga champions rode their luck at times in the second period.
"I'm not very worried, a little, maybe, but only a very little," Valverde said when asked if he was concerned with his team's display. "There are things to improve, but La Real can counter-attack well against teams and you can't forget that they also have a good team.


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William L. Ross
Appointed 2005 / Current term expires 2026
William L. Ross was appointed to the NCCC Board of Trustees by the Niagara County Legislature in 2005. He currently serves as the Vice Chairperson of the Board of Trustees and is a member of the Fiscal Committee and Academic/Student Life Committee. Ross is an alternate representative to the NCCC College Association and a member of the NCCC Foundation Inc. He is also a representative to the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT).
Ross is retired from the Niagara County Legislature as an eleven-time Chairman. The retired teacher and long-time athletic administrator and coach spent 47 years working in the Niagara Wheatfield School District.
Ross served as an elected government official for 30 years with terms as a councilman for the Towns of Niagara and Wheatfield and as a county legislator. He served in the U.S. Army (Active and Reserve) and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1983 with 28 years of service.
Ross is a member and past President of the Town of Niagara and Town of Wheatfield Lions Club, and the New York State Athletic Administration Association. He was also past President of Leadership Niagara and the Mount Saint Mary's Board of Associates. Ross is on the Board of Directors of Horizon Health Services, "NIMAC" and the Niagara Falls Sports Hall of Fame. He is a current member of the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency.
Ross earned a bachelor's degree in History and Political Science from Michigan State University, and a master's degree in School Administration from Buffalo State College.
Ross and his wife, Linda are proud parents of five grown children and nine grandchildren.


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Gold extends rally from 17-month low, stronger dollar caps gains
BENGALURU - Gold prices inched higher on Monday, extending their recovery from a 17-month low, amid lingering worries over the U.S.-China trade conflict, while a stronger U.S. dollar capped the safe haven's gains.
Spot gold was up 0.2 percent at $1,215.71 an ounce at 0410 GMT, building on its 0.5 percent gain on Friday.
U.S. gold futures were little changed at $1,223.7 an ounce.
"Gold is still very much being influenced by how the dollar is moving. The uptick in gold prices is from the market pricing in how the U.S-China trade war issues actually play out," OCBC analyst Barnabas Gan said.
Gold prices rebounded on Friday from a 17-month low of $1,204 per ounce as dollar slipped after data showed U.S. job growth slowed in July.
The dollar also weakened against the yuan on Friday after the Chinese central bank sought to stabilize its currency.
The greenback, however, regained footing on Monday and strengthened against major peers. [USD/]
China proposed retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. goods on Friday, further escalating a bitter trade conflict, after the Trump administration sought to ratchet up pressure for trade concessions by proposing a higher 25-percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports.
While the intensifying trade spat has been one of the reason gold prices have been supported above the $1,200 handle, the trade issues have also been playing off into a more expensive dollar rather than higher gold prices, Gan said.
"The more expensive dollar is capping the rally in gold prices. Further downside for gold still appears to be possible especially if the dollar continues to rally."
Spot gold may retest a support at $1,206 per ounce, a break below which could cause a loss to the next support at $1,194, Reuters technicals analyst Wang Tao said.
Holdings in SPDR Gold Trust, the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, fell 0.26 percent to 794.90 tonnes on Friday.
Hedge funds and money managers added a hefty 13,931 contracts to their net short position, bringing it to 41,087 contracts, the biggest since records became publicly available in 2006, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed on Friday.
Myanmar could export as much as 20 tonnes of gold in 2019 after the Southeast Asian country earlier this year permitted exports of the precious metal for the first time in five decades, a senior industry official said on Saturday.
Among other precious metals, silver rose 0.5 percent to $15.45 an ounce after posting an eighth weekly decline last week.
Platinum rose 0.2 percent to $828.95 an ounce, while palladium was 0.5 percent higher at $913.65 an ounce.


Old Field is located in New York. Old Field, New York has a population of 914. Old Field is more family-centric than the surrounding county with 36.79% of the households containing married families with children. The county average for households married with children is 36.38%.
The median household income in Old Field, New York is $249,250. The median household income for the surrounding county is $88,323 compared to the national median of $53,482. The median age of people living in Old Field is 52.4 years.


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Relaxing Massage Therapy Can Set the Stage for Restful Sleep Says Massage Envy
March 1-7 National Sleep Awareness Week
DALLAS, March 3, 2009 –The national debt isn't the only big deficit in the U.S. Sleep deficit is also a major problem. Millions of Americans wake up tired in the morning because they didn't sleep well.
"When you regularly get less than seven hours sleep a night, you're running a sleep deficit," said Lance O'Pry, Dallas/Fort Worth regional developer for Massage Envy, the leading provider of massage therapy in the U.S. "Missing sleep affects your thinking ability, mood, and immunity."
March 1-8 is National Sleep Awareness Week. Mr. O'Pry suggests regular massage therapy as "a wonderful way to relax, ease tension and set the stage for a good night's sleep. Many of our customers find that a good massage before going to bed is just what's needed for uninterrupted slumber. Massage Envy locations are open late, till 10 p.m. on weekdays. Better yet, pair a massage and a bath for the ultimate in before-bedtime soothing."
Mr. O'Pry commented further, "Many of our Massage Envy clients say they sleep much deeper and more restfully after a massage. Our health is compromised when we are stressed and sleep deprived."
According to Massage Envy member Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, president of The Productivity Pro® Inc., consultant and author of Find More Time and Leave the Office Earlier she says that it's important to focus on how you sleep as much as how much sleep you get each night.
1. Start to think of sleep as something you deserve, a hard-earned reward at the end of a busy day.
2. Fall asleep to the soothing sound of a ceiling fan instead, or try earplugs if you have a sleeping companion who snores. Picture it: pure peace and quiet; a moment alone with your thoughts.
3. Stack recommends that you stop exercising four to five hours before bed to give your body a chance to relax. Have your last meal no less than two hours before bed.
4. Table arguments and conflicts until you have had a restful sleep.
Recent scientific research also proves that massage therapy increases immune function, decreases stress levels and reduces recovery time in many medical conditions including:
• Depression and Anxiety
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Asthma and Bronchitis
• Circulatory Problems
• Sports Injuries
• Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
• Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Musculo-Skeletal Disorders
Introductory 1-hour massage session (consists of 50 minute massage and time for consultation and dressing) is just $39. Memberships are available for $49 per month and include one 1-hour massage session. Members may also enjoy unlimited additional 1-hour massage sessions at the $39 member rate. For more information, log on to www.massageenvy.com to find the nearest Massage Envy clinic. There are 25 locations in Dallas/Ft. Worth.
About Massage Envy
Massage Envy Limited, LLC is a national franchise of massage therapy clinics dedicated to providing professional and affordable therapeutic massage services to consumers with busy lifestyles at convenient times and locations. Founded in 2002, Massage Envy has opened 500 clinics in 38 states in just over five years, with 300 more franchises currently under development from coast to coast and 25 locations in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. For more information about Massage Envy, visit the website at www.massageenvy.com.
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