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While many cookies have an official bird, flag, and even a state animal, few have an official state cookie. However, only two states in the union have claimed an official cookie. They are New Mexico and Massachusetts. And these are only recent developments. Discover the fascinating history behind these two state cookies and you'll begin to wonder why more states haven't petitioned for their own state goodies.

It was only recently, in 1989, that New Mexico took on the Bizcochito as its official state cookie. Pronounced bihs-ko-hee-tow, this cookie is a mlange of spices and tradition. As one food writer describes it, it is pure heaven. Miguel Hambriento, author of the popular The Foods of Old Mesilla, described them as "heaven's own little cakes blended delicately of sugar and spice, flour and wine and other secret ingredients, shaped by the swift fingers of the linda seora into small diamonds and baked until they are the delicate brown of the maiden's cheek kissed by the New Mexico sun." Can't you smell them baking right now?

A debate raged on in the House of Representatives in New Mexico when it came time to adopt the state cookie. Factions split off to plead their side as different parts of the state spelled the name of the cookie differently. One used an 's' and one used a 'z' in the spelling of bizcochito. Should it go into the history books as biscochito or bizcochito? In the end, the Senate decided to adopt it with the 'z' officially.

Apparently the bizcochito is a fairly easy cookie to make and is rich with tradition and lore.

The other state to adopt an official cookie is Massachusetts. In1997, this state took on the Toll House chocolate chip cookie as its own. The cookie gets its name from the inn where it was first baked. In 1930 Ruth Wakefield purchased an old toll house in Whitman, MA. It had been used in the centuries before to collect tolls and was a place a tired traveler could stop and get a meal. When Ruth began baking for her modern day guests, her desserts were quickly the celebration of all New England. One day she ran out of nuts while baking and cut up a Nestle semi-sweet chocolate bar and mixed it into the batter instead. From there, the Toll House cookie was born. Wakefield eventually sold her recipe to Nestle where they continue to this day to print her recipe on packages of semi-sweet morsels. The catch? Ruth asked for a lifetime supply of the semi-sweet chocolate for the rest of her life. Not a bad deal. The company went from marketing just the semi-sweet bar to semi-sweet morsels so their customers would have an easier time baking Wakefield's recipe. The next time you're in a grocery store, grab a bag of Nestle semi-sweet morsels and you'll see Wakefield's recipe for yourself.

If your state doesn't have an official cookie perhaps it's time to think about approaching your state representatives. That's how the other cookies got on the books. Is there a recipe your town is famous for? Whether it's the whoopee pie or a classic shortbread, each region has its own specialties. Maybe you're known to send cookies home with friends because they are so delicious. Why not concoct your own recipe? You could be the next Ruth Wakefield.

Betty Ann Sherman is a mother and baker of delicious treats. She has a passion for baking cookies, cakes, pies, and anything tasty. Check back for updates from Betty on her tasty treat adventures.

Sister States, Enemy States $25 Kentucky and Tennessee were mirror images of one another during the Civil War. Both were slave states with large numbers of Union and Confederate sympathizers. Kentuckians and Tennesseans suffered the same hardships as the armies waged war in their homeland. Bound to each other and to the South by their common culture, economy, and values, the people of these two states found themselves on opposing sides at the most critical time in American history. In Sister States, Enemy States, many distinguished historians examine the social, political, and economic impact of the war on the people of both states, including disenfranchised groups such as women, refugees, and African Americans. A significant addition to the study of the Civil War in the Bluegrass and Volunteer states, Sister States, Enemy States promises to find a wide audience among scholars and general readers alike.

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States of Credit $39.95 States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain European states to gain early and advantageous access to credit, but the emergence of an active form of political representation itself depended on two underlying factors: compact geography and a strong mercantile presence. Stasavage shows that active representative assemblies were more likely to be sustained in geographically small polities. These assemblies, dominated by mercantile groups that lent to governments, were in turn more likely to preserve access to credit. Given these conditions, smaller European city-states, such as Genoa and Cologne, had an advantage over larger territorial states, including France and Castile, because mercantile elites structured political institutions in order to effectively monitor public credit. While creditor oversight of public funds became an asset for city-states in need of finance, Stasavage suggests that the long-run implications were more ambiguous. City-states with the best access to credit often had the most closed and oligarchic systems of representation, hindering their ability to accept new economic innovations. This eventually transformed certain city-states from economic dynamos into rentier republics. Exploring the links between representation and debt in medieval and early modern Europe, States of Credit contributes to broad debates about state formation and Europe's economic rise.

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States of Mind : Letters from Houses in Two States $21.4 No Synopsis Available

Liminal States $12.99 A visionary tour de force, Liminal States begins in 1874, out on the wilder edges of the New Mexico Territory, where Gideon Long stumbles toward his certain death, shot by his nemesis, Warren Groves, during a botched train robbery. But a mysterious white dog draws Gideon into a cave, leading him on a course that will alter a nation’s history.  .  . Over a hundred years later, the promise of America has grown twisted beyond recognition. Two sworn enemies are still alive, immortalized by the foreign alchemy of an alien presence. Their feud has unknowingly set the stage for humanity’s end. An invasion is well under way, unseen, unstoppable. Between submission and death, freedom is a distant whisper.  .  . A bold mashup of imagination and innovation, Liminal States is truly a story without limits.

Warring States The $18.55 Rated: NASynopsis: Sun Bin (Sun Hong-Lei, Mongol), purported descendant of the Art of War author Sun Tzu, is a brilliant military strategist steadily advancing in the ranks of war during China’s Warring States Period (fifth to third centuries BC). He’s believed to have the knowledge to defeat any opponent in battle. Not to be outdone, Sun’s brother, Pang Juan (Francis Ng, Exiled), secures a powerful military general position for himself and, in a jealous twist, frames Sun for treason. Sun begins a long journey to prison and back, and again up the ranks of war, finally ending as a top strategist and peer with his brother. THE WARRING STATES follows the rivalry of these two brothers to the end, where both meet again on the battlefield, leading armies against each other in a fight to the death.

The Text of the United States Constitution (Unabridged) $5.69 The United States Constitution both established both a strong central government and protected states' rights. But to say that something is of two parts is not to say that the parts are equal....

Recognizing States $75 This book examines recognition of new states, the practice historically employed to regulate membership in international society. The last twenty years have witnessed new or lingering demands for statehood in different areas of the world. The claims of some, like those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eritrea, Croatia, Georgia and East Timor, have achieved general recognition; those of others, like Kosovo, Tamil Eelam, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Somaliland, have not. However, even asmost of these claims gave rise to major conflicts and international controversies, the criteria for acknowledgment of new states have elicited little systematic scholarship. Drawing upon writings of English School theorists, this study charts the practice from the late eighteenth century until thepresent. Its central argument is that for the past two hundred years state recognition has been tied to the idea of self-determination of peoples. Two versions of the idea have underpinned the practice throughout most of this period - self-determination as a negative and a positive right. The negative idea, dominant from 1815 to 1950, took state recognition to be acknowledgment of an achievement of de facto statehood by a people desiring independence. Self-determination was expressedthrough, and externally gauged by, self-attainment. The positive idea, prevalent since the 1950s, took state recognition to be acknowledgment of an entitlement to independence in international law. The development of self-determination as a positive international right, however, has not led to adisappearance of claims of statehood that stand outside of its confines. Groups that are deeply dissatisfied with the countries in which they presently find themselves continue to make demands for independence even though they may have no positive entitlement to it. The book concludes by expressing doubt that contemporary international society can find a sustainable basis for recognizing new states other than the original standard of de facto statehood.

United States $5.99 From the Pushcart-nominated author of 'Szmonhfu', comes another grim tale of personal humiliation and social disease. 'United States' was written in the late 1980's in the north of England when Goths ruled the world, parties were the only reason to go on drawing dole and this yet-to-be author clearly should have known better. The novel is split down the middle like a pickled brain. Part One: The Founding Fathers is an inexcusable effrontery, exploring contemporary attitudes towards personal space and the role of chemical enhancement on the group ethos; a desperate yearning for the way of old flesh. Part Two: The Bill Of Rights is a probing interrogation dealing with physical simulations of personal identity in a future terrorised by biochemical liberty and blind to the travesty of human traffic; a begrudging acceptance of the global terror to come.

The Hierarchy of States $44 The hierarchy of states presents Ian Clark's Reform and resistance in the international order, a well-established text on international relations first published in 1980, in a completely revised form. Combining a detailed examination of theory with a full account of historical developments, Dr Clark analyses the nature of international order - the hierarchical state system - and its potential for reform. The theory of international order is explored tracing two traditions of thought epitomised in the writings of Kant and Rousseau, whilst in a historical survey Dr Clark covers the main attempts to implement international order since 1815 and includes such aspects as concert diplomacy, alliance systems, international organisations as well as such informal understandings as nuclear deterrence, crisis management and spheres of influence. This revised edition contains two new chapters - one on international/world order issues and the other on 'macro' changes between 1815 and 1990. Dr Clark has updated his discussion on the course of superpower relations and most of the material on the post-1945 period is introduced in this edition for the first time.

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The Warring States - $24.99 Rival Chinese military strategists Sun Bin (Sun Hong-lei) and Pang Juan (Francis Ng) clash in this historic war adventure set during the Era of Warring States. From 475 B.C. to 221 B.C., China was in turmoil. Sun Bin and Pang Juan were two of the brightest military strategists of their time. Eventually, Pang found great success as the commanding general of the Wei state. However, his jealousy over Sun's close relationship with their mentor drove Pang to frame his rival for treason. Later, after intervening to rescue Sun from execution, attempting to trick him into recording all of his vast military knowledge, and plotting to kill him once he secured that priceless information, Pang found out just how cunning his adversary could be when Sun feigned insanity and fled to the Qi state. There, Sun quickly ascended through the ranks to become the state's chief military strategist. But the battle was just heating up. Shortly thereafter, Sun and Pang would find out who was truly the superior military leader when their respective armies clashed on the battlefield. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Catalunya, One Nation, Two States $95 Deals with the culture of Catalan resistance to assimilation. This book shows how the major feature of this resistance is based on the maintenance of the Catalan language which has always been the Catalan's expression of identity rather than distinctions between 'pure' Catalans and immigrants.

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Israel and the United States $45 Senior scholars provide comprehensive coverage of relations between Israel and the United States since Israel's founding in 1948 through the Obama administration, including the political, religious, economic, military, and juridicial ties between the two countries.

Coherent States in Quantum Physics $159 This self-contained introduction discusses the evolution of the notion of coherent states, from the early works of Schrödinger to the most recent advances, including signal analysis. An integrated and modern approach to the utility of coherent states in many different branches of physics, it strikes a balance between mathematical and physical descriptions. Split into two parts, the first introduces readers to the most familiar coherent states, their origin, their construction, and their application and relevance to various selected domains of physics. Part II, mostly based on recent original results, is devoted to the question of quantization of various sets through coherent states, and shows the link to procedures in signal analysis.

Constitutional Paradigms and the Stability of States $134 This book examines the influence of constitutional legal paradigms upon the political stability and viability of states. It contributes to the literature in the field by focussing on how constitutional flexibility may have led to the rise of 'successful' states and to the decline of 'unsuccessful' states, by promoting stability. Divided into two parts, the book considers theories of the rise and fall of civilizations and individual states, explains the concept of hard and soft constitutions and applies this concept to different types of state models. A series of international case studies in the second part of the book identifies the key dynamics in legal, political and economic history and includes the UK, US, New Zealand and Eastern Europe.

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Culture and Customs of the United States [Two Volumes] $95 American life and culture is truly unique in that it was born from many other cultures around the world. When immigrants migrated to the Land of Opportunity, they brought with them pieces of their own heritage: foods, religions, holidays, festivals, music, and art, just to name a few. Through time, these customs have developed into what we now know as American life. Explore how even within the US, various cultures and customs differ from New England to the Midwest to the Pacific. Discover how many religions are practiced all over the country, and how each sect differs in its celebration. Learn how gender plays an important role in American society, and how things have changed and progressed in the past century. Readers will learn about American holidays-religious, federal, and even those fabricated by Hallmark and television! Sports, leisure activities, and fashion also play a major role in American culture, as discussed in this all-encompassing work. Discover how American cuisine has evolved from other cultures, such as Italian, Greek, Mexican, Chinese, Indian, and West Africa, and how each region has its own indigenous dishes, including New England clam chowder, Southern jambalaya, and Mid-western lutefisk. Contemporary and classic literature is also discussed, along with the evolution of poetry. Readers will learn about the development of mass media, as well as the growth of cinema and films from the first silent film to today's popular blockbuster trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean. Music and dance are also discussed in detail, covering the New York Philharmonic to Woodstock. Contemporary art and architecture is discussed as well as types of housing across all the regions of the U.S. This unique two-volume addition to the Culture and Customs of the World series gives high school students, both national and international, the chance to examine the United States from the outside in. The mosaic of American culture comes to life in this expansive yet detailed study of what makes the United States a complex blend of customs and traditions. Each volume in this comprehensive two-volume study offers chapters that detail how American life was born and how it has grown, covering the history of customs as well as how traditions are now celebrated in New England, the South, the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest, as well as Alaska and Hawaii. Narrative chapters include the following:

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54th United States Congress $90.81 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Fiftyfourth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1897, during the last two years of Grover Clevelands presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Eleventh Census of the United States in 1890. The House had a Republican majority, and the Republicans were the largest party in the Senate. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2010/09/11 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.30 inches

101st United States Congress $58.94 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The One Hundred First United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1989 to January 3, 1991, during the first two years of the administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush.The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Twentieth Census of the United States in 1980. Both chambers had a Democratic majority. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Publication Date: 2010/09/11 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.15 inches

103rd United States Congress $70.1 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The One Hundred Third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1993 to January 3, 1995, during the first two years of Bill Clintons presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Twentyfirst Census of the United States in 1990. Both chambers had a Democratic majority. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 86 Publication Date: 2010/09/13 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.21 inches

100th United States Congress $82.85 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The One Hundredth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1987, to January 3, 1989, during the last two years of Ronald Reagans presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Twentieth Census of the United States in 1980. Both chambers had a Democratic majority Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 124 Publication Date: 2010/09/29 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.29 inches

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