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Where We Live: Environmental Activists' Fight to Save Their CommunitiesDrawing on extensive interviews he conducted with environmental activists across rural and urban Appalachia and the Midwest, Randy Cunningham analyzes what motivates activists, how they strategize, and what issues they encounter. An indispensable guide to the on-the-ground realities of environmental activism in contemporary America....
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When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of AmericaA riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media. "The whole world is watching!" cried protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention as Chicago police beat them in the streets. When some of that violence...
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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood EraLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - A "vivid and frank" (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community's ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic "A master class in...
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What Was Jesus Thinking?No one could ever get fully inside the mind of Jesus, but we can gain important insights through a better understanding of the contexts in which he spoke and acted. For example, with whom was he speaking and interacting in that moment? Where did...
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What's In Ted's Wallet?: The Newly Revealed T206 Baseball Card Collection of Thomas Edison's Youngest SonThomas Edison was a long-time baseball fan. In his younger years, he once proclaimed, he could have named the players on the roster of every major league team, and even later he followed the press accounts of each day's games. It was an interest...
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Wells CollegeWells College, founded in 1868 by businessman Henry Wells, boasts a storied history that spans over a century and a half. Using images and ephemera from the Wells College Archive and Special Collections, Tiffany Raymond, MLIS, and Daniel G. Renfrow, PhD, illustrate the college's...
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War in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1815This volume investigates a critical moment in the history of warfare. It assembles historians of the early modern and modern eras to speak to one another across the great historiographical divide that has traditionally separated them. The central questions in the volume have to...
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Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest WarriorsDiscover "the stories America needs to hear" (Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.)) with these moving and powerful recollections of war, told by the men and women who lived them. Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection crafted from hundreds of...
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Voice of Triumph: Hitler's Speeches at NurembergNuremberg has served for centuries as a hub of political life in Germany. In the day of the Holy Roman Empire, Nuremberg boasted the high status of a Free Imperial City and hosted several important Imperial Diets, or Reichstage. The National Socialists framed themselves...
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Virginia Baron: The Story of Thomas 6th Lord FairfaxOn one level, of course, the work is an ably told personal political biography of Thomas, 6th Lord Fairfax, the Baron of Cameron (1693-1781). Fairfax was heir to his grandfather Lord Culpeper's share of the Virginia Northern Neck proprietary, an inheritance that ultimately enabled...
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Vie de la Révérende Mère Saint-Augustin, Fondatrice Et Première Supérieure Générale: de la Congrégation Des Soeurs de Marie-Joseph Pour Les PrisonsAuthor: CollectifPublisher: Hachette Livre BnfPublished: 12/01/2020Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56dISBN: 9782329528915Language: FrenchThis title is not returnable
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Veterans of the Pisgah CemeteryPhotos and short descriptions of Veterans of all American Wars and Military Service Veterans who are buried in Pisgah Cemetery in Pottsville, Arkansas. These veterans include men and women who served in all Military Branches and were either killed in action or died by...
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Vencedor: The Story of a Great Yacht and an Unsung Herreshoff Hero in the Golden Age of YachtingA fascinating account not just of a racing sailboat storied for its exploits and victories, but of the man who built it: Danish-American naval engineer Thorvald Julius Schougaard Poekel. Vencedor would distinguish itself in a series of highly competitive races between the United States...
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Van Gogh and the End of NatureA groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh's profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is most often portrayed as the consummate painter of nature whose work gained its strength from his...
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Uncivilised: Ten Lies That Made the WestKnowledge is power. Time is money. Justice is blind. Western civilisation is a powerful brand, and full of accepted wisdoms like these that we rarely question. Taking cues from Greek philosophy and honed in the Enlightenment, certain notions about humanity and society grew into...
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Typhoid Mary: An Urban HistoricalFrom beloved chef and bestselling author Anthony Bourdain, the riveting true crime tale of deadly cook Mary Mallon-otherwise known as the infamous Typhoid Mary. A riveting true crime tale told by one of the most gripping food writers in history, Typhoid Mary is the...
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Titanic: Sinking The MythsThe Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of the first book to expose the TITANIC cover-up.In over 100 years there have been literally thousands of books written on the catastrophic maiden voyage of the RMS TITANIC. Even though the truth was known in 1912, questions, myths, and...
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Tir: The Story of the Welsh LandscapeA journey through the natural landscapes of Wales. In Tir--the Welsh word for "land"--writer and ecologist Carwyn Graves takes us on a tour of seven key characteristics of the Welsh landscape. He explores such elements as the ffridd, or mountain pasture, and the rhos,...
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This Close To GreatnessI still think of myself as a former athlete that writes, not a writer who once played ball. I never wanted to be the quarterback or running back, but wanted to touch the football on every play, liked being the offensive center and leading...
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The Zurich Origins of Reformed Covenant TheologyThis book offers a fresh interpretation of covenantal theology in the Reformation by demonstrating how the writings of the Zurich reformers Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) and his successor Heinrich Bullinger (1504-75) decisively shaped a foundation of the Reformed tradition. The book overturns previous research that...
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