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Las Pirámides de EgiptoAuthor: Heidi NewbauerPublisher: Creative EducationPublished: 07/15/2024Pages: 24Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9798889891086Language: SpanishAudience: Ages 9-12
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L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in HollywoodL.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial "Coroner to the Stars," who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, and Natalie Wood. It blends Hollywood celebrity and death, Asian...
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La Construcci?n de la Feminidad B?blica: C?mo Se Convirti? La Subyugaci?n de Las Mujeres En Doctrina CristianaBeth Allison Barr, autora de éxitos de venta, revela que la comprensión convencional de los roles y expectativas de género, frecuentemente vinculada al concepto de "feminidad bíblica", no se originó en la Biblia misma, sino que evolucionó a partir de distintas circunstancias históricas.Este libro...
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La chute du l?opard: Sur les traces de MobutuAuthor: Michela WrongPublisher: Max Milo EditionsPublished: 06/12/2024Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.07h x 5.71w x 0.64dISBN: 9782315020768Language: FrenchThis title is not returnable
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Konečná zastávka: Slovensko!Book describes in Slovak language (with English captions under almost 500 photos) the history of the 15th USAAF over Slovakia. List of lost bombers and fighter planes, list of USAAF men KIA, WIA, POW, EVADED.Author: Peter Kassák, Marián HrodeghPublisher: Peter KassakPublished: 02/20/2017Pages: 284Binding Type:...
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Knowledge a Visual Compendium: Making Sense of Our WorldEver wondered how many moons there are in our solar system, or the number of Olympic sports, or who the 46 US presidents were? If so, this is the book for you! Leaf through the pages of this beautiful book and you'll find an...
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Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918)During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, where their stories and songs were recorded and archived by German linguists. In Knowing by Ear, Anette Hoffmann...
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Kicking Off Around the World: 55 Stories from When Soccer Met Politics'A tour-de-force that touches on how football is always mixed up with politics in every corner of the globe' Mehreen Khan, The Times and co-host of the Humans & Heroes football podcast 'Brings us closer to the overlooked aspects of football, the social and...
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Just Over the Line: Chester County and the Underground RailroadLocated just over the Mason-Dixon line dividing free and slave states, Chester County was an important and dangerous junction on the Underground Railroad's Eastern Line. Predominantly populated by the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, the county saw much debate and conflict brought about...
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Just in the Neck of Time(TM): The Second CompendiumThis work deals with the issues of disability, difficulties one experiences with disability, that being the physical inability and also intersocial problems that lend themselves to one's own lack of self-esteem caused by it among other things like young love and space travel in...
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Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information AgeCircuits from silk? Today's technophiles probably have no idea how much today's computer technology owes to the invention of one ingenuous textile manufacturer in nineteenth-century France. Here, master storyteller James Essinger shows through a series of remarkable and meticulously researched historical connections how the...
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I Was Sentenced to Be Shot: Autobiography of a Political ObjectorIn the words of author Max Sandin, "This is the story of my life, of my youth in Russia where I was born, went to cheder (school), and later in 1910 came to the United States where I was in 1918 sentenced to be...
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Inward Pilgrimage theDuring these times of growing interest in spiritual life, in personal prayer, and in meditation, many people are asking questions about the inner life. The Inward Pilgrimage opens the way for readers to discover the riches of sixteen spiritual classics that have brought new...
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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los AngelesInventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city's growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland,...
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In the Sanctity of the Snake Pit"In the Sanctity of the Snake Pit" discloses the tribulations of the Vietnam helicopter war, and provides deeply moving insight into the lives of those crewmen who routinely flew combat assault missions. Written in narrative non-fiction, the book reveals the rarely told account of...
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Intermediate Classical Aramaic: Book IIAuthor: Michael J. Bazzi, Rocco a. ErricoPublisher: Let in the Light PublishingPublished: 06/21/2017Pages: 102Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.21dISBN: 9781941464403Language: AramaicAbout the AuthorBazzi, Michael J.: - Fr. Michael Bazzi is a native Aramaic speaker. Professor Bazzi has taught the Aramaic Language...
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Imperialism: A StudyIn his Preface to the 1902 first edition of Imperialism: A Study, imperial critic J.A. Hobson demonstrates his prophetic talents by noting, just as the Victorian age was ending and World War I was brewing, that "Imperialism has been adopted as a more or...
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Idaho State ParksIdaho's state parks have been called the "jewels" of the Gem State. The story of how those jewels came to be involves political intrigue, much resistance, some philanthropy, and a touch of irony. Sen. Weldon B. Heyburn famously said that state parks were "always...
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How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban RevolutionIn How Things Fall Apart Elizabeth Dore reveals the decay of the Cuban political system through the lives of seven ordinary Cuban citizens. Born in the 1970s and 1980s, they recount how their lives changed over a tumultuous stretch of thirty-five years: first when...
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Hope by Terry FoxInside the mind of a Canadian icon -- the highs, lows, and miles he conquered Featuring excerpts from Terry's very own Marathon of Hope journal In 1976, when Terry Fox was just 18 years old, he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma and his right...
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