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Hawai'i's Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old HistoryIn the early 1800s thousands of American and European traders arrived in Hawai'i to lay in supplies for the long trip east or to take on Hawaiian sandalwood, which commanded a high price in China. In response to this developing global economy in the...
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HawaiiFrom learning about Native Hawaiian culture to visiting Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is full of adventures. This title introduces the state's people, culture, and places to visit. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include...
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Haunted Bars & Pubs of MichiganExplore the spirits of Michigan's watering holes From the picturesque shores of Manistique to the crystalline waters of Diamond Lake in Cassopolis, Michigan overflows with pubs and bars swirling with chilling legends. The decrepit ghost of Wattie Mullins welcomes visitors into Coonan's Irish Hub....
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Hamoodur Rahman Commission of Inquiry Into the 1971 India-Pakistan War, Supplementary ReportThe Hamoodur Rahman Commission was officially reconstituted in 1974 to interview returning prisoners, particularly senior officers, and issue a supplementary report to their original landmark document. The supplementary report makes fascinating reading, based on the Commissions in-depth interviews with these senior officials and officers...
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Haint Blues: Strange tales from the American SouthTake a road trip through the haunted backroads, bays, and bayous, of the American South on the search for the Lizard Man, a psychic horse, conjure doctors, ghosts, monsters, and ragged tales aplenty. Let's set sail with a ghost pirate crew doomed to forever...
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GuamGuam, in the North Pacific Ocean, is more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) west of San Francisco. This island has a fascinating past that goes back thousands of years, long before it was colonized by the Spanish in the 1600s. Readers will learn about...
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Grumman F-14 Tomcat End of the Line - Not the Legend: All Grumman F-14 Tomcats by Bureau Number and Disposition: An AccountingThe Grumman Corporation built 712 F-14 Tomcats, each bearing a story, along with the crews that flew them. The objective of this book was to locate the final disposition of all F-14s. The accounting covers those that crashed, which were scrapped, and those that...
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Grenada, Caribbean: The Spice of the CaribbeanGrenada, Caribbean. Known as "The Spice of the Caribbean," visitors will be enticed by the sweet scents of nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger and vanilla wafting on the balmy breeze. In fact, there are more spices in Grenada per square mile than anywhere else on the...
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Great BritainGreat Britain is a place where the past and present often seem to exist alongside each other--where medieval castles can be found a short drive from modern cities and where traditional British cuisine is sometimes served in the same restaurant as the latest culinary...
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Gray's Anatomy: Anatomy Descriptive and SurgicalThis leather-bound version of the original 1858 first edition of Gray's Anatomy is ideal for students and those with a keen interest in medicine. In 1858, Dr. Henry Gray published the first edition of what has become known as "the doctor's Bible," with assistance...
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Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles l'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L'Enfant--a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers--to design the new nation's capital. L'Enfant approached this task with unparalleled vigor...
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Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for GeorgiaGeorgia, the last of Britain's American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were not realized, and Georgia became a slave plantation society, following the Carolina model....
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Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for GeorgiaGeorgia, the last of Britain's American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were not realized, and Georgia became a slave plantation society, following the Carolina model....
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Good Blood, Second EditionWhen she was a child, her father said he had "good blood" and that is why he and his wife survived and healed from the Holocaust. The author searched for the meaning and significance of her father's words over two continents and through four...
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Giles County, Tennessee, Marriages 1818-1862Transcription of Giles County, Tennessee, Marriages, from microfilm of the original county records... primarily marriage bonds, licenses, ministers' returns, and marriage registers. Approximately 1100 individuals listed, including brides, grooms, and officials. Includes and index containing the names of each individual. Paperback, (1978), 2013, Index,...
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Ghosts of the South Carolina UpcountryWith a history that stretches back to the earliest years of America, it comes as little surprise that the Upstate region of South Carolina is home to many ghosts and to hundreds of intriguing legends. In Ghosts of the South Carolina Upcountry, librarian and...
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Germany: Development of a Dictatorship, 1918-45Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918-45 is a modern depth study that focuses on the origins of the Weimar Republic, the challenges it faced and to what extent it overcame them. The course also investigates why and how the Weimar Republic was dismantled by the...
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George Washington in the French & Indian WarWhen Washington set the world on fire... George Washington has frequently been criticized for his first military campaign, which sparked the French and Indian War. This backwoods campaign between British and French colonials eventually grew into the Seven Years' War, a global conflict between...
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From the Mid-1900s to the 2000s: Pablo Neruda to Toni MorrisonOver the course of his career, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was inspired by both romance and politics. The use of literature as a tool for social change is also apparent in the works of Toni Morrison, whose experiences as a Black woman in...
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From the Mid-1800s to the Late 1800s: Walt Whitman to Anton ChekhovFrom the American poet Walt Whitman to the Russian master of the short story Anton Chekhov, this volume brings together some of the best-loved writers of the 19th century. It covers novelists, poets, playwrights, critics, and writers, like Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde, who...
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