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How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. JournalismThis concise history of American journalism--including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and digital--introduces readers to the news media from the first colonial newspapers to today's news conglomerates and the rise of the digital media. Authors Ford Risley and Ashley Walter examine historical trends, including advocacy...
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Hitlerism: Die EndlösungEuropa and her progeny face alien immigration and environmental degradation. Godless materiality has displaced reverent piety. Faith is absent or fixed on Jewish chimeras. Science has morphed from a tool to understand the world to an infallible deity. Man, too, has morphed - into...
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History of the War of IndependenceThe sixth edition of this two-volume History of the War of Independence of the United States of America was originally published in 1837. Written by Carlo Botta, it was translated from the Italian by George Alexander Otis. Of the work when it was originally...
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Here Are My People: LGBT College Student Organizing in CaliforniaBeginning in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a new generation of LGBT students in California began to organize publicly on college and university campuses, inspired by contemporaneous social movements and informed by California's rich history of LGBT community formation and political engagement....
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Hā'ena: Through the Eyes of the AncestorsHā'ena is a land steeped in antiquity yet vibrantly beautiful today as any Hollywood fantasy of a tropical paradise. He 'āina momona, a rich and fertile land linked to the sea and the rising and setting sun, is a place of gods and goddesses:...
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Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-DiscoveryA poignant young adult graphic memoir that follows one teen's year abroad in Japan, as she seeks to reconcile both sides of her biracial identity. Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was...
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Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary WatersThe story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history--the blaze, the firefighters' battle, the human toll Gunflint Burning is a comprehensive account of the dramatic events around the Ham Lake fire of 2007, one of...
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Guide to American CultureSurrounded by an unfamiliar language, references and ideas, many students coming here to learn English along with newcomers hoping to start a new life in the United States find themselves quickly overwhelmed and bewildered. This book is their road map to an American culture...
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Great Plains HomesteadersGreat Plains Homesteaders tells the epic story of how millions of people, white and Black, women and men, young and old, and of many different religions, languages, and ethnic groups, moved to the Great Plains to claim land. Most were poor, so the government's...
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Germany's French Allies 1941-45A fully illustrated study of the Wehrmacht's French volunteer units and their actions on the Eastern Front and in North Africa during World War II. It is little known that, in late 1941, French volunteer units were among Wehrmacht troops defending Germany in the...
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GeorgiaFrom wildlife watching at Okefenokee Swamp to visiting museums in Atlanta, Georgia 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...
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Gaza's Struggle: A History of Israel-Hamas Relations"Gaza's Struggle: A History of Israel-Hamas Relations" offers a comprehensive exploration of the complex and enduring conflict between Israel and Hamas. This book delves into the historical, political, and human dimensions of the conflict, tracing its roots to the early 20th century and examining...
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Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil WarJ. Matthew Ward's Garden of Ruins serves as an insightful social and military history of Civil War-era Louisiana. Partially occupied by Union forces starting in the spring of 1862, the Confederate state experienced the initial attempts of the U.S. Army to create a comprehensive...
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From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of TampaSince its early days as a boomtown on the Florida frontier, Tampa has had a lively history rich with commerce, cuisine, and working-class communities. In From Saloons to Steak Houses, Andrew Huse takes readers on a journey into historic bars, theaters, gambling halls, soup...
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From a Name to a Number: A Holocaust Survivor's AutobiographyAlter Wiener's father was brutally murdered on September 11, 1939 by the German invaders of Poland. Alter was then a boy of 13. At the age of 15 he was deported to Blechhammer, a Forced Labor Camp for Jews, in Germany. He survived five...
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Framing Oak Cliff: A Visual Diary from a Dallas Neighborhood Volume 1In this stunning collection of black-and-white photographs, photographer Richard Doherty takes a deep visual dive into Oak Cliff, the southwest Dallas neighborhood where he has lived for the past four decades. Using a variety of film cameras, Doherty combines vivid, sweeping panoramic images on...
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For Us and for Our Salvation: 'Limited Atonement' in the Bible, Doctrine, History, and MinistryOften caricatured, so-called 'limited atonement' is the doctrine that Jesus came definitely to save those particular people given to him by his Father. In a clear and comprehensive overview, Lee Gatiss examines the biblical and doctrinal case for this controversial teaching, explores key moments...
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Forty-Four Years, the Life of a Hunter: Being Reminiscences of Meshach Browning, a Maryland Hunter and Trapper (Hardcover)Meshach Browning spent decades as a professional hunter and trapper of bears, boars and deer in rural Maryland during the early 1800s - this is his story, in his own words. Born in modest circumstances, Browning grew up at a time when the USA...
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Food in the Air and Space: The Surprising History of Food and Drink in the SkiesThis book explores the history of food in flight from hydrogen balloons to the space station: what was served, how and why; the problems with heating, cooling, and serving technology; logistics; overcoming cultural barriers; and the effect of altitude on our senses of taste...
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FM 23-40 Basic Field Manual Thompson Submachine Gun Caliber .45 M1928A1This is a modern reprint of the World War Two original book. It contains 80 pages of full color images and information on the Thompson Submachine Gun M1928A1. This is an exacting replica and has pages made to look old. You will not be...
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