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What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815-1845The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. Charged by Michigan's territorial governor with collecting information on Anishinaabe people, he soon...
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Weird But True!: Ripped from the Headlines: Real-Life Stories You Have to Read to BelieveHave you ever heard about about Boston's Great Molasses flood of 1919, in which 21 people drowned in molasses? Or the armless archer who used his feet to set a world record? These are just a few of the bizarre stories from history and...
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Ways of the Six-footedThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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WaukeeIn 1869, Gen. Lewis Addison Grant and Maj. William Ragan purchased the land around the Des Moines Valley Railroad bed owned by Cyrus W. Fisher in Walnut Township. A plat map was drawn, and Waukee began. The Des Moines Valley Railroad was completed in...
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Warrior Woman: The Story of Mo-CHI a Southern CheyenneAuthor: Linda WommackPublisher: Caxton PressPublished: 03/01/2024Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80dISBN: 9780870046520
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Walk With Me: A photographic journey throughout Italy.Author: Harry GiglioPublisher: Harry GiglioPublished: 05/08/2024Pages: 70Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 11.00w x 0.18dISBN: 9798869365026This title is not returnable
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern WorldHow can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission...
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Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar GermanyThe dramatic and consequential history of Germany's short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government....
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Us Battle Tanks 1917-1945A comprehensive and detailed illustrated examination of the development and combat performance of US battle tanks from World War I to the end of World War II. In this, the first of two highly illustrated volumes examining the complete history of US Army and...
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Unreasonable MenAs Michael Wolraich argues in his sharp, streamlined new book, Unreasonable Men, it was 'the greatest period of political change in American history.' -Washington Post, 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction At the turn of the twentieth century, the Republican Party stood at the brink...
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Un Amor Imposible: La Conmovedora Historia Real de Una Joven Jud?a Y Un Poeta de la Resistencia Francesa, En El Par?s Ocupado Por Los Nazis / Star CroVuelve la autora best seller de Las 999 mujeres de Auschwitz. La conmovedora historia real de una joven judía y un poeta de la Resistencia francesa, en el París ocupado por los nazis. París, 1940. En plena ocupación alemana, el arte, la cultura y...
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U-2 'Dragon Lady' Units 1955-90An illustrated account of the early service of the Lockheed U-2, one of the most important and longest-serving intelligence gathering platforms fielded by the US air force. The U-2 is one of the most recognizable aircraft of the Cold War; nicknamed the 'Dragon Lady'...
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Tácticas de combate: Un manual ilustradoEl libro m?s popular sobre t?cticas de infanter?a. M?s de 10.000 libros vendidos!Las t?cticas de combate son el arte de utilizar escuadras y pelotones de soldados en el combate. Estas t?cticas priorizan moverse detr?s de l?neas enemigas dejando pocas o ninguna huella mientras se...
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Turning Points: Forgotten Conflicts That Molded AmericaThis book, the third in a series on forgotten battles, challenges some of the most sacred myths taught in American schools. One is the concept that the US Constitution was conceived by idealists for the public good. New research, however, shows that most of...
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Trees and Other PoemsCONTENTS To My Mother TREES AND OTHER POEMS The Twelve-Forty-Five Pennies Trees Stars Old Poets .Author: Joyce KilmerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 10/09/2017Pages: 54Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11dISBN: 9781976246043This title is not returnable
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Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau"An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who aren't born into it." --R. E. BURRILLO, author of Behind the Bears Ears Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau--bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals...
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Three Times Chai: 54 Rabbis Tell Their Favorite StoriesFifty-four rabbis from all branches of Judaism tell their favorite stories.Author: Katz BeckerPublisher: Behrman House PublishingPublished: 07/16/2007Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.31dISBN: 9781681151700
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The Women of Now: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America"A clear blueprint for change . . . A must-read." --Clara Bingham, The GuardianThe history of NOW--its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission--told through the work of three members. In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary...
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The Uranium Club: Unearthing Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear ProgramTim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube. He recognized the mysterious object instantly--he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor...
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The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch MastersArriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting--casually at first, and then more and more obsessively--the country's great museums. Beyond the sainted Rembrandt--who harbored a startling darkness--and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was...
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