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Get Smarter. Be Amazed: A Compendium of Tantalizing Trivia and Obscure FactsPowerful Fuel for Igniting Interesting ConversationsAre you a lifelong learner? Would you like to add to your knowledge of music, cinema, sports and many other subjects? This entertaining book will provide you with fascinating information that you will eagerly share with your friends at...
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George Orwell and RussiaFor those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp - Russian Features Editor at the BBC World Service for over...
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Genesis of the Mormon CanonFor nearly two hundred years, there has been an active back-and-forth between LDS scholars defending their faith and critics of the Mormon canon, especially the Book of Mormon. These latter have included virulent anti-Mormons determined to protect Christianity from what they have deemed to...
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From Turtle Island to GazaWith a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabee writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared understanding of colonial pasts and presents.Author: David GroulxPublisher: Athabasca University PressPublished: 04/01/2020Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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From Barbycu to Barbecue: The Untold History of an American TraditionAn award-winning barbecue cook boldly asserts that barbecuing is a unique American tradition that was not imported. The origin story of barbecue is a popular topic with a ravenous audience, but commonly held understandings of barbecue are often plagued by half-truths and misconceptions. From...
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Freedom's CaptivesFreedom's Captives offers a compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific.Author: Yesenia BarraganPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 09/01/2022Pages: 346Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77dISBN: 9781108941051This title is not returnable
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François Boucher: Sociability, Mondanité and the Academy in the Age of Louis XVAuthor: Leda CosentinoPublisher: Mosaic PressPublished: 07/22/2021Pages: 360Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780993658839About the AuthorLeda Cosentino is the Curator of Sculpture at the Wallace Collection. Dr Christoph Martin Vogtherr was Director of the Wallace Collection from 2011 to 2016 and was previously Curator of Pictures pre-1800. In...
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Foundational Papers in Complexity Science: Volume IIFoundational Papers in Complexity Science maps the emergence of complex-systems science over the last century. This four-volume set unites, for the first time, dozens of articles published in a variety of academic journals in a timely reminder that complexity knows no disciplinary boundaries.Edited and...
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Foundational Papers in Complexity Science: Volume IIn four volumes, Foundational Papers in Complexity Science maps the development of complex-systems science through eighty-eight revolutionary works published across the twentieth century.Volume I spans the turbulent years from 1922 to 1962. Across several decades of war, runaway technological invention, and economic upheaval, complexity...
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Forgotten WarsExamines the origins, outbreak and early campaigns of the First World War in Central and Eastern Europe.Author: Wlodzimierz Borodziej, Maciej GórnyPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/08/2022Pages: 390Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80dISBN: 9781108940382This title is not returnable
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First LifeIn war, heroism isn't found only on the battlefield. For young Chrissy Finlay, growing up in Scotland during World War II means the loss of those dear to her, the constant threat of destruction and the call to live up to her fierce Highland...
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First lessons in beekeepingThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...
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Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: The Archaeology of Ancient Hawai'i, Revised EditionThe first edition of Feathered Gods and Fishhooks was the pioneering synthesis of ancient Hawaiian civilization from an archaeological perspective. This long-awaited revised edition now brings the field up to date, incorporating the results from hundreds of archaeological projects undertaken throughout the Hawaiian Islands...
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Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the US Navy#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock's masterful account of one of the biggest public corruption scandals in American history--exposing how a charismatic Malaysian defense contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers, defrauded the US Navy of at least $50 million, and jeopardized...
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Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family SecretsA New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in "a finely etched memoir with the powerful sweep of history" (David Grann, #1 bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon) "Fatherland maintains the momentum of the best mysteries and a...
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FairhopeFairhope, Alabama, was founded on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay in 1894 as a social experiment. The pioneers applied the single-tax principle and economic philosophy found in Henry George's 1879 book Progress and Poverty. The city of Fairhope was established in 1908 inside...
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Eyes on Amazonia: Transnational Perspectives on the Rubber Boom FrontierThe Amazon extends across nine countries, encompasses forty percent of South America, and hosts four European languages and more than three hundred Indigenous languages and cultures. Eyes on Amazonia is a fascinating exploration of how Latin American, European, and US intellectuals imagined and represented...
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Exvangelical and Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting BackA pioneer of the "exvangelical" movement examines how toxic right-wing beliefs took over American Christianity--and why people are leaving the church and speaking out against it With the rise of Trumpism, the American evangelical movement has more political influence than ever--yet at the same...
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Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi FrontierDuring the American Civil War, the western Trans-Mississippi frontier was host to harsh environmental conditions, irregular warfare, and intense racial tensions that created extraordinarily difficult conditions for both combatants and civilians. Matthew M. Stith's Extreme Civil War focuses on Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Indian...
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Every Now and Then: The Amazing Stories of Douglas County Volume IIIn this book you will find another set of true tales researched and written by Lisa Land Cooper covering Douglas County, Georgia's people, places, and important events from the 1820s through the 1970s. This book includes a bit of Native American history, old Campbell...
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