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Rhino in the House: The Story of Saving SamiaFrom the award-winning author of the bestselling Library Mouse series comes a biographical picture book about the true story of rhino champion Anna Merz and the black rhinoceros Samia. With a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Lewa Downs Conservancy, Rhino in...
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Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi GermanyAuthor: Moritz FöllmerPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 05/23/2024Pages: 326Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781108984775
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Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the CaribbeanFrom the New York Times Bestselling Author of Indian Summer During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis. While the United States and the Soviet Union acted out the world's tensions on Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, the...
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Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian SovereignReclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign examines the American, international, and Hawaiian representations of David La'amea Kamananakapu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua in English- and Hawaiian-language newspapers, books, travelogues, and other materials published during his reign as Hawai'i's mō'ī (sovereign) from 1874 to...
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Q-Birds: The Impact of American Manned Aircraft as DronesThis is an account of a fascinating but largely unknown aspect of post World War 2 US military aviation history, the conversion and use of former frontline aircraft to serve as remotely piloted drones. This story begins as far back as the 1920s, gains...
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"Protective Custody": A Family Imprisoned by the Japanese 1942 - 1945"Protective Custody" is the riveting account of a young family trapped in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II and imprisoned there for three years at Santo Tomas University. The author, an executive from an American pharmaceutical company, kept a secret journal,...
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Prehistory: The Making of the Human MindIn Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records-the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth-and gives an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and of how scholars and scientists labor...
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PoulsboPoulsbo is one of the earliest communities on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Founded in 1883, it quickly became the destination place for Scandinavian immigrants looking for a fjord-like setting where they could farm, fish, and flourish in a climate more user-friendly than either their homeland...
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PolioHere David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert...
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Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Archival Voices from 1785Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or similar acts in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own sexual histories. These remarkable documents, curated and translated into English by Jeffrey Merrick, allow us to...
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PigmentsA concise illustrated history of one of art's most important and elusive elements Over the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate, and instruct. Charred bone, ground earth, stones, bugs, and blood were the first pigments. New pigments were manufactured by simple processes...
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Paul Kane's Travels in Indigenous North America: Writings and Art, Life and TimesThis is a four-volume set with a slip case. Paul Kane has been called the founding father of Canadian art, and Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America a classic of Canadian literature. Yet his studio canvases are stereotypically generic, and...
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Paula Modersohn-BeckerThis exhibition catalog considers the work of a pioneering artist who subverted conventions in her bold depictions of the nude, self-portraits, and still-lives. An iconoclast in her own time, Modersohn-Becker is today considered an icon of modernity. Throughout her career, Paula Modersohn-Becker boldly experimented...
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Paradise Blues: Travels through American Environmental HistoryParadise Blues is an unconventional history of the United States of America, an unusual travel guide that follows and renders visible the country's paths of nature, history and civilisation. Christof Mauch is a leading German historian who has spent many years in the US...
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Ora Maritima: A Latin Story for BeginnersA graduated reader, describing Caesar's invasion of Britain through the eyes of a turn-of-the-century English schoolboy living on the Dover coast. Includes the author's preface, his short essay on teaching practices, and illustrations. Originally published in 1908. 58 pages.Author: Edward Adolf SonnenscheinPublisher: ContubernalesPublished: 06/24/2023Pages:...
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Oficio Parvo De Nuestra Señora La Santisima Virgen Maria, Segun El Breviario Romano...El Oficio Parvo es una colección de oraciones y salmos en honor a la Virgen María, según el Breviario Romano. Una obra devocional esencial para los católicos que buscan una conexión más profunda con la Madre de Dios.This work has been selected by scholars...
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Notes on a Shipwreck: A Story of Refugees, Borders, and HopeA moving firsthand account of migrant landings on the island of Lampedusa that gives voice to refugees, locals, and volunteers while also exploring a deeply personal father-son relationship. On the island of Lampedusa, the southernmost part of Italy, between Africa and Europe, Davide Enia...
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Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon CountryIn 1870 a twenty-six-year-old Paiute, Sarah Winnemucca, wrote to an army officer requesting that Paiutes be given a chance to settle and farm their ancestral land in Oregon Country. The eloquence of her letter was such that it made its way into Harper's Weekly....
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New Face In The MirrorThis 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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Nepal Jungle SafariWith this title, readers will go on safari in Nepal's jungles! This book covers how and where safari-goers can encounter several animals of Nepal. The title is complete with colorful images, simple text, and a list of exciting safari adventures. Aligned to Common Core...
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