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Georgia Farmers' Strike: The American Agricultural Movement vs. Jimmy CarterAuthor Lee Lancaster retraces the movement of a remarkable time in our nation's agricultural history. In 1976, America sent a peanut farmer from Plains to Washington, D.C. Farmers throughout the nation, especially in Georgia, had high hopes for President Jimmy Carter, but those dreams...
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George Washington and the Two-Term PrecedentOne of the earliest and most consequential presidential decisions in American history was George Washington's choice to step down after two terms in office, despite the fact that he would almost certainly have won a third term had he chosen to run. The example...
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Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American WarBased on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO(R) original mini-series. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of...
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General Maxims of Teaching: By Which to Regulate the Instructor's Practice in InstructionAmos Bronson Alcott, a transcendentalist philosopher and early American educator, first penned his 58 Maxims for Teaching in 1826. These collected words of wisdom and counsel guided his own educational techniques, and later informed his teaching practices at Boston's Temple School.Author: Amos Alcott, Applewood...
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[FULL COLOR] KOREAN CULTURE DICTIONARY - From Kimchi To K-Pop a\nd K-Drama Clichés. Everything About Korea Explained!Before reading this book, you probably had some moments of curiosity in your life where you questioned certain things about Korean culture. Why is there a Pepsi logo on the Korean flag? Why do Korean kids in my class only have like... three last...
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From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia's Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir PutinThe history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its center. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov show, however, that the real driver from early in the Russian Revolution was the Cheka-Russia's shape-shifting intelligence services. Wrapped in a brutal fight...
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From Prayer to Victory: God's Part in Desert StormFor Major General Randy West, From Prayer to Victory is a story that needs telling. It's about God and about the men and women who wear the uniform of and distinguish their service to our great nation. Gen. West served as the Aviation Combat...
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Frederick Jackson TurnerA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsFrederick Jackson Turner by Carl Becker. John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. Extracted from American Masters of Social Science edited by Howard W. Odum. Henry Holt and Company 1927.Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This...
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Four Zulu War Correspondents & Artists The Personal Experiences of the Campaign by Prior, Fripp, Forbes and Norris-NewmanPersonal experiences by the men who wrote and drew the news in Zululand, 1879Following the successful reception of William Howard Russell's reporting of the Crimean War in 1856, the newspapers and periodicals of the world routinely sent special correspondents into the field with armies...
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Fort Niagara: The British Occupation 1759-1796Fort Niagara is located at the northern mouth of the Niagara River about twelve miles from Niagara Falls. This scenic river and world-famous tourist area, which is now shared by the United States and Canada, was Iroquois territory in the 18th century being fought...
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For Now and Forever!: The 1992 Coup d'État Attempts in VenezuelaExcept for some small, but intense, military uprisings shortly after its beginning, what has been called "Venezuela's 40 years of democracy" (1958-1998) was marked by a level of stability that most of other Latin American countries were unable to enjoy at the time. Having...
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Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White OfficersSixteen months after the start of the American Civil War, the Federal government, having vastly underestimated the length and manpower demands of the war, began to recruit black soldiers. This revolutionary policy gave 180,000 free blacks and former slaves the opportunity to prove themselves...
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Footprints on Snow: Seven Brave Women Who Shaped the History of the Northwest MountainsFootprints on Snow tells the stories of seven women who were explorers, climbers, conservationists, and a fi re lookout during World War II, when lookouts watched both for fi res, and also for enemy planes. One woman wrote the first hiking guide book before...
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Five Little Peppers MidwayFive Little Peppers Midway is a classic children's book written by Margaret Sidney. It is the fourth book in the Five Little Peppers series and follows the adventures of the Pepper family as they navigate their way through life. The story takes place midway...
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Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's LifeFrom the acclaimed and best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat, the profoundly moving story of his father's wartime service as a night fighter pilot, and the prices he and his fellow soldiers paid for their acts of selfless, patriotic sacrifice In the fall of 1944,...
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Far from Suitable?: Haig, Gough and Passchendaele: A ReappraisalPasschendaele, until in recent decades eclipsed by the Somme, stood as the representative image of First World War frightfulness and futility. After the War, the memory of its frightfulness arose from the dissemination of traumatic personal experience; the tradition of futility largely from the...
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Far Away Places: Vice Admiral Charles Emery Rosendahl and the Navy's Airship ProgramFollowing the First World War, it was expected that the next war would be between Japan and the U.S. for control of the vast Pacific Ocean. Responsibility for conducting surveillance of the Pacific to detect attacks from Japan fell to the Navy. This was...
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Famine in Cork City: Famine Life at Cork Union WorkhouseOver one hundred and sixty years ago Ireland's Great Famine began. Within five years, some two and a half million people had died. Thousands fled to the hated workhouses, hoping desperately for some relief.Famine in Cork City sheds light on the horrific physical conditions...
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Facts are Facts - Original EditionInscribed upon the cross when Jesus was crucified were the Latin words "Jesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum." Pontius Pilate was the author of that famous inscription. Latin was Pontius Pilate's mother tongue. Authorities competent to translate and pass upon the correct translation into English agree...
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F-104 Starfighter: Lockheed's Sleek Cold War InterceptorLockheed developed the F-104 Starfighter in the late 1950s. The plane was designed to be an all-weather interceptor. Speed, climb, and altitude all were priorities, and the plane did turn out to be extraordinarily fast, but there were costs associated with that top speed:...
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