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Common SenseIn January of 1776 Thomas Paine published Common Sense; the book inflamed its readers and ignited the American Revolution. In truth the fires of dissent were already smoldering but Paine's impassioned writing gave focus to the many disparate voices and united a country. One...
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Colonial America: A History in DocumentsBy examining the lives of the colonists through their own words--in diaries, letters, sermons, newspaper columns, and poems--Colonial America: A History in Documents, Second Edition reveals how immigrants, despite their vast differences, laid the foundations for a new nation: the United States. One of...
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Code Name: Spike: The Dawn of the Cold War, CIA & U.S. Army Special ForcesCODE NAME: SPIKEDiscover the stunning true story of secret-agent Steven Bizic and the men of SPIKE team as they descend into darkness, landing amidst the turmoil of a nation torn apart by civil war and years of Nazi occupation. Facing the looming threat from...
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Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the MidwestHousewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town's restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyardIn 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio's outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A....
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City of Light: The Story of Fiber OpticsCity of Light tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network. Written for a broad audience by a journalist who has covered the field for twenty years, the book is a...
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Chinook Resilience: Heritage and Cultural Revitalization on the Lower Columbia RiverThe Chinook Indian Nation--whose ancestors lived along both shores of the lower Columbia River, as well as north and south along the Pacific coast at the river's mouth--continue to reside near traditional lands. Because of its nonrecognized status, the Chinook Indian Nation often faces...
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Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout HistoryMark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Salt and Cod, serves up a smorgasbord of food writing through the ages, from Plato to Louis Prima Choice Cuts offers more than two hundred mouth-watering selections, including Brillat-Savarin on chocolate; Waverley Root on truffles; M. F. K. Fish...
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Chicago's Historic Prairie AvenuePrairie Avenue evolved into Chicago's most exclusive residential street during the last three decades of the 19th century. The city's wealthiest citizens--Marshall Field, Philip Armour, and George Pullman--were soon joined by dozens of Chicago's business, social, and civic leaders, establishing a neighborhood that the...
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Chariots in Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Joost CrouwelThis volume of essays honours Joost Crouwel, a leading expert on wheeled transport in antiquity. The editors and contributors are internationally acclaimed specialists, who share their ideas, observations, and research by exploring the many facets associated with chariots: their equipment, horses and harnesses, cultural...
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Celtic Stencil DesignsWith great skill and flair, Dutch artist Co Spinhoven has translated the stirring imagery of traditional Celtic art into a collection of 130 exciting and versatile stencil designs. With them, graphic artists and craftspeople can bring to their work the distinctive beauty and drama...
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Celebrating Around the Table: Learning the Stories of Black Christians Through Readings, Fellowship, Food, and FaithExplore the Stories, Food, and Faith of Black Americans Your family is invited to learn more about the accomplishments and adversities of twelve noteworthy African American believers, including Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Freeman, Harriet Tubman, and some others you don't know but should. Each chapter...
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Camp SkippyIn 1922, my father was living on the family farm located on a bluff overlooking a river. He decided he wanted to build a camp to be used by himself, friends, and family. With an ax, hammer, and saw, he and his best friend...
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Bushido Explained: The Japanese Samurai Code: A New Interpretation for BeginnersThis seminal work by historian Alexander Bennett presents a broad overview of the Japanese "Way of the Warrior" as it is expressed in scores of classical Japanese texts written by famous Samurai themselves. Bennett's analysis of these writings shows that the essential meaning of...
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Brutalist Plants- Green vs grey, plants vs concrete: 175 images of Brutalist structures interrogated by natureBrutalist architecture is commonly associated with a cold, austere aesthetic. But architects have long found ways of incorporating greenery into their more brutal designs, creating a striking contrast between the...
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Brushy Bill: Proof That His Claim to be Billy The Kid Was a HoaxFor many years, a man known as Brushy Bill Roberts proclaimed to all who would listen that he was the historical and legendary Billy the Kid, alive and well. And there were various books written that claimed this to be true. As a result,...
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British Society and Its Three Crises: From 1970s Globalisation, to the Financial Crash of 2007-8 and the Onset of Brexit in 2016Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.This study demonstrates that Britain was afflicted by continual crises from the severe economic, social and political problems of the 1970s to the onset of Brexit in 2016. The term crisis...
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Breakout from Juno: First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings.On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not...
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Blowing Rock RevisitedVoted "the Prettiest Small Town in North Carolina" and often referred to as the Crown of the Blue Ridge, Blowing Rock is the highlight of the High Country. Named for a unique, natural feature itself, Blowing Rock has always represented a distinctive blend of...
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Beyond the GalleonsBeyond the Galleons by Isabel Cristina Legarda is a meditation on Filipino experiences of colonization, ancestral connection, alienation, and the ghosts that haunt people living in geographic or psychological diasporas. Isabel juxtaposes historic moments from the days of Spanish and American colonial rule with...
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Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in LVIVBetween the Wires tells for the first time the history of the Janowska camp in Lviv, Ukraine. Located in a city with the third-largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe, Janowska remains one of the least-known sites of the Holocaust, despite being one of the deadliest....
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