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The Art of Suffering: Capturing the Brutal Beauty of Road Cycling with Foreword by Wout Van AertWhat does it take to become a road racing legend and compete in the toughest sport in the world? Go behind the scenes with the teams and riders at all the major tours and classics through the lens of world-class pro-cycling photographer, Kristof Ramon....
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The Armies and Enemies of Imperial RomeThe Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome spans the period from 150 BC to 600 AD and describes the forces of the later Roman Republic and the Byzantine wars as well as the armies of the heyday of the Roman Empire. Coverage of Rome's...
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The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens: Public Buildings and MemorialsAuthor: A. S. G. ButlerPublisher: Acc Art BooksPublished: 04/30/2024Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 6.65lbsSize: 14.35h x 12.10w x 1.30dISBN: 9781788842501
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The Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Spot the MythsIn July 1969, astronauts on the Apollo 11 spacecraft became the first people to land on the moon. Since then, people have told stories about the historic event. Did an unmanned Soviet spacecraft crash into the moon while the Apollo astronauts were on it?...
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The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the WorldA sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond post-Civil War America to tell the story of how Union victory and Lincoln's assassination...
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Texas Ranger Tales: Hard-Riding Stories from the Lone Star StateThey were men who could not be stampeded, said the late Colonel Homer Garrison Jr. of the men who wore the badge of the Texas Rangers. Colonist Stephen F. Austin, during the earliest days of Anglo settlement in Texas, wrote that he would employ...
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Tarot de Marseille: Paris 1890: Anima AntiquaThis unique piece belongs to the tradition of Tarot de Besançon-- from the name of the French town where these kinds of cards were originally printed. Produced by Baptiste-Paul Grimaud between 1891 and 1899, this deck curiously substitutes the Arcana of the High Priestess...
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Surviving Stupid: A Comical Look at Growing up in Rural ManitobaWhat doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and as kids we thought we were invulnerable, unbeatable, immortal. We did so many crazy and dangerous things that could have-should have-killed us, all in the name of entertainment. Somehow, we survived.Surviving Stupid strings together a series...
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Summer Cottage Communities: Chautauquas, Camp Meetings and Spiritualist CampsSummer at the Cottage By the 1890s, a newly rising middle class found itself having time, money, and access to begin taking vacations. Church denominations began creating summer cottage communities that combined natural settings and intellectual and spiritual pursuits. The first communities were the...
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Sub-Human: A 21st-Century Ethic; On Animals, Collective Liberation, and Us AllSub-Human delves into what it means to be an animal, how our view of other animals impacts our view of other people, oppressions, and the planet, how we got here, as well as how we can move forward together. When we accept oppression of...
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StillwaterStillwater has been known across the nation as the place "where Oklahoma began." From the boomer camps to the Land Run of 1889, the city has a rich, vibrant history. The tenacity of its residents, though, is the reason Stillwater survived. While towns like...
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Spectrum 1: The First Annual Collection of the Best in Contemporary Fantastic ArtAuthor: Arnie FennerPublisher: Underwood BooksPublished: 10/29/2003Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.47dISBN: 9781887424455
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South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil WarIn July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as Special Representative of the...
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Soldiers & Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical AntiquityA major new history of battle in the ancient world, from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle...
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Slavic Ancient Origins: Stories of People & CivilizationA brand new beautiful edition. Discover the ancient roots of the people from Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, Croatia and the many Slavic nations in Eastern Europe today. The ancient roots of the Slavs can be traced through language and archeology to the time of...
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Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic WorldSlave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While...
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Silk Road CThe Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from...
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Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave TradeHistorian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and...
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Secret Tactics: Lessons from the Great Japanese Martial Arts MastersSecret Tactics offers ancient wisdom for contemporary readers--with new interpretations of Japanese martial arts classics In the tradition of Musashi, Kazumi Tabata, one of America's most experienced teachers of karate, distills invaluable lessons drawn from the most influential martial arts texts in Japanese history....
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Secret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past"A cornucopia of our weirdest and most wonderful archaeological sites and artefacts. They make you feel proud to be a citizen of these gloriously intriguing isles." Sir Tony Robinson An Ice Age cannibal's skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, a seventeenth century witch...
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