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The China Race: Global Competition for Alternative World OrdersFollowing its two prequels, The China Order (2017) and The China Record (2023), this book analyzes the China Race, the global competition for power and leadership between the US-led West and the People's Republic of China. Considering the organizational options and optimality with respect...
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The Boy in the Picture: The Craigellachie Kid and the Driving of the Last SpikeEdward Mallandaine was there! To prove it he thrust himself into the historic photograph of the "Last Spike" being driven to mark the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Surrounded by the railway dignitaries of the time, his young face peers out amid their...
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The Birth of Caribbean CivilisationFor more than a century, Caribbean intellectuals have created a substantial body of work expressing their ideas about culture, identity and society in the region - ideas that have contributed to the development of a distinctive Caribbean civilisation. Many of them consciously contributed to...
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The Bill of Rights in Translation: What It Really MeansHow long is four score and seven years? Just what are unalienable rights? These translations make important historical documents meaningful. Each book translates the work of a primary source into a language you can understand.Author: Amie Jane LeavittPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 08/01/2016Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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The Art of Being Irish in Hell's Kitchen: A Memoir of the Organizing of the Irish Arts Center in New York City 1972-78Amid the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s-an era that included the Black Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland-young Irish Americans in New York began to question what it meant to be Irish in America. Led by...
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The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945A powerful work by the heralded writer, this collection is a touchstone event in German literature of the post-war era. On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to cloud cover. As it was...
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The Adept Initiate's Guide to Luxor Temple: Experiencing the Temple of Man Using the Esoteric Symbolist ApproachAuthor: AnyexteePublisher: Adept InitiatesPublished: 07/02/2024Pages: 162Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35dISBN: 9798988568209
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Ten Myths about IsraelThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--from "the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history" (New Statesman) The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state...
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Taming the Skies: A Celebration of Canadian FlightIt is a cruel irony of history that as we celebrate the centenary of flight on December 17, 2003, aviation is in a tailspin and airlines are disappearing in Canada. Yet flight itself remains one of humanity's most spectacular triumphs, and Canada especially has...
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Surviving War, Oceans Apart: Two Teenagers in Poland and Japan Destined for Life TogetherThis work takes readers to two countries ravaged by World War II, Poland and Japan, recounting the wartime experiences of teenagers Bogdan and Seiko. Bogdan's family abandoned its home in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and fled to Warsaw, where Bogdan fought for the Polish Home Army...
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Super Destroyers: From the Torpedo Boat Era to the Dominant Surface Warship of TodayFrom the very beginnings of torpedo craft, all naval powers have seen the occasional need for larger, more powerful or in other respects special designs that stand outside the contemporary norms for flotilla craft. The driving forces were often different from country to country...
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Summa (Quaestiones Ordinariae) Art. LXIII-LXVIITheologian and Scholastic philosopher Henry of Ghent (d. 1293) could arguably be considered the most significant thinker of the last quarter of the 13th century. His works remained influential well into the Renaissance.The critical edition of articles 63-67 of Henry's Quaestiones ordinariae (Summa) is...
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Sudden Deaths in Sports: 75 Athletes Lost Without WarningThis work recounts the lives and deaths of athletes who departed the world suddenly and without warning during their playing careers. From slugger Ed Delahanty's fatal plunge into the Niagara River in 1903 to the demise of Dwayne Haskins on a dark Florida highway...
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of BloodIn the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most...
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StonehengeAuthor: Matt LilleyPublisher: Creative EducationPublished: 07/15/2024Pages: 24Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9798889891123Language: SpanishAudience: Ages 9-12
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St. CharlesSince the settling of St. Charles as Les Petites Cotes (the little hills) by Louis Blanchette in 1769, the riverfront area has been important to the commercial and social growth of the city. Today it is a vibrant example of historic preservation. Yet, in...
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Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953Stalin's Final Films explores a neglected period in the history of Soviet cinema, breathing new life into a body of films long considered moribund as the pinnacle of Stalinism. While film censorship reached its apogee in this period and fewer films were made, film...
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Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost HoaxesThe latest from acclaimed author Gail Jarrow reveals how magicians--including Harry Houdini and his team of investigators--exposed fake mediums who exploited the vulnerable and gullible in the early twentieth century. After millions of people died during World War I and from the 1918 influenza...
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Silent Springs the Panther: Historic Accounts of Michigan Big Cat AttacksAuthor: Aaron J. VeselenakPublisher: Mission Point PressPublished: 06/19/2024Pages: 162Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.35dISBN: 9781961302471
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Signs and Wonders: Finding Deeper Significance in the Miracles of JesusAuthor: Paul Vincent TurnerPublisher: WestBow PressPublished: 06/03/2024Pages: 158Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9798385020034
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