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Alcibiades the Schoolboy by Antonio Rocco: Introduced & Translated byThe book Alcibiades the Schoolboy was originally written in Italian, in 1630, and then translated into French by, perhaps, douard Cl der. Due to the expense of the English version--when found--I decided to translate it myself from French, my second language, into English, my...
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Susan B. Anthony: The Making of America #4In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her...
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The English Civil War: A Military HistorySir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his...
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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's ManifestoA 2019 NPR Staff PickA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? In This...
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4.5 Years: Memoir of a WW2 POW'It is criminal that such a significant and brave action by Scottish soldiers is not awarded its rightful place ' The Scottish Association of the Teachers of History'It is a prisoner's duty to try to escape 'The true story of a young Scottish soldier...
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Stalingrad Battle Atlas: Volume IThis is the New 2017 Revised Edition "Flames reached hundreds meters high, buildings collapsed and steel melted down: it seemed everything would be destroyed in this inferno, yet men kept on fighting."This depiction by Major-General Aleksandr Rodimtsev, 13th Guards Division Commander, refers to the...
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Not My Time to DieYolande Mukagasana is a Rwandan nurse and mother of three children who likes wearing jeans and designer glasses. She runs her own clinic in Nyamirambo and is planning a party for her wedding anniversary. But when genocide starts everything changes. Targeted because she's a...
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The Science of War: Sun Tzu's Art of War re-translated and re-consideredFor more than two thousand years strategists in China have followed a single, coherent system of military principles and teachings. In The Science of War, Christopher MacDonald tells how those principles and teachings first crystallized into the treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, how they...
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Behind the Red DoorA sexual revolution is underway in China. Traditional morals and behavior are being turned on their head as the country's climb towards economic prosperity brings sex into the open. But it is a revolution distinctly different from the one experienced in the West, and...
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Tales of Old Hong KongPirates, plagues, pistols and poisons; with adventure of all varieties, the third instalment of the popular 'Tales' series is a rollicking journey into colonial Hong Kong. A collection of historical odds and ends - stories, quotations, cartoons, postcards and drawings - recount in thrilling...
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Clear Light: The Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli"Although much of my work is architectural in character, I do not represent real spaces. Rather, my work has its origins in the spaces I have abandoned - the mood of Rome and the landscape of Texas - and the paintings are of spaces...
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The Tao of BusinessDiscover the ancient wisdom of Chinese Tao and how it applies to modern business with this fresh, uncomplicated guide. German Tao expert Ansgar Gerstner explains how to make use of the timeless principles of the Tao Te Ching, providing a unique insight to the...
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It Won't Be Long Now: The Diary of a Hong Kong Prisoner of WarJapan marched into the British colony of Hong Kong at the outbreak of the Pacific War on December 8, 1941. On the same day, Graham Heywood was captured by the invading Japanese near the border while carrying out duties for the Royal Observatory. He...
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Paul's Records: How a Refugee from the Vietnam War Found Success Selling Vinyl on the Streets of Hong KongAs a youth in Saigon's Chinatown of the 1960s and 70s, Paul Au was greatly affected by American 'hippie' culture and Rock & Roll. He was smuggled into Hong Kong in 1974 to escape the South Vietnamese military draft. At first living in rooftop...
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El Arte de la Guerra Aplicado a la EmpresaThe strategy of war, explained through metaphors and effective examples, makes El arte de la guerra one of the most vigorous applied psychology books ever written. This edition includes additional notes in each chapter that can be applied to the world of business. An...
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El Arte de la GuerraThe thinking of Chinese general Sun Tzu has influenced the work of Machiavelli and modeled the political ideas of Mao Tse Tung with these two perceptions: The whole art of war is based on a scam. The supreme art of war is to subdue...
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Aristocrats and Archaeologists: An Edwardian Journey on the NileA collection of letters in a small painted box passed down through three generations of a London family is the starting point for a vivid account of a three-month journey up and down the Nile in a bygone age. The letters, like a time...
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The Forster-Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight AngleThe English novelist E.M. Forster and the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy met when Forster was working for the Red Cross in Alexandria during the First World War. Their subsequent correspondence bears witness to a complex relationship and serves as a fascinating testament to Forster's...
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Caribbean Reasonings: The George Lamming Reader - The Aesthetics of DecolonisationGeorge Lamming is one of the best known, certainly one of the most highly regarded contemporary writers from the Caribbean. Spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing fiction, poetry and critical essays, Lamming's writing covers the length and breadth of Caribbean intellectual, cultural, political and...
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The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica 1770-1820This book is a study in the depth of a colonial 'plantation' during fifty critical years of slavery in the Caribbean. As the title suggests however, it is not concerned with slavery exclusively, but with a social entity of which slavery was a significant...
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