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A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business--from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and...

1944. The Allies prepare for the largest military operation of World War II: the invasion of Normandy. Two German armies stand ready to hurl them back into the sea. As D-Day approaches, the balance of power in Europe teeters on a knife's edge.After undergoing...

Keep track of your deadlines, special occasions, habits, and moods with this 12-month planner. The calendar's cover design depicts Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader, and is an officially licensed image based on limited-edition artwork Obi-Wan KenobiTM - Darkness Has Arrived by Thomas Kinkade Studios....

"Fate may indeed have had plans for me, but in my opinion, destiny is an option."Assigned the task of solving a string of brutal murders, Detective Braydon James is in over his head. Thwarted at every turn, Brayden enlists Alayna Sage, a gifted psychic,...

The first high-end volume published on the traditional costumes of Saudi Arabia, with authentic and previously unpublished artworks and documentation from the acclaimed Darat Safeya Binzagr collection. Considered the "founding mother" of Saudi Arabia's fine art movement, Safeya Binzagr has forged a precious and...

Celebrate five years of Matt Tavares's holiday classic with a beautifully designed gift set featuring four press-out keepsakes. Dasher is an adventurous young reindeer with a wish in her heart and whose life is forever changed when she meets a man in a red...

In a world where every interaction and transaction leave a digital footprint, our personal data has become the new currency. But who really benefits from this wealth of information? Join the data independence movement and reclaim your data power. Your data, your rules, your...

Great data presentations tell a story. Learn how to organize, visualize, and present data using Python, generative AI, and the cutting-edge Altair data visualization toolkit. Take the fast track to amazing data presentations! Data Storytelling with Altair and AI introduces a stack of useful...

In ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ramesses the Great, sixteen-year-old Sati wants nothing more than to follow in her father's footsteps and join the royal military.But everyone knows women can't be soldiers.When mysterious forces threaten her family, Sati makes an impossible choice and...

Explore the dark side of Davidson County's past.After killing his brother-in-law in 1904, wealthy businessman Henry Clay Grubb of the Churchland community was himself killed in 1913. In 1918 an adulterous affair led Graham Hege to kill his best friend, Frank Deaderick. Though most...

The author of the "moving head-spinner of a novel" (John Connolly) The Other Side of Night returns with a taut thriller following a desperate single father as he searches for the anonymous employer who hired him as a hitman.Peyton Collard was a good man...

There's something sinister about Drumdalloch Woods in the Black Isle near Inverness. It is a place of tangled growth and shadowy darkness, it has business opportunists, biological scientists and conflicted family members all competing for a say in its future. Then a body is...

In the words of Lee Child on Gone to Dust, "I want more of Nils Shapiro." New York Times-bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt Goldman happily obliges by bringing the Minneapolis private detective back for another thrilling, standalone adventure in Dead West. Nils Shapiro...

When Pushcart Publisher Bill Henderson entered his 80's, he was blessed with identical twin grandsons. As they grew older, he began thinking about what he wanted to say to them after he was gone, and they came of age. Influenced by the letters of...

RosieI was eight when Nathan moved away.He was my best friend.My only friend.My safe space.And then he was gone. And my existence became hell.But I survived.I broke free and made a life for myself.And I tried to forget about the boy who grew up...

'Thisseriesisamust-readforanyonewholovesthesea, or islands, or joyous, intricate story-telling.' ANN CLEEVES Days before the final Shetland fire festival, in broad daylight, a glamorous young singer tumbles down a flight of steps. Though it seems a tragic accident, sailing sleuth Cass Lynch, a witness at the scene,...

The Road Beckons - Pantheon Calls - Hope GrowsLives endangered by colleagues they once trusted, a pair of mercenaries hit the road in an attempt to earn respect and coin.Lost messages and growing heresy threaten to collapse a holy order of Paladins while a...

How have prospects for abolishing the death penalty changed since the 1972 Supreme Court decision, Furman v Georgia? The editor and contributors to Death Penalty in Decline? assess the contemporary death penalty landscape and look at the trends in and attitudes toward capital punishment...

In 2020, for the first time in history, the world's debt as a percentage of its gross domestic product exceeded 100%. Although it has come down slightly since then, there are concerns about where the next debt crisis will happen, given that Pakistan and...

Author: Wan Fairos Wan YaacobPublisher: SpringerPublished: 10/27/2024Pages: 381Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94dISBN: 9789819734498About the AuthorWAN FAIROS WAN YAACOB is an associate professor at Mathematical Sciences Studies, College of Computing, Informatics and Mathematics, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. She is currently...