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by Christof Thoenes (Author)In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Santi (1483-1520) is one such star. The man we call simply Raphael has for centuries been hailed as a supreme Renaissance artist. For some, he even outstrips his equally famous, equally first-named, contemporaries, Leonardo and Michelangelo. From 1500 to 1508, Raphael worked throughout central Italy, particularly in Florence where h...

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Report copyright infringementby Sun Tzu (Author) Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 6 x 4 IN Publication Date: June 08, 2025

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by Robert Dobbin (Translator), C. D. N. Costa (Translator), Martin Hammond (Translator)A selection of writings from some of the most iconic Stoics to guide and inspire a more mindful perspective How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and inspiration from the three great Stoic philosophers - Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius - offer ancient wisdom on how to face life's adversities and live well in the world. Throughout history, some books hav...

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II - Paperback

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by Jacques Lusseyran (Author)The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when h...

What It Is Like to Go to War - Paperback

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by Karl Marlantes (Author)#3 on Amazon.com's 10 Best Books of 2011The New Yorker Favorite Books from 2011Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2011Barnes & Noble Best Nonfiction Books of 2011St. Louis Post Dispatch Favorite Books of 2011A Shelf Awareness Reviewer's Top Pick of 2011 One of the most important and highly-praised books of 2011, Karl Marlantes's What It Is Like to Go to War is set to become just as much of a classic as his epic novel Matterhorn. In What It Is Like to Go to War, Mar...

The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions - Hardcover

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by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Author)Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Sachs takes readers through a series of seven dist...

African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Eddie S. Glaude Jr (Author)Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic institutions, spaces for education, and sites for the cultivation of individuality and identities in the face of limited or non-existent freedom. In this Very Short Introduction, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. explores the history and circumstances of African American religion...

The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Morris Rossabi (Author)In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, and unleashing an unprecedented level of violence. But as Morris Rossabi reveals in this Very Short Introduction, within two generations of their bloody conquests, the Mongols evolved from conquerors and predators to wise rulers who devised policies to foster the economies...

Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics

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Report copyright infringementby Tirthankar Roy (Author)From the early twentieth century, a big part of the world--the arid tropics--began extracting, storing, and recycling vast quantities of water to sustain population growth and economic development. These regions worked on water to deal with seasonality, or the rotation between extreme aridity for a part of the year and a concentrated period of rain. The idea of storing water in the wet season to use it in the dry season was not a new one ...

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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Report copyright infringementby Ed Conway (Author)THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations and fed our ingenuity and our greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. Th...

The Secret of the Holy Face: The Devotion Destined to Save Society - Hardcover

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by Lawrence Daniel Carney (Author)From the creation of man to the current ecclesial infiltration and world revolution, the devil and his minions have sought to destroy the human race made in the image of God. No longer attacking from without, they are now secretly laying siege from within the Holy Roman Catholic Church. But why is God allowing this? He loves to see souls heroically battle for the faith. In the nineteenth century, Venerable Leo Dupont said that Communists would one day enslave...

Dark Horse: General Larry O. Spencer and His Journey from the Horseshoe to the Pentagon - Hardcover

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by Gen Larry O. Spencer Usaf (Ret ). (Author)Gen. Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret.), was born and raised on the Horseshoe--a tough inner-city street in southeast Washington D.C. Both parents lived in the rural south under Jim Crow and separate but equal laws. Spencer's father was a career Army soldier who lost his left hand during the Korean War, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, and worked two jobs. His mother completed tenth grade, had no driver's license, and was left alone during ...

The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz: A True Story Retold for Young Readers - Paperback

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by Jeremy Dronfield (Author)This powerful, moving middle grade adaptation of the adult international bestselling narrative nonfiction book The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz shines a light on the true story of two brothers who experienced the atrocities of the Holocaust in very different ways.Fritz Kleinmann was fourteen when the Nazis took over Vienna. Kurt, his little brother, was eight. Under Hitler's brutal regime, their Austrian-Jewish family of six was cruelly torn apart.Tak...

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Report copyright infringementby Jacob E. Butler (Author)It has been said that leadership is essential to the ability of any group or organization to achieve its collective goals. In the case of African Americans, political leadership has been at the center of a centuries-long collective struggle to improve their status as a disadvantaged group in the United States. Although much of the scholarly attention regarding this subject has focused on studying leaders at the national level, social and...

Whisk of the Red Broom: Stalin & Ukraine, 1928-1933

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Report copyright infringementby M. Andrew Holowchak (Author)Once Joseph Stalin took the lead of the Soviet Bolshevists after the death of Vladimir Lenin, he quickly turned away from Lenin's New Economic Policy, with its many concessions to capitalism, to a policy of one-country socialism, driven by his first Five Year Plan (1928) and a plan that other Bolsheviks like Lenin and Trotsky thought impossible. That shift, radical, forced Stalin to "urbanize" the USSR's vast rural areas-that is, to ...

Queer Moderns: Max Ewing's Jazz Age New York

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Report copyright infringementby Alice T. Friedman (Author)A richly illustrated history of the glittering world of queer artistic life in the 1920s and '30s In Queer Moderns, Alice Friedman tells the fascinating story of the queer avant-garde of the 1920s and '30s in New York, Paris, and Venice, as seen through the eyes of Max Ewing (1903-1934), a young musician, photographer, and man-about-town who, although virtually unknown today, moved in extraordinary circles. In his photographs and lette...

The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music

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Report copyright infringementby Roxanne de Bastion (Author)A story about a piano and its most prodigious player--and how they both survived one of the darkest periods in history. When her father died, singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only when she finds a cassette recording of her grandfather, Stephen, playing one of his compositions, that the true and almost unbelievable history of the piano, this man,...

Undaunted: Leadership Amid Growth and Adversity

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Report copyright infringementby Ed Zier (Author)On September 11, 2001, sixteen employees of Baseline Financial Services remained on the seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth floors of Two World Trade Center not knowing that a second plane targeting the towers was about to crash directly into their offices. Twelve would survive. These twelve would band together with all of Baseline's employees to heroically rebuild the business in the ensuing weeks while simultaneously mourning the loss of four ...

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Report copyright infringementby Maureen O'Prey (Author), Hugh Sisson (Foreword by)Throughout its rich and vibrant history, Baltimore has been known by a variety of names: Mobtown, the Land of Pleasant Living, or Charm City to name just a few. Perhaps "Beer Town" would have been more appropriate. Several pivotal events in Maryland's history involved the brewing industry. Baltimore brewers were vital to building the fledgling town into the bustling city it is today. These brewers established so...

Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies: Argentina and the Philippines in the 1990s

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Report copyright infringementby Kent Eaton (Author)As economic reform in developing countries has shifted from macroeconomic stabilization to liberalization, opportunities for legislators to influence the process and outcome of reform have increased and their role has become more important. This book focuses attention on differences in institutional structure, in political parties and electoral rules, to show how they create incentives that can explain the varying ways in which legislators re...

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Report copyright infringementby Yiannis Kokosalakis (Author)By placing the party grassroots at the centre of its focus, Building Socialism presents an original account of the formative first two decades of the Soviet system. Assembled in a large network of primary party organisations (PPO), the Bolshevik rank-and-file was an army of activists made up of ordinary people. While far removed from the levers of power, they were nevertheless charged with promoting the Party's programme of revolutio...

Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920

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Report copyright infringementby Henry M. McKiven (Author)In this study of Birmingham's iron and steel workers, Henry McKiven unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city's social and economic order. He also traces the links between the process of class formation and the practice of community building and neighborhood politics. According to McKiven, the white men who moved to Birmingham soon after its founding to take jobs as skilled iron work...

Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran - Paperback

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by Pamela Karimi (Author)Women, Art, Freedom offers an insightful look at the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran, sparked by the tragic murder of Jina Mahsa Amini at the hands of the "morality police" for violating hijab rules. Beyond its feminist undertones and the remarkable courage of the young protesters, what sets this uprising apart from previous ones is the abundant and diverse art it has inspired. This book, rather than merely analyzing the artworks that garnered attention on ...

Rail-Trails Mid-Atlantic: The Definitive Guide to Multiuse Trails in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia - Paperback

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by Rails-To-Trails Conservancy (Author)Explore 57 of the best rail-trails and other multiuse pathways in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. All across the country, unused railroad corridors have been converted into public multiuse trails. Level and accessible, these paths are ideal for a brisk fitness walk, bike ride, or stroll with the family. In Rail-Trails Mid-Atlantic, the experts from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy present the best of these routes, as well as...

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) - Hardcover

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by Min Jin Lee (Author)A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLU...

Psych 101: Psychology Facts, Basics, Statistics, Tests, and More! - Hardcover

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by Paul Kleinman (Author)A hands-on approach to exploring the human mind Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and experiments of psychology into tedious discourse that even Freud would want to repress. Psych 101 cuts out the boring details and statistics, and instead, gives you a lesson in psychology that keeps you engaged - and your synapses firing. From personality quizzes and the Rorschach Blot Test to B.F. Skinner and the stages of development, this primer for hu...

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Report copyright infringementby Barry I. Gold (Author)We're Overdosed looks at the history of opium and the drug's spread throughout the world. It traces the origin of morphine from opium, the subsequent synthesis of opioids, and the birth of the global pharmaceutical industry. From Barry I. Gold's point of view as a scientist, he offers thoughts about gaining control of prescription opioids through Federal legislation. With the tragic epidemic of deaths from overdose, chiefly from illicit so...

The Roots of the Federal Reserve: Tracing the Nephilim from Noah to the US Dollar

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Sanger (Author)By shedding light on what lies in the dark corners of history, this book reveals the spiritual landscape of the roots of the Federal Reserve. We embark on a journey through time where we trace deceptions across cultures and generations.Our voyage takes us back to the Days of Noah when the Nephilim roamed the earth. (These beings are referred to in the Old Testament as "giants" or "fallen ones.")By following known history, archeology and sym...

Extracting Development: Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia

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Report copyright infringementby Oliver Tappe (Editor), Simon Rowedder (Editor)Resource extraction is currently shaping Southeast Asian landscapes and people's lives to an unprecedented degree. This volume explores old and new resource frontiers, their effect on local economies and social relations, and questions of (contested) resource control and governance. Case studies from Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia, illustrate the predicament of globalized extractivism processes in the region,...

Commercial Intimacy: Affinity and the Marketplace

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Popp (Editor), Brenton Malin (Editor), Wendy A. Woloson (Editor)Explores how marketers have leveraged feelings of personal familiarity in modern consumer capitalism Our wired world connects us with corporations in ways that, just a generation ago, would have been hard to imagine. Marketers track users' habits down to the swipe and scroll; brand influencers reach out to followers in ever more personal ways. Yet, however much we may feel individually reco...

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Storr (Author)What can we learn from war, and warfare, in the twentieth century? What observations and deductions can we make, and what lessons can we draw? 'War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century' examines both a clearly delineated period in the past, and the century which offers us the most (and the most relevant) material to examine. Deliberately looking through the prism of strategy, operations and tactics, this book offers a surprisingly novel perspe...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria A. Greenfield (Author), Tobias Sytsma (Author), Amanda Kerrigan (Author)This report discusses methods of evaluating the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's impact on forced labor globally, presents findings on the department's efforts, and provides recommendations for strengthening enforcement. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.42 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2025