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Chief Petty Officer's Guide, Third Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Paul A. Kingsbury (Author) In this third edition of the Chief Petty Officer's Guide, author Paul Kingsbury offers the same caliber of wisdom and advice that has helped Chief Petty Officers (CPOs) succeed for decades. Fully revised, this edition features updates to every chapter as well as a broader context, scope, and audience. With the addition of guidance for Navy and Coast Guard chiefs of all experience levels, aspiring petty officers seeking advancement to ...

Covid Wars: America's Struggle Over Public Health and Personal Freedom

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald Gruner (Author)We Americans take pride in our American Exceptionalism.Yet the United States failed badly in its management of the COVID Pandemic. As Americans struggled over public health and personal freedom, the United States suffered more COVID deaths than during all its foreign wars, the largest employment loss since the Great Depression, and the greatest increase in national debt since the Second World War. No developed nation had a poorer record.Un...

Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933-51

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Report copyright infringementby Mattin Biglari (Author)Iran's nationalisation of oil in 1951 was a key catalyst for the rise of resource nationalism as an animating force of global decolonisation, expelling the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC, now known as BP) after nearly fifty years of domination in southwest Iran. Nationalising Oil & Knowledge in Iran turns attention to the origins of nationalisation in the everyday struggles between the oil company and subaltern actors in the city of ...

Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949

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Report copyright infringementby Wen-Hsin Yeh (Author)Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of Shanghai's modern history from the Opium War to the eve of the Communist takeover in 1949, Wen-hsin Yeh traces the evolution of a dazzling urban culture that became alternately isolated from and ...

Rhode Island Beer: Ocean State History on Tap

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Report copyright infringementby Ashleigh Bennett (Author), Kristie Martin (Author), Sean Larkin (Foreword by)Rhode Island may be the smallest state, but its brewing history packs a mighty punch. In the 1600s, Sergeant William Baulston opened up his public house in Providence, providing New Englanders with one of the first spots to imbibe homebrewed beer. Prohibition sank many operations, but Narragansett Brewery reemerged and continues to serve its signature lager. Today's growing number of c...

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel T. Williamson (Author)""Frank Gannett: A Biography"" is a detailed account of the life and career of Frank Ernest Gannett, an American media mogul who founded the Gannett Company. Written by Samuel T. Williamson, a renowned historian and professor, the book traces Gannett's journey from his humble beginnings in rural New York to his rise as a powerful figure in the media industry. The book explores Gannett's early career as a newspaper reporter and edito...

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Report copyright infringementby Angeliki E. Laiou (Author), Cecile Morrisson (Author)This is a concise survey of the economy of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Organised chronologically, the book addresses key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban economy, trade, monetary developments, and the role of the state and ideology. It provides a comprehensive overview of the economy with an emphasis on the economic ...

Mexicanos Como Yo: 50 Personajes Que Hacen de Este País Un Lugar Fantástico / Mexicans Like Me - Paperback

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by Ana Francisca Vega (Author) Sabías que vives en un país fuera de serie? Por si no lo habías notado, he aquí algunos datos que hacen de México un lugar mágico: Tiene pirámides y cenotes Su capital se construyó sobre el agua Siempre hay taquitos y mucha comida deliciosa Tiene animales que parecen de otro mundo! Además, la historia de México está repleta de personajes que han hecho cosas increíbles por nuestro país y el mundo. Mexicanos como yo es un homenaje a algunas de las personalidad...

Contemporary Japanese Architecture. 40th Ed. - Hardcover

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by Philip Jodidio (Author)Japan's contemporary architecture has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than eight Japanese architects have won the Pritzker Prize. Since Osaka World Expo '70 highlighted contemporary forms, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. Tadao Ando's geometry put Japanese building on the map, bridging East and West. After his concrete buildings, figures like Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, a...

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by Ulrike Becks-Malorny (Author)An Expressionist before the term was coined, James Ensor (1860-1949) was the classic insider-outsider enigma. He knew all the right art-world figures but loathed most of them. His style lurched from the Gothic fantastical to the Christian visionary. He was a cosmopolitan trailblazer of modernism, but lived reclusively in an attic room in the resort town of Ostend.For all his elusiveness, Ensor influenced generations of artists through his vivid often gruesome p...

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by Louna Lahti (Author), Peter Gössel (Editor)Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that characterized much contemporary European practice. Whether a church, a villa, a sauna, or a public library, Aalto's organic structures tended to replace plaster and steel with brick and woo...

US and Azerbaijani Oil in the Nineteenth Century: The Two Titans

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Report copyright infringementby Marius S. Vassiliou (Author), Mir-Yusif Mir-Babayev (Author)The nineteenth century was an exciting and dynamic era of rapid progress in industry and technology. One of the most vigorous of the new industries was petroleum. It first transformed the way people lit their houses, displacing whale oil and other substitutes, and then revolutionized the entire field of energy and helped create the modern world. During the nineteenth century, oil was overwhelmingly dom...

Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Fraser (Author)Americans have experienced a love-hate relationship with Wall Street for two hundred years. Long an object of suspicion, fear, and even revulsion, the Street eventually came to be seen as an alluring pathway to wealth and freedom. Steve Fraser tells the story of this remarkable transformation in a brilliant, masterfully written narrative filled with colorful tales of confidence men and aristocrats, Napoleonic financiers and reckless adventu...

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi - Paperback

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by Wright Thompson (Author)"The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the nuance and wallop of a finely wrought novel... The Barn describes not just the poison of silence and lies, but also the dignity of courage and truth." -- The Washington Post "The most brutal, layered, and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read...Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more im...

National Geographic Kids United States Atlas 7th Edition - Hardcover

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by National Geographic (Author)Discover and explore the U.S.A. in the fully updated seventh edition of this award-winning atlas, created especially for kids by the world-renowned National Geographic cartographers. Celebrate America's grandeur and diversity with more than 75 National Geographic maps, more than 350 color images, 50-plus attention-grabbing graphics, and more. Each state has its own detailed, easy-to-read map plus a brief essay, facts at a glance about population, state capital, ...

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a New Chapter by the Author - Paperback

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by Marc Levinson (Author)In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. But the contai...

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them - Paperback

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by Barbara F. Walter (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financial Times, The Times (UK), Esquire, Prospect (UK) A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States “I wish all the [January 6] committee members would read [How Civil Wars Sta...

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - Paperback

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by Nathaniel Philbrick (Author)"An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." --Los Angeles Times Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life. The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth to the legend of Custer's Last Stand. Bringing a wealth of new i...

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created - Paperback

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by Charles C. Mann (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world--from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. - "Fascinating...Lively...A convincing explanation of why our world is the way it is." --The New York Times Book Review Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered t...

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Report copyright infringementby John Wensveen (Author)Now in its 9th edition, Air Transportation: A Global Management Perspective by John G. Wensveen is a well-proven, accessible textbook that offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of air transport management.Author BiographyJohn Wensveen is Chief Innovation Officer at Nova Southeastern University and Executive Director of the Alan B. Levan NSU Broward Center of Innovation, responsible for overseeing a multimillion-dol...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Francis Adams (Author), Henry Adams (Author), Robert H. Elias (Preface by)Chapters of Erie is a classic account of ruthless business practices in nineteenth-century America--in particular, Jay Gould and James Fisk's successful effort to gain control of the Erie Railroad in 1868 and subsequent attempt to corner the American gold market, which resulted in the "Black Friday" panic of September 24, 1869.Seizing upon the opportunity provided by the scandals ...

An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000-1500

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Report copyright infringementby Steven A. Epstein (Author)This book examines the most important themes in European social and economic history from the beginning of growth around the year 1000 to the first wave of global exchange in the 1490s. These five hundred years witnessed the rise of economic systems, such as capitalism, and the social theories that would have a profound influence on the rest of the world over the next five centuries. The basic story, the human search for food, clothing...

Tipping: An American Social History of Gratuities

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Report copyright infringementby Kerry Segrave (Author) Though the history of tipping can be traced to the Middle Ages, the practice did not become widespread until the late 19th century. Initially, Americans reviled the custom, branding it un-American and undemocratic. The opposition gradually faded and tipping became an American institution. From its beginnings in Europe to its development as a quintessentially American trait, this work provides a social history of tipping customs and how th...

The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Richards (Author)A Stanford University Press classic.Back JacketThis provocative and theoretically sophisticated book reveals how capitalism produced and sustained a culture of its own in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. "Richards provides a valuable account of the interaction between cultural and business development in Victorian England by focusing on the evolution of advertising. Through an examination of five case studies, ranging from h...

Walking the Plank: A Year Aboard the Pirate Ship Whydah

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Kiesling (Author)Walking the Plank is the updated true adventure of a journalist learning to swim in our sea of fake news. It's about a year with treasure hunter Barry Clifford and his many discoveries of the 1717 pirate ship Whydah-a wreck that wasn't actually missing. it's also about a "Media Plan"-written by the president of Random House and two Wall Street moguls-that put Clifford on the cover of Parade as "The Man Who Found a $400 Million Pirate Tr...

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Report copyright infringementby Grenville Kleiser (Author)Containing a staggering 15,000 phrases that can be utilized in countless circumstances, 'Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases' is an instructive manual scribed by Grenville Kleiser. Categorized by subject matter, the book's meticulous arrangement ensures that the right phrase for every situation is immediately accessible. The book's inclusion of phrases concerning such diverse topics as education, social interactions, business, politics, an...

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Report copyright infringementby Tirthankar Roy (Editor), Giorgio Riello (Editor)Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions from leading scholars around the world, it delves into the economic histories of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas from the 16th to the 20th centuries. From the environment to The Great Divergence, finance, consumption, trade, industrialisation, commodities and labo...

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Report copyright infringementby R. Coase (Author), N. Wang (Author)How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China has taken over the past thirty five years in transforming itself from a closed agrarian socialist economy to an indomitable economic force in the international arena. The authors revitalise the debate around the rise of the Chinese economy through the use of primary sources, persuasively arguing that the reforms implemented by th...

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Report copyright infringementby William III E. Burgess (Author)"Battlefields to Boardrooms" invites you to follow William E. Burgess III as he transitions from a disciplined Marine to a leading corporate security expert. This practical guide helps you navigate new career paths and effectively apply your military or law enforcement skills in the corporate world.Through real-life experiences, actionable strategies, and valuable lessons, William shows you how to adapt to new work environments, b...

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Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Steven Street (Author)Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history-the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials-more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, includi...

What Every American Should Know about Who's Really Running the World: The People, Institutions, and Organizations That Control Our Future

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Rossi (Author)Most of us know the big players politically in the United States. But ever wonder who's pulling their strings? Who the movers and shakers are around the globe? In sharp, witty prose, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World spells out exactly who to watch and what they've done (and are still doing).Get the lowdown on: - Pfizer - Monsanto - Oprah Winfrey - WTO & IMF - Wal-Mart - Rupert Murdoch - Al Qae...