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Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything - Paperback

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by Viktor E. Frankl (Author)Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man's Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience, and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity. Published he...

Gothic: An Illustrated History - Hardcover

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by Roger Luckhurst (Author)A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film The word Gothic conjures associations with the dark and melancholy, the weird and feared, and haunted places and people. In Gothic, Roger Luckhurst offers readers an unprecedented look at the ways this uncanny style has manifested itself through architecture, literature, film, art, video games, and more. From the works of Victor Hugo and E. T. A. Hof...

A History of the World in 500 Walks - Hardcover

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by Sarah Baxter (Author)This book covers a lot of ground! From geologic upheavals and mad kings to trade routes and saints' ways, this book relates the tales behind the top 500 walks that have shaped our society. It's easy to imagine traveling back in time as you read about convicts and conquistadores, silk traders and Buddhists who have hiked along routes for purposes as varied as the terrain they covered. From prehistory to the present day, take a grand tour of world events at eye-level per...

Tunnel, Smuggle, Collect: A Holocaust Boy - Paperback

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by Jeffrey N. Gingold (Author)A boy should never be forced to gather the dead or watch his family starve to death. Based on the hidden and illuminating video and audio recordings of interviews with the author's father and grandmother, Tunnel, Smuggle, Collect: A Holocaust Boy tells the true and tormenting story of a 7-year-old boy during the Holocaust. When Germany occupied Poland in 1939, he and his family were confined to the Warsaw Ghetto, along with 400,000 other Jews. Young Sam Gingold h...

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by DK (Author)How do magnets generate electricity? What is antimatter? Is time travel possible? Discover the answers to these and over 90 other big questions that explore the most important laws, theories, and breakthrough moments in our understanding of physics - from the earliest civilizations to the 21st century. The Physics Book comprises concise information and step-by-step diagrams that untangle knotty theories, memorable quotes, and witty illustrations that play with our understanding...

The Surfman's Daughter: Growing up in a Cape Cod village 1904-1929 - Paperback

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by Rebecca Locklear (Author)Missing piano keys, a "cold" fire, and chickens in the outhouse... Journey to Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1904 to meet Roxane Eldredge in this short-story biography. Spirited and inquisitive as a child, Roxane tries to be good, but gets into scrapes. From pranks to starting a house fire, things go awry. Yet she also exudes responsibility by trapping skunks and picking cranberries to help with family finances and by volunteering at the Chatham Naval Air Stat...

Archaeology on the Great Plains - Paperback

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by W. Raymond Wood (Editor)Stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to central Canada, North America's great interior grasslands were home to nomadic hunters and semisedentary farmers for almost 11,500 years before the arrival of Euro-American settlers. Pan-continental trade between these hunters and horticulturists helped make the lifeways of Plains Indians among the richest and most colorful of Native Americans. This volume is the first attempt to synthesize current knowledge on the cultural hist...

Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series - Paperback

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by Eliot Asinof (Author), Stephen Jay Gould (Introduction by)First published in 1963, Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic of a scandalous world series.The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!" Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to...

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes - Paperback

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by Dan Egan (Author)The Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blendin...

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by Nikki Giovanni (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator)Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed. Award-winning poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni's evocative text combines with Bryan Collier's striking cut-paper images to retell the story of this hi...

American History: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Paul S. Boyer (Author)In a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific developments that shaped our country. Here is a masterful picture o...

American Mercenary: The Riveting, High-Risk World of an Elite Seal Team Operator Turned Hired Gun - Hardcover

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by Daniel Corbett (Author)An elite Navy SEAL Team 6 operator trained to kill the United States' most dangerous enemies takes readers inside the unadulterated, morally complicated and riveting post-military adventures of a lethal American mercenary. In American Mercenary, Daniel Corbett takes readers on a wild ride through the unadulterated, morally ambiguous, and riveting world of being a hired gun. From Abu Dhabi to Washington, DC, Cairo to San Diego, Belgrade to places that must remain se...

A Tribute to the Prophet Muhammad - Paperback

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by Hakan Kosova Hakan Kosova (Editor)Dedicated to the memory of Islam's Prophet Muhammad on the occasion of his birthday, this book includes articles that discuss various aspects of the Prophet and Islam's fundamental concepts. Presented in this reference is the argument that it is time for both Muslims and non-Muslims to restore the image of Prophet Muhammad as a role model and father and to overcome the common prejudices associated with Islam's leader. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.3 x...

Leonardo. the Complete Drawings - Hardcover

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by Frank Zöllner (Author), Johannes Nathan (Author)One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous paintings, this scientist, artist, philosopher, inventor, builder, and mechanic epitomized the great flowering of human consciousness that marks his era. As part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, Leonardo da Vinci - The Graphic Work features top-quality reproductions of 663 of Leona...

New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America - Paperback

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by Colin G. Calloway (Author)The interactions between Indians and Europeans changed America--and both cultures.Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land and society. In New Worlds for All, Colin G. Calloway explores the unique and vibrant n...

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Paperback

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by Svetlana Alexievich (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - The Guardian - NPR - The Economist - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Kirkus Reviews For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of ...

The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by David M. Gwynn (Author)The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate the ancient Mediterranean. Led by her senatorial aristocracy, Republican armies defeated Carthage and the successor kingdoms of Alexander the Great, and brought the surrounding peoples to east and west into the Roman sphere. In this Very Short Introduction, David M. Gwynn...

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History - Paperback

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by Brian Kilmeade (Author), Don Yaeger (Author)When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt, with its economy and dignity under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary Coast routinely captured American merchant ships and held the sailors as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute payments far beyond what the new country could afford. For fifteen years, America had tried to work with the four Muslim powers (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco) driving the piracy...

A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps - Hardcover

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by Jeremy Black (Author)The first international history of railroads and railroad infrastructure told through stunningly reproduced maps. Since their origins in eighteenth-century England, railroads have spread across the globe, changing everything in their path, from where and how people grew and made things to where and how they lived and moved. Railroads rewrote not only world geography but also the history of maps and mapping. Today, the needs of train companies and their users continue t...

Banned Books: The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present - Hardcover

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by DK (Author)Immerse yourself in the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published! Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed "acceptable" in published works have shifted over the centuries, and from culture to culture. Banned Books explores why some of the world's most important literary classics and seminal non-fiction titles were once deemed too controversial for the public to read - whether f...

Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History - Paperback

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by Sarah Prager (Author), Sarah Papworth (Illustrator)One of Time Out's "LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month," this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the lives of fifty influential queer figures who have made a mark on every century of human existence. Rainbow Revolutionaries brings to life the vibrant histories of fifty pioneering LGBTQ+ people from around the world. Through Sarah Prager's (Queer,...

The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World - Paperback

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by Walter Rodney (Author), Robin D. G. Kelley (Editor), Jesse Benjamin (Editor)Renowned Pan-African and socialist theorist on the Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Wherever he was, Rodney was a lightning rod for working-class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparked Jam...

The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman - Hardcover

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by Nathan Hale (Author)New York Times Bestselling Series! "These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history." --New York Times Meet Underground Railroad abductor Harriet Tubman in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series! Araminta Ross was an enslaved woman born in Delaware. After years of backbreaking labor and the constant threat of being sold and separated from her family, she escaped north to fr...

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by Oakley Dean Baldwin (Author)This story explores my mother's first cousin three times removed, Ira "Bad Ira" Mullins and the Pound Gap Massacre. This story was handed down to my mother who enlightened me, as I have done with my children. This story is one of the wildest stories ever told to me as well as one of my absolute favorites. The Mullins families were early settlers to Letcher County, Kentucky, Wise County, Virginia, and parts of southern West Virginia.Author BiographyABOUT ME Oakle...

Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000 - Paperback

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by Peter Nabokov (Author), Vina Deloria (Foreword by)From the author of How the World Moves--the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American History In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' first encounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers to the challenges confr...

The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848 - Paperback

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by Niall Ferguson (Author)From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family's vast political network, which gave it access to and influence over many of the greatest statesmen of the age. And he tells a family...

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by Joseph Wambaugh (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A fascinating account of a double tragedy: one physical, the other psychological."--Truman Capote This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field. "A complex story of tragic proportions . . . more ambitious than In Cold Blood and equally compelling "--The New York Times "Once the action begins it is d...

The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse: A Memory of Vietnam

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Report copyright infringementby Vinh Nguyen (Author)An unconventional memoir of conjuring the uncertain past and a long-lost homeland, and a vital document of one family's journey through world history With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended, but the refugee crisis was only beginning. Among the millions of people who fled Vietnam by boat were Vinh Nguyen, along with his mother and siblings, and his father, who left separately and then mysteriously vanished. De...

The Struggle of a Black Child Continues - Paperback

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by Sinakhokonke Majola (Author), Sinakhkonke Majola (Author)Being black is who and what we are and we also proud of it, because we have overcome many obstacles we have faced as Africans. Today I want to share with you'll in details what it was like being black and how It is like in our generation and also share the changing [Lifestyles of Our People]. I wrote this book to illustrate how life is twisting twirls nowadays and as someone good in environmental scanning. I want to share my thought...

Lego(r) Jurassic World(tm) Complete Dinosauria: A Jurassic Explorer Field Guide - Hardcover

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by Ameet Sp Z O O (With)Learn all about LEGO(R) Jurassic World(TM) dinosaurs with this awesome Jurassic Explorer Field Guide!Who would have thought that the book with the most information about dinosaurs would be found accidentally in some bushes! This amazing Field Guide contains a compilation of notes and scientific research that takes you as close as possible to the awesome dinosaurs from LEGO(R) Jurassic World(TM). Big and small, aggressive and gentle, flying, running, swimming--learn abo...

The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest - Paperback

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by Mark Synnott (Author)***NPR Books We Love selection*** "If you're only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . . A riveting adventure."--OutsideShivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . . A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as "the Year Everest Broke." What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from ...

On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience - Hardcover

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by Michael D. Gordin (Author)Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience", typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under its umbrella-- astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind. But defining what makes these fields "pseudo" is a far more complex issue. It has proved impossible to come up with a simple criterion that enables us to ...