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Jamestown: Architecture, Landscape, and the Making of a Rhode Island Paradise

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Report copyright infringementby John R. Tschirch (Author)A highly visual and new study of the rustic and whimsical shingled houses of Jamestown, Rhode Island from the colonial era to the development of the town as a picturesque report set in a coastal landscape.Jamestown, Rhode Island, set in the shimmering waters at the entrance to Narragansett Bay, is marked by cliffs and fields looking out to the sea- a vision of paradise, a place of natural abundance and scenic beauty. For centuries, buil...

Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History - Hardcover

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by Bill O'Reilly (Author), Martin Dugard (Author)The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018) Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the next installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Na...

My Little Golden Book about the Statue of Liberty - Hardcover

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by Jen Arena (Author), Viviana Garofoli (Illustrator)Now the littlest readers can learn about how the Statue of Liberty came to be--and what it means to people all over the world. In this engaging book, preschoolers will learn the fascinating story behind the creation of the Statue of Liberty. Simple words and bright artwork bring to life the story of the people--a professor, a sculptor, a poet, a newspaperman--who helped establish this famous landmark. Little ones will learn that the torch w...

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Kaplan (Author)Drawing on the latest archaeological research, a brief and comprehensive guide to the ancient Ethiopian world. Ethiopia has captured the imagination of observers since ancient times. This book provides a fresh perspective on Ethiopian history up to 1500, beginning with the Aksumite civilization at the start of the Common Era. It revisits famous stories like the legend of the Queen of Sheba, examines the rise and fall of Aksum, explores th...

The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History

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Report copyright infringementby Laurence Rees (Author)From an award-winning historian, a "compelling and frankly terrifying" (Telegraph) analysis of the rise of Nazi extremism, how such thinking gained popularity, and why it is vital to fight burgeoning extremist movements today How could the SS have committed the crimes they did? How were the killers who shot Jews at close quarters able to perpetrate this horror? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly--and often enth...

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by Dk (Author)Become an eyewitness to the world of Nordic raiders and traders and learn all about the culture and history of Vikings.This picture-led guide will take you on a visual tour of the history and culture of these daring Norse adventurers. Children can learn all about the Vikings' incredible ships and conquests, as well as their intriguing culture, religions, and home life. Throughout the pages of this children's guide to Vikings, you can expect to find: - A fresh new look; new photo...

The Kapalikas and Kalamukhas: Two Lost Saivite Sects - Hardcover

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by David Lorenzen (Author)This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972. Number of Pages: 228 Dimensions: 0.69 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Dat...

Lonely Planet Kids America's National Parks Activity Book - Paperback

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by Lonely Planet (Author)Say goodbye to boredom with this awesome US National Parks activity book that's packed with word games, drawing challenges, and brain-busting facts like you wouldn't believe. Perfect for a rainy day or a long-distance vacation, kids will also discover super-cool secrets and epic knowledge about America's wildest spaces. Come and explore!From deciphering head-scratching word scrambles about Nevada's Great Basin National Park, to searching for hidden turtles, jellyfish ...

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by St Augustine (Author), Marcus Dods (Translator)16 centuries ago, the greatest empire the world had ever seen, The Roman Empire, symbolically, with the sack of its capitol, the eternal city of Rome, died. It was the end of 1,000 years of civilization by the hands of barbarian hordes from Germania. Many Romans argued at the time that the Empire was crumbling because the ancient gods had been displaced by the now official-and dominant-Christian faith. The City of God is a rebuttal of this bel...

Churchill: Walking with Destiny - Paperback

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by Andrew Roberts (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of The Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of 2018One of The Economist's Best Books of 2018One of The New York Times's Notable Books of 2018 "Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britain's savior." --Wall Street Journal In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based o...

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series - Paperback

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by Barbara W. Tuchman (Author)The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with "a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish" (The New York Times)--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." In The Proud Tower, Barbar...

Shipwreck in Oman: A journal of the travels and sufferings of Daniel Saunders, Jun - Paperback

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by Ibn Al Hamra (Compiled by), Daniel Saunders (Author)DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE, BUT TRUE, STORY OF SURVIVAL AND ADVENTURE OF AN 18TH CENTURY AMERICAN SHIPWRECKED IN THE DESERTS OF ARABIA.IN 1791, SAILOR DANIEL SAUNDERS SET SAIL FROM SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS - IN THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Like many from Salem, he was seeking riches and perhaps renown on perilous trade routes to the East. But his voyage ended in catastrophe when his ship was wrecked on the desert coast of Oman...

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by Max Amato (Author), Brendan McAuliffe (Author)A romping, rhyming, onomatopoeic tale of Terri the Triceratops and the world of dinosaurs! Terri the Triceratops's world is full of strange sounds, from crawling critters and shaking trees to scorching volcanoes and stormy seas. As she embarks on a journey through the Late Cretaceous Period, what will she discover? Who will she meet? What will she hear? And will she find her own voice in the face of danger along the way?A delightful, immersive ...

A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche - Paperback

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by Jennifer Woodlief (Author)This "mesmerizing tale of human courage and heroism" (Nando Parrado, author of Miracle in the Andes) follows the astonishing ordeal of survival during an avalanche in California. In 1982, at the Alpine Meadows ski resort near Lake Tahoe, an unforeseeable confluence of natural events created the conditions for an unimaginable disaster. Millions of tons of snow flowed into the ski area and parking lot beyond, engulfing unsuspecting vacationers out for a walk as wel...

Japanese Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization - Hardcover

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by Jake Leigh-Howarth (Introduction by), J. K. Jackson (Editor)Beautiful edition, and companion to Japanese Myths & Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Japanese state, society and culture. A gorgeous Collector's Edition covering the history of Japan from prehistoric times to the end of the Heian period. Japan has gripped the imagination of readers of their spiritual and delicate myths, ghost stories and folktales for many generations but there is much more to draw our fascination. F...

Welcome to the Opera: Discover the Enchanting World of Opera with Mozart's the Magic Flute - Hardcover

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by Carolyn Sloan (Author), Kaly Quarles (Illustrator)From the author of Welcome to the Symphony and Welcome to Jazz, this musical picture book introduces children to opera with 12 sound interactive buttons and an illustrated performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Join three adorable dogs for a performance of Mozart's beloved masterpiece The Magic Flute in this illustrated introduction to opera--with 12 sound buttons! As the story unfolds readers learn about the essential parts of opera--vo...

What Happened to Catholicism: The Heresy Behind the Current Crisis - Paperback

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by Kennedy Hall (Author)It is clear that since the Second Vatican Council the Church has been plagued with a terrible doctrinal and liturgical confusion that has contributed to the worst crisis in the Church since the Arian crisis.Most Catholics of good will with orthodox faith can 'sense' the errors but perhaps cannot put into words what they know to be true by sound Catholic intuition. This book will help clarify the problem so that Catholics can form themselves and their families to withst...

Live Like a Hunter Gatherer: Discovering the Secrets of the Stone Age - Hardcover

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by Naomi Walmsley (Author), Mia Underwood (Illustrator)Live Like a Hunter Gatherer is an informative and immersive guide to theStone Age, written by a real-life hunter gatherer!If you imagined that all Stone Age people lived in caves, were not veryclever, not very clean and said "Ugg" a lot, then think again. Marking thestart of all human history, the Stone Age lasted around 3.5 million years (thelast part of that was only 71 grandparents ago!). Delve into that incredibletime with this book p...

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by Beth Waters (Author), Beth Waters (Illustrator)Norman John Gillies was one of the last children ever born on St Kilda, five years before the whole population was evacuated forever to the British mainland. People had lived on these islands for over four thousand years, developing a thriving, tightly-knit society that knew nothing of crime or money, and took care of its weakest members without hesitation. At the mercy of the seasons and the elements, a unique lifestyle evolved, based around ...

The Story of the Blackfoot People: Niitsitapiisinni - Paperback

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by The Glenbow Museum (Author) For the first time in history, the Blackfoot people share their culture, beliefs and traditions with the rest of the world. In an innovative partnership with the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, a team of elders and spiritual leaders from the Blackfoot community agreed to share their history, traditions and artifacts in an effort to document their lives. The Story of the Blackfoot People: Niitsitapiisinni is the first piece of permanent documentation written...

The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America - Paperback

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by Russell Shorto (Author)In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear i...

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Paperback

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by Erik Larson (Author)Erik Larson, author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their deaths. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction. Number of Pages: 689 Dimensions: 1.4 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: February 26, 2013 Large ...

Nasb, MacArthur Study Bible, 2nd Edition, Leathersoft, Black, Comfort Print: Unleashing God's Truth One Verse at a Time - Imitation Leather

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by John F. MacArthur (Editor), Thomas Nelson (Author)Dr. John MacArthur's exhaustive study notes provide access to over 50 years of ministry to aid in a better understanding of God's word.Over 2 million readers around the world have had their spiritual lives enriched and their understanding of God's Word expanded by The MacArthur Study Bible. Drawing on more than fifty years of dedicated pastoral and scholarly work, Dr. John MacArthur's verse-by-verse study notes, book introductions, and arti...

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by Charles Dickens (Author), Nicola Bradbury (Introduction by), Terry Eagleton (Preface by)Author BiographyCharles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812. He is the author of such Classics as Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield. In later works, such as Bleak House and Little Dorrit, Dickens's social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage. His last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was never completed and he died on 9...

Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution - Paperback

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by Kathleen Duval (Author)A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award - Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey History Prize - Finalist for the George Washington Book Prize Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the ...

Waterhole Economies: The Only Economies That Never Collapsed

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Layne (Author), Sherry Wang (Designed by)Pre-agriculture hunter-gatherer economies were waterhole economies, and were the only human economies that never collapsed.Ninety-seven percent of the time Homo sapiens lived on Earth, or until about 12,000 years ago, all peoples were foragers of wild food, living a type of subsistence lifestyle in economies that relied on hunting and fishing animals, foraging for wild vegetation and other nutrients, and convergin...

Man's Search for Meaning: Gift Edition - Hardcover

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by Viktor E. Frankl (Author), Harold S. Kushner (Foreword by), William J. Winslade (Afterword by)The bestselling Holocaust memoir about finding purpose and strength in times of despair--selected as a Library of Congress "10 Most Influential Books in America" This stunning gift edition of "one of the great books of our time" (Harold S. Kushner) features new photos, end papers, and Frankl's never-before-published speeches and letters. Hailed as "an enduring work of survival literature" by the ...

The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World - Paperback

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by Anton Treuer (Author)The traditional practices of one Ojibwe family, carried out through the seasons of the year and across the seasons of life, demonstrating the enduring power of culture and identity. Today's Ojibwe people have maintained a dazzling array of deep, beautiful, adaptive ways of connecting to the spiritual, natural, and human beings around them. Variations in Ojibwe cultural practices are, of course, as diverse as their homelands, which stretch across the Great Lakes, Canadi...

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,...

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by Susumu Higa (Author), Jocelyne Allen (Translator), Andrew Woodrow-Butcher (Editor)2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction - Longlist American Library Association Best Comics for Adults 2023 Booklist Editors' Choice: Best Graphic Novels 2023 Washington Post Book World Editors' Staff Pick 2023 The Guardian Best Graphic Novels of 2023 A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th ce...

The Night Stalker: The Disturbing Life and Chilling Crimes of Richard Ramirez - Paperback

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by Philip Carlo (Author)"An astonishing portrait of a killer not seen since In Cold Blood." --New York Daily News A bestselling masterpiece of true crime on par with Helter Skelter, this definitive account of one of America's most feared and notorious serial killers takes you deep into the psychology of a murderer, his terrifying crimes, and the cult following that is shockingly revealed in this revised and updated edition of a true crime classic. Decades after Richard Ramirez left thirtee...

The Untold Story of Larry Itliong: Labor Rights Hero - Paperback

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by Cristina Oxtra (Author)You may have read about Cesar Chavez's leadership in organizing the well-known Delano Grape Strike and Boycott of the 1960s. But did you know it began as a strike led by Larry Itliong? He was a Filipino labor organizer who had also been working with grape pickers in California at the time. With key biographical information and related historical events, this Capstone Captivate book will uncover Itliong's story and show how it connects to Chavez's story. Number of Pag...