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by Michael Lewis (Author)The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren't talking. Michael Lewis creates a fresh...
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by José Ortega Y. Gasset (Author)Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jos Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega's vision of Western culture as sinking to its lowest common denominator and drifting toward chaos brought its author international fame and has remained one of the influential books of the 20th century.Back JacketSocial upheaval in early twentieth-century Europe is the historica...
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by Ian W. Toll (Author)Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government. The founders--particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams--debated fiercely. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect from pirates or drain the treasury and provoke hostility? Britain alone had hundreds of powerful warships. From the decision to build six heavy frigates, through the cliff-h...
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by Philip Carr-Gomm (Author), Richard Heygate (Author)Through experiments to try and places to visit, as well as a historical exploration of magic and interviews with leading magicians, Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate's The Book of English Magic will introduce you to the extraordinary world that lies beneath the surface. Magic runs through the veins of English history, part of daily life from the earliest Arthurian legends to Aleister Crowley to the novels of Tolkien and Philip Pullman...
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by Colin Kaepernick (Editor), Robin D. G. Kelley (Editor), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." -Colin KaepernickSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an urgent need...
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by Peter Hayes (Author) Why? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why this swift and sweeping? Why didn't more Jews fight back more often? Why did survival rates diverge? Why such limited help from outside? What legacies, what lessons?An internationally acclaimed scholar, Peter Hayes brings a wealth of research and experience to bear on conventional views...
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by Alex Wright (Author)The "information explosion" may seem like an acutely modern phenomenon, but we are not the first generation--or even the first species--to wrestle with the problem of information overload. Long before the advent of computers, human beings were collecting, storing, and organizing information: from Ice Age taxonomies to Sumerian archives, Greek libraries to Dark Age monasteries.Spanning disciplines from evolutionary theory and cultural anthropology to the history of books...
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by Wolfgang Schneider (Author)Tank expert Wolfgang Schneider details the combat history of the Tiger in the months following D-Day, supplementing his comprehensive account with period photos, then-and-now shots of terrain, first-person accounts orders of battle, tank inventories, and maps.Author BiographyWolfgang Schneider is also the author of Tigers in Combat I, Tigers in Combat II, and Panzer Tactics.
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Dimensions: 0.82 x 9.88 x 8.03 IN
Publication Date: February 04, 2025
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by DK (Author)Descubre las batallas, las t?cticas militares y los momentos m?s decisivos de la Primera Guerra Mundial, Desde las crecientes tensiones entre las principales potencias europeas y el asesinato del archiduque Francisco Fernando hasta la entrada de Estados Unidos en la guerra y la creaci?n de la Liga de Naciones, este libro de historia profundiza en las causas, las consecuencias y el desarrollo del acontecimiento hist?rico que defini? el siglo XX. En su interior, encontrar?s:
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by Tiya Miles (Author)Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World's Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context to misunderstood ico...
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by Simon Winchester (Author)From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds.With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button. With so much knowle...
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by Clement Of Rome (Author), Philip Schaff (Editor), Steven R. Martins (Preface by)The Patristic Treasury is a collection of assorted works by the early Church Fathers, spanning from the Ante-Nicene, to the Nicene and Post-Nicene periods. In this collection you will uncover the wisdom of the ancients, with deep roots in the divinely inspired Scriptures, as they speak on various doctrinal matters. It is no exaggeration that nearly the whole New Testament can be reconstructed from the writings ...
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by Matthew Restall (Author)An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. This book is a unique and provocative synthesis of ideas and themes that were for generations debated or perpetuated without quest...
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by Janice P. Nimura (Author)Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of ordinary womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more...
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by Michelle Duster (Author)Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize. Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a "dangerous negro agitator." In the annals of history, it makes her an icon. Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of an pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated--a woman...
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by Phyllis Webstad (Author), Brock Nicol (Illustrator)The true story of Phyllis Webstad and her orange shirt that started the "Orange Shirt Day - Every Child Matters" movement. When Phyllis Webstad (nee Jack) turned six, she went to Residential School for the first time. On her first day at school, she wore a shiny orange shirt that her Granny had bought for her, but when she got to the school, it was taken away from her and never returned. This is the true story of Phyllis and her orange shi...
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by Elaine Pagels (Author)La referencia indiscutible sobre los evangelios gnósticos.Este libro fue distinguido en Estados Unidos con el premio del National Book Critics Circle y con el National Book Award y, desde entonces, se ha convertido en obra de referencia indiscutible sobre los evangelios gnósticos. En él, la profesora Pagels revela las numerosas discrepancias que separaban a los cristianos primitivos en torno a los hechos mismos de la vida de Cristo, el sentido de sus enseñanzas o a la...
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by David A. Chang (Author)The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives of the American past, revealing how identities--race, nation, and class--took new forms in struggles over the creation of different systems of property.Conflicts w...
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by Roland Barthes (Author), Richard Howard (Translator)With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.Author BiographyRoland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, w...
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by Murray Morgan (Author), Tim McNulty (Introduction by)Murray Morgan's classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness "as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon."Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, f...
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by Kate Simpson (Author), Owen Swan (Illustrator)The true story of how at the beginning of the 20th century Jessie the elephant walked from Moore Park Zoo to her spacious new home in the Taronga Zoological Park. It was still dark when Mr Miller opened the gates of the old zoo, but he wasn't scared because he wasn't alone. He was with Jessie the elephant and together they were going to walk from Moore Park, through the city streets, to the ferry at Fort Macquarie. Jessie was moving to her spac...
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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Freeburg (Author), Natalie Fowler (Author)Read 26 chilling stories, from two paranormal investigators, about reportedly true encounters with monsters in the South and Southeast.A mysterious winged creature descends upon a community, leaving behind a horrific disaster and whispers of a deadly omen. A family's peaceful night becomes a nightmare when their home is attacked by otherworldly beings. In the dead of night, a man is visited by a monstrous half-d...
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by Thomas E. Woods (Author), Kevin R. C. Gutzman (Author)Think it's just judges who are trampling on the Constitution? Think again. The fact is that government officials long ago rejected the idea that the Constitution possesses a fixed meaning limiting the U.S. government's power. Going right to the scenes of the crimes, bestselling authors Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman dissect twelve of the most egregious assaults on the Constitution. In Who Killed the Constitution? Woods and ...
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by Kathryn Hughes (Author)How cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets.In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had now become an object of pride and deep affection. From presidential and royal families who imported exotic breeds to working-class men competing for cash prizes for the fattest tabby, people became enthralled to the onc...
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by Hans-Michael Koetzle (Author), Uwe Scheid (Author)The history of nude photography is the history of people's fascination with the topic. Indeed, the photographic depiction of the human body is the only subject that has enthralled photographers, theoreticians, and consumers over such a long period--more than 150 years. No other motif is as prevalent as this one during all the phases of development comprising the history of photography, no other is present, whatever the technique, and is a s...
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by Leonard J. Arrington (Author)Brigham Young comes to life in this superlative biography that presents him as a Mormon leader, a business genius, a family man, a political organizer, and a pioneer of the West. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including documents, personal diaries, and private correspondence, Leonard J. Arrington brings Young to life as a towering yet fully human figure, the remarkable captain of his people and his church for thirty years, who combined piety and the pursui...
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by Francis Dupuis-Déri (Editor), Benjamin Pillet (Editor), Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas (Contribution by)"Anarchists have much to learn from Indigenous struggles for decolonization. [A] thought-provoking collection" Lesley J. Wood, Professor, York University, Toronto "Vigorously affirming anarchism's plurality, the authors make a powerful case for the reconfiguration of anticolonial struggle" Ruth Kinna, Professor, Loughborough University As early as the end of the nineteenth century, anarchi...
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by Workman Publishing (Author), Lily Rothman (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Editors of Brain Quest (Concept by)From the brains behind Brain Quest comes the 2nd edition of the revolutionary U.S. history study guide. Updated to include recent history and revised to reflect a more complete, balanced recounting of historical events. Big Fat Notebooks offer the support of a knowledgeable teacher in the form of an approachable peer--the notes of smartest kid in class. Everything You Need to Ace U.S....
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by DK (Author)Learn about key concepts behind the world's most incredible buildings in The Architecture Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Architecture in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Architecture Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and di...
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by Deborah Kerbel (Author), Angela Poon (Illustrator)A graphic novel for ages 8 to 12 that tells the true story of the life-saving discovery of insulin"Readers will want to dig deeper into this true story of canine heroes and lifesaving science." -- Kirkus Reviews In 1921, Frederick Banting was a young doctor with an idea: could the mysterious secretions of the pancreas be used to treat diabetes? We now call this substance insulin, and its life-saving discovery was an impactful milestone in m...
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by Daniel M. McClinton (Author)US Army Air Cavalry Patches: An Imperfect Album of US Army Air Cavalry Unit Insignia (2001-2021), for the first time in one place presents a collection of Air Cavalry unit insignia and patches. Collectors and historians alike will find this colorful collection which covers all air cavalry units that were active in the United States Army from September 11, 2001, until 2021 both interesting and informative. The patches and insignia are presented in full color and ...
