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Outlaw Tales of Texas: True Stories of the Lone Star State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Convis (Author)A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the West.Back JacketMeet the Most Notorious Texans Who Ever LivedRide with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. From the tale of the infamous street shoot-out in Uvalde to the stories of the Dalton brother's most despicable escapades, each story ...

La Vida Según Mafalda / Life According to Mafalda - Paperback

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by Quino (Author) La mejor edad de la vida es estar vivo! Descubre la filosofía de vida de Mafalda: una manera rebelde, concienciada, inteligente y sobre todo divertida de estar muy vivo. «Con ustedes, la filósofa con lacito con la que han crecido varias generaciones, [...] la Greta Thunberg de la historieta. [...] Por su espíritu contestatario, humor cuchillero y costumbrismo con guiños progres, Mafalda jamás pasará de moda. [...] Quino se ganó la inmortalidad y los amantes de las viñetas ...

International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s - Paperback

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by Tim Bergfelder (Author) West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively known by the 1970s as the "New German Cinema." Yet for domestic and international audiences at the time, German cinema primarily meant popular genres such as exotic adventure films, Gothic crime thrillers, westerns, and sex films, which were dismissed by German filmmakers and critics of the 1970s as "Daddy's Cinema." International Adventures p...

Pollen's Women: The Art of Samson Pollen - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Samson Pollen (Artist), Robert Deis (Editor), Wyatt Doyle (Editor)POLLEN'S WOMEN is a lush visual archive collecting some of artist Samson Pollen's most memorable pieces, selected from the hundreds of jaw-dropping illustrations Pollen provided for men's adventure magazines (MAMs) from the 1950s through the 1970s. Sexy women were a regular component of story illustrations published in the more than 160 MAM titles that flourished from the early 1950s through the ...

S, M, L, XL: Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large - Hardcover

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by Rem Koolhaas (Author), Bruce Mau (Author)S, M, L, XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings.The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal ...

The Official U.S. Army Survival Manual Updated - Paperback

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by Department of the Army (Author), Peter T. Underwood (Author)This comprehensive new edition of U.S. Army Survival Manual, issued by the Department of the Army and thoroughly revised by Colonel Peter T. Underwood USMC (Ret), is ideal for military personnel and all outdoors enthusiasts. From the psychology of survival and basic medicine to personal camouflage and signaling techniques, this essential resource provides all the information you need to survive. Included here is a guide to identif...

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Report copyright infringementby Edgar G. Daylight (Author), Raymond Boute (Contribution by), Arthur C. Fleck (Contribution by)Edgar Daylight's rather provocative theme in this book is that many high-profile computer scientists do not consistently distinguish between their favorite mathematical concepts and the representations thereof in the real world. This leads to mistakes. Daylight introduces seemingly small but useful distinctions. As a result, technical corrections are put forth in conne...

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by Augustine (Author), Marcus Dods (Translator), Thomas Merton (Introduction by)One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western thought. Contrasting earthly and heavenly cities--representing the omnipresent struggle between good and evil--Augustine explores human history in its relation to all eternity. In Thomas Merton's words, "The City of G...

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette - Paperback

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by Hampton Sides (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers. - "A splendid book in every way...a marvelous nonfiction thriller." --The Wall Street Journal On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country ...

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels - Paperback

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by Thomas Cahill (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another "captivating...persuasive as well as entertaining" journey into history (The New York Times), recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions that are still felt today.The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen...

Train: The Definitive Visual History - Hardcover

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by DK (Author)This stunning book is a glorious celebration of all things train and track. Packed with stunning photography, Train catalogues the development of trains from early steam to diesel engines and electric locomotives, explores in detail iconic trains such as the Palace on Wheels and the Orient Express, and chronicles the social, political, and cultural backdrop against which railways were built the world over. Profiling the best loved railways and rail journeys of all time - from th...

Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1963 - Hardcover

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by Shelby Foote (Author)A matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote's landmark history of the Civil War Shelby Foote's monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by Walker Percy as "an unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." Here is the central chapter of the central volume, and therefore the capstone of the arch, in a...

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom - Hardcover

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by Yeonmi Park (Author), Maryanne Vollers (Author)"I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea." - Yeonmi Park "One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller "Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension. Park's important memoir showcases the strength of the human spirit and one young woman's incredible d...

A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam - Paperback

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by Karen Armstrong (Author)Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--shaped and altered the conception of God? How have these religions influenced each other? In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. The epic story begins with the Jews' gradu...

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story - Hardcover

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by John Berendt (Author)Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining firs...

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by Hugh Thomas (Author)"Mr. Thomas has understood the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject."--Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book Review A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new reve...

Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 - Paperback

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by Rósa Magnúsdóttir (Author)Enemy Number One tells the story of the Soviet cultural and propaganda apparatus and its efforts to control information about the United States in the postwar landscape. Beginning with the 1945 meeting of American and Soviet troops on the Elbe, this period saw cultural relations develop in close connection to oppression as the Soviet authorities attempted to contain and appropriate images of the United States. Rósa Magnúsdóttir analyzes two official narratives abo...

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer - Paperback

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by Irene Gut Opdyke (Author), Jennifer Armstrong (With)"No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful."--School Library Journal, starred I did not ask myself, "Should I do this?" but "How will I do this?" Through this intimate and compelling memoir, we are witness to the growth of a hero. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, In My Hands has become a profound testament to individual courage. You must understand that I did not become a resis...

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty - Hardcover

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by Robert K. Massie (Author)A "magnificent and intimate" (Harper's) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great "A moving, rich book . . . [This] revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events . . . but on the royal family and their evil nemesis. . . . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it."-...

Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution - Paperback

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by H. W. Brands (Author)"A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war ... Brands does his readers a service by reminding them that division, as much as unity, is central to the founding of our nation."--The Washington Post From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be mor...

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What Was the Harlem Renaissance? - Paperback

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by Sherri L. Smith (Author), Who Hq (Author), Tim Foley (Illustrator)In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s. Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outp...

Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape - Hardcover

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by Kenneth Frampton (Foreword by), Peter McMahon (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Christine Cipriani (Text by (Art/Photo Books))From the "summer Bauhaus" on, the Cape's modern designers enjoyed a lifestyle based on communion with nature, solitary creativity and shared festivityIn the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and a professor at Harvard's new Graduate School of Design, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. There, he and his wife, Ise, hosted a f...

The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability - Hardcover

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by Annette Kehnel (Author)A fascinating blend of history and ecological economics that uncovers the medieval precedents for modern concepts of sustainable living. In The Green Ages, historian Annette Kehnel explores sustainability initiatives from the Middle Ages, highlighting communities that operated a barter trade system on the Monte Subiaco in Italy, sustainable fishing at Lake Constance, common lands in the United Kingdom, transient grazing among Alpine shepherds in the south of France,...

Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World - Hardcover

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by Caroline Alexander (Author)From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air--meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is ...

The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President

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Report copyright infringementby Eden Collinsworth (Author)From the acclaimed author of What the Ermine Saw and Behaving Badly, a portrait of Victoria Woodhull, a celebrated and maligned 19th-century businesswoman and activist, and a leader in the fight for women's suffrage and labor reforms. In 1894, a remarkably self-possessed American woman, with no formal education to speak of, stood before a British court seeking damages for libel from the trustees of the British Museum. It was yet anothe...

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat - Paperback

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by Bee Wilson (Author)Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson's secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies - from the fork to the microwave and beyond - have fundamentally shaped how and what we eat. Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious -- or at least edible. But these tools have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our food. In Consider the Fork, award-winning food writer...

Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict - Hardcover

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by Oren Kessler (Author)"Kessler's history is key to understanding the current situation between Israelis and Palestinians." --Booklist, Starred Review "[Kessler] has done an exceptional job and opened new vistas on troubles past and present." -- Wall Street Journal A gripping, profoundly human, yet even-handed narrative of the origins of the Middle East conflict, with enduring resonance and relevance for our time. In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the lo...

Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master - Paperback

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by Leonardo Da Vinci (Author), H. Anna Suh (Editor)Leonardo's Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts. Leonardo da Vinci -- artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man -- is a perennial source of fascination. His astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about both the natural and man-made world influenced his numerous works of art, theories, and sentim...

The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War - Paperback

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by Peter Hart (Author)Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by The Economist World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The Great War, Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict. Focusing on the decisive engagements, Hart ...

The Clockwork of Civilization, How History, Technology, and Philosophy Shape Human Progress

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Report copyright infringementby Emmanuel Joseph Joseph (Author)The Clockwork of Civilization: How History, Technology, and Philosophy Shape Human ProgressIn "The Clockwork of Civilization," readers embark on an enlightening journey through the pivotal moments and forces that have shaped human history. Spanning from the dawn of civilization to the digital age, this book delves into the intricate interplay of history, technology, and philosophy that drives human progress.Each chapter provides a...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Azzarone (Author), Robert F. Rodriguez (Photographer)A stunning exploration of New York's most enchanting fountains New York City's fountains are more than just decorative features--they are historical landmarks, cultural icons, and dynamic works of art that shape the city's landscape. In Fabulous Fountains of New York, award-winning author and native New Yorker Stephanie Azzarone takes readers on a captivating journey through the artistry, history, ...