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Panini Legends: A Celebration of the World's Greatest Football Stickers - Hardcover

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by Greg Lansdowne (Author)'I hope somebody gives me this for Christmas...' - Adrian Chiles, BBC Radio 5 Live 'A gold mine for football fans and collectors.' - Dan Keane, Sport Cards UK 'If you're a fan of classic football history and football stickers, get your hands on one.' - Paolo PaniniPANINI'S GREATEST FOOTBALL STICKERS STAR IN ONE AMAZING BOOKPANINI LEGENDS showcases in sticker form 85 of the most-celebrated players in men's and women's football. Icons like Pel?, Diego Maradona, Franz B...

From Trenton to Yorktown: Turning Points of the Revolutionary War - Hardcover

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by John R. Maass (Author)Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary, this sweeping narrative is an astute exploration of the five critical military events that changed the outcome of the Revolutionary war. For eight grueling years, American and British military forces struggled in a bloody war over colonial independence. This conflict also ensnared Native American warriors and the armies and navies of France, Spain, the Dutch Republic, and several German principalities. From frozen Can...

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night - Paperback

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by Julian Sancton (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing" (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry--with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter "The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a thriller."--The Wall Street Journal In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year exp...

Discontinuity to Continuity: A Survey of Dispensational and Covenantal Theologies - Paperback

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by Benjamin L. Merkle (Author)What is the best framework for reading the Bible? The question of how to relate the Old and New Testaments is as old as the Bible itself. While most Protestants are unified on the foundations, there are major disagreements on particular issues. Who should be baptized? Is the Christian obligated to obey the Law of Moses? Does the church supplant Israel? Who are the proper recipients of God's promises to Israel? In Discontinuity to Continuity, Benjamin Merkle bring...

Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present - Hardcover

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by Adrienne Keene (Author), Ciara Sana (Illustrator)An accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation An American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award Young Adult Honor Book! Celebrate the lives, stories, and contributions of Indigenous artists, activists, scientists, athlet...

Let Liberty Rise!: How America's Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty - Hardcover

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by Chana Stiefel (Author), Chuck Groenink (Illustrator)How did 121,000 Americans save their most beloved icon? Here is an inspiring story about the power we have when we all work together!* "This charming history title is a true inspiration for the present. An informative must-have for all libraries." -- School Library Journal, starred review"All rise to this evocative, empowering offering." -- Kirkus Reviews"[A] true tale of cooperation among all ages." -- Publishers WeeklyOn America's 100th...

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition - Paperback

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by Marc Reisner (Author)"I've been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West's success with irrigation could be a mirage -- that it took water for granted and didn't appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it." - Farhad Manjoo, The New York Tim...

Jewishness and Beyond: Jewish Conversions in Hungary 1825-1914 - Hardcover

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by Mikl?s Konr?d (Author), Jason Vincz (Translator)Throughout the nineteenth century, Hungary's government steadily dismantled obstacles that kept its rapidly expanding Jewish communities from enjoying the full benefits of citizenship. The state's concerted efforts to "Magyarize" Jews promoted Hungarian language, culture, and sensibilities, but did not officially require Jews to abandon their faith. Nevertheless, tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews converted to Christianity during this era, w...

Technology Innovation, Economic Growth, and Geopolitics Policy Options for South Korea: A Policy Game - Paperback

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by Yun Kang (Author), David A. Shlapak (Author), Seok Joon Kwon (Author)South Korea faces challenging choices as the great-power rivalry between the United States and China intensifies. In this report, the authors describe their key insights from an analytical policy game they designed featuring two scenarios that explored the policy choices for South Korea to balance its economic, geopolitical, and technological equities regarding its role in the global semiconductor and electric vehicle bat...

The Greatest U.S. Opens: High Drama at Golf's Most Challenging Championship - Hardcover

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by David Barrett (Author)In The Greatest U.S. Opens, veteran golf journalist and author David Barrett brings readers inside the ropes at the most dramatic tournaments since the Open's inception in 1895. Renowned as the most challenging of the major championships, the U.S. Open has showcased the country's greatest golf courses, including Pebble Beach, Oakmont, Merion and Shinnecock Hills. And, with notoriously long "Open rough" and super-fast greens, the U.S Open is typically the toughest chal...

Jewishness and Beyond: Jewish Conversions in Hungary 1825-1914 - Paperback

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Dueling Photographers: George Dureau and Robert Mapplethorpe - Paperback

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by Jack Fritscher (Author), Mark Hemry (Editor)This essential art history by eyewitness-participant Fritscher examines one of 20-century art's great questions of influence and mentorship - George Dureau to Robert Mapplethorpe- two icons colliding around race, primacy, and originality. In lively transcripts, beloved New Orleans painter-photographer-sculptor Dureau holds court on life, lensing black men, and mentoring Mapplethorpe. While ambitious student Robert eclipsed his teacher by inflecti...

When Forests Burn: The Story of Wildfire in America - Hardcover

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by Albert Marrin (Author)A fascinating look at the most destructive wildfires in American history, the impact of climate change, and what we're doing right and wrong to manage forest fire, from a National Book Award finalist. Perfect for young fans of disaster stories and national history. Wildfires have been part of the American landscape for thousands of years. Forests need fire--it's as necessary to their well-being as soil and sunlight. But some fires burn out of control, destroying every...

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by Joe Sacco (Author), Edward W. Said (Introduction by), Amira Hass (Afterword by)Joe Sacco's breakthrough work of graphic journalism -- a now-established genre almost single handedly invented by Sacco -- won the American Book Award upon its initial release in 1996, and has remained a perennial, essential work for understanding the Palestinian Israeli conflict in the Middle East. This new hardcover edition includes a new afterword by Israeli journalist Amira Hass and also features Palestinian...

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee - Paperback

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by Casey Cep (Author) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This "superbly written true-crime story" (The New York Times Book Review) masterfully brings together the tales of a serial killer in 1970s Alabama and of Harper Lee, the beloved author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who tried to write his story. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members, but with the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative assassinated him at the fune...

The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California - Paperback

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by Mark Arax (Author)A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil--the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wroughtMark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s,...

History!: The Past as You've Never Seen It Before - Hardcover

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by DK (Author)Journey back in time and marvel at the history of our world like never before with this children's encyclopedia perfect for curious kids. Forming part of a fantastic series of kid's educational books, this bold and brilliant kid's encyclopedia uses ground-breaking CGI imagery to reveal the world as you've never seen it before. Informative, diverse in subject matter, easy-to-read and brimming with beautiful graphics, young learners can explore the incredibly detailed cross-sectio...

Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion - Hardcover

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by John T. McNeill (Editor)This is the definitive English-language edition of one of the monumental works of the Christian church. All previous editions--in Latin, French, German, and English--have been collated; references and notes have been verified, corrected, and expanded; and new bibliographies have been added.The translation preserves the rugged strength and vividness of Calvin's writing, but also conforms to modern English and renders heavy theological terms in simple language. The re...

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo - Paperback

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by Zora Neale Hurston (Author), Alice Walker (Foreword by), Deborah G. Plant (Introduction by)New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 - Economist Book of the Year - SELF.com's Best Books of 2018 - Audible's Best of the Year - BookRiot's Best Audio Books of 2018 - The Atlantic's Books Briefing: History, Reconsidered - Atlanta Journal Constitution, Best Southern Books 2018 - T...

Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey - Hardcover

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by Fred Haise (Author), Bill Moore (Author), Gene Kranz (Foreword by)"The extraordinary autobiography of astronaut Fred Haise, one of only 24 men to fly to the moon"--Author BiographyFRED HAISE served as a backup Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 before serving as the Lunar Module Pilot for the Apollo 13 mission. He worked with NASA for nine years after Apollo 13, serving on the backup crew for Apollo 16, commanding free flight test missions for the Space Shuttle program, and was ...

How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture - Paperback

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by Francis A. Schaeffer (Author)Francis Schaeffer's Classic Analysis of the Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis A. Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. Profoundly aware of the similarities modern culture shares with societies that came before, Schaeffer embarked on a journey to uncover the movements that gave rise to modern culture and resulted in the decline of the Christian wo...

Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz - Paperback

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by David Wojnarowicz (Author), Lisa Darms (Editor), David O'Neill (Editor)Audio journals that document Wojnarowicz's turbulent attempts to understand his anxieties and passions, and tracking his thoughts as they develop in real time.In these moments I hate language. I hate what words are like, I hate the idea of putting these preformed gestures on the tip of my tongue, or through my lips, or through the inside of my mouth, forming sounds to approximate something that's like a cyclone, or some...

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by C. V. Wedgwood (Author), Anthony Grafton (Foreword by)Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction....

Weird But True! Dinosaurs: 300 Dino-Mite Facts to Sink Your Teeth Into - Paperback

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by National Geographic Kids (Author)Weird But True is going prehistoric This new addition to the wildly popular, mind-blowing, fact-packed series is taking on the jaws and claws that ruled the Mesozoic world. Calling all dino dynamos Get ready to devour wacky wonders, facts, stats, and trivia about all things dinosaur. Did you know that the T. rex had vision 13 times better than the average human's? Or that people collect fossilized dino poop? And get this: There's a dinosaur named after H...

Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day (a Graphic Novel) - Paperback

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by Dan Nott (Author)We use water, electricity, and the internet every day--but how do they actually work? And what's the plan to keep them running for years to come? This nonfiction science graphic novel takes readers on a journey from how the most essential systems were developed to how they are implemented in our world today and how they will be used in the future. What was the first message sent over the internet? How much water does a single person use every day? How was the electric ligh...

Cincinnati Curiosities: Healing Powers of the Wamsley Madstone, Nocturnal Exploits of Old Man Dead, Mazeppa's Naked Ride & More - Paperback

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by Greg Hand (Author)Explore the eccentric side of yesterday's Queen CityCincinnatians today wrap themselves in a comforting blanket of serene conformity, soothed by the myth that the Queen City has always been a bland, somewhat Germanic, little backwater. History tells us otherwise. Old Cincinnati was a pretty strange place. UFOs? Witchcraft? Sea Monsters? Occult societies? Public executions? All very common in Old Cincinnati. Over its history, this burgeoning river metropolis pursued the un...

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 - Paperback

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by Rick Atkinson (Author)WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader...

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by Michael K?ckritz (Editor)"Sheer Driving Pleasure"; a slogan associated with one brand by car fans worldwide: BMW. In his customary detailed manner, Michael K?ckritz guides his readers through all the significant points of the company's history in his latest coffee table book, "BMW Milestones". He showcases the most significant and innovative 40 models, presented in chronological order and enriched with intriguing background information. The 3 Series, 5 Series, and 7 Series are covered, al...

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

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Report copyright infringementby Hampton Sides (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "thrilling and superbly crafted" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, THE ECONOMIST, NPR, THE NEW YORKER, THE SMIT...

The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy - Paperback

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by Murray Bookchin (Author)"The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human." With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin launches his most ambitious work, The Ecology of Freedom. An engaging and extremely readable book of breathtaking scope, its inspired synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized cap...

Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of EDO - Hardcover

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by Lorenz Bichler (Author), Melanie Trede (Author)Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world's visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of hedonism, ukiyo-e scenes often represented the bright lights and attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo): beautiful women, acto...

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by Elaine Pagels (Author)Front JacketA provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.Author BiographyElaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of several books, including Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, and The Gnostic Gospels, winner o...