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Report copyright infringementby The Line (Author), Megan Piper (Author), Sarah Carrington (Author)Take a journey along The Line, East London's innovative outdoor art trail featuring world-renowned contemporary artistsThe Line has transformed East London's urban landscape into a dynamic cultural corridor. Spanning nearly 8 kilometres (4.8 miles), the outdoor public art trail features monumental sculptures, intimate installations, and an evolving programme, offering a world-class contemporary a...

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Depaul (Author)Ingenuity is the differentiator between an average salesperson's performance and the top sales pro. The ingenious salesperson leverages his company and his product/services benefits to an exact fit with the prospect's needs. He represents the smart choice, the best value on every sales opportunity. Instilling ingenuity into a sales organization internally grows the company. Winning defines the culture. Ingenuity wins! The author takes you th...

Grand Prix: An Illustrated History of Formula 1 - Hardcover

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by Will Buxton (Author), Stefano Domenicali (Foreword by)A thrilling illustrated history of Formula 1 racing, from its fascinating origins and inner workings to the top drivers of the twentieth century and today, by a celebrated motorsports broadcaster and star of Formula 1: Drive to Survive "A valuable and welcome addition to the library of any lifelong F1 fan, as well as for any curious individual new to the world of F1."--Mario Andretti Over its seventy-plus years of history, Formula 1 ra...

The 71st Highlanders in the American Revolution - Paperback

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by Daniel McDonald Johnson (Author)The British recruited the 71st Regiment of Foot in the Scottish Highlands and sent the regiment to America in 1776. The regiment fought at Brooklyn, Brandywine, Savannah (twice), Brier Creek, Stono, Charleston, Camden, Charlotte, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse and Yorktown. Appendixes include information on the organization of the regiment and biographical sketches of Archibald Campbell, Charles Campbell, William Erskine, Roderick Mackenzie, Aeneas Mackintosh ...

The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration - Hardcover

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by Richard Barnett (Author)Bizarre and captivating images, including close-up details and revealing cross-sections, make all too clear the fascinations of both doctors and artists of the timeThe Sick Rose is a visual tour through the golden age of medical illustration. The nineteenth century experienced an explosion of epidemics such as cholera and diphtheria, driven by industrialization, urbanization and poor hygiene. In this pre-color-photography era, accurate images were relied upon to tea...

Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. - Hardcover

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by Paul Stillwell (Author)This is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who served a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognizing the achievements and legacy of one of the war's top combat admirals has been long overdue until now. Battleship Commander explores Lee's life from boyhood in Kentucky through his eventual service as commander of the fast battleships from 1942 to 1945. Paul Stillwell draws on more than 150 first-person accounts from those who knew a...

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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Report copyright infringementby Patty Krawec (Author), Nick Estes (Foreword by)Included in the Lakota People's Law Project Decolonized Reading List for 2025 We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all ""home."" Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the...

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by Carol Atack (Author)A new reading of Plato's philosophy that reveals it as deeply shaped by his experiences in Athens. Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Born during a war that would lead to Athens' decline, Plato lived in turbulent times. Carol Atack explores how Plato's life in Athens influenced his thought, how he developed the Socratic dialogue into a powerful philosophical to...

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Report copyright infringementby William Bruce Wheeler (Author)Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South is much more than an update to the 1983 edition; it is virtually a complete rethinking of its predecessor as well as an updating of Knoxville's story from the 1982 World's Fair to the death of the nearly legendary Cas Walker.In this new edition, Wheeler argues that, like Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby (1925), Knoxvillians have fabricated for themselves a false history, portrayi...

Indian Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley: The Making of a Transnational Techno-Capitalist Class

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Report copyright infringementby Monica Rao Biradavolu (Author)Written by Monica Biradavolu (a sociologist at Yale University), this innovative study examines the emergence and growing power of a new group of immigrant Indians to the United States: the transnational techno-capitalist class of entrepreneurs operating at the upper echelons of the hi-tech industry in Silicon Valley and Bangalore. Imbibing the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, recognizing the importance...

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Report copyright infringementby James Parton (Author)[T]he great service rendered by Ludwick to the cause of his adopted country was in supplying her soldiers with good bread. In 1777, Congress gave him a regular commission as "Superintendent of Bakers and Director of Baking in the Army of the United States," at seventy-five dollars a month and two rations a day... -from "Christopher Ludwick, Baker-General of the Revolutionary Army" A primer for children on the "sterling qualities" that drive...

Priests of History Softcover - Paperback

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by Sarah Irving-Stonebraker (Author) Number of Pages: 258 Dimensions: 0.64 x 8.38 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 05, 2024

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

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by 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. "Hampton Sides, an acclaimed master of the nonfiction narrative, has taken on Cook's story and retells it for the 21st century."--Los Angeles Times On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, al...

Oyster: A Gastronomic History (with Recipes) - Hardcover

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by Drew Smith (Author)Drew Smith's Oyster: A Gastronomic History offers readers a global view of the oyster, tracing its role in cooking, art, literature, and politics from the dawn of time to the present day. Oysters have inspired chefs, painters, and writers alike, have sustained communities financially and ecologically, and have loomed large in legend and history. Using the oyster as the central theme, Smith has organized the book around time periods and geographical locations, looking at ...

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Thomas S. Kuhn (Author), Ian Hacking (Introduction by)A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were--and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of sci...

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by Julia Voss (Author), Anne Posten (Translator)A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before. Today, it is widely accepted that af Klint was one of the earliest abstract academic painters in Europe. But this is only part of her...

How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine - Paperback

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by Tom Mueller (Author)Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the heart, became the first human organ to be successfully replaced with a machine. Yet huge dialysis corporations, ambitious doctor-entrepreneurs and Beltway lobbyists soon turned this medical miracle into an early experiment in for-profit medicine--and one of the nation's worst healthcare catastrophes.With powerful insight and o...

Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals - Hardcover

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by Donna Jo Napoli (Author)The new National Geographic Treasury of Egyptian Mythology is a stunning tableau of Egyptian myths, including those of pharaohs, queens, the boisterous Sun God Ra, and legendary creatures like the Sphinx. The lyrical storytelling of award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli dramatizes the timeless tales of ancient Egypt in the year when Angelina Jolie will make Cleopatra a multimedia star. And just like the popular National Geographic Treasury of Greek Mythology, the sto...

Josephus the Complete Works: Encounter the World and Traditions That Jesus Knew - Hardcover

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by William Whiston (Author)Flavius Josephus was a first-century Pharisee, soldier, informant to the Romans, and writer. He left behind the most extensive writings on ancient Jewish history still in existence. These are his complete collected writings in a beautiful hardcover edition.If you want to understand and immerse yourself in the Jewish history, culture, and community of Jesus, let Josephus: The Complete Works open your eyes. Flavius Josephus--first-century Pharisee, Jewish historian, R...

Nasb, MacArthur Study Bible, 2nd Edition, Leathersoft, Black, Thumb Indexed, 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...

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II - Paperback

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by Adam Makos (Author), Larry Alexander (Author)THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: "Beautifully told."--CNN - "A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating."--USA Today - "Oh, it's a good one!"--Fox News A "beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies" emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Devotion, now a Major Motion Picture. December, 1943 A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is tw...

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Report copyright infringementby Georgios Varouxakis (Author)A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners" begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. ...

Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific

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Report copyright infringementby Coll Thrush (Author) A provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast The Northwest Coast of North America is a treacherous place. Unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and features such as the notorious Columbia River bar have resulted in more than two thousand shipwrecks, earning the coastal areas of Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island the moniker "Graveyard of the Pacific." Beginning with a Spanish galleon ...

Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness

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Report copyright infringementby Stewart Home (Author)"A riveting work for readers interested in yoga and right-wing movements." - The Library Journal "Anything Stewart Home writes intrigues me... He turns things upside down and shakes them up" - Lynne Tillman, author of Weird Fucks and Mothercare The practice of yoga promises peace, self-realisation and release, thanks to the power of its 'mystic' Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps away the ha...

American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry: War and Politics, 1910-1930

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn Steen (Author)Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin. When World War I disrupted the supply of German chemicals to the United States, American entrepreneurs responded to the shortages and high prices by trying to manufacture chemicals domestically. Learning the complex science and industry, however, posed a serious challenge. This book explains how the United States built a sy...

Poverty and Pacification: The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class

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Report copyright infringementby Dorothy J. Solinger (Author)This groundbreaking book powerfully humanizes the little-known urban workers who have been left behind in China's single-minded drive to modernize. Dorothy Solinger traces the origins of their plight to the mid-1990s, when the Chinese government found that state-owned factories were failing in large numbers in the face of market reforms just as the country was about to enter the World Trade Organization. Under these circumstances, le...

The Philippines in Crisis: Development and Security in the Aquino Era, 1986-91

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Report copyright infringementby W. Thompson (Author)The eruption of Mt. Pinatuba represented more than the smothering of America's Clark Air Force Base and many of President Corazon Aquino's development plans. It also served as a metaphor both for the collapse of Philippine-American base negotiations, presaging an end to nearly a century of strategic relations, and for Aquino's unsuccessful attempt to undo the colossal damage of the Marcos era and construct coherent development programs. This...

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce

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Report copyright infringementby E. R. Billings (Author)Explore the rich and complex history of tobacco with E. R. Billings' comprehensive study, "Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce." This meticulously researched volume delves into every facet of the tobacco industry, offering a detailed look at its cultivation, manufacture, and global commerce. From the plant's diverse varieties to the intricate processes involved in its production, Billings provides a fascinat...

Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers

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Report copyright infringementby Paul F. Clark (Editor), Peter Gottlieb (Editor), Donald Kennedy (Editor)More than any other labor victory of the 1930s, the emergence of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee symbolized the rise of organized labor to a position of power in the United States. Yet, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, the unionization of the steel industry, and most notably the role of SWOC and Philip Murray in that process, has received far less attention than it de...

Living with Lead: An Environmental History of Idaho's Coeur d'Alenes, 1885-2011

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Report copyright infringementby Bradley D. Snow (Author)The Coeur d'Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history. Historically the globe's richest silver district and also one of the nation's biggest lead and zinc producers, the Coeur d'Alenes' legacy also includes environmental pollution on an epic scale. For decades local waters were fouled with tailings from the mining district's more than one hund...

Salt and the Colombian State: Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyaca, 1821-1900

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Rosenthal (Author)In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some cases controlled and profited from its production. The salt trade consistently accounted for roughly ten percent of government income. In the town of la Salina de Chita, in Boyac\u00e1 province, thermal springs offered vast amounts of salt, and its procurement and distribution was placed und...

The Dawn of Pro Stock: Drag Racing's Fastest Doorslammers 1970-1979 - Paperback

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by Steve Reyes (Author)Pro Stock is a unique class of racing, and one that has changed considerably over the years. In its early years, Pro Stock was similar to the Super Stock era from a decade before, in that it featured cars that seemed to be a lot like a hot rod version of what people were driving on the street. While the engines were a little bigger and nastier than most street versions, they were not that far removed, and fans could really relate to cars like 'Cudas, Mustangs, Camaros, ...