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Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism - Paperback

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by John Henrik Clarke (Author), Leonard Jeffries (Foreword by), Edward Scobie (Preface by)Originally published by A & B Books, Brooklyn, New York. Number of Pages: 123 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: August 01, 2011

I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa - Paperback

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by Charles Brandt (Author)New York Times Bestseller -- #1 True Crime Bestseller The inspiration for the major motion picture, THE IRISHMAN. "The best Mafia book I ever read, and believe me, I read them all." -- Steven Van Zandt "Charles Brandt has solved the Hoffa mystery." -- Professor Arthur Sloane, author of Hoffa "Sheeran's confession that he killed Hoffa in the manner described in the book is supported by the forensic evidence, is entirely credible, and solves the Hoffa mystery." --...

Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second Edition) - Paperback

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by Arundhati Roy (Author)Winner of the European Essay Prize 2023 The chant of "Azadi!"--Urdu for "Freedom!"--is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom--a chasm or a bridge?--the streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over the world. ...

Career Compass, Second Edition: Navigating the Navy's Officer Promotion and Assignment System

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas H. Rau (Author) Since the release of the first edition of Career Compass more than two decades ago, the landscape of a Navy officer's career has transformed significantly, adapting to societal changes while upholding the Navy's core values of service and excellence. This fully revised second edition offers updated insights into the evolving culture, communication strategies, career opportunities, and management practices, all while reinforcing the endur...

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by DK (Author)Step back in time to an ancient world of mythical beasts, bow down to gods and goddesses, and take a trip to the first Olympics in this illustrated guide. Become an eyewitness to the glory of ancient Greece in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of what classical Greece was like. Children will be mesmerized by striking photography, maps, paintings, and lots of artefacts to help understand what life was like at this time. This illustrated guide le...

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 - Paperback

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by Jonathan Healey (Author)AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A fresh, exciting, "readable and informative" history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. - "Recapture[s] a lost moment when a radically democratic commonwealth seemed possible."--Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker "[Healy] makes a convincing argument that the turbulent era qualifies as truly 'revolutionary, ' not s...

The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans - Hardcover

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by Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (Author), Heather Ahtone (Author), Joy Harjo (Author)A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the land The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans brings together works by many of today's most boldly innovative Native American artists. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, one of the leading artists and curators of her generation, has carefully chosen some fifty works across a diversity of practices--includ...

Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery - Hardcover

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by Theodore H. Schwartz (Author)"If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a must read and Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared profession, and in Schwartz's talented hands, the most enigmatic 3 1/2 pounds of tissue in the known universe comes to light in remarkable and revelatory ways."--Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Corresponde...

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Report copyright infringementby Gustav Cassel (Author)Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.43 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 15, 2007

The Strategic Dynamics of Latin American Trade

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Report copyright infringementby Vinod Aggarwal (Editor), Joseph S. Tulchin (Editor), Ralph Espach (Editor)The diversity of Latin American trade agreements established since the mid-1980s reflects a broadening range of strategic perceptions and orientations. The argument of this volume is that this increasing divergence among the arrangements reflects fundamental and growing differences among their broader strategic perceptions and political and economic objectives. These, in turn, are grounde...

Freud on Madison Avenue: Motivation Research and Subliminal Advertising in America

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence R. Samuel (Author)What do consumers really want? In the mid-twentieth century, many marketing executives sought to answer this question by looking to the theories of Sigmund Freud and his followers. By the 1950s, Freudian psychology had become the adman's most powerful new tool, promising to plumb the depths of shoppers' subconscious minds to access the irrational desires beneath their buying decisions. That the unconscious was the key to consumer beha...

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Report copyright infringementby Jiyeoun Song (Author)The past several decades have seen widespread reform of labor markets across advanced industrial countries, but most of the existing research on job security, wage bargaining, and social protection is based on the experience of the United States and Western Europe. In Inequality in the Workplace, Jiyeoun Song focuses on South Korea and Japan, which have advanced labor market reform and confronted the rapid rise of a split in labor markets b...

Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 2, America and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism

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Report copyright infringementby William N. Parker (Author), Louis Galambos (Editor), Robert Gallmam (Editor)This volume collects Professor Parker's major writings on American agricultural and industrial history, including some essays not previously published. Taken as a whole, these essays give an account of why and how the United States grew rich in the nineteenth century, as well as a background against which to judge the present position of the economy and its international position. Profe...

Religion and the Marketplace in the United States

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Report copyright infringementby Jan Stievermann (Author)Alexis de Tocqueville once described the national character of Americans as one question insistently asked: "How much money will it bring in?" G.K. Chesterton, a century later, described America as a "nation with a soul of a church." At first glance, the two observations might appear to be diametrically opposed, but this volume shows the ways in which American religion and American business overlap and interact with one another, defining...

Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

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Report copyright infringementby Adia Harvey Wingfield (Author)NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB's November 2023 Must Read Books - LIBRARY JOURNAL EDITOR PICK - "A groundbreaking book, both bold in its premise and precise in its exploration of systemic racism in the workplace. This could not be a more urgent and necessary blueprint for progress."--Bakari Sellers, New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country"Provides a trailblazing antiracist framework for us all."--Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Ti...

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Report copyright infringementby Morgan Daimler (Author)Pantheon: The Irish explores Irish pagan beliefs and practices in a beginner-friendly way, offering readers a source for understanding both the spirituality and its context. Besides covering cosmology and holidays, the author discusses the gods and spirits that are acknowledged within the belief system, giving brief descriptions of each, and how they were and are understood. Designed as an introduction to the Irish pantheon, this book wil...

The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World - Paperback

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by Shelley Puhak (Author)National Bestseller "A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life."--Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Figures The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule. Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sak...

Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Howard Zinn (Author), Anthony Arnove (Author)Selected testimonies to living history--speeches, letters, poems, songs--offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn. New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Squa...

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by Robert O. Paxton (Author)What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question. From the first violent uniformed bands beating up "enemies of the state," through Mussolini's rise to power, to Germany's fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxton shows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not others, and explores whether fascism could exist outside the early-twenti...

The Japanese Tattoo: The History and Evolution of an Art Form - Hardcover

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by Philippe Pons (Author)This book presents tattoos in Japan with all their astounding richness and sophistication. The history of this unique folk art, its meaning, social background, and evolution as well as a collection of rare interviews with master tattooists made over the past thirty years.In the world of tattoo art, few traditions can rival the elaborate and refined artistry of Japanese tattoos. In this richly illustrated book, The Japanese Tattoo, by the French historian and journali...

Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis - Paperback

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by Jeffrey H. Jackson (Author)"A Nazi resistance story like none you've ever heard or read." --Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground "Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages " --Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audaci...

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by Curzio Malaparte (Author), Dan Hofstadter (Afterword by), Cesare Foligno (Translator)Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner parties with Nazi leade...

Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography - Paperback

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by David B. Williams (Author)Residents and visitors in today's Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its topography to accommodate their changing visions. In Too High and Too Steep, David B. Williams uses his deep knowledge of Seattle, scientific background, and extensive research and interviews to illuminate the physical challenges and sometimes startling hubris of these la...

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by David McCullough (Author)America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America's survival in the hands of George Washington. In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely hu...

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by Jonah Winter (Author), Ana Juan (Illustrator)This long-awaited companion to Jonah Winter's acclaimed DIEGO feature the paintings of young Spanish artist, Ana Juan. This stunning picture book is the perfect gift for art enthusiasts of all ages.Cuando su madre la deja a cargo de sus cinco hermanas, su padre la ense a a utilizar los pinceles y a colorear. Cuando una enfermedad la hace guardar cama durante meses, Frida dibuja para no aburrise. Cuando un accidente en autob s la sume en el dolor...

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story - Paperback

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by Kate Summerscale (Author)Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR - The Sunday Times - The New Statesman - The Times - The Spectator - The Telegraph Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection "Prepare not to see much broad daylight, literal or metaphorical, for days if you read this.... The atmosphere evoked is something I will never forget."--The Times (London) London, 1938. In the subu...

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia - Hardcover

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by Christina Thompson (Author)A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of E...

Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes - Hardcover

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by Ronni Lundy (Author), Johnny Autry (Photographer)Winner of the James Beard Foundation Book of the Year Award and Best Book, American Cooking, Victuals is an exploration of the foodways, people, and places of Appalachia. Written by Ronni Lundy, regarded as the most engaging authority on the region, Victuals guides us through the surprisingly diverse history--and vibrant present--of food in the Mountain South. Victuals explores the diverse and complex food scene of the Mountain South throug...

America's National Parks Activity Book - Paperback

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by Becky Radtke (Author)Learn about the wonders of America's national parks in this fun-filled activity book with mazes, spot-the-difference puzzles, word searches, crosswords, and secret codes. Discover fascinating facts about the animals, plants, landmarks, and geography of many of these incredibly special places, including the Grand Canyon, Everglades, Acadia, Zion, Yosemite, and many more. Solutions included.Back JacketDiscover fascinating facts about America's greatest treasures! Kids a...

The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) - Paperback

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by Ellen Meloy (Author)In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape. From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of both great beauty and great desecration. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ance...

Genesis 1-11: Volume 1 Volume 1 - Hardcover

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by Andrew Louth (Editor), Thomas C. Oden (Editor)The rich tapestry of the creation narrative in the early chapters of Genesis proved irresistible to the thoughtful, reflective minds of the church fathers. Within them they found the beginning threads from which to weave a theology of creation, Fall, and redemption. Following their mentor the apostle Paul, they explored the profound significance of Adam as a type of Christ, the second Adam. The six days of creation proved especially attractive ...

The Confessions of Saint Augustine - Paperback

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by Augustine (Author)Heartfelt, incisive, and timeless, The Confessions of Saint Augustine has captivated readers for more than fifteen hundred years. Retelling the story of his long struggle with faith and ultimate conversion -- the first such spiritual memoir ever recorded -- Saint Augustine traces a story of sin, regret, and redemption that is both deeply personal and, at the same time, universal. Starting with his early life, education, and youthful indiscretions, and following his ascent...