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Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks - Hardcover

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by Caitlin Rivers (Author)"[An] ambitious and... successful attempt to reset our relationship with the field of public health. With a judicious blend of candor, hopefulness and pragmatism, [Rivers] calls out its mistakes, reminds us of its historic accomplishments and emphasizes the need for the discipline to adjust its strategies if its full promise is to be realized."--Wall Street Journal "A master class in how we can pinpoint and prevent health crises before they spiral out of control."--S...

Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization - Hardcover

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by Martin Dugard (Author)From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series--with more than 12 million copies sold--comes a soaring account of England's desperate fight to fend off German invasion. Great Britain, summer 1940. The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Adolf Hitler's powerful armies control Europe. England stands alone against this juggernaut, the whole world knowing it is only a matter of time before Nazi...

Forbidden Frequencies: Unveiling the World's Hidden Truths

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Report copyright infringementby Demetri Welsh (Author)Embark on an exhilarating journey into the realms of the unknown with Forbidden FREQUENCIES: Unveiling the World's Hidden Truths by Demetri Welsh. This groundbreaking book delves into the deepest mysteries of ancient civilizations, esoteric teachings, and modern conspiracies, challenging everything you thought you knew about history and reality.Explore the enigmatic legend of Atlantis, decode the secrets of the Great Pyramids of Egypt, and...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Parry (Author)Secrets of the Sumerian King ListStep into the world's first record of kingship-an ancient, cryptic document that holds the keys to understanding how civilization, myth, and memory were born.Secrets of the Sumerian King List is a journey into one of the oldest and most enigmatic artifacts of human history. Compiled over four thousand years ago in the cradle of Mesopotamia, this astonishing list recounts the reigns of kings stretching back i...

The Meaning of Surah 75 Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection) From Holy Quran Bilingual Edition English Spanish

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Report copyright infringementby Jannah Firdaus Mediapro (Author), Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Studio (Editor), Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Studio (Translator)The Meaning of Surah 75 Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection) From the Holy Quran Bilingual Edition In English and Spanish Languange Lite Version. The blessed Chapter, revealed in Mecca, has forty Verses. The designation of the Chapter, denoting Resurrection, derives from the opening Verse. The Chapter, as reflected in its title, mainly treats of the D...

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Report copyright infringementby Julian Brave Noisecat (Author)A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today, and the director of the Oscar(R)-nominated documentary, Sugarcane, We Survived the Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of Indigenous survival, love, and resurgence. Julian Brave NoiseCat's childhood was rich with culture and contradictions. When his Secwépemc and St...

Slow Poison: IDI Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State

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Report copyright infringementby Mahmood Mamdani (Author)A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland. In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by "an orgy of violence." Two years earlier, with support from the colonial powers of Great Britain and Israel, Idi Amin had forcefully cemented his rule. He soon expelled Uganda's Indian minority in hopes of fostering a natio...

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Report copyright infringementby Joanna Olczak-Ronikier (Author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)Winner of the Nike Prize, Poland's most prestigious literary awardJoanna Olczak-Ronikier is one of Poland's most admired dramatists, screenwriters, and authors. In the Garden of Memory, her most acclaimed work, traces the lives of four generations of her own family-Polish Jews who were members of one of the country's most illustrious clans, noted for its achievements in business, politics, and cul...

Austrian Again: Reclaiming a Lost Legacy

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Hand (Author)In this captivating memoir, the author embarks on a deeply personal journey to uncover her family's hidden history during the Holocaust while pursuing Austrian citizenship. As Austria opens the door to reparation citizenship for descendants of those victimized by the Nazi and Austrofascist regimes, Anne digs through fragments of family stories and documents to trace her Austrian and Czechoslovakian roots. Through her search, she pieces togethe...

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History - Paperback

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by Robert M. Edsel (Author), Bret Witter (With) At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others,...

Jesus, the Apostles, and the Early Church - Paperback

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by Pope Benedict XVI (Author)Based on Pope Benedict XVI's weekly teaching on the relationship between Christ and the Church, this book tells the drama of Jesus' first disciples -- his Apostles and their associates -- and how they spread Jesus' message throughout the ancient world. Far from distorting the truth about Jesus of Nazareth, insists Pope Benedict, the early disciples remained faithful to it, even at the cost of their lives.Beginning with the Twelve as the foundation of Jesus' re-est...

What Great Paintings Say. 100 Masterpieces in Detail - Hardcover

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by Hagen (Author)This important addition to our understanding of art history's masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture. Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, authors Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen allow even the most familiar of pictures to come alive anew through their intricacies and intrigues. Is the bride pregnant? Why doe...

P Is for Potato: An Idaho Alphabet - Hardcover

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by Stan Steiner (Author), Joy Steiner (Author), Jocelyn Slack (Illustrator)Continuing the great Discover American State By State series is P is for Potato: An Idaho Alphabet. That's right, Idaho! Sleeping Bear Press explores the lush land and rich history of a state so often overlooked. Kids of all ages will love the A to Z rhymes boasting about all the riches found within Idaho's borders - from the Appaloosa steed to the zinc mines to Mount Borah, to, you knew we couldn't forget it, the pota...

A Young People's History of the United States: Revised and Updated - Paperback

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by Howard Zinn (Author), Rebecca Stefoff (Adapted by), Ed Morales (Contribution by)A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, enslaved people, immigrants, women, Black people, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus's arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader throu...

Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America

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Report copyright infringementby Edward E. Andrews (Author)Newport Gardner's Anthem explores the remarkable life of Occramer Marycoo, an enslaved African who went on to become one of early America's most important Black leaders. In the mid-eighteenth century, Marycoo was taken from West Africa to Newport, Rhode Island, where he was forced into racial bondage and given a name that symbolized the power that his new city and new enslaver held over him: Newport Gardner. In this powerful book, Edwa...

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Report copyright infringementby Glenn Cronin (Author)The Enduring Enigma of Lev Tikhomirov presents the Western reader with the first comprehensive study of the life and ideas of a revolutionist turned monarchist, one of the most intriguing and neglected thinkers in Russia in the late imperial period. As a young man Tikhomirov was an ardent revolutionary, comrade among others of Vera Figner and Sofia Perovskaya, and he was four years imprisoned by the Tsarist police. He later became the chief...

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I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter's Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Mai Serhan (Author)A young woman's search for connection with her estranged father, her family's past, and the Palestinian homeland she can never visit "Mai Serhan's writing is unique, sincere, dark, funny, and cuttingly tragic."-Selma Dabbagh Mai Serhan lives in Cairo and has never been to Palestine, the country from which her family was expelled in 1948. She is twenty-four years old when one morning she receives a phone call from her estranged father. His hea...

I Drive A Lot: A Love Letter To North Carolina

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Potts (Author)What do you think about when you drive? Do you listen to music? Make mental lists? Find a new podcast? Many Americans spend a lot of time on the road, heading to places both familiar, and new. Discovering New Perspectives on Youth, Change, and the Beauty of Home for Those Who Grew Up in the 80s and 90s. In this humorous exploration, the author confronts the four horsemen of turning 40: loss of hair, shifting perspectives, weight gain, and th...

Design: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by John Heskett (Author)John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design combines "need" and "desire" in the form of a practical object that can also reflect the user's identity and aspirations through its form and decoration. This concise guide to contemporary design goes beyond style and taste t...

Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore - Hardcover

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by Kiki Smith (Author), Diane Von Furstenberg (Foreword by), Vanessa Friedman (Introduction by)An unprecedented look at women's everyday clothes--from Sylvia Plath's Girl Scout uniform to psychedelic microminis, modern suits, and fast-food workers' uniforms--this fascinating volume shows how American women from every background have lived, worked, and dressed for 200 years. Groundbreaking in its focus on the everyday clothing of ordinary American women--a subject neglected in most fashion his...

Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle - Paperback

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by Murray Morgan (Author), Mary Ann Gwinn (Introduction by)Skid Road tells the story of Seattle "from the bottom up," offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City's first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan traces the city's history from its earliest days as a hacked-from-the-wilderness timber town, touching on local tribes, settlers, the lumber and...

No Surrender: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today - Paperback

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by Christopher Edmonds (Author), Douglas Century (Author)In the tradition of #1 New York Times bestsellers like Unbroken, Boys on the Boat, and Band of Brothers, No Surrender is an unforgettable story of a father's extraordinary acts of valor in World War II and a son's thrilling journey to discover them?an epic narrative of bravery, compassion, and faith.Like most members of the Greatest Generation, Roddie Edmonds, a humble American soldier from East Tennessee, rarely spoke about his experi...

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History - Paperback

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by Kurt Andersen (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year."--Lawrence O'Donnell How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what's happening in our country today--this post-factual, "fake news" moment we're all living through--is not something new, ...

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Paperback

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by Peter Frankopan (Author)INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. "A rare book that makes you question your assumptions about the world." --The Wall Street Journal From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and ...

Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion - Paperback

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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...

The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish - Paperback

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by Bj Cummings (Author)Author BiographyBJ Cummings is founder of the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition and previously served as executive director of Sustainable Seattle. Cummings is currently manager of community engagement for the Superfund Research Program at the University of Washington. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6.1 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 11, 2022

Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War - Paperback

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by Daniel J. Sharfstein (Author)After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing in his way was Chief Joseph, a young leader who never stopped advocating for Native American sovereignty and equal rights. Thunder in the Mountains is the spellbinding story of two leg...

El Libro de la Historia LGBTQ+ (the LGBTQ + History Book) - Hardcover

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by Dk (Author)Descubra la rica y compleja historia del colectivo LGBTQ+ en todo el mundo: sus luchas, triunfos y contribuciones culturales. Este libro explora y detalla las ideas y eventos más importantes de la historia y la cultura LGBTQ+ y nos muestra así toda la experiencia LGBTQ+. Se trata de un relato diverso y global, que explora los momentos, movimientos y fenómenos más importantes, desde la primera poesía de amor lésbica conocida de Sappho hasta los estudios de sexualidad modernos de ...

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The Long Purple Line: The Military History of Lsu and the Heroism of Its Cadets and Associates

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald J. Drez (Author)The Long Purple Line chronicles the military history of Louisiana State University from its founding in 1860 through all wars to the present. Ronald J. Drez unfolds that history through the actions and testimony of those who were there and who stepped out onto this nation's battlefields to create a military legend that would rival the famous Long Gray Line at West Point. As a land-grant university with a military commitment in the form of...

The Jewish Woman Who Fought the Nazis: Bep Schaap-Bedak's life during the Holocaust in Holland

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Report copyright infringementby Eli Schaap (Author)The story of Riwka (Bep) Schaap-Bedak follows unexpected twists and turns during the Nazi occupation of Holland and the annihilation of Dutch Jewry. Bep graduated with a law degree from Leiden University in 1940. Being Jewish herself, and supported by her classmates, she was instrumental in helping more than 100 Jews go into hiding.Her family's Turkish nationality allowed them to escape persecution until October 1943, as the Nazis were anxiou...