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The One Pound Note In The Rise And Progress Of Banking In Scotland: And Its Adaptability To England (1886)

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Report copyright infringementby William Graham (Author)""The One Pound Note In The Rise And Progress Of Banking In Scotland: And Its Adaptability To England"" is a historical book written by William Graham in 1886. The book explores the history of banking in Scotland and the role of the one pound note in its development. Graham discusses the evolution of banking in Scotland, from its early stages to the establishment of the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland. He also examines the...

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Report copyright infringementby Marian Lawrence Peabody (Author)Polly's Pension Plans is a novel written by Marian Lawrence Peabody and first published in 1917. The story follows the life of Polly Brewster, a young woman who works as a stenographer in a law office. Polly's dream is to retire at the age of 40 and live off her savings for the rest of her life. To achieve this goal, she devises a series of pension plans that she hopes will provide her with enough money to live comfortably in her...

National Economy: A History of the American Protective System and Its Effects Upon the Several Branches of Domestic Industry (1864)

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew White Young (Author)National Economy: A History Of The American Protective System And Its Effects Upon The Several Branches Of Domestic Industry is a book written by Andrew White Young in 1864. The book provides a comprehensive history of the American protective system and its impact on various domestic industries. It explores the development of protectionism in the United States, from its early beginnings to its current state in the mid-19th century.The...

The Monetary Systems Of The Principal Countries Of The World (1913)

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Report copyright infringementby United States Bureau of the Mint (Author)The Monetary Systems Of The Principal Countries Of The World is a book published in 1913 by the United States Bureau Of The Mint. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the monetary systems of the major countries of the world at the time, including the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, China, and others. The book covers a range of topics related to currency, including the history of eac...

Clavis Usurae Or A Key To Interest: Both Simple And Compound (1710)

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Report copyright infringementby John Ward (Author)Clavis Usurae or A Key to Interest: Both Simple and Compound is a book written by John Ward and published in 1710. The book is a comprehensive guide to understanding interest rates and how they work, both in simple and compound forms. It is aimed at individuals who want to gain a better understanding of the financial world and how interest rates impact their finances.The book is divided into several chapters, each of which covers a different a...

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Report copyright infringementby George Esdras Bevans (Author)How Workingmen Spend Their Time is a book written by George Esdras Bevans and published in 1913. The book is an exploration of the daily lives and routines of working-class men in the early 20th century. Bevans draws on extensive research and firsthand observations to provide a detailed account of how these men spend their time outside of work.The book is divided into chapters that cover different aspects of working-class life, incl...

Outdoors in North Carolina: Hunting, Fishing, Vigorous, Healthful

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Report copyright infringementby North Carolina Dept of Conservation (Created by)This vintage guide to outdoor recreation in North Carolina is a must-read for anyone who loves the great outdoors. From hunting and fishing to camping and hiking, the book provides detailed information on all the best outdoor activities that the state has to offer. The authors also provide a wealth of practical advice on topics such as campsite selection, wildlife observation, and equipment maintenance. Whether yo...

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Report copyright infringementby Webster Wayne 1874- Kapp (Author)This comprehensive history of the Kapp family traces their journey from Germany to America and their enduring legacy in the new world. With colorful anecdotes and personal stories, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of one of America's founding families.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "p...

The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China - Paperback

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by Robert D. Kaplan (Author)A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century "Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan's tragic sensibility have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and its recent history."--National Review FINALIST FOR THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB'S CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD The Greater Middle East, which Robert D. Kaplan defin...

From Alabama to Margraten: The Story of War Veteran Jefferson Wiggins in the Segregated US Army During World War II - Paperback

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by Mieke Kirkels (Author), Frans Kooymans (Translator)When he returned to the Netherlands in 2009, decades after World War II, Jefferson Wiggins realized that no one he met knew about the segregated US Army during the war, nor did they know about the contribution of Black American soldiers to the liberation of the Netherlands. They were not mentioned anywhere in Dutch history books or in archives. Together with oral historian Mieke Kirkels, Wiggins sat down to record his memories. Wiggins pas...

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by Bob Woodward (Author)Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering over two years, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam. Based on interviews with 75 key participants...

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune - Hardcover

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by Bill Dedman (Author), Paul Clark Newell (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times - St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty...

The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death - Paperback

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by Jill Lepore (Author)Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? "All anyone can do is ask," Lepore writes. "That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity." Lepore starts that hi...

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Anderson 1896- Foulke (Author), Inc Dun and Bradstreet (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars belie...

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Report copyright infringementby C. H. Herbert (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importan...

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Report copyright infringementby J. a. (James Ambrose) 1922- Raftis (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that ...

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Report copyright infringementby City Title Insurance Company (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this w...

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Report copyright infringementby George 1912-1995 Woodcock (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is ...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Bettelheim (Author), Monthly Review an Independent Social (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholar...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Norman 1914- Thompson (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work ...

Annual Report, Business of Insurance Companies for Year Ended ...; v.54: 3(1922)

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Report copyright infringementby Illinois Dept of Insurance (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this wor...

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Report copyright infringementby Edgar Kemler (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important eno...

Great Britain and Mexico in the Era of Porfirio Di&

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred 1929-1962 Tischendorf (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work ...

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by Ali Hammuda (Author), Zimarina Sarwar (Adapted by), Arash Jahani (Illustrator)TheFour Imams provides an engaging and informative account of the four mostwell-renowned Imams in Islamic history - Iman Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik, ImamShafi'i and Imam Ahmad. Adopting a story-telling style, it relays biographicalinformation, summarising their fascinating life journeys, alongside lessons andconclusions that have real-world application for the reader in anage-appropriate manner. Author BiographyShaik...

Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future - Hardcover

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by Jason Stanley (Author)"I've never read a book that is as timely, urgent and essential as this one. A battle plan for keeping this nation from falling into fascism." --Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right's efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class. The human race finds itself again under threat of a rising global fasci...

The Egyptian Book of the Dead - Paperback

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by Wallace Budge (Translator), Wallace Budge (Commentaries by), John Romer (Editor)A unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the 15th to the 4th century BC Consisting of spells, prayers and incantations, each section contains the words of power to overcome obstacles in the afterlife. The papyruses were often left in sarcophagi for the dead to use as passports on their journey from burial, and were full of advice about the ferrymen, gods and kings they w...

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - Paperback

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by David Graeber (Author), David Wengrow (Author)INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlik...

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service - Paperback

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by Laura Kaplan (Author)The powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of its members. A compelling testament to a woman's most essential freedom--control over her own body--and to the power of women helping women. - Also the subject of the acclaimed HBO documentary The Janes. The Story of Jane recounts the evolution of the Abortion Counseling Service, code name Jan...

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Report copyright infringementby William Thomas Thornton (Author), Michael D. Greaney (Editor)During the Great Famine in Ireland (1846-1852), William T. Thornton (1813-1880), an English economist, proposed that unused land be purchased by the government and sold on credit to families that would put it into production. In this way funds spent on famine relief would be turned from an expenditure into an investment, jobs would be created, and the benefits of widespread capital ownership would acc...

Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Hardcover

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by Jeff Gottesfeld (Author), Matt Tavares (Illustrator)With every step, the Tomb Guards pay homage to America's fallen. Discover their story, and that of the unknown soldiers they honor, through resonant words and illustrations. Keeping vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Arlington National Cemetery, are the sentinel guards, whose every step, every turn, honors and remembers America's fallen. They protect fellow soldiers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, making sure they are neve...

Footprints of Polonia: Polish Historical Sites Across North America - Paperback

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by Ewa E. Barczyk (Editor)The innumerable contributions of Polish immigrants and their descendants on communities in North America can be seen on monuments, bridges, churches, cultural centers, and cemeteries across the continent. These "footprints" of Polonia (the Polish diaspora), commemorating towering events and figures from history that are a source of pride among Polish Americans, are cataloged for readers in this unique volume. From Revolutionary War heroes Tadeusz Kosciuśzko and Casim...

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow - Paperback

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by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Author)A Newbery and Sibert Honor Book! A riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth. A PB edition in an accessible new novel-sized reformat for Scholastic Focus!In this Newbery Honor and Sibert Honor award-winning book, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups.By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Yout...