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From election "loser," to bearded recluse, to dynamic Oscar, Emmy, and Nobel Prize winner: Al Gore has come a long way since 2000, and he has chronicled his up-and-down post-Washington journey in books, editorials, speeches, and interviews. In The World According to Gore, Bill Katovsky collects the best of the former vice president's writings and sayings, and gives us a picture of the new Al Gore that is more revealing and up-to-date than any other....
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Chernobyl disaster in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Chernobyl disaster. When a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in April 1986, nobody could have known just how devastating the effects would be. Thousands of people died as a result of the catastrophe and even today the surrounding areas are considered...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Abraham Lincoln y la Guerra de Secesión de los Estados Unidos, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir más sobre el personaje de Abraham Lincoln y su vida antes y después de llegar a la política, desde que es un niño hasta que muere asesinado
• Analizar el contexto histórico en el que se...
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Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples--focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the land--from initial encounters to Oregon's statehood. He emphasizes Native perspectives, using the Chinook word Illahee (homeland) to refer to the...
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As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But years later when she returns home, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and she knows that soon all the trees will be destroyed. So Wangari decides to do something-and starts by planting nine seedlings in her own backyard. And as they grow, so do her plans...
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The crazy thing about marriage is that most of us enter into this union by making a pledge that many of us do not understand and most of us have never really thought about. We know that the Marriage Vows are essential. But, we do not take the time to expound on them.
Establishing Glory 3: The Marriage Handbook takes a deep dive into the vows that we exchange with our spouse on our special day.
109707) The First Fire: A Cherokee Story
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First Fire is an ageless Cherokee myth about the revered water spider in their culture. The story happens in a time when animals could do many of the things that people do. The Creator gave the animals the world to live on, but they were without a source for heat at night. Great Thunder and his sons saw the plight of the animals so he sent lightning down to strike a tree. The tree burst into flames but the tree was on an island. Many animals tried...
109708) ¡Supervivencia! Océano
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What do you do if you find yourself stranded at sea? This useful, Spanish-translated nonfiction book gives readers the information they need in order to survive at sea. With essential tips and instructions, helpful diagrams and images, a bibliography, and a list of other useful websites, readers will learn everything they need in order to survive--from the dangers of hypothermia, what to do if there's only saltwater available, and other useful survival...
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"2019 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List" M. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and a member of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Strong Borders, Secure Nation (Princeton). Twitter @fravel
What changes in China's modern military policy reveal about military organizations and strategy
Since the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine...
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Asmaa al-Ghoul is a Palestinian journalist who grew up in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Her book offers a rare view of a young woman coming into her own political and secular beliefs amidst the region's relentless violence and under Israeli occupation. She has been called "too strong minded," frequently criticized for not covering her hair and for being outspoken. As a journalist and activist, she has led demonstrations and been vocal in her opposition...
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A city girl is uprooted and moved to the farm, where she must overcome her fears and learn to live life in a rougher way.
Once Bobbi Phelps married Mike Wolverton, an Idaho rancher, she discovered what it was like to live in rural America. The contrast between her suburban background and her farming life created challenging yet rewarding differences.
Sky Ranch tells of Bobbi Phelps' Idaho ranch experiences between 1980 and 1996; the adventures...
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Dolly Sumner Lunt begins her diary, A Woman's Wartime Journal, published in 1918, by recalling her anxiety about the approach of General Sherman's Union army on January 1, 1864. While she worries about the arrival of Sherman's troops and their habit of pillaging and burning everything in their path, she records stories of visits by local raiders posing as U.S. soldiers and the sleepless nights she has spent watching fires on the horizon. Despite Lunt's...
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"Honorable Mention for the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association" "Winner of the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies" Durba Mitra is assistant professor of studies in women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute.
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize...
109714) Utah's Secret Combinations
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This book introduces the reader who understands the international conspiracy, which is laid out in books such as "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" & "Tragedy & Hope", to the people, organizations, and programs that implement these schemes in Utah.
From the 1860s through today, there has been a network of quasi-criminal activity, which Utah's John Taylor called a "carefully planned conspiracy" with the intended purpose of destroying the liberty of the...
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A new and exciting collection from the editor of the enormously successful Life Notes and the award-winning Double Stitch. With a foreword by Marcia Ann Gillespie.
To tell the flat-footed truth is a southern saying that means to tell the naked truth. This revealing and inspiring anthology brings together twenty-seven creative spirits who through essays, interviews, poetry, and photographic images tell black women's lives. In the opening section that...
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Extrait: "Après la Révolution de juillet, la Chambre des députés s'empressa de voter l'abrogation de la loi du 19 janvier 1816, qui attachait à l'anniversaire du 21 janvier 1793 une commémoration solennelle, prescrivait l'érection d'un monument expiatoire, instituait des services funèbres dans toutes les églises, suspendait l'action de toutes les autorités administratives, et jusqu'à celle des tribunaux..."
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Tony Smith is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. His many books include America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy and The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century (both Princeton).
How Woodrow Wilson's vision of making the world safe for democracy has been betrayed-and how America can fulfill it again
The liberal internationalist tradition...
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A collection of essays that explicate Disney ideology through fifty-five years of feature films, including Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, and more.
From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult audiences, the contributors respond to the Disney...
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"Winner of the 2016 Philip Taft Labor History Award, Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations" "Winner of the 2015 William G. Bowen Award, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University" "Honorable Mention for the 2015 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Legal History/Biography, Langum Charitable Trust" Nancy Woloch teaches history at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her books include Women and the American Experience...
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When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by Brown and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation. While school districts across the South temporarily closed...
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