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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar · New American Library
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings... |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich · Random House
Pages: 440
Format: Print book
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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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Leaving Iran
Goldin Farideh · Athabasca University Press
Format: eBook : Document : English
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1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Loyalty in Time of Trial: The African American Experience During World War I
Nina Mjagkij · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 225
Format: Print book
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In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the "Great War." Prior to World War I, most African Americans did not challenge the racial status quo. But nearly 370,000 black soldiers served... |
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Loyalty in Time of Trial: The African American Experience During World War I
Nina Mjagkij · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Print book
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In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the Great War. Prior to World War I, most African Americans did not challenge the racial status quo. But nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military... |
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Walking Point: From the Ashes of the Vietnam War
Perry A Ulander · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 252
Format: Print book
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In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing... |
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs · Oxford Univ Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.'Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life... |
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Mr. Jefferson's Women
Jon Kukla · Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Pages: 279
Format: Hardcover
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A pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson’s relationships with women in his personal life and in American society and politics. The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote the words “all men are created equal,” was surprisingly hostile toward women. In eight... |
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The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Noah Feldman · Random House
Pages: 816
Format: Hardcover
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A surprisingly controversial look at how James Madison redefined the United States in each of his three political "lives" James Madison is revered as "the Father of the Constitution" but rarely described as a radical. Yet Madison fundamentally changed the United States... |
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The Formation of the North Carolina Counties 1663 to 1943
David Leroy Corbitt · North Carolina Office of Archives and History
Pages: 323
Format: Paperback
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A valuable, basic resource for genealogical research and the study of state and local history. It contains the date and history of the formation of each North Carolina county; a description, taken from the laws, of boundary lines; and maps (1700-1912) that show the development of the state... |
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Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission
Bob Drury · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight... |
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The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,... |
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