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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 681
Format: Print book
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America's founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous... |
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The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution
Daniel Raimi · Columbia University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Over roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the United States has surged dramatically -- thanks largely to technological advances such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as "fracking." This rapid increase has generated widespread debate, with... |
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Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles
Ved Mehta · Viking Press
Pages: 260
Format: Book
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In this book, the renowned author Ved Mehta brings Gandhi to life in all his holiness and humanness, shedding light on his principles and his purposes, his ideas and his actions. Through interviewing disciples of Gandhi in five countries, Mehta reconstructs in precise detail Gandhi's... |
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The Milky Way: An Insider's Guide
William H. Waller · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This book offers an intimate guide to the Milky Way, taking readers on a grand tour of our home Galaxy's structure, genesis, and evolution, based on the latest astronomical findings. In engaging language, it tells how the Milky Way congealed from blobs of gas and dark matter into a spinning... |
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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth a poor cobblers son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band... |
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
Ruchir Sharma · W W Norton
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change. Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks... |
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Standing Strong
NOT AVAILABLE. · Gallery Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The Real Housewives of New Jersey star and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Giudice opens up about her tumultuous past year in her emotional new memoir Standing Strong.In her second memoir, Teresa chronicles her life since her release from prison and what it's been like to weather... |
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Winning Elections and Influencing Politicians for Library Funding
Patrick "PC" Sweeney · Amer Library Assn Editions
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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As the saying goes, all politics is local. And 90% of funding for public libraries comes from the will of local politicians and, in turn, from local voters. So it's urgent that librarians, library supporters, and anyone interested in running an election or campaign for a library understand... |
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Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
Nikki Marie Taylor · Ohio University Press
Pages: 152
Format: Print book
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The story of Margaret Garner - the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery - has inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Garner's story... |
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Handmade Thanksgiving Crafts
Ruth Owen · Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Print book
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If readers arent interested in getting creative in the kitchen, they might enjoy making decorations for the Thanksgiving meal! Needing just a few basic craft supplies and some recycled materials from around the house, the crafts in this book use step-by-step instructions to guide readers... |
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