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The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Yuval Levin · Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset:... |
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Wright Brothers, Wrong Story: How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight
William Hazelgrove · Prometheus Books Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright brothers myth. They were not -- as we have all come to believe--two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first "flying machine."How could two misanthropic brothers who never left home, were high-school... |
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Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering
Siobhan Roberts · Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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With Wind Wizard Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Alan Davenport - the father of modern wind engineering who investigated how wind navigates the obstacle course of the earths natural and built environments--and how when not properly heeded wind causes buildings and bridges to teeter... |
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The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
Julie Kavanagh · Knopf Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Nureyev, the definitive biography of the celebrated Russian dancer, now comes the astonishing and unknown story of Marie Duplessis, the courtesan who inspired Alexandre Dumas fils’s novel and play La dame aux camélias, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata,... |
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Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future
Caitlin Shetterly · G.P. Putnam's Sons Pages: 341 Format: Print book
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A disquieting and meditative look at the issue that started the biggest food fight of our time--GMOs. From a journalist and mother who learned that genetically modified corn was the culprit behind what was making her and her child sick, a must-read book for anyone trying to parse the incendiary... |
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Media Lynching: The Persecution of Michael Skakel
Robert F Kennedy · Skyhorse Publishing Pages: 240 Format: Print book
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In 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley's body was found in the backyard of her family's Connecticut home, and a member of America's beloved Kennedy family, then also fifteen, was accused of the crime. What ensued was a media firestorm and a whodunit that transfixed the nation,... |
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Georgette Heyer
Jennifer Kloester · Sourcebooks Format: Book
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A wonderful entertaining biographyxa readable and lively account of this beloved writerxEloisa James New York Times bestselling author Required reading for all lovers of Regency novelsxMary Jo Putney New York Times bestselling author of No Longer a Gentleman A superb portrayal of one of my all-time... |
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The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster
Chris Adams · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 238 Format: Hardcover
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In The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a fascinating mystery tour to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought secondhand in a London music store in 1973 was the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record "Purple Haze"... |
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The Last Rescue: How Faith and Love Saved a Navy SEAL Sniper
Joel Kilpatrick · Thomas Nelson Format: Hardcover
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In the aftermath of war, a Navy SEAL finds faith, hope, and love. Howard Wasdin, author of SEAL Team Six Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper twenty-two weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, survived the firestorm made famous in Black Hawk Down only to return to a world without... |
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A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming
KERRI RAWSON · Thomas Nelson Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the notorious serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) , tells the nightmarish story of that discovery and of her long journey of faith and healing.In 2005, Dennis Rader... |
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life
Don Piper · Revell Pages: 256 Format: Paperback
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In the ten years since 90 Minutes in Heaven was published, millions of people worldwide have read the incredible true story of Don Piper's experience with death and life--and in reading they have found their own lives changed.After a semi-truck collided with Don Piper's car, he was pronounced... |
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