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Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America
Kevin Cook · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world. New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop -- a murder the New York Times called "a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change." The victim, Catherine "Kitty" Genovese,... |
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Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Mark Stoll · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes... |
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Pumpkin Cinema: The Best Movies for Halloween
Nathaniel Tolle · Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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People celebrate the magical holiday of Halloween in a wide variety of ways, but most will, at some point, turn off the lights and allow a movie to take the excitement to the next level. Pumpkin Cinema recommends over 100 titles that are guaranteed to make your Halloween fun and frightening!... |
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Hunting Hitler: New Scientific Evidence That Hitler Escaped Nazi Germany
Jerome R. Corsi · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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In 2009, three US professors with access to Adolf Hitler's alleged remains startled the world with scientific DNA proof that the skull and bones that Russia had claimed since the end of World War II were Hitler's actually belonged to a middle-aged woman whose identity remains unknown. This... |
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Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work
Susan L. Mizruchi · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking work that reveals how Marlon Brando shaped his legacy in art and life. When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In Brando's Smile, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four... |
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Raising Children in the Military
Cheryl Lawhorne-Scott · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Military life places unique demands on military families with children including frequent moves, disruptions in schooling, family separation, health care issues, loss of friends, financial hardships, underemployment of military spouses, and the ever present threat of risk of injury or death... |
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
Janice P. Nimura · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Surprising and richly satisfying" (Megan Marshall) ; "beautifully crafted . . . subtle, polished, and poised" (Stacy Schiff) .In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help... |
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What Is an American Muslim?: Embracing Faith and Citizenship
Ê»Abd AllaÌ?h AhÌ£mad NaÊ»iÌ?m · Oxford Scholarship Online
Pages: 217
Format: Print book
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Since 2001, there has been a tremendous backlash against the very idea that it is possible to be both American and Muslim-the controversy over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" and the attempts to ban shari'a law are examples. Even within the Muslim community many leaders... |
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Famous First Facts
Steven Anzovin · H.W. Wilson; 7 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For more than half a century, Famous First Facts has earned the accolades of reviewers and a place on library reference shelves nationwide. This new edition of the reference classic is updated and expanded with new entries reflecting the latest developments and discoveries, and newly organized... |
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Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health
Nicholas Freudenberg · Oxford Univ. Press
Pages: 324
Format: Print book
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Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back... |
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The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
Eric Schmidt · Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness.... |
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Moments That Made the Movies
David Thomson · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Lushly illustrated, compellingly written—David Thomson's choice of the key moments in movie history In his first fully illustrated work, David Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series of moments—which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced... |
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