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What Would Google Do?

Jeff Jarvis · Collins Business
Pages: 257
Format: Print book

What,s the question every business should be asking itself? According to Jeff Jarvis, it,s WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO? If you,re not thinking or acting like Google - the fastest-growing company in the history of the world - then you,re not going to survive, let alone prosper, in the Internet...
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The Silver Grille : Memories and Recipes

Richard E Karberg · Cleveland Landmarks Press
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Higbee's well-known Silver Grille is remembered in this volume, which takes the reader back to a time when shopping in Cleveland meant a trip to Public Square and to Higbee's. The book includes 83 familiar recipes from The Silver Grille, including the popular Welsh rarebit and the restaurant's...
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World

Mark Kurlansky · Ballantine Books
Pages: 464
Format: Book

In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history.With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing...
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Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Conquest That Opened the West

WILLIAM HOGELAND · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The forgotten story of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Indian warIn 1783, with the signing of the Peace of Paris, the American Revolution was complete. And yet even as the newly independent United States secured peace with Great Britain, it found itself losing an escalating...
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Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy

Diana Preston · Walker & Company; 1ST edition
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania-- pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat-- became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. Sunk...
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Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago

William Elliott Hazelgrove · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover

Gangsters and Nymphs: The Fight for Chicago and the 1933 World's Fair is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest Gangsters and Nymphs: The Fight for Chicago and the 1933 World's Fair is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The story of Chicago...
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

Sam Maggs · Quirk Books
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

A fun and feminist look at forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond, from the bestselling author of THE FANGIRL'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY You may think you know women's history pretty well. But have you ever heard of. . . · Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment...
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life

Allyson Hobbs · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history...
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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

Shareen Blair Brysac · W. W. Norton & Company; 1St Edition edition
Format: Deckle Edge]

A brilliant narrative history tracing today's troubles back to grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States.Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous...
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On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance produced a bright beacon of light that paved the way for African-Americans all over the country. The unapologetic writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, the fervent fiction and poetry of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, the groundbreaking...
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