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What Would Google Do?
Jeff Jarvis · Collins Business Pages: 257 Format: Print book
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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
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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
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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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Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
Diana Preston · Walker & Company; 1ST edition Pages: 544 Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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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
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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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