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4:09:43 : Boston 2013 through the eyes of the runners
Hal Higdon · Human Kinetics,
Pages: 145
Format: Print book |
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4:09:43, takes its title from the time into the 2013 Boston Marathon when two bombs exploded and is a compilation of accounts provided by those taking part. It focuses on the accounts of 75 runners, collected through social media: blogs posted online, stories offered on Facebook and e-mails... |
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Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart
Lisa Rogak · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover |
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With his arrival at The Daily Show in 1999, Jon Stewart became one of the major players in comedy as well as one of the most significant liberal voices in the media. Biographer Lisa Rogak charts his unlikely rise to stardom. She follows him from his early days growing up in New Jersey,... |
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Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People
Randy E Barnett · Harpercollins
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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A concise history of the long struggle between two fundamentally opposing constitutional traditions, from one of the nation's leading constitutional scholars - a manifesto for renewing our constitutional republic.The Constitution of the United States begins with the words: "We... |
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2016
Peterson's · Peterson Nelnet Co
Pages: 890
Format: Paperback |
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on academic fields and career goals, ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other... |
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Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa
James Neff · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa.From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying... |
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Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
Rob Schmitz · Crown Publishers
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of China's most exhilarating metropolis, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on China today. Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance,... |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover |
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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe... |
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Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
Wendell Steavenson · Ecco
Format: Hardcover |
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Through a series of stunningly rendered, character-drive vignettes, New Yorker writer Wendell Steavenson recounts the events of the Egyptian Revolution - from Mubarak's fall to Morsi's. Here is the panoply of Tahrir Square, a pointillist portrait of a people enacting and reacting... |
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